been a while since I did one of those

[salinea]

A.) Your current OTP.
Xavier/Magneto

B.) A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind.
Pretty much any Harry Potter pairings fit in there, since I didn't really consider them until I read fanfics that pulled me in. Snape/Lupin being the first fanfic that dragged me into the fandom, let's make it my answer.

C.) A pairing you have never liked and probably never will.
Snape/Lily

D.) A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.
I vaguely feel this way about Magneto/Rogue.

E.) Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what stupid crack.
"Mpreg Clow Card"

F.) What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom?
ASOIAF, 12 years. Although I'm starting to feel like the TV show will be the death toll of that.

G.) Do you remember your first OTP, if so who was in it.
... hard to say. You know how you can look back to old stuff you like as a kid and realise "oh, actually I kind of slashed them but I didn't know what slash was at the time so I wasn't aware of it but i ttly was intrigued and into their relationship?' I get that a lot. But, at the same time, I can't remember a romantic relationship I was all that obsessed from when I was a kid. So, no, I guess I can't say I remember.

H.) Do you prefer characters from real action series or anime series?
I love text first, then sequential art & animation; and then liveaction.

I.) Has the internet caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why.
Never completely, but sometimes it does make it harder to like it. Bashers of ships and characters especially do get to me; much as I'd rather ignore them. Also collectively, I think the general emptiness and badness of anime/manga series fanfics is one of the thing that drove me away from this fandom. Especially for series like Pandora Hearts.

J.) Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over tumblr the internet.
Avatar the Last Airbender would be the main one I'd never have checked if not for some hyping and which I loved the most.

K.) How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom.
My current fandom being comics & Marvel movies fandom; errrr, it is a very heterogenous fandom at present. There are some people who are young and enthusiastic, sometimes in a rather hyperbolic way although many of them are very cute; there are some people who are blaséed and a little bit condescending, sometimes in a very witty way; and there are some excellent writers and some terrible ones; and some people who aren't as interested into comics as I wished they were, but that's totally their prerogative not to. Look, I hadn't meant to get myself into the lattest big, hyped fandom - it just happened this way because of my reading comics. I feel a bit weird about it. There are some cool very people though, both old and new to me; and that's the most I can ask for any fandom (also: being active).

L.) Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request, what do you ask for.
Huh. busaikko, can you write me an epic Ivan/By fanfic of doom; with plotty goodness as well as the sort of breathtaking characterisation work you do?

M.) Your favorite fanart or fanartist.
shit, i don't know.

N.) Your favorite fanfiction or fanauthor.
I just named busaikko, I guess?

O.) Choose a song at random, which OTP does it remind you of.
How do you even choose a song at random?

P.) Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).
This just crossed my mind so: Mad Men as cookie cutter AU.

Q.) A ship you’ve abandoned and why.
I think Buffy/Spike is the only ship I ever really fell out of love with.
I'm not sure which was really to blame for it, Seeing Red, or Spike's characterisation after that.

R.) A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships.
anyone else? Those are hard to come through. OKay, maybe Haggard/Unicorn.

*waits to be proven wrong*

S.) Show us an example of your personal headcanon.
I don't do headcanon a whole lot. (In fact I'm starting the hate the phrase as memes keep asking for it and it keeps making me feel stupid and lacking in imagination).

Saionji's mother was domestically abused by his father.

T.) If you mostly have same sex ships, do you have any het ships.
Yes. Zuko/Azula for example.

U.) If you mostly have het ships, do you have any same sex ships.
I don't think I apply.

V.) Are you one of those fans who can’t watch anything without shipping.
Nope. No shipping required. I don't ship anyone on The Wire. Or Mad Men.

W.) 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandoms.
Deadpool
Helena Bertinelli
Anthy
Damien Vryce
Kalinda

X.) 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms.
Balder/Loki, Fakir/Ahiru, Seishirou/Subaru

Y.) A fandom you’re in but have no ships from.
... Legend of Korra, I guess? Does it count as being in the fandom if you're not reading fics, only reading discussions though?

Z.) Just ramble about something fan-related, gggo.
I'm sometimes taken by impulse of trying to draw a comparison between Suzaku/Lelouch & Xavier/Magneto ( & perhaps Shion/Nezumi for good measure) as pairings of characters where both characters are contrasted on political issues along a cynicism/pragmatism vs idealism/peacefulness also stuff about showmanship and melodrama and ruthlessness and twists. I dunno, perhaps I'd need to add a few more pairings for it too.

Comments

[brooms]

I'm sometimes taken by impulse of trying to draw a comparison between Suzaku/Lelouch & Xavier/Magneto ( & perhaps Shion/Nezumi for good measure)

oh, that's nice to read, so i wasn't just imagining similarities. i thought of putting together a shion/nezumi/charles/erik picspam once.

[salinea]

yeah, Shion/Nezumi feel similar in enough ways I wonder if it wasn't intentional, but Lelouch/Suzaku is the one that is different yet similar enough to be entertaining in brain breaking ways.

I'd love to see such a picspam!!

