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brightknightie) wrote2022-01-04 09:33 pm
brightknightie) wrote2022-01-04 09:33 pm
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'22 Snowflake Challenge #1: Fandoms
> "In your own space, update your fandom information!"
I choose to take this prompt as an invitation to chatter at great length about miscellaneous things I like. :-)
As you're here, you likely already know that the fandoms I most actively write, request, and interact with are Forever Knight (1992-1996), Highlander (1992-1998), Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985) (the cartoon), Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979) (the original), and (hope springs eternal) Young Blades (2005). You probably also know that I fell hard for Pokemon GO and wandered out from it into the wide (oh! so wide) Pokemon universe.
Beyond those dearest fandoms, I don't much write or read fanfic for other things that I watch and read, and so I don't often mention those other things here. They do exist...
Of TV shows currently still in production, I'm following The Equalizer on CBS, everything Marvel on Disney+, and most (most) things Masterpiece on PBS. (I'm especially looking forward to the return of Vienna Blood next weekend, and then Endeavour and Miss Scarlet and "The Duke" later this year.) I keep meaning to try Superman and Lois on the CW. I haven't yet returned to Star Trek: Discovery after its second season; I'm greatly looking forward to more Star Trek: Picard, though. I fell off Doctor Who during the Twelfth Doctor (not his fault; it was The Impossible Girl Who Would Not Leave), but keep meaning to pick up again somehow (I loved the 1st-7th Doctors in reruns on PBS; pity that I let myself fall away).
I don't have Netflix, HBO Max, AppleTV, or Hulu. So. Some stuff I'd really like to see, but I don't want to add a whole extra streaming subscription service. Of course, that was my position on Disney+ right up until WandaVision premiered, since when it has been, "Take my money!"
Of TV shows out of production, like almost all of us, I'm sure, I invested some serious love into Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel the Series in my time, though "my time" was late to the party, discovering their early seasons in syndicated reruns (back when syndicated reruns were a thing) while they were grinding out their later seasons with everyone else; I caught up just in time for the decline and fall. DS9 is still my personal favorite Trek, though TNG and TOS are easier for rewatching. The original CBS Beauty and the Beast is eternally a treasure. Forever was truly outstanding and should have run for years. Quantum Leap. Moonlighting. Doctor Quinn: Medicine Woman. Ballykissangel. Monarch of the Glen.
Thundaar the Barbarian. Darkwing Duck!
Robotech. Captain Harlock. Sailor Moon. Rurouni Kenshin! (Yes, that's right, I did say Robotech. Purists are welcome to their Japanese originals! But I love the American pastiche that meant a lot to me when I needed it to.)
Zorro, in all media, all generations, all productions. Ditto The Scarlet Pimpernel. Ditto, though with some caveats, The Three Musketeers.
Hanna-Barbara holiday specials.
I'm not kidding when I offer "most long-nineteenth-century" English-language literature for crossovers in fests, though "most" is, yes, overambitious, and you can totally trip me up. But! Golden age of the novel. My corner of academia (though I didn't stay in academia). Best books read in '21? Both by Wilkie Collins (how did I read only his short stories this long? never mind, such delight!).
Some of you know that I am a life-long comic book fan, and irrevocably a Marvel girl going back to the summer that Marvel ran Marvel Saga ("Continuity R Us") directly opposite DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths ("Nothing You Think You Know Is Safe"). Talk about counter-programming. Pre-adolescent me learned where her valuable quarters seemed safer. Even well before that, the Scarlet Witch had been my favorite superhero since I first read Marvel Team-up Annual #5. (Oh, yes, the scene when she tells Vision that it's sweet that he wants to help, but this is a magic-y thing, so he should just go back to the theater and enjoy the rest of the movie they were watching while she saves the world; still, just in case, if she's not back by morning, do grab the other Avengers and come running. ♥) Also Shadowcat, Magik, Mirage, Firestar, Captain America, and Doctor Strange (Wanda often guest-stars in Strange's books, if you didn't know). I also have dearly, dearly, original-Starblaze-editions-on-my-shelf loved Elfquest in my time, but that time is not right now.
