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snowflake_challenge #9: In your own space, list your Fandom Wrap categories. 

What are your top five fandoms for 2021 based on the amount of time you interacted with them?
1. The Vampire Diaries.
2. WandaVision.
3. Bob's Burgers.
4. Black Widow.
5. Hawkeye.

So… I turned into a bit of a MCU head. I never, ever thought I would ever dive deep into MCU fandom as I was happy to sit on the sidelines, but 2021, I decided to take the plunge with WandaVision and I have not come up for air since.

What are your top five fandom spaces in terms of time spent? (AO3, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, Dreamwidth, and others)
1. AO3 (I'm at buries.
2. Tumblr when it bloody loads (I'm at finnicks).
3. YouTube (shoutout to the Meanwhile in Australia series becoming my go-to for news lmao).
4. Twitter (I'm at thereafter where I spent half the year livetweeting Aussie Bachelor/ette).
5. Dreamwidth.

What are the top five ways you interacted in these fandoms? (Reading fanfic, writing, commenting, watching videos, chatting with friends, making art, or anything else you can think of).
1. Writing fanfic (both for myself and for exchanges).
2. Commenting on fanfic.
3. RPing in DWRP.
4. Watching a lot of YouTube videos—I went through phases where I listened to BookTubers, people who reacted to tv, people who broke down WandaVision theories, and now I'm into watching people do art.
5. Making icons at shithouse.

What are the top five things you did to contribute to fandom in terms of time? Did you write? Comment? Send positive energy into the universe? Create art?
1. Wrote a loooot of fanfic.
2. Participated in exchanges for the first time and wrote a lot of stories.
3. Commented around in exchanges. I can only hope that my comment made someone's day just as their work made mine.
4. Making icons.
5. Reblogging a lot of gifs.

What things did you create that took the most time?
1. Making icons, posting them, and cross-posting them takes forever. In conjunction with this one, doing so, so many commissions!
2. This isn't technically fandom, but pottery! I took up pottery last year and, oh man, just getting the hang of the wheel took a whole damn term.
3. Writing fic, especially somewhere between hello and goodbye (Wandavision, Wanda-centric) — 25k of grief exploration. While it was fun to write, there was just something about the idea that I spent a lot of time with because I wanted it to be the best it could be in representing Wanda's personal grief journey. This was for a Big Bang so I put a lot of pressure on myself to try and get it done quickly. I felt my idea was ambitious so it took a lot of time and energy to try and ensure it became the story I wanted to tell.
4. someday you will ache like i ache (The Vampire Diaries, Katherine/Elena) — 24.8k that I wrote in around two weeks and I kept wanting to make it BIGGER but had to dial it down to try and showcase the emotional and mental journey of two distrusting women coming to trust one another. It was a lot of fun to write, but definitely an exercise in asking "Is this scene serving the story?"
5. i'll pretend that you're watching the sky, too (Gilmore Girls, Rory/Jess) — 24.9k where I spent a lot of time trying to format lol. I learned a lot about how to use skins on AO3 and how to try and make this notepad skin work, even though one letter doesn't work as I want it to because it's too short to align itself properly. It makes me mad, but the inner perfectionist in me is currently letting it go. This one took a long time because I couldn't stop rereading it because I couldn't believe I wrote it LOL.

Top 5 books read in 2021.
1. Sword and Pen by Rachel Caine, last book in the Great Library series. (I am obsessed with this series.)
2. Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine, part of the Great Library series.
3. The End by Lemony Snicket, the last book in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series.
4. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. (Can't believe I am obsessed with this book.)
5. The Flash vol. 4: Reverse.

Lets be friends on Goodreads!

I added an extra Top 5, but this is a special Top 3.

Top 3 cats in 2021, in no particular order other than alphabetical.

I am forever grateful for these three gremlins. They made 2020 and 2021 bearable, and I'm so glad that they shed everywhere and lie on my clothes and drop in the middle of the walkways at random…

Iris, who is busy chilling by the window ensuring things are as they should be.


Ruby, practicing her cheers.


Scarlet, probably rightfully telling me off for something.


You can follow them at thewhisks where their personal assistant will hopefully get her shit together and start posting photos again or risk being fired.

Comments

[kingstoken]

Such cute kitties!

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They say thank you! (Or they would if they were not sleeping on the job!)

[sodium_amytal]

BEAUTIFUL KITTIES!!!!!!!! *O*

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😽 Thank you!

[corvidology]

Sounds like you had a great year fannishly and in such good kitty company too!

