Everything needs dragons
Jun. 10th, 2019 07:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowhiveThis weekend has been mostly a lazy one. Saturday I watched a few Good Omens eps then Killing Eve and games a little.
Sunday was even more lazy I meant to watch more Good Omens or Enterprise but I did neither. I ended up dozing in the afternoon and the day just... went. I didn’t even write any, but ah well.
At least I was up for the E3 streams.
First was the Xbox one. Like the last few ones it’s shows off a load of game trailers and there’s so many shown which is both good and bad. Good In that it shows off a lot, but bad that there’s nothing in depth shown for most of them. Games I’m hyped for though: The Outer Worlds, Blair Witch, Star Wars Fallen Order, Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga, Cyberpunk, most of the indies. Cyberpunk was one of the few that got some in depth stuff and that was thanks to Keanu Reeves being announced for it! Like a lot of people I’m wondering ‘is he romanceable?’ And he was actually there (and had a guy from the audience say he looked good).
Xbox game pass ultimate was up for £1 and getting it converted the Xbox live that I had so now I have game pass for a year, woo!
Then there was the gap between Xbox and Bethesda which I filled with random gaming (I went on one of the new game pass games for a bit, but it was a bit... I dunno.
The Bethesda stream was 1:30am here so I decided to watch that before sleeping. Bethesda does a bit more in depth with stuff which is good. Ghostwire looks spooky and awesome (and the Japanese lady presenting that section was so sweet and adorable, she just looked so happy to be there). Elder Scrolls Online had a new cinematic but not much in terms of info (probably since the new expansion for put out the other week, which I’ll likely get next week). One of the big news was a free patch adding things to Fallout 76 including npcs which is very much yes! I’ll need to go back on it soon.
Tonight is the Ubisoft stream which I’ll watch, there’s Square Enid too but I can take or leave it. Tomorrow is the Nintendo one which I’m looking forward too. Please let there be animal crossing info.
To end, the last two June Something questions before I revise some (and fic later).
9: What is the smallest fandom that you're in?
I’d probably say the Welsh bands. Especially Bullet For My Valentine. 98% of the Bullet fic out there is either by me or for me. Alas, there’s not much of it and I’m dying for new stuff.
The other welsh bands somehow fair worse. I get it for Funeral For A Friend, but The Blackout is inherently slashy due to Sean being... well, Sean. It sucks that there’s not much for British bands in general (like Fightstar) and it puzzles me why some bands (Madina Lake, Palaye Royale, Coheed And Cambria) don’t have stuff despite having pretty boys.
Also Hatari has no fics on ao3 yet. What the hell?
Ugh, I just don’t get people.
As for tv or film fandoms? I dunno. I’m not a super active reader or writer in those so... I dunno. There’s probably something I watch that doesn’t get enough love but my mind is blank.
10: What is the largest fandom that you're in?
Usually I’d say My Chemical Romance. It’s a weird fandom in that it never has truly died, but it’s also not quite as active as it once was. Most of the content on ao3 is also focussed on Frank/Gerard, more so than it used to be, and it seems there’s a shame culture around others. Especially Waycest, which there never used to be, but I got harassment on twitter because of it which is sucky but lead me (and someone else) to spite write it which was awesome.
Plus, poor Ray gets reduced to little more than a side character often which sucks.
However, my current big one is The Umbrella Academy (tv). Honestly I never imagined it to get so big. I hoped there’d be more content (there wasn’t much for the comics which was sad), but I never expected it to get *checks* over 4500 fics and it’s been, what? A few months? The community is all so nice (apart from the purity side on tumblr, ugh) and I love that Klaus/Diego has so much fucking content it’s insane. I’ve met so many good people through the Kliego discord and I also mod it now which is awesome. It’s so great to be part of such an active fan base for a thing, I’ve never had that before.
Plus the other brother pairings are awesome too. Diego/Luther, Ben/Klaus and the rpf ones for David/Justin/Robert are amazing (although theres not much of that alas).
Sunday was even more lazy I meant to watch more Good Omens or Enterprise but I did neither. I ended up dozing in the afternoon and the day just... went. I didn’t even write any, but ah well.
