Fandom from afar

[dolorosa_12]

We're nearing the end of the fandom meme — Day Twenty-Five:

Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?

At the moment it's definitely The Untamed and Guardian — I'd say a good 70 per cent of my circle is a fan of one or both of these and heavily involved in the fandom!

This is definitely not the first time I've had these kinds of secondhand fandoms (I can remember a lot of people being into e.g. hockey RPF, the MCU, podcast dramas, Sherlock, etc etc over the years — none of which I was involved in in the slightest, with the possible exception of the Thor films in the MCU). It's always nice to see people being happily fannish in their own corners, even if it's fandoms that I'm highly unlikely to be involved in.


Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!

Comments

[merit]

I feel like a have a beginner's knowledge of TMA or Critical Role. I just wish I had the patience for some of the longer Cdramas/Kdramas. But 70minutes plus an episode kills me.

[dolorosa_12]

Are TMA and Critical Role podcast dramas (or whatever the word is for fiction told through the medium of web recordings)? I wish I could get into stuff like that, but I cannot take in information when it is solely audio: it needs to be words on a page/screen, or moving images+audio.

I've always felt terrible about this, because my mother is a radio journalist...

[schneefink]

Clearly I haven't been posting about them enough ^^

Critical Role is a live D&D campaign: there is a podcast version, but originally it's video. It's very good, but hard to get into because there are about a hundred episodes for each of the two campaigns (the first one is finished, the second ongoing) and every episode is about 4 hours long.

TMA is a great podcast (though actually, audio drama is probably more accurate.) If you're interested in checking it out, there are transcripts available for every episode to help you follow along, and I've heard of several people who read the transcripts first and only later actually listened to the episodes.

[dolorosa_12]

Clearly I haven't been posting about them enough

Hahaha, you post about them plenty, but I have a tendency to skim over posts about fandoms I'm not in.

They both sound like a lot of fun, although a bit daunting to get into this far along (given the four-hour episodes for Critical Role!).

[schneefink]

I was just kidding, ignore all you like ^^

Critical Role is a lot. But TMA has "only" 164 episodes so far of about 20 minutes each, so totally doable :)
...though actually I'm not sure I'd rec it to you specifically. It takes quite some time until we get a focus on some good friendships, and for a long time the characters are, hm, struggling with their working relationship, let's put it that way.

[merit]

Quite! Okay, I didn't know that Critical Role's episodes were... 4 hours long?? But I guess that makes sense for a DnD campaign.

The only way I've been able to listen to audiobooks successfully, is to be moving while listening. So during chores or the commute. I find my mind unfocuses too much when it is purely audio.

[dolorosa_12]

I know, right? Four hours is ... a lot!

I suspect that's the only thing that would work for me with audiobooks/dramas. At the moment my 'commute' is walking from my bedroom to my living room, but when I'm not working from home it involves walking 45 minutes to, and 45 minutes from my library. I've always had long walking commutes, and I've always had to do them without music/audio, because I'm so vague that I get distracted and walk in front of traffic. But listening during chores might be doable.