Subject: Re: Fandom Sound Off
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Posted on: 2013-06-23 19:32:00 UTC
As far as major fandoms...
Solid: The Hobbit, Divergent/Insurgent, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Matched Trilogy
Emerging: Lord of the Rings
Casual: The Inheritance Cycle
Former Hardcore: Warrior Cats (*blush*)
So I know I said that there isn't anyone else here that I have shared fandoms with, and someone else said they feel that too, sometimes.
So I'm looking for connections here. Maybe if I actually ask I'll find that that I was wrong and there are people here that follow the fandoms I do.
1) What are your solid or hardcore fandoms? Like those that you know well enough to mission with confidence through I speak the languages.
2) What are your more casual or emerging fandoms?
Category 1) Stuff that I'm involved in / know well enough to mission
I'm not really involved in any fandoms at the minute, although special mention goes to, Warhammer 40,000 and H.I.V.E. (The Higher Institute of Villainous Education - basically Hogwarts for future Evil Geniuses, Mad Scientists, etc.), both of which I'm sketching out fanfic plots for.
As for the fandoms that I feel confident enough to mission: Abhorsenverse, Harry Potter, Dresden Files, Battlestar Galactica (re-imagined series only), Firefly, James Bond, Trigun (anime only), Hellsing (anime and manga) and Ghost in the Shell.
Category 1.5) Stuff that I'd like to do missions for, but am not sure if ever will, for whatever reason
Lord of the Rings and The Wheel of Time both belong in this category, for the same reason - while I enjoy them immensely, there's just so much to know about the canon! I'm not confident that I'd actually be able to do it justice, which is a shame, as I would definitely like to do my bit protecting those continua. Lord of the Rings in particular I'd like to do at least one mission for in my spin off, simply because that's where the PPC started, although the only way that'll be happening any time soon is via a co-write.
I also read a lot of hard/military sci-fi, stuff like Honor Harrington, Stark's War, JAG in Space, The Lost Fleet, Star Risk, as well as old school stuff like The Forever War, Cities in Flight and Starship Troopers. For these, finding missionable badfic (or even fanfic in general) seems to range between being merely difficult to outright impossible.
Category 2) The more casual stuff
Redwall, Narnia, The Big Bang Theory, the Clancyverse, Star Wars (mostly just the films, although I did read a lot of the books a long time ago, and am currently playing The Old Republic), a heck of a lot of anime, and really pretty much anything in the genres of Fantasy or Science Fiction, whether they be books, TV or film :)
Special mentions here go to The Edge Chronicles (which I've recently rediscovered), and the Thursday Next books, which I've only just started reading, but am thoroughly enjoying.
1) Sherlock Holmes, BBC Sherlock, New!Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings. Those are the ones I know enough about the Canon to do missions for.
2) Casual: Hetalia, BSG, Homestuck.
Emerging: Star Trek. I'm good with the reboot, but I'm still working my way through TOS, so I don't consider myself any sort of authority on the fandom. I may try a mission, though.
1) My Little Pony (FIM),Pokemon (games), Tron, Avengers, Silverwing, EDM (music fandom)
2) Hetalia, Homestuck, Dr. Who (new)
Hardcore fandoms? Hm... Lord of the Rings, Star Wars (though excluding most of the EU), Tales of the Otori, various incarnations of Yu-Gi-Oh! (except ZeXal), Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and its sequels, Fate/stay night and Fate/zero, The Culture and probably Sword Art Online.
My fleeting fandoms are ever-changing, slowly drifting around as I watch new animé and play new games. Currently, they're Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, Lucky Star, and E.Ψ.Ǝ: Divine Cybermancy.
I'm a hardcore fan of Star Wars, as well as Super Mario Bros. ^^ I've also started to take an interest in Legend of Zelda...anyone else?
1) I'm a hardcore fan of Doctor Who, as in I know how many times a timelord regenerates and how they reproduce. I'm also pretty solid for Hetalia, Harry Potter and BBC Sherlock.
