double your meme value
Continuing the theme of 'so overdue it hurts' two memes. skuldnoshinpu and zarla respectively.
Comment to this entry and I'll pick three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:
01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
Guilty Gear (I knew he'd pick this one, it's the fandom where we met)
01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
I remember where I had my first look at Guilty Gear. It was in the cheats section in the back of a magazine shortly after the first Guilty Gear came out. It showed the profiles for the three unlockable characters (Testament, Justice and Baiken) as well as the methods for earning them so I became familiar with these three before the regular cast. I liked their design and what little of the story I gleaned so I decided to try the game. And when I did I was bowled over at first by how dynamic and responsive the game was, and then frustrated when the CPU characters beat me like a rug, then elated when everything fell into place and I understood how to work the game and I felt empowered by a fighting game for the first time in my life. But that's a story everyone who reads this blog will be bored of by now (or will be, if they're new).
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
I'll always care about the series but it does very little new nowadays so keeping up with it shouldn't be very hard.
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
Guilty Gear X2 because I was really excited for it and bought it as soon as it came out, which is rare for me. It was where the games took a big jump in quality and also around when they peaked in general popularity. The series never made another dramatic advancement after that so everyone except the arcade/tournament regulars started to drift away.
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
Absolutely. Guilty Gear had a great community on GameFAQs c.2002-2004. I was a regular in story/character power level discussions, and also contributed to the create-a-character threads. I made three characters and had ideas for three/four more which I never wrote up but were much, much better than the first three IMO. One of those was so out-of-setting he needed a backstory to explain his backstory and another was an Innocent Gear, which is the single most self-indulgent and Mary Sue-ish thing you can do with a Guilty Gear OC. I really hope nobody saved them.
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
I used to, but now I think it would be more worthwhile getting into Blazblue since it's picking up where Guilty Gear left off.
Metroidvanias
01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
Super Metroid, and Symphony of the Night a few years later helped too.
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
For as long as someone keeps making them.
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
It's really a hair's breadth between most of them, except the GBA games which are a little below the rest now. I just love everything this genre has to offer.
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
I was a regular on the SotN board at GameFAQs eons ago (2000/2001) but I don't remember much about it.
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
The parts of it that are not SotN, yes.
Sonic
01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
I got issue nine of Sonic the Comic as a birthday present from the boys next door. I haven't spoken to them in years because sometime after I left home my family and theirs fell out and don't interact any more. It's strange to think that cheap present got me into a fandom I don't think I would have otherwise gotten into. I was a Nintendo owner so I'm not sure I would have bought the comic on my own.
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
In a way I already moved on and came back again. I read the comic for years before I had any of the games, then after the comic ended I continued with the games and forgot why I got into the series in the first place, then more recently I discovered the comics again.
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
I view StC in such a haze of nostalgia I don't think I could pick out a particular part.
But for games the answer is clear, Sonic Rush Adventure.
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
I used to go to some Sonic boards very long ago but not any more. I rated other peoples fancharacters for a while and made one or two of my own and that's all I remember.
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
Game Sonic doesn't need any help here, it has a huge fandom.
I'd love it if more people got into StC but the fandom has practically zero growth because most of the fans are people who read the comic when it was still around and it ended almost a decade ago now.
and #2
1. Post a picture of your wallpaper.
2. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper.
3. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on
This is promotional art from the new mobile phone port of Secret of Mana. Someone made it into a desktop. I'm very nostalgic for this game and I liked the picture too. I only realised just now the artist drew in a piece of candy (the basic healing item in Secret of Mana) as a small detail at the bottom of the picture. I used this because my previous desktop had been in use for a while and I wanted a change, as amazing as it was:
This one needs no explanation.
Comment to this entry and I'll pick three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:
01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
Guilty Gear (I knew he'd pick this one, it's the fandom where we met)
01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
I remember where I had my first look at Guilty Gear. It was in the cheats section in the back of a magazine shortly after the first Guilty Gear came out. It showed the profiles for the three unlockable characters (Testament, Justice and Baiken) as well as the methods for earning them so I became familiar with these three before the regular cast. I liked their design and what little of the story I gleaned so I decided to try the game. And when I did I was bowled over at first by how dynamic and responsive the game was, and then frustrated when the CPU characters beat me like a rug, then elated when everything fell into place and I understood how to work the game and I felt empowered by a fighting game for the first time in my life. But that's a story everyone who reads this blog will be bored of by now (or will be, if they're new).
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
I'll always care about the series but it does very little new nowadays so keeping up with it shouldn't be very hard.
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
Guilty Gear X2 because I was really excited for it and bought it as soon as it came out, which is rare for me. It was where the games took a big jump in quality and also around when they peaked in general popularity. The series never made another dramatic advancement after that so everyone except the arcade/tournament regulars started to drift away.
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
Absolutely. Guilty Gear had a great community on GameFAQs c.2002-2004. I was a regular in story/character power level discussions, and also contributed to the create-a-character threads. I made three characters and had ideas for three/four more which I never wrote up but were much, much better than the first three IMO. One of those was so out-of-setting he needed a backstory to explain his backstory and another was an Innocent Gear, which is the single most self-indulgent and Mary Sue-ish thing you can do with a Guilty Gear OC. I really hope nobody saved them.
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
I used to, but now I think it would be more worthwhile getting into Blazblue since it's picking up where Guilty Gear left off.
Metroidvanias
01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
Super Metroid, and Symphony of the Night a few years later helped too.
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
For as long as someone keeps making them.
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
It's really a hair's breadth between most of them, except the GBA games which are a little below the rest now. I just love everything this genre has to offer.
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
I was a regular on the SotN board at GameFAQs eons ago (2000/2001) but I don't remember much about it.
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
The parts of it that are not SotN, yes.
Sonic
01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
I got issue nine of Sonic the Comic as a birthday present from the boys next door. I haven't spoken to them in years because sometime after I left home my family and theirs fell out and don't interact any more. It's strange to think that cheap present got me into a fandom I don't think I would have otherwise gotten into. I was a Nintendo owner so I'm not sure I would have bought the comic on my own.
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
In a way I already moved on and came back again. I read the comic for years before I had any of the games, then after the comic ended I continued with the games and forgot why I got into the series in the first place, then more recently I discovered the comics again.
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
I view StC in such a haze of nostalgia I don't think I could pick out a particular part.
But for games the answer is clear, Sonic Rush Adventure.
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
I used to go to some Sonic boards very long ago but not any more. I rated other peoples fancharacters for a while and made one or two of my own and that's all I remember.
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
Game Sonic doesn't need any help here, it has a huge fandom.
I'd love it if more people got into StC but the fandom has practically zero growth because most of the fans are people who read the comic when it was still around and it ended almost a decade ago now.
and #2
1. Post a picture of your wallpaper.
2. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper.
3. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on
This is promotional art from the new mobile phone port of Secret of Mana. Someone made it into a desktop. I'm very nostalgic for this game and I liked the picture too. I only realised just now the artist drew in a piece of candy (the basic healing item in Secret of Mana) as a small detail at the bottom of the picture. I used this because my previous desktop had been in use for a while and I wanted a change, as amazing as it was:
This one needs no explanation.