Beyond Selidor

I missed a post yesterday because I was completely physically and mentally exhausted, and could do little more than lie on the couch. I'm not really sure why — I'm not sick, just really, really tired.

In any case, I'm back with the fandom meme, Day 10:

J: Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over the internet.

I generally don't get into things solely on the basis of 'the internet,' although I use my Twitter feed mainly as a source of book recommendations, and used to watch a lot of TV shows based on the recommendation of thelxiepia.

One instance when I did discover a new-to-me fandom which became one of my favourites on the basis of the internet was in 2012, with Pretty Little Liars. At that point I was following Whedonesque, the fan news website for all Joss Whedon shows. It was mainly a news aggregator, gathering links to any article, interview, or blog post about Whedon, Whedon shows and films, or actors who had been involved with his shows in the past. Generally I didn't pay it much attention, but for some reason, a link to an interview with Bianca Lawson caught my eye, and I was curious enough to click through. Lawson was playing one of the love interests of the main four girls in the show (yes, she was in her thirties and playing a character in high school, because Bianca Lawson does not age), and was being interviewed about the fact that this was a teen show that treated the f/f relationship as no different to the other three girls' relationships with boys. (As the show progressed, that became debatable, but at least in it early days it got a lot of hype for supposedly having good representation of lesbian and bi girls.)

The way the interview described the show caught my interest — I've always loved shows about insular, claustrophobic small towns/communities where a child is murdered or goes missing, and it exposes everyone's secrets and shows how every other person is, to a certain extent, responsible. I immediately began watching, and watched through to the bitter end, although my love of the show had diminished a lot by the final few seasons and it felt more like grimly hanging on rather than watching out of genuine love or enthusiasm. But in the early seasons, it really was excellent, and I'm glad I was curious enough to click on that link to the Bianca Lawson interview!


K: What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

L: Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves.

M: Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.

N: Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).

O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of?

P: Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).

Q: A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.

R: Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?

S: Show us an example of your personal headcanon.

T: Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?

U: Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

V: Which character do you relate to most?

W: A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.

X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.

Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?

Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!