June Something: Days Nine to Eleven

[smallhobbit]

Day 9: Is there any fandom you regret getting into?

No.  I may no longer be in the fandom, having moved on for various reasons, but there's always been something to learn even if it doesn't turn out quite the way I've expected.


Day 10: Besides death fic, rape/non-con, what is something, no matter the pairing, you nope out of when it comes to reading?

There are all sorts of things I'll look at the tags, pairings etc and decide I'm not interested, like sci-fi and dystopia, but in the right mood and with the right author I may read them.  Reader insert I won't touch with a barge pole, because how on earth can someone else decide how I will respond to something?

I will also add bad English - not the quirks that occur when the writer is not a native speaker - but where I'm forced to read every sentence three times before it makes sense, because however good the idea is, I'm not going to persevere.


Day 11: How open are you about being in fandom to your non-fandom friends/family?

SM (the husband) knows and occasionally helps with plots.  TD (the daughter) knows I meet fandom friends - and has met some of them herself when she's joined us for theatre trips.  Otherwise I keep the two well apart.

Comments

[corvidology]

Totally with you on dystopia which is actually why I'm not a big fan of science fiction in general as it so often seems to go there. I think I just have more faith in people than that.

[smallhobbit]

Yes, I hadn't connected the two, but I think you're right.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Interesting to learn more about you!

I admit that I thought about doing this meme too but I 'noped' out of it because of the Day 10 question. It assumes that people don't like to read or write death fic or rape/non-con (I have read and written both as you know) and that's kink-shaming and I didn't want to support that attitude. I didn't know about the self-insert but it makes sense knowing what I know about you!

[smallhobbit]

I took it more as being something a lot of people avoid. I write beatific (what autocorrect?) deathfic but wouldn't automatically read it.

Yes, I'm not the ideal candidate for self-insert.

[margaret_r]

I'm with you on the bad English, no matter how interesting a plot might be I find I just can't get past having to revise the bad writing all the time. Being a Stephen King fan I'm into dystopian fic to some extent but it does depend on the writer and how well they do it, the same with science fiction.

[smallhobbit]

I'll read more from a writer I know I like and for some genres it's more a case of lack of interest, but poor English is a definite nope.

[luthienberen]

Nice learning more about you :)

I do like sci-fi but it depends on what type (I need hope not dystopia).

Ditto on keeping fandom and non-fandom separate. My family know I have fandom friends and meet them, but that's about it.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. It's simply that I'm not a fan of sci-fi, rather than a positively avoid.

Exactly - the two worlds should not collide!

[luthienberen]

Oh definitely understand! I'm the same with pure action films/books, not a big fan rather than positively avoid.

I'm old school too in the respect of not wishing to discuss fandom with actors / creators, just nope.

[moth2fic]

Another meme to keep and to inspire me...! I do agree about reader insert!

[smallhobbit]

It's an interesting one to do - even if you only select some of the questions.

I suspect you and I aren't the typical audience for reader insert ;)