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Challenge #9 - Rec Us Your Newest Thing

I'm gonna reuse the fandom recruitment info I just posted to space_swap. I need more people to watch Foundation with me!

The canon: Foundation
What: TV series (based on a book series). There are 2 full seasons of 10 episodes each and it just got renewed for a 3rd season.
Where: Apple TV (I would like to own it on DVD but unfortunately Apple doesn't seem to do physical releases of their shows, boo.)
Quick pitch: Mathematician Hari Seldon invents a branch of math that can predict the future of humanity and it is bleak. The ruling emperor is not particularly pleased with this and exiles him and his followers. They go set up the Foundation in order to help future humanity through the predicted period of crisis.
More: Let me say first that the aesthetics of this show are off the hook. Look at this gif set! Second, all the characters are fantastic and there are really fun relationship dynamics. You've got a rotating set of cloned emperors and every version of him has so many issues. Salvor Hardin who is beauty, grace, and will shoot you in the face. Her space UPS driver boyfriend Hugo. Loyal cleric Constant. Gay space general Ben Daniels. Beki the dragon lizard!! There's space politics, a ghost ship, Lee Pace in a gold mesh crop top. If you want a galaxy spanning space drama, this is the one.

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Challenge #11 - Create a fanwork.

Practiced The Mandalorian main theme song on my piano! I won't subject anyone to an actual recording but this is the sheet music and it will let you demo play the first page to hear it.

I have the app and it lets you hear a demo play of all pages if you buy the music which thank god because despite years of lessons when I was young, I never got past like 2B and can't read tempo to save my life. Anyway, this is a really good arrangement! I like it a lot.

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Challenge #1 - Introduce yourself

Hello! I've been in fandom for about 15 years now, wow. I love binge-watching TV, seeing all the latest movies, and reading books! My blog is mostly about all these things.

Top 5 forever fandoms are Star Wars, Stargate, Batman, Lord of the Rings, & X-Men. I'm currently doing my annual New Year's marathon of Lord of the Rings! Many other fandoms catch my attention at any given time, especially if they include found family or time travel. Latest faves are The Old Guard and Shadowhunters.

I also love to read and write fanfic, rec fanfic, and vid! (My works are on AO3 here!) I'd love to talk about any of these things. Feel free to drop a comment :)

Challenge #8 - Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

Today was very ugh so I'm extra excited to rec some of my favorites.

A Really Private Person by astolat [Person of Interest, Finch/Reese]
The end of the world started on a Wednesday in March.
It's like Armageddon except in the POI universe. Amazing.

Hapless Trouble by brbsoulnomming [Grimm, Nick/Monroe]
AU where Hap lives, and Nick and Hap have a bromance. Monroe is secretly jealous, Nick and Hap are mostly oblivious, and Nick has to deal with the quirks that come with being best friends with two Blutbaden.
HAPPPP. A sadly wasted character on Grimm. This time he gets to live and bring Nick and Monroe together.

Limited Partnership by Pookaseraph [Suits, Mike/Harvey]
Mike isn't entirely certain how he let Donna and Jessica talk him into marrying Harvey while his boss was in a coma, even if they swore he wouldn't mind. He thought the hardest part would be going to the hospital and confronting the sight of his boss and friend lying there, but instead it turned out to be confronting his growing feelings for a man he'd never imagined seeing in a romantic light. Harvey's just glad he woke up from his coma, and trying to not be too upset that he's now married to the Associate he's had a crush on for over a year.
This was tagged with Fake/Pretend Relationship, Marriage of Convenience & Happy Ending. Needless to say, I clicked immediately.

Also many, many Stargate recs here on stargateficrec.

Challenge #4: – Set some goals for the coming year

These are quite similar to last year but luckily in the sense of I managed them last year and want to continue them.

1. WRITE! I joined inkingitout where the lowest goal was 75,000 words. And then I looked back at my yearly stats and I've never managed more than 40k so we'll see how this goes.
2. Finish at least 2 vids. I have about 4 in various stages of dreaming to clipping to close to done.
3. Read at least 2 books a month.
4. Clean all the things. Home, car, hard drive so it will stop saying disk almost full.

Challenge #2 - Talk about your fannish history

My first fandom in the sense of 'I was obsessed with it as a child' (and I still love it today) was X-Men. I loved the cartoon, I had action figures and cards, I dressed up for Halloween as my girl Rogue. And X-Men is a very enduring fandom with reboots. The 2000 film was amazing and everyone was perfectly cast: Hugh Jackman, Anna Paquin, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, James Marsden, I could go on. X-Men: First Class, a decade later, I also adored and was super into. Possibly one of the only large fandoms I actually managed to be in during its heyday and not sliding in five years late as is my usual MO.

I discovered fanfic in my freshman English class in the computer lab when I was doing our actual writing assignment and my friend was on a website with a link out to FFN. Later, I took a look at FFN myself and the rest is history. Like many other people, I think Harry Potter was my fic gateway. I remember I was obsessed with this one series on FFN and the first fanfic I ever wrote was actually a related work, and I just randomly emailed this poor author a story that I wrote in their universe. But they were so kind to me. They even posted it with their series. The kindness of fandom.

Eventually I wrote my own stuff on my own FFN account and then I basically followed the fandom platform trends as much as I could through LJ and DW and AO3 and tumblr. I've been sucked into a ton of popular fandoms but usually not at the height of their popularity. I just kind of chill and throw stuff out into the void whenever I have some inspiration or I'm participating in a challenge!

snowflake_challenge - I like that there are 2 days for each challenge this year



inkingitout - Me, write 75k words in a year?? I'm gonna try my hardest!

snowflake_challenge Day 14

In your own space, talk about what you think the future holds for fandom.

Oh gosh.. I don't even know what the present holds for fandom. I'm logged in all the time but I feel so disconnected. Where is everyone?! As soon as I thought I was starting to understand tumblr it went up in flames. I don't like Twitter. Do you have to buy into Pillowfort? What is this Discord thing?? I'm just going to chill here in my little corner of DW.

I hope in the future we have a gold standard social site that combines the best of all platforms and is fan owned and fan run like the blessing that is AO3 for our fic. I hope fandom is a kind and gentle and weird community where we can all pull together and get along. I hope legislation doesn't run roughshod over us.

snowflake_challenge Day 12

In your own space, create your own challenge.

My challenge for myself today was to step away from fandom for a bit and get some of my RL together because there's nothing I love more than sitting down to read fic and catch up on my shows but too much of that leads to the madness and squalor I currently exist in.

Anyway, I went grocery shopping so I have some non-expired food, got my car washed, finally unpacked my suitcase after being back from the holidays for over a week, stripped my bed to replace the sheets with my nice warm fleece ones which I should have done in like November but it's still cold so better late than never, did a load of dishes which I will now unload in entire instead of my usual piece by piece as needed leading to terrible dish build up on my counter, washed and folded a load of towels and now am doing one of clothes. And maybe I'll keep going or consider this groundwork for tomorrow because I should really vacuum, sort my mail, do surface cleaning, and a dozen other things.

snowflake_challenge Day 10

Create a fanwork.

I wrote 100 terrible words on one of my half dozen active WIPs. *facepalm*. Maybe I'll do better this weekend..