Why am I grateful to Guardian

[maggie33]

Apart from the obvious – that is for giving me a wonderful drama to watch and love.

And the reasons are:

• The fannish things I tried for the first time – from writing a treat for an exchange to taking part in an exchange with a proper assignment that I could panic about. :D



• It introduced me to two fantastic actors – Zhu Yilong and Bai Yu



• Thanks to Guardian I went outside my usual circle of US/UK and Polish TV shows. Back in the days when I still watched TV shows on TV I used to watch shows from other countries quite often – a lot of Russian (me and my sister loved The Three Musketeers) and Czechoslovakian ones, and a few from other Eastern Bloc countries. But also Japanese sometimes (the one I remember the most is Oshin, I watched it as a teenager and I loved it), Italian (La Piovra was amazing), German and Spanish. The Internet and the easy availability of so many shows, and me getting rid of my cable subscription, and the fact that I know English and not some other foreign language, narrowed down my watching these last 10 – 15 years to mostly the shows in English or Polish.

Without Guardian I wouldn’t have started watching all those other Asian dramas that bring me so much joy right now: Memory Lost, Detective L, SCI, HIStory 3 Trapped, Something In The Rain. And I’m sure that list will get longer in the future.

Even if it’s so frustrating to have to wait for English subtitles sometimes. And here I would like to apologize to all those people on Polish forums, who were impatiently asking about Polish fansubs for some US TV show unavailable in Poland in the past, about whom I thought uncharitably “Just learn English, instead of whining.” Feel free to tell me to learn Chinese if I will ever start complaining about the waiting for subtitles. ;)

Comments

[starandrea]

I enjoy this post! ♥

[maggie33]

Thanks. It was fun to write. :D

[riventhorn]

I love how one good thing can lead to others too, in this case, Detective L and History 3 Trapped! I really rely on my flist for recs to discover good songs, shows, fic, etc.

[maggie33]

Yep, I usually found new fannish interests because someone on my LJ flist started talking about it and it sounded right up my alley. Tumblr never worked for me (I never made an account, I just checked the tags sometimes), so it was hard for me to find the recs there.

[firestar]

I'm so grateful for this show, seriously. It's great being back in an active fandom and actually participating instead of watching it all go by me.

[maggie33]

I feel like during my best Livejournal years. I have a fandom I'm enthusiastic about and I have a lot of people to talk to about it. It's so great. :)

[firestar]

Right? So nostalgic.

[trobadora]

Yes to all of that! It's so great. ♥

[maggie33]

It is. Guardian fandom is full of love and sparkles. :D

[rheasilvia]

Guardian is a wonderful gift in so many ways! I could not agree more. :-)

from writing a treat for an exchange to taking part in an exchange with a proper assignment that I could panic about. :D

Heee! I know how that goes... not too long ago, I was determined to never take part in an exchange again because they are too stressful. Now...

Hope your assignment is going well!

[maggie33]

My assignment went well. I posted it on Saturday. So now instead of stressing about writing it I can stress about my recip’s response. :)

[qikiqtarjuaq]

Guardian got me actively participating in fandom again and it's been so much fun! And of course now there's the never ending vortex of other c-dramas...

[maggie33]

Exactly. I'm all like - c-dramas are wonderful and I never knew, thank you Guardian. :)

[jo_lasalle]

I like this post. ^_^ I love it when fandom brings so many good things and new things into one's life!

[maggie33]

:DDDD Thanks. I'm really happy that Guardian happened when I was ready to come back into fannish life after 2 years break. The fandom here on dreamwidth is amazing.