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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Comments

[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.

[likealeafonthewind]

I love that Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong read the novel to prepare for their roles. And I love that they so clearly conveyed the romantic underpinnings in their characters' relationship through body language and facial expressions. They may not have been able to say it explicitly but they didn't have to.

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?

Yes, this 100%. And you can explore different possibilities in different fics, you don't have to completely commit to one explanation.

[trobadora]

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...?.

That's definitely true! And one of the best things about fic, that you can explore a million different versions without ever having to settle on one! But also, fic can blur the difference between "what if we interpreted canon like this" and "what if this had happened instead", which I sometimes find confusing?

Meta is more about interpreting canon, and what's plausible, and which interpretation we personally buy into - but then it can also very easily turn into "if we interpret it this way, what follows from that?", much like a fic might. Personally I think all of it is great fun, especially if I'm still feeling out how I feel.