Frankenstein's Meme: Q10

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Q10. Do you have a fandom that you follow - either regularly or casually - with little to no knowledge of canon?

Not exactly, but there are plenty of canon that straddle multiple media where I'll read stuff from the media strands I'm not familiar with. The MCU being a case in point - I've only read a handful of the relevant comics around 40 years ago, but I'll happily read stuff that is based not the comics if it has some kind of a link out to the MCU, so I can keep track.

That said, I've also enjoyed a lot of yuletide fic that has been recommended under "Canon knowledge not required", but Yuletide is a bit of a special case. I didn't read that paper about how to signpost sites of dangerous radioactive waste, but I enjoyed a lot of the fic that was written to that prompt. Ditto some of the fanfic for the NASA "Visions of the Future" posters - I mean these just generated some decent SF, really.

Perhaps more pertinently, I have not read, nor do I intend to read the Confessions of St. Augustine but I enjoyed:

The Very Secret Diaries of Saint Augustine (1185 words) by Jay Tryfanstone
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 4th & 5th Century RPF, Confessions - Saint Augustine
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Saint Augustine/OFC
Characters: Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome
Additional Tags: Very Secret Diary, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide 2012
Summary:

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Correspondence Jerome continues. Infuriating. Do not understand why he does not see my point! Translation of "gourd" vital to understanding of gospels.

 

I did watch the Youtube vid after reading the drunk texts from an Octopus story:

Texts From Cephalopods (1547 words) by volta_arovet
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Octopus Steals My Video Camera and Swims off with It While It's Recording (Youtube)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Octopus/Squid
Characters: An Octopus, Squid
Additional Tags: Embedded Images
Summary:

It is a well-established fact in marine biology that the octopus is the drunk texter of the cephalopod family.

Does "super-borderline fandom refs used for Yuletide" count as a fandom?

1. What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?
   
2. Your newest fandom.
   
3. You've got your OTP, you have to throw a third into the mix (from the same fandom), creating an OT3. Who is the OTP, and in your opinion, why would they make a perfect third for them?
   
4. What are the origins of your penname/username?
   
5. What's a fandom that you wish had a bigger following?
   
6. What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it? Not necessarily your oldest fandom, but a fandom that you started and still continue to read/write/create content for in some way.
   
7. What would make you leave a fandom, or prevent you from getting into it in the first place?
   
8. Squicks - What are some things that squick you in fandom - not necessarily "icky", though it can be. From anything involving blood, to bad grammar.
   
9. What's the hardest thing about writing, and why are titles the Worst™?
   
10. Do you have a fandom that you follow - either regularly or casually - with little to no knowledge of canon?
    
11. Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.
    
12. A ship you have never liked and probably never will.
    
13. Do you prefer art, fic, or vids? Why? Bonus: If someone was to give you a fandom gift, what format would it be?
    
14. A pairing – platonic, romantic or sexual – that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.
    
15. What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?
    
16. Do you remember your first OTP? Who was in it?
    
17. What is your favourite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)?
    
18. How many fandoms have you written for? How many have you been in, and how many are you still in?
    
19. Has social media caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?
    
20. What fandom broke your heart?
    
21. Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you dislike or even loathe.)
    
22. Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.
    
23. Your rarest fandoms.
    
24. A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.
    
25. Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
    
26. A trope which you are virtually certain to love in any fandom.
    
27. A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
    
28. How did you first get into fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote fic for?
    
29. Have you ever tried to write for a fandom or ship, and found you couldn’t?
    
30. Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).