Snowflake Challenge #14

Challenge #14: In your own space, do the Fandom Wrap Challenge.

What were your top 5 fandoms for 2022 based on the amount of time you interacted with them?
1. Junzhe
2. Word of Honor
3. Tolkien
4. Heaven Official's Blessing
5. The Untamed

What were your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) you experienced fandom in terms of time spent?
1. AO3
2. Twitter
3. Discord
4. Dreamwidth
5. Tumblr

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. Writing
2. Interacting on social media
3. Kudos and comments
4. Downloaded and archived
5. Did behind-the-scenes work on Innumerable Stars

What were your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions? (i.e. in terms of likes, kudos, reblogs, comments, etc.)
1. Innumerable Stars as an exchange
2. Heart In Paradise, a TGCF fic
3. Ten Thousand Years of Love, a Word of Honor fic
4. Give Back the Gift, a Silmarillion fic
5. For Real This Time, a Junzhe fic

Have a Top 5 List you'd like to share?? By all means!
Let's go with Top 5 YouTubers I enjoyed in 2022!
1. Crying Raven's fantastic Word of Honor Songvids.
2. Shuoshuo Chinese's really helpful videos on learning Mandarin.
3. Uncle Roger's hilarious critiques of terrible cooking.
4. GeGeAiNi's extremely funny Word of Honor "crack" vids, especially "Word of Honor memes to watch with your cat."
5. Gaywatch's delightful reaction videos that made me feel like I was watching the shows again along with her.

Snowflake Challenge #15

Challenge #15: In your own space, opine on the future of fandom.

I'm not sure I have much to say that hasn't already been said better by others.

I think fandom will continue becoming more mainstream and there's every chance in another twenty years, you're as likely to be asked what fandom you're into as what sports team you support.

Even now, fandom isn't just one thing. It's too big for that. The sort of nebulous "science fiction and fantasy fandom" populated mainly by older, often white, and sometimes very conservative people who attend and run conventions, which tends to be what is generally meant by "fandom," is by far the minority of fandom now.

Now, fandom is defined far more by how you feel about a canon rather than what activities you do, and I think that will continue. No one asks you what you do for your favourite sports team when you say you're a fan of them, and this is also becoming the case for fandoms in general.

I think I need to write up a whole separate post on what we mean when we say "fandom." It's hard to talk about the future of something that I haven't yet fully defined in my own mind.