#fandom interaction

[mes-the-rebel-idol-boy]

what a group-[Chaotic household part 2]

Missing person is Nagisa Shiota from Assassination Classroom

[edelfan]

From an old lady who has been in several fandoms over the years...

Back in the day (I'm talking 20 years or so) I was very active in a fandom from where my Tumblr name originates (Edelfan = German expression for passionate, but respectful fan). I was interacting, as a fan, with those celebs on a regular basis, they basically knew who I was.

All of that while enjoying and writing rpf in a safe online environment (LiveJournal days).

I would never even thought about shipping in front of them, no matter how they were acting.

That's the way to enjoy nice things.

[strangeandworthit]

Saw a post tagged with RQG saying that RQG is not a very smutty fandom and I just. Have to disagree with that. Deeply. Fundamentally. But it's a really good leaping off point to say:

Don't know if you've noticed but there are circa 900/4000 RQG fics that are marked as Explicit and ~350 marked as Mature on Ao3.

Just because something was written a while back doesn't mean it's not still good! There's lots of gorgeous fanfic out there that has made me *cry* with how good it is. Much of it is not only explicit but also explores all sorts of themes and pairings and look. Just go look at the Mushblins tag.

Personally I still write RQG smut. Copious amounts. I don't publish a lot of it because of the lack of engagement! If you want to see more smut in the world: interact with the smut writers! Comment on their work and kudos and give good feedback and maybe the ecosystem will flourish again.

Anyway this is a general point about fan fiction to be honest, but it hit me right in the chest when we once could have and did have it all but the lack of engagement is what really killed things.

Also Kinktober is starting in two days and anyone who wants smut: I ring the dinner bell.

[hisuianserperior]

Fanfiction writers, artists, over the years we have had many Miraculous au works. And between crossovers, salt, crack, and more, each of them has had a different Marinette. So now I'm wondering, how would your Marinette react to Canonette. And not just her, but her world, the events going on, and all that good stuff, especially the lie. So picture it, your Nette finds herself in canon miraculous, and reads through all her diaries like Shady did. Would she blow the secret? Keep it? Not have the energy to deal with all the nonsense? How would she react. I'll put mine under the cut.

My main au Marinette, gonna call her Phoenixbug, would be deeply, deeply annoyed by everything. She and her siblings did not beat Gabe just for her to be lying about him in another dimension just for a boy she's only slightly above neutral with. She would despise canon miraculous Paris. She's friends with people she can't stand, her best friend is in Brazil, her other best friend is a completely different person, her girlfriend is dating someone else, Bustier is somehow the mayor, it's not a crossover so her siblings don't exist, and her mom isn't her mom. The only thing she would be glad for is that Canonette has a better relationship with her parents

[purpleasters-inseptember]

Perhaps in a couple of weeks, I would really like to do some digging in on fandom discourse on interaction and content!

My education being in public relations and mass communications and my career in strategic content and communications, I've always been really interested in the intersection of building community, interacting and content creation!

I'm thinking of putting together some surveys to get a sense of folks' feelings/thoughts, and to gather as many different perspectives as possible.

If anyone is interested in working on this with me, please let me know! I would love more perspectives on survey questions/how to share this information!

[anstarwar]

A curious/interesting (to me) thing I’ve noticed as I’ve bounced around fandoms is that certain ones have a higher reblog-to-just hitting “like” ratio than others.

Like Star Wars fandom is really good about reblogging stuff compared to other fandoms I’ve been in and I’m wondering if it’s like a “generation who’s interested in it” related thing? Like I know Star Wars fans span many generations but I think a lot of it skews Millennial and Gen-X’er (or older)…you know the generations that didn’t grow up with IG/Twitter/TikTok, but still had internet access in some capacity…as compared to the other fandom I’m currently fixated on, Pacific Rim, which appears to have a far smaller reblog ratio (mostly just hits the “like” button and moves on) and, from my experience so far, skews younger.

I really want to do a study on this but idk how to go about that hmmm…

Also this is just with regards to tumblr as a platform for sharing art/fic/fandom creation

[themaradwrites]

So I was having a chat a while back with @indigo-jungle and it got me thinking about ways people like to interact in fandom.

For me, my ideal fandom friendship would be someone I can talk to a couple of times a week (at least once? with obvious exceptions lol - holidays, plans, birthdays, trips, etc) give or take, be absolutely unhinged about Sam Wilson with (or John Sheppard or whoever), and can talk about our fics. Someone where we'd read each others fics and comment. A friendship where we encourage each other to update or at least write regularly - a chapter a week, a chapter a month, whatever.

Mutual reading, commenting, squealing, and encouragement.

I don't care if that person writes OC fic as long as they're willing to chat about it and (ideally) read my fics.

For myself, I'll read anything that person writes, regardless of whether it's in my wheelhouse or not, regardless of whether I'm in that fandom or not. And I'll leave comments.

The only caveats are for length (my brain just can't deal with fic longer than around 5k to 6k words per chapter as an average, so I'd need it broken up to read) and certain subject material I'm not comfortable reading.

But I realise that's not what everyone wants in a fandom friendship, nor is it how everyone wants to interact with their friends.

So I got curious.

What's your fandom friendship ideal look like?

How do you like to interact with your fandom friends?