June Somthing I
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kradeelavI liked the questions on June Something (30 day fandom meme) and needed a fairly brainless/chill change in pace in topics, soooo here goes~
Having an impromptu hellsing photoshoot at my convention art table a few years back was mega cool. :') So was finding my ero/nsfw art in a russsian torrent doujin dump. that being said, meeting my steady girlfriend through hellsing beats all of them - one of those animes that ended up being a lot more emotionally truthful in its camp than I think it ever intended.
Writing LOZ (OoT/MM) fanfiction was my gatewaydrug? to the internet as a whole, and teen!krad needed a name for an OC-villain that came out of Ikana Valley (alluded to as Dark Vale in the fic aka <=> krad elav > 'krad(e)elav' > added an extra E because it sounded edgy lol)
i mean zihark's kind of the alpha and omega of my fandom contribution lmao (more on that later, likely). LOZ was kind of the ... proto-fandom? pre-interet-pre-knowlage-of-fandom so it's really interesting to remember how I started creating and consuming online by making sites and blog posts and forum posts (thedesertcolossus, serenesforest, thedekunut, etc)... then there was the whole span of social media years where other fandoms came and went ... aaaand now I'm back basically 100% on my site / randomly posting in fire emblem forums again, if a little less fandom-focused.
I met a lot of cool people on the years of social media but it's ... interesting seeing how very *little* of that permanence remains today. I don't know if I regret my social media years, I guess? It's a little sad. I think I appreciate them for what they were especially pre-2017, but fandom is pretty unrecognizable from how I care to participate in it, these days. (shrines/fansites, early tumblr, kinkmemes, incredible nsfw/edgy fandom art with soul, etc)
(I think it's one of the reasons that this meme looked appetizing - a gentle way to remember the good sides of fandom without being far too specific.)
Day 1: What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?
I got really, really back into Fire Emblem as a series thanks to its gacha game, lol. While FE was always going to have a place in my heart being the first fandom I seriously created art for, I sort of disowned it between the years of Awakening to Three Houses after being severely dissapointed in Awakening (I think a lot of people inevitably do get their hearts broken by media these days, if they put too much of their 'selves' in a franchise without caution.) Three Houses was okay, but being able to play again as all my personal favorites/(villains) and actually have a true competitive multiplayer experience while being brainless enough to distract me from Hell Year? hell yea
also valter is hot lol, man I slept on him the first few times I played FE8.
I got really, really back into Fire Emblem as a series thanks to its gacha game, lol. While FE was always going to have a place in my heart being the first fandom I seriously created art for, I sort of disowned it between the years of Awakening to Three Houses after being severely dissapointed in Awakening (I think a lot of people inevitably do get their hearts broken by media these days, if they put too much of their 'selves' in a franchise without caution.) Three Houses was okay, but being able to play again as all my personal favorites/(villains) and actually have a true competitive multiplayer experience while being brainless enough to distract me from Hell Year? hell yea
also valter is hot lol, man I slept on him the first few times I played FE8.
Day 2: You've got your OTP, you have to throw a third into the mix (from the same fandom), creating an OT3. Who is the OTP, and in your opinion, why would they make a perfect third for them? Bonus question: What about adding a third to your OTP from a different fandom? Who and why?
Alutegra + Seras from Hellsing is a no-brainer imo; they function as a threesome as is. While I don't enjoy Alucard/Seras as the same kind of M/s kink dynamic that Integra/Alucard clearly are, there is still definitely Some kind of chemistry what with the whole vampire fledgling/master thing and the idea of Integra/Seras being a steady (spicy! emotionally conflicting!!!) thing during the years of his absence is a whole slew of fics I still desperately wish existed.
(The even spicier option would be to say (FE) Petrine/Titania + adding Greil as the third because whooboy chemistry in Shades of Evil (that first map in Path of Radiance where Petrine shows up). Admittedly rational brain is not thinking too hard about this one other than 'they're color coordinated and would make helluva sparks off of each other lol' I'd post the shit out of that on a kinkmeme.)
Alutegra + Seras from Hellsing is a no-brainer imo; they function as a threesome as is. While I don't enjoy Alucard/Seras as the same kind of M/s kink dynamic that Integra/Alucard clearly are, there is still definitely Some kind of chemistry what with the whole vampire fledgling/master thing and the idea of Integra/Seras being a steady (spicy! emotionally conflicting!!!) thing during the years of his absence is a whole slew of fics I still desperately wish existed.
(The even spicier option would be to say (FE) Petrine/Titania + adding Greil as the third because whooboy chemistry in Shades of Evil (that first map in Path of Radiance where Petrine shows up). Admittedly rational brain is not thinking too hard about this one other than 'they're color coordinated and would make helluva sparks off of each other lol' I'd post the shit out of that on a kinkmeme.)
Day 3: What's a favorite, or at least memorable fandom meeting/interaction that you've had?
Having an impromptu hellsing photoshoot at my convention art table a few years back was mega cool. :') So was finding my ero/nsfw art in a russsian torrent doujin dump. that being said, meeting my steady girlfriend through hellsing beats all of them - one of those animes that ended up being a lot more emotionally truthful in its camp than I think it ever intended.
Day 4: What are the origins of your penname/username?
Writing LOZ (OoT/MM) fanfiction was my gateway
Day 5: Compare and/or contrast your very first fandom obsession and your very latest fandom obsession.
I met a lot of cool people on the years of social media but it's ... interesting seeing how very *little* of that permanence remains today. I don't know if I regret my social media years, I guess? It's a little sad. I think I appreciate them for what they were especially pre-2017, but fandom is pretty unrecognizable from how I care to participate in it, these days. (shrines/fansites, early tumblr, kinkmemes, incredible nsfw/edgy fandom art with soul, etc)
(I think it's one of the reasons that this meme looked appetizing - a gentle way to remember the good sides of fandom without being far too specific.)
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Date: 2021-08-14 12:01 pm (UTC)well now I have a Need too... every time I see you talking about Hellsing it makes me want to read the comic again, I read it so many years ago I barely remember anything. I wasn't really a shipper yet and sometimes I feel like I missed out for reading it without the shipping goggles lol
(btw this whole thing reminded me of some hellsing icons I found some time ago on some russian livejournal clone (?) they're very cool but I had nobody to share them with, until now I guess? lol)
aaaaaaaa 🥺 that's so cool, I love when these things happen 💖
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Date: 2021-08-15 07:51 pm (UTC)and ahaha yeah Hellsing's pretty fucky there; Ironically I had a pretty similar experience to you in reading it when super young / more into platonic ships - one of those timeless series where several readings are totally possible.