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brennalarose 2010-01-16 05:44 pm UTC (link)

If he shows up in Sailor Moon, Pern, Star Wars or Firefly, I'm gonna go live under a rock. Unfortunately, my money is on Firefly, because, if the whole "I am a badass Irishman" was any indication, "badass Cowboy" will be next. Or Highlander, because that's badasses with kilts and katanas. In short, my money on any fandom that will make him look like an even bigger Gary Stu. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

ardath_rekha 2010-01-16 06:01 pm UTC (link)

I'd cross off Firefly. Aside from hardcore devotees, it's an aging fandom because there's not a whole lot of new stuff to it. Plus people wouldn't be as receptive to his wildly Stuish AUs unless they centered around something like Wash or Book not dying. And both men are too old for him to want to turn them into his central BAMF characters (tragically, since Book as a BAMF rocks and is, essentially, canon). It's too small for his tastes, his imagination can't compete with the canon comics that have still been coming out, and devotion to Whedon vs. the characters has a much higher ratio than, say, Tolkien or Rowling had, so people aren't going to be as nice to him about him "fixing" Whedon's "mistakes." He's going to pick a fandom that's wildly popular and has a high concentration of teenage girls in it, and where there's enough WTF about its ending to make AUs popular, too. One where a lot of the fans are known for going to financial excess in their attempts to immerse themselves. Since he's got this whole Tragic Hero thing almost to a creepy art, my money is on Twilight. He's even started up the fan art for it (egad) and his style is inconsistent enough that if he changes his name, nobody's going to go "hey, this stuff looks just like Thanfiction's work..." because that's kinda true for half the crappy drawings on the Internet. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lady_ganesh 2010-01-16 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	This. Frankly, the fandom needs to be big enough to peel off a substantial number of gullible people. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2010-01-16 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	Good point. YAY! My fandoms are SAFE! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bobgenghiskhan 2010-01-16 06:42 pm UTC (link)
	For a lot of the same reasons, the first thing that came to my mind is the Star Trek reboot. Although getting into Trek-verse would require a fair amount of research, VB could pull it off. Hey, he has before. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	merlins_babe 2010-01-16 06:56 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think that Star Trek reboot would work very well for him, at least on LJ. It is too close to the HP community I have several friends who are very involved in both fandoms and they know all about thanfiction. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bobgenghiskhan 2010-01-17 10:09 pm UTC (link)
	Hmm, point. Also the more I think about it, the more I figure there's not enough High Fantasy in the Trek fandom for VB. He seems to prefer fandoms with an epic feel to them. Bob Ross <3 (Reply to this)(Parent)

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ardath_rekha 2010-01-16 08:38 pm UTC (link)

That depends... if he can successfully tap into the whole "I'm exactly the sort of sensitive guy you're dreaming of" vibe, he's got them. And they'll even forgive him if he's occasionally creepy because hey, this is the fandom that romanticizes creepy stalkers that sneak into girls' bedrooms to watch them sleep (Edward) and sexually assault them to prove their love (Jacob). That gives him a scary amount of leeway, really. I think the fandom would have a lot less receptivity to the arrival of a lesbian paladin, so I doubt we'll see a costume change back into Amy or Victoria. (Reply to this)(Parent)

exdee 2010-01-17 12:14 am UTC (link)

If he makes up/gets a girl to start bragging to the Twihards about him, how sensitive and romantic and yet kickass he is, and slowly but surely this girl allegedly gets him to read Twilight and he gets online and starts telling the Twihards how he understands and how AMAAAAZING these books are and how he is here to bring the ladies of the world chivalry and stalking and porn... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

enrythe8th 2010-01-17 12:18 pm UTC (link)

If he makes up/gets a sockpuppet to start bragging to the Twihards about him, how sensitive and romantic and yet kickass he is, and slowly but surely this sockpuppet allegedly gets him to read Twilight and he gets online and starts telling the Twihards how he understands and how AMAAAAZING these books are and how he is here to bring the ladies of the world chivalry and stalking and porn... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	darth_buttocks 2010-01-17 04:48 pm UTC (link)
	I've heard of at least one male semi-BNF in Twilight fandom. A guy called Kaleb Nation who refers to himself as the Twilight Guy. He was a guest at Twicon Dallas, which doesn't necessarily make him BNF, but it's probably close as you'd get. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	blue_penguin 2010-01-17 07:09 am UTC (link)
	I think those are all too small/too old/possessed of too high a fan age average to be of interest to him. (Though there were a surprising number of dumb teenage girls in the Pern fandom some ten years ago when I was in it...) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2010-01-18 03:37 am UTC (link)
	I know I wanted to be Menolly/Lessa growing up. I wouldn't be surprised if the draw is still there. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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