Non-western fandom friending meme!

[oyceter]

Hallo! So I had fun in some of the other DW friending memes going by lately, but I really miss having anime/manga/drama/etc chatter around and wanted to rectify that.

I am not particularly sure how these things work, but here is a random list of questions for people to fill out if they want:

1. Username(s):
2. Language(s):
3. Past (non-western) fandoms:
4. Present (non-western) fandoms:
5. What you like to blog about:
6. Random thing about yourself:

Go forth and subscribe! (Also, publicizing this highly welcome.)

Comments

[ghost_lingering]

1. I am ghost_lingering basically everywhere! DW, LJ (though that is just a locked mirror of DW), AO3. I am not on tumblr or twitter at the moment.

2. English

3. Anime & manga of various sorts and some jdramas. Ummmmmm...Nobuta wo Produce, Fullmetal Alchemist, Prince of Tennis are the things I've probably posted most about?

4. Kdramas! Though I am behind on watching things. I'm behind on watching and reading basically everything lately, not just kdramas though. Anyway. But Hong Gil Dong, Painter of the Wind, Capital Scandal are the ones I've posted most about. I also really like the webcomic Hero: http://invisiblecities.comicgenesis.com/ Which is in English, FYI. I watch documentaries and other foreign films, as well, though I don't always post about them. Basically I am saying these are present fandoms because I either have vidding projects I want to do with them or because they are the things I am currently reading/watching, sort of. But, again, super behind on everything. I have a list of things to watch/catch up on that is miles long.

5. (I am answering this as both what I like to blog about AND what I like to read about.) I tend not to blog much and when I do it is typically about vidding and/or how I don't blog much. I am also a very shy commentor. I sometimes post about music and cooking, which I feel are fandoms of mine, but that also don't really fit into the mold of fandom-at-large. For the past ... a really long time ... cooking has been the one constant positive creative outlet for me, whereas vidding and writing comes and goes. I'm always on the lookout for new music and cooking posts. I'm also usually on the outlook for more vidding posts, but since my fandoms don't always match up with popular vidding fandoms this is a bit more haphazard.

In general I love vids, I love sci-fi/fantasy, I love awesome female characters, I love meta analysis. I try to focus on the things I love in fandom, even though some of those things, like vids and meta, might, themselves, focus on problems that I don't love in source texts. If that makes sense? Possibly it does not. IDEK.

Relevant to this friending meme: I'd love to expand my musical knowledge of non-English and non-western music, for both personal listening pleasure and also because I've love to expand my repetoire of vidding songs -- ngl, I basically just want to find the perfect vid songs for both Painter of the Wind and Hong Gil Dong. I also love reading about food, cooking, and different cuisines and cooking techniques. I'd love to find someone who is a vidder who loves kdramas and would be a cheerleader for both vidding kdramas and watching kdramas.

In a blatant ploy (that might even be relevant to this friending meme? Maybe? Possibly? Who knows?!) to get people try to find my vid and comment on it: if you can guess what vid I made for festivids I will make you something.

6. I am currently semi-obsessed with reading money blogs; despite issues I have with The Awl, my current favorite money blog is The Billfold because it is non-judgemental and Mike and Logan both sound like they could be friends of mine and I think they play off each other really well, though some contributors are a bit too ... idek, "lalala class priveledge, I has it". But I still like it, because, see above, non-judgemental. I am also currently reading the book Debt: the past 5000 years which is interesting so far, if only because I am at the point where he is like: guys, listen, let me tell you HISTORY and how no one seems to be paying attention to the shit that actually went down. I also like that he is pretty global in how he discusses the history of money/debt/the economy/etc. It's not just "hey Europe did this, America did this". But I'm also not enough of a econ/anthropology/history buff to know how much I should take with a grain of salt.

[attie]

Ohai thar, I see you like music. My main fandom lately is Vocaloid and Utattemita, i.e. amateur music from nico nico / youtube. Would you be interested in that? I know it's a bit polarizing, one of those "either you love it or you hate it" things...

[aeslis]

I am not a frequent poster and I'm not always a good commenter, but we have many things in common--sci-fi/fantasy, awesome ladies, Nobuta, FMA... and I love to read other people's meta, hahaha. You sound like an interesting sort! And sometimes I post about music, and being as 90% of what I listen to is non-English (Japanese or Korean, mostly), perhaps you'll find something you like?

So I propose friendship!