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A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.
B - A pairing–platonic, romantic or sexual–that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.
C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.
D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.
E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?
F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom?
G - Have you ever had an OTP? If so, do you remember your first one? Who was in it?
H - What is your favorite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)?
I - Has Tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?
J - Name a fandom you didn’t think about until you saw it all over Tumblr. (You don’t have to care about it or follow it; it just has to be something that Tumblr made you aware of.)
K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?
L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you merely dislike. Characters that you absolutely loathe with the fire of ten thousand suns are exempt, as there is no point in giving yourself an aneurysm over a character that you hate.)
M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.
N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).
O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?
P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).
Q - A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.
R - Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?
S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)
T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.
V - Which character do you relate to most?
W - A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
X - A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.
Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go! (Prompts optional but encouraged.)
A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.
B - A pairing–platonic, romantic or sexual–that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.
C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.
D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.
E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?
F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom?
G - Have you ever had an OTP? If so, do you remember your first one? Who was in it?
H - What is your favorite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)?
I - Has Tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?
J - Name a fandom you didn’t think about until you saw it all over Tumblr. (You don’t have to care about it or follow it; it just has to be something that Tumblr made you aware of.)
K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?
L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you merely dislike. Characters that you absolutely loathe with the fire of ten thousand suns are exempt, as there is no point in giving yourself an aneurysm over a character that you hate.)
M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.
N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).
O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?
P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).
Q - A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.
R - Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?
S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)
T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.
V - Which character do you relate to most?
W - A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
X - A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.
Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go! (Prompts optional but encouraged.)
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Not sure I have an answer for this one. I'm usually the one seeing a pairing and then convincing others. I'll dabble, but I don't usually convert.
Hm. Will have to thnk about this one more.
M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.
Kate Freelander from Sanctuary. Because she gets things done, and a friend who has a fine sense of when to be ruthless and when to be charming would be wonderful. :)
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More women as main characters. (Gosh, what a surprising thing coming from me...NOT.)
More people of colour - not just blacks, but Asians, Hispanics, a whole range of people doing different things, being individual.
More romances that weren't afraid to get rocky, but which aren't used specifically for angst.
O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?
Well, not so random. I've had in mind "Always On Your Side" by Sheryl Crowe as a fannish song for a while - for two relationships, both slashed by fandom, but which I see as platonic: Herc and Chuck Hansen from Pacific Rim, and Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes from MCU.
My yesterdays are all boxed up
And neatly put away.
But every now and then you come to mind.
For you were always waiting
To be picked to play the game.
But when your name was called,
you found a place to hide;
When you knew that I was always on your side.
It's a very angsty song, and yes, I know it's a love song, but I think it works well for both the Hansens and Steve&Bucky.
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And that song sounds good! I think I'm going to steal this meme.
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BBC Merlin. I enjoyed the show, but I enjoyed the potential of it more than I did the actual episodes. And in the end, I just gave up, because I wanted more Gwen and more Gwen-and-Morgana being friends and the writers were clearly not capable of that.
I'm kind of glad I bugged out at the end of S3. I hear it didn't go so well for everyone in the last couple of seasons...
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Jennifer Keller from Stargate Atlantis. I wanted to like her, but all I could see was that the writers were in love with Jewel Staite and wanted everyone else to be in love with her too, never mind that there were other characters who'd been there longer and had the potential for considerably more interesting and varied storylines.
Jennifer always struck me as self-possessed and dignified, but a little uncertain. And that undercurrent of uncertainty was actually good - in the midst of all these other characters who blustered and bluffed and boldly strode into the situation and took command; she did what she had to, but you could see that she was nervous but still doing what she could.
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MCU: Steve/Natasha. I like the characters. I like the dynamic as friends and colleagues and extremely competent people. I just can't see them sexually/emotionally.
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(AUs = ♥)
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Window Washer AU: "I'm working as a window washer, and once a month, I swing by your office window, and you always smile and wave at me and I'm thinking about bringing a whiteboard with me next time and asking you out on a date" AU
:D
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Generally TV shows and movies. Movies are easiest, because it's two hours of canon neatly squished. TV shows are more difficult for me, becuase I feel like I need to know the canon very well and shows tend to have different showrunners and different 'branches' of canon.
That's possibly one reason why I've enjoyed the MCU as much as I have; because it's more or less one cohesive whole canon, wound together, albeit told from differing angles.
X - A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.
Women Save The Day. Women being friends. Action Girls. Stoic action girls. I'm terribly terribly predictable.
Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go! (Prompts optional but encouraged.)
In the last few years, as I've come to realise how much my likes and dislikes don't match up with the broader fandom, it's been both educational and freeing - to know that, yes, I'm different. No, I'll never be popular in the broader fandom, because my tastes aren't the same as the majority and they never will be.
And in the course of this realisation, it also made me realise how fortunate I was in my upbringing - a feminist, born of a feminist, born of a feminist - although neither mum or my grandmother would have labelled themselves that. They believed themselves the equal of men, with the right to work and to speak and to be heard and to take up space - they couldn't have expressed it, but they acted it out in every part of their lives. So I don't just believe that women have the right to take up space, I know it - I've lived it, and that comes out in my fannish preferences and thoughts.
And yes, I'm one of the lucky ones.
It's been both educational and saddening to discover how rare this is in fandom; and how difficult it must be for most women to write about female characters when their own experience of being female is so scarred.
In a way, that's made me all the more determined not to get distracted into cute white guys; because much as I love the guys, my ferocity and passion is about the women - who they are, how they do things, what a world looks like when men think of women as people and not as things - all of us, human with truly human rights.
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/although neither mum or my grandmother would have labelled themselves that/ - Yes, this has been my experience as well. It was a different time, I guess.
/and how difficult it must be for most women to write about female characters when their own experience of being female is so scarred./ - Yes, yes. I'm nodding along so much.
/because much as I love the guys, my ferocity and passion is about the women/ - That's why I love fandom I guess, there's space for everyone. I can get my fix of awesome women being awesome, great world-building, cute gen character pieces and even some more racy stuff LOL. It's such a great community and, even if the female-centered corner is small, it's still strong and many of my FListers share your views, I believe. <3