Welcome to SID Guardian!

[trobadora]

Hi, and welcome to SID Guardian!

sid_guardian is a noticeboard/community for:

• linking Guardian fanworks of all kinds


• linking to Guardian-related news (incl. info about the actors and their other roles) and meta (incl. serious meta, squee, picspams, episode reactions, writing-meta)


• making Guardian recs, and


• making fanworks-finder/rec-finder posts.


• ETA: You can also post content directly to the comm.

Which is to say, it's for letting Guardian fans find each other on Dreamwidth. :)

Please link your Guardian-related posts here! Whether novel or drama, this is the place for it. Don't be shy, and please encourage other Guardian posters to link as well. You can also link to/rec things that have been posted by others.

As the comm develops, we hope to introduce social, discussion and/or prompt posts, but given it's December, we thought we'd start small and manageable.

To kick things off, if you feel like it, tell us a bit about how you ended up in Guardian fandom! Or let us know your favourite character or scene from Guardian, or what your power would be if you were Dixingren.

And remember, there's no tension that can’t be relieved with a lollipop. And if there is, try two lollipops.

Comments

[trobadora]

She made me watch it and I couldn't stop! (So I made two other friends watch it. One of them is working on fic now...)

Hee! You're both doing the good work. :D

I'm currently trying to talk another friend into watching myself. Fingers crossed!

Yeah, ALL the things you mention! But I also do love the cases of the week (Dixingren of the week?), and I'm one of those rare people who actually likes the ending. What can I say, the way they both end up plotting their own demise as a strategy just speaks to me, and their final scene is hopeful enough to make it not a sad ending for me. But:

that whole thing where Shen Wei can flip into Black Cloak mode even while wearing those ridiculous sleeve garters...

THIS, so much. It's so compelling to watch - the way the person beneath comes through, in both roles. Sometimes like flipping a switch into Envoy mode, but sometimes just the subtle steel underneath the mild-mannered surface, or the unexpected kindness under the mask. Seriously, I love that SO MUCH.

And everything you say about ZYL, of course, because I adore him and his irreverence and cleverness and persistence, and also the way he knows how to back off sometimes. Because he pushes boundaries a lot, but that's not all he knows how to do. ♥

I don't normally like watching stuff in a language where I don't understand at least a little bit

Oh god, tell me about it! I don't speak a word of Mandarin, and I don't like subtitles in general, even good ones! AND YET.

If you're looking for icons, I can dig up links later?

[solo]

Okay, I confess that I was not quite as distraught by the ending as certain people of my acquaintance. Barring triumph and cakes all over this was a very nice second best, for the reasons you mention and also the pretty. Let's not forget the pretty. It could certainly have been a lot worse, and I agree on the hopefulness at the end. Plus, this is a verse where re-incarnation is a thing so hey, I can work with this.

My main problem right now is actually figuring out what should be 'canon' in my head, or how different canons can fit together. Doesn't help that the translation of the book isn't finished yet and then there's apparently a fix-it to the series by the author of the book and waaah, complicated! But it's early days. It's been a looong time since it's been 'early days' in a fandom for me, so it's all very exciting.

The monsters of the week... hm, it really depends. That water, uh, creature? Not so much with the interesting. Little girl and her teacher, much better. Little girl who kills her tormentors with her voice, awesome!

But then I'm a heartless bitch who even finds that the Hanga arc could take up just a little less time.

Icons! I'd love some. Or one. I'd make my own but I don't even have a store of screen grabs yet. It will come, it will all come.

[trobadora]

Yay, I'm always glad to find other people who weren't too unhappy with the ending! Sometimes people make it sound like it's the worst.

Well, strictly speaking there isn't reincarnation in the drama 'verse, but there are such things as disembodied people, and getting buried and sleeping through 10,000 years, and so on! So yeah, it's easy to work with.

(I'm strictly a drama fan - I tried the translation of the novel and found it wasn't for me - so I'm not really into borrowings from the novel's worldbuilding.)

The water guy really wasn't interesting, but his father and his past with Shen Wei was! I did like that he kept turning up again. But yeah, some cases were definitely more interesting than others.

The Hanga arc - yeah. The whole Wang Zheng/San Zan backstory was a bit much. But I do like the way the show parallels them them and Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan.

tinny just posted lots of icons to the comm, and china_shop has more here. :)

[solo]

Yes, was watching the end of the Hanga arc again last night with rheasilvia and we were both like, Shen Wei must really be able to empathize here!

I like some of what the book does a lot so I'm still trying to figure out what works for me. I probably won't know for sure (and stick with series canon) until it's all been translated.

Thaks for the links, will check them out RIGHT NOW.