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!

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

Comments

[frameofmind6]

Ha—it’s a long story. I sort of backed my way into it, I guess? : ) I started getting involved in the KAT-TUN fandom because I’d been enjoying watching one of the lead singers (Kazuya Kamenashi) in various Japanese dramas—and I discovered in the process that there was a really strong subset of the fandom that shipped him with the other lead singer of the band (Jin Akanishi). So throughout all the fannish conversations about the band there were these side references to the pairing and to various fanfics about them—and eventually I read one of them (written by solo and jo_lasalle, as it happens). I was fully expecting it to not be my thing, but it turned out it… really, really was. ^__^

I think the main reason I’d never gotten into slash before that was because I strongly gravitated toward official pairings—like, I wanted to ship the people that the actual *show*(/book/whatever) thought should be together, and not just the ones I might think should be together. (Because if I shipped the same people the show shipped, then I would get lots of nice scenes and dramatic tension, and if I shipped some other pairing I would be setting myself up for disappointment. I’m pragmatic like that. ^^) That, and my erroneous assumption that I wouldn’t really be able to relate to a pairing that didn’t have a woman in it. Which was just silly in hindsight, because it’s not like I only saw every interaction in a straight pairing through the woman’s eyes, but there you go. I also (at the time) identified as straight, and I tended to feel weird about writing or reading in fandoms that involved live-action drama, much less real people used as characters.

And then I found myself in an RPF fandom about two Japanese dudes in glitter pants, and it turned out I was more flexible and open-minded than I thought… ^^