MCU-wise, of course I love it in general and many things in particular! My opinions seem not to match prevailing tastes, which is fine. Truly! It just makes me want to not talk about some stuff in public. Some of us have been devastated by John Byrnes's stint on the West Coast Avengers since the '80s, and we must deal as we can. What a horrible mess he made, all because he didn't understand the metaphor... I was cowering, waiting for WandaVision to smite me with the burden of what Byrne did, and then it didn't, it evaded his mistakes so beautifully, moving from Englehart around Byrne as if it did understand, and I was so grateful... and now we're heading into Multiverse of Madness and I don't even know whether to dare hope we can dodge again... This is perhaps what happens when you love a superheroine long enough; you end up in constant fear of fridging (psychological in Marvel, physical in DC). Or maybe it's only me.
I was very wary of Loki's Sylvie at first in part because I am old-school and don't like that Amora is gone, and in part because we didn't know where her story was going. But now I love her. And I am nursing a theory that Sylvie Was Right. We shall see.
I don't read much MU or MCU fanfic. I suppose it's because I'm nowhere near finishing reading all the canon...? That would also explain why I don't read much Trek fanfic.
My official favorite movies are Dead Poets Society, The Muppet Movie, Miracle on 34th Street (the original), While You Were Sleeping, Beauty and the Beast (animated!), and Star Wars (the original). What I usually break out to watch when I'm sick or terribly sad, though, are the AMC Pride & Prejudice mini-series or Amazing Grace (2006 William Wilberforce biopic).
Calvin & Hobbes.
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet & series. Finn Family Moomintroll & series. Alanna: The First Adventure & series.
While of course I enjoy Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga very, very, very much -- Memory is my favorite! -- I actually enjoy her The World Of The Five Gods even more, in some ways that particularly click for me. I reread all of the Penric & Desdemona stories last year. Also The Hallowed Hunt.
Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories. Louise Penny's Armand Gamache stories.
And many more. :-)
How about you? Do you enjoy any of these?
I choose to take this prompt as an invitation to chatter at great length about miscellaneous things I like. :-)
As you're here, you likely already know that the fandoms I most actively write, request, and interact with are Forever Knight (1992-1996), Highlander (1992-1998), Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985) (the cartoon), Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979) (the original), and (hope springs eternal) Young Blades (2005). You probably also know that I fell hard for Pokemon GO and wandered out from it into the wide (oh! so wide) Pokemon universe.
Beyond those dearest fandoms, I don't much write or read fanfic for other things that I watch and read, and so I don't often mention those other things here. They do exist...
Of TV shows currently still in production, I'm following The Equalizer on CBS, everything Marvel on Disney+, and most (most) things Masterpiece on PBS. (I'm especially looking forward to the return of Vienna Blood next weekend, and then Endeavour and Miss Scarlet and "The Duke" later this year.) I keep meaning to try Superman and Lois on the CW. I haven't yet returned to Star Trek: Discovery after its second season; I'm greatly looking forward to more Star Trek: Picard, though. I fell off Doctor Who during the Twelfth Doctor (not his fault; it was The Impossible Girl Who Would Not Leave), but keep meaning to pick up again somehow (I loved the 1st-7th Doctors in reruns on PBS; pity that I let myself fall away).
I don't have Netflix, HBO Max, AppleTV, or Hulu. So. Some stuff I'd really like to see, but I don't want to add a whole extra streaming subscription service. Of course, that was my position on Disney+ right up until WandaVision premiered, since when it has been, "Take my money!"
Of TV shows out of production, like almost all of us, I'm sure, I invested some serious love into Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel the Series in my time, though "my time" was late to the party, discovering their early seasons in syndicated reruns (back when syndicated reruns were a thing) while they were grinding out their later seasons with everyone else; I caught up just in time for the decline and fall. DS9 is still my personal favorite Trek, though TNG and TOS are easier for rewatching. The original CBS Beauty and the Beast is eternally a treasure. Forever was truly outstanding and should have run for years. Quantum Leap. Moonlighting. Doctor Quinn: Medicine Woman. Ballykissangel. Monarch of the Glen.
Thundaar the Barbarian. Darkwing Duck!
Robotech. Captain Harlock. Sailor Moon. Rurouni Kenshin! (Yes, that's right, I did say Robotech. Purists are welcome to their Japanese originals! But I love the American pastiche that meant a lot to me when I needed it to.)
Zorro, in all media, all generations, all productions. Ditto The Scarlet Pimpernel. Ditto, though with some caveats, The Three Musketeers.
