Fandom Snowflake Challenge - Day 1
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Snowflake Challenge - Day 1
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. Drop a link to your post in the comments.
Two Against the World [Smallville/BSG - Chloe/Lex]
I picked this one because I think it fits as a pretty good example of my writing [crossovers, hi!], and because Chloe was one of the first characters I clung to and made work. I love how this story feels, and think it's actually well written and I love tone. It's also one that, because of when it was written, I think it was one no one ever saw.
(See also: The Purcell Dialectic [Stealth/BSG])
A friend of mine from real life, one of the very few that I've let read my stuff, said that I had at least two distinctive writing voices - screwball and creepy/spare. There was probably a third, but I've forgotten it along the way. So while Two Against the World is probably a good example of the 'spare' style, SGA was the heyday for all my screwball comedy stylings to come out and play.
Less Uncomplicated [SGA - Lorne/Novak]
Okay, so yeah, I created my own 'ship and RAN with it. Almost all my stories in SGA fall in some variation of screwball. I particularly like this story, and think it's the most creative in the bunch in terms of playing in the universe, rather than just having rom-com set in that universe.
I think, for a fandom as a whole, I wrote my best in SGA.
Personally, I really seem to find my footing in random one-offs. Like, to paraphraseserialkarma, I am made of Yuletide (though I don't participate]. I'm rather PROUD of being able to switch gears and play in all sorts of 'verses.
I've written stories for Buckaroo Banzai, Sixteen Candles, Goonies, Swing Kids, Memphis Belle, China Beach, Philadelphia story...etc
I love A Canker in a Hedge [Indiana Jones, pre-series Marion/Indy] because it was a story I'd been formulating in my head for YEARS, and I think I really pulled it off. Even though it's heavily MY head-canon, I think it really works in terms of what we see in the intro to Marion in Nepal, and what we see of young Indy from the tv series.
Sleep Now in the Fire [Terminator: SCC, Allison from Palmdale] was the last thing I wrote that I'm truly proud of. The Allison revelation got in my head and STUCK. [see also: A Storm is Coming - T:SCC, Savannah Weaver]
Overall, I'd count myself as extremely fond of crossovers/fusions and working with characters that are under written. I don't know if that's because I enjoy making up backgrounds for characters without one, or if it's because I'm wary of putting myself out there with trying to write popular characters.
Because of this fact, I know I lower my audience by a lot.
However, I have come to terms with certain things, and I have found great satisfaction writing things that fill holes for people - having favourite characters/source material come to life outside of Yuletide. Who cares if it's a Fandom of Two? Write what makes you happy, and if it makes someone else happy? All the better.
All of my fics can be found at zeplum @ AO3
Snowflake Challenge - Day 1
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. Drop a link to your post in the comments.
Two Against the World [Smallville/BSG - Chloe/Lex]
I picked this one because I think it fits as a pretty good example of my writing [crossovers, hi!], and because Chloe was one of the first characters I clung to and made work. I love how this story feels, and think it's actually well written and I love tone. It's also one that, because of when it was written, I think it was one no one ever saw.
(See also: The Purcell Dialectic [Stealth/BSG])
A friend of mine from real life, one of the very few that I've let read my stuff, said that I had at least two distinctive writing voices - screwball and creepy/spare. There was probably a third, but I've forgotten it along the way. So while Two Against the World is probably a good example of the 'spare' style, SGA was the heyday for all my screwball comedy stylings to come out and play.
Less Uncomplicated [SGA - Lorne/Novak]
Okay, so yeah, I created my own 'ship and RAN with it. Almost all my stories in SGA fall in some variation of screwball. I particularly like this story, and think it's the most creative in the bunch in terms of playing in the universe, rather than just having rom-com set in that universe.
I think, for a fandom as a whole, I wrote my best in SGA.
Personally, I really seem to find my footing in random one-offs. Like, to paraphrase
serialkarma, I am made of Yuletide (though I don't participate]. I'm rather PROUD of being able to switch gears and play in all sorts of 'verses.I've written stories for Buckaroo Banzai, Sixteen Candles, Goonies, Swing Kids, Memphis Belle, China Beach, Philadelphia story...etc
I love A Canker in a Hedge [Indiana Jones, pre-series Marion/Indy] because it was a story I'd been formulating in my head for YEARS, and I think I really pulled it off. Even though it's heavily MY head-canon, I think it really works in terms of what we see in the intro to Marion in Nepal, and what we see of young Indy from the tv series.
Sleep Now in the Fire [Terminator: SCC, Allison from Palmdale] was the last thing I wrote that I'm truly proud of. The Allison revelation got in my head and STUCK. [see also: A Storm is Coming - T:SCC, Savannah Weaver]
Overall, I'd count myself as extremely fond of crossovers/fusions and working with characters that are under written. I don't know if that's because I enjoy making up backgrounds for characters without one, or if it's because I'm wary of putting myself out there with trying to write popular characters.
Because of this fact, I know I lower my audience by a lot.
However, I have come to terms with certain things, and I have found great satisfaction writing things that fill holes for people - having favourite characters/source material come to life outside of Yuletide. Who cares if it's a Fandom of Two? Write what makes you happy, and if it makes someone else happy? All the better.
All of my fics can be found at zeplum @ AO3
