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Post by Eppie on Oct 17, 2011 21:22:03 GMT -5
So, it's been about six years since the golden days of PPN, and there have been lots of new movies/TV shows/books/etc. released since then. What new fandoms have people gotten into besides The Phandom?
I was pretty into Supernatural for a while, although I've drifted from that now. I've also been pretty into Dexter, and I still am following it, though not as closely as I once did.
The big new one for me has been Doctor Who. Ah, why did I wait so long to jump on that lovely blue, time-traveling bandwagon?
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Post by hikarinotsubasa on Oct 18, 2011 9:55:27 GMT -5
I, uh, don't know that anything I've been into in NEW, either to me or to the world, but as I said in the re-introductions thread I've been writing Star Wars fanfic...actually finished something that wasn't a oneshot too, it was my New Year's Resolution and I did it by September! Next year it's going to be to finish something that's not fanfiction at all. I hope. But, yeah, that's not new by any stretch of the imagination. Immediately after POTO I was into Tanz for awhile (mostly addicted to seeing Yuichiro Yamaguchi play Krolock as many times as possible, but that production closed too). Um, TV-wise I WAS into House but it jumped the shark TWICE, once in season 4 and then again in last season's finale! Still watching Desperate Housewives and I'll stick with Bones when it comes back, but I don't do anything fanfic or fanart related for those, just watch. I've been really into just reading and writing ANYTHING lately...beta-reading, you name it (anyone want to throw a phic or anything else my way, seriously, the idea of picking something apart for grammar EXCITES me lately). Going back through my old Tolkien and McCaffrey collections (again, not new), and the two newish series I've been really into would be Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Thief series, and Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. Queen's Thief fanfic is quite awesome too, except there's not enough of it and I'm too intimidated by the original author's style to try my own. Just finished the last book in The Hunger Games today, so I haven't tested the waters fanfic-wise yet. Spoilers are bad. So....yeah. New fandoms, and old but recurring fandoms, that's pretty much what I'm all about these days.
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Post by randombattlecry on Oct 18, 2011 15:13:25 GMT -5
I think... jeez, since POTO? I've been in a bajillion fandoms since then. Doctor Who quite a bit. Anything involving Simon Pegg, pretty much. I wrote for The Dark Knight. Sherlock. Alice, the mini-series, and Alice in Wonderland, the movie. Yikes, looking at my ff.net account is kind of depressing. I think when I reach 150 stories I'll have to start deleting some so I don't look quite as pathetic...
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Post by Eppie on Oct 18, 2011 18:48:13 GMT -5
I was really into Tanz for a while, too. Also the musical Elisabeth. I don't really write fanfic, but I read a little for both of them. I've definitely read a lot of fanfic for Doctor Who. I'm actually working my way through Tolkien right now, partially for the first time. I'd read The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, and part of The Two Towers sometime in junior high, but nothing else. This month I've read The Silmarillion and I'm almost done with The Hobbit. Then I'll be starting in on The Lord of the Rings. We'll see if I have any urge to read Tolkien fanfic after all that.
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Post by randombattlecry on Oct 18, 2011 20:20:29 GMT -5
I read The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy before the movies came out, just 'cause. (I felt like a bad fantasy fan up till then, let me tell you.) I will probably have to do a Hobbit re-read before that film comes out.
I used to write LOTR fanfic... I think? It's all so hazy and far-away now...
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Post by hikarinotsubasa on Oct 19, 2011 9:32:36 GMT -5
Tolkien fanfic intimidates me. Because there's just SO MUCH there, and I know I'm not anywhere near knowledgeable enough about Middle-Earth to possibly come close to not making myself look like a fool if I tried to write it. POTO was nice, because...well, whatever 'verse you're writing in, it's one fairly short book, or one slightly-more-than-two-hour musical and/or movie, or...well none of the incarnations are very long, so you either do some historical research or make it AU and research whatever world you DO set it in, and that's that. The most important thing was getting the themes and the interpersonal relationships right, as far as I'm concerned. ....kind of related, since I've been playing around in other fandoms. In POTO, when we said something was AU we always meant that it was set in a different place or time than canon. In Star Wars, just about EVERYTHING'S AU, it's just kind of used as a blanket term for "at least one aspect of canon has been changed." So, every phic that had Christine running off with Erik at the end would be AU. That blew my mind at first. Even though I'm not particularly inspired to get back into phic-writing at the moment, I do miss our little fandom. Crazy Gerik fans on ff.net aside (and they're probably all Edward Cullen fans now anyway), it was always pretty friendly and supportive.
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Post by Eppie on Oct 19, 2011 19:20:13 GMT -5
Even though I'm not particularly inspired to get back into phic-writing at the moment, I do miss our little fandom. Crazy Gerik fans on ff.net aside (and they're probably all Edward Cullen fans now anyway), it was always pretty friendly and supportive. I miss the phandom, too. I'm not anywhere near as into Phantom as I once was, but I still miss the social aspects of the phandom. And the close-knitness of PPN was really something special that went way beyond Phantom. I never think about the various forums and fandoms I've moved on from, except for PPN. Heh, and I'll admit I was a Gerik phan, but I will most definitely NEVER be an Edward Cullen fan. I know what you mean about a particular kind of Gerik phan, though... I was also a big Kay!Erik phan from way before the movie, which seemed to give me a bit of dignity amongst the pre-movie phans, even though I only joined the phandom with the movie.