Hanna-Barbara holiday specials.
I'm not kidding when I offer "most long-nineteenth-century" English-language literature for crossovers in fests, though "most" is, yes, overambitious, and you can totally trip me up. But! Golden age of the novel. My corner of academia (though I didn't stay in academia). Best books read in '21? Both by Wilkie Collins (how did I read only his short stories this long? never mind, such delight!).
Some of you know that I am a life-long comic book fan, and irrevocably a Marvel girl going back to the summer that Marvel ran Marvel Saga ("Continuity R Us") directly opposite DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths ("Nothing You Think You Know Is Safe"). Talk about counter-programming. Pre-adolescent me learned where her valuable quarters seemed safer. Even well before that, the Scarlet Witch had been my favorite superhero since I first read Marvel Team-up Annual #5. (Oh, yes, the scene when she tells Vision that it's sweet that he wants to help, but this is a magic-y thing, so he should just go back to the theater and enjoy the rest of the movie they were watching while she saves the world; still, just in case, if she's not back by morning, do grab the other Avengers and come running. ♥) Also Shadowcat, Magik, Mirage, Firestar, Captain America, and Doctor Strange (Wanda often guest-stars in Strange's books, if you didn't know). I also have dearly, dearly, original-Starblaze-editions-on-my-shelf loved Elfquest in my time, but that time is not right now.
MCU-wise, of course I love it in general and many things in particular! My opinions seem not to match prevailing tastes, which is fine. Truly! It just makes me want to not talk about some stuff in public. Some of us have been devastated by John Byrnes's stint on the West Coast Avengers since the '80s, and we must deal as we can. What a horrible mess he made, all because he didn't understand the metaphor... I was cowering, waiting for WandaVision to smite me with the burden of what Byrne did, and then it didn't, it evaded his mistakes so beautifully, moving from Englehart around Byrne as if it did understand, and I was so grateful... and now we're heading into Multiverse of Madness and I don't even know whether to dare hope we can dodge again... This is perhaps what happens when you love a superheroine long enough; you end up in constant fear of fridging (psychological in Marvel, physical in DC). Or maybe it's only me.
I was very wary of Loki's Sylvie at first in part because I am old-school and don't like that Amora is gone, and in part because we didn't know where her story was going. But now I love her. And I am nursing a theory that Sylvie Was Right. We shall see.
I don't read much MU or MCU fanfic. I suppose it's because I'm nowhere near finishing reading all the canon...? That would also explain why I don't read much Trek fanfic.
My official favorite movies are Dead Poets Society, The Muppet Movie, Miracle on 34th Street (the original), While You Were Sleeping, Beauty and the Beast (animated!), and Star Wars (the original). What I usually break out to watch when I'm sick or terribly sad, though, are the AMC Pride & Prejudice mini-series or Amazing Grace (2006 William Wilberforce biopic).
Calvin & Hobbes.
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet & series. Finn Family Moomintroll & series. Alanna: The First Adventure & series.
While of course I enjoy Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga very, very, very much -- Memory is my favorite! -- I actually enjoy her The World Of The Five Gods even more, in some ways that particularly click for me. I reread all of the Penric & Desdemona stories last year. Also The Hallowed Hunt.
Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories. Louise Penny's Armand Gamache stories.
And many more. :-)
How about you? Do you enjoy any of these?
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Forever Knight was the first fandom I actively participated in, and the first one I wrote for, although I didn't get involved until I was in university, a couple of years after it finished airing.
I also have fond memories of Ruroni Kenshin from that era. It was a staple of my university's anime club showings, and my favourite of the shows we watched.
Forever absolutely should have run longer.
I've really only read Bujold's Vorkosigan books. I should check out some of her other works.
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I think I had to have known that you were familiar with Rurouni Kenshin, because you recommended the "Swordsman" crossover with HL, but I actually hadn't processed that it ranked among your favorites in any genre -- I may have thought you ran across the story for other reasons! I read all the RK manga (translated) and watched all the animae (subtitled). Such a fantastic fusion of historical fiction, genre adventure, and the pervasive social/emotional strains of a society coming out of such a warring period.
Thinking about it makes me want to revisit it, wondering, sadly, whether those themes of strain are more relevant to our society today, though we are now in the middle, not come out the other side...
Bujold's non-Vorkosigan works