2) I'm a casual/emerging fan of Supernatural (meaning I haven't seen season 5, 6 or 7 but I've seen 8 and all the previous ones.
1) Fandoms that I could mission with confidence: Pokemon (animeverse and gamesverse), Star Trek: Voyager, Stargate: Atlantis, Bakugan Battle Brawlers, Final Fantasy VII, VIII, X, XIII, XIII-2, Jak and Daxter, Kingdom Hearts, Animorphs
2) More Casual Fandoms: Phoenix Wright, Teen Titans, Star Wars, Street Fighter, Marvel Comics, DC Comics (for those two, I know the basic stories, but I don't really follow the comics)
Emerging Fandoms: Artemis Fowl, Dungeon Siege III
And I might keep adding to this list once I remember more fandoms; I watch/play/read a LOT.
Stargate (at least for Atlantis) there have been. I really didn't expect that.
Also, Psych and Star Trek
Do you know the X-Wing series? I love that series. I haven't read very much of the EU beyond that--only a few specific isolated things.
Sorry, I don't know about the X-Wing series. And what did you mean by "Psych"--is that another fandom with many Boarder fans that you're talking about? Because Psych was not part of my list.
But since you brought up that USA Network fandom, that reminds me of another casual fandom of mine: Monk.
Yes. It was listed by several others. I like Monk when it's on, but I've never sat down and watched all of them.
The X-Wing series is excellent!
Narnia
Hardcore: Code Lyoko, Mega Man X series (4 is best, 5 is the real end of the series, 6 didn't exist, they should make a 9), Mega Man Battle Network, Sword Art Online, Phi-Brain: Puzzle of God, Accel World
Casual: Star Fox (though I know enough to do a mission in that 'verse), Mass Effect, Young Justice, Metal Gear Solid (played, or seen played, 2 and 4), Mega Man Classic, ReBoot, Monster Rancher
Power Rangers, up to, but not including, Mystic Force.
Well, as I'm the "someone else" I suppose I can't really keep on my list that lack of shared fandoms is a reason I don't post a lot if I refuse to partake in the discussion expressly about fandoms. XD
So without further adieu;
1) Fandoms I would be comfortable missioning in/hard core:
Legend of Zelda (most games)
Hobbit/Lord of the Rings
Jurassic Park
Fullmetal Alchemist (not brotherhood yet)
Sailor Moon
Artemis Fowl
Hunger Games (books only)
Dragons in our Midst/Oracles Of Fire
Hana Kimi
Kodocha
Den of Antiquity and Penn Dutch mystery series by Tamar Myers
Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis
Dark Angel
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
most Studio Ghibli movies
Calvin and Hobbes
Kuroshisuji
Fushigi Yugi
Raptor Red and I'm sure I've missed several that I could kick myself for not thinking of at this second. ^^;
Also on this list are Harry Potter (especially the early books) and Twilight, not because I'm really a fan of either series, but I would feel comfortable writing a mission in their worlds without needing a whole lot of extra research.
2) Fandoms I could co-write, or mission in with some extra research or outside help from hardcore fans I know:
Doctor Who
The Silmarillion
Nancy Drew
Firefly
Labyrinth
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pirate's of the Caribbean trilogy
several of the animated Disney movies
SeaQuest DSV
Phineas and Ferb and probably several others I can't think of.
3)Emerging fandoms/fandoms I like reading and reading about, but would not feel comfortable missioning there include:
Several Manga and Anime series, that it's either been too long since I've seen them, or I haven't been able to finish them yet.
Farscape
Star Wars (the EU is intimidating, I could probably do the original series and prequels though)
Fablehaven
Star Trek (Voyager and TNG)
Discworld
Memoirs of a Geisha
Pokemon
Dilbert
Frank Peretti's adult books
Torchwood
Hank the Cowdog
Sanctuary
His Dark Materials trilogy
Spiderwick Chronicles
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Spongebob
Invader Zim
Gravity Falls and I'm sure several more that I can't recall just at this moment. ^^
In fandoms I like but aren't comfortable missioning in, at least not alone.
