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Half way point! This one has a bizarre little back story that I can’t go in to detail about yet because it also pairs directly with day seven.
I do however blame this completely on my daughter. She has a frighteningly unnatural ability to quickly quip off musical alterations at random that then get stuck in your head. She came up with the chorus on the fly one day sitting with me in the hospital while I got treatment at which point it rattled around in my brain for weeks. Yay. I started expanding on it for fun, or in a futile attempt to get it to leave me alone, and then thought it could make a fun little addition to the twelve days of Christmas as a nod to the fandom I’ve been calling home for so long, and day six felt like a good place to set it. It felt a little lame though to do something so short and not completely in your face Gundam so we may have also rewrote the twelve days of Christmas which I am aptly naming the twelve tropes of Gundam.
The twelve tropes are things that tend to show up in fandom work but were also things that we have all probably commented on from the show and laughed about. I’m not poking fun at anyone’s creative work, but you have to admit, Dorothy’s eyebrows probably have a special place in all of our hearts.
Ode to the Gundam Fandom
Original Song - Christmas Eve by Blackmore's Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzd1qVtItIc
This leans a bit more towards the written side of fandom just because that is just the part I took up residence in. But I hope the overall feeling is universal to everyone.
Though the series has ended
We’ve all still hung around
Sharing stories and art work
Through fandom ups and downs
Me, I’ll go browse through the archives
History on a page
Smiling at the memories
The nostalgia of it all…
And our hearts fill with wonder
As the stories come to life…
It’s Gundam Wing
On our screens
All round the world we’ve gathered to bring
Gundam Wing
Angst and fluff
We’ll share it all it’s never enough.
Logging on in the evening,
Chatting with friends near and far
Fangirling over gift art
And all of the thousands of fics
Watched both subbed and dubbed versions
Read the manga for lore
Added in my own stories
And in fandom found a home.
And our hearts fill with wonder
As the stories come to life…
It’s Gundam Wing
On our screens
All round the world we’ve gathered to bring
Gundam Wing
Angst and fluff
We’ll share it all it’s never enough.
And our hearts fill with wonder
As the stories come to life…
It’s Gundam Wing
On our screens
All round the world we’ve gathered to bring
Gundam Wing
Angst and fluff
We’ll share it all it’s never enough.
It’s Gundam Wing
On our screens
All round the world we’ve gathered to bring
Gundam Wing
Angst and fluff
We’ll share it all it’s never enough.
The Twelve Tropes of Gundam
Formatting this one was entertaining. I wasn't writing out the same thing twelve times over, but not having the opening line just looked funny. So just start at twelve and read it like you would sing the song. Hopefully it gets a pity eye roll at the very least.
On the twelfth day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Big fluffy eyebrows
On the eleventh day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Many Quatre guilt trips
On the tenth day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Zero system freak-outs
On the ninth day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Trowa’s out of bullets
On the eighth day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Wufei’s rants of justice
On the seventh day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Heero self-destructing
On the sixth day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Duo lost his hair tie
On the fifth day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Five single men
On the fourth day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Rose petal bubble baths
On the third day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Catch phrases
On the second day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Musical duets
On the first day of writing plot bunnies brought to me... And a safe room scene with just one bed.
I do however blame this completely on my daughter. She has a frighteningly unnatural ability to quickly quip off musical alterations at random that then get stuck in your head. She came up with the chorus on the fly one day sitting with me in the hospital while I got treatment at which point it rattled around in my brain for weeks. Yay. I started expanding on it for fun, or in a futile attempt to get it to leave me alone, and then thought it could make a fun little addition to the twelve days of Christmas as a nod to the fandom I’ve been calling home for so long, and day six felt like a good place to set it. It felt a little lame though to do something so short and not completely in your face Gundam so we may have also rewrote the twelve days of Christmas which I am aptly naming the twelve tropes of Gundam.
The twelve tropes are things that tend to show up in fandom work but were also things that we have all probably commented on from the show and laughed about. I’m not poking fun at anyone’s creative work, but you have to admit, Dorothy’s eyebrows probably have a special place in all of our hearts.
Ode to the Gundam Fandom
Original Song - Christmas Eve by Blackmore's Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzd1qVtItIc
This leans a bit more towards the written side of fandom just because that is just the part I took up residence in. But I hope the overall feeling is universal to everyone.
Though the series has ended
We’ve all still hung around
Sharing stories and art work
Through fandom ups and downs
Me, I’ll go browse through the archives
History on a page
Smiling at the memories
The nostalgia of it all…
And our hearts fill with wonder
As the stories come to life…
It’s Gundam Wing
On our screens
All round the world we’ve gathered to bring
Gundam Wing
Angst and fluff
We’ll share it all it’s never enough.
Logging on in the evening,
Chatting with friends near and far
Fangirling over gift art
And all of the thousands of fics
Watched both subbed and dubbed versions
Read the manga for lore
Added in my own stories
And in fandom found a home.
And our hearts fill with wonder
As the stories come to life…
It’s Gundam Wing
On our screens
All round the world we’ve gathered to bring
Gundam Wing
Angst and fluff
We’ll share it all it’s never enough.
And our hearts fill with wonder
As the stories come to life…
It’s Gundam Wing
On our screens
All round the world we’ve gathered to bring
Gundam Wing
Angst and fluff
We’ll share it all it’s never enough.
It’s Gundam Wing
On our screens
All round the world we’ve gathered to bring
Gundam Wing
Angst and fluff
We’ll share it all it’s never enough.
The Twelve Tropes of Gundam
Formatting this one was entertaining. I wasn't writing out the same thing twelve times over, but not having the opening line just looked funny. So just start at twelve and read it like you would sing the song. Hopefully it gets a pity eye roll at the very least.
On the twelfth day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Big fluffy eyebrows
On the eleventh day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Many Quatre guilt trips
On the tenth day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Zero system freak-outs
On the ninth day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Trowa’s out of bullets
On the eighth day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Wufei’s rants of justice
On the seventh day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Heero self-destructing
On the sixth day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Duo lost his hair tie
On the fifth day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Five single men
On the fourth day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Rose petal bubble baths
On the third day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Catch phrases
On the second day of writing plot bunnies brought to me…. Musical duets
On the first day of writing plot bunnies brought to me... And a safe room scene with just one bed.
