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

<a href="https://sid-guardian.dreamwidth.org/49079.html"> <img border="0" alt="Guardian Friending Meme" src="https://china-shop.dreamwidth.org/file/132456.jpg"></a> <a href="https://sid-guardian.dreamwidth.org/49079.html">镇魂 | Guardian Friending Meme</a>

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

Comments

[unrelaxing]

I will definitely be reading through the 65 comments that randomly appeared since I saw this like. Ten seconds ago it feels, freshly posted. But as of right now I'm doing some sneak DW-ing at work and this feels like a great thing to do...

About You
DW username: riceworkshop!
Languages: English, Tagalog.
Offline location: Australia.
Other online locations: (ao3, twitter, tumblr, pinterest, etc.) I'm riceworkshop on AO3, RlCEWORKSHOP on twitter and heipaoshi on tumblr. I'm on discord also, as Arby/riceworkshop.
I like: All of the above? As long as consensual, no one's related and everyone's of age.

Guardian-specific stuff
Drama, novel or both? Consume both, but lean towards drama.
Fannish about canon, actors, related shows, RPF or some combination of these? Canon and actors! I do like me some RPF, but all subtle-like. Ish.
How long have you been in the fandom? 3 months ish? It hit me in December, and I went on holiday and celebrated Christmas utterly enamoured with the main characters.
Where can we find your fanworks, if any: Any fic will be posted on AO3 -- though I always post a less edited version on DW first, and snippets of it on tumblr. DW and AO3 mainly, though!
Other points of interest regarding your Guardian fannishness: I lean very heavily towards Yunlan and Bai Yu, to the point where I run baiyusource on tumblr, which is just... a blog entirely dedicated to Bai Yu. I don't think you'll get through an interaction with me where I don't wax poetic about how bright his smile is and how happy and nice he is as a person and oh! he's such an underrated actor! etc etc etc etc. I'm aware that's probably annoying if you're not on the same level of investment, so. That's a point I should make.

Posting habits
How long have you been on Dreamwidth? Where were you before that? I've had this DW since 2010 but never posted until this year. I took a break from fandom in 2017 and sort of stayed quietly on twitter without being traditionally fannish all through-out 2018, but came back. Prior to that, I was on tumblr under riceandshine and various other names.
What do you post about: On DW I post about Life, Guardian and whatever strikes my fancy, and on tumblr I stick to asian-centric media! Twitter is my free for all. It's locked just because its NSFW, not because I don't like people!
Your other fandoms include: many! I've been in so many it'd be a bit embarrassing to name them all, but I have a constant fondness for SGA fandom, DC comics, kdramas and kpop, anime.
Post frequency: Daily on tumblr (specifically baiyusource because hashtag dedicated), weekly/bi-weekly on DW, embarrassingly frequent on twitter.
Access policy: Fandom posts are all public, life posts are locked. Maybe drop a hi on intro if adding because I have tumblr spam bot fears?

Anything else we should know about you? I really love Bai Yu and Yunlan please Know This.

Random Guardian

If anyone wants to talk to me about Yunlan being really good with people and possibly being either a kindergarten/primary school teacher or a social worker... I'm your man.

[firestar]

If anyone wants to talk to me about Yunlan being really good with people and possibly being either a kindergarten/primary school teacher or a social worker... I'm your man.

I am interested in these thoughts and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. >.>

[unrelaxing]

PLEASE DO. And I’d love to subscribe to yours.

Also, DQ icon ftw!

[asya_ana]

HUG

Also:

[unrelaxing]

hey, I thought we were friends? Why would you attack me like this

[no_detective]

your love for all things bai yu brings me SO MUCH HAPPINESS, friend ♥♥♥

[unrelaxing]

I feel like it's a personality trait now. And needs a warning. (Thank you love youuu)

[jo_lasalle]

If anyone wants to talk to me about Yunlan being really good with people

Me! Me! Add me to the newsletter too! >_>

[unrelaxing]

I'm so glad there is interest in this. I am 10000% drafting up a post, though it may be coming after I get back on the 25th >.> Darn it, why is real life getting in the way of my fandom activities?

[naye]

I really love Bai Yu and Yunlan please Know This.
♥♥♥

[unrelaxing]

<3

I'm always so glad at how indulgent everyone has been about my very very very overflowing love for them.

