Profile

This idea I stole from Mappapapa who included “profiles” in their shrines. Essentially, the profile is just a list of some basic information about their relationship with the piece. I really like the idea of a profile as it gives an “at a glance” version of your interest for anyone just wanting to dip their toes in and get an idea of how you’re interacting with a fandom. It also helps create some jumping off points for talking about things at more length once we’re writing the body of the shrine.

There’s a lot of different information you can include here – use as much or as little as you like, and if you think there’s more you’d like to include, do so. For some examples;

  • Year I Got Into It
  • Media Consumed
    • This includes the source material, spin-offs, if you read the source text, if you’ve checked out any adaptations, whether you played the DS shovelware, etc.
  • Favourite Characters
  • Favourite Scenes
  • OTP
  • Favourite OTP Scenes
  • Other Ships
  • What Kind of Fan Content You Make
  • What Kind of Fan Content You Consume
  • Spotlight Of Thing You Made
  • Spotlight Of Thing Someone Else Made
  • Don’t Talk To Me About…
    • I call these “landmines” like Japanese fandom uses for things like NOTPs - these can include headcanons you don’t jive with, a particular adaptation you hate, etc.

I like presenting these in a table because it makes it easy to read.

You can stylise this however you want; You can make it span the full page or just 30% or 30 pixels if you really want. You can change the colours of the text, the columns, rows, give it a background, etc. Do whatever it takes to make it fit in with you!