16. What are 3 tags that will make you click no matter what?

No such thing, man. I've seen what fandom can do. Every "Happy Ending" suggests a "Horrible Middle." #FandomIntro

15. What's your favourite trope?

Slow Burn and everything that fits under that umbrella, including: first times, friends to lovers, forced proximity, arranged marriage, marriage of convenience, accidental bonding, and reluctant (or oblivious) soulmates. #FandomIntro

Will answer these fandom questions. Remind me if I take too long, I'm trying to find a new online rhythm for 2023;) Happy New Year y'all! #FandomIntro

14. How did you get into your current fandom?

How did I get into Star Trek, a fandom that's been around for more than fifty years? Someone I was following for other reasons (PRU) wrote some Pinto*, I was into it, I read all the Pinto and when I ran out was like, "Okay, I guess I'll try this 'Star Trek' thing."

*Star Trek Reboot RPF

Bonus round: @pru is also half of the reason I got into Stargate Atlantis. #FandomIntro

13. When did you last travel for a con, concert, fanmeet, or cupsleeve event?

That would be...2014 for Bitchin' Party, a small fan-organized con held every other year in Issaquah, Washington. I went three times, but 2014 was my last trip because my health has made travelling Not Fun. #FandomIntro

12. Are you multi-fandom or mono-fannish?

I used to describe myself as serially monofannish. I'd stay in a fandom a long time, then slowly drift away into something new. But this last time I drifted, I didn't go very far and now I have three main fandoms at once. Plus all my older fandoms, which, like I said before, I never really leave. #FandomIntro

11. Rare pairs, big ships, or gen?

Big fandoms reach me pairing first, so I usually stagger onto the big ships along with everyone else. In smaller fandoms I find on my own, I sometimes slip and fall into a rare pair dinghy, and I just let that part of myself float off into the open sea, hoping to someday encounter land.

Gen is for fandoms I'm just visiting, those where I don't have an OTP, or Murderbot Diaries where my OTP is Murderbot & ART friendship. #FandomIntro

11. Rare pairs, big ships, or gen?

Big fandoms reach me pairing first, so I usually stagger onto the big ships along with everyone else. In smaller fandoms I find on my own, I sometimes slip and fall into a rare pair dinghy, and I just let that part of myself float off into the open sea, hoping to someday encounter land.

Gen is for fandoms I'm just visiting, those where I don't have an OTP, or Murderbot Diaries where my OTP is Murderbot & ART friendship. #FandomIntro

10. What's the last fandom merch or craft you got?

I bought myself a "Property of Starfleet Academy" t-shirt from Woot and I would do it again. #FandomIntro

https://shirt.woot.com/offers/property-of-the-academy

9. Have you ever met a fandom friend IRL?

Many times! I've made some of my best friends through fandom and have been lucky enough to be able to travel to visit them.

I've also met a lot of fans at cons and meet-ups. Like somehow I was part of a #Popslash group that went to see Crossroads, and a quick Google reveals that not only was Zoe Saldana in that, but also Anson Mount!! Screenplay by SHONDA RHIMES. What is going on. Anyway, that wasn't even my fandom, but fans are fans. #FandomIntro

8. Share a pic that would convince someone to fall for your current fandom!

Here are my boys Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto sitting very close together and just having a little conversation in the middle of being interviewed for some movie they did jk the movie was Star Trek. #FandomIntro

Here's the full gif set (not mine): https://seepunkrun.tumblr.com/post/655902146851749888/pine-chris-int-have-you-been-sent-anything

7. Who's your ultimate OTP?

Kirk/Spock has been around for more than fifty years and my other OTPs can't really compete with that, no matter how cute they are. #FandomIntro

6. Rec a fic that you love! #FandomIntro

How about a super fun #SGA #McShep #fanvid instead?

My Brilliant Idea, by lim:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/2253711 (locked to archive)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa2cM6oFdTg

#FandomIntro

Got tagged by @Magess so I'm doing the thing 🤣

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1. 24 years? Something very close to that.

2. I'm not sure if I consider myself "in" any fandom at the moment. I usually define that as either consuming transformative works or creating them, and I'm not doing either right now. The last one was #TheMandalorian and specifically #dincobb.

3. I write fanfics, all available here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/darkmagess/works

4. Highlander: The Series

20. Tag three fandom friends on Masto!

*cries in socially awkward* okay, here goes: @Satsuma, @alpine_thistle, @Magess

#FandomIntro

19. What's your favorite episode, song, moment, etc. from your current fandom?

Given the size of my fandom, I feel like I could pick a whole show and get away with it :P But to play more by the rules: "One Way Out", episode 10 of Andor. Absolutely goddamn brilliant.

#FandomIntro

18. Share and upcoming fest you're excited about!

None, really. I'm very, VERY burnt out on exchanges right now. I only started doing exchanges this year and I seriously overdid it, so right now I'm enjoying no deadlines and fannish responsibilities.

#FandomIntro

17. Fav fest you've prompted/read/written for?

I think that'd be the Battleship Exchange https://battleshipex.dreamwidth.org/. It's bonkers, but I absolutely loved the energy.

#FandomIntro

16. What are 3 tags that will make you click no matter what?

Found Family, Fix-It, Asexual Character

#FandomIntro