party like it's 2005

I've been diving into bandom recently, and I just signed up for bandombigbang. A big bang has been on my fannish bucket list for a while, and I've signed up for two in the past that wound up not working out, so hopefully third time's the charm.

Reading bandom fic after being in hockey fandom is an interesting experience. There's obviously a lot of trope carryover (although hockey needs more vampires), and a lot of similarities between the structure of the fandoms themselves--two juggernaut ships with completely different supporting characters, abnormally intimate work relationships, a third juggernaut that gained prominence after the original fans moved on, pre-fame fic where they're awful repressed teenagers, hotel room sex. It's new and shiny for me, but familiar.

I didn't listen to the bandom bands as a teenager, and while I find them catchy, I'm mostly in it for hot tattooed guys and lots of quality fic. Whereas hockey fandom has a lot of people just in it for the tropey fic, but it's a deeply rooted part of my identity that got me through some shitty times in high school and college. Being so emotionally invested probably made the fandom a worse experience for me, but it's probably why I can't seem to quit it either.

But I'm looking forward to trying a big bang, and I'm writing some fun iddy tropes. Not looking forward to having Fall Out Boy stuck in my head for the next six months, but what can you do.