Oh my lord, everyone has it covered, so: HI HI HI!! :D Personally, I've been eaten alive by Teen Wolf along with a lot of other people - but, then, I had a bulletproof werewolf kink before they went and made a whole fandom out of it, so it's more surprising I resisted it for any length of time at all. Avengers seems to be the second most read for me lately, but it's Hannibal recaps I eagerly await each week (well, was, as it just ended season 1 on a doozy of a note).
Teen Wolf has writing of a very erratic quality and generally terrible CGI, but the characters are fascinating and the actors are good to downright amazing. Plus, werewolves! The fannish output is prolific, to put it mildly, and quality is all over the board. Hannibal has stellar writing and stellar acting and a fanbase that's split between gleeful pitch black humor ("It's a cooking show!") and strangely oblivious ("Hannibal is redeemable! Will can save him!"). The first half of the fandom spends a lot of time laughing at a) the show, and b) the second half of the fandom. Or just eating popcorn and watching their increasingly desperate justifications for Hannibal's behavior. The fic is a minor note, overall - there may be an increase now that it's between seasons, but I suspect the writing is so very good, we're just not feeling the drive to fill in a lot of plot holes. The art/image/gifset production, however, has been quite enjoyable.
Tumblr has very shiny things, but its user interface is horrific and the user base is... ah... an entity unto itself. I do love the flood of visual fanart that it has produced, but I feel a good decade and a half (if not two) out of step with the general community. Your mileage may vary, but it tends to be, if not explosive in atmosphere, then at least a bit of a roller coaster. It's very lurkable, though, and an account can be useful.
Big note: if you do end up following links to Tumblr, you'll at least need a couple tricks. The main one is to know that you can add "/mobile" to the end of a URL for the mobile version of a page, and the other is the source of a couple bookmarklets, primarily "Zap Style Sheets", which works where the /mobile trick doesn't. (I also use Zap Images to eliminate moving gifs in the sidebar that you can't scroll past, just because I find them distracting.) Some of the personal page font size/color choices are, well, I'm honestly not sure how they're legible to anyone, but you do have experience with law textbooks, so you may have an advantage in that area. :P
(How did this get so long already?)
Pinboard is bookmarking central at the moment, if you weren't around for that (it's all fuzzy now...), but I think that covers it. HI HI HI!!
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Teen Wolf has writing of a very erratic quality and generally terrible CGI, but the characters are fascinating and the actors are good to downright amazing. Plus, werewolves! The fannish output is prolific, to put it mildly, and quality is all over the board. Hannibal has stellar writing and stellar acting and a fanbase that's split between gleeful pitch black humor ("It's a cooking show!") and strangely oblivious ("Hannibal is redeemable! Will can save him!"). The first half of the fandom spends a lot of time laughing at a) the show, and b) the second half of the fandom. Or just eating popcorn and watching their increasingly desperate justifications for Hannibal's behavior. The fic is a minor note, overall - there may be an increase now that it's between seasons, but I suspect the writing is so very good, we're just not feeling the drive to fill in a lot of plot holes. The art/image/gifset production, however, has been quite enjoyable.
Tumblr has very shiny things, but its user interface is horrific and the user base is... ah... an entity unto itself. I do love the flood of visual fanart that it has produced, but I feel a good decade and a half (if not two) out of step with the general community. Your mileage may vary, but it tends to be, if not explosive in atmosphere, then at least a bit of a roller coaster. It's very lurkable, though, and an account can be useful.
Big note: if you do end up following links to Tumblr, you'll at least need a couple tricks. The main one is to know that you can add "/mobile" to the end of a URL for the mobile version of a page, and the other is the source of a couple bookmarklets, primarily "Zap Style Sheets", which works where the /mobile trick doesn't. (I also use Zap Images to eliminate moving gifs in the sidebar that you can't scroll past, just because I find them distracting.) Some of the personal page font size/color choices are, well, I'm honestly not sure how they're legible to anyone, but you do have experience with law textbooks, so you may have an advantage in that area. :P
(How did this get so long already?)
Pinboard is bookmarking central at the moment, if you weren't around for that (it's all fuzzy now...), but I think that covers it. HI HI HI!!