At least I was up for the E3 streams.
First was the Xbox one. Like the last few ones it’s shows off a load of game trailers and there’s so many shown which is both good and bad. Good In that it shows off a lot, but bad that there’s nothing in depth shown for most of them. Games I’m hyped for though: The Outer Worlds, Blair Witch, Star Wars Fallen Order, Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga, Cyberpunk, most of the indies. Cyberpunk was one of the few that got some in depth stuff and that was thanks to Keanu Reeves being announced for it! Like a lot of people I’m wondering ‘is he romanceable?’ And he was actually there (and had a guy from the audience say he looked good).
Xbox game pass ultimate was up for £1 and getting it converted the Xbox live that I had so now I have game pass for a year, woo!
Then there was the gap between Xbox and Bethesda which I filled with random gaming (I went on one of the new game pass games for a bit, but it was a bit... I dunno.
The Bethesda stream was 1:30am here so I decided to watch that before sleeping. Bethesda does a bit more in depth with stuff which is good. Ghostwire looks spooky and awesome (and the Japanese lady presenting that section was so sweet and adorable, she just looked so happy to be there). Elder Scrolls Online had a new cinematic but not much in terms of info (probably since the new expansion for put out the other week, which I’ll likely get next week). One of the big news was a free patch adding things to Fallout 76 including npcs which is very much yes! I’ll need to go back on it soon.
Tonight is the Ubisoft stream which I’ll watch, there’s Square Enid too but I can take or leave it. Tomorrow is the Nintendo one which I’m looking forward too. Please let there be animal crossing info.
To end, the last two June Something questions before I revise some (and fic later).
9: What is the smallest fandom that you're in?
I’d probably say the Welsh bands. Especially Bullet For My Valentine. 98% of the Bullet fic out there is either by me or for me. Alas, there’s not much of it and I’m dying for new stuff.
The other welsh bands somehow fair worse. I get it for Funeral For A Friend, but The Blackout is inherently slashy due to Sean being... well, Sean. It sucks that there’s not much for British bands in general (like Fightstar) and it puzzles me why some bands (Madina Lake, Palaye Royale, Coheed And Cambria) don’t have stuff despite having pretty boys.
Also Hatari has no fics on ao3 yet. What the hell?
Ugh, I just don’t get people.
As for tv or film fandoms? I dunno. I’m not a super active reader or writer in those so... I dunno. There’s probably something I watch that doesn’t get enough love but my mind is blank.
10: What is the largest fandom that you're in?
Usually I’d say My Chemical Romance. It’s a weird fandom in that it never has truly died, but it’s also not quite as active as it once was. Most of the content on ao3 is also focussed on Frank/Gerard, more so than it used to be, and it seems there’s a shame culture around others. Especially Waycest, which there never used to be, but I got harassment on twitter because of it which is sucky but lead me (and someone else) to spite write it which was awesome.
Plus, poor Ray gets reduced to little more than a side character often which sucks.
However, my current big one is The Umbrella Academy (tv). Honestly I never imagined it to get so big. I hoped there’d be more content (there wasn’t much for the comics which was sad), but I never expected it to get *checks* over 4500 fics and it’s been, what? A few months? The community is all so nice (apart from the purity side on tumblr, ugh) and I love that Klaus/Diego has so much fucking content it’s insane. I’ve met so many good people through the Kliego discord and I also mod it now which is awesome. It’s so great to be part of such an active fan base for a thing, I’ve never had that before.
Plus the other brother pairings are awesome too. Diego/Luther, Ben/Klaus and the rpf ones for David/Justin/Robert are amazing (although theres not much of that alas).
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Date: 2019-06-11 10:36 am (UTC)Oh, have you been doing a question meme? Awesome.
I hate that there's hate in bandom, I know there was always a bit but it seemed to be contained to the anon comms which were easy enough to stay away from. It sucks that it's become more vocal.
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Date: 2019-06-11 11:37 am (UTC)Yeah, one a day (roughly) 🖤
Me too, it’s so awful. It seems to have increased in recent years too, especially for Waycest (search for it anywhere and there’s so much hate for it, I’m sure it’s put people off writing it). It really sucks that it has