Subject: Fandooooms, atten-SHUN!
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Posted on: 2013-06-23 11:06:00 UTC

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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

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