My year in fandom
While I was home, I kept composing posts in my head and I may eventually post some of those, but for now, that fandom year in review post that was going around, ganked from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
clari_clyde
1. Your main fandom of the year:
Avengers, hands down, at least in terms of fic reading (which seems to be my only mode of fannish participation these days). While I make occasional forays into Sherlock, Merlin, and older fandoms, probably 90% of what I read these days is Avengers--especially anything Steve, Bucky, Darcy, or Coulson-centered.
2. Favorite film you watched this year:
Despite the fact that I saw Avengers three times in the theaters, I actually think my favorite film this year was Lincoln. I didn't realize what a huge, huge Lincoln fangirl I was until I saw the film. I really only saw the film because my mom wanted to see it, but I was absolutely amazed that they managed to make the passage of the 13th amendment actually suspenseful. And despite knowing what was coming, I was absolutely a sobbing wreck when Lincoln was assassinated. Daniel Day Lewis was just astonishingly good in this.
3. Your favorite book you read this year: It wasn't new to me, but Annie Dillard's For the Time Being. It's nonfiction, and is basically a prolonged meditation on impermanence and finitude and what that means to us as human beings. It's a great book for religion geeks like me, because Dillard seems to have been collecting religious stories and theories her whole life and uses them to illustrate her thoughts on what evolution tells us about the nature of God.
4. Your favorite album or song to listen to this year: This is a tie between Sarah Mclachlan's Wintersong and The Mediaeval Baebes Mistletoe and Wine, both of which I listened to obsessively all December (and will still be doing so until January 6, dammit, since that's when the 12 days of Christmas actually ends). I got Wintersong free a couple years ago with some other iTunes purchase, but never actually listened to it until this year since it wasn't Christmastime when I got it. It perfectly hits my "depressing Christmas songs in a minor key" craving--it has pretty much all my faves, at least the non-religious ones. And the Mediaeval Baebes recommendation I got from ffa, of all places, and now I go around singing in Latin ALL the time.
5. Your favorite TV show of the year: I haven't actually picked up anything new, due to lack of live TV. My favorite is definitely The Good Wife , followed by Revenge . I did really love Political Animals during its short run, though.
6. Your best new fandom discovery of the year: Bucky Barnes, which is partly due tomusesfool's stories, and partly due to falling in love with Sebastian Stan on Political Animals, realizing he played Bucky, and suddenly watching Steve/Bucky supplant Steve/Tony as my favorite Steve pairing. (Well, actually my favorite Steve pairing is Steve/Peggy, but Steve/Bucky comes very close).
7. Your biggest fannish disappointment of the year: Now that I've sat through it twice, I'd have to say The Hobbit. I thought, knowing what to expect, that I would like it a lot more the second time through, but I was actually more bored. To be fair, part of this is source material--I never did like The Hobbit as much as I liked LOTR, partly because it just wasn't as epic and partly because I am just not that into dwarves, and this was reconfirmed for me when I tried to reread the book on the plane ride home and couldn't finish it. But it really doesn't help that the film is at least an hour longer than it needed to be.
8. Your fandom boyfriend of the year: Steve Rogers. Totally NOT my type (as many of you know, I generally fall for the bad guy or the sarcastic sidekick, not the hero--and definitely not muscular blond heroes!) but there's just something about the man who's lost his entire world yet soldiers on that just does things for me.
9. Your fandom girlfriend of the year: Darcy Lewis. Totally my type: dark-haired snarky sidekick, who damn well better be in the next Thor movie!
10. Your biggest squee moment of the year: Finding out the title of the next Captain America movie.
11. The most missed of your old fandoms: Hmm. In terms of the actual fandom, I miss the folks from Smallville.
12. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to: Possibly Suits? That's the only thing I'm aware of that I haven't seen any of canon for.
