fandom snowflake challenge
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kindkitI got a bit behind on these.
Day 5
In your own space, share something non-fannish you are passionate about with your fannish friends. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
You know, I'm not sure I'm passionate about much besides fandom. I'm passionate about a lot of things in fandom, but outside of fandom I don't really have hobbies or consuming interests.
Cooking is probably the closest thing I have to a non-fannish passion. I enjoy it, I'm always interested in learning more about it, and if I didn't restrain myself I would spend way too much money on it. Sometimes I spend too much money on it anyway (*sadly contemplates collection of "ingredients I may need someday," such as palm sugar and tamarind paste*).
Day 6
In your own space, rec at least 3 fanworks you thought you wouldn't like (because they weren't your fandom or they pushed against your boundaries or you thought you just wouldn't be interested) and that you ended up loving.
Honestly, if I think I'm not going to like something, I just don't read it. As a reader I'm picky as hell, and what I'm willing to read on any given day depends on my mood as well as my general likes and dislikes. (I've been having real trouble getting through the Yuletide stories, for example, because at the moment I'm only in the mood to read fic in a few fandoms, not to explore.)
I realize this is hypocritical of me, because I'm constantly wishing that more people would dare to try new/tiny fandoms or unusual pairings when I write them. *wryface*
Day 7
In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Drop a link to your wish-list in this post. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.
1) Art based on One Small Step or any other of my Tintin/Haddock fics. Or, for that matter, any Tintin/Haddock shippy art, preferably more on the snuggles-n-kisses side of shippy rather than the full-on porny side. (I have nothing against porny fanart, but sometimes I think there's rather a dearth of the non-porny romantic kind.)
2) Fic in my tiny fandoms, such as Colditz (*makes hopeful eyes athalotolerant*), Doug Anthony All Stars RPF, or China Miéville's Bas Lag books. Some suggestions: George Brent having to deal with the same-sex desires he's repressed since his school days, Dick Player being unable to get out of Germany after his escape and turning up on Paul von Eissinger's doorstep, Pat/Dick or another pairing as an open secret and how the other men react to it; Paul McDermott trying, post-DAAS, to wrest his own personality back from his stage persona, Tim telling Paul that he (Tim) has MS; Uther Doul and the Brucolac slash that doesn't ignore their rivalry, Uther Doul's backstory, Tanner Sack's backstory, Tanner Sack moving on from Shekel's death and finding a man who can return his love.
3. I'd love to see more meta/discussion posts about fandoms that interest me, especially if they can take a position somewhere between total "this show/movie/book is flawless and don't you dare say otherwise" squee and utter condemnation of the "this show/movie/book is morally bad and you're a bad person if you like it" sort. (Seriously, as many problems as I've had with Sherlock, the more posts of the latter type I see, the more I want to defend it.)
4. Recs! I am hard to rec for, I know, because I'm a picky reader (see above). But I'm always in search of cool things to read (fanfic or profic) and watch, especially genre stuff of reasonably good quality and with either m/m slashiness or actual queer characters (preferably male, because that's what I'm most into). Problematic texts are okay, especially if they're older, so long as they're not so faily that the bad outweighs the good. (Where this line falls is going to be different for different people, I realize.)
Day 8
In your own space, talk about a talent (or talents) you have. Everyone's got something they're good at. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Oh boy. Um, I'm a pretty good home cook, but I wouldn't call that talent so much as a lot of practice. And I'm not a bad writer, although I feel like I hit a plateau several years ago and haven't really improved since then in the way I'd have wished to. But again, writing is also largely a matter of practice. I think most things are. There are studies showing that the thing that separates high achievers in, for example, classical music from the rest isn't their innate talent, it's how much they practice.
Day 5
In your own space, share something non-fannish you are passionate about with your fannish friends. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
You know, I'm not sure I'm passionate about much besides fandom. I'm passionate about a lot of things in fandom, but outside of fandom I don't really have hobbies or consuming interests.
