Year in fandom -2024

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meme format stolen from selenak


1. Your main fandom of the year?

I guess I am still hanging out in the Avatar the Last Airbender fandom the most.

2. Your favorite film watched this year?
Master and Margarita. The newest adaptation, by director Michael Lokshin, with August Diehl as Woland is the best M and M adaptation. Master and Margarita is considered to be generally un-adaptable, and rightly so – it is too sprawling, too fantastical, to precise in some parts and too vague in others, there are three main stories that connect in strange ways… and probably unfinished, too. All the things that work so well as text, look bland, or stupid, or tawdry when put on screen, judging by previous attempts. Why this works – Lokshin knows what story he is telling, and he is not trying to put everything from the novel on screen. He picks the thread of a creator in the oppressive state and his relationship with the powers – existing in the novel and mirroring Bulgakov’s own life, and tells it with the use of the text of the novel and visual and technological possibilities of the modern age, and it works wonders.


3. Your favorite book read this year?


Not sure. I finally got to read Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and The grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and was mightly impressed, and I also loved the hell of some trashy Russian novels.

4. Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?

In the beginning of the year I was honestly obsessed with The Poison Prince
And then I found Mongolian Hard Rock, and that was the rest of the year.
5. Your favorite TV show of the year?
I have accepted I have trashy tastes. I loved the Rings of Power; I loved The Brothers Sun; finally finished Blue-eyed Samurai, and Leverage. Now I am enjoying The Skeleton Crew and An Amazing attorney Woo.
6. Your favorite online community of the year?

I keep enjoying the craziness of Tumblr

7. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
I spent a lot of time trying to think of something and I cannot


8. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?

The cancellations of the Brothers Sun and Shadow and Bone. And I am still disappointed in the cancellation of Lockwood & Co. I might be forgetting something.
9. Your fandom boyfriend of the year?
Charles Sun, the older brother. I guess.

10. Your fandom girlfriend of the year?
The female population of Patience, Colorado from the Resident Alien. I can’t choose one, they come as a group.


11. Your biggest squee moment of the year?

? no idea.

12. The most missed of your old fandoms?

Buffy. I’ve been re-watching it with my kids in the past couple of years, and it is a new delight – to share the things I love with my kids. I can’t imagine being terribly involved with the Buffy fandom now, but I can’t imagine ever being away from it, and I miss terribly our conversations of the old
13. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
I don’t want to try any fandoms, I just think of them as a force of nature – if I ever feel the pull, I with be in one.

14. Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?

I am looking forward to the new stuff in the Avatar the Last Airbender world, and The Wheel of Time season 3