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[ratcreature]

Gakked from astridv.

Pick a number from the list and I'll answer it in the comments.

1 - Your current OTP.
2 - A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind.
3 - A pairing you have never liked and probably never will.
4 - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.
5 - Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?
6 - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom?
7 - Do you remember your first OTP? If so who was in it?
8 - Do you prefer characters from real action series or anime series?
9 - Has the internet caused you to stop liking any fandoms? If so, which and why?
10 - Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over tumblr your social network sites.
11 - How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom?
12 - Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request. What do you ask for?
13 - Your favorite fanart or fanartist.
14 - Your favorite fanfiction or fanauthor.
15 - Choose a song at random. Which OTP does it remind you of?
16 - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).
17 - A ship you’ve abandoned and why.
18 - A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships.
19 - Show us an example of your personal headcanon.
20 - Do you remember what your first fanwork was?
21 - Self-rec: What's your favorite fanwork you've created?
22 - Are you one of those fans who can’t watch anything without shipping?
23 - 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandoms.
24 - 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms.
25 - A fandom you’re in but have no ships from.
26 - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go.

Comments

[astridv]

6.
Can I pick just one, or more?

[ratcreature]

Feel free to pick multiple.

That depends on what you consider being "in" a fandom. I've loved Duck comics as long as I can remember, and I am still a member of D.O.N.A.L.D., which I joined I think over twenty years ago now, though a bit over a year ago I canceled my subscription of Der Donaldist, because I rarely read much of it, and the zine is online in the member section of the website too.

If you mean being active in an online fandom as main fandom, the fandoms that so far have been my main fandoms the longest lastet about five to six years, that you be Sentinel from 1998 to 2002/3 and SGA from mid 2005 to mid-2009, though I don't really leave as such, it's more that with fannish activity my interests shift along. *is one of the sheeple*

[astridv]

Heh. Me and the brothers loved lustige Taschenbücher and the other Disney comics. (We had boxes of them, until my dad threw them all in the trash because he figured as grown ups we wouldn't have need for those comics. *shakes head*)

12 and 21?

[ratcreature]

12. That is hard. Not least because I don't really have a single favorite. So it would depend a bit on what I like them for. If an author whom I like for their worldbuilding and historical research, I'd probably request one of the AU scenarios with elaborate worldbuilding I'd love to see, like an X-Men AU with Charles and Erik as turn of the century anarchist mutant activists, or an AU set in Roman-Celtic Britain with Erik as a Celtic druid who considers his ability to manipulate metal magic and Charles the rich upper class Roman, or such.

If it was someone who was good with humor, I'd get them to write the X-Men/Sesame Street crossover that I have doodled and that I'd really love to see written.

If it was someone whose porn really works for me, otoh, my request would probably be for one of my favorite kinks that fandom doesn't fill very often, like my kink for degradation/dehumanization through non-con body modification with animal traits. Sometimes that gets written, but it hasn't quite caught on (yet *g*) like say D/s AUs.

21. Hm, again this single favorite thing is hard. I like different things about different art I made. I'm quite proud of my Star Trek Reverse Bang painting.

[krait]

(13 or 14, depending on:) 12, & 26?

:D

[ratcreature]

I answered 12 above.

13, again the single favorite picking is hard. I really like Joanna-Estep's Star Trek triptych, in particular the Vulcan panel, because it's so evocative.

26, err, okay, for a random topic: Tumblr tags. Anyone who's ever seen my pinboard knows I love tags and categorizing things with them. But not Tumblr's. They confuse and annoy me on so many levels. Not so much the nudge-wink injoke tagging, though I'm not fond of that, but that first the tags are not that usable for navigating the site. Like I've been using Tumblr for a while now, and I'm still not entirely sure when clicking on a tag will give me site wide results, when just the journal, what special characters break them, nor why sometimes just inexplicable things make them not work. Then there is this bizarre phenomenon that people sometimes post short stories in the tags to go with a picture. Now Tumblr is already not that great for posting fic in entries, but why would anyone put stories in the tags. I don't understand it.