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viridian5

The Way It Is

Oct 08, 2014 20:59

I've started watching a new anime series and innocently went to AO3 to see if there's fic. Hoo boy is there ever. A currently hot fandom, with lots of new fic appearing daily. I forgot what that's like! Don't have the urge to write for it myself though. No spark of inspiration, plus the fandom apparently has lots of other people writing anyway.

( The fandom, if you're curious, is... )

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indelicateink October 9 2014, 12:35:11 UTC

Wow, I know exactly what you mean. I enjoy the Free! fandom (same drill: Intense Male Friendship/Fate in a Sports Anime), but with one bajillion fervent fans writing/reading/meta-ing/drawing/creating at the speed of light, I'm content to just sit back and watch, but I'm not spurred to participate in creating stuff? (And what amuses me is that in 2014 it's become slightly easier to bridge the gap between the English-language fans and the Japanese fans, so the fandom additionally feels exponentially bigger.) I don't feel like I'm necessarily bringing a new perspective or a needed one... idk... it's odd. Maybe it is those years of participating in more intimately-sized fandoms.

viridian5 October 12 2014, 04:38:03 UTC

Given the high number of Haikyuu!! fics written in Spanish I've found at fanfiction.net, this fandom ranges farther and bigger than I expected. It really doesn't need me!

mousebebe October 10 2014, 16:18:51 UTC

Wow, I haven't been in a "hot" fandom in... about that long, actually. :) At least not writing.

For me, the criteria for writing in a fandom seems to be, not the size of the fandom, but whether I can easily dabble in the in-between spaces. Hence, Andromeda versus Firefly; I can write in Drom because there are gaps you can drive a truck through and a lot of unrealized potential, but I have a hard time in Firefly because of how things tended to get neatly tucked away.

I'd never thought about it in terms of "It doesn't need me," but that might play into it, too. Hmm...

viridian5 October 11 2014, 01:33:29 UTC

Yeah, I got into writing Drom from wanting to explore and fill in the empty spaces. I had other issues with Firefly too, which made me sad since the concept sounded more like getting a show about the adventures of something like the Eureka Maru....

mousebebe October 11 2014, 04:22:56 UTC

I do wish somebody would make a show that did that. Be kind of a pre-Drom Maru, I mean.

What other issues did you have with Firefly?

viridian5 October 11 2014, 04:59:29 UTC

Yes!

The fact that I looked forward to and had such high hopes for Firefly--a Whedon show! A show that sounded a bit like it would focus on the adventures of a Eureka Maru-type crew! Nathan Filion and Gina Torres in the cast!--made my disappointment in what I actually got worse.

I didn't really like any of the characters--at best I kind of liked Wash sometimes--and I didn't like how Mal treated the Companion character. I was also getting tired of Whedon's obligatory damaged, "crazy"/whimsical asskicking waif characters.

I didn't like how literally the show took the "Western in space" idea in a lot of the clothing, speech patterns, and furnishings. Why would people in a future like that, including a future with a lot of Chinese influence, dress and talk like they came out of a Western movie? (How randomly and arbitrarily the show threw those influences together didn't read well for me either.) Heavy wooden furniture and loose drawers and wooden chairs on a starship seemed so stupid to me. Just remember a scene in Drom's "Fear and ( ... )

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