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Fandom rant
Saturday, 29 July 2017 17:02People who have more than one or two fandoms... how do you do it? I've been thinking of taking part in an exchange over at AO3, but now that the sign-up period is open, I don't think I can even sign-up? For some reason the exchanges I've seen over there so far all have it in their rules that you need to request and/or offer to work with a variety of different fandoms - typically three or four different ones.
THREE fandoms, that I'm supposed to be willing to request or write for? Or worse, FOUR? That sounds like a joke to me. Typically, I'm only truly invested in like one fandom at a time. If I include past favourites and random ideas that might have entered my mind at some point even if they were never that important, I might be able to make requests from a couple of other fandoms as well... but I only truly want my main fandom of interest anyway.
Actually WRITING for other fandoms, though? I mean: WHAT? Writing, for me, is largely an emotional process. At the very least, I need to have my own feelings around the people/characters I'm writing, and I can't imagine having that kind of connection to things in three, four, five or ten different fandoms. Maybe that's what I get for caring mainly about RPS fandoms, though, I don't know... But it's hard for me to understand how it's possible to care about a whole bunch of different things to the extent that you would want to write fic about it.
I also see that I'm probably not going to get anything I truly want if it's a multifandom exchange, simply because the nominations consist of 98% things I don't know a thing about, so to me it doesn't seem likely that most people there will be familiar with or willing to work with my stuff either.
I guess my years in football fandom spoiled me - at least there everything was from the same fandom, so I didn't feel strange for wanting RPS. Perhaps my weird likings weren't the easiest to match in exchanges then either, but at least I got a fair amount of exchange fics there - and some truly beautiful ones, even!
I don't mean to complain, though. Of course I get that people must be allowed to enjoy things they like in the way that suits them, just like I do with stuff I like... but it's still strange to see how my way of thinking and feeling around this seems to be wildly different compared to the mindset that seems to be the required and done thing in multifandom exchanges.
Oh, well... back to thinking of my next fic, then. I keep thinking of a certain very insipring videoclip, so I might try to write a fic based on that some day soon. Should be fun... except writing is hard work, so I didn't get started yet.
THREE fandoms, that I'm supposed to be willing to request or write for? Or worse, FOUR? That sounds like a joke to me. Typically, I'm only truly invested in like one fandom at a time. If I include past favourites and random ideas that might have entered my mind at some point even if they were never that important, I might be able to make requests from a couple of other fandoms as well... but I only truly want my main fandom of interest anyway.
Actually WRITING for other fandoms, though? I mean: WHAT? Writing, for me, is largely an emotional process. At the very least, I need to have my own feelings around the people/characters I'm writing, and I can't imagine having that kind of connection to things in three, four, five or ten different fandoms. Maybe that's what I get for caring mainly about RPS fandoms, though, I don't know... But it's hard for me to understand how it's possible to care about a whole bunch of different things to the extent that you would want to write fic about it.
I also see that I'm probably not going to get anything I truly want if it's a multifandom exchange, simply because the nominations consist of 98% things I don't know a thing about, so to me it doesn't seem likely that most people there will be familiar with or willing to work with my stuff either.
I guess my years in football fandom spoiled me - at least there everything was from the same fandom, so I didn't feel strange for wanting RPS. Perhaps my weird likings weren't the easiest to match in exchanges then either, but at least I got a fair amount of exchange fics there - and some truly beautiful ones, even!
I don't mean to complain, though. Of course I get that people must be allowed to enjoy things they like in the way that suits them, just like I do with stuff I like... but it's still strange to see how my way of thinking and feeling around this seems to be wildly different compared to the mindset that seems to be the required and done thing in multifandom exchanges.
Oh, well... back to thinking of my next fic, then. I keep thinking of a certain very insipring videoclip, so I might try to write a fic based on that some day soon. Should be fun... except writing is hard work, so I didn't get started yet.