13. Your biggest fannish anticipations of the year: Probably the Star Trek movie. I'm also looking forward to Iron Man III, even though I thought the second one was pretty awful. Based on the previews, I have mixed feelings about the new Superman movie, though the cast is amazing.
clari_clyde1. Your main fandom of the year:
Avengers, hands down, at least in terms of fic reading (which seems to be my only mode of fannish participation these days). While I make occasional forays into Sherlock, Merlin, and older fandoms, probably 90% of what I read these days is Avengers--especially anything Steve, Bucky, Darcy, or Coulson-centered.
2. Favorite film you watched this year:
Despite the fact that I saw Avengers three times in the theaters, I actually think my favorite film this year was Lincoln. I didn't realize what a huge, huge Lincoln fangirl I was until I saw the film. I really only saw the film because my mom wanted to see it, but I was absolutely amazed that they managed to make the passage of the 13th amendment actually suspenseful. And despite knowing what was coming, I was absolutely a sobbing wreck when Lincoln was assassinated. Daniel Day Lewis was just astonishingly good in this.
3. Your favorite book you read this year: It wasn't new to me, but Annie Dillard's For the Time Being. It's nonfiction, and is basically a prolonged meditation on impermanence and finitude and what that means to us as human beings. It's a great book for religion geeks like me, because Dillard seems to have been collecting religious stories and theories her whole life and uses them to illustrate her thoughts on what evolution tells us about the nature of God.
4. Your favorite album or song to listen to this year: This is a tie between Sarah Mclachlan's Wintersong and The Mediaeval Baebes Mistletoe and Wine, both of which I listened to obsessively all December (and will still be doing so until January 6, dammit, since that's when the 12 days of Christmas actually ends). I got Wintersong free a couple years ago with some other iTunes purchase, but never actually listened to it until this year since it wasn't Christmastime when I got it. It perfectly hits my "depressing Christmas songs in a minor key" craving--it has pretty much all my faves, at least the non-religious ones. And the Mediaeval Baebes recommendation I got from ffa, of all places, and now I go around singing in Latin ALL the time.
5. Your favorite TV show of the year: I haven't actually picked up anything new, due to lack of live TV. My favorite is definitely The Good Wife , followed by Revenge . I did really love Political Animals during its short run, though.
6. Your best new fandom discovery of the year: Bucky Barnes, which is partly due to
musesfool's stories, and partly due to falling in love with Sebastian Stan on Political Animals, realizing he played Bucky, and suddenly watching Steve/Bucky supplant Steve/Tony as my favorite Steve pairing. (Well, actually my favorite Steve pairing is Steve/Peggy, but Steve/Bucky comes very close).7. Your biggest fannish disappointment of the year: Now that I've sat through it twice, I'd have to say The Hobbit. I thought, knowing what to expect, that I would like it a lot more the second time through, but I was actually more bored. To be fair, part of this is source material--I never did like The Hobbit as much as I liked LOTR, partly because it just wasn't as epic and partly because I am just not that into dwarves, and this was reconfirmed for me when I tried to reread the book on the plane ride home and couldn't finish it. But it really doesn't help that the film is at least an hour longer than it needed to be.
8. Your fandom boyfriend of the year: Steve Rogers. Totally NOT my type (as many of you know, I generally fall for the bad guy or the sarcastic sidekick, not the hero--and definitely not muscular blond heroes!) but there's just something about the man who's lost his entire world yet soldiers on that just does things for me.
9. Your fandom girlfriend of the year: Darcy Lewis. Totally my type: dark-haired snarky sidekick, who damn well better be in the next Thor movie!
10. Your biggest squee moment of the year: Finding out the title of the next Captain America movie.
11. The most missed of your old fandoms: Hmm. In terms of the actual fandom, I miss the folks from Smallville.
12. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to: Possibly Suits? That's the only thing I'm aware of that I haven't seen any of canon for.
13. Your biggest fannish anticipations of the year: Probably the Star Trek movie. I'm also looking forward to Iron Man III, even though I thought the second one was pretty awful. Based on the previews, I have mixed feelings about the new Superman movie, though the cast is amazing.