oh no, a fandom milestone

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 19:51:45 GMT

OK so I'm pretty new to this whole "fandom" thing to be honest. I've always liked stuff and have occasionally read fanfiction but I've never really participated in the fandom stuff until I got into The Untamed/CQL/MDZS. And if I'm being honest with myself I really only got into fandom because the pandemic was starting and I felt a mighty need for something fun and divorced from the reality of 2020

Anyway.

So I'm reading this book right now called Winter's Orbit and it is giving me SUCH wangxian vibes! If someone told me it started life as a sci-fi arranged marriage wangxian AU I would be nodding along like "yes, this totally makes sense".

To be fair, literally nothing in the plot so far is like MZDS at all, but here are our main characters: Kiem, who is outgoing, loves to party and drink, has responsibilities but approaches them with an irreverent air. Jainan, who hella smart and accomplished, quiet, cerebral, reticent, and serious. They're put into an arranged marriage. They are both super into each other, but are convinced for various reasons that the other person isn't interested and/or resents them. They both tiptoe around each other's feelings and they each interpret this as dislike.

So yeah, the fandom milestone is that I'm starting to read character dynamics from the show I like into other media ;^^

(PS I googled the book just now and it turns out this book did start out on AO3 but I didn't read further to see if it was fanfic or an original story but yeah, I wasn't totally off-base in clocking it as fanficy)

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oh no, a fandom milestone