Fic poll

[mhalachai]

Hey kids! Fanfic poll time. Please pimp this to everyone, so I can get a good idea of what's up. After you fill out the poll, tell us about your fave fandom in comments.

[Poll #472670]

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/ari_/]

For question 2, I clicked "yes, because of the fic", but "no, because of the fic" would also be correct in some cases.

I'm sure I've fallen into quite a number of fandoms via good XOs, but given that I read in over 50 fandoms, I really don't remember which ones. I do sometimes read stories in a fandom I'm not (yet) into because someone whose recs I trust pimps it, and if I like one or more of the characters/the setting, I'll investigate the canon and/or rest of the fandom.

I've also sometimes gotten into fandoms just for the fanfic: X-Files, for example. I only read for Mulder/Krycek slash (ok, and the occasional demented rare pairing, like Mulder/Bigfoot *g*). I've watched the episodes with Krycek in them, and a handful of others, but I just read summaries of all other important eps.

HP would be another example: I like the world JKR has created, and I find some of her characters very interesting, but her books mostly bore me. I got into the fandom because I was bored and decided to try a story, and it had Snape in it, and *bam*, new fandom obsession. I read the books simply to be able to follow the fanfic.

Sometimes I follow recs for new stories in fandoms I've stopped reading extensively or at all, and if it's a really good story, it can revive a fandom for me, but usually it just means that the fandom joins the many others that I read on the side, mostly because there's not enough good fic.

[r0usku.livejournal.com]

Yes, I read a HP/Buffy fic once and hated it. I am not familiar with Buffy (I have never watched a single episode or even a second of one). So I answered "No, because of the fic" since it made me realize I hadn't missed anything and should stay away from it in the future, too.

[waterfall8484]

I answered "No, in spite of the fic" on #2, but if possible I'd also answer "Yes, because of the fic". Both are equally true... and I'm also sure I've forgotten some of the crossover fandoms I've read.

Just so you knows it. :~)