Snowflake challenges

[issenllo]

Challenge #2

In your own space, talk about your fannish history.



Let's look at the highlights.

-Tokyo Babylon and X/1999 (the angst! It suited my teenage self perfectly then.)

-Gundam Wing (and how! I wrote my first fic in GW. It was in a Geocities mailing list and is now gone forever. Heero was my ... yeah. Still is.)

-Simultaneously with the above: Due South, Highlander, Weiss Kreuz, Smallville as reader, not as writer.

-Of course Harry Potter, which had everything: angst! magic! romance! tragedy, comedy, even tragi-comedy.

-Also Prince of Tennis, for all of the above. ETA: Also Naruto. And Junjo Romantica. And 12 Kingdoms. And The Changeover by Margaret Mahy. And (how could I leave it out? Though I actually enjoyed canon more) Tokyo Crazy Paradise!

-Hikaru no Go. I loved it, still do, even though it was about a board game I wasn't much interested in playing and it had a ghost (I didn't like ghosts that much, either). But Hikaru and Akira were perfect in their own way: I loved how each had their brash side and a quiet side (though Akira's brash side was all due to Hikaru, of course). I wrote a few long fics for them. Though my secret favourite is Kuwabara Honinbou.

-Then a whole lot of Sherlock. A whole lot of Iron Man and Avengers.

-Then K-drama inspired ones like Goblin and Are you human too?

-The past year, it has been HIStory 3 - Trapped and the Untamed... and that still continues.




Challenge #4

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.

Fannish: Finish my WIPs...

Non-fannish: (1) Make the Filmy Fern Shawl except with a different edging; I hate short-rows so much.

(2) Write original fic. This is hard because original fic is so different from fanfic, and what's more, I usually write m/m pairings (if it is romantic) and I still feel like I need to lead in with preamble about a person's character and sexuality before I can even describe a pairing, and that's exactly the kind of justification I hate in fanfics. ETA: The great thing about fanfics is that we all know that however strongly RL-tinged, it is still set in the canon-verse and is one (more) step removed from RL. Whereas original fic don't have that... cushioning.

Comments

[seleneheart]

All those things in the 90s that you listed (Smallville, Highlander, etc.) I experienced before I started actively being involved in as fan. But I wish I had discovered fan communities while those things were still live. Interacting with other fans in a fandom always enhances my enjoyment of the original work.

[issenllo]

I know what you mean about fan communities. Hikaru no Go and Prince of Tennis (and of course Harry Potter) were hugely enjoyable because there were loads of discussions, squeeing and sudden fic. Nowadays it seems like a lot of the reactionary and discussion posts are on Twitter and Tumblr, which I simply don't have the time for, so... >_>

[libitina]

That shawl is lovely! What color are you making it?

[issenllo]

Appropriately enough, in dark heather green. I just hope I have enough yarn. -_-;;; Because otherwise there's no way of getting more (it's a discontinued yarn). That's the extra thing about circular shawls knitted from the outside in; you can't stop once you run out of yarn.