[brooms]

i was just very in love with the saved from a storm/saved from the sea imagery (pretty caps!).

i'm not familiar with lelouch and suzaku/code geass (?), unfortunately, but now i'm curious. i'd love to read about how they compare to the other two relationships, so i'm all for you embracing that impulse.

[solesakuma]

Well, I do think that just discussing something counts as 'fandom', yeah.

Uh, I'd love that comparison - because I really dig that kind of ships. Although I'd really love a female/female example.

(Totally random question - have you by any chance joined the Tag Wrangling volunteers at the AO3?))

[salinea]

Although I'd really love a female/female example.
I would, too!! The closest i can think of is Melisande/Phèdre, but there's very little emphasis on ideological disagreement as such.


(Totally random question - have you by any chance joined the Tag Wrangling volunteers at the AO3?))
Nope. Been considering, but between comicstore_news and scans_daily I figure my plate is full as far as fandom organisation commitment go.

[solesakuma]

Yeah, I was thinking of Dumbledore/Grindelwald and the Doctor/the Master who have a sorta similar dynamic but I can't really think of a female example.

Oh, okay! I just think I saw a 'salinea' in some of TW chats and was wondering... XD (Hm, I'm a TW staffer)

[rosehiptea]

Oh neat, I'm going to do this!

(I'm still laughing over "Mpreg Clow Card.")

[salinea]

Glad you appreciate XD

[rosehiptea]

Oh, and ATLA is my answer for J too.

[hamsterwoman]

OKay, maybe Haggard/Unicorn.

*waits to be proven wrong*

LOL. Ok, I don't know of any out there, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did exist :P

Yes. Zuko/Azula for example.

I didn't know that!

Mad Men as cookie cutter AU.

Google isn't helping, so... what's a cookie cutter AU?

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

they have great chemistry, in a totally creepy, obsessive way!!

really? oh wait, of course, I mean, I'm very open about it, but until recently you didn't pay attention to posts avout Avatar I guess ^^ I even wrote one fic (it's more UST, but)!

What I mean by cookie cutter is... the sort of alternate setting with very firmly set genre conventions and roles that you can use to mold any fandom. The quintessential cookie cutter AU is the High school AU for example.

[trobadora]

A.) Your current OTP.
Xavier/Magneto

Hee! Mine too. :D

D.) A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.
I vaguely feel this way about Magneto/Rogue.

For me, it's mostly that I don't get it. I don't have anything against it, I just don't get what they see in each other. I can see they're attracted to each other, but what the hell it is that attracts them just eludes me. (Besides, I always feel Magneto talks to her more like a mentor than like a lover. Maybe that's just me.)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

well, yes, that's also the problem for me. I mean, at first I think i was a little bit squicked by it; but then I saw more convincing arguments (such as very hot fanart; and people bashing it which as a contrarian made me more favourable to it) so now what I mostly feel is... I love both characters, they're both incredibly hot, and they're currently canon so I kind of wish I could just enjoy them together but instead I keep wondering: "but what do they see in each other" and be puzzled.

Besides, I always feel Magneto talks to her more like a mentor than like a lover. Maybe that's just me
No, you're right. I mean, perhaps it's just the age thing, plus he's Magneto so he can be overbearing; but I think that vibe of condescension/paternalism is what initially put me off the pairing. Although Rogue can definitely also set boundaries and fight for herself when she wants, and Magneto usually respects her as a team leader otherwise... but.

[inboots.livejournal.com]

For me, it's mostly that I don't get it. I don't have anything against it

i don't get it either, i can't even imagine them having run of the mill, domestic conversations. but this alone doesn't bother me. there are about a thousand things and relationships i don't get in comics and other media and it's no skin off my back. i just roll with it.

but i DO have something against rogueneto. i don't like it because it tarnishes magneto for me. it makes me like him a lot less because suddenly he's not suave nazi hunter european gentleman, he's like those old creeps who perv on early-twenties women at gyms and bars to me. it's ew and nasty and the opposite of what i want, tyvm.

but i fully realize it's a personal thing. just like imagining bruce wayne banging any of his wards tarnishes batman for me, while bruce/dick or jason or tim are legit ships for many ppl! and that's okay! it's just character-ruining for me.

[aeka.livejournal.com]

I.) Has the internet caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why.
Never completely, but sometimes it does make it harder to like it. Bashers of ships and characters especially do get to me; much as I'd rather ignore them. Also collectively, I think the general emptiness and badness of anime/manga series fanfics is one of the thing that drove me away from this fandom. Especially for series like Pandora Hearts.

Motto. Aside from the lack of actual anime/manga to pique my interest as of late, I find anime fangirls particularly brutal in their hating on female characters that get in the way of their ships especially. Often times this complete dislike of a particular character will extend over to fanfic to the point of writing them completely ooc for the sake of making their ship look good. Or at least this was true with the anime fandoms I was a part of.

Mind you these things aren't unique to anime fandom, but for some reason I found the character bashing a tad bit more brutal in anime fandom than in any other fandom I've been a part of, including Doctor Who fandom.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

hmm you may be right about female characters hatred - although I hadn't noticed it yet (I pick my flist carefully). It certainly affects some bad characterisation as you say.

