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[muji]

Is there a fandom that you enjoy specifically because of Milliways? (This is different from 'What fandoms do you like because you've seen them in Milliways'. For example: I never heard of Still Life With Woodpecker, but I read it because of Bernard Wrangle. What I'm after is more like the fact that I probably wouldn't appreciate the Dark Tower series as much as I do if it hadn't been for the DT players. Does that make sense?)

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[innerbrat]

Do our own canons count? I wouldn't be half as invested in Pirates of the Caribbean if Aspen and Heater hadn't been so awesome.

[muji]

Sure! *totally counts Twilight then*

[prix-etoile.livejournal.com]

Twilight :|

Uhm, Farscape. I got into it because of Lorna and Aeryn and now play in it myself. For a given definition of "play" because Twilight HAS JDLFKJADSLFGA TAKEN OVER...but I would have never fought so hard to play a character if it hadn't been for Lorna :P

I don't...know if there are others. I mean, I'm sure there are, but I've fallen so out of touch with just randomly reading threads. :(

[muji]

Twilight is just...hahahaha. I don't even know anymore.

[sardonicynic]

Hellboy floated to the top of my head immediately, thanks to the awesome that is Bat and Lexie.

And, I gotta echo your DT appreciation, Steph -- I'm reading the series for the first time, and bar comparisons keep overlapping with every book.

[muji]

For srs. DT was like, the foundation of my RPing for my first year and a half.

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

Um.
Um.
Um.

Not really? I keep meaning to watch things but I still haven't. :O

[muji]

Like what?

[djcati.livejournal.com]

Yeah, seconding (thirding?) the DT thing. Stephen King in general, to be honest -- I used to be one of those people who thought his books were a waste of time. :O

Doctor Who, especially the first season of the new series. ESPECIALLY THE LAST EPISODE. I will always secretly think Ace was there.

I can't think of any others. There are probably some, though.

[muji]

I don't know that, even now, that I would go out of my way to read some of King's stuff, but I don't write it off anymore. This is a big shift from 4-5 years ago.

[gotham-knocking.livejournal.com]

Can't think of any offhand. Though certainly the people I've met in the game have enhanced my appreciation (or willingness to criticize) various and sundry things I watch or read.

[aberration]

Mmmm. Well, at this point, Milliways is pretty much the only way I can think about Heroes.

And... yeah, I am too tired to think of anything else right now.

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

*rages about this week's episode*

[vance_prime]

I knew next to nothing about the Half-Life series until Cam enchanted me with her portrayal of Gordon Freeman. And now... well.

[a1enzo]

Likewise. They're great games anyway, but Milliways gives them so much more depth.

[gorgonfondness]

Harry Potter and Fruits Basket come to mind immediately. And I probably wouldn't have seen the second Shrek movie without seeing Puss in Boots here first, even though I liked the first one. Zazu's recent appearance in the bar along with a chat with Scar long ago both made me remember why The Lion King has always been one of my favorite movies.

And I'm sure there are others because everyone here is awesome! =o

[naelwyn.livejournal.com]

Eureka is the only one coming to mind at the moment. I failed at resisting it with SARAH in MWays and it's now one of my favorite shows.

[muji]

*beams*

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

If the characters at Milliways hadn't caught my interest, I never would have watched Firefly, and I wouldn't have followed Firefly up with a series of other fannish shows (BSG, Buffy, Avatar, Princess Tutu). I seriously did not watch television, with the rare exception of Jeopardy, from the time I was ten to the time I was twenty-five. You all convinced me to try again.

[wakeupnew]

Oh God, only about a million. Farscape, The Dark Tower, Hot Fuzz, Hellboy (okay, I saw it thanks to the insistence of jothra and magwana, but (A) they are Milliways people, and (B) I never would have been as excited to see it if I hadn't become enchanted with Batty's Hellboy!), How I Met Your Mother, the resurgence of interest in Bones that prompted me to watch the entire series instead of a few random episodes was thanks to the Milliways cast...

-- Okay, that was not actually the question, on rereading. *facepalm* But I typed all that stuff, so I am leaving it!

To answer the actual question: Milliways has changed Firefly for me. I can't think of any others off the top of my head -- oh, Narnia, too. The Narnia players here made me think of the books less as children's toys and more as books in their own rights; I borrowed my friend's set and ravenously reread the entire series in two days soon after joining Milliways.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

The Young Avengers crowd immediately come to mind. I had liked the characters before but not enough to collect each appearance. Then I come here and suddenly I get a secret thrill each time I see them in the comics I read.

I am not sure if this is part of the question, but I would have to say that Fantastic Four is much more for me since I started playing Ben. The F4 have always been a team I care a lot about and have been like family for me, but now I "feel" what Ben would feel in the situations the writers put him in, on panel and off. I go beyond what they write, kind of fill in the blanks they don't have the time or imagination for.

In fact Ben is growing on me a lot and is almost becoming an inspiration. I wonder how long it will take them to lock me up when I yell, "It's Clobberin' Time!"?

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

(Did you hear about the relaunch oh my god I don't know if I should be scared or excited.)

[elffreaky.livejournal.com]

my internet hates me.

I saw Devil's Backbone because of Milliways and loved it because it gave me more insight into Sante. Oh yeah and Kingdom Hospital, why have we never gotten more people in from that? Well, with that one, I suddenly realized why I should be afraid of the DR. Ga! That guy was evil! I am not kidding. Poor Elinor, You know I almost apped her.

Most of my pups are very much alone in the bar, but I must say that Tegid has gained a bit of joy because I have had to do research for him. You can't have an Iron Ager without the research. And it has also gotten me to re read a lot more of his canon.

