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*sheeps around joyously*
{Tron Fandom: A proposal for you.}
((This fandom has a lot of ships. Seriously. I was going to try and list them all, but I don’t want to risk forgetting one and offending anyone. I’ll just tag the ones I know to get this message out, because my proposal is this.
I want to have a ship week. I have done them before for other fandoms, and I think that it would be really fun! The only difference is that it won’t be ship specific. Just the “Tron Fandom Ship Week” in which every day, you choose what ship you want to use with each day’s theme. Meaning that you can use the same ship - like your OTP - all week OR you can mix it up if you’re feeling bold or inspired by any one theme! I think that it would be really open and fun, and a fun way to bond because I want to know you all.
I am 100% willing to head it and make a “Tron Fandom Ship Week” sideblog to post all of the action with different tags for each ship so that you can track what you are interested in!
Now, if you are interested, would you PRETTY PLEASE reblog this post as text and add a Tron ship that exists, if not already reblogged and added, so that I can add them to the master list. I won’t figure out a week or make a blog for it unless I get enough support. Who’s with me?))
I’m up for this. See if I can find seven canon ships, for the challenge of it…
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Artwork for Cameron_McKell
read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/13SZ9kLby LP (Nizah)
Commissioned artwork for Cameron_McKell’s Antivirus. Working on them made me nostalgic and remembering how I love Tron.
Words: 12, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
- Fandoms: Tron: Legacy (2010), Tron (Movies)
- Rating: General Audiences
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
- Categories: Gen, M/M
- Characters: Sam Flynn, Tron (Tron)
- Relationships: Sam Flynn/Tron, Sam Flynn & Tron
read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/13SZ9kL
I am really enjoying this fic!
dw-t:
Hi ✿◕ ‿ ◕✿
Must resist urge… to flip gifs over…
Completely unnecessary ceiling!treadmill is the best thing.
On that subject, why does a program need to exercise at all?
FANDOM DO NOT FAIL ME
Because the writers of Uprising didn’t care in the slightest about this story happening inside an operating system, wrote it all as if it were a vaguely sci-fi-flavoured show about teens in an occupied RL city, then did search/replace and put “programs” where they previously had “people”, “derezz” where it used to say “die”. That’s why Beck can just go “oh I don’t feel like working lol bye”, Mara needs to “go out for air”, and all the million other details that make zero sense in terms of programs and computers and all the sense in terms of an assembly line YA scifi. The thing with the compressed space was a rare, rare diamond where somebody actually sat down and thought about what they were doing.
I know I’ve said it before, but I honestly think the creators were a least a tiny bit inspired by ReBoot when they made this show.
Everything you mentioned was basically how ReBoot was done. People (sprites, binomes, numerals, etc.) inside a computer that were “deleted” when they died, and had jobs, and families, and went to the bathroom. Seriously, ReBoot’s main setting, Mainframe, had a sewer system.
In other words, setting ReBoot inside a computer just gave the creators freedom to create a show in a futuristic setting without going so far as to feel alien for their target audience. That’s Tron: Uprising as well.
Does any of it bother me? Nah. It makes sense to me, tbh. It’s a userless system made to be run by the programs themselves. For that to make sense, they have to be a bit more “human” than they would have been in the ‘82 movie. And lbr, the way programs act in Uprising isn’t that far off from their behavior in Legacy. It’s really not.
Honestly, the only thing that bothered me about Tron working out was his suit. He needed to be shirtless in some light shorts, tbqh.
Take a clue from Dot, Tron, and don’t work out in your regular outfit.
Never said I didn’t mind it in Legacy. I have regretted the loss of sheer weird originality of the ‘82 world since 2.0 was kicked out of continuity.
Not sure I would agree about kids needing familiar things to relate. Been working with Disney’s target audiences for years and their wits and imagination are a lot sharper than adults tend to give them credit for. Maybe I just grew up with those weirdass Eastern European cartoons, but the Western kids I work with now seem to me no less capable of adopting alien worlds.
dw-t:
Hi ✿◕ ‿ ◕✿
Must resist urge… to flip gifs over…
Completely unnecessary ceiling!treadmill is the best thing.
On that subject, why does a program need to exercise at all?
FANDOM DO NOT FAIL ME
Because the writers of Uprising didn’t care in the slightest about this story happening inside an operating system, wrote it all as if it were a vaguely sci-fi-flavoured show about teens in an occupied RL city, then did search/replace and put “programs” where they previously had “people”, “derezz” where it used to say “die”. That’s why Beck can just go “oh I don’t feel like working lol bye”, Mara needs to “go out for air”, and all the million other details that make zero sense in terms of programs and computers and all the sense in terms of an assembly line YA scifi. The thing with the compressed space was a rare, rare diamond where somebody actually sat down and thought about what they were doing.
I’ve always wanted to do Tron fanart, and I finally fulfilled that goal.
Hey Tronblr, here's a simple fun little read
“thousands of layers” might be a bit of an exaggeration. But that does raise an interesting question. How many layers are there? Here’s a (*very*) …How does Software talk to Hardware?
A great resource for fic writers, this!
That moment when tumblr tries to teach you about the wonders of nature and all you can think is
no
I voted too so yay! But I must confess I have no idea what this actually means. Who is behind SMGO and what kind of pull do they have with Disney?
I doubt they have any pull with Disney xD
If you click the ‘learn’ tab on their website, it’ll tell you how it works. It’s basically Crowdsourcing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing In other words, if Disney accepts the idea (which is admittedly unlikely) WE will be the ones paying for season 2 by donating money.
We’ll get cool stuff in return though maybe. Plus you know, a second season.
This is all if Disney agrees. Which again I sorta doubt, but we tried.
I hate to be raining on everyone’s parade here but crowdsourcing would be a great idea if the creative team were somehow dumped by Disney so we gave them the money to do this and distribute it freely back to us. But Tron is not abandonware even if the show is currently in indefinite hiatus: it’s a Disney title, and Disney will not drop it for all that it fails to market it well, especially with the third film in the works.
What this kind of crowdsourcing would do, should it ever work, is enable Disney to avoid investing any of its vast hoards of money at the expense of the fans, but it would still get to harvest any money the show would gain through Amazon or iTunes or what have you, while the fans would have to pay for access all over again because you can be sure you would not get this stuff shipped to you as thanks for your investment.
And if Disney kept the distribution rights, as it would, it would mean the show would still be as obscure as it initially was, with fans from countries other than the States either getting it late or not at all. Just ask the Eastern European fans, for example - of which I am one - if they ever found any legal way to watch the eps in spite of all their willingness to shell out for ‘em.
I can’t see any way this would not be a terrible precedent, financing a huge company like this so it can keep robbing you. I’ll sign any petition to show my love of the show, but for now I’ll rather stick with the fandom’s own creativity.
