Guardian fandom friending meme!!!

[china_shop]

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:

1. 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)!


2. Lurking is also totally fine, of course! *waves to lurkers*


3. 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.


4. You can find the full (updated) comm rules on the profile page.


5. 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.

<strong>About You</strong> <strong>DW username:</strong> <strong>Languages:</strong> <strong>Offline location:</strong> <strong>Other online locations:</strong> (ao3, twitter, tumblr, pinterest, etc.) <strong>I like:</strong> (het, slash, femslash, gen, other, poly, all of the above) <strong><i>Guardian</i>-specific stuff</strong> <strong>Drama, novel or both?</strong> <strong>Fannish about canon, actors, related shows, RPF or some combination of these?</strong> <strong>How long have you been in the fandom?</strong> <strong>Where can we find your fanworks, if any:</strong> <strong>Other points of interest regarding your <i>Guardian</i> fannishness:</strong> <strong>Posting habits</strong> <strong>How long have you been on Dreamwidth? Where were you before that?</strong> <strong>What do you post about:</strong> <strong>Your other fandoms include:</strong> <strong>Post frequency:</strong> <strong>Access policy:</strong> <strong>Anything else we should know about you?</strong> <strong>Random Guardian</strong> insert <i>Guardian</i> pic/gif/novel quote/thought/link of your choice here!

Post a link to this friending meme

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(Many thanks to teaotter for prettifying the banner pic! <3)

Comments

[naye]

About You
DW username: naye
Languages: English, Swedish, French, Japanese kinda
Offline location: Sweden
Other online locations: naye@AO3, unnaye@Twitter, for-the-flail@Tumblr
I like: In this fandom I'm all about the OTP, but my past fannish history is almost entirely gen

Guardian-specific stuff
Drama, novel or both? Both! For fic, my go-to is the drama, but I really love the novel too. My lack of Chinese means I'm still only caught up to the Wattpad translation, but every day I get more tempted to check out the bits of that have been translated elsewhere past chapter 75. I especially love the reincarnation aspect of the novel, which I totally blame Minekura Kazuya's Saiyuuki for.
Fannish about canon, actors, related shows, RPF or some combination of these? I am completely and helplessly absorbed by feelings about both Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong, though I've been too monofannish to actually watch anything other than random episodes and vids for the actors' other shows. I am waiting for Detective L with bated breath, and hope that it's 1) good and 2) getting subbed.
How long have you been in the fandom? Since August! I can't pinpoint the date I started watching, but I wrote a not-a-rec post for Guardian on August 21st.
Where can we find your fanworks, if any: So far I have 11 Guardian fics on AO3, and lots of Guardian gifs on my Tumblr.
Other points of interest regarding your Guardian fannishness: I struggle with coherency when it comes to meta, so fail at commenting on meta posts. Instead all my takes on the characters and canon come out in fic? The most obvious example is With a Twist of the Kaleidoscope - a massive fix-it/Everybody Lives AU which is nearly two thirds posted now. The 125k draft is complete, but so unpolished it's taking longer to get into posting shape than it did me to write it! (It's also currently on hiatus until April due to fun travel stuff.)

Posting habits Dreamwidth is my main home on the internet, so I post quite a lot?
How long have you been on Dreamwidth? Where were you before that? I think I got my LiveJournal in 2004? Migrated over here when Dreamwidth was founded, crossposted for a while and then left LiveJournal entirely after the whole Russian takeover. Before that I had a GeoCities page and was on mailing lists...!
What do you post about: I post a lot about Guardian, but also about random life stuff and cats.
Your other fandoms include: I am painfully monofannish, so none right now. A nice roundup of my fannish history can be found in my introduction post.
Post frequency: I try for 4 posts/week - though some of those posts might end up being a contribution to guardiandaily rather than on my own Dreamwidth. Sometimes I even post more!
Access policy: I lock very little except for the odd post with too much information about my real life.
Anything else we should know about you? I am so overwhelmed by all the amazing Guardian content that has just snowballed in the past few weeks/months that I am still catching up with everything! Please give me a shout if I've missed anything you feel I would enjoy seeing or want me to respond to.

Random Guardian

This gif sparked the most amazing meta about the cultural significance of food and what this moment says about Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei and their relationship, and I love it so much and encourage everyone to go read it!

[asya_ana]

hug hug hug. I feel like you just GET me. Everything you wrote was ... sigh. I love them, too <3

[naye]

Ahhhh I know~ *hugs* ♥

[firestar]

I love how the meta/discussions are informing fic, as well. I feel like this exchange here has prompted more writers to include this kind of detail. Idk, maybe it was always there and this just made me notice it more.

[naye]

I'm definitely seeing themes come up in fanfic now that I have also seen discussed in meta? For me I was very carefully not reading a lot of fic/meta while I was writing my longfic, for that very reason. But now that there's been a boom of activity I think it's definitely coming up in what I write to some degree.