[powwie]

I don't think you'll get through an interaction with me where I don't wax poetic about how bright his smile is and how happy and nice he is as a person and oh! he's such an underrated actor! etc etc etc etc.

I better start following you asap, then, and get all of that. I am really liking Bai Yu more and more every day. :)

[unrelaxing]

Yay! I’m always looking for more Bai Yu fans in this world - He’s so so lovely!

[trobadora]

I will definitely be reading through the 65 comments that randomly appeared since I saw this like. Ten seconds ago it feels, freshly posted.

Right? And now we're at 250 comments. *blinks*

Damn, I love this fandom. :D

[unrelaxing]

At 600+, I feel OVERWHELMED. How is Guardian fandom The Best?

[likealeafonthewind]

Oh, a fellow kpop fan! I've been completely obsessed with BTS since November and I have no regrets.

*adds*

[unrelaxing]

!!!! they don't seem to come up in my posts but I love love love them and have a dangerously large collection of merch. And now, the most important question: who is your bias? >.>

[rheasilvia]

Yunlan is EXCELLENT with people - it's ridiculous, really, and much of it is because he genuinely cares and truly wants to help. He could easily be a teacher or social worker, and would also do excellently well at any other job that involved helping and guiding people. Plus he's also a natural leader, and a brilliant strategist.

he's such an underrated actor

I agree with you! He has a very different acting style than Zhu Yilong, but he is also extremely good. It just slays me that this drama got so lucky with both of its leads.

[unrelaxing]

!!! yes! I'm so happy when people lean into Yunlan's empathy and Goodness in fic, too. I have a lot of feelings about how Deeply he wants to help Dixingren, despite the actions of his predecessors, his dad. The way he nearly cried when Professor Zhang was about to die, how much he petitions for leniency for Dixingren who were trapped in shitty circumstances... I love this beautiful mixture of sharp brain and soft heart, and I will randomly emote about it without prompting, most likely.

And yes! Bai Yu is a great actor and we were so lucky to get such amazing actors who Both decided that they could keep the heart of Yunlan and Shen Wei's relationship even with everything else...

[mecurtin]

I've added you! I really love your post about Novel v. Drama and have been reading through all the comments! I've only read what's been translated various places, but I 100% agree with you about the drama being better!

In addition to the points you made in your post, I was stunned when I realized that the closed-time-loop-of-love is only in the drama, and that's one of my FAVORITE things! Much better than reincarnation IMHO.

You mentioned in the comments to that post that you feel the novel falls into a lot of BL tropes. Can you specify? One of the things I love about the drama is that SW has many characteristics that fandom will use to say "this character must be the bottom" -- including being The Shorter Man -- but he's [novel-]canonically the top, at least in the present day. I loooove subverting cliched top/bottom expectations!

[unrelaxing]

One of the things I love about the drama is that SW has many characteristics that fandom will use to say "this character must be the bottom" -- including being The Shorter Man -- but he's [novel-]canonically the top, at least in the present day. I loooove subverting cliched top/bottom expectations!

Firstly - I 100000% agree with this on my end. Zhu Yilong is very much an Asian BeautyTM and on the flipside westerners see those attributes (pale, slender, shorter, quieter) as Bottom Things, and this was very much subverted in the novel. I love how well the author played the audience - to the point that during chapter 75, a very staunch bottom!Shen Wei stan commented that they 'couldn't deny it' anymore. I giggled a bit.

I honestly don't remember the context which I said that, but mostly it's the intensity of their romance in novel - that borders on obsessive and creepy. It sometimes feels as if these kinds of attributes are celebrated as opposed to being shown as a bad thing. Some people have told me that it's less so towards the end, but I'm holding off judgement until everything's been translated....

Meanwhile in the show, Shen Wei's actions re: Yunlan's blindness causes a temporary rift between them, as well as his talking to Yunlan's father. I think for me, this makes the drama have an edge over the novel. Yunlan is less patient with Shen Wei regarding his autonomy and it leads/could have led to healthier relationships.

[tinny]

right now I'm doing some sneak DW-ing at work and this feels like a great thing to do...

same here, same here. but now there are 600 comments. O_O

[unrelaxing]

I may have to eat my words bc I cannot possibly go through 600 comments. CANNOT.

[green]

I added you on tumblr (I'm yogi-bogey-box) and I'm adding you here, too. :D

[unrelaxing]

Added back! Excited to see you around and get to know you better :)