Snowflake Challenge #15: Fandom Wrapped
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enchantedsleeperNow comes the part every year where I bawwwwww because the Snowflake Challenge is over for another year. 😠But it wouldn't be as fun if it wasn't finite, and I've got the Sunshine Challenge to look forward to in the summer (as well as other events during the spring!)
Snowflake Challenge #15 is Fandom Wrapped! If you've come across Spotify Wrapped (and it's pretty everywhere) or one of its many variants, then you'll know this is a sort of "Top X" retrospective on the past year. (I was a bit sad that Tumblr didn't do their Wrapped this year, probably because of that whole "skeleton crew" thing...)
So here's my Fandom Wrapped for 2023, à la Snowflake Challenge:
Your top 5 fandoms for 2023 were:
1) Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
2) Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse
3) The Murderbot Diaries
4) FENCE! (comics)
5) Dixit
My stand-out new fandom of the year was D&D: HAT, and I waxed lyrical a bit about how much I enjoyed writing for it in a 2023 AO3 Writer Blanket Box on Pillowfort. (My other main retrospective post for 2023!) I fell into it shortly after seeing the film for a friend's birthday, and had such a good time creating fic for it - and I just wrote my first fic of 2024 for that fandom 😊
Across the Spiderverse also pulled me in deep over the summer, and I particularly enjoyed dusting off an idea that I'd originally had for Into the Spiderverse and writing it for that film. I wrote various fics for The Murderbot Diaries and took part in two events, and then in the autumn, I got back into FENCE after the release of the latest set of issues, and started creating a bunch of Tumblr posts centered around fun character parallels or significant moments. I also wrote FENCE fic for Yuletide, and took part in FENCE Secret Santa at the end of the year.
Dixit... how do I explain Dixit xD If you don't know of it, it's a board/card game, but I'm more familiar with the app, Dixit World, which was in beta up until recently. I've been playing it nonstop with a group of friends and I think our close readings of the various cards and increasingly inventive group games count as fannish xD
Your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) in 2023 were:
1) Mastodon/Fandom.ink
2) Tumblr
3) Dreamwidth
4) Discord
Dreamwidth makes the list for the first time in 2024! \o/ (To be fair, it's only the second year in a row I've done this list xD) Although DW is also trying hard to earn my displeasure since it ate my first draft of this post 🥲 I'll be happy for it to keep ranking high, since my ambition this year is to be more active than I was in 2023.
Fandom.ink is still my most-used social space, closely followed by Tumblr although less closely at the very end of this year, when I uninstalled the app because I was just doomscrolling on it too much in every idle moment. But it was a big site for my fandom activity for ATSV and FENCE!.
Discord is also a new entrant for this list, not because of any specific fandom (although I did join a nice little server for D&D: HAT) but more because I have a hangout there with various fannish friends and we use it to discuss fandoms of all kinds and also co-ordinate group watches. As much as I wish Discord hadn't taken over from other, less ephemeral options for fandom organising and community, it's nice to have :3
The top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom in 2023 were:
1) Writing fic
2) Taking part in events/challenges (counting this separately!)
3) Commenting (I did Comment Bingo twice!)
4) Creating original posts/meta on Tumblr
5) Reblogging/boosting fanworks (especially in Across the Spiderverse, I reblogged so much stuff that my fingers would start to tag the fandom out of muscle memory xD)
Your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions were:
Hmmm... I know that "fandom contributions" here is designed to be inclusive, but it's pretty hard to know what measure of popularity to use for very different types of fanwork. Well, based on vibes, here are three fics and two Tumblr posts that went over well:
1) We can burn much brighter (if we don't look back) - fic, D&D: HAT, Xenk/Edgin
2) High Praise Indeed - fic, D&D: HAT, Xenk/Edgin
3) Grand Jeté - fic, ATSV, Gwen/Miles
4) Fence: Redemption parallels - special occasions - Tumblr post, FENCE
5) Harvard/Aiden and remembering each others' exes'(/flings') names - Tumblr post, FENCE
Thank you to the Snowflake Challenge mods for bringing this to us for another year - I'll miss it until it starts again! ♥
Snowflake Challenge #15 is Fandom Wrapped! If you've come across Spotify Wrapped (and it's pretty everywhere) or one of its many variants, then you'll know this is a sort of "Top X" retrospective on the past year. (I was a bit sad that Tumblr didn't do their Wrapped this year, probably because of that whole "skeleton crew" thing...)
