sid_guardian | Guardian fandom friending meme!!!

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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:

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...

The SID team smiling at each other, with a banner reading "Guardian Friending Meme".

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.

About You
DW username: 
Languages: 
Offline location: 
Other online locations: (ao3, twitter, tumblr, pinterest, etc.)
I like: (het, slash, femslash, gen, other, poly, all of the above)

Guardian-specific stuff
Drama, novel or both? 
Fannish about canon, actors, related shows, RPF or some combination of these? 
How long have you been in the fandom? 
Where can we find your fanworks, if any: 
Other points of interest regarding your Guardian fannishness:

Posting habits
How long have you been on Dreamwidth? Where were you before that? 
What do you post about: 
Your other fandoms include: 
Post frequency: 
Access policy:

Anything else we should know about you?

Random Guardian
insert Guardian pic/gif/novel quote/thought/link of your choice here!

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:

rheasilvia
Languages: English, German
Offline location: Germany
Other online locations: Sylvia on AO3
I like: Mostly slash, some relationship- or character-focussed gen, het in certain fandoms. I am an OTP-er and love both plot and romance in my stories, and am happiest if there is a generous helping of both, but I also happily read crack, PWPs and many other things. ;-)

Guardian-specific stuff

Drama, novel or both? Drama! The characters and their relationship work better for me there, and in my view, the drama is entirely capable of standing on its own. I don’t think the canons can, should or need to be compared or reconciled in any way.
Fannish about canon, actors, related shows, RPF or some combination of these? Just drama canon (and related meta, and fanfic, and…)
How long have you been in the fandom? A bit over half a year now. Time flies…
Where can we find your fanworks, if any: My fanfic is available on AO3
Other points of interest regarding your Guardian fannishness: I honestly thought my fannish flames had cooled before I found Guardian. It is so wonderful! The characters, the relationship – it just. Yes.
Right now, I am trying hard not to buy a replica of Shen Wei’s necklace, but it is hard, you guys.

Posting habits

How long have you been on Dreamwidth? Where were you before that? I've been here since DW was founded, because I am a fannish dinosaur. Before DW, I was on LiveJournal, and before *that* I was on email mailing lists, had a Geocities page for fanfic and listed MB size with every story link. (I was even on an email fanfic archive that sent out fanfic once a week, chopped up into email-sized portions. Long fanfics took weeks to be sent out. Sometimes we also chiselled fanfic into stone tablets.)
What do you post about: Mostly fannish things - meta, some fanfic (though not as much as I would like), some general squee. At the moment, I am almost exclusively Guardian-oriented. I do sometimes post about non-fannish things, though, partly in an attempt not to seem entirely obsessive. ;-)
Your other fandoms include: Oh wow, so many! I started my online fannishness in X-Files (Mulder/Krycek), expanded to Highlander, Once a Thief, Due South, Eroica, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Tokyo Babylon / X 1999, Saiyuki, Farscape, Supernatural, Smallville, X-Men, Winter Soldier… do you really want me to go on? ;-)
Post frequency: Sporadic, because I don’t always have as much time as I would like, but I am trying hard to get back into the habit of posting regularly. I love that DW is so lively again these days!
Access policy: I hardly ever friendslock anything, and everyone is welcome to friend me at will (I appreciate a note, but it’s not required).
Anything else we should know about you? I am friendly and would love to squee and talk about Guardian with you. Also, please note that it might be a little while before I get back to you on this meme, because I am already *way* past my bed-time. But I would love to hear from you!

Random Guardian

They are lovely, and are both wearing vests.

Just because of the intimacy of the moment... this is so not a bromance. :-)

Edited 2019-03-10 02:59 (UTC)

Love every time ZYL is hanging out with SW in bare feet. Just feels so comfortable and intimate.

It does! And Shen Wei's tie is off, and the top button of his shirt undone - which I see as the exact equivalent of a bare-footed sprawl. :-) I just love how obviously comfortable they are with having each other in their personal and physical space. :-)

I love ZYL's bare feet in that screenshot. :) And I agree, it's so nice to have DW more active. Tumblr was so not for me in terms of interacting with other fans, and I really missed it.

Sometimes we also chiselled fanfic into stone tablets. lololol. :)

*adds you*

I am exactly the same! I could never get the hang of Tumblr - I don't know how people managed to communicate effectively there, because I never managed. So I am extremely happy that fandom is returning to a platform I can actually wrangle! It probably comes of being the kind of fannish dinosaur that remembers mailing lists. :-)

*adds you back*

I honestly thought my fannish flames had cooled before I found Guardian. It is so wonderful! The characters, the relationship – it just. Yes. - AHHHHH, SAME. my first online fandoms happened via yahoo groups, and it was a very similar trajectory leading to this moment. as in, i figured i'd always be fannish, in a fandom-adjacent kind of way; but i never expected to get this obsessed with a new fandom again! it feels like a revival. ♥

and that necklace is... terribly tempting omg. (i've definitely spent $$ on worse merch in my life. most recent was a purchase of two wine bottles by the smallville actors who played clark and lex. their pictures are on the labels; it's the cheesiest thing in the WORLD.)

i never expected to get this obsessed with a new fandom again

Me neither!!! It makes me feel young again to be so excited about a fandom. And I am even writing fanfic again, which I also thought I would never do again! It is the best kind of revival. :-)

Your wine bottles made me giggle, because I do understand - fannishness makes us do cheesy things sometimes, but it's out of the pure fannish love in our hearts, so it's okay. :-)

I am usually pretty resistant to merchandise, and only weakened once before when it came to Dean's necklace from "Supernatural". Maybe necklaces are my particular weak spot...

