#winterblumensaat

[naryrising]

So you like imaginary fandoms...

With the recent success of Goncharov, I thought I'd make a post to mention some of the previous times this has happened in fandom, and a brief explanation and some links on how you can find works for them. I don't claim that this is a comprehensive list, it's just ones that came to me off the top of my head based on several decades of fandom involvement.

Ghost Soup Infidel Blue. Originates from the annual Yuletide exchange, specifically a post by liviapenn in 2007 that used it as a default fandom to help explain how to write 'dear author' letters. The relevant quote (meant to illustrate the kind of letter that would be too specific) was "'Bad: "I would like a Ghost Soup story where Luke makes out with Angela's clone and Angela gets mad and seduces Moira just to make Luke mad, and then Ryan and Luke duel to the death with their lightsabers and it ends up in an Angela/Angela's clone/Moira threesome. And Ryan feels really bad and flies off to Mars forever."" Consensus is that it is a sprawling space opera anime series, something like Gundam or Macross, with many sub-parts and spin-offs. Part of the dynamic of Ghost Soup 'fandom' is people arguing in the notes and comments about the continuity or quality of these various spinoffs (e.g. Purple is reputed to be bad, but some people will staunchly defend it just to be contrary.) Deliberate wank and badfic is part of the humour. You can read the Fanlore post about Ghost Soup here and find works for it and its related fandoms here

Winterblumensaat. Again, this comes out of Yuletide, specifically a nomination in 2021 for what was strongly suspected to be a nonexistent German book. The nominator's sister found it in a flea market! It very definitely was real! They couldn't provide any evidence or a photo of the book, but they promise it was definitely a real book! Despite being rejected from Yuletide nominations as not having any basis in reality, it has nevertheless had some fics written for it. The AO3 tag is merged into Original Work, so you can find them by searching in Original Work for Winterblumensaat (results here). It seems to be a moody, dark mid-century European novel, with characters named Florientina, Mailia, Schnail, and Markus. A related non-existent fandom with the same origin story is Nur die Sonne - Maria Moßer, but this has only attracted one work so far (a crossover with Winterblumensaat).

Cordelia (Movie Poster). In 2020 a movie poster for the movie Cordelia came out that inspired fandom in ways probably not intended by the movie's creators. While the actual movie Cordelia is a contemporary horror/thriller, the poster gave people the impression that it might be about Victorian femdom with pegging. Needless to say, they were disappointed by whatever was in the actual film, and made up fic based on what they thought the poster was about instead. Currently ALL works in the Cordelia (2020) tag on AO3 are actually about the poster and not the movie.

Invisible Ficathon. In 2014 an exchange called Invisible Ficathon ran, which was based around "stories that never were". Nominated "canons" had to be nonexistent fictional works referenced in another work. Examples given included "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes - Joan Watson" (from Elementary), "The Itchy and Scratchy Show" (from The Simpsons), the books in Lucien's library in The Sandman that only exist in dreams, and so on. The collections on AO3 contain 71 works for nonexistent fandoms. Alas that this exchange only ran once, because it was a fun concept. I think with the renewed interest in Goncharov, it would be ripe for revival.

#goncharov #fictional fandoms #ghost soup infidel blue #winterblumensaat #cordelia movie poster #invisible ficathon

[yekokataa]

truly remarkable when you consider the parallels between goncharov's katya and winterblumensaat's mailia

#jokes that exist for like probably two of my followers #winterblumensaat

[ermingarden]

If Goncharov isn't in the Yuletide tagset next year, I will be very disappointed in you all.

#like winterblumensaat but better #goncharov

[olderthannetfic]

I've just recently been hearing about this goncahrov thing and I dunno how it started but all I know is that everyone acts and post stuff like it's a real movie and they're part of a real fandom and now it's taken a life of it's own or something and even has fics on ao3. I'm not familiar with fandom history and don't even know what this phenomenon is called but had there been other events like this before and what are the title of these "series"? This can't be the first time this happened right?

--

I can't think of another one this active offhand.

I did prank liviapenn at Yuletide years ago after she made up a hypothetical fandom, Ghost Soup Infidel Blue, for a post on bad yuletide prompts. I wrote the bad prompt, complete with the title 'Working Title' and author's notes sprinkled through the text like "write this scene later". I recruited people to start a wank about original vs. reboot canon in the comments before she woke up and saw it. (Reboot vs. original was part of the original bad prompts post.) Other people found it hilarious enough to make that fake fandom a Thing for a bit.

Another yuletide, somebody made up something called Winterblumensaat, but this one seems to have been an attempt to force a match on the fandom she cared about by filling her signup with things nobody could possibly have heard of. Naturally, fandom turned it into a Thing again.

I'm sure there are other silly LARP fandoms where people pretend the canon is real and have Feelings about it. It just requires the kind of genre you can easily parody. Highbrow mafia films. 60s/70s SF TV or its anime equivalent. etc.

[unofficialyuletide]

Nominations Queries, Part 3

Tokyo Drift

Inching ever closer to a live tagset- only 44 fandom nominations remain to be reviewed \o/ If you nominated any of the listed fandoms, check out the modpost and help the mods clear up their questions.

19th Century CE German Literature RPF and German Romanticism Writers RPF Alliance-Union - C. J. Cherryh Anno 1790 Blackadder Cracking the Cryptic (Web Series) RPF Dice Punks (Podcast) Division Rap Battle - Rule the Stage The Drawfee Variety Hour (Drawfee Web Series) European Motorsports RPF In the Realms of the Unreal - Henry Darger It's a Wonderful Lie (Podcast) Jade Dynasty: New Fantasy Promotional Material Little Red Riding Hood (Fairy Tale) MacGuffin & Co. (RPG Streams) ​​Made for Love Miles Morales: Spider-Man New York Yankees RPF Nur die Sonne - Maria Moßer Nußknacker und Mausekönig | Nutcracker and the Mouse King - E. T. A. Hoffmann Omega Mart (Streaming Videos) paintings - Eugene de Blaas and Eugene de Blaas Venetian paintings Philadelphia Phillies RPF The Prisoner (1967) QVC Countdown to Christmas Rainbow Brite 教主走失記 | Record of the Missing Sect Master - A Lifetime of Beautiful Clothes Star Wars: Visions (Cartoon) THE9 (Band) Tokyo Crazy Paradise US Drag Queens Winterblumensaat Тайны дворцовых переворотов | Secrets of the Palace Revolutions Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & Related Fandoms The Princess and the Goblin - All Media Types San Guo Yan Yi | Romance of the Three Kingdoms - All Media Types W.I.T.C.H. XCOM (Video Games) & Related Fandoms

#yuletide #yuletide 2021 #yt nominations