30 Days of Guardian Day 4
Sep. 2nd, 2019 07:35 pm30 Days of Guardian Day 4: How you started watching
This was one of the questions I added and I'm frankly really hoping other people might answer it too -- I'm very interested in the answers because I suspect a large proportion of them are "through fandom".
It's definitely my answer! I had seen people like![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
naye and philomytha posting about these Chinese shows on DW for a while without managing to pick up anything else at all about them. (I don't think I distinguished between Guardian and Nirvana In Fire tbh.) Then at vidukon I was AMBUSHED by loneraven and soupytwist who sort of handed me a pen-drive. "You like hurt/comfort, we have a show which you will LOVE!" Then I had the 5-minute Weilan premise and I agreed that it did indeed sound interesting, and I put the files onto my laptop. Then started watching on the train home and the rest is history -- also from the train I tweeted that I was watching Guardian and I think naye retweeted me and then SUDDENLY MANY ENTHUSIASTIC NEW FRIENDS who lived through my show experience with me and just increased my whole enjoyment manyfold. (The twitter Guardian fandom is like a roving gang of muggers waiting to POUNCE on new people, it's hysterical.) But then I have also watched a load more cdramas because of being told to by twitter friends, and have watched (and encouraged) many other people to get into Guardian via this method. Best channel, I'm certain, and I knew absolutely what sort of fannish experience I was letting myself in for within a couple of hours.
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This was one of the questions I added and I'm frankly really hoping other people might answer it too -- I'm very interested in the answers because I suspect a large proportion of them are "through fandom".
It's definitely my answer! I had seen people like
naye and philomytha posting about these Chinese shows on DW for a while without managing to pick up anything else at all about them. (I don't think I distinguished between Guardian and Nirvana In Fire tbh.) Then at vidukon I was AMBUSHED by loneraven and soupytwist who sort of handed me a pen-drive. "You like hurt/comfort, we have a show which you will LOVE!" Then I had the 5-minute Weilan premise and I agreed that it did indeed sound interesting, and I put the files onto my laptop. Then started watching on the train home and the rest is history -- also from the train I tweeted that I was watching Guardian and I think naye retweeted me and then SUDDENLY MANY ENTHUSIASTIC NEW FRIENDS who lived through my show experience with me and just increased my whole enjoyment manyfold. (The twitter Guardian fandom is like a roving gang of muggers waiting to POUNCE on new people, it's hysterical.) But then I have also watched a load more cdramas because of being told to by twitter friends, and have watched (and encouraged) many other people to get into Guardian via this method. Best channel, I'm certain, and I knew absolutely what sort of fannish experience I was letting myself in for within a couple of hours.( gifs )
( All the days )
