Fandom Wishlist (Fandom Snowflake Challenge)

[ebaths]

In your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, and/or that you'd like someone to create or do for you.

As I mentioned in my last post on this challenge, I'm not really in fandom right now--though not for any particular reason. I think the main reasons are 1. focusing on life stuff and 2. not getting pulled in by any particular thing. I tend to be kind of behind the curve when it comes to media (I'm just now playing Bloodborne, for instance) which is not conducive to being fandom active.

blueshiftofdeath introduced me to vidding, which has been very attractive to me as a type of fanwork I can see myself keeping up with. I feel like it's less frustrating than writing or drawing, but gives me a similar excitement and satisfaction when I get my final product. It's much more limited than writing or drawing of course (especially with things like shipping, unless the ship has a lot of canon moments) and of course it's limited to movies and TV, but I feel like that's still a really significant chunk of stuff I'm likely to make "fannish" stuff for anyway.

Anyway this all has nothing to do with the challenge, so all that being said, here are a few things I'd like to see in fandom/other spaces:

• More Columbo content! Actually, for some reason, Columbo was super popular (at least on my Twitter feed?) for a couple months in 2021. I don't know exactly why this is, since it didn't move to a new streaming platform or anything that would suddenly make a bunch of people start watching it. So now that I'm thinking about it, I've actually seen more Columbo fanart than I ever have before. I highly recommend anyone to watch this show...you can hardly go wrong, but start with A Friend in Deed, or ask me for a rec!
• Hmm...I'd love to be a part of a book-fandom group on DW. (This kind of group may exist already). I'm a lurker on booklr, bookstagram, booktube...but none of these communities really make me want to be a part of them. I think there's a lack of depth (maybe in particular for Tumblr and Instagram, because images get more engagement) so book reviews will be super short, or not invite discussion. There's also a lot of the same books being talked about, which is fine and is bound to happen, but does make content a little repetitive, since again, not much is being said (how many times can I hear about how A Little Life will make me cry!!). Youtube is a bit better for content but I'm not going to make Youtube videos, and there's very little opportunity for community or discussion on Youtube outside of videos. This also calls back to my issue of being "behind the curve", as I rarely read books that have been released in the last one or two years (not for any particular reason, but that's just how my schedule ends up). A lot of book discussion logically centers on newer releases, since they're exciting and have a bigger audience.

Comments

[predelection]

Ever since the SVSSS fandom fever died down, my heart has been longing for a new media franchise to blindly fall in love with.

It's so great when other people realize how good old detective shows are! May the Columbo renaissance flourish or 100 years!!!

I have come to really hate YouTube now, I think the content is really dwindling in quality, I hate how it's linked to Google, the many struggles content creators have when trying to make videos and not get immediately sue over them, and all the features they constantly push on you when you're using it. IT'S A BAD PLATFORM!!!! The only reason I have to go to that site is to see if ProZD has posted a new food review video yet. I tried watching a few book review channels before, but like you said it's not very interactive so I don't feel like I can really "respond" when I want to debate someone's incorrect opinion, plus I feel like nobody's ever reading or getting into the same stuff as me.

[ebaths]

(Love your icon btw!!)

Youtube is naught good...I keep going back to it for the handful of creators I like that are on there, but it's a great example of a platform that is mostly good just because of how popular it is. It's not so good for finding new stuff...and yeah, I think the biggest thing that keeps me from "getting into it" is the complete lack of engagement. The Youtube comments section is one of the wildest places to be on the internet.

[blueshiftofdeath]

I'm interested in hearing more about the qualities of your ideal book comm! Like, would it be a book club kind of thing, or just very discussion based for whatever you happen to be reading? Something else?

[ebaths]

(LOVE THE ICON!!)

Let's see...I think ideal would be more discussion based, sharing whatever's in people's reading lists, recommendations, etc. I love the idea of book clubs but realistically they just require a TON of work (if there is an active one out there though, I'd love to see it!)

[blueshiftofdeath]

(THANK U!!!)

Hmmm... well, if none of the existing book comms appeal to you, we could always make our own :^)c Of course it would just be the ebaths/blueshiftofdeath reading circle for who knows how long... but I think people would join if we were active and then promo'd it!

[ebaths]

Well, I have to do my due diligence first and actually check out all the ones that are already out there. I have thought about making my own, but I'm not sure if I'm actually interested in running a public one (LOL) but maybe I'm thinking it would be more work than it actually would be.

Of course it would just be the ebaths/blueshiftofdeath reading circle for who knows how long... but I think people would join if we were active and then promo'd it!

Well that would definitely be fun! Maybe we should do that...and I would like to have a wide variety of opinions, and making it public would help with that...hmm!! If you would be active, that's all I would want...any more would just be icing on the cake!

[blueshiftofdeath]

Hehehe... let's do it then!! Do you wanna make it or shall I? >:^)

[ebaths]

Gulp...you can make it!! I don't mind doing it either though.