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beccaelizabethI saw a thing on tumblr asking what your most recent fandom is
like not the one you liked the most recently but the one that was made most recently
and that's... weirdly tricky to figure out?
I mean Doctor Who breaks the maths, obviously, because as with comics fandoms it has been going since forever and there's new canon in one or another medium still and for years to come and also you probably haven't had enough time in your entire life to read watch listen it all.
So Doctor Who.
But also the assorted comics fandoms are just... I haven't been doing much Marvel recently, it all went on that paid for Disney thing and not DVDs, and how do you count it, each new series or film or what?
And my DC fandom just kind of switches focus with a really wide set of things. Like I disliked Titans but I started watching more sorts of John Constantine and once again have had to realise that my situation with that guy is of long standing but no specific canon is actually my version of that guy so I'm stuck talking to the one in my head. As you do.
But I have watched new to me comics movies cartoons live action TV recently.
Legends of Tomorrow is the newest part of that fandom that I'm actively fannish in my head about.
Pretty new? Right?
... pre 2020 but ...
Outside of that there is Pathfinder. And again, how do you count? Because Wrath of the Righteous is its own self contained story with its own new characters, and being a game one of those characters is your OC KC on every play through. But also the paper adventure paths I have been collecting are still being published. I was going to stick with first edition until I actually played more but second edition has been improving things like how they handle ethnicity and I have a stack of second edition too now. But not the rules that are all matching because the remaster happened, which I had a knack for buying things right before they got redone.
But however recent Pathfinder is, that's probably my most recent fandom.
Only I've been buying Pathfinder stuff and putting it in Librarything for about as long as Legends of Tomorrow has existed.
I knew it had been actual years of only really watching Doctor Who but I am feeling kind of weird about how many actual years it has been of mostly just... same huge great interconnected universes, DW, DC, or Pathfinder.
Like, I have bought and read books, kept up with everything by Seanan McGuire nearly, but when I went back through my catalog I seem to be buying half a dozen at a time, about once a year, when I go make the order for the next set of Seanan's.
Also my To Read pile is epic.
But now I am thinking about it I may need to vary my input diet a bit, and possibly join this decade in more than just DW DC PF.
like not the one you liked the most recently but the one that was made most recently
and that's... weirdly tricky to figure out?
I mean Doctor Who breaks the maths, obviously, because as with comics fandoms it has been going since forever and there's new canon in one or another medium still and for years to come and also you probably haven't had enough time in your entire life to read watch listen it all.
So Doctor Who.
But also the assorted comics fandoms are just... I haven't been doing much Marvel recently, it all went on that paid for Disney thing and not DVDs, and how do you count it, each new series or film or what?
And my DC fandom just kind of switches focus with a really wide set of things. Like I disliked Titans but I started watching more sorts of John Constantine and once again have had to realise that my situation with that guy is of long standing but no specific canon is actually my version of that guy so I'm stuck talking to the one in my head. As you do.
But I have watched new to me comics movies cartoons live action TV recently.
Legends of Tomorrow is the newest part of that fandom that I'm actively fannish in my head about.
Pretty new? Right?
... pre 2020 but ...
Outside of that there is Pathfinder. And again, how do you count? Because Wrath of the Righteous is its own self contained story with its own new characters, and being a game one of those characters is your OC KC on every play through. But also the paper adventure paths I have been collecting are still being published. I was going to stick with first edition until I actually played more but second edition has been improving things like how they handle ethnicity and I have a stack of second edition too now. But not the rules that are all matching because the remaster happened, which I had a knack for buying things right before they got redone.
But however recent Pathfinder is, that's probably my most recent fandom.
Only I've been buying Pathfinder stuff and putting it in Librarything for about as long as Legends of Tomorrow has existed.
I knew it had been actual years of only really watching Doctor Who but I am feeling kind of weird about how many actual years it has been of mostly just... same huge great interconnected universes, DW, DC, or Pathfinder.
Like, I have bought and read books, kept up with everything by Seanan McGuire nearly, but when I went back through my catalog I seem to be buying half a dozen at a time, about once a year, when I go make the order for the next set of Seanan's.
Also my To Read pile is epic.
But now I am thinking about it I may need to vary my input diet a bit, and possibly join this decade in more than just DW DC PF.
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Date: 2025-10-10 12:44 pm (UTC)I didn't count iwtv even though the series is massively different in some very loadbearing ways from the books and movies
There's some newer shows I watch but wouldn't call fandom
It was kinda messy to think about