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[ SECRET POST #3683 ]

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What fandom do you wish wasn't dead? (Or never even started)

it's not necessarily dead but I wish the Redwall fandom actually got new content.

I kind of wish that faction of Teen Wolf fandom where we just ignored all of the dumb decisions and kept the characters we liked and just played in the world was still alive. I like the basic world, and the characters* mostly, just the show itself was kind of shit. Which is where a fun fandom comes in!

*I stopped watching when Kira and Malia were still new, so idek who is on the show now.

I kind of wish that faction of Teen Wolf fandom where we just ignored all of the dumb decisions and kept the characters we liked and just played in the world was still alive.

I feel like this is an extremely relatable wish in general.

It's certainly how I feel about the Sherlock fandom. Like, can we just ignore season 3 and 4? And maybe some of Season 1 and 2? Can we just have bamf!John and repressed!genius!Sherlock live at 221b and solve murders and be hot for each other, and forget the rest? There used to be so much fanfic like that, but these days it's just fix-it fic after fix-it fic.

Well, there is quite a bit of fic out there that pretty much ignores most of what happened after 3b. Because the whole nogitsune thing was too much fun not to mine for angst, but Malia isn't in a lot of the fic, or Kira.

There's still a lot out there.

(Almost no one is left. Derek is gone, Stiles is gone, all the original high-schoolers except for Scott and Lydia. They got all new teeny-bopper wolves and things, it's amazingly tedious.)

Pirates Of The Caribbean, Life On Mars, and Die Hard are a few I'd love to come back to life. Man From UNCLE fandom seemed to have slowed to a trickle too, goddamn it.

I wish there was more POTC fic too. :/

Life on Mars was a good fandom, +1!

I still rewatch it (and Ashes to Ashes) every couple years because they're among the shows I still have on a certain external drive that's more handy than going downstairs and finding the DVDs. The Middleman is on the same drive, and Torchwood S1-2, so they're just really good memories of my LJ days in 2008-10.

Most of my podcasts ones. :( Especially We're Alive.

Chronicles of Riddick and Blade: Trinity for movies.

Edited 2017-02-03 00:24 (UTC)

Breaking Bad fandom was a really fun time, without being intensely fandom-y

V for Vendetta (it's pretty dead now)

Well yeah, but on the bright(?) side, RL looks a lot like V for Vendetta these days. I wonder what the fandom would be like if the movie was coming out this year? I was a V/Evey shipper, but given the ambiguity of the comic I was always surprised there was never any V=Valerie fic, with trans V or otherwise. Also this is the one movie I ever found Hugo Weaving hot in.

I always thought the ambiguity was deliberate? Also, ditto on Weaving.

AYRT-well, yeah, the comic was deliberately ambiguous, but when has that ever stopped fandom from exploring every possibility ambiguity leaves up in the air? I mean, I wasn't mad it didn't exist. Just surprised.

Hugo Weaving was amazingly hot in this. A combination of the really trim costume, and the kind of deliberate, contained theatricality about how he moved? Making his body do the work his face couldn't. Also, menace. There was that too.

Honestly, I think there's not much trans V fic because the movie release was when the big boom of fic was being written, and fandom was just barely moving out of warning for m/m or f/f. Trans wasn't even on the radar yet.

I think if it came out this year, there would be trans-V fic galore. At least amongst those who then branched out into reading the original graphic novel.

V/Evey shipper here for life!

Okay, the Dragonriders of Pern fandom overall isn't really dead, but after re-reading Todd McCaffrey's books, I kinda want to talk about them? And the Third Pass books are the black sheep of the fandom, in that even die-hard fans of Anne McCaffrey gave up on the series or ignore them. Yeah, they have flaws, but there's some interesting bits in there too, but I'm afraid any discussion/fic/etc. I made would just be ignored in favor of the older books/original characters.

(And if anyone remembers the Dragonsblood secret from a while back, yeah, same anon.)

heh, I'm one of those die-hard fans that quit after... the Masterharper of Pern, I think it was. I didn't really like the later Ninth Pass books, and I can't remember if I ever read The Skies of Pern.

If I try the Third Pass books, what are the chances I'll hate them...?

Uhh, not low, to be honest, but I can't say for sure. The Third Pass books are definitely more amateurish in their writing--Mary-Sues, cliches, overly-complicated plots--which is definitely Todd's influence. There's a lot of questionable science (whers can fly now. And eat Thread.) but that's not really new to Pern. I actually found the writing style more enjoyable than Anne's, which I always thought was pretty dry. I also think his whers and dragons have more personality than any of Anne's, except maybe Ruth.

There are a lot of complaints about him contradicting the older books, but I've found a lot of what he's contradicting was things said and implied in interviews, not things directly stated in past books. On the bright side, he obviously tried to add more diversity to the world--there are protagonists who are explicitly POC, disabled, gay or bisexual, and poly. They are not always handled well, but they are there. Also, the awful Tent-Peg statement was officially retracted in one of the later books.

There are overly-complicated time travel plotlines and improbably-competent preteens, but I still weirdly tend to find his characters more interesting than any of Anne's.

tl;dr: Amateur writing and cliches, but without a lot of the grosser sexism and homophobia of the earlier books.

SA

I should also mention that Todd's books are aimed at a more YA audience, which probably explains some of it.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm this requires thought. From what I recall, tbh, the worst of the homophobia was in interviews or whatever, not the books themselves. The sexism was kind of annoying, but when I first read it I was young enough that it didn't really ping me.
I don't know if I have patience for YA and time-travel. Maybe I'll see if my library has them.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Also Richard III (the play)

I will never fail to lament that Helix never had a devoted little fandom full of inventive fic, crazy body horror porn/darkfic of all kinds but especially so much canon dubcon, crazy meta, and so many fanmixes.

Also, Carnivale!

I'll be mourning the Legacy of Kain fandom til the day I die.

Sliders. Oh how I wish there was an active fandom. Babylon 5 has something of a fandom, but i wish it were bigger and more active.

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