Fan Intro Meme

Edited 30 November, 2024.

I made this page because I went vastly over the character limit on blorbo.social where my answers were initially drafted. Please enjoy my rambles.

Thank you for the tags, @gary010 and @whimwitch!! Thank you to @xieliansbignaturals for compiling these questions! They were a lot of fun to answer.

1. What are your top three fandoms?

Good question! I'd say Scum Villain, Mob Psycho, and Homestuck (<- constant backburner fandom).

2. What are your top three blorbos?

Manjoume Jun and Rose Lalonde are my top blorbos, tailed closely by Asagiri Minori. I have a favs page compiled here if you want to poke around (pardon my dust). I think I might be the most unwell person about all three of them – many messy thoughts.

3. Are you a shipper? If yes: top three ships?

Am I a shipper? Is water wet? Debatable. Is the sky blue? Sometimes? Is. Well. Yeah, I am.

I offer you Bing(ge)Yuan, DaveRose, and MobReiMob on this fine day. If you want to split hairs then that's five ships (please don't split hairs).

4. What are your top 3 tropes?

• WHUMP!! Hurt them!! Hurt each other!!
• Poor spoiled baby has a rude awakening about the world and ends up a bit warped about it. This one goes out to all my work-in-progress girlies (gender neutral). In fewer words: riches to rags distilled down further to dissolution of self.
• Looking through my favorite ships and I suppose I can extract a common theme of a difference in purity or innate goodness, either real or perceived. It's an amazing flavor and I inject it wherever I can. No matter how the ship skews otherwise, this is the power balance upon which I build all else, and several of my favorite ships are those where both parties think they're the "bad one"/corrupting force. Absolutely unmatched.

Bonus round: anything meta . . .

5. What is your main source of fandom? (For example, artist, commenter, shitposter, podficcer...)

I hope I'm interpreting this question correctly, but I mostly participate in fandom through fanfiction, ergo fanfiction authors. Kisses to everyone who has ever written fanfiction ever

Edit: I have been informed that this question originally said "what's your main role in fandom?" Oops! That's what I get for copying the questions out while half asleep. Let's try again.

For risk of sounding vain with my original answer, my main role in fandom is definitely fanfiction author. I'll go long stretches without interacting with fandom spaces, but I'll always be writing about my little guys. I hope I've written something that spoke to you – my id is my target audience and anyone else is just a bonus casualty.

6. Rec a fic! Why do you like it?

You are asking the wrong person . . .

Welcome to the vault.

There you shall find many fics that I have loved dearly. I have full tags for all of them in what should be a familiar format to AO3 users, and squeeing for most of them, but if you're overwhelmed, I'd like to give a special shout-out to this GX fic whose expansive Yu-Gi-Oh worldbuilding changed my life forever. It's not on my recs list yet because I do all this by hand, but it has irreparably raised my standards for everything else. Here's my blurb from elsewhere:

If I had to get rid of every fic in the world, this would be the one I would mourn the most. The banter is top tier and the story is grounded enough to get away with feeling like a series of dreams. This person's prose is excellent, I want to build a house out of their words and live in it. Straying is a love letter to GX first and a realistic slow burn second. I love hearing about the author's thought process behind every single major match. There isn't anything I would change about this fic. Read it immediately

7. Rec a drawing? Why do you like it?

I have got to recommend anything and everything 肉克 has ever made (expect GX and some other Yu-Gi-Oh series. I am predictably drawn to the GX)

I'm physically ill for the raw emotion in these pieces – they're so pretty, and there's a gentleness/silliness to both the art style and the content that I really appreciate. Truly alive and vibrant about it; this artist wants to flaunt that they're the closest anyone has ever come to bringing art alive since Pygmalion.

Mentioning ahead of time that the links are PG and not shippy.

The piece I think about the most is this one with the Tenjoin siblings. It's so warm it makes me want to cry a little, especially since it's DIRECTLY followed by THIS drawing of Judai and Yubel which crushes my heart, knocks my teeth out, and robs me for all I'm worth. Please explore their gallery, even if you're not into Yu-Gi-Oh.

Edit: I have been informed that my links to specific pictures don't work. Forgive me!! Here's the log with the pictures I mentioned. Feast.

8. Rec another type of fanwork! Why do you like it?

Try the Detective Pony Movie, written by Sonnetstuck and directed by NakedBee. It's a masterpiece of canon-typical metafuckery that nails Dirk's voice and neuroses, and the staging is thoughtful and charming. I listened to this to fall asleep for three months as a chaser to my read-through and had very strange dreams about a multitude of Dirks. Would highly recommend. It's brought to you by the same folks who made the Theatre of Coolty, so quality is assured.

9. Tell us about a nice fan interaction you've had.

An interaction that will always be in my heart involves the comment section on AO3, a feature which I and every other fan should make an effort to abuse more. I was writing a longfic. It wasn't supposed to be a longfic. It had been about eight months since the fic had been conceived, and my motivation was flagging. I think we all know this story: an author gets busy. She forgets to update at first. The months crawl by. The end notes, promising a completed fic, begin to sound like a taunt. The preface, promising a weekly update, mocks you. Somewhere, an author's motivation is fossilizing as she realizes that she isn't the second coming of Shakespeare. The process has begun . . .

. . . Enter the commenter who singlehandedly brought this fic, which was abandoned in everything but name, back from the dead with their genuine passion and enthusiastic commentary. Chapter by chapter, they proved themself necromantically inclined (and perhaps not as shy as they claimed to be), and I finished the fic. It remains an unedited monolith and a stain of shame on my history as both a fan and a writer, but I got a friend out of it and I finished the fic.

I'm not linking it. I do not cross the streams.

10. What is your favorite part of being in fandom?

I love the sense of community and the passion for creativity present in fandom. I think it's beautiful that we're all here because we're a little too invested in our favorite fictional worlds and characters.