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pensnest(I have had this lurking on my desktop for a while and can no longer remember where the idea came from, but it seems worth posting.)
A honeybee - industriously visits many, many flowers and takes nectar from them all (and, ideally, gives them a revitalising pollen exchange)
A panda - munches industriously on the same grove of bamboo until it is All Gone. Starves for a while, but may be fortunate enough to find a fresh bamboo grove somewhere else.
Fandom-wise, I can only wish I were a honeybee. Honeybees have options everywhere. If one flower loses its flavour, they can buzz merrily along to the next, they can mix up the flower flavours every day, sometimes concentrating on the peonies of MCU or the bluebells of Supernatural, sometimes on the tiny hidden heartsease of Black Sails, whatever. And there is always another enticing flower just along the path.
Pandas, like me, love what they love and don't really want anything else. Pandas can see the flowers, and maybe pause for a sniff now and again (I'm quite partial to peonies), but when it comes to sustenance we just want to get stuck in to our favourite flavour and nothing else is truly satisfying. And when the bamboo is all gone, pandas are bereft.
I suspect there are other kinds. Butterflies, for instance, who flit from flower to flower looking pretty but don't do a lot of pollinating. Wildebeest, who are ready to move in force on to the next thing when they've been in one place for a while. Magpies, who look for specific kinds of shiny and don't much mind where they find them.
What other kinds of fan are there? What kind are you?
A honeybee - industriously visits many, many flowers and takes nectar from them all (and, ideally, gives them a revitalising pollen exchange)
A panda - munches industriously on the same grove of bamboo until it is All Gone. Starves for a while, but may be fortunate enough to find a fresh bamboo grove somewhere else.
Fandom-wise, I can only wish I were a honeybee. Honeybees have options everywhere. If one flower loses its flavour, they can buzz merrily along to the next, they can mix up the flower flavours every day, sometimes concentrating on the peonies of MCU or the bluebells of Supernatural, sometimes on the tiny hidden heartsease of Black Sails, whatever. And there is always another enticing flower just along the path.
Pandas, like me, love what they love and don't really want anything else. Pandas can see the flowers, and maybe pause for a sniff now and again (I'm quite partial to peonies), but when it comes to sustenance we just want to get stuck in to our favourite flavour and nothing else is truly satisfying. And when the bamboo is all gone, pandas are bereft.
I suspect there are other kinds. Butterflies, for instance, who flit from flower to flower looking pretty but don't do a lot of pollinating. Wildebeest, who are ready to move in force on to the next thing when they've been in one place for a while. Magpies, who look for specific kinds of shiny and don't much mind where they find them.
What other kinds of fan are there? What kind are you?
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Date: 2019-03-05 11:37 pm (UTC)I've actually been thinking lately about how annoying it is to be monofannish to the point of having very little interest in anything else.
Right now my fannish brain is all about Star Trek, specifically TNG, and especially Riker and Troi.
It's not that I can't enjoy anything else (I loved Russian Doll, for example, and liked The Umbrella Academy, and am excited every time a new Brooklyn Nine-Nine comes out) but sometimes I have to remind myself that I other things exist. If my fannish brain had it's way, I'd do nothing but read Riker/Troi fic and watch shippy episodes. It's only because my rational brain knows that wouldn't be good for me that I'm able to have a somewhat balanced media diet.
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Date: 2019-03-06 10:41 pm (UTC)Sad panda, me.
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Date: 2019-03-07 12:16 am (UTC)I don't have to write necessarily, but I don't feel like I'm in a fandom if I'm not creating something, be it icons or meta or fic.
I slowly drifted from SG1 fandom, but I didn't quite know what to do with myself when I realized that SG1 was no longer a place where I wanted to pour my creative energy. It wasn't quite five years, but it took a while for me to move on to my next fandom after that.
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Date: 2019-03-07 09:51 am (UTC)I really don't like the feeling of being between fandoms - not that I recognised it the first time, but I have it again now and it just makes me feel uncreative and unconnected. :-(
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Date: 2019-03-07 10:56 pm (UTC)I mostly read rarefic, Narnia, Vorkosigan and others recc'd by friends.
Can't think of an animal equivalent for that.
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Date: 2019-03-06 12:03 am (UTC)I'm definitely multi-fandom (omni-fandom?), and there are things that I look for and enjoy everywhere
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Date: 2019-03-07 02:10 pm (UTC)I've read a few fics for Black Sails, but I don't think I could write for that fandom (except, maybe, a comic piece about the pirates from Eton) and although I'd love to discuss the episodes, I'm most likely way too late for that. Don't really know who's involved, though.
A small fandom with dedicated and not infrequent activity would be lovely.
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Date: 2019-03-07 10:58 pm (UTC)Will you write a new one when the baby arrives?
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Date: 2019-03-07 11:34 pm (UTC)Since the children left home, my Beast and I have developed a habit of watching an episode of something as we have our supper, rather than sitting with The Archers on, so I am completely out of touch. But if Adam and Ian are having a baby, well, I'm glad.
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Date: 2019-03-10 08:20 pm (UTC)Bulgarian fruit picker. Been around for a couple of years now. Has children in Belgium, but no partner (can't recall if husband is dead or divorced). Had an affair with Roy Tucker whenever she was in England, but eventually broke it off (in spite of loving him very much) as going home and leaving him was just too hard to keep doing again and again.
If it wasn't for his children, Roy would move to Bulgaria to be with her. If it wasn't for her children, she would move to England to be with him.
I wish I could see a happy ending for Lexi and Roy, but fear it can never happen.
ON one visit, when Lexi was a bit drunk, she offered to be a surrogate mother for Ian and Adam (they'd been desperately looking for someone). After much reflection when sober, she decided that she really did want to do it. We're now in the third round of IVF and this time it seems to have taken.
The Grundy boys finally settled down. William met and married Nic, who already had two children. They had another little girl together and then Nic died suddenly and unexpectedly of sepsis. All the Grundy family pitched into help him, but Nic's been dead a year now and William still desperately misses her.
I tend to catch up using the omnibus on BBC iplayer. Either when I'm knitting or when I'm tired and just need to lie down for a bit.
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Date: 2019-03-07 02:11 pm (UTC)But when you don't feel the pull, you don't feel the pull. It really is that simple. You can't force the pull.
And for me, the pull is rare. Blerg.
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Date: 2019-03-07 02:18 pm (UTC)I guess I got spoilt by the heady days when I joined popslash and suddenly got COMMENTS on all my stories! (A combination of new fandom, fresh blood in fandom, and LiveJournal) As I found with my Adam/Lance dragon series, it's hard to put in the effort to write a substantial story and find that maybe half a dozen people read it. *self-pities*
I have no idea how to find a new fandom.
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Date: 2019-03-07 11:49 pm (UTC)Or perhaps some sort of fandom labrador (appropriately enough), following an interesting thing over hill and dale away from where it started, until distracted by a different Fascinating Thing, to be followed in its turn. Sometimes returning to where n Interesting Thing was found before, just in case more Interesting has happened in the meantime.
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