Wow! This is super-helpful, thank you! I'll send a more detailed reply tomorrow or next week (I have a work busy weekend on my Phd thesis planned), but I wanted to quickly answer this bit:

What's your current main fandom? I feel like I should know, but I don't think I've seen you post about it

You cannot know because a proper fannish update is still in the works :) It will be posted at the end of the month, time willing. To asnwer: it's Quentin Tarantino films, particularly the alternative histories ( Django Unchained , Inglourious Basterds ), where I have grown particularly fond of Christoph Waltz's characters *points at icon* Since I am a history geek, I'm thinking up background stories and AUs like crazy, but the fandom...is more classical celebrity fandom than transformative, so I hope to have better luck engaging here (even with people who are not fans of these canons) than over there (there's people who find my meta interesting but they never engage and I find that boring? Same with the constant repetition of picture posts of actors I like with just "They are So handsome/hot!!!". Even when I agree...it gets boring after a while?)

Sorry for the rant... I am still suffering from culture shock, I guess *wry smile*