[PUBLIC POST] Let's talk fandom!

[ljwrites]

All right, the weekly open posts are back! This week let's talk about our fandom obsessions, or just works that we really like. Here are some possible discussion launchers, but feel free to ignore some or all of them and add your own:

- What are some of your favorite works?
- Were you or are you involved in fandom?
- How did your favorite works or fandoms influence your writing?

Go to town, folks!

Comments

[tblspoon]

I am and will be forever- a lurker. I am that silent reader who watches as the fandom explodes with works and then wanders off in chase of some new shiny fandom.

My favorite kind of fanfic to read are Crossovers. Generally, I find one fandom I know, get introduced to a completely new one, read all I can of it, determine the 'best' authors in the fandom, then get introduced to another new fandom based on the wonderful authors' other works and bookmarks. I find my experience with wikipedia and AO3 very similar in how I wander from topic to topic.

[ljwrites]

That's awesome that you use good fanworks as an actual gateway to other fandoms! So I take it you don't write fanfic, just read them?

[tblspoon]

Yes, I'm just a reader of fanfic and the attempter of original fic.