Guardian (webseries)

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Name:	镇魂 Guardian
Abbreviation(s):	Guardian
Creator:	Priest
Date(s):	June 13, 2018 - July 25, 2018
Medium:	Web Series
Country of Origin:	China
External Links:	Guardian (web series) at Wikipedia
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Guardian is a Chinese sci-fi webseries based on a webnovel of the same name by Priest.

Fandom

Shipping

The most popular ship (by an order of magnitude) is the canon pairing (in the novel) of the two male leads: Shěn Wēi/Zhào Yúnlán aka WeiLan. Other ships include:

• Bai Yu/Zhu Yilong (RPF)
• Chǔ Shùzhī/Guō Chángchéng
• Luó Qíngēng/Shěn Wēi
• Shěn Wēi/Yè Zūn
• Shěn Wēi/Yè Zūn/Zhào Yúnlán

Also popular is crossover shipping of other characters that the two lead actors have played. These are called WeiLan Derivatives or 巍澜衍生. See AO3 tags: Bai Yu/Zhu Yilong Character Combinations and 巍澜衍生 - Fandom.

Fannish Resources

• works tagged Guardian (TV) at AO3
• Archive of Dixing, a directory of AO3 Guardian works in English that includes RPF, novel fic, and tv fic and excludes mistagged Chinese-language works.
• Guardian Wiki @ Wikia
• Resources for Guardian fandom(s) fanworks by yue_ix (2020-08-18)

Communities

• sid_guardian dreamwidth community
• guardian_wishlist dreamwidth community
• brush_and_lantern dreamwidth community

Challenges

• Sundial Exchange (Guardian Drama and Related Canons) (2020-2021)
• 520 Day Guardian Exchange 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• The Brush and Lantern: Guardian Comm
• Guardian Week 2020
• Weilan Week 2020, Weilan Weeks 2021
• Ye Zun Week (2021-)
• Guardian Wishlist 2021, 2022
• Guardian Bingo (2022)
• ZYLBY48 Week (2021)

Academic Articles

• Wang, C. Y. (2019). Officially Sanctioned Adaptation and Affective Fan Resistance: The Transmedia Convergence of the Online Drama Guardian in China. Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, 5(2), 45–58. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2421-454X/9156 [1]
• Eve Ng & Xiaomeng Li (2020). A queer “socialist brotherhood”: the Guardian web series, boys’ love fandom, and the Chinese state, Feminist Media Studies, 20:4, 479-495, https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1754626