The June something 13-15
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shadowhiveSo this is the last post of the June Something questions and it’s been pretty interesting to do.
13: What do YOU consider fandom's "little black dress"? Is it a coffeeshop AU? Sharing a bed trope? Bonus, share your favorite example.
This is tricky since, until recently, I’d checked out of fandom. I’d kinda been pushed out last year and didn’t expect I’d come back to it. But then I decided to come back into things. As you will see in these answers, The Umbrella Academy played a huge part in that.
So to answer the question, with a The Umbrella Academy, omegaverse stuff seems to be popular. The fandom is still pretty new, so others will be forming too. Some of other great fics have been murder mysteries, with Diego as a detective (Klaus usually ends up involved in there too in various ways).
I’ve not actually gone through The Umbrella Academy tag for awhile due to having tabs of doom! But I will soon.
14: Some long fics used to come with a playlist. What's a song that you were introduced to by something fannish, and what was it inspired by? Bonus: Share a link to the song/music.
Now I hoped that The Umbrella Academy would get a following when the series started. What I didn’t expect was for the fandom with it to be so huge. People were writing and making art within days of the show coming on Netflix and people formed communities pretty quickly too.
I ended up joining some of those communities on discord. I didn’t expect much, I’ve been pretty bad at using discord since last year (and some servers I’ve not been as active in as others) but the Kliego one is the one I ended up most connected to.
Early on one of the members started a kliego playlist of songs related to our boys. Most of them I had never heard of but I love them, I listen to the playlist a lot and some sounds (like Gallery Piece) ended up inspiring one of my fics.
15: What is something you do today that you wouldn't be doing if not for fandom? Examples: Vacation with fellow fen, running a community, etc.
So I’ve mentioned a lot how I was a fandom outsider today and this is true. I only really felt part of the bandom community back in the lj day’s and, when people started leaving, I lost that. I lost contact with people and the sense of community that came from it. I kept writing, but for less and less people until, eventually, I was left with one regular reader.
In 2017 I found myself in another fandom community. It was a discord for Waycest and I felt connected with people again, I felt encouraged to post on ao3 again, so that’s what I did. Then last year, those people fucked me over. A month later my final main reader left too. I was at a bit of a loss as to what to do and, eventually, stopped writing altogether. I had two other readers, but one just went silent and I think another killed herself.
So yeah, last year felt like a mess and I thought that I was done with fandom completely. I was so discouraged and low, I just felt... I dunno.
Anyway, end of last year I kinda stumbled into new people here, which lead me to slowly begin to write again. Then I joined bandom holidays which was a lot of fun and then I did the snowflake challenge. Through that I built more confidence again. I connected with people, on here and twitter, and I started posting on ao3 again.
And then The Umbrella Academy came along and I connected with more people. I joined discords, eventually being asked to co-mod the kliego one and it just... it all feels so surreal. If you told me last year I’d be doing all this I’d have no believed you.
I feel in such a good place and it feels, so strange. But it’s a good strange.
Anyway I’ve napped all afternoon so now I’m trying to watch stuff.
13: What do YOU consider fandom's "little black dress"? Is it a coffeeshop AU? Sharing a bed trope? Bonus, share your favorite example.
This is tricky since, until recently, I’d checked out of fandom. I’d kinda been pushed out last year and didn’t expect I’d come back to it. But then I decided to come back into things. As you will see in these answers, The Umbrella Academy played a huge part in that.
So to answer the question, with a The Umbrella Academy, omegaverse stuff seems to be popular. The fandom is still pretty new, so others will be forming too. Some of other great fics have been murder mysteries, with Diego as a detective (Klaus usually ends up involved in there too in various ways).
I’ve not actually gone through The Umbrella Academy tag for awhile due to having tabs of doom! But I will soon.
14: Some long fics used to come with a playlist. What's a song that you were introduced to by something fannish, and what was it inspired by? Bonus: Share a link to the song/music.
Now I hoped that The Umbrella Academy would get a following when the series started. What I didn’t expect was for the fandom with it to be so huge. People were writing and making art within days of the show coming on Netflix and people formed communities pretty quickly too.
I ended up joining some of those communities on discord. I didn’t expect much, I’ve been pretty bad at using discord since last year (and some servers I’ve not been as active in as others) but the Kliego one is the one I ended up most connected to.
Early on one of the members started a kliego playlist of songs related to our boys. Most of them I had never heard of but I love them, I listen to the playlist a lot and some sounds (like Gallery Piece) ended up inspiring one of my fics.
15: What is something you do today that you wouldn't be doing if not for fandom? Examples: Vacation with fellow fen, running a community, etc.
So I’ve mentioned a lot how I was a fandom outsider today and this is true. I only really felt part of the bandom community back in the lj day’s and, when people started leaving, I lost that. I lost contact with people and the sense of community that came from it. I kept writing, but for less and less people until, eventually, I was left with one regular reader.
In 2017 I found myself in another fandom community. It was a discord for Waycest and I felt connected with people again, I felt encouraged to post on ao3 again, so that’s what I did. Then last year, those people fucked me over. A month later my final main reader left too. I was at a bit of a loss as to what to do and, eventually, stopped writing altogether. I had two other readers, but one just went silent and I think another killed herself.
So yeah, last year felt like a mess and I thought that I was done with fandom completely. I was so discouraged and low, I just felt... I dunno.
Anyway, end of last year I kinda stumbled into new people here, which lead me to slowly begin to write again. Then I joined bandom holidays which was a lot of fun and then I did the snowflake challenge. Through that I built more confidence again. I connected with people, on here and twitter, and I started posting on ao3 again.
And then The Umbrella Academy came along and I connected with more people. I joined discords, eventually being asked to co-mod the kliego one and it just... it all feels so surreal. If you told me last year I’d be doing all this I’d have no believed you.
I feel in such a good place and it feels, so strange. But it’s a good strange.
Anyway I’ve napped all afternoon so now I’m trying to watch stuff.
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Date: 2019-06-16 08:07 am (UTC)I especially like that you're so active in fandom now and embracing it. That's lovely to see.
I do enjoy a good playlist, even if it's not something I'd ever create myself. I'll have to check out that one you linked to.
And finally, I do wonder how UA ended up with so many omegaverse stories. It's always interesting to see what direction a new fandom goes in.
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Date: 2019-06-16 11:36 am (UTC)Well that’s partly down to you 🖤
Yeah me too, I’ve not heard many before but the kliego one is a good one
Yeah, I dunno how it did. It seems to be popular on the kliego discord for some reason. I guess we’ll see how things turn out
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Date: 2019-06-16 11:43 am (UTC)I know I’ve told you before but reading your stories is my number one guilty pleasure😉
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Date: 2019-06-16 12:40 pm (UTC)Awww I know ;)