Snowflake Challenge #14

[galadhir]

Fandom Wrap Challenge

Everyone seems to have jumped on the 'wrap' bandwagon after Spotify has been doing it for all these years. I got 'wraps' from Reddit, Duolingo, Tumblr, and more. We don't have any scientific algorithms here, but we can do what we do best - estimate and make stuff up to fill in the holes!

Presenting the snowflake_challenge's Fandom Wrap! Fill in your top 5 (or less. Or more, we're not picky) in each category. If you'd like to make up your own top 5 category, please do!

What were your top 5 fandoms for 2022 based on the amount of time you interacted with them?

1. I started the year still with General Hux (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Kylux and Gingerpilot) where I was writing fanfic.
2. then I wandered off to read a lot of stuff in the Murderbot fandom, while mostly lurking
3. and a bit of stuff in The Goblin Emperor, where I also lurked
4. The Untamed came in hard at the end of the year, and I tried a bit of fanfic but have mostly contributed by podficcing 5.

What were your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) you experienced fandom in terms of time spent?

1. The year started on Tumblr, where I had a nice little community of people who discussed the First Order with me. But they all drifted off to other fandoms.
2. after which I tried to get into Mastodon (where I already had an account from three years ago when my fandom was permaculture.) But kept drifting back to Tumblr for the instant dopamine response and the fact that I didn't have to put much effort in.
3. Briefly tried to get into The Untamed fandom on Twitter, just before Twitter went nuclear
4. Eventually decided that if fandom places were all doomed to collapse, I would come back to DW, which had survived ever since LJ went down and looked like a good candidate for a social-media-of-our-own

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. I'm in the grip of crippling writers' block and hadn't found another way of contributing until I discovered podficcing. Late in the year I did discover podficcing, and I've been doing that since September
2. I do comment when I have the spoons to do so
3. Occasionally I make icons, but as they are for really obscure fandoms I mostly end up using them myself

What were your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions? (i.e. in terms of likes, kudos, reblogs, comments, etc.)

1. Definitely the podfic of Last of Our Kind by Shiome. She has been a huge support and cheerleader, and I've had a lot more comments than I ever imagined.

Have a Top 5 List you'd like to share?? By all means!

Media I can remember and enjoyed from 2022 (some of which was watched on Netflix)

1. Wakanda Forever (briefly thought about writing Namor/M'Baku, but see above re writer's block)
2. The Untamed (attempted to write for this too and managed a single short. Then gave up.)
3. Warrior Nun (fun enough)
4. Winx Club (also fun enough)
5. Amazon's Rings of Power - made me wish to start writing Celeborn again, out of spite, but did not actually manage to make me do so.

Comments

[vriddy]

"social-media-of-our-own"!! Love it. I didn't realise your year had been so tumultuous in terms of fandom spaces. I hope it stabilises somewhat, and pleasantly so!

I hope the writer's block breaks soon, and you continue to have fun with podficcing :)

[galadhir]

Thank you! Yes, I'm just waiting for the third book of The Untamed to come out, and then I should be able to engage on equal terms with the book fans and hopefully be able to get into more discussions then.

I should make getting back into writing my new year's resolution for 2023.I do feel fairly positive about it :)