Psych, Monk and Burn Notice.
I could mission in Narnia, and am interested in, but not well versed in Final Fantasy VII, VIII and IX.
As far as major fandoms...
Solid: The Hobbit, Divergent/Insurgent, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Matched Trilogy
Emerging: Lord of the Rings
Casual: The Inheritance Cycle
Former Hardcore: Warrior Cats (*blush*)
I've read a lot of those Warrior Cats books. Those are good.
As far as hardcore fandoms go: Lucky Star, Spice and Wolf, Angel Beats, Initial D, and Mirror's Edge. Lesser ones would be Mirai Nikki, and... I think that's about it actually. Somewhere in the middle of those is Avatar: The Last Airbender; I used to be really really into it, and I still like it, but I'm really rusty with it.
Serious Fandoms:
Classic-era Doctor Who
Lord of the Rings/Silmarillion (though not so much The Hobbit -- I don't do well with people writing down to me)
Belgariad/Malloreon
Elenium/Tamuli
Dragonriders of Pern (the earlier books, I haven't read any of the ones written or co-written by Todd)
MASH (TV series only)
Hogan's Heroes
Elemental Masters
Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms
Valdemar series
Lensman series -- and if anyone ever sees a badfic in this universe, one of my agents will *freak* if you send me a link :)
Star Trek TOS or early TNG
Casual/Emerging Fandoms:
Discworld
The Pelbar Cycle
I've started to follow the 1960s Green Hornet thanks to YouTube, and enjoy the 1940s movie serials, but can't stand the Seth Rogan movie.
I could probably do a mission in the Parasol Protectorate world, but I haven't found the new series Gail Carriger is putting in that universe yet, so I don't know how that's changing the backstory (if at all).
Marvel Cinematic Universe. My comic-reading is enough out of date that I wouldn't want to try sending agents into either of Marvel's main comic universes.
There's probably more in both, but I need to get ready for my afternoon game.
(In the Star Trek universe, sir is gender-neutral.)
Hardcore Fandoms
-Star Trek: TOS, TNG, Voyager, and reboot. TNG is my favorite.
-Harry Potter: I love it, but the fanbase scares me, so I don't talk about it much.
-What should be called the Riordan-verse, that is, the three book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, and The Kane Chronicles. Percy Jackson's my favorite.
-Oz: The original book series, the 1939 movie, and Return to Oz. Wicked? Oh, you mean that weird AU fanfic? No, not a fan.
-My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
-Disney Animated Canon: My favorites are Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Mulan. I'm also pretty familiar with...well, most of the rest. It's easier to say that I don't like Cinderella, Peter Pan, or Pinocchio, and I've never seen Bambi or Fantasia.
Less Hardcore
-Star Trek: DS9: I've only seen the first couple seasons. I adore it so far, though.
-Lord of the Rings: I hesitate to even call this a fandom. Yes, I'm familiar with it, but I don't love it. I enjoy it, sure, but...it's more other people's fandom that I become familiar with because I like those people.
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
-The 39 Clues and spinoff Cahills vs. Vespers: These are interesting because new books come out every three months or so (the series has multiple authors), so I get really into it whenever a new book comes out and barely think of it the rest of the time. I do like them, though.
-The Hunger Games: I like them, but the fanbase scares me because I think some of them don't get its heavy social commentary, and that's what I love about the series.
-BBC Sherlock: While I love the show, I can't say I'm quite as into the fandom.
-Doctor Who: I'm in this awkward stage where I know too much to be a newb, but I haven't actually seen enough to be considered a fan.
The Big Bang Theory. It's the only TV show I watch on TV right now, except for the occasional Mythbusters or guilty-pleasure TLC bride show.
TNG is my favorite Star Trek, too. You know, I never wrote it down, but TOS was my first fanfic. I didn't sleep very much when I was a little kid, but my parents had a rule that I had to stay in bed and be quiet. I used to entertain myself making up stories that were basically terrible fanfic.
