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New-to-You Fandoms
Hi! I thought I'd jump in here with a question. Are you currently into a fandom that's new to you (even if it's been around for a while?) What fandom is it? How do you feel about being a little late to the party, as it were? Let's get into it!
I'm going through this right now with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which has been around as long as I have (we're both a product of the late eighties) but I'd never thought about watching or reading until now. (I thought of it as a weird posing manga/anime with fighting robots? I was right about the posing, wrong about the robots and also like Steve Rogers, I get that reference!)
Right now, I'm very much enjoying consuming the canon, but as for producing fanwork... It's kind of hard to imagine producing anything that hasn't been done many times before. It's an old-new fandom conundrum, I think.
How about you?
I'm going through this right now with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which has been around as long as I have (we're both a product of the late eighties) but I'd never thought about watching or reading until now. (I thought of it as a weird posing manga/anime with fighting robots? I was right about the posing, wrong about the robots and also like Steve Rogers, I get that reference!)
Right now, I'm very much enjoying consuming the canon, but as for producing fanwork... It's kind of hard to imagine producing anything that hasn't been done many times before. It's an old-new fandom conundrum, I think.
How about you?
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So I'm definitely late to the party, but at this point most of the people who were watching these movies when they first came out are, well, dead. We've basically cycled into a new fandom of people discussing the movies both as art and as historical artifacts.
There's a decent amount of discussion and picspam out there to enjoy. Not so much other fanworks. I wish there were more vids.
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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.)
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It is a bit strange to find oneself in the middle of a megafandom again, since the last several years my main fandom had been The Mentalist...
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