The Decade in Fandom (2010-2019)

[sholio]

Just for fun.

This isn't everything that I enjoyed by any means, but it's sort of an overview of what I was (for the most part) writing fanfic about in any given year.


2010
I had gotten on both Dreamwidth and AO3 in 2009, so 2010 was The Year Of Learning To Crosspost. I abandoned ff.net almost entirely (after having posted everything there in years prior).

I didn't really have a main fandom in 2010. I had just drifted out of SGA (though I was still sort of in it, but the show had been cancelled and I had major frustrations with the fandom and was just kind of not really happy about it in the same way). I got into Avatar: The Last Airbender this year. Going back through tags suggests that this was also the year I started reading the Benjamin January books. I did a Dresden Files reread and went through a brief period of writing fanfic for it.

2011
I got into Highlander (I think I had actually started watching it the year prior, but early 2011 was when I finished it and started reading and writing fic for it) and that was my major fandom for the early part of the year. And then I discovered White Collar and fell hard.

2012-13
All White Collar all the time.

2014
I was starting to drift out of White Collar by late season five due to frustration with both the show and the fandom, which meant I was fertile ground for a new fandom, and OH HEY, Winter Soldier came out in spring of that year, and I faceplanted in MCU in a major way. I'd been watching the movies since way back with IM1 (I mean really, I watched just about every superhero movie that came along) but in a not-very-engaged kind of way. I went to see CA:TWS three times in the theater, something I've only ever done with two other movies, and haven't really been out of various branches of MCU fandom since.

2015
Agent Carter happened to me. This is one of the few things I've ever really been into where I got in on the ground floor. I watched the first two episodes (they aired back to back) with the general expectation of not enjoying it all that much, because I hadn't really liked her that much as a character in the movies. (I know, I know.) And to my own shock, I loved it. Then 1x04-05 sealed my love, and I was pretty gone by the season one finale.

This was also the year I started writing for Zoe (in the spring) and fell hard into Amazon selfpub.

Also, I had a brief Star Wars resurgence due to the new movie coming out, and rewatching all the other ones and having Feelings.

2016
Season two of Agent Carter punched me in the heart, and that was my big fandom for the whole year. I also got into the DC TV shows with Legends of Tomorrow, Flash, and Supergirl, but not quite in the same way.

2017
I was in a sort of weird headspace following the election, and latched onto the Guardians of the Galaxy movies pretty hard because I was so taken with this wide gorgeous outer-space world where our world was just a footnote. That fall I got into both Dark Matter and Stranger Things. I was also still writing fic for Agent Carter. I think this was probably about the point where I switched over from serial fandom monogamy to being able to be really, truly into multiple active fandoms at once.

2018
I started off in the fandoms for the previous-listed shows (GotG, Agent Carter, Dark Matter, Stranger Things). This was the year I read All The Cherryh and wrote a bunch of Alliance-Union fic. I tentatively tried out the Netflix shows again (I had previous watched the first seasons of Daredevil and Jessica Jones, then disliked DD2 so much that I quit completely) because several people recommended Punisher to me, and I loved it and tipped over into the fandom for it -- I still think Punisher season 1 is perhaps the best-written of all the Netflix shows, and caught up on all the other ones, and Iron Fist (specifically the sibling dynamics and the emotional aspects) happened to hit a few of my specific happy buttons really, really hard.

2019
This year has been mostly Iron Fist with a side of Agent Carter, Stranger Things (kinda drifted away from that one after season 3), Punisher and the other Netflix shows, and a little bit of Alliance-Union and general MCU.

Right now, I'm still enthusiastic about the Netflix shows, starting to get into certain corners of the MCU movies a little bit more, and renewing my fondness for Agent Carter yet again; I think I might be about due for a rewatch. Oh, and I rewatched Wiseguy with rachelmanija and scioscribe (first watch for both of them; I last rewatched it in 2009) and found it just as good as I remembered! So that's a thing now, too.

Personally speaking, I started to list all the people I became friends with or met person this decade, but ... it's a LOT, and I realized I would feel terrible for forgetting anyone, and guilty for leaving people out. But it was a little startling to realize that nearly everyone I'm friends with now, including people I talk to almost every day, I became friends with, or got to know better, or met in person for the first time in the last decade. I'm so happy you are in my life, and I'm glad I met you (online or in person) and hope we'll have many more memories for another decade-in-fandom post in another ten years.

Comments

[xparrot]

Waves and hugs, and yay for making and advancing friendships! It's been a hell of a decade, for better or for worse...

[sholio]

IT HAS BEEN A DECADE FOR SURE. And we first met in person for the first time this decade, something I hadn't realized 'til I started trying to make a list! Pretty early in the decade, but still. Yay! \o/

*hugs*

[lunabee34]

*hugs*

I"m glad to know you too! Happy New Year.

[sholio]

*hugs back* Happy New Year to you!

[trobadora]

Wow, it's amazing how much of this I can remember! Including back when you first watched Highlander, which was so much fun to read along with! I can't believe that was nine years ago, wow. *boggles*

Here's to many more fannish memories. :D

[sholio]

AND MANY MORE! (Perfect icon, by the way.)

The Highlander watchalong was so much fun. I think it started in 2009 but carried over to 2010. I can't believe it's been a decade, either!

[trobadora]

I think it was 2010/2011? Either way, so long ago, but it doesn't feel like it at all ...

