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extrapenguinToday's Fopinions February is for krait, on the topic of how I got into Nirvana in Fire. If I am incoherent, it is because I am sick and probably running a fever.
In short, I sawschneefink chat about it on my reading list during 2016*, then in 2017, decided to check it out. I was perhaps in a bit of a creative rut that Yuletide after completing my assignment, and was well-placed to check out a new canon. Subtitles have never been a problem for me – I grew up with them, watching Animal Planet Finland, where all the audio was in English and it was thus subtitled into Finnish – and neither are non-mine cultures (I get inundated with American stuff all the time, for one), so I gave it a try. And I was hooked! And now I'm studying Chinese... It has been a nice journey, even if I didn't write that much fic because audiovisual canons rarely hold my attention, compared to text-based fandoms.
I also found a NIF Discord, somehow (Tumblr might've been involved?), and through there got into more Chinese-origin fandoms (oh hi, Modao Zushi!), but the way I got into Guardian was the same as the way I got into NIF: I saw people chat about it on my reading list, then watched it all waiting for Yuletide sign-ups to go out.
* FFA might've been abuzz about it in Nov 2017 as well, but IIRC they only got to it later.
krait, on the topic of how I got into Nirvana in Fire. If I am incoherent, it is because I am sick and probably running a fever.In short, I saw
schneefink chat about it on my reading list during 2016*, then in 2017, decided to check it out. I was perhaps in a bit of a creative rut that Yuletide after completing my assignment, and was well-placed to check out a new canon. Subtitles have never been a problem for me – I grew up with them, watching Animal Planet Finland, where all the audio was in English and it was thus subtitled into Finnish – and neither are non-mine cultures (I get inundated with American stuff all the time, for one), so I gave it a try. And I was hooked! And now I'm studying Chinese... It has been a nice journey, even if I didn't write that much fic because audiovisual canons rarely hold my attention, compared to text-based fandoms.I also found a NIF Discord, somehow (Tumblr might've been involved?), and through there got into more Chinese-origin fandoms (oh hi, Modao Zushi!), but the way I got into Guardian was the same as the way I got into NIF: I saw people chat about it on my reading list, then watched it all waiting for Yuletide sign-ups to go out.
* FFA might've been abuzz about it in Nov 2017 as well, but IIRC they only got to it later.