A foot in two fandoms...
May. 30th, 2014 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cairistionaErm. I never thought I'd ever do two fandoms at once, but I have a confession: Captain America: The Winter Soldier has grabbed me by the heart and won't let go. Don't worry, though, I'm still 100% in LOTR. It's kind of like having two children... I love them both and won't neglect either. :D
What's interesting is how differently I approach both fandoms. With Tolkien, I'm all about the serious stuff, for the most part, and all about the fic writing (not so much with WS, though I do have a one-shot idea pestering me like a mosquito in a dark room). With LOTR, I don't really dig the cutsie stuff like chibi's or cartoons. I find them mildly amusing, mind, and sometimes get silly with them when the mood is right, but I'm still more about canon and exploring deeper themes and all that you do with Tolkien books and movies.
But with The Winter Soldier... not so much. I'm digging the serious platonic friendship/loyalty/hero themes, because there's a LOT of that (though like with LOTR, I'm not into shipping or OTP stuff, so all the slash & romance still goes right by me), but I also find myself drifting toward all the silly stuff. There's been a lot of hilarious cartoons and memes on tumblr that send me off on giggle fits that are... a little embarrassing in their intensity. And then this morning, I ran across these little guys:
and
... and yes, I bought them. They will soon be gracing my shelf alongside Aragorn and Gandalf and Minas Tirith. My house is starting to look like the set of The Big Bang Theory. Seriously.
I also bought the Ed Brubaker Winter Soldier comics, or at least the ones that correspond to the movie. I loved comics as a kid, and in reading these the last couple of days, I discover I... still kinda love comics.
Yes, I am twelve. I will never enter a second childhood because apparently I've never left my first.
What's interesting is how differently I approach both fandoms. With Tolkien, I'm all about the serious stuff, for the most part, and all about the fic writing (not so much with WS, though I do have a one-shot idea pestering me like a mosquito in a dark room). With LOTR, I don't really dig the cutsie stuff like chibi's or cartoons. I find them mildly amusing, mind, and sometimes get silly with them when the mood is right, but I'm still more about canon and exploring deeper themes and all that you do with Tolkien books and movies.
But with The Winter Soldier... not so much. I'm digging the serious platonic friendship/loyalty/hero themes, because there's a LOT of that (though like with LOTR, I'm not into shipping or OTP stuff, so all the slash & romance still goes right by me), but I also find myself drifting toward all the silly stuff. There's been a lot of hilarious cartoons and memes on tumblr that send me off on giggle fits that are... a little embarrassing in their intensity. And then this morning, I ran across these little guys:
and
... and yes, I bought them. They will soon be gracing my shelf alongside Aragorn and Gandalf and Minas Tirith. My house is starting to look like the set of The Big Bang Theory. Seriously.
I also bought the Ed Brubaker Winter Soldier comics, or at least the ones that correspond to the movie. I loved comics as a kid, and in reading these the last couple of days, I discover I... still kinda love comics.
Yes, I am twelve. I will never enter a second childhood because apparently I've never left my first.
