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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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Sanji! Let's just do a bullet point list of reasons I love him:
2. ANOTHER favorite character!!
SO MANY CHARACTERS! Gonna just pick one at random... Franky! Okay, so it took a while for me to warm up to Franky at first (I remember back when I first read Water 7, I was really hoping at first that Paulie would be the one to join the crew). But he is awesome. I really love his backstory, and while this is weird to say given that he is a half-man-half-robot who runs around in a Speedo all the time, I think he's one of the more well-adjusted characters in the series too. He's got his shit together, he doesn't really angst that much, and when he does, he tends to get a grip pretty fast afterward. He's more mature than most of the other Strawhats, which makes sense because aside from Brook he is the oldest member of the crew. Most of the others, they're still just kids, really, so Franky is kind of the grown-up of the bunch. I think Oda even said he was the dad, with Robin being the mom... I wonder what that makes Brook, since I forgot. THE WEIRD UNCLE...??
Anyway, Franky is hilarious, and completely at ease with himself and who he is, which let me tell you is a RARE, RARE THING in shounen manga, and he's MAN ENOUGH to rock that Speedo like nobody's business, and to cry MANLY TEARS whenever he is emotionally moved by something, and to unironically call everyone his bro, and to keep bottles of cola in his chest cavity, and to STAND IN FRONT OF FUCKING TRAINS like he's fucking Superman or some shit. FUCK YOU, TRAIN, YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME. Fuck yeah, this guy.
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Sanji and Zoro. THE MANLIEST RIVALSHIP. I love how they are always coming up with the dumbest competitions, and how they take that shit HELLA FUCKING SERIOUSLY, like it's LIFE OR DEATH, BITCHES. But at the same time they make a great tag team when the situation calls for it, and when they're out there Monster Trio-ing it up along with Luffy, I just feel like eating popcorn and waving a banner for them. Like, YOU GO, GUYS. And because it's One Piece and everyone loves each other, it's not hard to tell that underneath all of the "GRR THIS FUCKING GUY" they are bros and they care about each other, and gosh but I just love it so.
4. The moment/character/THING/WHATEVER that first hooked me on the fandom.
My love for One Piece kind of slowly manifested itself in three stages. The first one was like, "Oh, One Piece! :P" where I was just in it for the comedy and enjoying the ride. And then the second one was "One Piece! :D", around the time that Sanji was introduced and the Baratie Arc happened and Sanji was busy hitting all of my character pings and I was busy falling for him like the sap I am, and also Zoro on top of that was having an awesome showdown (if it can even be called that, it was so one-sided XD) with Mihawk, and I was just like, "man, this is getting good!" And then the third and final stage, which I am still in currently, was "HOLY SHIT ONE PIECE *_*", once the Arlong Arc came along and Nami fucking killed me with her backstory (ALL THE TEARS. ALL OF THEM T_T) and everything just got amazingly epic, and by the end of it all I was just like, "Okay, Oda, fine, I will sign the papers and you can have my fucking soul, just... TREAT IT GENTLY T_T" and that was that, and I have NO REGRETS.
5. One of my favorite moments.
Chapter 513, the end of the Sabaody Archipelago Arc. "On this day, the Straw Hat Pirates... were utterly defeated." This is possibly the most relentlessly devastating chapter of any shounen manga I've read. Watching the crew's reactions as their nakama vanish one by one is heartbreaking. And Oda figures out just the right order to do it in so that we get the maximum angst possible. On top of that, each of the crew members is so goddamn tragically noble in this chapter as they all scramble to protect each other, and with each vanished nakama the attempts get more and more desperate. It is just unbelievably good, and unbelievably sad, and stoic old me, who hardly ever cries at anything (although OP does get me more than most series... WAY TO FUCKING GET ME TO TEAR UP AT A FUNERAL FOR A FUCKING SHIP, ODA YOU BASTARD), was basically just a mess by the time it was just Luffy kneeling their at the end, just utterly broken. "I couldn't even... protect a single Nakama!" ;_____;
6. A song or track that reminds me of this fandom.
"Invincible" by Muse. Opening lines of the song:
Follow through
Make your dreams come true
Don't give up the fight
You will be all right
Ending lines:
And during the struggle
They will pull us down
Please, please let's use this chance to
Turn things around
And tonight we control history
Together we're invincible
Together we're invincible
FUCK YEAH. That is One Piece, right there.
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At first, like a lot of people I suppose, my impressions about Oda's artwork were less than stellar. But then gradually I got to noticing... whenever I'm reading a chapter of One Piece, it feels at last twice as long as a chapter of most any other shounen work. He may not take the time to shade or perfect every detail, but he does fill absolutely each and every space of every panel with as much content as possible. There is so much going on on every page, and of course each page is just littered with speech bubble after speech bubble on top of that. XD Oda just has so much story he wants to tell. You have to love him for that.
8. One completely random thought I have regarding this fandom.
Lol I don't even know. I will say that I am on the edge of my fucking seat waiting to see if Jinbe will actually join Luffy's crew though. 8D
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.
I'm just going to link some of my favorite Sanji gen recs here.
Once More With Feeling by Aleia15 (angsty time travel epicness... exactly my sort of fic. This is incidentally the only fic in this list that isn't quite gen all the way through (there's some ZoSan here), so do take note)
Starvation Diary # 2 by callosum (awesome genfic, again with plenty of angst (JUST THE WAY I LIKE IT), but also lots of sweet nakama bonding and we're-all-in-this-together...ness. Really true to the spirit of the series in that sense)
Seven Deaths by X-Parrot (pretty sure virtually everyone in the fandom has read this fic, but that still shouldn't preclude it from being recced)
Thirty Days with Sanji by dandy wonderous (your basic 30 day drabble collection, but I enjoyed them a lot)
'Til You Feel it All Around You by Tonko (the best fic in the OP fandom, bar none. Sanji gets enough play for me to include it in a Sanji rec list, but really this is a gen fic in the truest sense, and every single member of the crew gets the spotlight at some point here. If you read any fic in this list, read this one, and if you read any OP fic period, READ THIS)
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AND OMG SEVEN DEATHS AND TONKO PLUS FICS I HAVE NEVER READ BEFORE THAT I PROBABLY WILL LIKE THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVERno subject
....LOL I JUST REALIZED I READ ALL THOSE FICS BEFORE AND EVEN SAVED THEM TO MY FAVORITES (JUST FORGOT SOME OF THE NAMES) orz