Fandom Year in Review: 2020

Your main fandom of the year? I don't think I can really say I had one, given that I wrote so little fic or meta.

Your favorite movie seen this year? Palm Springs -- I'm a real sucker for a time loop story, and this was a particularly good one.

Your favorite book read this year? Network Effect by Martha Wells

Your favorite album or song to listen to this year? No good answer for this one, either. Nothing comes to mind, and since I don't use any of the music streaming services, it's harder to check stats. I do want to mention Sting's musical The Last Ship, which was my final in-person media experience before the start of the lockdowns, in the last week of February. I enjoyed that performance very much, and I bought the studio album based on it, which I listened to a fair amount.

Your favorite TV show of the year? Given that TV watching was one of my primary both social and time-consuming activities of 2020, I feel like I ought to know this off the top of my head, but I really don't have a good, quick answer. I watched many shows, and many of them I enjoyed (though there were some duds, too), but maybe nothing I really truly loved.

Your favorite video game of the year? I don't know that either of these is objectively the "best", but I sure had fun playing Untitled Goose Game and Among Us.

Your best new fandom discovery of the year? I don't know that this is a fandom discovery, exactly, but I went down a bunch of YouTube video essay rabbit holes and found a number of favorites, notably Be Kind Rewind and Yhara Zayd

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year? The new romance in Persona 5: Royal. I enjoyed revisiting the world and story of this game very much, but I'd hoped that the romance with the new character would add more to it, and instead it just fell flat for me.

Your fandom boyfriend/girlfriend of the year? So disconnected from fandom that I can't really answer this.

Your biggest squee moment of the year? The finale of The Good Place, though it was a bittersweet squee.

The most missed of your old fandoms? Dragon Age for sure. I have some plans to revisit the source material coming up very soon -- more on that in my writing goals post.

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to? This may be a pipe dream, because who knows when we'll get new content for it, but the Arrowverse still calls to me even though I've not spent much time there creatively.

Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year? The final book in the Green Bone Trilogy. The new Murderbot novel. More Dragon Age trailers? The new Leverage series!!