So here's my Fandom Wrapped for 2023, à la Snowflake Challenge:
Your top 5 fandoms for 2023 were:
1) Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
2) Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse
3) The Murderbot Diaries
4) FENCE! (comics)
5) Dixit
My stand-out new fandom of the year was D&D: HAT, and I waxed lyrical a bit about how much I enjoyed writing for it in a 2023 AO3 Writer Blanket Box on Pillowfort. (My other main retrospective post for 2023!) I fell into it shortly after seeing the film for a friend's birthday, and had such a good time creating fic for it - and I just wrote my first fic of 2024 for that fandom 😊
Across the Spiderverse also pulled me in deep over the summer, and I particularly enjoyed dusting off an idea that I'd originally had for Into the Spiderverse and writing it for that film. I wrote various fics for The Murderbot Diaries and took part in two events, and then in the autumn, I got back into FENCE after the release of the latest set of issues, and started creating a bunch of Tumblr posts centered around fun character parallels or significant moments. I also wrote FENCE fic for Yuletide, and took part in FENCE Secret Santa at the end of the year.
Dixit... how do I explain Dixit xD If you don't know of it, it's a board/card game, but I'm more familiar with the app, Dixit World, which was in beta up until recently. I've been playing it nonstop with a group of friends and I think our close readings of the various cards and increasingly inventive group games count as fannish xD
Your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) in 2023 were:
1) Mastodon/Fandom.ink
2) Tumblr
3) Dreamwidth
4) Discord
Dreamwidth makes the list for the first time in 2024! \o/ (To be fair, it's only the second year in a row I've done this list xD) Although DW is also trying hard to earn my displeasure since it ate my first draft of this post 🥲 I'll be happy for it to keep ranking high, since my ambition this year is to be more active than I was in 2023.
Fandom.ink is still my most-used social space, closely followed by Tumblr although less closely at the very end of this year, when I uninstalled the app because I was just doomscrolling on it too much in every idle moment. But it was a big site for my fandom activity for ATSV and FENCE!.
Discord is also a new entrant for this list, not because of any specific fandom (although I did join a nice little server for D&D: HAT) but more because I have a hangout there with various fannish friends and we use it to discuss fandoms of all kinds and also co-ordinate group watches. As much as I wish Discord hadn't taken over from other, less ephemeral options for fandom organising and community, it's nice to have :3
The top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom in 2023 were:
1) Writing fic
2) Taking part in events/challenges (counting this separately!)
3) Commenting (I did Comment Bingo twice!)
4) Creating original posts/meta on Tumblr
5) Reblogging/boosting fanworks (especially in Across the Spiderverse, I reblogged so much stuff that my fingers would start to tag the fandom out of muscle memory xD)
Your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions were:
Hmmm... I know that "fandom contributions" here is designed to be inclusive, but it's pretty hard to know what measure of popularity to use for very different types of fanwork. Well, based on vibes, here are three fics and two Tumblr posts that went over well:
1) We can burn much brighter (if we don't look back) - fic, D&D: HAT, Xenk/Edgin
2) High Praise Indeed - fic, D&D: HAT, Xenk/Edgin
3) Grand Jeté - fic, ATSV, Gwen/Miles
4) Fence: Redemption parallels - special occasions - Tumblr post, FENCE
5) Harvard/Aiden and remembering each others' exes'(/flings') names - Tumblr post, FENCE
Thank you to the Snowflake Challenge mods for bringing this to us for another year - I'll miss it until it starts again! ♥
