How to Start a Fandom?
Dec. 23rd, 2013 08:53![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eldabeI read a book, and I want it to have a fandom so I can read fics. It's called After the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn and it's about the daughter of the top-superhero couple of Commerce City. It's FABULOUS.
Ok, it's not intellectually challenging or anything. It's a bit like a darker, more grown-up take on Sky High. But it's not gratuitously gritty, and it has good in-canon reasons for why heroes are attached to specific cities, and it stars a woman, and it surprised me in its use of superhero tropes, and I just…aaaaah, there are a million things I want to say. Mostly I just want everyone to read it so I can fan-babble with them.
Books are generally less likely to pick up fandoms, especially books that aren't part of a YA series, so I'm not holding my breath. There's no fic on AO3 (which doesn't mean anything) but I can't seem to find anything on ff.net either, which is probably more of an indicator.
I could check tumblr. Maaaaaybe later? Ugh, tumblr.
I might write fic anyway. I won't be the first person writing stuff because no one else will.
GUYS THIS IS ME. RECOMMENDING THIS BOOK. IT IS WORTH GETTING OUT OF A LIBRARY.
There's is one character that is just a bundle of hot, British angst in well-tailored suits and trenchcoat. There is a FEELS scene. Clearly Vaughn knows something about us fandom-types. (Actually, she's a Whoovian. Who am I kidding.)
Ok, it's not intellectually challenging or anything. It's a bit like a darker, more grown-up take on Sky High. But it's not gratuitously gritty, and it has good in-canon reasons for why heroes are attached to specific cities, and it stars a woman, and it surprised me in its use of superhero tropes, and I just…aaaaah, there are a million things I want to say. Mostly I just want everyone to read it so I can fan-babble with them.
Books are generally less likely to pick up fandoms, especially books that aren't part of a YA series, so I'm not holding my breath. There's no fic on AO3 (which doesn't mean anything) but I can't seem to find anything on ff.net either, which is probably more of an indicator.
I could check tumblr. Maaaaaybe later? Ugh, tumblr.
I might write fic anyway. I won't be the first person writing stuff because no one else will.
GUYS THIS IS ME. RECOMMENDING THIS BOOK. IT IS WORTH GETTING OUT OF A LIBRARY.
There's is one character that is just a bundle of hot, British angst in well-tailored suits and trenchcoat. There is a FEELS scene. Clearly Vaughn knows something about us fandom-types. (Actually, she's a Whoovian. Who am I kidding.)
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Date: Dec. 24th, 2013 04:19 (UTC)no subject
Date: Dec. 24th, 2013 20:38 (UTC)Enjoy the book! If you want to, you know, talk to anyone about it, I'm always here. :D :D