I feel a little jealous of people who know exactly where their fannish heart lays 99.9% of the time
I know what you mean. My attention wanders from place to place, and I don't really know what fandom I'm "in" at any given moment. I mean I'm always a fan of the things I'm fan of, right? But that's... hundreds of things, some of which I will be intensely obsessed with for a month, and then pick up something else. Sometimes I have one-night bouts where I wonder if there's a fandom and fic for this or that canon, discover there is, and spend a few hours bingereading until it's out of my system. Should that go on my interest list then, hmm...
It's such a weird thought to have one fandom, or just a couple, for years, maybe decades, and have a deep fandom experience with one canon alone!
Haha, it's We Hate Movies. They are one of those Bad Movies podcast where four dudes sit down and pick apart a terrible (or an amazing) movie. I'm not generally a big fan of that format anymore, and I feel weird gushing about them, but they are just head and shoulders above any "dude media" I can think of. I actually wouldn't categorize them as such because they're, well, educated adults, and usually hone in on a movie's racist, misogynist and transphobic aspects. I like it because they sort of lured in a community of reddit bros and are now teaching them intersectional feminist analysis 101 while being shriek-out-loud hilarious. /I feel dumb giving woke cookies to men, but still. I just gosh darnit love them.
That said, I always have a hard time reccing them because, like you said, first of all there's being into podcasts, and then being into non-fiction podcasts, and then into a particular subgenre of movie podcasts... it's just hard to know if someone is a potential fan of their stuff! What's the podcast YOU are thinking about?
And hey, you're also into tabletop RPGs??
Hope you don't mind these super long comments, by the way. I feel like I'm rambling D:
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I know what you mean. My attention wanders from place to place, and I don't really know what fandom I'm "in" at any given moment. I mean I'm always a fan of the things I'm fan of, right? But that's... hundreds of things, some of which I will be intensely obsessed with for a month, and then pick up something else. Sometimes I have one-night bouts where I wonder if there's a fandom and fic for this or that canon, discover there is, and spend a few hours bingereading until it's out of my system. Should that go on my interest list then, hmm...
It's such a weird thought to have one fandom, or just a couple, for years, maybe decades, and have a deep fandom experience with one canon alone!
Haha, it's We Hate Movies. They are one of those Bad Movies podcast where four dudes sit down and pick apart a terrible (or an amazing) movie. I'm not generally a big fan of that format anymore, and I feel weird gushing about them, but they are just head and shoulders above any "dude media" I can think of. I actually wouldn't categorize them as such because they're, well, educated adults, and usually hone in on a movie's racist, misogynist and transphobic aspects. I like it because they sort of lured in a community of reddit bros and are now teaching them intersectional feminist analysis 101 while being shriek-out-loud hilarious. /I feel dumb giving woke cookies to men, but still. I just gosh darnit love them.
That said, I always have a hard time reccing them because, like you said, first of all there's being into podcasts, and then being into non-fiction podcasts, and then into a particular subgenre of movie podcasts... it's just hard to know if someone is a potential fan of their stuff! What's the podcast YOU are thinking about?
And hey, you're also into tabletop RPGs??
Hope you don't mind these super long comments, by the way. I feel like I'm rambling D: