Fandom Wrap Challenge

[regshoe]

snowflake_challenge #14 is the Fandom Wrap Challenge, some summary rankings of fannish things over the last year...

What were your top 5 fandoms for 2022 based on the amount of time you interacted with them?
1. Flight of the Heron, my main fandom! All my longer fic, all the podfic, several of the shorter fics and much of the general reading/fandom discussion was here.
2. Kidnapped, largely thanks to the longfic WIP.
3. The Wounded Name, which I re-read, talked about a bit and wrote some fic for.

That's about it for my main fandoms—the rest are 'one-off' canons which I know and briefly did some fannish stuff for but don't think of myself as being continuously 'in fandom' for, as it were.

4. White Cockades, for which I wrote a medium-long crossover with FotH.
5. After that it's exchange fandoms, and I think A Little Princess (for Hurt/Comfort Ex) and The Horla (for Yuletide) are probably more or less tied here. Also Jill, for which I did not create anything but I did request and receive multiple excellent exchange fics for it!

What were your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) you experienced fandom in terms of time spent?
1. Dreamwidth—my main fannish space, and I'm very happy with this!
2. AO3, my primary place for posting fic.
3. Tumblr, where I read sanguinarysanguinity's and chiropteracupola's blogs and like FotH posts.
4. Discord, which is mainly lurking these days.
5. Squidgeworld, for cross-posting FotH fic.

What are the top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom in terms of time? Did you write? Comment? Send positive energy into the universe? Create art?
1. Write and post fic.
2. Post about, comment about and generally discuss my fandoms on Dreamwidth.
3. Read and comment on posted fic.
4. Beta read fic.
5. Record and post podfic.

What were your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions? (i.e. in terms of likes, kudos, reblogs, comments, etc.)
By kudos on AO3:
1. When I am sick and like to die, my first Kidnapped fic
2. A Propitious Season of Living, the A Little Princess hurt/comfort fic
3. Six foot two (without stocking or shoe), a silly FotH ficlet
4. And ilka bonny lassie sang, my second Kidnapped fic
5. That Cup of Cold Water, another FotH ficlet written for Three Weeks for Dreamwidth.

Have a Top 5 List you'd like to share?? By all means!
Have the results of the Ewen/Keith slash poll that I posted for challenge #8! Full quotes at the linked post—fandom's favourite lines are:
1. '...like the roots of two trees...'
2. '...a species of bondage...'
3. '...you gave me back that night in the hut.'
4. '...extraordinarily handsome Ardroy had looked...'
5. A tie between '...a man of his proportions' and '...his pulse quickened with pleasure...'
Good taste, everyone :D

Comments

[sanguinity]

Heh, the other day I went to send you chiropteracupola's latest kidnapped art, and saw that you had already commented on it! I feel very honored to be one of two people worth checking up on over there. :-)

[regshoe]

:D

[dr_zook]

Hey, have I told you lately how much I love your Horla?! *weeps silently* It's such a beautiful take on them. *blows nose* THANK YOU AGAIN. ❤️

Haha, love the Top 5 list! XD

[regshoe]

:D You may have mentioned it once or twice... Thank you <3

Haha, love the Top 5 list! XD

It's very important to establish these things!

[flamingsword]

It sounds like your 2022 was satisfyingly fill up with fandom things! I hope 2023 is much the same!

[regshoe]

It was, I think! Thank you :)

(ooh, and I like your icon/username combination!)

[flamingsword]

Thank you! Aziraphale/Crowley was one of my first ships, before I was even knew what fandom was. I freaking love that book, and pretty much everything that Pratchett ever wrote. I like your Glorious 25th of May alive!Reg Shoe icon there.

[regshoe]

I've never really been in the fandom for Good Omens, but I have loved the book (and Aziraphale/Crowley!) for a long time, as well as Discworld :) And thank you!

[luzula]

I was surprised at first that it's your shorter snippets that are getting more feedback, when you did such impressive longfics! But then again, people who are more tangentially in the fandom might perhaps only read snippets, and not tackle the longfics...

[regshoe]

Yes, I suppose shorter fics are easier to read, whether for reasons of time/energy or investment in the fandom! If I order by comments rather than kudos then 'A Grimly Ghost' and 'The Sun of the Mind' are at numbers 4 and 5, so longer fics do seem to get disproportionately more comments—probably because of people leaving separate comments on multiple chapters.

[luzula]

And I haven't even commented on those, I see! I'm saving up 'The Sun of the Mind' for rereading--I like to have some distance between beta-reading and reading for pleasure. : )

As for 'A Grimly Ghost', I thought I'd commented on it, but apparently not... : (

[regshoe]

Oh, I thought you had too—I suppose I'm remembering your beta comments :D

I'm saving up 'The Sun of the Mind' for rereading--I like to have some distance between beta-reading and reading for pleasure. : )

:) That's good—I hope you enjoy the re-read whenever you get to it!