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That fandom meme
Having just rewatched KILL BILL vols. 1 and 2, I am in the mood for something a little less taxing. Thus, meme!
The one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it:
The DCU. Needs no explanation, not at this point. Though it might need some explanation in a few years, if my perception of what DC is doing now compared to what they did twenty years ago is right.
The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets:
This ought to be BISHOUJO SENSHI SAILORMOON, but I still play Sailor Mercury on D_M, so it doesn't qualify, as I'm still way too actively fannish about it. But the real answer, obviously, is POWER RANGERS, which I watched religiously up until the end of LIGHTSPEED RESCUE, despite losing interest after Zordon died at the end of POWER RANGERS IN SPACE (I love that it abbreviates to PRiS), because I was just that addicted. I still tuned in to watch it when I still had cable from time to time, and even when I knew it was stupid I still loved it and found it wonderful. DON'T JUDGE ME OKAY.
The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized he really was fucking crazy:
The entirety of the GUNDAM franchise. Oh god, the UC/AC wars . . . I still have scars. But while I was still there, oh, I was so in love with it all, and quite incapable of recognizing that the entire fanbase was as inexplicably batshit as the masked antagonists that inevitably arose in pretty much every GUNDAM series ever made.
The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to fuck again although you're relieved he doesn't actually live in town:
This would have to be SMALLVILLE, which I fell into for about a week before coming to my senses and fleeing before the canon did me in; only after the fact did I realize that the fandom might have killed me too, if I'd stayed longer. But I still read the fics I found in that week with fondness, and consider what might have been. Then I shudder.
The steady: Comics. Always and forever, comics, in all shapes and sizes, in all genres. But not really in the same way as the others; I am part of a community of comics fans, but not part of fandom, because comics are my life. It's not fandom anymore if it's what your entire life revolves around, it's something else that could either be dangerously unbalancing or the gateway to fucking awesome. Now that I'm here, I'll never leave.
The alluring strangers whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with:
KINGDOM HEARTS, NARUTO, DEATH NOTE. I've made overtures towards them all, but nothing really seems to keep me invested in any of them. The fandoms do amuse me, though, which is why I keep trying.
The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't:
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, the remake; it's not that I don't love the show and not that I can't or haven't gotten meta on it for hours, but it's a show that feels so relentlessly for me that I've never felt particularly like I ought to seek out a fandom for it. I'm content to babble excitedly all to myself about it. Which is odd, for me.
The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool guy except it's never really gone anywhere:
SUPERNATURAL, because every time I start to get into it on a majorly fannish level beyond "hey, they're almost-Robins who walk into horror movies and try to stop them", something like Mary's essay, "Women's Work", the rabid hatred of the fanbase towards female characters joining the cast, or some other thing comes up and my interest just cools completely. But I want to like it, because almost Robins! in horror movies! Two great tastes that ought to go great together, and almost do, but not quite. :/
The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at him and thinking, "him? how the hell did he land all these cool babes?":
TWILIGHT. What the hell, guys? I love vampires, but this sounds like everything I despise in modern vampire fiction.
The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom she keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for her except you just know it's going to end badly:
None. Yet.
Also: OVERMAN KING GAINER = the KAMEN RIDER DEN-O of giant robot anime? PERHAPS.
Having just rewatched KILL BILL vols. 1 and 2, I am in the mood for something a little less taxing. Thus, meme!
The one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it:
The DCU. Needs no explanation, not at this point. Though it might need some explanation in a few years, if my perception of what DC is doing now compared to what they did twenty years ago is right.
The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets:
This ought to be BISHOUJO SENSHI SAILORMOON, but I still play Sailor Mercury on D_M, so it doesn't qualify, as I'm still way too actively fannish about it. But the real answer, obviously, is POWER RANGERS, which I watched religiously up until the end of LIGHTSPEED RESCUE, despite losing interest after Zordon died at the end of POWER RANGERS IN SPACE (I love that it abbreviates to PRiS), because I was just that addicted. I still tuned in to watch it when I still had cable from time to time, and even when I knew it was stupid I still loved it and found it wonderful. DON'T JUDGE ME OKAY.
The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized he really was fucking crazy:
The entirety of the GUNDAM franchise. Oh god, the UC/AC wars . . . I still have scars. But while I was still there, oh, I was so in love with it all, and quite incapable of recognizing that the entire fanbase was as inexplicably batshit as the masked antagonists that inevitably arose in pretty much every GUNDAM series ever made.
The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to fuck again although you're relieved he doesn't actually live in town:
This would have to be SMALLVILLE, which I fell into for about a week before coming to my senses and fleeing before the canon did me in; only after the fact did I realize that the fandom might have killed me too, if I'd stayed longer. But I still read the fics I found in that week with fondness, and consider what might have been. Then I shudder.
The steady: Comics. Always and forever, comics, in all shapes and sizes, in all genres. But not really in the same way as the others; I am part of a community of comics fans, but not part of fandom, because comics are my life. It's not fandom anymore if it's what your entire life revolves around, it's something else that could either be dangerously unbalancing or the gateway to fucking awesome. Now that I'm here, I'll never leave.
The alluring strangers whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with:
KINGDOM HEARTS, NARUTO, DEATH NOTE. I've made overtures towards them all, but nothing really seems to keep me invested in any of them. The fandoms do amuse me, though, which is why I keep trying.
The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't:
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, the remake; it's not that I don't love the show and not that I can't or haven't gotten meta on it for hours, but it's a show that feels so relentlessly for me that I've never felt particularly like I ought to seek out a fandom for it. I'm content to babble excitedly all to myself about it. Which is odd, for me.
The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool guy except it's never really gone anywhere:
SUPERNATURAL, because every time I start to get into it on a majorly fannish level beyond "hey, they're almost-Robins who walk into horror movies and try to stop them", something like Mary's essay, "Women's Work", the rabid hatred of the fanbase towards female characters joining the cast, or some other thing comes up and my interest just cools completely. But I want to like it, because almost Robins! in horror movies! Two great tastes that ought to go great together, and almost do, but not quite. :/
The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at him and thinking, "him? how the hell did he land all these cool babes?":
TWILIGHT. What the hell, guys? I love vampires, but this sounds like everything I despise in modern vampire fiction.
The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom she keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for her except you just know it's going to end badly:
None. Yet.
Also: OVERMAN KING GAINER = the KAMEN RIDER DEN-O of giant robot anime? PERHAPS.
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