Saturday is for shitpollsting about fandom

[lunabee34]

Tongue-in-cheek poll is tongue-in-cheek.

Please discuss your transgressions at length in comments. :)

Poll #22498 I'm doing it wrong, and I like it

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41

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Ways in which I am a scourge upon fandom

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I've read every fic on AO3 in which Darcy is Tony Stark's daughter.....TWICE
2 (4.9%)

Ship Darcy Lewis with all the things is my motto
7 (17.1%)

I pretend that thing in canon never happened--la, la, la, la
32 (78.0%)

I don't need no stinking beta!
18 (43.9%)

I don't ship the juggernaut!
20 (48.8%)

I ship the hell out of the juggernaut!
17 (41.5%)

More than half the fics for my OTP were written by me.
8 (19.5%)

When I get into a megafandom, my first move is to write introspective fic about peripheral characters.
14 (34.1%)

I write in the second person.
12 (29.3%)

I write in the first person.
17 (41.5%)

I write in present tense.
24 (58.5%)

I follow my favorite actor from project to project and write crossover fic that improbably connects canons.
7 (17.1%)

What fandom doesn't need a college AU?
3 (7.3%)

Mpreg is my jam.
7 (17.1%)

I will read an astonishing amount of Weasley bashing if it gets me to some cool magical world building.
8 (19.5%)

A drabble is exactly 100 words; hard mode includes title
33 (80.5%)

Comments

[zulu]

Most of these!

[lunabee34]

Me too!

LOL

[havocthecat]

I love your shitpollsting and also I am DEFINITELY a scourge upon fandom and proud of it.

[havocthecat]

P.S. Fpreg is my jam, not mpreg (because femslasher), but I support those who love mpreg anyway!

[lunabee34]

Ha. Me too! Most of these are in my regular rotation.

[slightweasel]

Really pleased with how well the drabble definition is doing (though personally, I don't include the title. I always go with the AO3 count for drabbles, and it doesn't count anything that's not in the body, so).

[lunabee34]

I generally don't count the title either, but I have seen that before in situations where the title is really the first line or sentence of the drabble.

[alexseanchai]

^

[conuly]

Which Weasleys are we bashing, exactly? Because I am always up to criticize Molly and Arthur's shitty-ass parenting.

[lunabee34]

Oh, you know, any of them. I am not a fan of Weasley bashing, but I will read like million words of Molly is stealing Harry's money and Ginny is feeding him love potions secretly if the story hits other elements that I like.

[makamu]

I am so on-board with most of these (ignoring canon and happily so? check following actors and writing crossovers and AUs based on that? yep, that's me!) you wouldn't believe it :)

[havocthecat]

Is ignoring canon being a scourge upon fandom? Because canon is only a guideline upon which we can build whatever the fuck we want. That is my FIRM, FIRM BELIEF about fandom and you can pry that belief out of my cold, dead hands.

[lunabee34]

Yep. I am doing most of these things, too. LOL

[author_by_night]

I know this is tongue in cheek, but jumping in to say that I'm an odd nut in that I love the Weasleys, but I also see people's points about their faults. I see them as the equivalent of a kind but very conservative family that has to work on some of their biases, including the ways they think they're progressive but aren't. The great thing is that they do. I don't know what Molly's reaction to her kids having been taught by a werewolf was, but I doubt it was a great one; she later befriends that same man. Percy took their very strict standards for Good to the next level by following the wrong person, but even he came around.

Also, even knowing its problems, I can't help but love Ron/Hermione. I just wish they'd come together differently. (I dunno, I devoted seven years to that ship, it's hard to not have a soft spot for it. Although I gotta admit, some R/Hr shippers drove me nuts back in the day.)

[lunabee34]

I definitely think the Weasleys are flawed people; I 100% do not mind fics that portray them as real, flawed people or fics that explore the darker implications of their behavior. In Loco Parentis is probably the best example I've ever read of a fic which does that; truly disturbing and intriguing.

But the fic I'm talking about is the kind where the Weasleys have been secretly stealing from Harry or Dumbledore paid them all to be his friend or Molly and Ginny are dosing him and Arthur with love potions and it's all so ludicrous and over the top. I mostly find all of that so absurd that it tips over into amusing for me which is probably why I can happily read through it to get to the good stuff (for values of good stuff that no one else may share LOL).

