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sid_guardian2019-03-10 09:24 am
china_shop) wrote in sid_guardian2019-03-10 09:24 am
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Guardian fandom friending meme!!!
Our lovely fandom continues to grow beyond our wildest expectations! Comm membership has just hit 100 98 (and we got impatient)! *shameless champagne and ballooooons*
A few small notes and reminders:
And now, without further ado...
Since some of us are new to Dreamwidth, and some of us are new to Guardian, it seems like a good time for a Dreamwidth friending meme. Come and meet new people! (Re)Populate your DW circle!
To participate, just copy the text below, paste it into a new comment and tell us about yourself. (All information is optional.) Then read through other people's comments and say hi / follow them as desired.
(Many thanks toteaotter for prettifying the banner pic! <3)
A few small notes and reminders:
- The Welcome/Intro post and the Fannish Resources post are still alive and kicking. Feel free to drop in at any time and say hi, or give us all your resource links (even the ones that might seem really obvious)!
- Lurking is also totally fine, of course! *waves to lurkers*
- Please tag your posts to the comm so other users can easily find what they’re looking for. In particular, it would be great if you could use the canon: drama and/or canon: novel tags, since it’s not always obvious to us mods which should apply, including for fanart or vids that use drama visuals but draw on novel elements. This is our current list of tags, and we’ll add more type tags as the need arises.
- You can find the full (updated) comm rules on the profile page.
- Feel free to promote sid_guardian on your journal or elsewhere. (Here's a graphic and text.)
And now, without further ado...
Since some of us are new to Dreamwidth, and some of us are new to Guardian, it seems like a good time for a Dreamwidth friending meme. Come and meet new people! (Re)Populate your DW circle!
To participate, just copy the text below, paste it into a new comment and tell us about yourself. (All information is optional.) Then read through other people's comments and say hi / follow them as desired.
Post a link to this friending meme
(Many thanks to
teaotter for prettifying the banner pic! <3)
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About You
DW username:
Languages: My native language is German, though pretty much all my posts are in English. I spent the last few years learning Japanese with moderate success, so obviously now I got into a fandom where that is of absolutely no use to me whatsoever.
Offline location: Germany, with a fair bit of travel to Japan (for fun and concerts) and the US (for in-laws).
Other online locations: I'm
I like: slash, het, and gen, in that order, going by past experience. (A femslash pairing just hasn't happened to me yet.)
Guardian-specific stuff
Drama, novel or both? Drama exclusively at the moment. I plan on eventually finishing reading the novel, but the drama is where my heart is.
Fannish about canon, actors, related shows, RPF or some combination of these? Drama canon with a side order of squeeing about the actors looking adorable in other things. I'm (at this point) not into RPF with regard to Guardian - not because I have an issue with it (*eyes about 700.000 words of Jpop RPF she has written*) but because I'm just all about the drama characters! (I am happy to friend FPF-and-RPF fans!! I just won't at this point have super much to contribute on the RPF side!)
How long have you been in the fandom? I was introduced last August, then watched the bulk of it in October/November, and finally ventured into the fandom properly this January after Christmas vacation.
Where can we find your fanworks, if any: I haven't finished any Guardian stories and the projected ETA for my WIP is sadly and tragically far away, but then, probably on AO3.
Other points of interest regarding your Guardian fannishness: I've been in fandom for a long time, but after ten years of being mono-fannish somewhere else that was its own little cosmos, I still get pretty nervous and feel very n00bish in Guardian! In terms of the show, Shen Wei is totally the character I expected to be my guy, and I did spend about the first half of the show sighing "Oh, Shen Wei!" a lot, but then somewhat to my surprise Zhao Yunlan, who is not at all my usual phenotype, became my surprise!precious. It still surprises me sometimes. *g*
Posting habits
How long have you been on Dreamwidth? Where were you before that? I think I joined pretty early after it was launched?? I had a two year gap of not posting anything before Guardian happened because my pre-Guardian fandom has zero presence on Dreamwidth, and most people I followed despite not being in the same fandom kinda stopped posting. I would be delighted if the general Dreamwidth revival carried, though, as this is much more my medium than the more instant-based fannish venues!
What do you post about: Ooof. At the moment, mostly Guardian? Maybe every once in a while a personal update or mentions of travel? My offline life is touched by politics in a lot of ways, which sometimes means I have strong political views, but also often means that the last thing I want to do in fandom is talk politics, so, that one can go either way? I'm really not sure how my posting habits will develop after this long break. I'd say how it looks now post-2016 might be pretty indicative? IDK?
Your other fandoms include: Akame/KAT-TUN fandom.
Post frequency: See above, I'm not sure. Though even when very active, probably leaning more towards the once or twice a week, not daily side.
Access policy: I don't have a super finely-tuned policy. I access-lock posts when I don't want them to be visible to random surfers-by but don't consider them intensively private. I do have one filter for posts that might touch more on personal issues or more identifying info, where it mostly depends on how well I already know somebody, but since the Guardian-based Dreamwidth revival, I haven't felt the need to use it.
Anything else we should know about you?
I've been active in online fandom since 1999. I wrote in Highlander (slash) and Battlestar Galactica (het) before spending the last ten years in Akame/KAT-TUN/Jpop fandom. Some of the best and closest relationships in my life have happened through betaing, commenting, arguing over who was wrong to leave a band and Oda Nobunaga, and fannish meet-ups at home and abroad, so my love for fandom and fannish interaction runs deep.
I, um, tend not to do brevity. I can't help it, there is always a need for sub-section 2.3 explaining the conditions under which there is an exception to what I laid out under 1.4. It's just how I roll. (I'm sorry! This comment is your warning!)
I've been very excited about the people I've already met through this new fandom, and I'd love to get to know more people and have even more cool discussions!
Random Guardian
"My own father dislikes me!"
Still my favourite. (And I wish I could do gifs without sinking half a night into it, so this mission statement will have to do. *g*)
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Oh yes, me too. And since Zhao Yunlan reminded me alot of Sheppard from Stargate Atlantis I took an immediate liking to his tendency to be sassy and sprawl everywhere.
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