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THE LAZY FANPERSON'S MEME
HI EVERYBODY HERE AT LIVEJOURNAL, HOW Y'ALL DOING.Not going to spend a lot of time listing the new and improved methods of flaking out that I discovered during this most recent month, but needless to say yet again I am behind on KHR reviews, and this is mostly the fault of work, tumblr, and Skyward Sword (in that order). And to top it off I derped out on NaNoWriMo as well, though I did manage about 12,000 words of fic out of it, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Unfortunately the fic in question is long enough that it's still like maybe halfway done, if that. But I'm gonna try to get that finished in December anyway because I feel really weird not having posted at least one (non-crack) fic during this whole year. AND HEY WHAT DO YOU KNOW, THERE'S ONLY ONE MONTH LEFT OF SAID YEAR, WHAT IS EVEN UP WITH THAT ANYWAY.
But before that! I've been craving a good meme lately, but the thing about memes is that I keep derping out on them too. And I got to thinking that one of the main reasons for that is because when it comes to typical fandom memes, there are always parts of the meme that I LOVE, but also parts of the meme that FEEL LIKE HOMEWORK. Like for example, I will ramble on endlessly about my favorite characters, but with most fandoms I really do not have an OTP (because in a lot of fandoms I'm either PANSHIP...UAL, or I do have one or two favorite pairings but I'm not HARDCORE SHIP-IT-TILL-I-DIIEEEE enough to have any interesting insights or opinions regarding those ships), and I don't know enough about the online fandom to know what my unpopular opinion regarding the series is, and I don't remember enough about the canon to pick my favorite quote or top three scenes, etc.
So I was pondering all of this and then I thought WELL FUCK IT, THEN I'LL JUST MAKE UP MY OWN MEME. A MEME FILLED ONLY WITH QUESTIONS THAT I LIKE TO ANSWER! MANIACAL LAUGH, MANIACAL LAUGH.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN HERE IS THAT MEME:
Comment with one of my favorite fandoms and I will tell you the following:
1. My favorite character.
2. ANOTHER favorite character!!
3. My favorite character relationship, and by "relationship" I don't necessarily mean pairing and certainly not OTP, but on the other hand, depending on the fandom MAYBE I DO!
4. The moment/character/THING/WHATEVER that first hooked me on the fandom.
5. One of my favorite moments.
6. A song or track that reminds me of this fandom.
7. One miscellaneous awesome thing about the fandom.
8. One completely random thought I have regarding this fandom.
9. One fic/essay rec, fanart, or fanvid that depending on the fandom I either had lovingly bookmarked or saved onto my hard drive, or only just now found during a two-minute Google search.
HMM, that seems like enough questions, I should probably just STOP NOW ALREADY. So anyways, please post some fandoms if you are so inclined and I will GET TO ANSWERING over the next few days or so. :)
P.S. Since I still did not get to the HS question on my last long-since-died-who-am-I-even-trying-to-kid-anymore meme, for this meme HOMESTUCK IS A GIVEN. Meaning YOU DO NOT EVEN HAVE TO ASK THAT, I am already typing out my Homestuck response to this meme as we speak, because lol THAT SHIT'S OVERDUE.
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HOMESTUCK:
1. My favorite character.
Karkat. FUNNY THING ABOUT KARKAT--when he was first introduced, I'm pretty sure my exact reaction, almost word-for-word (or well, thought for thought since I didn't actually SAY IT OUT LOUD to my computer screen... at least I think I didn't) was, "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!" Because I knew from spoilers that at some point the troll characters were going to have a lengthy introduction, but Hussie had like the cockblockingest timing EVER when it came to actually doing that, and I forget now exactly what was going down with the human kids at that point, but man, was I ever pissed that all of a sudden the story was shifting from them to this other douchebag that NOBODY EVEN CARES ABOUT!!