I haven't watched a lot of TNG and I don't know it well enough to be able to talk about episodes by name, but if I see a couple of minutes of the episode, I remember it, and if I am reminded about something specific I remember having seen it. Like in Skyrim there is a woman named Temba Wide-Arms. I didn't catch the reference until someone pointed it out, but once they did, I can see and hear clips of that episode.
I think I am in about the same stage with Dr. Who. I have seen 9 and everything they have on Netflix of Classic Who, plus a few on disc. (Seriously, who at Netflix thought it was a good idea to not include parts 3 and 6 of the Key to Time story arc?)
You meet a lot more TOS fans, since a lot of people are just getting into it through the reboot. But TNG is the best.
I did the same thing - I didn't fall asleep quickly, so I'd make up stories. I started with Oz, though. Poor Princess Ozma. Boy, did I use her as my self insert. But when I started writing fic, it was TOS/TNG crossover involving both casts attending the same high school as me and my friends. It was as bad as it sounds.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra! That was a good episode. That's what I've found is one of the best things about TNG - consistent episode quality. TOS can get very campy and silly, but Patrick Stewart can sell anything. I also love how every character is fully developed, with near-complete backstories and character arcs. I'm particularly fond of Data. I will never get tired of watching him explore humanity.
As to Doctor Who...heh, I'm not even that far. I have seen a bit of Classic Who (1 and 2 mostly) and I know some about New Who because I have friends who are into it. I really need to get more into it. So many fandoms...
I do love campy/cheesy sci-fi. The thing that always struck me the most about TOS is how LOUD their bridge is!
Classic Who can be really cheesy, too. I love Tom Baker's Who (4). One of the stories (Ark in Space) the monsters are literally bubble wrap that is painted green. For real. It's a really good set of episodes though.
Jesus, there are so many. I'll probably forget a LOT of them, but I'll give it a go.
SOLID/HARDCORE: Dresden Files, Lord of the Rings, Halo, Mass Effect, Honor Harrington, In Fury Born, All Things Tamora Pierce, Codex Alera, Metroid, Bleach, Metal Gear, Warhammer 40,000, Claymore (manga), Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Zero, Tsukihime, Hellsing, Doctor Who, Ciaphas Cain, Safehold, Negima, Trigun, Abhorsen, Fate/Extra, Black Lagoon, Code Geass, Icemark Chronicles, Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X, and probably others.
CASUAL: Inheritance Cycle, Fullmetal Alchemist, Temeraire, Assassin's Creed, Metro 2033, Star Wars, Star Trek, Higurashi, AND OTHERS.
You like the Prequels? Or the EU, perhaps? Just wondering.
What was THAT noise?
Also, good day/evening? Fellow Assassin's Creed fan!
Actually, now that I look at it, there are a lot of fandoms I'm into that you seem to share - namely the Negima one, FMA and Hellsing, amongst others I've dabbled in at done point or another.
Shared fandom brofist?
MORE HARDCORE: Madoka, Pirates of the Caribbean, Monty Python
I don't have any hardcore or solid fandoms, because I've never read that far into a particular subject.
I will say that I know Black Cat and Tales of Vesperia better than the rest of them, but really, the more MSTs I do, the more I just focus on how bad the story is over how bad the story is in the respective fandom.
I guess I could also claim to know a thing or two about Legend of Zelda, despite never having once played a single game in the series or reading any of the comic stuff or anything like that. Like, I know enough that I'm pretty familiar with the characters and settings, and the overall story of a few games, and some of the weapons and armors and accessories and whatnot, but that's literally it.
I used to be pretty into Kingdom Hearts, but that was so many years ago that I don't remember the first thing about it, and its fanbase seems to be comprised of nothing but people with their trousers in a twist - I posted all of three threads on a forum for KH, and basically ended up telling them all to pound sand because they were relentlessly unforgiving about the smallest things. It was ridiculous - I couldn't even talk about the basic game functions without somebody jumping up my back end.
