Fannish Friday

[lirazel]

Early this week, a thought appeared fully-formed in my mind: if snickfic was in CQL/MDZS fandom, she would have written Jiang Cheng mpreg fic already. And it would be glorious.

I do not know why I had this sudden thought, but I instantly knew the truth of it. And it got me thinking about how sometimes when you're interacting with a piece of media, you just know how a friend would relate to it.

So I pondered this some more and some other ideas came to mind about what would happen if various friends watched k-dramas.

+dollsome  would be delighted by Jun Ji-hyun's characters in things like My Love from the Star and Legend of the Blue Sea and I also think she would be a Kim Seul-gi fan
+elperian  and sophia_sol  would be into the competence and integrity of the characters in Healer and elperian  would be writing fic about Jung-hu and Young-shin taking down governments through the power of journalism and being an outlaw
+ I think dolorosa_12  would be moved by the family relationships and reflections on growing up and time passing, etc. in the Reply series.
 + And sooo many of y'all would love Ko Moon-young's unhinged energy in It's Okay to Not Be Okay


Do y'all have thoughts like this? Just knowing which of your friends would be into what in fandoms they aren't? Please share!

Comments

[goodbyebird]

I’m just here to say I love this post and also your brain.

[belecrivain]

this is so sweet!

(Occasionally I wonder what Australian Alex would make of, oh, any number of things, including post-Woollim Infinite and KinnPorsche.)

[dolorosa_12]

This post is so delightful and I love everything about it! And yep, family relationships and reflections on growing up and time passing is very much my thing! I've always been daunted by k-dramas due to the length (long episodes, and often what seem to be relatively long series) given I already watch a lot of TV and only have so many hours in the day, but I'm sure I'd enjoy the ones that matched my interests if I did!

There are a lot of books that I think particular Dreamwidth friends would enjoy, but I'm not sure anyone would become really fannish about them. (And sometimes I'm proved right, like with you and Juniper and Wise Child!)

[sunshine304]

My best friend is quite fannish but unfortunately just can't get into the Asian dramas I enjoy; the only ones she has watched (but doesn't get fannish about at all) are Alice in Borderland and Squid Game.

But I think she would really enjoy something like The devil Judge or Beyond Evil, and she'd gravitate to characters like Jin Guangyao and Xue Yang in CQL; I can especially see her loving Xue Yang because she enjoys these kinds of unhinged characters a lot! XD

Most of my other RL friends aren't fannish about media, so I can't see them really getting into it at all, unfortunately. It would be sooo nice! T_T And the online friends I have now are almost all into Asian dramas too. XD

There is a friend I've got from my PotC days; she might enjoy the gentle, fun rlationship dramas - like recently new Life Begins. I haven't seen it but it sounds like a very positive, fun show and I think she might enjoy that one.

[chestnut_pod]

Awww, this is so cute!

[sophia_sol]

ah I love this! And now I know where to turn if I want to start watching k-dramas :)

mostly, tbh, it only occurs to me to think about what a friend would be into if they request recommendations from me! someone says "give me a book to read" and I'm scrolling through all my reviews being like "HMMM WHICH WOULD SPEAK TO THEM"

[snickfic]

To be fair, "If Snick were in X fandom, she would have written mpreg already" is nearly always a true statement. 😂 But the question of who it would be about is an open one, it's true.

I will have to think about this for my friends and fandoms. 🤔

[thisbluespirit]

Do y'all have thoughts like this? Just knowing which of your friends would be into what in fandoms they aren't?

Occasionally, yes - or which fandoms they might like, more usually. But sometimes, if they were in this one - which they aren't and won't - they would like THIS bit/pairing/character.

Sometimes just wishing they would be because the fic would, indeed, be glorious and it would be awesome. /vaguely handwaves away people's own dear obsessions in favour of mine obv. heh.

[slaymesoftly]

LMAO at "snickfic would be writing mpreg already.

[likeadeuce]

I usually badger them into reading my stuff even if they're not in the fandom tbh :D

[dollsome]

I had to look up the shows you mentioned and they both sound AMAZING, especially the mermaid one!! I added that one to my list on Hulu! :D

For some reason I always feel like you would really like Severance. I have no idea if that's a correct read at all, but there's just something about its vibe that matches you in my brain! Maybe your love of old school Black Mirror? (Did you used to love Black Mirror or am I totally bonkers? I feel like you're the person I heard about the original first few seasons from but it's been so long!)

[tetralogy]

I have a couple fandom friends whose tastes align almost perfectly with my own. If I watch/read/play something where I go "Oh wow, that's really fucked up," I can basically guarantee that they'll be into it too lol. We're all into moral ambiguity, bittersweet or downright unhappy endings, and other grimdark foolery :p

On the flipside, I have other fandom friends whose tastes are polar opposite to mine to the point where I can easily predict if they will like something just based on how much I hate it lmao. For example, when one of them started reading "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers, I knew with complete certainty that she was going to love it, only because of how much of an anti-rec it is for me XD

[elperian]

elperian and sophia_sol would be into the competence and integrity of the characters in Healer and elperian would be writing fic about Jung-hu and Young-shin taking down governments through the power of journalism and being an outlaw

*fans eyes* I'm not tearing up with how happy this makes me, THIS IS FINE -

(Where can I watch this??? I haven't had much energy for subtitled movies recently, but for a tv show it's in shorter sprints!)