Snowflake Challenge #15 - Fandom Wrapped!

[nonesensed]

Your top 5 fandoms for 2023 were:
1) Remedyverse (Alan Wake II came out at the end of the year and blindsided me with how much I ended up loving it and rediscovering my love for all the other games by this studio, especially Control)
2) Critical Role (This is one of the fandoms I've been continuously active in the longest. Strangely, it's also the one where I read the least fics, and I haven't written any.)
3) Candela Obscura (Love the setting and fell hard for the second 'season' of the actual play show. I've so much great fanfic to get caught up on!)
4) The Mechanisms (I know I'm decades late to this fandom, but I still had a joyous time listening to all the albums and checking out the recordings scattered around Youtube. Still have one left unseen that I'm saving for a metaphorical rainy day)
5) ElfQuest (Canon jumped the shark for me long ago, but I'm still having a blast rping OCs in old-fashioned post-by-post forum RPGs)

Your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) in 2023 were:
1) Chatting about meta and fic plotting with friends + playing TTRPGs
2) AO3
3) Tumblr
4) Twitter
5) Discord (in small private groups, playing D&D)

The top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom in 2023 were:
1) Commenting (on fic, fanart, etc)
2) Reblogging/Retweeting art, fics and meta
3) Brainstorming fics and meta with my friends one-on-one
4) Interacting with meta, contributing what I can
5) Fic writing (I've been in a bit of a funk when it comes to writing fic, but that's already gotten better this year!)

Your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions were:
1) My interaction with my friends, which goes both ways 💖(talking meta, brainstorming fic, DM-ing D&D, etc)
2) My comments! I've been doing my best to comment more on both art and on each chapter of fics I read, and I can tell it's made people happy 😊
3) My retweets/reblogs
4) My Rook & Rose fanfic Stitch-Witch
5) My Alan Wake II fanfic Loss of Face

Your fandom personality in 2023 was: (i.e. Fandom Eeyore, Twitter Refugee, Discord Party Animal, etc.)
The Cheerleader~!

In 2023, you discovered: (that you adore hockey RPF, but you hate the Liberty Mutual emu, etc.)
Alan Wake II, to the joy and horror of my poor friends and family 😆

Your fandom home in 2023 was:
It's a tie between AO3, Tumblr and chatting person-to-person with my friends.

Comments

[flo_nelja]

Oh, the Mechanisms, do you have fave songs? Fave characters?

[nonesensed]

I sure do! My favorite album of theirs is "The Bifrost Incident", both because I love the songs and because I'm a huge cosmic horror fan 🖤🖤🖤 I love many of the songs, but my absolute favorite is the combo of Red Signal, Ragnarok I: Runaway & Ragnarok II: The Calling *chef's kiss* I also adore the final live show versions of Underworld Blues, Hellfire and Rose Red 💖💖💖

As for favorite characters, my favorite mechanism is Jonny d'Ville, 'cause I'm a sucker for a murder gremlin who ends up being the butt of so many jokes (though I love all the mechs and enjoy them most as a group). My favorite pairing is Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot, 'cause I love every story that solves a love triangle with polyamory 😁

What about you? Any faves songs of theirs and/or characters? 😊

[flo_nelja]

Yeah, The Bifrost Incident is my fave too!

I love most of the songs but I had Laid in blood living in my head for weeks. But also I agree with you for the best part of The Bifrost Incident.

Fave pairing... I adore Loki/Sigyn in THe Bifrost Incident but also Loki/Odin because I love an evil ship.
Not sure about the Mechanisms characters, I don't feel like I consumed enough supplementary material to get them.

[nonesensed]

Laid in blood is so sooo good!

Loki/Sigyn is so wonderfully tragic and bittersweet and I adore their whole arc (and also wish they could have had a long happy life together, buuuut they're in a Mechanism story 😅). And oooh, I hadn't thought of Loki/Odin for this canon, but I am intrigued! Wonderfully messed up~

I read all the side-stories on their website, which is how I came to get a favorite mechanism at all. I totally get not vibing with a particular one just from hearing the songs. Have you seen any of the recorded performances and/or have you been listening to the albums?

[flo_nelja]

I have only seen Death of the Mechanisms.
Oh, Skin and Bone too! I had this one in my head!

Ha ha I'm so biased towards Odin/Loki in the original myth that it seeps into other canons :D

[nonesensed]

I had a lot of fun watching the live shows so I'd recommend checking them out if you enjoyed the DotM live show 😊 And yeah, Skin and Bone is also excellent!

The heart wants what the heart wants 😆 I have plenty of things about Norse mythology that's "permanent headcanons" for me too, that tend to bleed over into all takes on the myths, so I 100% understand where you're coming from!

[scintilla10]

The Cheerleader~! Aww, yes, I love this!! An excellent, integral, and much-beloved archetype in fandom. :D :D :D

[nonesensed]

💖 Fandom is such a social thing, I tend to reason that while I love writing and sharing fanfic, I can only write so many fics in a year (even in a good year). Putting effort into also commenting on other people's fanworks and cheering them on is what makes fandom a good place to hang out 😊

[potentiality_26]

You are very much appreciated <3

I haven't gotten around to watching Candela Obscura, but I am looking forward to it.

[nonesensed]

I'm happy to hear that 💖💖💖

Yay for Candela Obscura! I'm currently watching the latest Circle start their chapter and It Is Wild 🤩

[wendelah1]

Fandom needs more Cheerleaders. Cheer + Leader. A wonderful combination.

[nonesensed]

Cheer is what makes fandom go round 💖💖💖