smilebackwards: cleon xvii from foundation (lee pace in the gold crop top)
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Challenge #9 - Rec Us Your Newest Thing

I'm gonna reuse the fandom recruitment info I just posted to [community profile] 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.
smilebackwards: tim drake & cassandra cain from batman (tim & cass)
Challenge #1 - Update your fandom information

Transformative Works Policy: I have blanket permission for podfic, translation, art, etc. Please link me to anything because I want to see!

Current Passion: I have fallen hard back into Batman/DCU and Star Wars. I'm rewatching animated Batman and the new Star Wars stuff (Kenobi, Andor). I'm always at least low-key in these fandoms along with Lord of the Rings, Stargate, and X-Men. Honorable mention for Shadowhunters and The Old Guard.

Where to Find Me: [archiveofourown.org profile] smilebackwards or [tumblr.com profile] smilebackwards mostly


Challenge #2 - Write a promo, manifesto or primer for your fave character, ship or fandom.

TIM DRAKE! My beloved 3rd Robin. He definitely fits my character type of smart, heroic, seems straight-laced but is actually insane, with bonus lack of self-preservation skills. This boy said Batman is doing a Bad Job and I am going to fix him.

I've written fic and have 3 more Tim focused WIPs destroying my brain. I have many fic recs. I have multiple tumblr tags because at some point I gave up on trying to organize DC stuff, it's impossible: tim drake, timkon, batfam. I am forever screaming into the void about how they refuse to re-print the Red Robin trade paperbacks.

And here's a favorite vid. Tw for blood but it's comics/art, not hyper-realistic. )

Please yell about Tim with me ♥
smilebackwards: din with spear (din with spear)
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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 #6 - Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

Jeeves and the Tarte aux Pommes by [archiveofourown.org profile] scioscribe [Jeeves & Wooster, Bertie/Jeeves]
Wherein Bertie tries to be Jeeves's ideal gentleman, resulting in mixed metaphors, a Shakespearean book club, ties sabotaged in reverse, romantic epiphanies, and music with the tonal quality of a dying lion.
Bertie tries to fit himself into the mold of someone Jeeves could love. Hit me right in the heart.

Revelations by [archiveofourown.org profile] ClinicalChaos [Shadowhunters, Alec/Magnus]
Magnus Bane has been taken. Alec Lightwood is not merciful in his quest to take him back.
Relentless, competent Alec is everything to me. WIP waiting on the last catharsis chapter but still extremely satisfying.

Separate Ways by [archiveofourown.org profile] PepperPrints [Star Wars/The Mandalorian, Luke/Din]
With Moff Gideon defeated and the Darksaber reclaimed, the rumours of newly named Mand'alor Din Djarin spread through the galaxy... along with the stories of the Child he carries with him. Determined to meet him, Luke Skywalker arrives on Mandalore -- but before he can get any closer, he has to prove himself worthy of Mandalorian standards.
I love this?? 80,000 words and it felt like a second to me.

Also many, many Stargate recs here on [community profile] stargateficrec.

Challenge #9 - Brag about yourself.
Some things I created recently and am proud of!

1. My new ability to vid. Latest vid for Stargate Atlantis.
Password: atlantis

AO3 | YouTube | Vimeo | tumblr

2. Writing a 10k word fic
Rearrange [Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, Legolas/Gimli]
Prince Fili’s betrothal to the elf prince of Mirkwood causes Gimli many problems, not least of which, he’s beginning to strongly suspect that Legolas may be his One.

3. Continuing my self-indulgent Star Wars prequels feels that are still with me after decades series
Amendment [Star Wars Prequels, Gen]
Qui-Gon had never spared much thought for the reports Obi-Wan wrote up for their missions over the years, save for vague feelings of fondness for Obi-Wan’s unflagging dedication and gratitude that the archivists no longer bothered him about them. What point would there have been in reading over the bare, prosaic facts when he’d been there in person? Now, looking at Obi-Wan’s self-deprecation set down in plain black and white, Qui-Gon rather thought that might have been a mistake.
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[community profile] snowflake_challenge
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 :)
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Challenge #11: – Recommend a fannish or creative resource

All the Star Wars planets and where they are in the galaxy! I've been making up planet names for a fic and just having this list is so much better. Although, sometimes I get sucked into it too far.


Also, keyboard short cuts are fabulous. I use some of the basic ones in Google Docs so I think they translate outside of Word.

And I just figured out yesterday how to add emojis on tumblr: Command + Control + Spacebar. (This may still be a weird way, and possibly Mac specific.) Also seems to work for AO3 comments which I think support emojis now.
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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 [archiveofourown.org profile] 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 [archiveofourown.org profile] 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 [archiveofourown.org profile] 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 [community profile] stargateficrec.
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Catching up a bit!

Challenge #5: – Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've briefly interacted with and friend/follow them.

I did this one over the past few challenges so I'm checking it off!

Challenge #6: – Make a Wishlist

I feel like fandom really provides me with just about all the content I could want, but I'd always love more rec lists or comments on my fic and vids!

Challenge #7 - Promote/Rec/Sing the Praises* of Yourself!

A few things I finished last year that I'm proud of!

