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Frankenstein's Meme: Q10
Jul. 25th, 2021 07:47 pmQ10. Do you have a fandom that you follow - either regularly or casually - with little to no knowledge of canon?
Not exactly, but there are plenty of canon that straddle multiple media where I'll read stuff from the media strands I'm not familiar with. The MCU being a case in point - I've only read a handful of the relevant comics around 40 years ago, but I'll happily read stuff that is based not the comics if it has some kind of a link out to the MCU, so I can keep track.
That said, I've also enjoyed a lot of yuletide fic that has been recommended under "Canon knowledge not required", but Yuletide is a bit of a special case. I didn't read that paper about how to signpost sites of dangerous radioactive waste, but I enjoyed a lot of the fic that was written to that prompt. Ditto some of the fanfic for the NASA "Visions of the Future" posters - I mean these just generated some decent SF, really.
Perhaps more pertinently, I have not read, nor do I intend to read the Confessions of St. Augustine but I enjoyed:
The Very Secret Diaries of Saint Augustine (1185 words) by Jay Tryfanstone
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 4th & 5th Century RPF, Confessions - Saint Augustine
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Saint Augustine/OFC
Characters: Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome
Additional Tags: Very Secret Diary, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide 2012
Summary:
I did watch the Youtube vid after reading the drunk texts from an Octopus story:
Texts From Cephalopods (1547 words) by volta_arovet
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Octopus Steals My Video Camera and Swims off with It While It's Recording (Youtube)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Octopus/Squid
Characters: An Octopus, Squid
Additional Tags: Embedded Images
Summary:
Does "super-borderline fandom refs used for Yuletide" count as a fandom?
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Not exactly, but there are plenty of canon that straddle multiple media where I'll read stuff from the media strands I'm not familiar with. The MCU being a case in point - I've only read a handful of the relevant comics around 40 years ago, but I'll happily read stuff that is based not the comics if it has some kind of a link out to the MCU, so I can keep track.
That said, I've also enjoyed a lot of yuletide fic that has been recommended under "Canon knowledge not required", but Yuletide is a bit of a special case. I didn't read that paper about how to signpost sites of dangerous radioactive waste, but I enjoyed a lot of the fic that was written to that prompt. Ditto some of the fanfic for the NASA "Visions of the Future" posters - I mean these just generated some decent SF, really.
Perhaps more pertinently, I have not read, nor do I intend to read the Confessions of St. Augustine but I enjoyed:
The Very Secret Diaries of Saint Augustine (1185 words) by Jay Tryfanstone
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 4th & 5th Century RPF, Confessions - Saint Augustine
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Saint Augustine/OFC
Characters: Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome
Additional Tags: Very Secret Diary, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide 2012
Summary:
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Correspondence Jerome continues. Infuriating. Do not understand why he does not see my point! Translation of "gourd" vital to understanding of gospels.
I did watch the Youtube vid after reading the drunk texts from an Octopus story:
Texts From Cephalopods (1547 words) by volta_arovet
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Octopus Steals My Video Camera and Swims off with It While It's Recording (Youtube)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Octopus/Squid
Characters: An Octopus, Squid
Additional Tags: Embedded Images
Summary:
It is a well-established fact in marine biology that the octopus is the drunk texter of the cephalopod family.
Does "super-borderline fandom refs used for Yuletide" count as a fandom?
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