So, yeah, that's that for KH.
Spending time on Library of the Damned is also good for learning about new fandoms casually, because everybody in the Library has a habit of over-explaining the source material down to the littlest details.
But yeah, I'm nothing but casual.
I'm also kind of well-informed about s-CRY-ed - I know the backstory (Terrible tragedy reduces a landmass to a wasteland, five percent of human population is born with supernatural powers) and some important characters, and have a basic encyclopedia of each person's powers (Kazuma's right hand turns into a rocket-powered fist, Ryuho creates a companion battle droid, Straight Cougar moves fast and uses his car as a myriad of weapons, Tachibana has orbs that control minds, allow flight, generate light and act as both a sword and a shield, and Kanami can see the future. I know more, just not the names they're connected to), and I have a fair grasp on who the antagonists are (megalomaniacal organization HOLD/HOLY, depending on translation - I've always known them as HOLY), but beyond that? I'd need to read up on it more.
All right, let's do this.
1) Warcraft, Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (1, 2, Final), the Wheel of Time series
2) Farscape, Babylon 5, Star Trek (TNG and DS9), Avatar: The Last Airbender, Homestuck, Dragonlance, Discworld, Legend of Zelda series, Metroid series, MegaMan series (original, X, Battle Network, Legends), Justice League/JLU, Firefly/Serenity, Battlestar Galactica (2003), Bioshock (1&2), Skies of Arcadia, Doctor Who
I'm sure I missed something in that second group.
-Phobos
So I'll just give you the top ones, hardcore and emerging.
Solid fandoms:
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit
The Silmarillion
Dragonriders of Pern
Pokémon
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Kane Chronicles
Heroes of Olympus
Any books by Tamora Pierce
Redwall
Discworld
Good Omens
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Phantom of the Opera (novel and musical)
CATS (musical and poem book)
Wicked (musical and novel series)
Sweeney Todd (musical)
Les Miserables (musical, movie, and book)
The Chronicles of Narnia
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Emerging fandoms:
Doctor Who
Sherlock
Star Trek
Firefly
Fairy Tail
Battlestar Galactica
Supernatural
A Song of Ice and Fire
My Little Pony
Again, these are just my top fandoms. I've got lots more, so if anyone wants to know about them, go ahead and ask.
1) Harry Potter, Power Rangers (Ninja Storm- RPM, I don't know as much about Haim Saben), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Bones.
2) Psych, Power Rangers (Mighty Morphin- Wild Force, Samurai- Megaforce), Dead Zone, Pokemon, Ned's Declassified.
I don't want to see any whining or crying or cracking under pressure. Do I make myself CLEAR!
*crack*
CORTMARSHALED!
Anyway, my fandoms. Well, I am a very hardcore brony, that much everyone should know. Other then that:
Portal and Half-Life
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Kane Cronicles
Doctor Who, though I have not watched in months and have seen very little of the old series.
Avengers
Somewhat the Elder Scrolls series, as I have only played Oblivion and Skyrim.
Fable
Man, I know I have more, but these are all the ones I can think of at the moment. I may write a response to this with an updated list later. Or not.
:P
My fandoms, lemme see...
Core fandoms:
- Lord of the Rings. My oldest fandom, via The Hobbit at the age of eight. Books and films are both beloved versions, including The Hobbit trilogy so far.
- Harry Potter. Surprisingly didn't get into it till it had been out a couple of years. Much prefer the books over the films; the first two films were good, but the next three were disappointments of increasing scale, and I haven't even seen the last three.
- David Eddings' Belgariad/Malloreon and Elenium/Tamuli series, and his standalone The Redemption of Althalus. My auntie gave me The Belgariad when I was in my teens, knowing my love of the genre, and I got addicted to the snarky twist on high fantasy.
- Brian Jacques' Redwall series. I've loved them since pre-adolescence, and while they're somewhat formulaic, they appeal to my fondness for clear-cut heroes and villains. (And the descriptions of feasts. Man, did Brian Jacques ever know how to describe a vegetarian feast deliciously.)
- Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. I liked a few of the books back in pre-adolescence, but I really became a fanatic about five years ago. Also the unrelated collaboration he did with Neil Gaiman, Good Omens.
- The Pirates of the Caribbean series. Admittedly I first got into them because of my crush on Orlando Bloom, but I found Captain Jack Sparrow far too awesome to forget.
Newer fandoms (from the beginning of 2013):
- Labyrinth, the Jim Henson film. It's so Eighties! And there are songs that stick in your head! And David Bowie's skintight pants... which shouldn't be shown to anyone under eighteen, probably. They sort of traumatised my little sister. XD
- Joss Whedon's Firefly series, and the Big Damn Movie that followed, Serenity. Lycaenion and Rilwen Shadowflame talked me into finally seeing why they were so obsessed with it. The combination of Western and space genres had been putting me off, but now I find it awesome. Cowboys in space just trying to make a living and winding up doing really cool stuff like battling feral maniacs, shootouts with the criminal underworld, duels with noble idiots... yeah, I'm kinda in love. :P
Confident enough to mission (in fact, most of them already featured in my missions or MSTs):
Detective Conan/Case Closed, Card Captor Sakura, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Ace Combat, Metal Gear Solid, 1982 Knight Rider
Canons I like but would mission only while collaborating with someome who knows them well:
Fairy Tail, NCIS, Doctor Who (new), Hawaii Five-0 (new)
There might be other series that don't come to mind, or that I know well but they're too short and/or unknown and/or awkward to begin with.
...wait, wrong universe.
Right-o, my fandoms are as follows:
Hardcore fanoms
The Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Mass Effect
Team Fortress 2
StarCraft
Half-Life
Portal
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Casual fandoms-- I love them so much, but I don't think I can mission them just yet...
The Edge Chronicles
Discworld
Harry Potter
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
Redwall
Top Four (in no particular order): Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Dragonriders of Pern, and Farscape. These are the ones I've been in sustained love with the longest and for which I've been most heavily involved in fandom activities, particularly the last three. I've always been prohibitively afraid I could never do LotR justice with serious fic or art, though I did have a short-lived RP career with a female Ranger character on Neopets, and in the last few years I've finally managed a couple of missions there.
I have a fair-sized list of fandoms I'm confident and enthusiastic enough to mission in (with perhaps some research to refresh my memory). These include Animorphs, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Discworld, Firefly/Serenity, Fullmetal Alchemist, House, M.D., How to Train Your Dragon, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (book and musical), Phantom of the Opera (Leroux, Kay, and Webber), A Song of Ice and Fire (if it weren't quarantined), Spyro the Dragon (early PS1 games only), Star Trek (esp. DS9), and Young Wizards.
More casual fandoms than that... are probably too many to list. My favorite new find is Justice League/Justice League Unlimited, though. It's well-written and intelligent while still working in some goofy superhero stuff, there's an excellent balance of drama to action to humor, and I was very sad to come to the end of it. I enjoyed The Hunger Games trilogy for the most part (the last book left much to be desired, IMO) and look forward to the next two films. I'm also eagerly waiting for the new season of Psych to make it to Netflix, and I've been on a happy trip down Nostalgia Lane with X-Files. I'm also fond of Battlestar Gallactica (2003) and Babylon 5.
... I like lots of stuff. That's why I put my first agent pair in the DIC. {= )
~Neshomeh
I suppose this is as good a time as any to come out as an enthusiastic reader of Homestuck. I managed to get caught up a couple of months or so before the hiatus, which left me slightly hollow inside for the duration. So glad it's back. I wasn't sure at first, but by now I'm convinced that Andrew Hussie is a mad genius and confident that he has a plan for the endgame and won't disappoint.