Fic:
Mission Report [Star Wars Prequels, Gen]
Karris IV, Obi-Wan wrote, dating it with the galactic standard. Have proven myself so incapable that Master Qui-Gon is coming to recall me back to the Temple.
My prequels feels, still going strong after all these years. I'm working on a sequel for this!

Surveillance [Batman/Young Justice, Gen]
AU where Jason never died and Tim is a civilian who contributes to crime fighting by taking surveillance photos and leaving them on the desktop of the Batcomputer. Then he ends up part of the Batfamily.
After a decade in my WIP folder, I finally finished this \o/ And then I pretty rapidly wrote two sequels. And there may be more!

Vids:
Love You Like That [Multi-Fandom]
Happy friendship vid for when I'm feeling down :)

Man or a Monster [Black Sails] (Warnings for graphic violence and character death.)
Character study for Captain Flint from Black Sails who I find fascinating.
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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 [community profile] 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.
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Challenge #3: – Pimp Your Favorite Communities, Fests or Challenges

Communities! I'm so glad DW added code so that the @ symbol will automatically do the comm link thing now.

So I know some of what's going on in fandom: [community profile] fandomcalendar, [community profile] fandom_on_dw & [community profile] otw_news.

So I know what's going on with the DW platform: [site community profile] dw_maintenance & [site community profile] dw_news

For writing: [community profile] inkingitout, [community profile] ushobwri, [community profile] yuletide, [community profile] yuletide_admin & [community profile] fandomweekly

For fic recs: [community profile] stargateficrec, [personal profile] unfitforsociety, [community profile] recs & [community profile] epic_recs

For vidding: [community profile] vid_bingo, [community profile] vidding, [community profile] viddingnews & [community profile] equinox_exchange

For icons: [community profile] fandom_icons & [community profile] iconbattles

Extra: Upcoming John/Rodney SGA fest [community profile] romancingmcshep

And a couple from tumblr: [tumblr.com profile] ao3commentoftheday is a really nice like fandom cultural practices intro for writing and interacting & [tumblr.com profile] gffa is all the star wars joy without the negativity
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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!
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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 my recent return to reading books! My blog is mostly about all these things. I don't generally post personal stuff.

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.

I love to write fanfic, rec fanfic, and in 2019 I started vidding! I'd love to talk about any of these things. Feel free to drop a comment :)
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[community profile] snowflake_challenge - I like that there are 2 days for each challenge this year


white background with black ink splodges and the words Inking it out a yearly writing challenge

Challenge yourself to write 75000 words or more in 2020!

[community profile] inkingitout [community profile] inkingitout [community profile] inkingitout

Sign ups now open! Sign ups close 1st January 2020.

[community profile] inkingitout - Me, write 75k words in a year?? I'm gonna try my hardest!
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[community profile] snowflake_challenge Day 15

Talk about why you participated in Snowflake &/or what you got out of it.


I participated because it sounded cool and I wanted to post a bit more but I'm not good at coming up with topics.

This was really fun! It was great to meet some new people and learn about new comms and resources and fandom things that bring people joy. I really liked the structure where everyone answers the same question/prompt because it's fascinating to see how people answer similarly or where they diverge. I did find posting every day weirdly exhausting so I'll probably go back to posting about once a week and that will be enough for me!
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[community profile] 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.
smilebackwards: mulan made up for the matchmaker (when will my reflection show who i am)
[community profile] snowflake_challenge Day 13

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


1. Publish my 100th fic on AO3
2. Make more friends and be more interactive
3. Finish my top 4 WIPs
4. Work on graphics skills (icons, gifs, vids)
5. Read at least 2 books a month
6. Join an exercise class
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[community profile] 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.
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[community profile] snowflake_challenge Day 11

In your own space, talk about your creative process(es) — anything from the initial inspiration to how you feel after something’s done. Do you struggle with motivation or is it a smooth process? Do you have any tricks up your sleeve to pull out when a fanwork isn’t cooperating? What is your level of planning to pantsing/winging it?


Whoops, I missed this one yesterday. My creative process, if it can be called such a thing, is generally to get inspiration from other people's prompts. I'll scroll through kink memes, fic exchange letters, tumblr ideas, etc. Probably about 80% of anything I've written was based on a prompt. But I tend to need a lot of choices and something with some detail; just a pairing or character doesn't usually give me enough inspiration. I kind of enjoy that while a lot of people have great ideas that they don't necessarily want to write out, I borrow those great ideas to do the fleshing out. I think it's a nice symbiotic relationship :)

Once I have an idea to springboard off, I have a brief moment of inspiration where I write a few hundred words around which I'll later have to write the entire fic. I'll give up on it for months and then I'll get it into my head that 'you will finish this!' and I'll slog through the boring bridging sections that are needed to string everything together, with occasional additional bursts of inspiration.

Often I'm paralyzed by the fact that I have several WIPs going at once and I can't decide which to work on so I work on none of them. But I also hardly ever give up on things. I'll finish things years and years after I started them.
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[community profile] 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..
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[community profile] snowflake_challenge Day 9

Commit an Act of Kindness.


I made people some icons from wishlist day! :)

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