Cooking is probably the closest thing I have to a non-fannish passion. I enjoy it, I'm always interested in learning more about it, and if I didn't restrain myself I would spend way too much money on it. Sometimes I spend too much money on it anyway (*sadly contemplates collection of "ingredients I may need someday," such as palm sugar and tamarind paste*).
Day 6
In your own space, rec at least 3 fanworks you thought you wouldn't like (because they weren't your fandom or they pushed against your boundaries or you thought you just wouldn't be interested) and that you ended up loving.
Honestly, if I think I'm not going to like something, I just don't read it. As a reader I'm picky as hell, and what I'm willing to read on any given day depends on my mood as well as my general likes and dislikes. (I've been having real trouble getting through the Yuletide stories, for example, because at the moment I'm only in the mood to read fic in a few fandoms, not to explore.)
I realize this is hypocritical of me, because I'm constantly wishing that more people would dare to try new/tiny fandoms or unusual pairings when I write them. *wryface*
Day 7
In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Drop a link to your wish-list in this post. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.
1) Art based on One Small Step or any other of my Tintin/Haddock fics. Or, for that matter, any Tintin/Haddock shippy art, preferably more on the snuggles-n-kisses side of shippy rather than the full-on porny side. (I have nothing against porny fanart, but sometimes I think there's rather a dearth of the non-porny romantic kind.)
2) Fic in my tiny fandoms, such as Colditz (*makes hopeful eyes at
halotolerant*), Doug Anthony All Stars RPF, or China Miéville's Bas Lag books. Some suggestions: George Brent having to deal with the same-sex desires he's repressed since his school days, Dick Player being unable to get out of Germany after his escape and turning up on Paul von Eissinger's doorstep, Pat/Dick or another pairing as an open secret and how the other men react to it; Paul McDermott trying, post-DAAS, to wrest his own personality back from his stage persona, Tim telling Paul that he (Tim) has MS; Uther Doul and the Brucolac slash that doesn't ignore their rivalry, Uther Doul's backstory, Tanner Sack's backstory, Tanner Sack moving on from Shekel's death and finding a man who can return his love.3. I'd love to see more meta/discussion posts about fandoms that interest me, especially if they can take a position somewhere between total "this show/movie/book is flawless and don't you dare say otherwise" squee and utter condemnation of the "this show/movie/book is morally bad and you're a bad person if you like it" sort. (Seriously, as many problems as I've had with Sherlock, the more posts of the latter type I see, the more I want to defend it.)
4. Recs! I am hard to rec for, I know, because I'm a picky reader (see above). But I'm always in search of cool things to read (fanfic or profic) and watch, especially genre stuff of reasonably good quality and with either m/m slashiness or actual queer characters (preferably male, because that's what I'm most into). Problematic texts are okay, especially if they're older, so long as they're not so faily that the bad outweighs the good. (Where this line falls is going to be different for different people, I realize.)
Day 8
In your own space, talk about a talent (or talents) you have. Everyone's got something they're good at. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Oh boy. Um, I'm a pretty good home cook, but I wouldn't call that talent so much as a lot of practice. And I'm not a bad writer, although I feel like I hit a plateau several years ago and haven't really improved since then in the way I'd have wished to. But again, writing is also largely a matter of practice. I think most things are. There are studies showing that the thing that separates high achievers in, for example, classical music from the rest isn't their innate talent, it's how much they practice.
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Date: 2012-01-08 11:32 pm (UTC)Might you consider the works of Mary Borsellino? She writes fanfic in a bunch of fandoms I don't care for, but I loved her original books, The Wolf House (vampires and teenagers) and The Devil's Mixtape (demons and rock stars). You can download Wolf House for free on her website. There are queer male and female characters in both as well as genderqueer people (and in TDM, a trans woman). The Devil's Mixtape is female-centric, The Wolf House is more even between the genders. They're both kind of dark and lyrical, and IMHO TDM is better. It's also shorter.
There is some really good Beatles RPF out there. Probably not your thing, and it's not really my thing either, but this author is just brilliant.
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Date: 2012-01-11 03:16 am (UTC)