"I'm a leaf on the wind...

I'm going to combine the Fannish End-of-Year Meme with the Year in Fandom Meme again this year.

Year in Fandom

1. Your main fandom of the year?

For the first half of the year: HPI

For the second half: OMG Wu Lei. How did this happen?

2. Your favorite film watched this year?

I watched quite a few more movies than last year. I think my favorite was Wild Robot, closely followed by Kpop Demon Hunters.

The post with all twelve movies (plus three from 2024) is here: https://tinny.dreamwidth.org/766993.html

3. Your favorite book read this year?

I failed my Mount TBR challenge for the first time in ages. I blame my workload. I was exhausted and am glad I survived the year. The two books I gave five stars this year was the first part of the Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and the four Murderbot novellas.

The book review post isn't ready yet. I'll post it tomorrow probably.

4. Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?

Probably the Kpop Demonhunter soundtrack, and What It Sounds Like in particular.

Plus a certain Mike and the Mechanics song. I have not tired of it yet.

5. Your favorite TV show of the year?

Ooooh omg so hard. Nothing But You will take the cake, but I was extremely deep into the French show HPI as well, plus at the very end of the year, The Long Ballad and Heated Rivalry. All of these were superb.

Here's my tv review summary post with all shows for 2025: https://tinny.dreamwidth.org/767232.html

questions 6-14

6. Your favorite LJ community of the year?

One of my icon communities, but hard to pick a fave. retro_icontest was fun as usual, but saw less participation than I would have liked. iconcolors was a constant source of joy this year.

7. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?

WU LEI? WU LEI!

Also, Heated Rivalry exceeded everyone's expectations.

8. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?

I have nothing.

9. Your fandom boyfriend of the year?

WU LEI!


the most boyfriend-y picture I could find

10. Your fandom girlfriend of the year?

The French fan I met through her stories on ao3 and who spent all of season 5 discussing HPI with me. She made this a wonderful fandom experience. <3<3<3

11. Your biggest squee moment of the year?

WU LEI? Anything to do with Wu Lei, I think.

12. The most missed of your old fandoms?

Not currently missing anything.

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

Last year I said I'd be open for anything. And then Wu Lei happened. :D That was such a completely unpredictable surprise, that's the best reason to just be open for anything. I'll see what next year brings.

14. Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?

Idk? More Wu Lei things.

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Fannish End of Year

favorite characters/couples

Favorite main character of 2024:

Song Sanchuan and Liang You'an.

Li Changge and Ashile Sun.

Shane and Ilya.

Favorite villain of 2025:

I can't think of one.

Favorite M/F couples of 2025:

Song Sanchuan and Liang You'an.

Li Changge and Ashile Sun.

Favorite F/F couples of 2025:

None watched, so no favorites.

Favorite M/M couples of 2025:

Shane and Ilya.

Favorite Crossover couples of 2025:

Hm. Probably the ZB48 pairing of the fic I betaed this year. I keep betaing more of them. :D

Fandom that you never expected to get into:

HPI, probably. I read an article about High Potential, then watched an ep of that, realized it's a remake, and then the original HPI sucked me in instead.

WU LEI omg. I did not even like him in Nirvana in Fire, and then Nothing But You completely bowled me over.

Fandom that made an unexpected comeback:

CDrama in general. I was out of that for the first half of the year, and happy about it, but then it pulled me back under. I don't regret it.

Last fandom of 2025:

Heated Rivalry. Also Wu Lei, still Wu Lei.