Common Threads on Meme
Though Fail_FandomAnon is about fails and fandom, there are certain threads that pop up all the time, usually at least once a post. Which threads are common has, naturally, changed with the passage of time.
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Unpopular Opinions
Fandom/Non-fandom/Random Venting
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Things Making You Sad/Happy/Annoyed Right Now
“Ask Me Anything”
Meme Decides
Iddy/id/idfic
KINKTOMATO (also TROPEPOTATO and SQUICKCILANTRO)
Meme's Top Threads Last Post
General Topics
Tumblr and Twitter wank threads (sometimes merged with Reddit Rubbernecking to form a consolidated Social Media thread)
Cooking/food threads
Makeup/beauty threads
Sports threads
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Politics and Current Events threads (including UK Politics, which is forbidden outside that thread; US Politics, which is sometimes outright banished to its own post; and Moon Politics, which is a parody of all of the above)
Single-Fandom Threads
Though which single-fandom threads will appear in a given post is highly variable, several always will, and some achieve common thread status for months or years.
Multifandom Threads
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Canon Recs
Fic Recs
Small Fandoms
WTF Tags
Medium Discussion Threads
Writing
“3-5 Lines (of something you've written)”
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Bangs Fests Exchanges (BFE), usually the longest thread in any given post
Drawerfic Amnesty (somewhat less common than the rest, but still appears regularly)
Fic Research/Unfuck My Plot threads
Memefic/Origfic discussion
Publishing
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WIPs
End of Post Threads
These threads tend to pop up when the post approaches the comment limit (6500 as of this writing, formerly less).
EFW threads, although some nonnies detest them
End of Post Random
Game threads (including Botticelli, Minister's Cat, etc)
Shipping Wall (and its evil twin, NOTP wall)
Threads You Want Next Post
MODS (alerting the mods that the comment limit has been reached–often several times)
Some once-common threads have faded into obscurity… for now.