Top Ten: Fandoms I Don’t Fangirl

[tarotgal]

At a recent con, someone saw my multi-fandom fangirl badge label and asked me what I fangirl. I find it impossible to answer that question; there are just too many fandoms! Instead, I find it easier to answer the question a friend asked me after a Harry Potter meetup a few months ago: what aren’t you into? Sorry if some (or all) of these are your favorite.

Top Ten Fandoms I Don’t Fangirl

1. Game of Thrones- I made it through season 1, but it just didn’t grab me
2. The Walking Dead- I’m not into zombies. Or walkers. Or whatever they’re called. Just not my thing.
3. Professional sports other than hockey- nothing’s as good as hockey
4. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic- They’re not the MLP from my childhood; just haven’t seen this yet
5. Horror movies- I’m just not into them
6. Bevis & Butt-head- I just don’t understand the appeal. The art and the humor are too rough for me
7. Ren & Stimpy- Same thing. Just never liked ‘em. The fact that I didn’t have cable TV/the channel they were on didn’t help
8. Spongebob Squarepants- I just don’t get the appeal.
9. Pokemon- I know, I know, but I was just too old when it became a thing
10. Breaking Bad- the show is just too dirty for me; I kept itching to jump in with some Lysol. And then the bathtub scene happened…

This post was originally posted on The Fangirl Project: http://thefangirlproject.com/?p=1638

Comments

[ladykorana.livejournal.com]

My list is similar to yours except for a couple.

I love Game of Thrones. So instead in this spot I'd have to put Buffy/Angel. I was obsessed with other things when these were huge, and just never got around to watching them. I've seen a few eps here and there, but that's it. Plus I just don't worship at the altar of Joss Whedon. Firefly was ok, Kaylee is cute, but I didn't love it.

Instead of hockey, put NFL here. Mostly just for the Colts, the Bears, and Peyton Manning. I don't follow football as intensely now as I did in the few years I played fantasy football though.

I do like the new MLP: Friendship is Magic, as its own entity totally
divorced from the original MLP. It's cute and funny and I've seen pretty much every Episode. I guess in its place I would put anything comics, even Marvel outside the movie-verse. I'm just not really a huge comic book person. Except original Rogue, Gambit, and the Phoenix saga. The 90's cartoon did it better than the X-Men movies.

Word on The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad. So not interested. Even more word on horror movies. Horror never had anything to do with loving SPN.

[tarotgal]

Oh, I completely worship at that altar. Joss amazes me, especially the things he did on Buffy. Everyone in my life watches Game of Thrones, though, so I feel bad that it didn't grab me the way I wanted it to. I'm having that same problem with Fringe. I've given that show two tries now and still nothing yet.

I'll definitely have to give the new MLP a try sometime then.

I'm not as into comic fandoms as I could be, but I definitely have a soft spot for them and wish I could instantly have all of the knowledge so I could fangirl (and write fanfic) properly.