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Cocoa ([personal profile] momijizukamori) wrote2020-12-31 05:02 pm
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Fandom year-in-review

Stealing from [personal profile] adevyish!

Your main fandom of the year?
JJBA in the first half, Untamed/MDZS in the second half! Not that I have given up on JJBA but without the anime airing the fandom is relatively quiet.

Your favourite film you watched this year?
I... did I watch any movies this year? I guess seeing Run Lola Run for the first time is probably it - I think everything else was watching old Japanese films with my dad, which were interesting, particularly from a film history standpoint, but not necessarily things I'd rewatch.

Your favourite book read this year?
Tian Guan Ci Fu is up there (please join me in danmei hell), but I also enjoyed the hell out of the Murderbot books which were the right flavor of snarky slightly dystopic SF to be right up my alley. Shoutouts also to Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy, and Yoon Ha Lee's Machinaries of Empire trilogy (of which I still need to read books two and three of)

Your favourite album or song to listen to this year?
I've been doing a lot of Spotify shuffle which has kind of carried me over into new wave land (lots of Bauhaus and Siouxie and the Banshees), but [personal profile] shingetsu turned me on to Lord Huron and I listened to Strange Trails enough for it to show up in my Spotify year-end summary, so.

Your favourite TV show of the year?
Untamed! Though there were some real solid anime series this year - new Golden Kamuy season, more Idolish7, Somali and the Forest Spirit, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, Dorohedoro.

Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
MXTX fandoms in general, Untamed/MDZS fandom in specific. I don't know how it managed to make the crossover leap outside of the niche of c-drama fans, but it did and it remains wild.

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
Lack of conventions :c

Your fandom boyfriend of the year?
I mean, none, really, because I don't think about my faves that way, but I continue to want Hua Cheng's entire style, and ability to kick ass while princess-carrying his boyfriend.

Your fandom girlfriend of the year?
See above, with the bonus that my main fandoms were all pretty light on female characters, but I would die for Jiang Yanli.

Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Hmm. Not sure I could pinpoint any specific moments, really, though I definitely squeed over the costumes and set design for The Untamed. In personal moments of happiness, I'm really glad I got Moody Blues mostly done for the one con I went to (I have photos! Which I still need to put up... anywhere....)

The most missed of your old fandoms?
Mmm, CLAMP stuff, maybe? Had some nostalgia moments when they announced the new TB anime. I also had a handful of moments where I missed DWRP until I remembered why I quit, lol

A fandom you haven’t tried yet but want to?
Falling deeper into danmei novel hell, I suppose. I also have a giant pile of Western novels I bought and haven't read yet, but I don't really get into fandoms for those.

Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year?
Tokyo Babylon anime, even though I have set my expectations fairly low for that. Actually going to cons again, hopefully.

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