FFA friending meme

[cloudsinvenice]

Hi gentlefailers,

By mildly popular request, here's a  fail_fandomanon   friending meme! I'm cross-posting it to DW and LJ, and there's also an official Tumblr post here: http://failfandomanon.tumblr.com/post/50880814316/fail-fandomanon-friending-meme-you-asked-for-it

Answer only the ones you want to, and add anything else you think should be there. I just ran with the enthusiasm and didn't want to spend forever making up questions and miss the moment, so feel free to add anything else you think should be there/questions nobody's ever asked that you'd love to answer.

Friend away!


- Current fandoms:
- Past fandoms:
- Favourite FFA threads:
- Favourite FFA critter:
- Things you'd love to have more conversations about:
- What your journal's like (personal/fannish/picspams/etc):
- Friending dealbreakers:
- Some other things about you: how you spend your days, secret supervillain objectives, etc.
- Sites where you'd like to be added:

Comments

[stockingsandseams]

Current fandoms: Marvel 616 & some aspects of the MCU, Warehouse 13, Elementary (but I cannot describe how over I am any and all comparisons of the series to That Other One Yes, I like it; yes, I think many of the decisions it makes are really smart and I like discussing them; no, I don’t want to talk about them in the context of That One Adaptation, but anything else is fair game.), Marathon games, theatre, most incarnations of Scooby Doo. A lot of book and video game fandoms, many of which are probably fandoms-of-one or at least very small.

Long list of other things I'm interested in if they come up but don't actively seek out; including but not limited to: Any and all kinds of genre fiction, especially mysteries, science-fiction and fantasy; superheroes; Sherlock Holmes (ACD); history, especially Sengoku Japan, Medieval Europe and interwar France; folklore; food talk; Kuroshitsuji; Puella Magi Madoka Magica; Professor Layton; Les Mis; Doctor Who.

Past fandoms: None, apart from Glee. (There is no Glee on my journal.)

Favourite FFA threads: Les Mis, especially when people start geeking out and discussing fandom. Anything where fans start discussing their canon/characters/whatever in depth with giant walls of text. Write 100 Words and WIP threads because I am nosy, and anything to do with Yuletide wank, which always delivers.

Favourite FFA critter: Belladonna!

Things you’d love to have more conversations about:
- Sci-fi tropes, especially Golden Age pulp stuff (I know, I know, I have no taste!), and my eternal love of time travel plots. Especially stable time loops. My love for stable time loops is eternal.
- I love meta, I love meta-talk, I love watching people discuss things even in fandoms I don’t know and I like people talking about the way fandom in general works.
- All your femslash ships. I’m a multishipper so I’ve also get het and slash pairings I love to flail over but f/f pairs (and any rarepairs) people get enthusiastic over are always interesting.
- WORLDBUILDING. For anything – a fandom, original work, the D&D game you want to run. I love talking about all the ways in which different aspects of a world will come together.
- Speaking of which, tabletop gaming. Tell me of your DMing woes, tell me of how your DM just does not understand you, talk to me of space raiders and elf wizards alike and I will eat it all up with a spoon. :D I love hearing what people think about rules and settings and different adventures, and I like to talk about what I love best in a campaign too.

What your journal’s like:
Empty. Ish. I got it for an exchange letter, tried to convince myself to write more but was too shy to actually try making fandom friends and ended up talking to myself and then feeling kinda stupid. But I want to get back into the habit of writing in it, I just felt weird speaking into the void about any combination of fannish squee and vague personal shit.

Friending dealbreakers:
Barriers to education, especially for people with learning difficulties, and sexual abuse are both topics that hit a little too close to home for me to be comfortable following someone who talks about the latter extensively and the former in a way I disagree with.
In general, wankiness, although I don’t mind watching someone lay the smackdown if it’s deserved and done well. I just think that lots of disagreements when I’m not convinced [hypothetical friend] is even correct would be the sort of thing I’d find wearing.

Some other things about you: how you spend your days, secret supervillain objectives, etc:
- 21, British, complicated Catholic-agnosticism which mainly manifests in a love of ritual and also an occasional vague sense of guilt about all of my politics. I don’t imagine I’ll be talking about religion but I’ve described myself as culturally Catholic before and I think that’s as good a description as any.
- Currently in a UK university with no idea what I’m going to be doing when I graduate. I’ve been considering post-grad but sometimes I’m just impatient to be finished with life as a student.
- I’m trying to write more, including more fic. I’m not great at it but I have fun, and I put everything under cuts so it should be easy to avoid.
- Queer, but not in the sense where I am straight and occasionally like to spank my similarly straight boyfriend because Judith Butler. Sometimes this means I get political. Mostly it just means that I get hit on by French men and rebuff them in parks (I don’t know either, but that’s happened to me four times this month already).

Sites where you'd like to be added:
Just here, but I'm happy to share my fannish AIM and gmail address with anyone who would rather chat if they ask.

[pleonasm]

Hi! We seem to be into some of the same things - f/f, worldbuilding, Elementary, meta... and I used to be way into Glee fandom, which makes me wonder if we knew each other at some point, although my biggest fannish activity was hanging out on glee_anon.

Anyway, I'd like to add you! Here is my comment so you can see what you think.

[stockingsandseams]

Sorry I couldn't get back to you sooner, I've been a bit swamped with end of year exams lately.

Please, feel free to add me! Like you, I tend to get especially fannish about female characters (I like male characters just fine but it's mostly women who make me flail), so I'll be adding you as well if that's OK. I don't know if we'll have met on glee_anon because I didn't spend much time over there but I was quite active at the kink meme before I fell out of love with the canon so it's possible.

[pleonasm]

Hey, exams are totally important! I'm so glad to be out of that for now, heh. I'll be adding you back! :D