Migration

[kellifer]

I've been dropping most of the Stargate and Supernatural comms from my flist over the last few days. Some because they've just become inactive but also because I don't tend to write/read in those fandoms anymore. I've had the S6 DVDs of Supernatural and the last season of Atlantis for ages now and haven't watched which should probably tell me something about my interest level.

I'm still writing a couple of things for SPN (requests, spn_j2_xmas and the LOOOOONG overdue charity fic) but I'm not seeking any fic to really read. I feel like I've lost touch with the canon, that I'd happily rewatch the early seasons of SPN, probably sooner than I would watch new current eps. I still have a deep and abiding love for S1-4ish Sam n' Dean.

What's got me excited is that I've had a lot of folks where our fandom circles stopped intersecting that have cycled back into an overlapping orbit because of Avengers and Teen Wolf. It's like re-embracing old friends even though they are (relatively) new fandoms. I don't really tend to shed people when our fandom interests stop aligning but I totally understand peeps that did join my crazy train for the SG and the SPN (especially Stargate) bidding a (hopefully) fond farewell.

Ugh, Teen Wolf. It feels like I meant to just shake it a little to get a single candy bar out and then this happened.

Comments

[shinysylver.livejournal.com]

Teen Wolf is ridiculously addictive. I'm having so much fun with it. :D

[lec90.livejournal.com]

Haha, that's the perfect metaphor/gif. It's so true. :)

[fufaraw]

I know what you mean. I'm bi-fandom with TW at the moment, with added condiments like DW and Sherlock, Haven, H50, GoT and Merlin. Just wave something pretty at me and you've got my attention, at least for a moment! I figure some of it will stick.

[johanirae.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAH oh that gif XD Brilliant metaphor hon

[tabaqui]

Awwwwwwww.
I know the feeling, though. I'm struggling to finish a Buffy charity fic and...man. I love Buffy and Angel but i just don't feel the fandom like i used to.

*sigh*

[jennytork.livejournal.com]

I think I'll stay. I have loved Avengers since I was a kid, though I've never seen the movies.

[lembeau.livejournal.com]

You make me want to start watching Teen Wolf.

[sparrowsverse.livejournal.com]

People keep saying TW, TW, TW for Teen Wolf and I keep looking around going 'Torchwood, wha? I know it got founded because of Queen Victoria and a space werewolf but why are you people....oh, right...'

Fandom needs to keep their acroynms right!

[nialla]

There's at least one person on my flist that I've known since my Highlander fandom days, circa the early 90s.

I frequently have met up with fans from previous fandoms, either by chance or because they were an author I liked in the previous fandom and followed them because I liked their work.

These days, I find myself following people to discover shows I might not otherwise have watched. It's a lot easier to do with DVDs, instant video, and er, other sources. I can watch from the start and catch up relatively easy, which is very different from those early 90s Highlander days, in which you had to join a fan club to buy the very expensive VHS tapes of the series.

Fandom is sort of like the Hotel California. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

[frost.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I started reading both Avengers and Teen Wolf fan fiction just to test it out and now I can't stop reading.

In fact...I read "Pretty in Tents" by you yesterday, haha! :D

Lol, I do that sometimes (shake the machine) and always worry it will fall over. Maybe I won't do that anymore.... ^^;

[seadragonlady.livejournal.com]

I have never written fan fiction of any type. Though I do read more than enough in too many fandoms to name. The thing that always enthralls me most of all is the quality of writing you can find in the strangest of places.The most recent a Btvs/SGA with Dawn and Jennie as the main focus at the end of the world. Magic.
I am more than content to follow along in the wake of the talented folk if you are happy to have me lurking in the shadows.

[gottalovev.livejournal.com]

I'm a weird person who never drops comms (though I read on a 90% comm-free filter, so it's a non issue for me), but I totally know what you mean. Fandom for me is like some kind of dance where you twirl and intersect with new and familiar people before circling around again. Most times it's great, sometimes it's 'ugh, omg, why didn't you find another fandom to play in?'

btw that metaphor/gif thing here with Teen Wolf: so accurate it hurts. OMG. *shakes head fondly*

[dhrachth.livejournal.com]

Me too. I still love early SPN, but recent years have been kinda bad. Stargate's gotten pretty stagnate too. You can only read slightly different versions of the same fic so many times...

But, Teen Wolf is currently awesome.

[lomer.livejournal.com]

That is the perfect analogy for the Teen Wolf fandom. I thought "I'll watch one stupid episode of this stupid show everyone's talking about" and then I got trapped and now I'm obsessed. Ugh.

[moonie]

What's got me excited is that I've had a lot of folks where our fandom circles stopped intersecting that have cycled back into an overlapping orbit because of Avengers and Teen Wolf.

I've been on Livejournal for ten years and love, love, love when that happens. Most recently it's been Avengers and Teen Wolf for me, too, and I'm full of glee over getting to reconnect with a bunch of people on a fannish level.