[no_detective]

i am so happy we met in this fandom!!!! ♥

[naye]

Yessss~! \o/ ♥

[trobadora]

I love the food meta!

[naye]

Tumblr sometimes does offer a surprising amount of spontaneous meta, which is always fun!

[unrelaxing]

The food post is LOVELY. I love being around other monofannish people because I don’t seem hyperfixated, but also love
Seeing where everyone was in the past.

[naye]

Everything people added to the food post, in comments and in tags just made me go "!!!" and I love it so much. ♥

HAAA yes monofannish is my name. But I agree - it's always fun to figure out what else you have in common with people.

[mekare]

Oooh thank you for linking to that meta! I haven’t seen it before but it is so important!

[naye]

It really IS important, and I love getting this kind of cultural context for things I really have no concept of from my own experience.

[abyss_valkyrie]

I just went and read about this. <3
I didn't seven see them sitting on the table,lol,and it's just so like Yunlan to be pushy and kinda silly to try and make Shen Wei feel at home!
I saw your fic and because it's a long fic,I'm probably gonna sit and read it when summer vacations roll around,that's the best time for good,fix-it fics but I might just decide to give it a go randomly! :D

[naye]

Isn't it fascinating? OMG Yunlan was raised by a cat...! But then there's so much more to it that I don't have the context to really pick up, so I am very grateful for people taking the time to share their experiences.

I am HOPING to have the longfic all posted by summer vacation, though I might still be working on the epilogue then. I'm excited for you to read it whenever you get around to it. ♥

[likealeafonthewind]

I loved that gif and the meta on food! Also, yay, another fan of both the drama and the novel.

I'm working my way through Guardian fic now and I just read Though Not Every Note Is Perfect yesterday and it was so cute and fluffy (I'm not as good about commenting on fics as I want to be).

I am totally with you on having your take on the canon and characters come out in fic form. When I first get into a fandom, I usually go to the fics before meta discussions because I feel like they, especially the canon-compliant ones, let me get a better sense of how fans are interpreting things...if that makes sense? And I can digest the different interpretations better in fic form sometimes than in a straight-up meta discussion. So I also use fic to work out a lot of my headcanons about the world and the characters, when I do write. (Writing fic also makes me think more deeply about the canon and brings up a lot of questions about different parts of canon that aren't fully explained in the show or in the novel - not that they have to be! I like that there are things left unexplained so that they're open to interpretation.)

Uh, sorry for the long comment. Anyway, hi, I'm Ally, nice to meet you! *adds*

[naye]

I'm so amazed by all the meta that very brief gifset gave rise to!

Someone in their intro post wrote about the novel that "more is more" and that really is where I am at with it. More content! And some insight into what the actors read (other than the script) to give the performance they did.

Thank you so much for the sweet words about my story - I really appreciate you taking the time to share that you thought it was cute and fluffy! ♥

And I can digest the different interpretations better in fic form sometimes than in a straight-up meta discussion.
Oh, I'm the same, absolutely! And it also feels that with fic you can try things out that you're not 100% convinced are absolutely right or the only true answer, but because it's fic there's always the what if...?. I feel a lot of meta discussion draw much harder lines? People there share what they feel actually happened or what things actually mean, whereas again, in fic it's just one possibility?

Sometimes I'm surprised by what comes out in fic! And sometimes it ends up being an interpretation or angle I feel strongly about, but sometimes it's just a fun thing that I put in a story...

I like that there are things left unexplained so that they're open to interpretation.
I certainly think this is one of the reasons Guardian is so much fun to write and read fic for!

No need to apologise for long comments! I love chatting... though there are a lot of comments right now, so I'm afraid I might be losing track a bit.

[rheasilvia]

Geocities! Mailing lists! Ah, those were the days. :-) I love how Guardian is bringing together fans from all ages of fandom!

I am so overwhelmed by all the amazing Guardian content

Me too! Truly an embarrassment of riches. So thank you for linking to that meta discussion about food, which is lovely to read. It is exactly the way I interpreted this scene, but the cultural context makes it so much more weighty and deliberate!

(Also, I am choosing to interpret the fact that both Zhao Yunlan and Da Qing sit on the table like cats to mean that Da Qing had a hand in Zhao Yunlan's upbringing...)

[demitas]

Guardian *and* cats? *subscribes*

[tinny]

dumdedum random friending meme tackle!

[naye]

Wheeeee hug!!

[green]

Ahhhhhh

I have similar feelings about meta. I like to read it, but my thoughts never come out as coherently. I tend to explore that part of myself in fic, too. Looking forward to getting to know you better.

[naye]

I came across this in my unanswered messages - apologies for not responding when you posted! (I was in Japan.) But it's been very nice getting to know you, and I'm glad you added me on your reading list! <3

[clevermanka]

I'm so late to these conversations it's a little embarrassing, but I added you!

[crimsonswirls]

Wait, du är svenska!? Wooow, hi, my western neighbor!

I'm starting your fic soon so wait for a pile of comments coming, hohohoo.