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, welcome aboard, make yourself at home! I'm a total introvert myself, and I find DW-style fandom a lot easier to handle. Hope it works for you too. :)

I'm a drama only fan, but yeah, they really did their damnedest to get as much as they could into it, censorship be damned. You can tell they cared. ♥

Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan are such a delight together, self-sacrificing streaks and all! And IMO the undershirt scene is underrated, it's fabulous (and Shen Wei looks amazing in that blank tank top, OMG). :D

[arbonne]

I really liked LJ fandom and was sad to see it go so I really hope that I can find my way back to this kind of interaction. <3

I like the drama much more, too, I have to admit, because a lot of the mythological stuff in the novel just flew over my head and the pseudo-sci fi works better for me for a lot of reasons.

The undershirt scene! I don't know how often I have rewinded this. It's cute, it's funny and it's so damn nice to look at. I can understand Zhao Yunlan - I would have wanted to "blow away the dust", too. Ahem.

[trobadora]

Yeah, here's a reason why I went from LJ to DW and never actually left. It's a mode of fannishness that really suits me, and I'm so glad there are other people around still doing fandom here!

The way they turned mythology into sci-fi is so fascinating to me! It's a huge change in some ways, and it affects the characters a lot - drama Shen Wei is a very different person from novel Shen Wei simply because of the change in background, and the same goes for Zhao Yunlan. I really love who Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan are in the drama.

Can't argue with you about blowing away the dust, LOL. Absolutely understandable Zhao Yunlan couldn't resist!

(Also, from your icon, you are or were into SGA? So was I!)

[arbonne]

I was always more of a sci-fi fan and the concept of Dark Energy is so good and intriguing. Also so vague that a writer can bend it pretty much however they want - the possibilites within canon itself are endless. Also, timeloops. I have a weakness for them. Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei are so much fun and they felt so real as characters and I am so fascinated by them. (I like the drama versions of both characters so much more, tbh. It's also the version I seek out fanfic for.) Also... Ye Zun. He's awful but I love watching him wreck havoc.

Yes, SGA was one of the fandoms I was into over the years and one of my major ones; it was so much fun! Although I was a lurker back then, apart from the occasional comment, and under another name. My English back then wasn't good enough for writing, so it was reading only for me. When I dusted off this DW but I decided to keep this icon. I imported it over from LJ once upon a time and I'm kind of attached to it. <3

[trobadora]

Yes, dark energy is definitely the gift that keeps on giving! You can do almost anything with it, without breaking the worldbuilding, and that is so neat. And OMG the time loop - I love it so much, the way Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan have a relationship twisted into a moebius strip, where each of them falls in love with a version of the other who's already in love with him. Even four years later I'm still so delighted with it! ♥ ♥ ♥

SGA was a great fandom. I never wrote fic for it either, but I loved it to pieces, and had so much fun in the fandom. Glad you kept the icon!