To people like me who may have avoided it out of confusion at what its deal is and possibly dismay at all the weird troll stuff that has cropped up all over the Internet: It's not all about the trolls. It is so much more than that. I would sum it up as a story about a group of kids who sit down to play a game together and find out they're actually playing to save the world, and then find out they're not actually playing to save the world, but to ensure the propagation of reality itself—and then things get complicated. You do have to wade through some nonsense in the beginnning, because much of the format is a play on text-based RPGs like King's Quest and originally involved actual reader input, but IMO it's totally worth the wait for the plot to get going. There's a lot of really clever stuff to sink your mental teeth into if you're paying attention, and it's a lot of fun trying to pick up on what's important and what's just a gag and what's both.
~Neshomeh
Serious?
Star Fox - fanatically so.
Homeworld. Fanon note: The Kadeshi survived. It totally happened.
Star Wars, original and prequel. Also enjoyed Republic Commando, somehow.
Ponies, G4. Seasonal nostalgic. Nightmare Moon worshipper.
Not quite so serious...
Can you believe me if I say I read Inheritance in two languages and did not throw up urple vomit?
I also quite enjoyed the Black Magician Trilogy.
I admit to reading Harry Potter.
I also admit to reading LoTR only just now.
Oh, and I play Freespace.
And Mass Effect. Not counting as hardcore because I didn't go through 3 yet.
Aaaand...uh, memory's shorting out. It's seven in the morning and I've been up since three.
Me too. ^^ I really don't get why so many other people hate the Prequels, though. :/
I haven't played RC yet, but I might try it out one of these days. :)
Lucas cannot write romance. At all. That may be why, and Jar-Jar's existence factors in as well.
At least it dose for me. Otherwise the prequels are fine.
Be aware Commando is quite different from your average Star Wars material.
Referencing TVTropes it is Darker And Edgier respectively Bloodier And Gorier, more on the Cyncisim side of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism and on the Gritty side of Shiny Versus Gritty.
Solid or hardcore fandoms
Lord of the Rings is the one I'm most versed in (right through to having read the vast majority of History of Middle Earth)
Star Wars I know a lot about, but it's much harder to keep track of the gigantic craziness that is the EU
Discworld is also a biggie
A Song of Ice and Fire (although I need to reread the earlier books since it's been a while)
Harry Potter
Historical fiction (particularly Bernard Cornwell's Anglo-Saxon series, and most anything set on a ship in the Napoleonic wars)
Narnia
Emerging fandoms
Supernatural
Star Trek (more the recent movie reboots than the TV series)
Dresden Files
Iron Druid Chronicles
Being Human (both UK and US series)
Firefly
Merlin
Doctor Who/Torchwood
True Blood
I'm sure there's more, but those are the ones that come to mind.
Firefly was the very first series that I bought a copy of, as opposed to just watching it. I've never read a lot of the fanfic for it, though.
Do you like the classic Who, also, or just the new Who?
Lord of the Rings, though an undying passion of mine, is not something I would probably feel comfortable doing an Action mission in. I think I'd be fine running a Cafeteria mission, but those tend to take slightly less intricate knowledge and ability to critique canon details.
Solid hardcore fandoms?
-The Dresden Files
-Codex Alera
-The Chronicles of Narnia (lit)
-The Vorkosigan Saga
-Tortall & Emelan
-Harry Potter
-A Song of Ice and Fire
I suppose it's rank heresy, but I'd say I'm a lukewarm fan of Doctor Who at this point. I haven't watched in months, and don't know much besides Nine, Ten, and the first two or three seasons of Eleven. I've also become a lukewarm fan of Supernatural. I watch the show for Crowley Snark, and spend at least part of my time complaining about the white heteronormativity and protagonist-driven morality. But for all that, I think I've passed the Enthusiastic Posting Threshold and am officially in the fandom. Other lukewarm fandoms... h'm. My Little Pony - I watch it every now and then, and it's alright. Once Upon A Time, which I once again mainly watch for the snarking of its ambiguous villain character(s), and spend most of the time complaining about the idiocy of the "good guys."