Courage too, I catch myself watching Courage and thinking, Oh, i should bring him in from that, or, wow, I am glad he's got Milliways his world sucks!

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Smallville. I blame Steph, of course. I'd paid minimal attention to it, but once my pup started to talk to Clark, my interested soared (The LEGION OF AWESOME FROM THE 31ST CENTURY appearing in an episode kind of made my January fun.)

I started paying attention to Burn Notice because of Lexie's descriptions of the show on her journal, although doubtless she's forgotten about that. So that's...sort of related to Milliways? But now we have a Fiona in bar, so I'm watching all the episodes again.

I went back and watched the MiB films because of Rick. I'd always liked them, but now I pay much more attention to the tiny details in the films. I started reading Fables again because of Gar and Rick during the Black Oil plot.

Um. Let's see. I'd already read Lukyanenko's Night Watch books (the ones that are out in English) before I joined Milliways, but now that we have a magnificient Olga here, I'm going back and reading them again. (New book finally out in English! Although, as with all the Watch books, the translations are really awkward in places.)

I've also delved back into reading/watching canons that I'd not been involved with in a long time because I was thinking of apping characters from that canon. For example, I went back and read all of Gruenwald's run on Captain America because I wanted to app a character from said run (and no, it's not Cap). I'm very active in Marvel fandom, but this time I concentrated just on this character in my my processing of canon.

Oh, I blame Gwynne for my giving a crap about Samurai Champloo.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Samurai Champloo

After peaking at the wiki, this looks interesting!

[minkhollow]

So, there's this movie about a bunch of security testers and Angry Ben Kingsley?
Yeah, that. My parents tried to get me to watch it, but I didn't really pay attention, and then Cam brought Whistler into the bar, and he was so awesome I decided to give it another chance.
::eyes Carl:: ::and Cos:: ::and the various fic:: Safe to say the rest is history. XD

[dontlooklisten.livejournal.com]

Is Angry Ben Kingsley like Crazy Gary Oldman?

[candied-rabbit.livejournal.com]

Huh, I dunno.

On the one hand, both of the canons I've investigated from Milliways were pretty awesome on their own, and I did it, in both cases, with only a glancing acquaintance with the pups from them. So, those don't really count, I guess - if I'd stumbled across them some other way, I would have liked them just as much, probably.

On the other, there are a lot of canons that I mean to check out, because of Milliways - Neverwhere, Doctor Who and its spin-offs, Artemis Fowl, and, dear god, maybe even Twilight - which I'd probably like on their millicredentials alone, even if they didn't amuse me at all.

(I'd like to say that the comics-muns around have cured me of my marked distaste for Marvel and stuff that I picked up during high school, but I'm bad about following their threads. And it sounds like people who are still comics-fans have an even higher distaste level than I do, most days.)

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

And it sounds like people who are still comics-fans have an even higher distaste level than I do, most days

Comics is an abusive relationship I just can't leave. D: If you ever get in the mood for it, though, we can rec the good stuff. And by 'good stuff' I usually mean 'crack.'

[alt-hulk.livejournal.com]

Well, I tend to enjoy all my fandoms pretty well, but Milliways has certainly, by way of Kyle, brought me back to Star Warsing. To the point that I'm now having to deliberate between which of my SUDDENLY VERY LOUD Star Wars voices I'd like to apply for. It's a little insane, actually, how loud they are. And while I'm conversant in each of their respective canons, I need to reread/replay them still for details.

BUT THE VOICES DEMAND TO BE HEARD.

So, I don't know what to do. Do I app them and hope for the best, or force myself (ahahaha, pun) to reread the canons even though it's unpleasant because I more or less remember everything! Ugh.

In other news, Milliways brought me back to Half-Life, Marvel, and SW. If that counts. XD

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

-preens-

Also: I FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT AVATAR. ALDFJASKDFJ I mean it's avatar so it's never NOT FUN to watch but ... arg. don't have tiiime.

[remindmeofthe.livejournal.com]

I don't know about fandoms, but there is a certain tiny Russian pilot who is solely responsible for my newfound fascination with twentieth-century Russia. I bought an overpriced book and everything. And will probably buy more.

[ashen_key]

You have no idea how much this makes me glee.

Seriously.

[ceitfianna]

I'm going to second the Firefly that a lot of people have mentioned because when I've found myself watching it now, its with different eyes and sense of the characters. I think I see Diana Wynne Jones' books with a lot more depth now due to the all the wonderful pups played in Bar, I felt like I sort of found her again.

Those are the two that really spring to mind since the list of the ones I've been introduced to is much bigger though I would say Milliways have also educated me wonderfully about my own fandoms. I love being able to share and talk about how the Greek myths work and figure out why do I like some versions of Robin Hood and not others. Or even the simple thing of how do I play Tumnus in such a way to fit into the wonderful world created by the retired Narnian pups and still tell his story. Its all these wonderful complexities that come out in how I write and think about everything I see and read now that's purely due to Milliways.

[ostro_goth]

Well, let me see how many I remember:

• Bones
  
• CSI
  
• Eureka
  
• Pushing Daisies
  
• Marvel 1604
  
• New Amsterdam
  
• Constatine
  
• Queer as Folk
  
• Knight's Tale
  
• Rome
  
• Becoming Jane...

There'd be lots more if I think a bit longer, but that's what I can think of off my cuff.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

I can honestly say that I don't think I'd have even considered playing Team Fortress 2 if it weren't for the RED Scout we have here- even though the game came along with Portal and the Half-Life 2 stuff. So... yeah.