I love Ron/Hermione. I've got pretty much no problems with their relationship, and I love the way it's depicted in Cursed Child.

[notasupervillain]

I do not trust authors with canon.

[lunabee34]

Which authors? The canon authors or fic authors? I can see cases for both. LOL

[musyc]

I'm not the "half the otp fics are me" person, but I am six of the top 20 hits of otp:true on Draco/Hermione and seven of them on Draco/Pansy. XD So that works for me!

[lunabee34]

I love it!

You are such a good Dramione writer. You deserve those stats.

[amejisuto]

I love me some Weasley bashing but even more, I love some Dumbledore bashing. He just strung Harry along and Harry let him do it. I have a hard time reading canon anymore, I tend to scream at the people in the books.

[lunabee34]

I have to admit that I'm not into the bashing (which is what I consider the ludicrous, over the top demonizing that has no basis in canon), but I do like stories that show them as flawed or develop the darker implications of their behavior, especially Dumbledore.

[nyctanthes]

I haven't just written more than half the fics for my OTP, 95% of the words about them on Ao3 were written by me. Should I feel compelled to write anything further about them, I'll probably keep it to myself. :P

And I didn't check the lalala canon box, because I'm almost always a canon whore. But I just realized that this particular ship is based on completely ignoring canon, and I have so internalized my re-writing of it that I forgot that's what I was doing!

[lunabee34]

No, don't keep it to yourself! Think of the children!!!!

I am almost always writing canon compliant stuff, too. Even when I am writing non-canonical pairings, I usually try to find a way to make it fit into canon.

[the_rck]

Now I want fic in which Mr Darcy from P&P is Tony's daughter. I wonder if there are any of those to be found. It seems unlikely. ::wanders off to look::

[lunabee34]

Ooooh, I am intrigued. Let me know if you find anything.

[archersangel]

i don't really write fic, (just on the old sg-1 five things & the 3-sentence fic-a-thons) but i think i've wrote in the second & first (possibly third) person & present tense.

and i think everyone pretends that certain things in cannon (sometimes whole episodes or even entire seasons) didn't happen.

[lunabee34]

I always write in the present tense, and I have read some really good second person fics. I struggle with first person fanfic; I tend to not like it unless it's a canon that's delivered in first person.

[nenya_kanadka]

Not Darcy (though I've enjoyed Darcy fic before), but I do tend to take a peripheral character as my LBD. 😆

In my most recent fandom, I haven't written half the fic for my OTP or my fave, but I wrote some of the earliest fic for my OTP and I've had the very strange but kinda cool experience of getting in on the ground floor for some of the fanon/tropes for them. I'm used to coming in ten years late with Starbucks! I don't know what I'm doing here! But it's hella fun.

Meanwhile I love that both "ship the juggernaut" and "don't ship the juggernaut" are both fandom transgressions. That sounds about right. 😅

(I don't tend to do "fave is the child of other fave/major canon character", but again, my most recent fandom's main character is that *in canon* and I love her, so I just have to laugh at my younger self, who would have been appalled.)

[lunabee34]

Oh, man. There is absolutely nothing like getting in on the ground floor of a fandom. I've only done it once (Live Free or Die Hard), and it was glorious. I have always been happy with the reception my fic gets--no huge numbers of comments or kudos but enough to feed my ego LOL and keep me inspired and make new friends. But those couple Die Hard fic and the heady rush of kudos and comments and recs--that's what I'm always chasing. :)

What's the canon where your favorite is the child of your other favorite? That sounds relevant to my interests.

[starwatcher]

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<g> I marked both "don't ship the juggernaut!" and "ship the hell out of the juggernaut!" It totally depends on my mood from day to day and week to week.

Didn't mark "need no beta", but I'm conflicted. Sometimes for story-flow... but, hell, I AM a beta. I can check my own spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence structure... and I'm a lot harder on myself than anyone else could be.
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[lunabee34]

And from fandom to fandom!

I'm so multi-fannish, though, that even when I do ship the juggernaut, it's never exclusively.