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no_detective - 2019-03-12 02:54 (UTC) - Expand

Ahhhh that is such a lovely behind the scenes shot! I don't think I'd seen it before? ♥

Sometimes we also chiselled fanfic into stone tablets.
...you know, that really does sum up the feeling of sitting with a dial-up modem hoping that the rest of the words you were hoping to read would load.

Hm, I think I got it from a Facebook group... not that the screenshots from the ep itself are any less lovely! I just like the detail that Zhao Yunlan is wearing his vest here, which was Bai Yu's idea so they could do the couple-y look. :-) As you do when you're involved in a bromance. *cough*

sitting with a dial-up modem hoping that the rest of the words you were hoping to read would load.

I am glad I am not the only one who still remembers!! There was one particular story that was posted in large installments, and my connection was slooow, so I read faster than the story loaded and it was *torture*.

as soon as you said listing MB sizes on fic, and sending out via email I wondered if you were around in the XF days! I was Mulder/Scully shipper back then! Ah the days before FFnet and A03!

Oooh, another XF veteran! Yes, I came in relatively late for XF, but I did catch the last bit of the golden days of that fandom. :-) It was a glorious time... despite the trials of dial-up modems and the ritual hunt for fanfic through scattered webrings and rec pages.

I love that Guardian is drawing so many old fans back in!

I usually don't care much for fannish merchandise. I like to look at it and admire the pretty sometimes, but I never felt the need to buy anything. But that necklace is so, so tempting.... :)

I knooow! I am usually very resistant to fannish merchandise myself, but that necklace... it just tempts me. And international shipping is free, too. Argh!
(Plus I just realized that the one time I weakened before was also a necklace, so maybe I am just weak to necklaces in particular...)

oh you liked Utena?
And here I thought it wasn't that well known of an anime/manga

Before DW, I was on LiveJournal, and before *that* I was on email mailing lists, had a Geocities page for fanfic and listed MB size with every story link. (I was even on an email fanfic archive that sent out fanfic once a week, chopped up into email-sized portions. Long fanfics took weeks to be sent out. Sometimes we also chiselled fanfic into stone tablets.)
ah the old internet days... the gb of stuff I downloaded with my dial up modem...

PS: so you are the one who started it all... nice to meet you and thank you :) Solo is still grinning like Cheshire Cat at her accomplishment.

Utena does seem to be relatively unknown, probably because of the rampant symbolism and general oddness - but those were pluses for me. :-) Did you like it, as well?

ah the old internet days... the gb of stuff I downloaded with my dial up modem...

YES! I still remember the agony of waiting for a new fic installment to load because my modem was slower than my reading speed. ;-) It really did feel like we were inbscribing it into stone at times... (also, remember webrings??)

so you are the one who started it all...

Hee, yes, I will gladly take the blame, and believe me, I am grinning just as broadly (or possible more so *g*). This fandom is so contagious that I have had more success in suborning innocent fans than I could ever have dreamed of. :-) I am very glad to meet you, too!

It's such a lovely intimate moment. And like everyone else, I adore that Zhao Yunlan's is barefoot here. ♥

(I'm also currently attempting to resist the pull of that necklace. /o\)

I... might just have given in to the necklace. In my defence... uh, okay, I don't actually have a defence. Oh well. I will just have to deal! ;-)

The intimacy of this scene - how comfortable they are with each other - tends to make me think that they are together at this point... even though it does seem very early in some other respects. Either way, there is such easy affection here, and both of them so clearly can't imagine not spending the evening together. <3

<3 that screenshot. I am also trying to get in the habit of posting more regularly! *adds*

Guardian is a great way of getting back to posting again, I find! At least for me - there are just so many things to *say*. :-)

It's great to meet you!! I look forward to being fannish with you. :-)

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demitas - 2019-03-11 00:16 (UTC) - Expand

I mean I'd friend you AGAIN if I could but

It's so great to be in each other's circles again!

I mean I'd friend you AGAIN if I could but

ME TOO!! I am so happy to be sharing a fandom again. I missed you!

Guardian is such a gift, seriously. :-)

I look forward to the post showing off your lovely new necklace ;)

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rheasilvia - 2019-03-11 16:20 (UTC) - Expand

Right now, I am trying hard not to buy a replica of Shen Wei’s necklace, but it is hard, you guys.

The one goss found? Omg yes. Honestly, I never thought I'd fall for any kind of Guardian merchandise, because so far it's all been plushie dolls and chibi drawings and weird photobooks.

But this? Argh. I love it. I would so wear it.