Anyway, needless to say that changed pretty quickly. Karkat is awesome for a lot of the reasons Gokudera is awesome; this is my favorite character-type, what can I say. He's the ANGRY KID type who is always stressing over shit and flipping the fuck out over bullshit and yet SECRETLY (but not really that secretly) he has a HEART OF GOLD and over the course of the story he overcomes A MECTRIC FUCKTON of TRIALS AND SHIT, and becomes an unexpectedly awesome leader, so awesome that somehow these other 11 trollkids who are BATSHIT FUCKING INSANE all respect him to enough of a degree that they all followed him into battle and glory to SAVE THE WORLD, or technically I suppose to destroy the world and make a whole fucking new world which then also got destroyed (...whoops). Anyway, I love how on the outside he is a surly bundle of rage and determination with the literary grace of a Shakespeare with Tourette's, but on the inside he is really a giant woobie who loves his fellow trolls way too much for his own good, and like cries ALL THE TIME, KARKAT YOU CRY MORE THAN ALL OF THE OTHER CHARACTERS COMBINED, and has SO MANY INSECURITIES that I DON'T EVEN KNOW MAN. IT'S JUST ONE BIG SELF-DOUBTING AND SELF-HATING PARTY ALL UP IN THIS BITCH. Which is like my biggest character kink EVER lol so yeah. Basically, just. KARKAAAAAAAAT. <3
2. ANOTHER favorite character!!
DAVE. Oh man, how do I sum up my love for Dave without going into another long tangent that will result in this reply taking up like five comments. Okay... well, I love Dave because he is the man and he is absolutely every bit as cool as the text is always ironically pointing out, but he's also easily one of the biggest dorks in the whole series. Like, HE IS SUCH A LOSER IN SO MANY WAYS, lol it isn't even funny except IT SO IS hahaha. But he's cool because he is such a loser, weirdly enough, partly because he is enough of a master of irony that he knows that embracing his dorkhood unapologetically is cool in and of itself, and partly because those loserish qualities that he does feel embarrassed about are actually REALLY AWESOME QUALITIES and he is awesome to have them. Like looking up to his brother, or caring about his friends. DAVE, YOU SILLY, THOSE ARE GOOD THINGS TO DO, AND DOING THEM MAKES YOU A GOOD PERSON. You fucking dork you.
And then he is actually cool in non-ironic ways too, like say for example, how EVERY SINGLE WORD, PHRASE, OR SENTENCE THAT HE HAS EVER TYPED ON A KEYBOARD AND/OR BLINKED AT AN AWESOME PAIR OF COMPUTER SHADES IS SOMEHOW THE COOLEST FUCKING WORD, PHRASE, OR SENTENCE THAT HAS EVER BEEN TYPED OR BLINKED. I want a book with just Dave quotes. The sarcastic lowercase ironic wisdom of Dave Strider. That book would be like my fucking Bible. And there's also all of that time-travel shit which is off the fucking hook, and also the swords, of course. CAN'T FORGET THOSE SWORDS.
Basically, just. DAAAAAAAAAVE.
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John and Karkat. Not only do I adore the relationship in general, but I'm also kind of flabbergasted at how brilliantly it's played out over the course of the series. The way that Karkat trolled John backwards through the timeline so that we ended up seeing each of them at different stages in their relationship with each other, because Karkat is retarded like that, and John is just John so you know, he'll just go along with anything. XD Basically this was a relationship that only a series like Homestuck could have brought about, and I'll forever love Hussie for going to town with that time-travel weirdness and using it to develop one of the key relationships in his series in such a unique way.
Regarding the characters themselves, it amuses me to no end that Karkat is like a relationship pro (...SOMEHOW) and yet in spite of that (or maybe because of it), he absolutely can't nail down his feelings for John to save his life, and he keeps trying to put different labels on it and eventually it sneakily turns into a regular old human-style FRIENDSHIP without him ever really being able to understand or process this. And meanwhile John gets it almost right from the start and, once again, just kinda goes with it because he kinda sees right through Karkat's ANGRYKID exterior right from the get-go and is just like haha, Karkat, you are hilarious and you're also a right down decent chap, let's be bros. What I'm trying to say here is, THERE IS NO POSSIBLE WAY I COULD NOT LOVE THIS RELATIONSHIP, okay. It is everything I love, all my hopes and dreams and more.
