Snowflake Challenge #9

[coyoteclaw11]

Challenge #9

In your own space, list your Fandom Wrap categories.

Okay to start off, I just want to say this is such a cool and fun prompt. I always love those year-in-review things haha.

What are your top five fandoms for 2021 based on the amount of time you interacted with them?
1. Genshin Impact (56 hours on r/GenshinImpact; 30 fics totaling 500k+ words read on Ao3; and several pieces of fanart)
2. Merlin (19 fics totaling 600k+ words read on Ao3)
3. Harry Potter (9 fics totaling 177k+ words read on Ao3 and lots of time in r/HPSlashFic and r/HPfanfiction)
4. Fire Emblem (7 fics totalling 22k+ words read on Ao3, SO much time in r/firemblem, r/FireEmblemHeroes, and r/shitpostemblem)
5. Supernatural (8 fics totaling 166k+ words read on Ao3)

Genshin Impact was the clear winner here. I only started playing it in June, but it quickly took over as The Thing Everything I Do Revolves Around. The rest were a bit more up in the air, but I had compiled some Ao3 stats at the start of the year, so I used those. Although I read a lot more SPN than Fire Emblem, I'm just not involved with the fandom at all outside of reading, so I decided to put FE higher.

What are your top five fandom spaces in terms of time spent? (AO3, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, Dreamwidth, and others)
1. Ao3
2. Reddit
3. Discord
4. Tumblr
5. Twitter

Ao3's the big one. A bulk of my fandom interaction is through reading fic, so that's gotta be #1. Tumblr's fairly low since as much as I'm on it, I've just been too lazy to update my following list. My dashboard is just a lot quieter than it used to be, and it's mostly just memes and my mutual's fandoms, not mine haha. My activity on Twitter is 90% retweeting stuff that I saw on Reddit lol I don't really use it on its own.

What are the top five ways you interacted in these fandoms? (Reading fanfic, writing, commenting, watching videos, chatting with friends, making art, or anything else you can think of).
1. Reading fic
2. Sharing/Reblogging/Retweeting fanart
3. Posting screenshots
4. Making art
5. Daydreaming

What things did you create that took the most time?
1. I planned and started this huge Genshin cross stitch project based on a series of artworks I really liked. They're meant to be gifts, but a couple thousand stitches in, I kind of realized the time and energy commitment was just too much. I'm extra not feeling it now especially because I used the same designs in the christmas presents I gave my friends... We'll see lol

2. Drawing all the Genshin characters from memory

3. My Ao3 Year in Review, a spreadsheet compiling all the fics I read in 2021 along with their word counts and tags so I could see what my top fandoms and tags were (sorry I'm not sharing that one though haha)

4. I set up bots in my Genshin discord channel to post what you can farm each day

5. Art for the Kazuha Big Bang

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Comments

[turps]

Your daydreaming made me smile, I think we've all been there.

Genshin Impact was the clear winner here. I only started playing it in June, but it quickly took over as The Thing Everything I Do Revolves Around.

It's fantastic when fandoms take over like that. Such a high when it's all you can think of.

[dreamersdare]

My Ao3 Year in Review, a spreadsheet compiling all the fics I read in 2021 along with their word counts and tags so I could see what my top fandoms and tags were

This is both an amazing and a terrifying idea. On the one hand, it appeals to the part of my brain that wants to organise everything so much but on the other it would involve admitting how much time I spend on AO3 :D

[coyoteclaw11]

Haha yep it does come with many dark secrets (hence mine staying decidedly private lol). Seeing all the data is so satisfying, though.