Signal Boost: To my old-school slasher friends: Guardian could be your next fandom!

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mecurtin posted: To my old-school slasher friends: Guardian could be your next fandom!

Now that we're back on Dreamwidth and running into each other more often, you may have noticed that a bunch of your old pals, including me, seem to have fallen into fanlove for a Chinese drama called Guardian (link is to a playlist of all episodes with English subtitles of HIGHLY variable quality).

What, you may well ask, is going on here? What does Guardian give that is worth overcoming the barriers of language and culture to understand?[1]

Here's what: They made it for us.

By "us" I don't mean "Westerners", I mean slashers. Guardian is a live-action TV series where we are the desired, intended audience. In the words of china_shop, Guardian is a mindfuck when you're used to donning your slash goggles.