In short, I'm a die-hard literature fan, and still diving into any fandom the library has to offer, but have also been dipping into various television fandoms with some enjoyment. Got any recommendations? British (or Scottish) snarky characters with moral ambiguity are basically my television fandom sticking points.
Have you seen the British version of Becoming Human? I haven't seen it yet, but a friend of mine recommends it highly.
Also, while everybody says Sherlock is much better than Elementary, I don't really......well, I've never actually seen Sherlock. Elementary's good for me because I'm always rooting for the love story, though everyone else in the world seems to think I'm nuts. Either way, both of those have been recommended to me/watched and liked.
Do you want this mini-Boarder of yourself, Pauline07? I have so many minis in my metapartment right now, and I don't want them getting into territorial disputes. It was hard enough getting the mini-Agents to stop harassing weinterwood, and that was only through the help of a mini of Christianne Shieh defending her mini-author. It was sweet, really, but I'm not sure who'd stick up for a new mini that none of them know.
Sure. Maybe Paulin should go over there sometimes, though, to play. Do minis have such a thing as friendship? The wiki article really wasn't clear on that.
Or maybe I just didn't notice because someone's pounding my head with a chisel. In either case....wait, mini-Agents? I thought those didn't exist.
All the better for jumping down off of high places and landing on your shoulders. Though that's mostly Acacia Bird, but I'm counting it anyway, because those talons hurt.
The mini-Agents themselves can always be edited out of missions, yes, but mini-Agents created by misspellings in Board posts are permanent, and I took it upon myself a while ago to collect as many as I can, mostly to keep them out of trouble. The only exception to this is Acacia Bird, who was created in one of Trojanhorse's missions, and since Trojanhorse has long since retired, she's more or less permanent as well.
Well, if not friendship, the minis can at least form alliances and default to socializing with those within their alliance, which I suppose is part of what friendship is all about. I know that much because Cadamr and Accadia seem to spend most of their time together, playing, planning, attacking things, and the like, and A. Gallwoglass seems to get along very well with Gasaprd. I see them having tea sometimes. No clue where Gasaprd got that tiny tea kettle, but it's pretty adorable.
This'd be as good a time as any for a sound-off in order of arrival, so I can see what my numbers have gotten up to.
Cadamr
Accadia
Acacia Bird
Gasaprd
Daffyd
A. Gallwoglass
Christiane
Xerica
I'd found five more, Accacia, Floretan, Cadamar, Printwothy, and Kiril, but the first four were born in missions, and so were given back to their creators before the typo that spawned them was edited out of existence, and EllipsisFlood adopted Kiril long before I showed up on the Board at all.
Which is good, because thirteen mini-Agents would likely have been more than I have room for, especially since Daffyd has the nasty habit of trying to keep any other minis from sitting on the couch. It's not your couch, Daffyd! It's my couch, and I decide who's not worthy of sitting on it!
That's really just....super cute. And makes sense. Sorry they're driving you nuts, though.
Only a few minutes ago, I found a new Acacia mini, Arcadia, who could use a home, and she might be able to make a good roommate for Paulin07, considering how she's pretty new as well, relatively. Less relatively, she's been in the hallways of the Board for a few months now, but nobody has adopted her.
On another note, this is the fourth Acacia mini I've found. What about her name is so hard to remember? At least this mini's name has the saving factor of being pretty awesome.
Thank you for this. I'm sure you'll take good care of her.
You know I watched the Dresden Files show and decided that it would be a worthwhile series to read. I've heard (probably from the IRC) that the series is not the same, but did have the approval of the author, so I figured that since I really liked the series that I'd like the books.
I forgot Supernatural on my list! I loved the first five seasons! After that it interested me less and less pretty rapidly. I made it through episode 17 of season 7, but haven't gotten farther.
How do you think the newer seasons compare?
Even if it's a more casual fandom of yours, there are a couple of Potterheads on the board- myself included :) You seem to appreciate a couple of my hardcore fandoms.
I've been meaning to watch Stargate, since I've heard it's good. I just haven't seen it yet.