pearwaldorf | End of year fandom survey 2017 (Reply)

1. Your main fandom of the year?

Critical Role and Star Wars, with brief interludes into The Adventure Zone and Stranger Things.

2. Your favorite film watched this year?

Thor: Ragnarok. It's pretty much perfect and goofy and surprisingly smart. I wish Taika Waititi would take over all the MCU movies except Black Panther. I also finally watched What We Do in the Shadows and it's every bit as delightful as people say.

Honorable mentions: Logan, John Wick, Atomic Blonde.

The Last Jedi is in its own category of something because Star Wars and it's weird.

3. Your favorite book read this year?

A Queen from the North, by Racheline Maltese and Erin McRae. It's alt-history (War of the Roses never ended) arranged marriage romance. Super interesting setting, and I look forward to a book about one of the super interesting side characters who may or may not be a witch.

4. Your favorite TV show of the year?

The Good Place. Being a Michael Schurr show, It hits a lot of buttons for me: people who aren't great trying to be better but still being themselves, explicit repudiation of "hell is other people", a soulmate pairing I would actually fight to the death for despite hating the trope.

5. Your favorite online fandom community of the year?

Like last year, Critical Role Tumblr, or at least my corner of it. What an incredibly talented, lovely group of people. Also my corner of Star Wars Tumblr/Twitter.

6. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?

The Adventure Zone Balance arc. What a beautiful, brilliant piece of collaborative serial fiction. Can you fucking believe Griffin only started DMing at the beginning of the show? I honestly believe story-wise he's about as good as Mercer.

7. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?

I can't remember if I had one of those this year, or if I just had bigger things to be disappointed by.

8. Your TV boyfriend of the year?

Jason Mendoza. He's genuinely sweet and wonderful. Stupid as stupid can be, but super super sweet.

9. Your TV girlfriend of the year?

Rosa Diaz, MY CANONICALLY BISEXUAL BADASS LADY COP

10. Your biggest squee moment of the year?

The thing that happened with the big fight in Critical Role. El coming back to Hawkins and reuniting with her friends.

11. The most missed of your old fandoms?

Still, the Abbie/Ichabod part of Sleepy Hollow.

12. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?

I still feel pretty full up on things to keep my attention right now.

13. Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?

New Critical Role campaign! Pacific Rim: Uprising. BLACK PANTHER. Maybe even the Thirteenth Doctor. I haven't watched Doctor Who in a while and I miss it.