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]

Hi there! Welcome aboard, you've come to the right place. Glad Guardian dragged you into a fannish revival! :D

I'm delighted to find someone else who was also compelled to watch the whole show in two days! It's a personal record for me, but OMG, I couldn't stop.

Personally I see the ending as open and hopeful, so I'm very happy with it. And the whole show. My only grief is that, like you (and too many of us) I don't speak Mandarin. But yeah, so much subtitling! For the show and the fanvids and the interviews! It's really great.

And DAMN, that screencap! I never actually noticed that, but OMG. This show is just delightful in so many ways. *stares*

[no_detective]

*hi-five of streaming overachievers* i was suffering from insomnia at the time but guardian most certainly did not help! that was INTENSE.

the subtitling work is incredible! i mean, obviously much of it is not the same as professional media translation, but i am in LOVE with literally translated idioms followed by explanations in brackets. i even love the lack of uniformity when it comes to translating certain words, because it can provide insight into multiple meanings or aspects of the same term. plus there's the whole cultural learning side to it (i had no idea that the polite way to exit the conversation was to say "i'll leave first" for example). and omg, the names and nicknames and honorifics and...!!! there is so much to geek out about.

and yeah - that shot with the discobolus statue made me feel SO WELCOME. like, the show was telling me "we are your people, your lil slash-loving heart is safe with us, let's have some fun" which turned out to be MORE THAN CORRECT ♥

[trobadora]

Oooh, your icon is lovely!

And yeah, fandom can be very educational that way! I love it. :D

[no_detective]

thank you! i made a couple (mostly because my current icons are suuuuuper dated - i haven't been on DW in a few years) but can't wait to dig in and find more :)