I never watched the first Pacific Rim movie because I can't really abide a lot of smashy fight scenes, though I knew all about the plot and concept of course.
So a couple of weeks ago I read Hello Tailor's article ‘Pacific Rim’ actor Charlie Day says slash fanfic informed his performance because of general interest in slash fanfiction in wider culture and all the associated issues, and I watched the video clip with the same thing in mind.
Except then the phrase he used, something like, "He misses the man that he's in love with", sort of snagged me with its pathos and I remembered that after the first movie there was an explosion of fan interest in the pairing and![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
waxjism was definitely reading it for a while. So, being temporarily without a fannish reading interest, I went to AO3 and started acquainting myself with the fanfiction in descending order of kudos.
It's always quite an experience going into a body of fanfiction for a canon that you haven't seen, even with a fair amount of fannish osmosis background information to draw on.
In this instance, after a few pages of results I'd gone through enough post-Uprising stories to have been spoiled for it as well, and ( the end of this train of thought is spoilery for Pacific Rim: Uprising. )
So that's what most of my recent AO3 bookmarks are now - mostly ones from before the new movie, but I think there's a couple there and there are bound to be more, so those could be spoilery.
waxjism has mentioned trying to make me watch the first movie a few times now, and I might be open to watching everything except the action sequences, so I guess we'll see.
So a couple of weeks ago I read Hello Tailor's article ‘Pacific Rim’ actor Charlie Day says slash fanfic informed his performance because of general interest in slash fanfiction in wider culture and all the associated issues, and I watched the video clip with the same thing in mind.
Except then the phrase he used, something like, "He misses the man that he's in love with", sort of snagged me with its pathos and I remembered that after the first movie there was an explosion of fan interest in the pairing and
waxjism was definitely reading it for a while. So, being temporarily without a fannish reading interest, I went to AO3 and started acquainting myself with the fanfiction in descending order of kudos. It's always quite an experience going into a body of fanfiction for a canon that you haven't seen, even with a fair amount of fannish osmosis background information to draw on.
In this instance, after a few pages of results I'd gone through enough post-Uprising stories to have been spoiled for it as well, and ( the end of this train of thought is spoilery for Pacific Rim: Uprising. )
So that's what most of my recent AO3 bookmarks are now - mostly ones from before the new movie, but I think there's a couple there and there are bound to be more, so those could be spoilery.
waxjism has mentioned trying to make me watch the first movie a few times now, and I might be open to watching everything except the action sequences, so I guess we'll see.
