Friday DE

[bjornwilde]

I've been trying to think of a Star Wars themed topic for today and just blanking as I've been running late all morning. Looking at the Suggestion Box, I do see a topic from aberration  that taps into the marketing side of Star Wars:

Do you have any merchandise associated with your characters or the canons they're from? Other objects you associate with them? Have you made any non-RP fanworks (e.g., fanart, vids, fic, other things inspired by them)?

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[have_no_mercy]

I have a Luthorcorp mug and a Tess t-shirt.

Otherwise, nothing from any of my other character's fandoms.

[quick_clean_pure]

I have Terrence Zdunich's autograph on a poster for the Devil's Carnival tour from when they stopped in NYC.

I also have a Zydrate Support Network T-shirt I got from a convention.

[varadia]

If they made X-23 merchandise of it, I probably own it. There are statues and action figures and posters, but no T-shirts yet. Alas.

I have, uh. Repurporsed merchandise of Daenerys Targaryen to be Ysalwen, as they have similar coloring and fashion styles, THANKS WEIRD MAGE ROBES IN DRAGON AGE. Because she's a customized RPG heroine. Whee!

I also have, uh. The Ghost Crew in several action figure sizes. *sigh*

I have a raven necklace that I wear all the time, as well. Because Raven. My parents also got a friend of theirs who is an artist to paint me a raven-bird oil painting. 's pretty.

[death_gone_mad]

I commissioned a picture of Amascut and Saradomin (another god from Amascut's canon) cosplaying as Jerez, the Goddess of Destruction from Universe 2, and her angel attendant/mentor Sour, both from the Dragon Ball Super canon. But besides that nothing.

When I showed it off to Runescape fans on Twitter, it made one of the game developers comment that it made so much sense that it actually hurt. :P

Part of the fanbase already was mocking Saradomin by calling him the Sourdough Man. Well, when they weren't calling him Papa Smurf XD

[mightbeagoodone]

I have every Captain America Funko Pop I can get my hands on, as well as several from Sherlock and other fandoms I've played in the past. I also have several Captain America T-shirts, a shield backpack and CA-themed purse, a shield keychain, a Dr. Strange laptop bag, Dr. Who bedding...

I have chosen the fandom life and I live it to the the fullest.

Also, non-RP fanwork: fic. Lots and lots of fic.

[inlovewithwords]

Other than, of course, the various books my characters are from:

Evelyn: I have some DA-related something, I think. Maybe some pins somewhere, I'd have to find them.

Lois: I have various Super jewelry and a Super Tee, and of course I have the clothes I use to cosplay various Loises. I also have some Wondy-PJs and Bat Tees.

Star Wars: I have some posters and I have a Leia cardholder on my keychain, as well as an R2-D2 keychain. I've got some SW-related earrings I picked up, and I of course have my Poe/Finn Jacket from Her Universe. Oh, and my Rey vest and arm warmers and my Rey-inspired dress. And Rey boots--oh, and my very cheap off the internet Ahsoka, Rey, and generic Jedi costumes. And a couple lightsabers (I think they may both be Anakin's, technically, but one lights up and has sound and one doesn't. I need a good lightsaber at some point, mine are both cheap and/or annoying. I'd like Ahsoka's, natch, as she has nice ones, and maybe Mace's for the color. And I obviously do need an actual good version of the Lightsaber of Destiny, because I'm me.)

EDIT: Oh right! I also own a LEGO Millenium Falcon and LEGO Rey and her speeder, and also a model X-Wing.

Tavi: I have a signed map of Alera.

[i_am_your_host]

Well, duh. I am that kind of fan.

Cabaret/Emcee: I have official merch from the Broadway show including a t-shirt, suspenders that say WILLKOMMEN, and a gin glass which is my favorite thing. I've drawn Emcee fan art which I managed to show to Alan Cumming >.>

Preacher/Cassidy: I have two very awesome Cassidy t-shirts (and a couple other Preacher-related shirts, I am addicted, yes), Cassidy and Jesse Funko Pops, most of the Titans blind box figurines, the action figures of Cassidy and Jesse, and a poster of the cast.

True Blood: I have the Funko Pops of Eric and Pam, the very first Pops that I ever bought. There's not much TB merch anymore, but I did snag Fangtasia and Eric Northman t-shirts on sale at the HBO Store, and also a Fangtasia key chain that hangs on my backpack zipper.

Vikings/Floki: I only have the Funko Pop of Floki, which I set between my Pops of Heimdall and Eric Northman. (I'm looking for the Pop of Pennywise the clown so I can complete the Skarsgard trifecta.)

