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fictional_fansHi! 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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Date: 2018-04-05 02:12 am (UTC)The thing about Jojo is that there is fic still being written for it -- it helps that it's still on-going, and the anime covered parts 1-4 came out a few years ago (and hopefully part 5 will be animated soon?) But most of the fannish activity is concentrated on part 3, which makes sense, it is pretty iconic, but a lot of it is, uh, not to my taste.
I want the late eighties/early nineties aesthetic, darn it, not modern AUs everywhere. Also the punch ghosts! Use the punch ghosts!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
That is such a good point -- and equally true for fandoms that have been around forever, like Tolkien or Sherlock Holmes.
(Do check it out if you have the time! The anime covers a lot of ground, but the style is also ... not without its challenges. It's such a wild ride though, I don't know if I'd straight up recommend it (it has a lot of eighties shounen manga sexism) but I'd encourage it if you like the weird, posing, vampires and literal fighting spirits?)