Year-End Fandom Meme

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Your main fandom of the year?

It is probably BTS but I refuse to admit to it.

Your favourite film you watched this year?

Didn’t watch anything this year, I don’t think?

Edit 12/30: I was wrong, I watched Thor: Ragnarok and Ocean’s Eight. Was going to watch Crazy Rich Asians but plans fell through so I still have yet to watch it.

Your favourite book read this year?

As usual I don’t read actual books, so two fics for your perusual, both BTS:

What I Did On My Summer Vacation, by Kim Namjoon, Age 18 1/2, by Runchrandom. A crack OT7 fic featuring a lot of heist hijinks.

Up We Go, by Oh_Hey_Tae. A Taegimin fic on witches, mysteries, and finding yourself. Ready a tissue box.

Your favourite album or song to listen to this year?

Suiyoubi no Campanella’s Galapagos is a tour de force. More words incoming in my annual music round-up.

Your favourite TV show of the year?

Of the four anime I started this year, Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card Arc, Banana Fish, Free S3, and Full Metal Panic S4, I have only finished the last one. So that’s the state of it.

Your best new fandom discovery of the year?

I inadvertently got into Idol Producer. Talent is mediocre, post-show content has been a disappointment and half but at least the show itself was much less prone to dramatics than Produce 101 (S2 or Chinese S1). And I still hold hope for my bb Chen Linong’s career.

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?

Full Metal Panic 4th season. The plot was terrible in theory and execution, and it contained one of my least favourite tropes, (spoiler) [fridging a perfectly good new female character for emo points].

Your fandom boyfriend of the year?

In a word: Kim Namjoon in the 2018 Summer Package.

Your fandom girlfriend of the year?

Hyelin from EXID. Not really in a girlfriend way but she’s an absolute riot and I love her.

Your biggest squee moment of the year?

Every domestic Touya and Yukito scene in Clear Card Arc, because I am wholesome trash. And every Eriol scene, because tween me had questionable taste.

The most missed of your old fandoms?

It’s not that the fandom is missing, but a good few months of my year this year was first the Shinee Japan concerts and then the Shinee comebacks without Jonghyun. It helped, a lot, for the remaining Shinee members to share their healing with us the fans, even if I had to cry my way through “Our Page”—once through the video and once through the translation.

A fandom you haven’t tried yet but want to?

There’s so many shows on my watch list it is actually terrible. The Good Place has been highly recommended so that maybe?

Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year?

LOUIS TOMLINSON. ALBUM. Q2. (Q2 is just my wishful informed thinking but I’ve been calling it since early this year and I’m not about to stop.)

For anime: 7 Seeds (!). I’m all for ancient shoujo getting adapted because every one brings me closer to a Shimizu Reiko work getting adapted. I’m likely going to be dragged into watching Sarazanmai (Ikuhara/MAPPA), and I’ll watch Chihayafuru S3 as soon as I finish S1 and S2, which is never. And we can’t forget the trainwreck in motion that will be the Fruits Basket re-make.