Prejoin Day 11 - Discussion Time!

[suguro]

Only 4 more games to go to finish the prejoin game-posting! Remember that the prejoin event lasts until March 31st so feel free to promote the community to other people you think would want to join during this period! Other than that, please help us reach our deck count goal! We've had a few donations already but not as many as we would like, help us out!
Now onto today's game! for today I bring another good old discussion round! hardest game, I tell ya



Today is fandom talk! I would like to know your opinion about fanfics and other fandom-related activities (fanart, cosplay, doujinshi, fanmixes, blogs, roleplay, etc)! Do you like them/dislike them? Do you contribute to fandom with any of these acitivities? Feel free to list the various ways you have contributed to fandom in the past and even link stuff if you feel like it! If by chance you don't participate in fandom-related activities besides TCGs, you can list your reasons, too! For this round I will give away 3 random cards but you have to write at least 3 lines in your comment! I know all of you can do that~
Prizes will be handed out in this post so no need to link to your prize thread! If you have any questions, let me know!

Comments

[omokage]

Hmmm fandom. I guess I can say I have a kind of complicated relationship with fandom, since I went from not even knowing what the word meant/entitled to being really aware of it in a time span of one year. I say it's complicated because I'm very easily influenced and everything, from a fanart to a discussion board to something some one mentioned, can make me look at the canon differently. It can go from making me like a pairing I didn't even know it existed, to making me look differently at the relationship of two character. I don't particularly like the latter because once I've seen it, I can't ignore it and idk it makes me feel like people are putting ideas into my head XD, so I try to keep my interactions with fandom to a minimum and only talk about the things I like with the people I know.

I'm very canon oriented, so I don't particularly like fanfiction (although I remember that one awesome fic Joyce made me read) and I can't, for the life of me, write one. I've never read a doujinshi, though I want to read at least one (I really want to read that Adashino doujinshi that is somewhere in the depths of Marge's computer lol), and many things I like have little to no fandom (some of them don't even have fanart). Regarding other fandom related stuff like fanmixes, I can't say I'm familiar with them and cosplay, well, I would like to cosplay something simple at least once, since it's pretty expensive.

The thing I like from fandom is looking at fanart. I really enjoy it and it was through fanart that I felt motivated to read/watch some series that I really love now, like One Piece, Giant Killing and Gundam 00. Being in TCGs is the only way I've ever contributed to fandom and I like them because it gives me a chance to share the things I like and maybe meeting people who also like them. Wow this was longer than I expect it XD ugh I hope this doesn't make me sound like square and that I only like obscure stuff D:

[suguro]

whaaat, the stuff you listed are super mainstream.