I think I'm where you are, only with Dragon Ball. I have almost finished reading the manga, and I want fic! Especially I want fic for the older fandom! But I'm so far behind everyone else that I don't even know where to go for it, and when I do go looking, all the tropes and norms and stuff from the 90s fandom are so different I can't get my footing.
I think there is actually a place for new fanfic for old fandoms (especially ones like Dragonball and JoJo that a lot of fans have a nostalgia for) because there's stories we tell now that are different from what people were telling twenty (or thirty, or forty) years ago; even if it's the same story, we tell it differently now - TOS Kirk/Spock hasn't run out of things to say yet - but my problem is I can never get the voice right to write fic without reading other fiction with the characters first, and I can't find the voices I want for Dragon Ball.
(I have JoJo on my very long list of old manga to read! I'm not sure if I could handle the art style or not, but it always sounded interesting.)
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I think there is actually a place for new fanfic for old fandoms (especially ones like Dragonball and JoJo that a lot of fans have a nostalgia for) because there's stories we tell now that are different from what people were telling twenty (or thirty, or forty) years ago; even if it's the same story, we tell it differently now - TOS Kirk/Spock hasn't run out of things to say yet - but my problem is I can never get the voice right to write fic without reading other fiction with the characters first, and I can't find the voices I want for Dragon Ball.
(I have JoJo on my very long list of old manga to read! I'm not sure if I could handle the art style or not, but it always sounded interesting.)