quitting a canon or fandom, for taliahale

Is there anything that will make you immediately abandon a fandom/canon? What's the line for you? If you don't have a force quit reaction to anything, what makes you drift out of a fandom to greener pastures?

I've been thinking about this! Because I've gradually abandoned at least twenty fandoms, for no reason more complex than something else did a slightly better job of lighting up my brain, and for several days, that collection of fannish drift was drowning out my memory of having intentionally left anything.

( a more or less complete list of my fandoms*, somewhat chronological**, for reference! )

( what it takes to get me to quit a canon )

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The ship has well sailed on my doing this in any formal meme framework, but feel free to lob a question at me, and I'll do my best to have thoughts!

it's like reading meme wednesday, if I read books anymore

I've had the same book from the library for... ever. I've renewed it twice, and not opened it yet.

But!

If you've got young people (or older people, I don't know!) who could use a book for Christmas:
Seeking Wonderful Young Adult Novels That Deal With Race via nprcodeswitch_feed

And while I'm here, I'll also mention NPR's neato book recommendation tool thing that I haven't actually looked at yet.

another three-post evening

Nothing like discovering a summary typo, a month later...

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I am really not feeling Christmas this year, and I can't remember how I felt about it last year, so I don't know if its just being old or what. Like, I'm fine, I'm just not at all "wooooo, Christmas!"

As a family, we've been sort of over the gift-giving since the advent of internet shopping and being equally inundated by catalogs. And now that I see my parents about once a week, another day of hanging out together is nice and all, but not really something to get all worked up about.

I called my dad this afternoon and proposed doing dinner at their house this weekend and decorating the tree, to see if that kick-starts some festive excitement. Last year, he put the tree up and decorated it by himself, which was 1) weird and 2) made me feel really guilty, even though we never discussed it beforehand.

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I really like Brooklyn 99, y'all. I caught up on the latest two episodes ("Thanksgiving" and "Christmas") this afternoon, and it just made me really happy.