Snowflake Challenge Day 1

Okay, I'm jumping on the bandwagon. I'm bored and I miss fandom and everyone on DW. So!

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Every time I do this one, I always try to do new works, but I haven't really done any new works lately. So I'll just take a look at my favorites. This is absolutely going to have some repeats.



1) The Narrow Way

Mostly, I'm just proud of my research on this. Every single town I mention exists. I researched hotels and libraries and a million other small details in this, and even though it hasn't been finished yet, and has been thoroughly jossed in the meantime, I still have affection for it. I'm still slowly puttering away at chapter 5 of this thing, and hope remains high that I'll finish it someday.

2) 1) Here Mid the Ash Trees

Violent Messiahs is the canon on my heart, I think. It has no fandom that I know of, but I love it enough that I don't care. I wrote this after a night when I'd emailed the writer, Joshua Dysart, and he told me, regretfully, that there probably wasn't ever going to be more Violent Messiahs. It broke down something in my mind, and now I have an entire universe populated in my head, of what would happen if I ever took up the helm of Violent Messiahs. This story is what came out.

I can't tell you how much my teenage mind latched onto this comic when it first came out. It's just so gothic and over the top and beautiful and it hurts. If this story makes people feel half as strongly as the canon made me feel when I discovered it, then I would consider my job well done.

3) At the End/Lost Upon Waking

Nothing was quite as satisfying for me this year as finally, finally finishing this story. I had endless encouragement, so many people who dragged me kicking and screaming and crying over the finish line. It was this story that made me realize how much my writing muscles have atrophied. Writing is hard, and I'm not quite good at it anymore. But! Roque and Cougar and I love them and Clay is a repressed dickhead. Pretty much how I like them. :D

If you want to play, do it!

Snowflake Challenge Day 2

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.

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Let me figure this out.


1) I would love some sort of like, Violent Messiahs short fan movie. VM Needs more love, damn it! Or really, any Violent Messiahs fanwork.

2) Fanvids for The Bletchley Circle, because Susan and Millie and Jean and Lucy! If you haven't watched that show, you desperately owe yourself the opportunity.

3) Good Wincestiel fic recs. I was sort of a casual fan before, but kate's story got me reinvested. ^^;




(PS. I'm totes going to spam my journal until I get caught up. <3)

Snowflake Challenge Day 3 and Day 4

Day 3

In your own space, talk about your creative process - from what inspires you to what motivates you to how you manage to break through blocks. Does your process change depending on the type of creating you're doing?

Hmmm. Usually, the ideas come pretty easily to me. Music, art, talking with my friends. It doesn't matter what kind of fanwork I'm doing, either. I hide in my room with earphones and music and do my thing. Sometimes it's more successful than others, but it's simple.

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Day 4

Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them.

I actually do this on occasion? The most recent person I friended was scaramouche, and I leave comments regularly on excellent fic I've read. I mean, I love kudos as a system, and I completely respect the people who suffer anxiety and find it a better way to interact, but I sincerely miss comments and the sort of community they brought.

Snowflake Challenge Day 5

In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story. How did you come to fandom, why did you choose your fannish name, do you have more than one secret identity?

My fannish origin story is pretty normal, I think. A friend in high school was reading Ronin Warrior fic, and I read off and on until my first year in college. Then I started watching Gundam Wing, and started reading Heero/Duo fic. Then I read the first Harry Potter book right before the first movie came out, and remembered thinking that there had to be fic for them, too. The first fic I ever successfully wrote was a terrible Harry/Draco fic. I was in the HP fandom until about four months after the last book, and then jumped into Kyou Kara Maou. After that I just became multifannish, and I've jumped a million fandoms since then.

I don't have more than one identity, as I've never been capable of maintaining more than one journal at a time.

My fannish name was originally Moriavis, based on an original character I wrote a million years ago. I eventually settled on lunesque, and I've switched regularly between the two ever since.

Snowflake Challenge Day 6

In your own space, create a fanwork. A drabble, a ficlet, a podfic, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. A picspam. Something.

Placeholder. I'm willing to take suggestions. :)

Snowflake Challenge Day 7

In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (More than one is okay, too.) Tell us about it, tell us why you love it, give us some examples and recs.


dungeonmarm says that I "like whatever, as long as it's well-written." I suppose he's right.

One thing that never fails to make me happy, though, are Detective AUs. I love old noir detectives, I love what they stand for, I love characters who fight for justice against a corrupt system, I love police partners falling for each other, I love hostility that turns into sex, I love whump where one of the pair is kidnapped and the other has to save them!

It's kind of difficult for me to think of many, but there are two fics of this type that definitely stick out to me.

First, there's Below Skyscrapers by aesc. It's Dean/Cas, where Dean is a detective with Victor as his partner (I love it when Victor is his partner) and Castiel is an angel brought in to work some ritual murders. It has supernatural creatures being known by civilians, it has hostility, it has slow burn, I remember it being pretty awesome.

The other that I remembered was Hindsight by rageprufrock. It's John/Rodney, and the only thing I remember is that John is a diabetic cop, and Rodney is Rodney? But it's stuck in my head. Of course, rageprufrock is amazing and I love all of her stuff. I'm tempted to do a reread. :D

Snowflake Challenge Day 8

In your own space, create a love meme for yourself. Let people tell you how amazing and awesome and loveable you really are.

Okay. Tell me how amazing and awesome and loveable I really am. :P

Also, all caught up! Woooooo!