Sundial Exchange Love and Friendship meme!

[sundial_exchange_mod]

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 🥰🎉✨

At 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!

<strong>User names:</strong> <strong>Pronouns:</strong> <strong>Language(s):</strong> <strong>How did you first get into Guardian fandom?</strong> <strong>What is one thing you love about the show?</strong> <strong>What is your favourite terrible special effect?</strong> <strong>What is (one of) your favourite relationship(s) on the show (either romantic or friendship) and what do you like about that relationship?</strong> <strong>Do you have a favourite character?</strong> <strong>Do you have a favourite villain?</strong> <strong>Talk to us about one (or more!) of your favourite Guardian-related canons:</strong> <strong>Do you like RPF?</strong> <strong>Do you have a favourite ad campaign (such as Bai Yu's rentboy photoshoot or Zhu Yilong's ReFa ads)?</strong> <strong>What other fandoms are you in or have you been in?</strong> <strong>What are some of your general fanwork likes:</strong> <strong>Where can we best find you to squee more about this thing or other things?</strong> <strong>Anything else you want to say?</strong>

There is also an ongoing Guardian fandom friending meme over at sid_guardian, for more of your meme needs✨

Comments

[solo]

Apart from my mother tongue (which is so obscure there's no point in mentioning it)

Nooooo! Tell meeeeee! I'm always intrigued by obscure languages. And I just love knowing that this fandom has such a wide spread of people in it, not just all from boring anglophone or indo-European backgrounds.

I like how quickly they went from the "courtship" phase to the "old married couple" phase, and I love how mature and sensible they were about it.

Absolutely! At points where other shows might have spun off into sulking and lack of communication, this one just lets the characters talk and handle things, or simply respect each other's boundaries. So wonderfully mature.

I like Ye Zun as an antagonist. But I'm not interested in seeing him being redeemed and I'm definitely not interested in shipping him with anyone.

I feel exactly the same way. :)

[winter_blossom]

Nooooo! Tell meeeeee! I'm always intrigued by obscure languages.

Ahaha, okay then! It's Sinhalese. Spoken in only one country in the whole world, an island with a measly 22 million population - Sri Lanka. (If you've ever heard of us, it's unlikely to be anything good ^^)

[solo]

LOL a 'measly' 22 million... Scotland has 5 million! Yes, I've heard of Sri Lanka but can't for my life of me remember the context.

For a moment there I thought your icon was Kasumi Karen (X/1999) but then I remembered her hair was red...

[winter_blossom]

Scotland has 5 million!

I think I might have been overly influenced by a documentary they ran recently, which called ours "a vanishing culture," haha. I always forget that there are, in fact, countries smaller than ours >_<

Oh dear, X/1999. Possibly the greatest CLAMP series ever (YMMV, of course), and to think it'll never be finished! *Weeps*

[solo]

Oh dear, X/1999. Possibly the greatest CLAMP series ever (YMMV, of course)

I was a HUGE fan! I even wrote a 100k+ WIP for it, which sadly I never finished. I was putting myself about in all the LJ comms back then, though... we might have met back in the mists of 2000-something... :)

Still have a couple of X icons, even.

[winter_blossom]

I even wrote a 100k+ WIP for it, which sadly I never finished.

I must say, the thought of an X/1999 fic being both long and unfinished struck me as so appropriate that I laughed out loud :DDD

[solo]

. . . Point. ♥

[umadoshi]

My hope that X might be finished someday is rooted as much in professional selfishness as wistful fannish dreaming, for all that I have no reason to expect it to happen.

[solo]

TBH I'd rather they didn't finish it now (while I do understand your professional interest). I'd be too worried they'd mess it up. Times have changed so much...

(Also I want both Kamui and Fuuma to live, they're my OTP in this thing, and somehow I can't see that happening.)

[goss]

Oh, Sri Lanka! Cool. Do you currently live there?

I'm of Indian descent, living in the Caribbean (West Indies). We always enjoy watching you guys' cricket team in action - Sangakkara, Jayawardene, etc. :D :D :D

[winter_blossom]

Yep, I live here. (My parents keep bugging me to think about migrating to somewhere better, and I do get where they're coming from, but it's just so much work to go and fit in in another country...)

Oh, man, but those were the days! Ever since Sangakkara and Jayawardane left, our cricket has gone off the deep end and is currently the worst it's been in decades. Haven't watched a match in years, I'm so ashamed of our current state *Cries* How's the West Indies team doing these days? (Or should I be asking about India? XD Though they're doing well, afaik.)

[goss]

How's the West Indies team doing these days?

*g* About the same as Sri Lanka's current team. We love them anyways. :b

(West Indian cricket matches are more an excuse to Party than anything really. lol.)

[winter_blossom]

I feel exactly the same way. :)

*Fistbump of solidarity*