Fandom Snowflake Challenge
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rheasilviaDo you guys know the Fandom Snowflake Challenge? I only just found out about it, thanks to analise010, and I'm going to give it a try. The challenge aims to let fans be proud, bold and loud about all of our fannish pursuits, to be passionate and unafraid, and to have faith in ourselves; in short, it wants us to go forth and be the special fannish snowflakes that we are. ;-) Since there's no pressure, no firm deadlines, and complete freedom to do pretty much whatever you want, it doesn't even matter that I'm off to a late start.
How it works:
Every day for the first 15 days of January, we're going to post a fannish challenge. It could be something as simple as reccing fanworks to sharing a piece of canon that you love.
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. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Yeah. Way outside of my comfort zone, which - of course - is the point. So, the recs!
The Persistence of Iron - X-Men First Class, Science Fiction Alternate Universe (can be read as "non-fanfic" SciFi)
48,000 words. AU. Charles/Erik slash. Rated PG-13.
Summary: Waking up in a lab with no memories and a blue-eyed stranger calling him by someone else's name is only the beginning of Erik's problems.
Why I'm reccing it: It's a dystopic science fiction tale that centers on identity, memory, and a slowly unfolding murder mystery. There's angst, clones, identity issues, brilliant byzantine plots, hidden agendas, ambiguous characters, dubious motives, and mutant powers. In other words, I did my best to push as many of my own buttons with this story as I could, and I am pretty happy with how it turned out.
Partners - X-Files, Alternate Universe, dark-ish
11,000 words. AU. Potentially disturbing content. M/K slash. Rated R.
Summary: Alex works alone, but the Consortium keeps saddling him with partners. The current one is especially worrying; he's one of the cunning ones.
Why I'm reccing it: I still find the question behind this AU compelling: What if it had been Mulder who was abducted, not his sister? The resulting story is dark and gritty and not at all nice, and I like that about it. Even now that I haven't been in the X-Files fandom for years, I occasionally re-read this story.
In a Strange Land - Medieval Literature Crossover
2,000 words. Crossover of the Nibelungenlied with Eschenbach's Parzival. Gen. Rated G.
Summary: Suddenly appearing castles are never a good sign. Hagen von Tronege investigates.
Why I'm reccing it: This story is basically lit nerd crack. It's for lit nerds because it's a crossover between two texts that have no online fanfic fandom, the Nibelungenlied (Manuscript B) and the Medieval German Arthurian Novel "Parzival" by Wolfram von Eschenbach. It's crack because these fictional worlds do not mesh well. And it features one of my all-time favorite characters, Hagen von Tronege, being a BAMF in an understated way and bantering in an ambiguously slashy manner with Volker von Alzey. ;-)
analise010, and I'm going to give it a try. The challenge aims to let fans be proud, bold and loud about all of our fannish pursuits, to be passionate and unafraid, and to have faith in ourselves; in short, it wants us to go forth and be the special fannish snowflakes that we are. ;-) Since there's no pressure, no firm deadlines, and complete freedom to do pretty much whatever you want, it doesn't even matter that I'm off to a late start. How it works:
Every day for the first 15 days of January, we're going to post a fannish challenge. It could be something as simple as reccing fanworks to sharing a piece of canon that you love.
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. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Yeah. Way outside of my comfort zone, which - of course - is the point. So, the recs!
The Persistence of Iron - X-Men First Class, Science Fiction Alternate Universe (can be read as "non-fanfic" SciFi)
48,000 words. AU. Charles/Erik slash. Rated PG-13.
Summary: Waking up in a lab with no memories and a blue-eyed stranger calling him by someone else's name is only the beginning of Erik's problems.
Why I'm reccing it: It's a dystopic science fiction tale that centers on identity, memory, and a slowly unfolding murder mystery. There's angst, clones, identity issues, brilliant byzantine plots, hidden agendas, ambiguous characters, dubious motives, and mutant powers. In other words, I did my best to push as many of my own buttons with this story as I could, and I am pretty happy with how it turned out.
Partners - X-Files, Alternate Universe, dark-ish
11,000 words. AU. Potentially disturbing content. M/K slash. Rated R.
Summary: Alex works alone, but the Consortium keeps saddling him with partners. The current one is especially worrying; he's one of the cunning ones.
Why I'm reccing it: I still find the question behind this AU compelling: What if it had been Mulder who was abducted, not his sister? The resulting story is dark and gritty and not at all nice, and I like that about it. Even now that I haven't been in the X-Files fandom for years, I occasionally re-read this story.
In a Strange Land - Medieval Literature Crossover
2,000 words. Crossover of the Nibelungenlied with Eschenbach's Parzival. Gen. Rated G.
Summary: Suddenly appearing castles are never a good sign. Hagen von Tronege investigates.
Why I'm reccing it: This story is basically lit nerd crack. It's for lit nerds because it's a crossover between two texts that have no online fanfic fandom, the Nibelungenlied (Manuscript B) and the Medieval German Arthurian Novel "Parzival" by Wolfram von Eschenbach. It's crack because these fictional worlds do not mesh well. And it features one of my all-time favorite characters, Hagen von Tronege, being a BAMF in an understated way and bantering in an ambiguously slashy manner with Volker von Alzey. ;-)
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Date: 2013-01-05 09:10 pm (UTC)Also, thank you for your kind words about "Partners"! *blush*