Three Fandoms Meme
Picked this up from futuresoon :
Comment to this and I'll ask about three of your fandoms.
01. What first got you into this fandom?
02. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03. Favourite episodes/book/films/etc.
04. Do you participate in this fandom (fiction, graphics, discussion)?
Hetalia
1. I stalk a bunch of art journals, and one of the ones that I used to read (though not much any more) put up a drawing of America and a link to the scanlation index. Being something of a fan of history portrayed in ridiculous ways, I proceeded to binge through the entire thing and was hooked. It actually prompted me to be active on livejournal, as I joined the comm to read the locked ones and started to read fic, and, well, before I knew it I was writing my first fanfic since my abyssimal Star Wars ones (which will never, ever be linked here).
2. I really have no idea. All my other fandoms before have had an endpoint (Avatar, Star Wars, etc) where the canon basically got to a logical conclusion for me and I sort of... faded out. This is certainly the heaviest I've ever been involved in online fandom, which is a big factor in staying. I think I'll be sticking around for a while yet, anyway!
3. Well, Cleaning Out The Storage, obviously, and also Liet's Scars (the line 'There's a side of Lithuania... I don't know' is just heartbreaking). Those two strips really show the serious stuff that this setting is capable of, I think. I also have a lot of fondness for the one where England spoils Harry Potter for Japan by writing spoilers on his chest. The fantastically random episode of the anime where Rome interrupts the Allies' attack on the Axis by singing also holds a special place in my heart.
4. Hahahaaaa, yes indeed *eyes up fic plans and recently completed England FST*. This is the fandom that got me back into writing fic again, and that's due in no small part to the amazingly high quality of the work that's produced by the community. This is probably due to the fact that the characters are so flexible and there's such a vast amount of canon you can draw on that literally anything is possible, so the scope for good stuff becomes that much wider.
Heroes
1. I am a big, big fan of comic books- and I started with the X-Men, so you can see the obvious appeal! It got trailed pretty heavily by the BBC when it bought the rights to broadcast it, and Empire magazine was talking up the show too after its American release, so I figured it was worth getting into. And yeah, the first series was pretty good but recently it seems to have gone town the toilet a bit.
2. Well, I think I'm ready to move on after the most recent finale. You know what I'm talking about. What the hell.
3. Probablyyyyyy..... most of the first season, especially Five Years Gone, where it was shown that Peter can be a badass if he wised up and that Mohinder aged really badly :p. The beginning of Volume Four was pretty good, too.
4. After Avatar, I tried not to participate in online fandom that much (hah, that lasted, didn't it?). So, I never sought out other fans online and limited my discussions to real life friends who knew the show. However, I did just recently write an Heroes fic (plug plug) so, you never know. Maybe if the show improves a little.
Avatar
1. I cought the first episode way back on ITV's Saturday morning kid's programme, a truly dire affair hosted by two increasingly desperate-looking presenters who are probably too old for what they're doing. I remember being really struck by the art, especially the use of colour, and the depth of the world that was being created. After that, I didn't catch many episodes until I was tooling around DevART and found some amazing stuff by an artist called Isaia. It turned out to be Avatar fanart, and I started catching up online and rooting out comms to find out news.
2. Already have moved on, though I still visit the avatar_fans community occasionally and browse racebending for the latest on that godawful movie.
3. ALL OF IT. Um, I really like Jet, The Chase, The Storm, Tales of Ba Sing Se, The Blind Bandit, The Library, The Headband, Sokka's Master, and everything from The Firebending Masters through to the series finale. All of the finales are pretty spectacular, actually, and for obvious reasons contain some of the best of the show. It remember watching the series 1 finale, where suddenly the series becomes much less episode-by-episode and starts containing this overarching story, and being thoroughly blown away at what a freaking children's cartoon could achieve. I notice that most of my fave episodes are from season two, which probably means something? I dunno, maybe I just really like green. The fight scenes in season two were really off the hook, though. Especially in The Blind Bandit. Toph's final fight remains the single sequence that I use to wow people who haven't heard of the show before. It's just that good.
4. Not any more. I used to lurk like a demon on pretty much anywhere that was available, but I never showed my fanart to anyone and all the fic I composed stayed in my head. The ship wars scared me. I think that's why I like Hetalia so much now- there's no ship wars because every ship is quite literally possible in some way. It's refreshing.
