June Something Day 7

[graveexcitement]

June Something Day 7: What's the longest time you've been in a fandom. Not necessarily your oldest fandom, but a fandom that you started and still continue to read/write/create content for in some way.

This one's probably gotta be Danganronpa. I first discovered DR in 2013ish, back when it first became a trend on Tumblr and was only accessible through the fantranslation/LP on SomethingAwful. I loved the first game and wrote a fic of it, and then SomethingAwful put up a paywall when I was like, one chapter into the second game, and I wandered away into some other fandom. But in 2016 my brother (who I had introduced to DR previously) encouraged me to play the second game myself, since the official English localizations had been released on Steam, and I became enamored with the fandom again.

From there, I watched DR3 and eagerly played NDRV3 when it came out the next year. My participation in the fandom waxes and wanes, but never entirely fades; I consistently write at least one, and usually more, fics for it each year. Soon I'll finally have posted more DR fics than I have Homestuck fics. (The current count is Homestuck: 14, Danganronpa: 12.)

The other candidate for "longest time I've been in a fandom" is Harry Potter. However, these days most of my Harry Potter interest actually goes to my favorite HP recursive fandom, the Rigel Black Chronicles fanfic series. And hey, maybe that counts, in which case yeah, I guess I've been in HP fandom longer than DR fandom. But it feels less consistent than DR (and as far as writing goes, I've only written one HP fic that isn't recursive fanfic of the Rigel Black Chronicles.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Comments

[storme]

My DR story is that an old friend of mine came to visit waaay back when, and we sat in a Japanese restaurant in central London and he told me about this game he really loved which was sort of a crossover between Phoenix Wright and Battle Royale and he'd been thinking about doing a translated let's play of it so that people outside Japan could enjoy it and what did I think? Was it a dumb idea?

(I see orenr whenever I visit Japan. Last time we went to a DR popup cafe collaboration together. :D )

[graveexcitement]

that's awesome! :D and the DR popup cafe sounds really fun!

[storme]

It was sort of a low-efforted collab, alas, but we got some nice coasters. :D

[graveexcitement]

ah gotcha, well still sounds nice even if kinda low-effort! i've never been to japan though, so i'm probably easily impressed, lol. (recently i went to a hot topic for the first time in like 2 years and saw like 5 DR shirts being sold, and i was mostly just impressed that DR was on hot topic's radar. i might have even been tempted to buy one if they weren't all too big.)