[ SECRET POST #5630 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5630 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Happy Place media

[pantswarrior]

Hah, yeah, I finally "rewatched" The Rising too, and literally remembered none of it except having seen the opening sequence and being really jealous of everyone who got to see it in a theater. :P Definitely better when you're doing okay enough to digest these things!

As for the old fandom... not sure if you mean GB or T&B? Get Backers fandom for me was basically "me and a group of friends that got into it after one of us got into it and talked us into watching it", plus a few people I met via a very old RP on... what was that place, GreatestJournal I think? The larger fandom kinda fell apart when the manga stopped getting translated, but had a resurgence about ten years ago when ...I think a scanlation team finished what the official translation didn't. (And for the same reasons... I never checked that out. I really should.)

T&B fandom is scattered much like all older fandoms that used to congregate on LJ, as far as I can tell. I've got a small group of folks I mostly either already knew (most of whom I dragged into it with me) or that I met via cons and cosplay, one of them made a Facebook group and now a Discord, but it's pretty scarce. Kind of Discord where no one says anything for several days then one of us finds something and we have an hour long discussion before disappearing again, hahah.

...Also I um. Just discovered that people had been discussing one of my old T&B fics on Twitter awhile back... so I guess there's some fandom there I just hadn't crossed paths with. (Presently incredibly flattered, but also "omg people can see me?!".)

Re: Happy Place media

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - GB I meant. Aw... That's a pity. I never read the manga, didn't know it ended that long ago. Yeah, this friend who recommended GB to me ages ago, we met on... a Neopets guild, actually. No idea of where GB fans were active lol. But a lot of people liked it so I was hoping a fandom would still exist, even if small.

Much like EVERY fandom? I don't even know where fandoms gather anymore. It's me and my 2 pals on Tumblr/Twitter. Back when LJ communities were still around there were rewatch sessions, like the CG community did (in my mind that was yesterday, but "yesterday" probably means 9 years ago) and that shared "didn't notice that before / MISSED THAT SCENE" experience was neat. Discord, huh? Sounds good! Maybe I will... make an account.

It's crazy how some old fandoms still exist but the way they work is a mystery tbh. Seeing Ouran Host Club for sale on Hot Topic (in prime 2021) made me reminisce it, and then I learned on Twitter that some people believe TikTok launched my favorite obscure OKHC ship (!?) and this is why there's been so much fic on AO3 recently. Apparently fandoms gather on TikTok?? What's that?? Sometimes I follow fanartists for old series I like only to find out they're minors? I even exchanged Oofuri fics with a kid?? What is the world coming to?

... Anyway, shock aside. Yeah, some old fandoms still exist Somewhere, pretty sure of it. No idea where that is, though. (Maybe TikTok.)

Re: Happy Place media

[pantswarrior]

Hah, you're right - EVERY fandom these days. I guess the scattering is just more obvious when there used to be a place that the fandom congregated.

...I dusted off my own Tumblr to try to read some tags last night, and that was tedious enough, but if fandom's gathering on Tiktok? Uhhh. I'll just be hiding with my fellow old folks.

(And I think the GB manga was still ongoing in the very very long last arc, when the official translation ended only a little ways into it :P My ex and I, we pretty much got together thanks to shipping Emishi/Amon instantly when Amon showed up, so when we got scans of the last manga chapter we just DIED even though we were not entirely sure wtf was going on there. :D)