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In your own space, talk about one of your fandom firsts.
I talked about a few of my fandom firsts in my fandom origin story. But, another first I thought of that I didn't already talk about was how I got into stageplays. I'm not sure why, but I wasn't ever really interested in stageplay adaptations. I didn't think stages were something I'd ever be into until I became active in the UtaPri fandom.
UtaPri was a fun idol series to be into, because the first mobile game, Shining Live, had an event/story rotation in place that allowed for every combination of the guys to have interactions. Aside from the game, it was also common for the guys to be "shuffled" together for songs outside of their unit work. In-universe, it was implied that they would sing some of these songs for drama/movie or stage appearances, because in real life, they were either paired with a drama track or they were to have an accompanying stageplay in the first place.
All of this made it pretty fun to ship basically whoever you wanted. I was really into a ship that was considered a rarepair– Otoya and Ranmaru. Someone I talked to for a short time in the fandom showed me a stageplay that featured them as two of three main characters: Pirates of the Frontier. Otoya's character was the captain of his own ship, and I forgot who Ranmaru's character was exactly, but he was basically like his right hand man. It was a very heartwarming story, and Otoya/Ranmaru's characters were very close in it. I wasn't sure that I was going to enjoy the singing as much since they were obviously not played by the seiyuu, but I was very wrong! The actors were really great and brought the characters to life so well. Despite the fact that they were doing acting-ception, you could just tell that they got Otoya and Ranmaru's mannerisms down. This experience single-handedly made me really like stageplays and be much more open to viewing them.
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.
I guess something I always really like is light and dark or sun and moon themes for duos/ships. There's just so much symbolism that can be done with them. For one, they show how a duo compliments each other since they're polar opposite motifs. I'm also just a sucker for symbolism that's deep and represents a character's inner struggles, so characters with the dark/moon theme are always right up my alley. One of my absolute favorite things that tends to happen, especially with the light and dark characters, is that both can apply to either character usually. Also, the fact that they can symbolize how the other really views them. For example, the "moon" character may seem gloomy, but to the "sun" character, they are actually warm and inviting like sunlight. So, in each other's eyes, they may be associated with the opposite motifs.
I talked about a few of my fandom firsts in my fandom origin story. But, another first I thought of that I didn't already talk about was how I got into stageplays. I'm not sure why, but I wasn't ever really interested in stageplay adaptations. I didn't think stages were something I'd ever be into until I became active in the UtaPri fandom.
UtaPri was a fun idol series to be into, because the first mobile game, Shining Live, had an event/story rotation in place that allowed for every combination of the guys to have interactions. Aside from the game, it was also common for the guys to be "shuffled" together for songs outside of their unit work. In-universe, it was implied that they would sing some of these songs for drama/movie or stage appearances, because in real life, they were either paired with a drama track or they were to have an accompanying stageplay in the first place.
All of this made it pretty fun to ship basically whoever you wanted. I was really into a ship that was considered a rarepair– Otoya and Ranmaru. Someone I talked to for a short time in the fandom showed me a stageplay that featured them as two of three main characters: Pirates of the Frontier. Otoya's character was the captain of his own ship, and I forgot who Ranmaru's character was exactly, but he was basically like his right hand man. It was a very heartwarming story, and Otoya/Ranmaru's characters were very close in it. I wasn't sure that I was going to enjoy the singing as much since they were obviously not played by the seiyuu, but I was very wrong! The actors were really great and brought the characters to life so well. Despite the fact that they were doing acting-ception, you could just tell that they got Otoya and Ranmaru's mannerisms down. This experience single-handedly made me really like stageplays and be much more open to viewing them.
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.
I guess something I always really like is light and dark or sun and moon themes for duos/ships. There's just so much symbolism that can be done with them. For one, they show how a duo compliments each other since they're polar opposite motifs. I'm also just a sucker for symbolism that's deep and represents a character's inner struggles, so characters with the dark/moon theme are always right up my alley. One of my absolute favorite things that tends to happen, especially with the light and dark characters, is that both can apply to either character usually. Also, the fact that they can symbolize how the other really views them. For example, the "moon" character may seem gloomy, but to the "sun" character, they are actually warm and inviting like sunlight. So, in each other's eyes, they may be associated with the opposite motifs.
