Two more 'my fandom history' writeups!
One of these is a fandom I forgot about when I introduced the 'fandoms automatically qualify for a writeup if I've written at least five fics' rule. One is a fandom that newly qualifies. I bet you'll never guess what it is. Surely not the fandom I've been rambling about for the past week.
The 100
I first became aware of The 100 when I caught a trailer for it on television, shortly before it came to the UK. What I got from the trailer was 'a bunch of teenagers raised in space are dumped alone on Earth and try to survive', which combines teenage suffering and a fish-out-of-water narrative and is therefore a near-perfect concept for me (but not quite perfect, because I'm terrified of space). I didn't actually watch it at the time - I don't think I had access to the right channel - but it stayed in the back of my mind.
Four years later, at the age of thirty, I got a month-long Amazon Prime trial and desperately tore through the four available seasons of The 100 before the trial expired.
My memories of The 100 are a little hazy because I watched it at such a hectic pace; if you watch nearly sixty episodes of something in the space of thirty days, it all blurs together slightly! But I was there for characters suffering and making bad decisions, and it delivered magnificently on that.
Favourite character: I was extremely confused to realise that Marcus Kane had at some point become my favourite character, given that I'd spent the entire first season calling him Councillor Dickface.
Favourite pairing: I got intensely, wildly invested in Kane/Abby. They had so much shared guilt and so much chemistry!
Number of words written: 6,722, across five fics.
Snippet: I thought at first I might not have any unfinished The 100 fanfiction lying around, but I do have something!
( The 100 unfinished snippet. Clarke and Murphy, 2018. )
The Book of Mormon
I should clarify that this is the stage musical, rather than the religious text.![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
th_esaurus invited me to a showing when I was thirty-one. I thought it would just be a fun evening; I wasn't prepared to get invested!
The Book of Mormon is the only theatre production I've ever counted amongst my major fandoms, and I'm not sure how to handle being fannishly into it. I'm so used to being able to replay or rewatch the things I love freely! You're telling me I have to buy theatre tickets every time I want to watch Kevin Price's catastrophic psychological collapse? This is not financially sustainable, given that that's exactly what I want to watch at all times.
Here are some things I've Googled recently:
- book of mormon text
- how do mormons pray
- "the prophet smith"
- how did joseph smith travel west
- how far did the first mormons travel
- mormon missionary rules
It can be hard to tell the difference between fic research and planning to convert.
Favourite character: Surprise: it's Kevin Price, the character I've been absolutely unable to shut up about for a solid week. Something about the combination of 'he's convinced the sun shines out of his own arse' and 'he would be horrified if he ever hurt anyone' just captivates me. I've seen a lot of arrogant arseholes in fiction, and they can be fun! But it's an interesting change of pace to have a character who's both arrogant and kind. Plus he suffers extremely well, and Dom Simpson's portrayal of him is absolutely stellar; I don't know if I'll ever be able to watch another actor in the role. (My favourite thing I've seen anyone say about Elder Price, from![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
broadwayrecyclingbin: If I was that perfect I would also be that narcissistic.)
Favourite pairing: I'm actually not a big shipper for The Book of Mormon, but Price/McKinley has some potential that's interesting to explore, and I do enjoy McKinley's catastrophic crush on Price. Unrequited Kevin Price/God is where it's really at, though.
Number of words written: 11,026
One of these is a fandom I forgot about when I introduced the 'fandoms automatically qualify for a writeup if I've written at least five fics' rule. One is a fandom that newly qualifies. I bet you'll never guess what it is. Surely not the fandom I've been rambling about for the past week.
The 100
I first became aware of The 100 when I caught a trailer for it on television, shortly before it came to the UK. What I got from the trailer was 'a bunch of teenagers raised in space are dumped alone on Earth and try to survive', which combines teenage suffering and a fish-out-of-water narrative and is therefore a near-perfect concept for me (but not quite perfect, because I'm terrified of space). I didn't actually watch it at the time - I don't think I had access to the right channel - but it stayed in the back of my mind.
Four years later, at the age of thirty, I got a month-long Amazon Prime trial and desperately tore through the four available seasons of The 100 before the trial expired.
My memories of The 100 are a little hazy because I watched it at such a hectic pace; if you watch nearly sixty episodes of something in the space of thirty days, it all blurs together slightly! But I was there for characters suffering and making bad decisions, and it delivered magnificently on that.
Favourite character: I was extremely confused to realise that Marcus Kane had at some point become my favourite character, given that I'd spent the entire first season calling him Councillor Dickface.
Favourite pairing: I got intensely, wildly invested in Kane/Abby. They had so much shared guilt and so much chemistry!
Number of words written: 6,722, across five fics.
Snippet: I thought at first I might not have any unfinished The 100 fanfiction lying around, but I do have something!
( The 100 unfinished snippet. Clarke and Murphy, 2018. )
The Book of Mormon
I should clarify that this is the stage musical, rather than the religious text.
The Book of Mormon is the only theatre production I've ever counted amongst my major fandoms, and I'm not sure how to handle being fannishly into it. I'm so used to being able to replay or rewatch the things I love freely! You're telling me I have to buy theatre tickets every time I want to watch Kevin Price's catastrophic psychological collapse? This is not financially sustainable, given that that's exactly what I want to watch at all times.
Here are some things I've Googled recently:
- book of mormon text
- how do mormons pray
- "the prophet smith"
- how did joseph smith travel west
- how far did the first mormons travel
- mormon missionary rules
It can be hard to tell the difference between fic research and planning to convert.
Favourite character: Surprise: it's Kevin Price, the character I've been absolutely unable to shut up about for a solid week. Something about the combination of 'he's convinced the sun shines out of his own arse' and 'he would be horrified if he ever hurt anyone' just captivates me. I've seen a lot of arrogant arseholes in fiction, and they can be fun! But it's an interesting change of pace to have a character who's both arrogant and kind. Plus he suffers extremely well, and Dom Simpson's portrayal of him is absolutely stellar; I don't know if I'll ever be able to watch another actor in the role. (My favourite thing I've seen anyone say about Elder Price, from
Favourite pairing: I'm actually not a big shipper for The Book of Mormon, but Price/McKinley has some potential that's interesting to explore, and I do enjoy McKinley's catastrophic crush on Price. Unrequited Kevin Price/God is where it's really at, though.
Number of words written: 11,026
