A fandom meme entry before I start work for the day

[dolorosa_12]

Day Five of the fandom meme, and the question is:

E: Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what?

I ... don't really think so. Back in my forum days (which I discussed in my last post) there were some very silly forum-based competitions, but it wasn't really adding a silly/cracky fanwork to the fandom so much as silly conversations that happened to be taking place in a fandom space.

I don't really have a whole amount more to say here, so I guess I'll finish up with a question: what have been some of your favourite stupid/cracky/hilarious contributions to fandoms you've been in over the years?


F: What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it?

G: What was your first fandom?

H: Do you prefer live action TV shows or animated TV shows?

I: Has online caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?

J: Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over the internet.

K: What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

L: Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves.

M: Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.

N: Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).

O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of?

P: Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).

Q: A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.

R: Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?

S: Show us an example of your personal headcanon.

T: Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?

U: Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

V: Which character do you relate to most?

W: A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.

X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.

Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?

Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!

Comments

[merit]

I was 11/12 when I started reading fanfiction. And shortly afterwards wrote some. It was early 00s anime fandom so naturally I had a scattered various Japanese words throughout the text. But never fear! I had translation guide at the end of every chapter. Also it was super intelligent penguin / mecha fic.

[dolorosa_12]

Awww, that is adorable! I definitely wrote stuff along those lines (self-insert fix-it fics that crossed over characters from every book I ever loved as a child), but thankfully it never made it online.

[isis]

Hee, that's delightful!

stupid/cracky/hilarious

[isis]

My first fandom was Harry Potter, and subsequent to an LJ discussion in which someone made the typo "giant squib" I wrote Letter Perfect, Giant Squid/Giant Squib, a silly little thing which as far as I can tell was one of the first Giant Squid stories in the fandom. It got me a completely undeserved reputation for being into tentacle sex (come on, this is a G-rated cracky humor story).

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[dolorosa_12]

Ahahaha, that's hilarious!

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[isis]

Apparently someone else thought that, too!

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[dolorosa_12]

Oh wow, I hope that this was written (and given to you) in the spirit of humour, and that it wasn't your only gift in the exchange!

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[isis]

It wasn't for an exchange - it just randomly appeared as a gift for me yesterday, and I can only assume it was because of my comment to your post, because otherwise it's a rather odd coincidence.

I am assuming it is in the spirit of humor, and I responded in the same spirit, because I was certainly amused! (I have no idea who the 'writer' is. I'm not in Supernatural fandom, or in any of their others.)

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[dolorosa_12]

Ah, right, that makes sense. I'm not in Supernatural fandom either, and I don't recognise the person's username, but I think your explanation for the sudden appearance of that gift makes sense. No idea who the writer is, though.

[lyr]

Hmm. In Firefly, I had a whole series where I turned Jayne into a chicken. And in Buffy, I did a short fic where there was a watcher who was a goat. And there was also that time I did a Supernatural and Babylon 5 crossover...

[dolorosa_12]

These all sound hilarious!

[isis]

Hah, yes, and then I remixed one of your Chicken Jayne fics! Good times!

[lyr]

You did! Good times, indeed.

[naye]

I likewise don't feel like crack is very much a thing I do...? With my current fandom posting random screenshots of baffling details in the set or continuity errors might be the closest I've ever come.

[dolorosa_12]

I wish I could do it, you know? I certainly enjoy it — less in fic, but more in comments and discussion as they unfold.

I guess with your continuity errors and baffling set details it's sort of like canon provides its own crack, rather than fans having to create it for themselves, maybe?