Snowflake challenges
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issenlloChallenge #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.
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.