New-to-You Fandoms

[moetushie]

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?

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[alias_sqbr]

Steven Universe! I've just watched the season 1-3 dvds and am waiting for access to the later episodes, so I'm still holding myself back a little from the fandom. I think being warned ahead of time of the things that commonly piss people off has let those aspects roll over me, but having been surrounded by so much discussion of it already (since I move in circles where anything Animated Femslash Scifi is going to be everywhere) means every key scene has played out in front of me in gifset so many times it doesn't feel very fresh once I watch it in context. I'm still enjoying it though.

[moetushie]

I've seen a few episodes and it seems like a very cute show. :)

I've noticed that too -- when you hear that there's a Big Moment coming up (in my case, it's character deaths -- always with the character deaths) -- the impact is definitely less shocking than it would be otherwise. But I'm a devoted spoiler hound so I wouldn't have it any other way.

[alias_sqbr]

Character deaths are less of an issue with Steven Universe, since it's a kids show, but there were a few twists it might have been fun to be surprised by.