4. The moment/character/THING/WHATEVER that first hooked me on the fandom.
I was enjoying Homestuck for the lulz for quite a while during the first couple of acts (especially anything that had to do with Dave, it's really almost pathetic how much I am totally topped by basically anything Dave says or does), but I don't think I really sat up and actually took notice until I got to [S] WV: Ascend. That was when my opinion of the series went from "man this series sure is funny and entertaining and occasionally intriguing" to "...SHIT JUST GOT REAL." Right when Dad's handcuffs clicked open. That was the exact moment that it happened.
5. One of my favorite moments.
For this, I'll list one of the first moments that really, really hit me BAM RIGHT IN THE HEART, CRITICAL FUCKING BLOW. There were plenty of times that the series had already made me go "awww" or "D:", but this particular moment was just that special sort of devastating that really is just like, "AW FUCK MAN, LOW BLOW." And the moment in question is about 3 minutes and 15 seconds into [S] Descend, when Dream!John is falling out of the tower and Dream!Jade flies after him trying to wake him up, and the music is getting increasingly urgent, and I realized what was going to happen about two seconds before it actually did, and then BAM, meteor and flashing light and exploding Dreambot, and then cut to John just floating there in the aftermath, and he's finally awake, but Jade is already dead. Let me tell you, man, that was fucking devastating, but it hurt so good. I basically live for moments like that where a series grabs you by the collar and bitchslaps some motherfucking FEELINGS, like "haha, so you thought you could just sit by and be like some spectator chilling out over there and watching these characters go through their hapless adventures? THINK AGAIN. ALWAYS REMEMBER, YOU ARE INVESTED IN THIS STORY NOW, AND YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK." Aw yiss.
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Nine Inch Nails - The Day the World Went Away
Hey man, looks like the apocalypse is happening whether we like it or not, so we might as well be fucking badasses while it happens.
7. One miscellaneous awesome thing about the fandom.
I love the [S] flash animations so much I can't even put it into words. And just the music in general. It is so fucking awesome that a fictional work that exists primarily in comic and/or text form still has its own soundtrack.
8. One completely random thought I have regarding this fandom.
CONFESSION TIME: I know next to nothing about the Exiles and the Midnight Crew characters (Spades and Snowman and that lot). In the case of the Exiles it's because I honest-to-God KEPT MIXING THEM up and could not for the life of me keep track of who was doing what and WHAT THE FUCK WAS GOING ON and WHO THE FUCK ANYONE WAS. I kept having to go to the wiki to figure it all out. XD And in the case of the Midnight Crew, it's because I may or may not have literally skipped that entire section because at that point I was just like "NOOO, FUCK YOU AND YOUR INCOMPREHENSIBLE PLOTSTUFFS HUSSIE, JUST TAKE ME BACK TO THE KIDS AND TROLLS ALREADY." >_> So I ended up just wikiing the essentials again. Surprisingly this didn't leave me as bewildered when it came to later plot developments as you might expect. Or at least, not really any more bewildered than I generally was already. XD
9. One fic/essay rec, fanart, fanvid, or piece of art that depending on the fandom I either had lovingly bookmarked or saved onto my hard drive, or only just now found during a two-minute Google search.
THERE'S TOO MANY!!!! And I really don't have any recs which everyone else has not already seen or read. Since this is one series where I'm not really fandom-savvy at all and rely almost entirely on other people's own recs to get by.
So in the end, I'm just going to link to this. Because because.
I love this series.
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I loved this! And the thoughts on Karkat's and John's relationship. So many people look at it shipways, and though I do actually like JohnKat, it's refreshing to see someone look at it through the lens of pure friendship.
That said, I am obliged to link you this.