Dee Moyza

Day 8: Crack!fic - We all know it. What's your opinion of it, and if you want, show us an example.

It's very easy to mess up, and extremely difficult to get right.  I don't seek it out, for that reason, though I think I might give it a chance if I was familiar with the author's work and knew the writing and humor would likely appeal to me. 

Day 9: Drop the cast of a fandom you follow into a reality tv show - who/what/why?  If you need a list of reality TV show examples, click here.

Transistor characters on Big Brother!  Sybil going all goo-goo eyes over Red and glaring at Blue and generally making his life hell.  Shomar pranking everybody, Preston pacing back and forth, desperate to be back on the road.  Farrah in her own little world, painting, and Niola trying (and failing) to set up some sort of social structure.  Darzi criticizing everyone's fashion choices, Olmarq trying to run out his excess energy by working out and getting in trouble for accidentally breaking things.  Wave and Grant having heated discussions over politics, Henter profiling each of the other contestants based on their personalities/hobbies/possessions.  Bailey sitting in a corner reading and wishing she was anywhere else, Royce sitting in a corner smoking and mumbling and working on obscure equations.  Red sitting on the patio picking at a guitar and writing lyrics, Blue in the backyard teaching Olmarq how to box (Olmarq accidentally breaks his nose).  Asher and Lillian completely through with everyone's shit, and often being the only voices of reason in the house.

Day 5: Compare and/or contrast your very first fandom obsession and your very latest fandom obsession. 

All right, Illusion of Gaia vs. Transistor!  I really have no idea how to compare them. :/

One is an action RPG for the SNES set on a version of Earth radically changed by the effect of a comet, the other is a stylish game set in a digital utopia overrun and being deleted by the very code that built it.  One protagonist is driven by the need to find out what happened to his father on an expedition the year before, the other is driven by revenge for the killing of her boyfriend.  One has very awkward writing/dialogue, the other has stellar writing/dialogue.  One has a loyal, literally self-sacrificing pig companion, the other has a cute robotic dog. 

Oh!  They both have great music!  And their protagonists both end up in a world very different from the one they knew.  And they've both made their own spaces inside my brain, and inspired my creative pursuits (don't worry, there will not be an attempt at a Transistor stage musical! XD).
 

Day 6: What's a fandom that you wish had a bigger following?

Even though they each have a respectable following, I sometimes wish that the other three Supergiant games would get as much attention as Hades is getting.  Especially Transistor.  But then I think about all the little squabbles and "discourse" that pop up in big fandoms, and I'm happy enjoying them in their own quiet little corners of the internet, where Blue can box and Sybil can be murderously jealous without being labeled "problematic."

I've been incredibly lucky that others I've interacted with via fandom have been friendly, encouraging, and incredibly supportive.  But I think one of my most memorable fandom moments came in a comment I received on a fic that dealt with a character's passing years before and what, if anything, remained of that person in the living world.  The commenter mentioned that they had lost their mother a few years prior to reading this fic, but that reading it made them feel close to her again, as if she was right there next to them. 

I cried when I read that comment the first time, and I still get teary remembering it.  It was a simple little fic for me to write, but knowing it inspired such a lovely feeling in somebody I've never met warms my heart.

Day 1: What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?

It's gotten more varied. At the beginning of 2020, I was just branching out to writing fics in fandoms other than FF8. Now, I've got a few fandoms under my belt, and I post and reblog content from them on Tumblr, as well. While it sometimes feels like my little corner of fandom has gotten even smaller in the past year, the fans who remain have great ideas and headcanons, and produce some truly wonderful fics and art, so it's definitely become a case of quality over quantity. :D