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sundial_exchange2020-03-01 11:44 am
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Sundial Exchange Love and Friendship meme!
Happy March or Happy Leap Day, depending on where you are in the world!
We’re still glowing from the lovely energy that the exchange created, thank you all so much for making it such a wonderful experience for everyone! It exceeded our wildest expectations in both number of fanworks and type of fanworks, and we are so honoured to have been able to create a space to make that possible 🥰🎉✨
Atasya_ana’s suggestion we are hosting a Love and Friendship meme for Guardian and Guardian-related canons. You can use the form in the textbox below if you like or go wild!
There is also an ongoing Guardian fandom friending meme over atsid_guardian, for more of your meme needs✨
We’re still glowing from the lovely energy that the exchange created, thank you all so much for making it such a wonderful experience for everyone! It exceeded our wildest expectations in both number of fanworks and type of fanworks, and we are so honoured to have been able to create a space to make that possible 🥰🎉✨
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asya_ana’s suggestion we are hosting a Love and Friendship meme for Guardian and Guardian-related canons. You can use the form in the textbox below if you like or go wild!There is also an ongoing Guardian fandom friending meme over at
sid_guardian, for more of your meme needs✨
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Pronouns: She/her or they/them
Language(s): English, Dutch (haven’t used it for years), a bit of French, very rusty, smatterings of Spanish and Italian, both super rusty. A very few words of te reo Māori but I do a bit every day. Learning Mandarin on Duolingo and by watching Guardian.
How did you first get into Guardian fandom?I watched Nirvana in Fire and was overwhelmed with feels, and people on the NiF discord were talking about Guardian and I thought I’d give it a go while I sorted out the enormity of what I felt for NiF, and I watched the first episode and was so confused. And then I watched the second and fell hard and have not recovered. Been here since June 2019, and I have never felt this way about a show or characters before, and never participated this actively in a fandom 🥰
What is one thing you love about the show? Pass! 😂 That would require me to think coherently and objectively and while I may manage that some day at the moment it is beyond me. I love everything. This show makes my id dissolve into happy purring.
What is your favourite terrible special effect? CGI!DaQing jumping on the table at the SID, because why even have that be a special effect? I am intrigued by why the didn't just get the cat to jump on the table, and the thought of them trying and the cat just noping out amuses me.
What is (one of) your favourite relationship(s) on the show (either romantic or friendship) and what do you like about that relationship? Other than WeiLan, I love the relationship between Chu Shuzhi and Hei Pao Shi/Shen Wei (I know everyone here who is following my tweetfic is SHOCKED), what it means to Chu Shuzhi to have his hero find him worthy of a second chance, and what it means to Shen Wei that Chu Shuzhi chooses to follow him even after learning that he is Professor Shen. I also really like the relationship between Zhao Yunlan and Da Qing.
Do you have a favourite character? All of them. Both of them. Zhao Yunlan. ✨
Do you have a favourite villain?I think Zhu Yilong does an amazing job as Ye Zun. And [Bad username or site: FayJay @ ao3-jie] did an amazing job writing Ye Zun in her Guardian Gothic series. And I love the OTT-ness of Zhu Jiu, by which I mean I roll my eyes at him every time he's on screen. I think my favourite though is either Sha Ya or Ya Qing, in that I find them interesting in who they are and their motivations, and am interested in their stories.
Talk to us about one (or more!) of your favourite Guardian-related canons: I like Detective L for the aesthetic, the awesomeness of Qin Xiaoman and of course the 3TP. I'm also looking forward to reading the Guardian novel once the translation is finished - I read as far as was translated months ago and liked it!
Do you like RPF? Sometimes, but the homophobic authoritarian reality of the PRC makes me wary of anything that's not AU. I read fic mostly as escapism, and don't really want to dwell on the injustice of the real world. For instance, Zhu Yilong and Bau Yu posing for photos (with many thanks to
Do you have a favourite ad campaign (such as Bai Yu's rentboy photoshoot or Zhu Yilong's ReFa ads)? The ReFa ads are A LOT and I also like Bai Yu's rentboy photoshoot and his mechanic photoshoot.
What other fandoms are you in or have you been in? I'm pretty much monofannish at the moment because WeiLan has eaten my brain, but previously Highlander, Harry Potter (Sirius/Remus, Sirius/Snape and post!war Snarry) Starsky & Hutch, Robin of Sherwood (how I met my partner!), Star Trek:TOS & TNG, The Eagle, MCU (Frostiron, Winteriron, Winterironfrost), Witcher 3 (Emhyr/Geralt), and my other trash show Kindred: The Embraced, which is so wonderfully terrible! I also read Destiel in Supernatural but I got bored with the show, and no doubt I'm forgetting stuff - I've been in fandom for over 20 years 💃🏻
What are some of your general fanwork likes: Brothers in arms. Loyalty. Fealty. Power dynamics. Hurt/comfort with emphasis on the comfort. People from different cultures/backgrounds working to make their relationship work. Being swept up in the story.
Where can we best find you to squee more about this thing or other things? I’m on Twitter more than here on DW and hardly on Tumblr at all anymore - maybe once a month if that. I only very occasionally check Discord but am Amara1783 there too.
Anything else you want to say? I have some chronic health stuff (scoliosis with associated chronic pain, anxiety, and depression) that often prevents me from participating as much as I'd like. Sometimes making words happen is just not something I can do. Just putting that out there because it's taken me decades to actually come to terms with the reality of being (invisibly) disabled, and it's something I want to be open about because I have benefitted so much from other brave people being open 💞✨
Most importantly, please help me be less racist and transphobic.
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*beams*
All of them. Both of them. Zhao Yunlan. ✨
*beams more*
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I waited til a sensible hour to read this, but *grabby hands* friend!
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IKR? I don't even have a thing for cars!!! Bai Yu is just... magic?
*grabs back* Yay friends! 🥰✨
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Same! Isn't it amazing? I never dreamed I'd write fic, but...
Same on the RPF, too, for the same reasons. I'm so happy the RPF AUs here are in good supply!
Less enthusiastic "same" on the health stuff. That sucks, bb. There's a few of us in this bar. Not a club I'm thrilled to be in, but at least the company here is good. *hug*
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Less enthusiastic "same" on the health stuff. That sucks, bb. There's a few of us in this bar. Not a club I'm thrilled to be in, but at least the company here is good. *hug*
The company is AWESOME. And yes it has take me a week to reply to this because I have been hiding from weird panicky emotions that the subject brings up. Learning to breathe through it. *hugs back*
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LOLOL!
Confession, I never even noticed that was CGI. But now I'm imagining the same thing re: the cat and giggling a lot.
I love that too - the loyalty kink is strong with me. And I love Chu Shuzhi anyway, he's such a cuddly badass!
!!!! That was my very first proper fandom! When were you involved? (I was also into Highlander, back in the... 90s?)