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Q, T, U?

OK, last one of these for now, but [If anyone else would like to send letters, feel free!] ^_^

Q - A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.

ahahaha... oh you’re going to get me into trouble. -.-;;; First of all, I’m not sure I can say that I’ve properly abandoned it, because I do still write for it and I do still love it and I do even reblog things for it, but at this point... Les Mis. And WOW that’s hard to say.

Part of it is that just... too many of my Les Mis friends have drifted away to other things. And when fewer and fewer people are posting for a fandom, it gets harder and harder to sustain an active fannish interest. And that was a lot of my issue. Part is that just... a lot of the currently prevalent headcanons and interpretations were just... not things I was interested in? Like, more and more, I felt like I was talking an entirely different language to the rest of the fandom and it was getting very frustrating. And finally... people were getting worse and worse about reblogging or commenting on things and that just sapped my desire to create anything new for the fandom. And some of that was probably also due to the other two things, but some of it is just a trend.

Compare that to my currently largest fandom of interest... I posted a gifset+meta for Guardian fandom and it got like 100 notes within a couple of days and sparked off a huge and AMAZING debate about magical healing jackets that I STILL have to respond to pieces of, because it’s such a small fandom in comparison that any new content is appreciated and it was so warm and welcoming that, I stg, I almost cried. Like... fandom hasn’t made me feel that good in a while, and I’ve MISSED IT. (I had a similar experience when I got into TUD fandom on a larger (albeit slightly less personalized) scale.)

So, yeah. Have I really abandoned Les Mis? Probably not. If nothing else, I AM going to fucking finish Muet, damn it. And I’m still going to run Feuilly Week in October. But yeah. I don’t think I’ll be as intense as I was about it before, and that still makes me sad. :( I mean... Les Mis was the longest fandom stop I’ve had in a while. 8 years? And I made a lot of friends there. So, I don’t think I’ll ever completely give it up, but I definitely need a break.

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?

MY ARO/ACE JIANG CHIANG HEADCANON. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY A HILL I WILL DIE ON.

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

JUST THREE???? *dies*

OK, let’s start with Guardian...

Shen Wei: I am a sucker, a complete and total sucker, for the immortal(ish) character with the weight of the world on their shoulders, who insists on throwing their own health and mental wellbeing under the bus at any and every given opportunity if it will protect the people they love, BONUS POINTS if they are somehow also just a little naive and don’t quite know how to people or how to friends, because they’ve been alone for so long. ALSO, the “I appear totally shy and harmless and probably wear sweater vests and sleeve garters, but secretly am A TOTAL FUCKING BADASS” thing never, ever gets tiring. ;D And just... FUCK. There is not a SINGLE favorite character box that Shen Wei doesn’t check for me. ...also, he’s very pretty when he breaks. *eg* ^_~

The Untamed...

That’s a hard toss up between Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian. XD But a lot of the things that draw me to She Wei also draw me to WWX, so I’ll just say “Ditto” on that and do Jiang Cheng. ;D

Jiang Cheng: (Cribbing a bit from another answer...) He is the aro/ace disaster bb of my heart and he just wants his family to be HAPPY and TOGETHER and have ALL THE THINGS THEY WANT but also for them to be safe and to not leave him. And I relate SO HARD to that. I also relate to the fact that no matter what he says, it seems to come out wrong and just get him into further trouble. Because that is also one giant fucking mood. But seriously, he just loves his family SO MUCH and he tries SO HARD and life just keeps kicking him when he’s down, but he STILL TRIES TO BE THERE for the few loved ones he has left and I just... fuck I just love him so fucking much and HE DESERVED BETTER. TT^TT

And a third, a third, a third... hmm... how about Star Wars? ^_^

Obi-Wan Kenobi: So... I feel like a lot of the reasons I like a character boil down to “they’re pretty when they cry... and canon makes them cry a LOT.” XD But more importantly than the fact that canon does the best to break them... they keep GETTING BACK UP. They keep putting a smile on their face, even if sometimes it’s forced, and they KEEP GOING. And just... FUCK I am weak for that. And Obi-Wan is the epitome of that particular trope and I love him for it. TT^TT

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