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Post by hikarinotsubasa on Oct 19, 2011 19:26:55 GMT -5
I was into POTO a long time ago, but it was the movie that reminded me how much I liked it too! Nah, I'm just talking about these "fandom of the week" types...latching onto whatever fandom has the Hot Actor of the Moment portraying the lead, completely missing whatever depth the story might have had in favor of their own Sue-ish fantasies, and bashing anyone else who doesn't portray Hot Dude Of The Week as the godly figure that he is.
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Post by Eppie on Oct 19, 2011 19:36:43 GMT -5
Nah, I'm just talking about these "fandom of the week" types...latching onto whatever fandom has the Hot Actor of the Moment portraying the lead, completely missing whatever depth the story might have had in favor of their own Sue-ish fantasies, and bashing anyone else who doesn't portray Hot Dude Of The Week as the godly figure that he is. Ah, I see.
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Post by randombattlecry on Oct 19, 2011 23:21:57 GMT -5
And the close-knitness of PPN was really something special that went way beyond Phantom. I never think about the various forums and fandoms I've moved on from, except for PPN. I've been on several boards over the years, and the only other one I think of occasionally is the Douglas Adams boards, which shut down after he died and which was probably my first ever online community. (I was... 14? Maybe?) PPN was fantastic, in that it seemed to attract some really great people, who were not only tolerant of lunacy but had quite a bit of their own. I don't know how that happened. But I'm still grateful to CH/Sandi for PMing me over at PFN that first night, inviting me to spam away to my heart's content on this fledgling little site she'd set up...
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Post by skeletonhorse on Oct 24, 2011 18:58:41 GMT -5
Even though I'm not particularly inspired to get back into phic-writing at the moment, I do miss our little fandom. Crazy Gerik fans on ff.net aside (and they're probably all Edward Cullen fans now anyway), it was always pretty friendly and supportive. I miss the phandom, too. I'm not anywhere near as into Phantom as I once was, but I still miss the social aspects of the phandom. And the close-knitness of PPN was really something special that went way beyond Phantom. I never think about the various forums and fandoms I've moved on from, except for PPN. Yeah, that's very true! I remember after I wandered away from the phandom, and PPN started to slow down, I tried to find forums in my new fandoms that had that same dynamic as PPN. I've yet to see anything that even comes close, though! Let's see, as for my new fandoms: I was in the Heroes fandom for a short while around 2007 or so, and that was okay. But then the Writer's Guild strike happened in Hollywood and I had to bail. There were so many people being whiny and entitled and obnoxious and I couldn't take it. Right now, my two big fandoms are Avatar: The Last Airbender and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. I've even gotten into creating fanworks! I've got a few multi-chapter WIPs and shorter fics over on Ye Olde Pit of Voles (LOL FFnet) under the name Ayala Atreides, as well as deviantART (as Skeleton-Horse). Got some fanart on dA as well.
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Post by CelticHeart on Oct 26, 2011 8:21:46 GMT -5
But I'm still grateful to CH/Sandi for PMing me over at PFN that first night, inviting me to spam away to my heart's content on this fledgling little site she'd set up... That was fun! (Side Note: I wanted my username here to be CH-Sandi, but non-alphanumeric characters are not allowed. )
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Post by ghostwritten on Oct 26, 2011 9:46:59 GMT -5
I run through fandoms at a ridiculous rate...I was into House MD for a bit (mostly the crazier/capslockier side of the fandom, I'm afraid), was biiig into X-Files (mainly slash) for awhile when that fandom had a sudden resurgence, have been into BBC's Sherlock, and currently I'm most invested in Loki/Avengers and Harry Potter/Pottermore. Also have a toe in the Homestuck fandom.
I am way too old for everything I like.
I'm also currently a mod on phantomoftheopera.com because there was some drama a year and a half ago when most of the mods quit and Christine asked some of her friends to fill in, so I'm still there, in-filling. *embarassing*
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Post by randombattlecry on Oct 26, 2011 10:07:13 GMT -5
But I'm still grateful to CH/Sandi for PMing me over at PFN that first night, inviting me to spam away to my heart's content on this fledgling little site she'd set up... That was fun! (Side Note: I wanted my username here to be CH-Sandi, but non-alphanumeric characters are not allowed. ) That's okay, we all know who you really are. *grins*
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Post by fallenangelboy on Nov 25, 2011 18:34:00 GMT -5
Since 2005? Let me think... Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel, A Song of Ice and Fire, Dune, Underworld, Doctor Who/Torchwood. Also, I've devoted a lot of time to rock music.
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