[sheron]

That's so interesting about AC for me, since my experience is different. I watched CA:TFA almost exclusively for Peggy (and a bit for Bucky) and TWS almost exclusively for Bucky and Nat and I was 100% there for the AC show from day 1.

Most of the rest of my decade was SPN followed by MCU :-) Maybe a little bit of WC, but I never really read fic in that fandom other than yours. SPN was really the first time I was mono-fannish for so long, roughly 2005-2015. I think that's when I roughly watched AC and was super into it for 2 years. Let's see how long MCU can last. Even though I've been watching since IM1, and I read a ton of Stucky out of self-defense in TWS times, I didn't really fall for the movies fandom until CA:CW happened to me, heh. (I can't believe it's already been years!)

[sholio]

I wasn't into her much at all in the movie! It's interesting because I can kind of see now why she was as popular as she was (and obviously I'm glad, because she'd never have gotten a show otherwise!) but in the movie she hit some DNW buttons for me, and actually in some ways still does, though not hard.

But, you know, different strokes, and if she hadn't taken off in popularity we'd never have had the show and you and I would probably never have had that ALL CHAT ALL THE TIME thing happen ... though who knows, maybe it would've in some other fandom.

and I read a ton of Stucky out of self-defense in TWS times

LOLOL.

[sheron]

I know the DNWs you mention, since you've talked about them, but it's like, I can see that perspective but it isn't how I read those scenes. And since I basically want to continue enjoying those TFA scenes with her, I choose to believe my interpretation :)

Well I wanted to read about Steve finding Bucky and the only way that was gonna happen in fic was with slash, so!

Later, I wanted to read Steve and Tony reconciling and the only way that was gonna happen in fic was with slash, so! (And that was all she wrote XD )

[leesa_perrie]

As I heard a comedian say on a TV show the other day: "This is a year that will go down in history. They all do. That's how history works."

But yeah, this has been something of a decade, hasn't it? So glad you made so many friends, I've also made new friends online. It's one of the better sides of the internet!

[sholio]

And I got to meet you! :DDD I think this has been the decade of finally getting to meet a bunch of people I had only ever known as online names and icons previously.

[leesa_perrie]

Meeting up was definitely a highlight of the decade!! As well as introducing you to 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes', because everyone needs to watch that crazy mixed up musical, lol!! :D :D :D

[booksarelife]

I’m so glad you’ve been around and mostly in fandoms I’m in!! Here’s to the next decade being somewhat less eventful!

[sholio]

And the ones you're not in, you've followed me into! <3 Thank you for all your wonderful and enthusiastic comments over the past few years.

[booksarelife]

Well, at least some of them, and I’m trying to locate some Cherryh books (though I’ve forgotten which ones you recommended to start with)!! And you are very welcome about the comments! (I’m looking forward to the stuff you’ve posted today)

[isis]

Oh, I like this retrospective! I think I'll do one, too.

I had a short flirtation with Wiseguy ... LAST decade. Didn't write for it, but I enjoyed the show and the fic!

Happy new decade!

[sholio]

Yeah, I had a brief fling with it back in 2009-ish. I have greatly enjoyed the latest go-around. :D

[scioscribe]

This is a great retrospective! And Wiseguy was a great new fannish interest to close out the decade with.

I certainly enjoyed getting to know you/meeting you in this decade and would also raise a glass in toast to many more memories. <3

[sholio]

It's been wonderful getting to know you, and sharing shiny new fandoms! I still can't get over having found out that you were one of my favorite writers in two different fandoms under two different names 15 years ago; that's so wild. <3

ETA: I just realized you changed your username! I kept thinking I'd written it wrong above, and trying to change it but it wouldn't change. XD

[winter_elf]

Where has the time gone!

[sholio]

I KNOW RIGHT?? It's already been a decade since I met you in Chicago! :O

[winter_elf]

Yea, I was trying to remember if it was 2009 or 2010! The mind is already going! :) I should probably update my written timeline of stuff I do, and when, so that I can look back and go, oh yea, 2018 was the year I went to France! I'm already having a hard time doing my scrapbooks and scratching my head - what year was this?

[yalumesse]

Aww <3

That's an impressive list! So much fandom. It helps that it's covering a long span of time but it does put into perspective how much of our lives we spend finding joy in these things.

(I seriously can't remember what happened in what year, except that near the start of the decade I had a Very Bad Incident that had me purging everything and starting over again, so I don't exactly like thinking about it. But everything since then's been good!)

[sholio]

I'm glad things have improved since then! <333 It's been really fun sharing fandoms with you.

[yalumesse]

It's SO nice to have a fandom friend to squee over a show with <3333

[quietmoon]

Aw, yay for fandom! Happy new year <3

[sholio]

Happy new year to you too! <3 I hope it'll be a nice one for you. :)

[rachelmanija]

It's been marvelous being friends with you and FINALLY sharing some fandoms. Wiseguy was a treat.

[sholio]

It's been so much fun! I had kinda forgotten that in the beginning we really didn't have any fandoms in common (except for some tangential sharing of MCU/comics, and/or fandoms we'd wandered through in the past but at different times, like Gundam Wing). It has really been delightful to be able to actively write for each other the last couple of years! And watching Wiseguy with you and scioscribe was so awesome! :)

[umadoshi]

This is a delight. *^^*

[sholio]

:DDDD

[liz_mo]

Yay, you discovering Highlander! I remember that. It was so so fabulous for us where the fandom had been done with at least 10+ years prior. And then you made that fanvid which is still one of my favourite HL vids ever. So, thank you, I guess.
Also, this is a neat idea for a post.