[childofrebellion]

I have a Rogue One pile of stuff from tissue boxes, a model I made of a U-wing, reference books, action figures and two glasses. Whenever I see Rogue One things for sale, I have a moment of should I or shouldn't I get it as there's that honest worry that it won't be there anymore. At the moment, I'm wearing a Cassian t-shirt and my family has learned that Star Wars' stuff works for me so I have lightsaber earrings, Boba Fett earrings and various necklaces with the Alliance Starbird on them. And I've written 25 fics in the Rogue One fandom, its been a while since a fandom pulled me in this much. One of my aims for today is to try and finish one or two fics for May the Fourth as I haven't been writing as much the past few weeks due to work leaving me feeling tired. And I'll link here, I'm taking Star Wars prompts over on my Tumblr.

I also have Star Wars' stuff that's not Rogue One, Disney Infinity figures for Ahsoka and Clone Wars' Obi-Wan, Rebels' era Captain Rex funko and The Last Jedi Poe Dameron where he's wearing the brown jacket and what I think of as his old school Rebellion outfit. And a Captain Phasma from The Last Jedi mini blind box.

X-Men is the second one in terms of stuff as I have minimates, those not really but almost lego figures for X-Men First Class and Days of Future Past, a mini funko of older Charles Xavier. Also an Xavier's school magnet, I had a shirt for a while too.

In terms of my other canons where there's not much actual merchandise, I have books, dvds and soundtracks. I have an adorable crocheted Mogget that Saph made for me, a Tumnus' doll that someone else made for me. I have toys for canons that I don't play from, Harry Potter, Thor and various Disney movies and tv shows. I really love those little blind boxes that Funko does.

In my gigantic pile of posters that need to be framed and hung up, I have two Lord of the Rings' posters, a Seanan McGuire poster, one from the Raven Cycle and I think that's all.

[cottoncandypink]

I bought a rock, because I didn’t think the listing was real, and expected to get a funny redirect. It did not redirect. They were literally selling rocks.

There’s also a nude calendar. That was the weirdest $35 I’ve spent in a while.

[bjornwilde]

I have every Sabine action figure that has been released to date, with the sole exception of the Forces of Destiny doll. The only reason I don't have that one is because I just don't have room for it in my cube at work. I even have the Disney Infinity figure and I just love her expression. I also have her in SW: Galaxy of Heroes, as well as the rest of the crew and the Ghost and Phantom 2.

And thanks to Fi, I have the Hot Wheels model of the Ghost.

I only have one Ahsoka, the recent Black Series Fulcrum. I'd have more if I could be the Clone Wars figures are pricey!

There wasn't much in the way of X-Men: First Class merch, but I do have the minimate of Hank. Same with Sam Wilson, though he has more toys out now. I just haven't gotten to them.

Scrapper/Valkyrie: I have the mini Pop figure of her as well as the 6" figure that came in a set with Thor. (I honestly don't have a use for Thor, so if Thor-mun would like him, I'd be happy to pass him along somehow.)

For Izana, I have the 1/20 figure of her Garde unit. I'd love to get a Sidonia hoodie, but again pricey for me.

Someday I will get the Marvel Legends figure for Danny Rand.

And lastly, I can't see how to get merch for John Proudstar or Tybalt, unless I get the Marvel Legends Thunderbird or they make an action figure for Mitchel from Being Human. Although I could get a Kili action figure for the LOLs.

[bjornwilde]

D'oh! I also have a Fulcrum teeshirt I am currently wearing.

And moving past my pups, I also have a Darth Vader figure, a stormtrooper, SWR Maul (which I only have because he came with the Seventh Sister and I couldn't resist buying because SW needs more women characters/figures), the Seventh Sister, a lightsaber that's about the size of a pair of scissors, and a 7" die cast Captain Phasma my daughter got for me.

With past pups, I've Ben Grimm, Batwoman, Spider-Woman, Assaj Ventress, Quinlan Vos, and an Andrea Nash who comes from a repurposed Walking Dead figure. I also have minimates of Azazel and Black Widow, who came with Hank and Sam respectively.

Oh, and I also have a lego Valkyrie from one of the lego sets my daughter and I still need to finish putting together before I can take it to work.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

I have a shirt with Bastion's face on it, but it's fan merch, not official. (I never like the colour scheme of their official shirts. Too much brown and olive-green.) I've also cosplayed a humanoid interpretation of them and I use the Ganymede prop as a desk decoration the rest of the time. (Occasionally I wear the jacket with casual clothes.) I've drawn them a few times but they're hard to draw; I also made a fanmix about them.

