My Fannish Heart

[geoviki]

How did 11 months go by without me posting? Like this: whooooosh!So hi, everyone who still might be here. I never imagined myself turning into an LJ lurker, but apparently I have. I still click on my flist all the time, but I've just felt, I dunno, thinking that my fannish interests and little life stories would just be dull reading. But so many of

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[sassy_cissa]

It's good to hear from you!! The one thing I love about LJ and fandom is that no matter how long you're gone....you can always come home.

Welcome home. ♥

[djin7]

Love that! Home. :)

[geoviki]

Yep, our old friends are there to welcome us. Although I think it's like coming home as a grown adult comes home to parents - your old My Little Ponies are still there on the bedroom shelf, but maybe Mom's got her sewing machine in there now, too, and your bedspread is one you aren't familiar with.

But dinners are still scrumptious!

[photoash]

Hey you! :) Glad to see an update <3

I am like you, I read lj very frequently but never post anymore :/ I just don't have much to say. I fell in love with marvel (well with Bucky and Steve <3 so many feels :D ) but otherwise I'm kinda meh. I liked Loveless forever ago :) when it was popular. I didn't know it was still being published but sad to hear it's going nowhere :/ bummer. the artwork was so gorgeous O_O though!

Did you watch Kids on the slope? I really really liked it and saw it a couple years ago. I recommend from an anime pov of just something pretty and interesting to watch :) and five centimeters per second was gorgeous it's just a one off.

[geoviki]

I'm not surprised you used to be a Loveless fan. I like the artwork, plus I like how messed up most of the characters are, psychologically. It's really creative and engaging to me but apparently not to the mangaka, although she worked them into a very interesting bunch of cliff-hangers. After TokyoPop went under, Vis picked up the English publications, and went as far as retranslating and reissuing all of the earlier versions as well. Volume 12 just came out a few weeks ago, but of course that's at least a year behind the Japanese releases.

I cannot wait to see what happens with English releases by Miyamoto Kano! I still adore her stuff to bits, although the latest scanlations are less than what we know they could be.

I've never even heard of those two animes, so I'll have to check them out, thanks!

[djin7]

<3 I have a couple of those, also! Dead fandoms or very inactive ones. But I actually forced myself to seek out an active one; I am so accustomed now to having copious amounts of fanfic and excitement at my fingertips for so long, thanks to being spoiled by the Harry Potter Fandom.

So, I actually *forced* myself to wade into the Supernatural Fandom. I'd heard about the crazy, but thought, erroneously, as it turns out, that it couldn't be *worse* than the Harry Potter fandom. Or like the BtVs fandom before it. That said, I'm a veteran, now. I can avoid the wank faster than a ninja on speed these days. I don't hesitate to get out of the frying pan before anything happens, so I can thank HP for that, too.

But the SPN fic, excepting the disappointing amount of locked-down, flounced, purged from the wanks, is magnificent. And the omgwoahpretteh on tumblr is goddamn good, too. The show is in its tenth year, and that means more is coming. So yay!

Join us for the HP reunion, though. No fic required, just hanging out and reminiscing!

[geoviki]

Yes, I really hope to join the HP reunion. I thought that was such an inspired idea, and I can't wait to see how it plays out.

I'm not sure I could bite on Supernatural. I think I've become too aware of the wank even from a distance. Plus I don't seem to be able to engage in TV or movie fandoms nearly as well as I can the print ones. I need time to digest the source material and books/manga seem to be the perfect pace for me.

[amanuensis1]

Hi there! Yeah, like you, I'm on LJ every day, but I just haven't had post ideas that I thought would be interesting. I'm still clinging to anime in places--there's a new season right now of Kuroshitsuji, so that's a nice revival for me.

[themostepotente]

A new season? WHAT?

[amanuensis1]

Yeah, Kuroshitsuji: Book of Circus! They're adapting the Circus arc. It's supposed to take place within the events of season one. How 'bout that, huh? :D

[geoviki]

You'll laugh, but I've been dutifully saving all of the releases of Kuroshitsuji on my hard drive, yet I'm unable to begin because OMG, so many! One day I surely will, but today is not that day.

While I've got you handy, I did want to personally rec you a fic. IIRC, you're big on fairy tales, too. This story is nominally from the Saiyuki fandom but it's such an AU that the only thing left from the original is hair and eye color of two of the characters. Otherwise, it's damn near original fic and perhaps you'll enjoy it as much as I did. It's called Ragnarr and the Trow Wife by Avierra.

[themostepotente]

Hello Viki dearest <3

[geoviki]

Penny! *glomps* Nice to hear from ya!