Year in Fandom Meme
Polite request: If you hated anything I loved, here is not the place to share. Enjoyed with caveats is fine. Shared delight is welcome, and/or chime in with your own favorites!
Your main fandom of the year?
I'm not sure I've really been involved in fandom per se this year. Yuletide? Black Sails? Stephen King?
Your favorite film watched this year?
Baahubali 2 and The Last Jedi. The former is available on Netflix, along with Part 1, and I recommend the hell out it.
Your favorite book read this year?
This was not a great year for me getting a lot of reading done. But I did read some new-to-me books that I loved. I'm probably forgetting some, but favorites that come to mind are The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon[image error] by Stephen King, The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made[image error] by Greg Sestero and Tom Bisson, and Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me[image error] by Bill Hayes - the latter highly recommended to get in hardcover, as it's a beautiful physical object. I am also listening to Bruce Springsteen's autobiography, Born to Run[image error], on CD read by himself, and enjoying the hell out of it. I only wish I could have listened to or read it when I was much younger, because his desperation to make his skills match his ambition and fear that they never would really resonated with me.
Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?
The Low Highway[image error] by Steve Earle, and some Bruce Springsteen live albums, Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 (2CD)[image error] and Live in Dublin: Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band[image error].
Your favorite TV show of the year?
This was a great year for new or new-to-me TV. I adored Better Call Saul, Black Sails, The Good Place, Legion, and The Punisher. (I have not yet finished Better Call Saul, Black Sails, Orphan Black, so please no spoilers for the final or latest season.)
Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
The Punisher. I am not recommending this to anyone who thinks they'll hate it, because they probably will hate it. I am not recommending this to anyone who thinks it will anger and offend them, because it probably will. I will just say that given that the comics character is one of my least favorite ever, I was very pleasantly surprised by how much I loved the show and its version of Frank Castle. Sometimes things just get to you on an emotional and personal level, and this show really got to me.
Please do not comment to say that you can't see it because it will anger and offend you. Let's just take that as read.
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
The Runaways TV series. The casting looked so great. The acting is very good. And the writing and directing is so, so inexplicably boring. I am baffled by how a creative team that got the casting so right could so utterly and completely miss what made the comics so fun, which was 1) the fact that they are fucking RUNAWAYS, 2) the premise that it's about kids who discover that their parents are supervillains, 3) it's about the CHILDREN OF SUPERVILLAINS, not their parents, 4) the speed at which events happen and plot twists pile atop each other. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to not have the kids run away, have half the show be about their parents, put in some mysterious conspiracy rather than supervillains, and pace the show at the speed of molasses in February?
I realize that very similar things are probably said by fans of Punisher comics, only "WTF is up with the ratio of talking to shooting people?" "Why is there so much talking about feelings, what the hell?" and "WHERE IS THE SKULL SUIT?" but I am not a fan of the comics so I'm OK with that.
Your fandom boyfriend of the year?
It feels very inappropriate to call Captain Flint my boyfriend, so Frank Castle. Honestly I think we would get along very well, though long-term relationship prospects look dim.
Your fandom girlfriend of the year?
REY. I love the women of Black Sails, but I also love my continued existence. I do realize this should also rule out Frank Castle, but sometimes you just have to live dangerously.
Your biggest squee moment of the year?
About one-fourth of the entirety of The Last Jedi and Baahubali 2, almost all of which is hugely spoilery. Pretty much every appearance by older!Devasena in the latter, but the moment she appears in the spyglass is probably my single biggest of the year.
The most missed of your old fandoms?
Saiyuki.
The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
Stranger Things and Dark Matter .
Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year?
Black Panther looks AMAZING. So does A Wrinkle in Time.
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Your main fandom of the year?
I'm not sure I've really been involved in fandom per se this year. Yuletide? Black Sails? Stephen King?
Your favorite film watched this year?
Baahubali 2 and The Last Jedi. The former is available on Netflix, along with Part 1, and I recommend the hell out it.
Your favorite book read this year?
This was not a great year for me getting a lot of reading done. But I did read some new-to-me books that I loved. I'm probably forgetting some, but favorites that come to mind are The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon[image error] by Stephen King, The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made[image error] by Greg Sestero and Tom Bisson, and Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me[image error] by Bill Hayes - the latter highly recommended to get in hardcover, as it's a beautiful physical object. I am also listening to Bruce Springsteen's autobiography, Born to Run[image error], on CD read by himself, and enjoying the hell out of it. I only wish I could have listened to or read it when I was much younger, because his desperation to make his skills match his ambition and fear that they never would really resonated with me.
Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?
The Low Highway[image error] by Steve Earle, and some Bruce Springsteen live albums, Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 (2CD)[image error] and Live in Dublin: Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band[image error].
Your favorite TV show of the year?
This was a great year for new or new-to-me TV. I adored Better Call Saul, Black Sails, The Good Place, Legion, and The Punisher. (I have not yet finished Better Call Saul, Black Sails, Orphan Black, so please no spoilers for the final or latest season.)
Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
The Punisher. I am not recommending this to anyone who thinks they'll hate it, because they probably will hate it. I am not recommending this to anyone who thinks it will anger and offend them, because it probably will. I will just say that given that the comics character is one of my least favorite ever, I was very pleasantly surprised by how much I loved the show and its version of Frank Castle. Sometimes things just get to you on an emotional and personal level, and this show really got to me.
Please do not comment to say that you can't see it because it will anger and offend you. Let's just take that as read.
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
The Runaways TV series. The casting looked so great. The acting is very good. And the writing and directing is so, so inexplicably boring. I am baffled by how a creative team that got the casting so right could so utterly and completely miss what made the comics so fun, which was 1) the fact that they are fucking RUNAWAYS, 2) the premise that it's about kids who discover that their parents are supervillains, 3) it's about the CHILDREN OF SUPERVILLAINS, not their parents, 4) the speed at which events happen and plot twists pile atop each other. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to not have the kids run away, have half the show be about their parents, put in some mysterious conspiracy rather than supervillains, and pace the show at the speed of molasses in February?
I realize that very similar things are probably said by fans of Punisher comics, only "WTF is up with the ratio of talking to shooting people?" "Why is there so much talking about feelings, what the hell?" and "WHERE IS THE SKULL SUIT?" but I am not a fan of the comics so I'm OK with that.
Your fandom boyfriend of the year?
It feels very inappropriate to call Captain Flint my boyfriend, so Frank Castle. Honestly I think we would get along very well, though long-term relationship prospects look dim.
Your fandom girlfriend of the year?
REY. I love the women of Black Sails, but I also love my continued existence. I do realize this should also rule out Frank Castle, but sometimes you just have to live dangerously.
Your biggest squee moment of the year?
About one-fourth of the entirety of The Last Jedi and Baahubali 2, almost all of which is hugely spoilery. Pretty much every appearance by older!Devasena in the latter, but the moment she appears in the spyglass is probably my single biggest of the year.
The most missed of your old fandoms?
Saiyuki.
The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
Stranger Things and Dark Matter .
Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year?
Black Panther looks AMAZING. So does A Wrinkle in Time.
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