I have an official Homestuck Hero of Time hoodie, and an unofficial reproduction of Karkat's shirt. The latter was also for a cosplay, which I stopped using because the pants wore out. (Aradia was harder to dress up as than Karkat.)

Sometimes weird antique, faux-antique or steampunk-styled things make me think of Fallen London, and I did buy a bowler hat from the costume store mostly because of Thurlow. I also own four different Fallen London T-shirts (the red Dawn Machine one is actually one of my favourite shirts aesthetically) and a poster with a map of the Unterzee.

[aberration]

When it comes to merch I have a few dolls/figures, though I tend to like things I can otherwise use, especially clothing.

Hannibal - I have a Wendigo funko pop, which was a gift and has... now probably weirded out people from around the world, so good for him! And thanks to attending a panel once I happened to win a signed copy of the script for "Mukozuke." I also have a jacket that I've liked in part because it reminds me of Beverly Katz's jacket, being a similar shade of red leather and also because the style is kind of many strips sewn together and I mean. what.

Avatar/Korra - T-shirts! Three different t-shirts, including one my friend had made just for us featuring the Future Industries' Fire Ferrets, and two more Korra shirts. And a little Korrasami key chain that was a gift. <3

Star Wars - I have a Hera funko pop and shirt, and thanks to a coupon from thinkgeek, a scarf with the Rebellion insignia patterned on it. And a Lego Ghost and Hera that my host brother super wanted to steal from me.

And I mean:



we... yeah.

[genarti]

I don't tend to buy merchandise for myself; on the rare occasions when I really fall in love with something, it's usually expensive enough that I can talk myself out of it. But I do have several things friends have given me!

I don't have any official Les Misérables merchandise, but I do have some stuff made by friends -- a cockade Pilf gave me, and a super fantastic clay pendant with a street map of the barricade that Jane made. I think that's it for long-lasting stuff, but there were a few birthdays running where my local friends group got me a Les Mis-themed birthday cake, like the nerds we all are. <3

MCU-wise, I have several Thor figurines of descending sizes (a Funko Pop, a mini Funko, a teeny keychain Funko that falls over a lot, a little Lego Thor) and a Mjölnir keychain. Also an Avengers washcloth that makes my bathroom 100% more epic than it would otherwise be. And, again, there was a birthday cake one year featuring Thor riding Nyan Cat across the cosmos. Again, everything but the Lego one was a gift.

I have some other stuff related to other canons -- some magnets, some t-shirts -- and some stuff for past canons, but that's it for the ones I currently play, I think. (Just watch, though, I'll've forgotten something that was also a deeply appreciated gift and then I'll feel dumb.) The Enchanted Forest Chronicles don't really have merchandise to my knowledge, and if Atomic Robo does I haven't run across it.

[iprotectyou]

I have no merch from any fandom. I'm such a bad fan.

[sunbaked_baker]

No such thing as a bad fan*! Buying merch of a thing does not make the fan. Fannishness towards a thing has one (1) criterion:

1) Do you like the thing?

If so, congratulations! You are a fan of the thing. <3333


* Fans of a thing can exhibit bad behavior, however, particularly by claiming other people aren't "real" fans of a thing unless those people are fans in the same way and with the same depth of knowledge of the thing's history and minutia as them.

[iprotectyou]

I hadn't considered it that way! Thanks!

[sunbaked_baker]

*noms on* You is a good fan. *nods sagely*

[iprotectyou]

Ahaha. Thanks.

[irish_vagabond]

^^^^ this

[genarti]

100% agreed!

(Also, as far as merch goes, there's a wide variety in terms of what canons even HAVE it, let alone have an interesting variety. It's a bit odd to me to be in Avengers fandom and HAVE all this merch available, since so many of my fandoms are book ones! Anyway, some people like to express their fannish enthusiasm through buying stuff when it exists, and that's cool! Some people would like to but can't afford to, and some people have no interest in merch, and all of these are perfectly reasonable ways to be a fan.)

[bjornwilde]

Another voice to add to THIS. DO you love the thing? Congratulations, you are a fan. That's all it takes. Now to be a good fan, that takes sharing the thing in a courteous manner and not gatekeep. At least in my humble opinion.

[aberration]

I mean, ftr I put up this question more than three years ago, directly after a DE that was something like 'do you have character/fandom-inspired tea blends.' And since I don't drink tea, it was meant as a 'and maybe also character/fandom-inspired literally anything else'? Hence mentioning my Beverly Katz jacket - it's not merch at all, just a jacket that makes me think of Beverly Katz! It was never meant as a judgment of fanishness.

[iprotectyou]

Oh, no, I don't think anyone was judging me but me. Thanks for the clarification, though. It's a great question.