About You DW username:asya_ana Languages: English. My strongest secondary reading language is Spanish, and my strongest secondary speaking language is Chinese (Mandarin). I like: slash
Guardian-specific stuff Drama, novel or both?: Drama, but I anticipate reading the novel at some point Fannish about canon, actors, related shows, RPF or some combination of these? Canon, and I’m open to AUs as well. I love Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong kind of a lot. I haven’t watched their other projects, but I enjoy looking at gifs and clips and watching their dorky interviews. How long have you been in the fandom? Maybe late-January of this year? It happened fast! It was swift and brutal and totally took me by storm after not feeling very fannish for almost 3 years. I knew I’d always be “in fandom,” but I really thought I’d never have “a fandom” again. This show totally made me eat my words. Other points of interest regarding your Guardian fannishness: I love Zhao Yunlan’s keen intelligence and sass, as well as his marshmallow heart, and I adore Shen Wei’s 德 (“de”) or high virtuousness. I think the show was beautiful in its commitment of where it allowed their characters and their relationship to go, and it continually exceeded my expectations of where that would be, several times over. I love the SID and the found familyness of them. There is a lot of beauty and hopefulness in this show, and I find it both sweetly affirming and also profound at the same time.
Posting habits How long have you been on Dreamwidth? Where were you before that?: I’ve had a DW since 2012 and was on LJ before that, in 2011, and Tumblr a little bit earlier. I’ve been most consistently active on Twitter since 2011. I mainly treated DW as a mirror until the most recent LJ scandal, which made me abandon that platform. Even after that point, I posted infrequently to DW until Guardian happened. What do you post about: I post almost exclusively about fandom and almost never about RL. I occasionally post stuff that’s in neither of those bins, such as other TV or books I’m reading, and the occasional recipe. Your other fandoms include: I’m pretty monofannish, and I usually remain active in one fandom for 1-4 years, without entirely leaving the others behind. I think I can accommodate this level of intensity of feelings for only one thing at a time. My fandom history has been Merlin, Teen Wolf, Inception, Eagle, and XMFC, consecutively in that order. I consider Merlin my forever home, and I find there’s a lot of overlap between Merlin and Guardian, which may be why I got sucked in so fast. During the years between Guardian and my last fandom, I mostly read original m/m romance. KJ Charles, Harper Fox, Roan Parrish are some faves, and my heart was a little broken when the person-who-shall-not-be-named catfishing revelation broke. Post frequency: Inconsistent. Basically, whenever I have something to say and the time to say it. Access policy: I tend to post under lock, but I’ll friend almost anyone of age.
Anything else we should know about you? Fandom old! I love fanworks a lot, whether they be fic, gifs, fanvids, art, etc. I think of fandom as a gift community that we are all creating and sharing together, and I’d love to help build that community with you all <3
Random Guardian insert Guardian pic/gif/novel quote/thought/link of your choice here! So many moments it’s difficult to conjure them all, but I sometimes think about when Zhao Yunlan tells Shen Wei with a trace of admiration mixed with sadness, that wherever he goes he’s always the shining one. Something about that breaks my heart every time.
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Languages: English. My strongest secondary reading language is Spanish, and my strongest secondary speaking language is Chinese (Mandarin).
I like: slash
Guardian-specific stuff
Drama, novel or both?: Drama, but I anticipate reading the novel at some point
Fannish about canon, actors, related shows, RPF or some combination of these? Canon, and I’m open to AUs as well. I love Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong kind of a lot. I haven’t watched their other projects, but I enjoy looking at gifs and clips and watching their dorky interviews.
How long have you been in the fandom? Maybe late-January of this year? It happened fast! It was swift and brutal and totally took me by storm after not feeling very fannish for almost 3 years. I knew I’d always be “in fandom,” but I really thought I’d never have “a fandom” again. This show totally made me eat my words.
Other points of interest regarding your Guardian fannishness: I love Zhao Yunlan’s keen intelligence and sass, as well as his marshmallow heart, and I adore Shen Wei’s 德 (“de”) or high virtuousness. I think the show was beautiful in its commitment of where it allowed their characters and their relationship to go, and it continually exceeded my expectations of where that would be, several times over. I love the SID and the found familyness of them. There is a lot of beauty and hopefulness in this show, and I find it both sweetly affirming and also profound at the same time.
Posting habits
How long have you been on Dreamwidth? Where were you before that?: I’ve had a DW since 2012 and was on LJ before that, in 2011, and Tumblr a little bit earlier. I’ve been most consistently active on Twitter since 2011. I mainly treated DW as a mirror until the most recent LJ scandal, which made me abandon that platform. Even after that point, I posted infrequently to DW until Guardian happened.
What do you post about: I post almost exclusively about fandom and almost never about RL. I occasionally post stuff that’s in neither of those bins, such as other TV or books I’m reading, and the occasional recipe.
Your other fandoms include: I’m pretty monofannish, and I usually remain active in one fandom for 1-4 years, without entirely leaving the others behind. I think I can accommodate this level of intensity of feelings for only one thing at a time. My fandom history has been Merlin, Teen Wolf, Inception, Eagle, and XMFC, consecutively in that order. I consider Merlin my forever home, and I find there’s a lot of overlap between Merlin and Guardian, which may be why I got sucked in so fast. During the years between Guardian and my last fandom, I mostly read original m/m romance. KJ Charles, Harper Fox, Roan Parrish are some faves, and my heart was a little broken when the person-who-shall-not-be-named catfishing revelation broke.
Post frequency: Inconsistent. Basically, whenever I have something to say and the time to say it.
Access policy: I tend to post under lock, but I’ll friend almost anyone of age.
Anything else we should know about you? Fandom old! I love fanworks a lot, whether they be fic, gifs, fanvids, art, etc. I think of fandom as a gift community that we are all creating and sharing together, and I’d love to help build that community with you all <3
Random Guardian
insert Guardian pic/gif/novel quote/thought/link of your choice here!
So many moments it’s difficult to conjure them all, but I sometimes think about when Zhao Yunlan tells Shen Wei with a trace of admiration mixed with sadness, that wherever he goes he’s always the shining one. Something about that breaks my heart every time.