You Don't Make It Easy, Babe

[redbrunja]

Remember when I could spend over a year just in ONE fandom?

Avatar lasted eight months and I'm curious to see if Naruto lasts past the summer.

I've become a fandom slut.

Also, forcing myself to write original fiction before fanfic, and then not writing original fic until the end of the evening is playing merry fuck with getting fanfics finished. I've been a paragraph away from done with one Naruto fic for going on two days now.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I suspect Avatar will be back very shortly.

I would have been surprised if Naruto lasted as a fandom for you.

Unless you count comic books(and I've been lucky enough to really only be in the part of it that loves the characters of both gender, is equal opportunity about genders in pairings, and likes strong female characters and rightly places the blame on creators when there's blame to spread) the only fandom I ever let myself get remotely deeply into was the Magnificent 7 TV show, which settled my trend for almost anything I care about with a noteworthy fandom being mostly about how the female sucks/is tolerable, and obsessed with slash.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but for how long? I mean, I know for the week that the finale is airing I'm going to be on it like white on rice, but after that... I have two fics that I REALLY want to write and post pior to that week, and after that... I'm not sure I want to stick around the fandom while everyone goes crazy, you know?

The one thing that might give Naruto staying power is how pissed I am at the mangaka. With my 'fanfic is for fixing what the author fucks up' that can greatly enlongate a fandom. That's what happened with Saiyuki, although Saiyuki had the other advantage of being far better written than Naruto could dream of being.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I say dump Naruto and move on to Bleach, Claymore, Fairy Tail, Kekkaishi, Black Cat, D.Gray-Man, Rurouni Kenshin, or any other vastly superior shounen. I think Bleach is the only one of those that still has a fandom big enough to piss you off, anyway...

[tobu-ishi.livejournal.com]

Hah, I only developed the "This is my current fandom" thing in 2004 with FMA, until then I just fangirled whatever came my way pretty equally. FMA has shifted into Avatar as of last summer, and looks to probably shift back again when Avatar ends, since the FMA manga is still going strong.

That's probably going to wrap up within a year or two, though, and then I'll have to go fishing. Or just go back to panfandom behavior. ^_^

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

See, I'm usually pretty monogamous to a fandom - the relationship just doesn't last as long as it once did. I think part of that is I learned how to dive into a fandom - so I go right to the icons and the fic and it's easier to get my fix faster.

[nephthysmoon.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. For so long, HP was the only fandom I was involved in, but about a year ago, I really rediscovered my love for Sailormoon, and I started pining to write for it again (and actually post what I wrote!)...and then I started seriously fangirling Avatar...and around the same time, my girlfriend got me obsessed with X-Men...and now I have WIPs for every single one of them.

I can't say I expect my interest in any given fandom to die entirely. SM has been a 'dead' fandom for a long time, with very few new members joining the ranks, but I still have a love for it that only something you loved as a child can inspire (not to mention a 5 book epic that I want to write).

I'll never truly lose my attachment to HP, though I've let my fics slip to the wayside, I still want to write them. It's just a matter of priorities.

I thank my lucky stars that I'm not involved in the insanity that is the Avatar fandom, and that while I might have unconventional ships and hopes for what the series will be, I'm realistic enough to admit that it is a children's show, at heart. Things are not likely to turn out the way I want, ships aside.

Something that I think is my driving ambition in fandom is writing what I want to see. So while I might not be as 'OMG! AVATAR!' after the series finishes, I'll still want to read other people's fics and write my own.

I admit to being a fandom whore, as it were, but I don't think my interest in any fandom completely dies. It might get pushed aside for a bit while I focus on another fandom briefly, but it always comes back. I hope that happens for you as well, for I think it would be a very sad thing if you didn't write anything after the finale.

I guess what I am trying to say is don't close yourself off to the possibility. As my icon says, I reject your reality, take the best parts of it to create my own alternate reality, and that is fanfiction.

It is possible to be a fandom slut and keep a few fandoms on a string while you hop between them. It just takes balance.

/ramble about bizarre fandom stuff.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think I'm going to vanish from the fandom or anything, but there is definitively a waning of... participation that's going on. I don't think that I'll wrote those two fics and then never write Avatar again (I have people on my flist who would kill me if I did) but those are the fics I want to get out before they get jossed, you know?

Something that I think is my driving ambition in fandom is writing what I want to see.

So. Much. Word. That is why I write fanfic, right there. That and being furious at the creator.

[pikabot]

I personally am always in the fandom of pretty much everything I've ever read, played, or watched. I might not be all that active in the fandom but I can lapse back into it at any moment. Fer instance just this week I started writing Last Exile fic, even though I watched that show back in like grade ten.

The only fandoms that I really ever 'leave' are those where I stop liking the source material, or where I was never really in them to begin with (like, say, Harry Potter, which fits both of those criteria).

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

That's true, you don't really totally leave fandoms often, but when I think about how long it was since I read Buffy or Firefly or even FMA fic... it's kind of sad in a way, you know?

[fani.livejournal.com]

I juggle Discworld, Doctor Who and Avatar last year. -.- It's not bad at all.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't mind juggling fandoms, but I do find it interesting how a show will hold my attention for less and less time these days.