Some might even say the quenchiest.
Comment to this and I'll ask about three of your fandoms.
01. What first got you into this fandom?
02. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03. Favourite episodes/book/films/etc.
04. Do you participate in this fandom (fiction, graphics, discussion)?
Hetalia
1. I stalk a bunch of art journals, and one of the ones that I used to read (though not much any more) put up a drawing of America and a link to the scanlation index. Being something of a fan of history portrayed in ridiculous ways, I proceeded to binge through the entire thing and was hooked. It actually prompted me to be active on livejournal, as I joined the comm to read the locked ones and started to read fic, and, well, before I knew it I was writing my first fanfic since my abyssimal Star Wars ones (which will never, ever be linked here).
2. I really have no idea. All my other fandoms before have had an endpoint (Avatar, Star Wars, etc) where the canon basically got to a logical conclusion for me and I sort of... faded out. This is certainly the heaviest I've ever been involved in online fandom, which is a big factor in staying. I think I'll be sticking around for a while yet, anyway!
3. Well, Cleaning Out The Storage, obviously, and also Liet's Scars (the line 'There's a side of Lithuania... I don't know' is just heartbreaking). Those two strips really show the serious stuff that this setting is capable of, I think. I also have a lot of fondness for the one where England spoils Harry Potter for Japan by writing spoilers on his chest. The fantastically random episode of the anime where Rome interrupts the Allies' attack on the Axis by singing also holds a special place in my heart.
4. Hahahaaaa, yes indeed *eyes up fic plans and recently completed England FST*. This is the fandom that got me back into writing fic again, and that's due in no small part to the amazingly high quality of the work that's produced by the community. This is probably due to the fact that the characters are so flexible and there's such a vast amount of canon you can draw on that literally anything is possible, so the scope for good stuff becomes that much wider.
Heroes
1. I am a big, big fan of comic books- and I started with the X-Men, so you can see the obvious appeal! It got trailed pretty heavily by the BBC when it bought the rights to broadcast it, and Empire magazine was talking up the show too after its American release, so I figured it was worth getting into. And yeah, the first series was pretty good but recently it seems to have gone town the toilet a bit.
2. Well, I think I'm ready to move on after the most recent finale. You know what I'm talking about. What the hell.
3. Probablyyyyyy..... most of the first season, especially Five Years Gone, where it was shown that Peter can be a badass if he wised up and that Mohinder aged really badly :p. The beginning of Volume Four was pretty good, too.
4. After Avatar, I tried not to participate in online fandom that much (hah, that lasted, didn't it?). So, I never sought out other fans online and limited my discussions to real life friends who knew the show. However, I did just recently write an Heroes fic (plug plug) so, you never know. Maybe if the show improves a little.
Avatar
1. I cought the first episode way back on ITV's Saturday morning kid's programme, a truly dire affair hosted by two increasingly desperate-looking presenters who are probably too old for what they're doing. I remember being really struck by the art, especially the use of colour, and the depth of the world that was being created. After that, I didn't catch many episodes until I was tooling around DevART and found some amazing stuff by an artist called Isaia. It turned out to be Avatar fanart, and I started catching up online and rooting out comms to find out news.
2. Already have moved on, though I still visit the avatar_fans community occasionally and browse racebending for the latest on that godawful movie.
3. ALL OF IT. Um, I really like Jet, The Chase, The Storm, Tales of Ba Sing Se, The Blind Bandit, The Library, The Headband, Sokka's Master, and everything from The Firebending Masters through to the series finale. All of the finales are pretty spectacular, actually, and for obvious reasons contain some of the best of the show. It remember watching the series 1 finale, where suddenly the series becomes much less episode-by-episode and starts containing this overarching story, and being thoroughly blown away at what a freaking children's cartoon could achieve. I notice that most of my fave episodes are from season two, which probably means something? I dunno, maybe I just really like green. The fight scenes in season two were really off the hook, though. Especially in The Blind Bandit. Toph's final fight remains the single sequence that I use to wow people who haven't heard of the show before. It's just that good.
4. Not any more. I used to lurk like a demon on pretty much anywhere that was available, but I never showed my fanart to anyone and all the fic I composed stayed in my head. The ship wars scared me. I think that's why I like Hetalia so much now- there's no ship wars because every ship is quite literally possible in some way. It's refreshing.
Some might even say the quenchiest.