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I think it's been the most fannish year I've had in many years! I barely recognise myself lol. (And the kitty company is 10/5 stars, would highly recommend it as long as you don't wear black.)

[tielan]

I came for the cats. Such lovely cats! *offers a hand for them to decide if they like or not*

And yes, Meanwhile In Australia: thank heavens for Jimmy Rees giving us the giggle amidst the dire.

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Oh, they'll love it!

He is honestly the best. I can't believe we're up to Part 44? 45? (How he manages to include every crazy fuck up that happens in the span of just a few days is incredible.)

[sparrow2000]

That's a pretty diverse set of fandoms you're playing in, and so much wonderful fandom participation - I love it.

And the kitties are super cute! :)

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Thank you! They know that they're very cute (and wield that power a lot).

[killclaudio]

Wasn't the Hawkeye show fun? I was a bit reluctant to watch initially because I love the Fraction comics and I get grumpy when an adaptation Gets Things Wrong, but it was its own thing that stood alone, and it was brilliant.

Your kitties are beautiful! And clearly they know it! ;)

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Yes! I'm admittedly not a MCU!Clint fan, but I really love what they did. (I personally felt like it was the Kate Show more than the Clint Show, but Hailee and Jeremy had such great chemistry... and then Yelena 😍). I'm hoping to get my hands on some Clint and Kate comics since I love what I see of Clint in the comic world. (Maybe Fraction should be my start!)

Thank you—and they do. :| They honestly do.

[tsuki_no_bara]

such pretty kitties! and so fluffy!

i gotta say, wandavision was a great initial offering for marvel tv. so weird, so interesting, so full of stuff for fans to work with.

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You can say fluffy at least a few more times (and Shedders of A Lot Of Hair).

Wasn't it!? It's honestly my favourite show to come out of Marvel. I loved the era—all the theories, everyone losing their shit over the smallest of things. It was so damn creative. I wish I could watch it for the first time again!

[greghousesgf]

KITTIES!!!! =^..^=
"Six of Crows" totally sounds like some kind of weird tarot card to me.

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I don't blame you for thinking that lol!

[lightbird]

Aw, your cats are beautiful!

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Thank you! They (thankfully?) know it and use this knowledge for a lot of evil!

[vriddy]

I fully support a Top 3 of cats 😻 Such a variety of activities and fandoms, sounds super fun :)

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Thank you! They would send their gratitude if they were not busy sleeping after having a hard day of walking around. It's a tough life being them.

[svgurl]

I used to RP on Tumblr years ago - I didn't even realize that people RP'd on here too. How's the activity level?

I can only hope that my comment made someone's day just as their work made mine.
It made mine! ♥ Your enthusiasm is always so clear and I bet other people appreciated it too. :D

The fact you wrote not one but two fics for HA and they were so long- 50k total- is absolutely jaw dropping. And you should reread it- it was really excellent.

Aww cats! They're all so cute and fluffy!

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Oh, yes, there's a huge rp community on DW. (Although, I think the rpers would probably disagree since there's been a lot of talk about how the community is now a lot smaller.) When the LJ Migration happened, I'd say that the DWRP community was at its most active. There was a lot of activity on the big community communities and probably a lot more people (although, I don't know how many people are now in the community as I feel like it depends on which circles you run in).

Now, I'd say that the activity is a lot less. We have memes where you can get some random threads, and I'd say that for every 50 top levels, there's 1-2 that have been commented on and have a decent thread length. (Before, I'd feel it would've been 10.) I can understand why there's been a big drop—we're all not in university anymore and we're Adults, but I personally believe the culture has also changed (for the better and for the worst) and become insular. I personally think that while the public activity seems a lot less, I think a lot of people are doing private storylines and turning more insular in their roleplay. (I am.)

I remember trying to do Tumblr rp and I just could not wrap my head around it, so my hat's off to you!

The fact you wrote not one but two fics for HA and they were so long- 50k total- is absolutely jaw dropping.
INSANE TO THINK ABOUT. I'm so glad that I was able to do it and that you didn't mind getting double the minimum. It was so much fun. c:

[wearing_tearing]

That cat tax 😍

And omg I've had "i'll pretend that you are watching the sky, too" marked for later before creators were revealed and I didn't know you'd written it! I'm bumping it up my list now <3

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They are the worst tax agents. I think they keep adding rather than subtracting!

sjfklsd no way! 😳😊 I hope you enjoy it whenever you get around to reading it!