[alexeia-drae.livejournal.com]

Yay! Another Anthy fan! I hate that she's so misunderstood.

And your headcannon with Saionji makes perfect sense. My sis and I once made a list of characters we believed were abused growing up or witnessed abuse and Saionji was one of the few who made our list.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Anthy is one of my all time favourite character. She's just... wonderful and so compelling and complex a character and guh.

yeaaah, it's one of those things that just make sense. Pretty sure I didn't make it up, just stole it from someone else.

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

Also collectively, I think the general emptiness and badness of anime/manga series fanfics is one of the thing that drove me away from this fandom.

This is really frustrating to me, as someone on the other side of the equation, because the vast majority of the time it's anime/manga/JRPG series that make me want to write lots of fanfiction, and fandom at large is likely to assume such fic is not worth looking at. It's not that I don't like other media (my devotion to The Wire is passionate and intense, and my DS9 and B5 ships make me swoon as much as anything even though I can't bring myself to write for them), just that they don't inspire me to go look for fan communities online and start showing them my pairings and brainstorming ideas for fanfic. But...the sheer extent of the fanfic-writing community for anime/manga fandoms, and awareness of it in media fandom at large, absolutely pales in comparison to the fanfic-writing communities for other fandoms. And I know that recognition by others is not the best reason to write fanfic, but it still kind of sucks that the effort I put into my Gundam 00 fanfiction, for example, is far less noticed than the same effort would be if I'd put it into, say, the reboot of Star Trek.

When I finally put the same kind of dedication I used to pour into anime fandoms into a Western video game fandom, I got attention and praise and recognition within the fandom like that. (Which wasn't entirely a good thing, considering the way it ended.)

I guess I'm saying that sometimes this is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I don't ship Haggard/Unicorn, but the basis for it is clearly there. You have let your doom in by the front door, though it will not depart that way. Not to mention the running motif of him looking for himself in Amalthea's eyes. Yeah, if I often got fannish about books the way I do about anime and video games, I would be all over lots of things in this one.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I love your fanfics. In Terra e you were one of the only ficcer you did Keith/Matsuka (and Keith centered fanfics in general) regularly and that was so awesome, and I did not think I was shy in commenting on the fact that I loved them? And because of that and a few other couple writers who had usually sadly only written one fic each this particular anime fandom, small as it was, was better than the others. But Code Geass had lots of fics, but generally awful (and I did keep trying), so was Pandora Heart, especially since what really worked for me was OT3 fics of which there were, like, 2 fics written by the time I gave up; Michiko e Hatchin and Black Lagoon, I made the mistake of craving for femslash, which proved untenable. Natsume has some few fanfics, but for my pairing very little & nothing I've seen worth reading. And for the rest, there are those fandoms i'd been in before really getting into anime - the Revolutionary Girl Utena, the Princess Tutu, all the CLAMP, and Gankutsuou, which are good enough, at least most of the time. But at this point in time, not enough to sustain a main fandom interest.

Don't put me with the dismissive, snobbish "media" fandom people - because that is so not the place I'm starting from. I've always loved manga & anime a fair deal, and I expect I shall continue to. And I never assumed they would be of lower quality than other fandoms by prejudice; because one of my first, significant fandom was CLAMP, it where I learned most of the ropes, and incidentally written the most fanfics, and I still have a lot of awesome memories associated with it. And from Utena I know how ridiculously smart and in depth some anime fandom can be. And there are very, very few TV show fandom I could claim to have the sort of fascination with that sparks fandom, just like you. And I've butted my head against that particular wall quite a few times myself.

I don't ship Haggard/Unicorn, but the basis for it is clearly there. You have let your doom in by the front door, though it will not depart that way. Not to mention the running motif of him looking for himself in Amalthea's eyes.
Isn't it? I'm glad other people see it :D

[flo-nelja.livejournal.com]

"Mpreg Clow Card"
C'est tombé sur qui ? ^^

J'adore ce genre de mèmes... mais celui-là, je me retrouve à sécher à la question 1. Damn. ^^

Ooh, et je voudrais lire la comparaison entre Suzaku/Lelouch et Xavier/Magneto ! (et d'autres pairings éventuellement ;-) )

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

C'est tombé sur qui ? ^^
Seishirou.

[q99.livejournal.com]

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E.) Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what stupid crack.
"Mpreg Clow Card"-

Ok, that's pretty cracky :)

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T.) If you mostly have same sex ships, do you have any het ships.
Yes. Zuko/Azula for example.
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Azuko?

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Y.) A fandom you’re in but have no ships from.
... Legend of Korra, I guess? Does it count as being in the fandom if you're not reading fics, only reading discussions though?-

Gonna say yes.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Azuko?
I think it goes by "Zucest".

[i-llbedammned.livejournal.com]

Heh. Snape/Lupin was actually the first pairing to get me into Harry Potter fanfiction as well.

Balder/Loki, a pairing fit to end the world.