Snowflake Challenge, Days 9 & 10
Doing catch-up; I wasn't planning on condensing any of these posts just for the sake of my own record keeping, but day 9 doesn't require me to say much here, so...
DAY 9:
Send feedback to two fannish people - they can be anyone you want: a writer who’s made you happy, a moderator of your favorite exchange (not us!), a fanartist you avidly follow… There are so many possibilities. Just let someone know you appreciate their work.
Done! (Part of my "fight back against the encroaching darkness" plan has been to make myself leave comments on anything I finish on AO3.)
Day 10
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. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Okay, but I think there's still a word/character limit on these entries, so how do I even know where to begin??
I love so many classic tropes (one motel room, accidental baby acquisition, fake dating/married, handcuffed together, time loops, time travel, reincarnation, road trip, hurt/comfort, presumed dead, in vino veritas, reunions, locked in/huddling for warmth), and I especially love when they're subverted--when a fic writer takes what was generic and formulaic and uses it to enrich and deepen our understanding of a character or a relationship. When what was used as an easy shorthand in tv writing becomes exponentially more complex when the writer takes the situation and its consequences seriously. When a writer flips a serious trope on its head and finds the humor in it.
The thing is, I'm a little brain dead tonight (I'll take, "I had a meltdown at 6:30 AM and then drove for 9 hours" for $500, Alex...), and I can't think of a single fic rec. Which I could easily rectify by scouring my reading history, I suppose, but honestly, the thought of doing that is kind of exhausting.
BUT! I have a vid rec, one that shows how making the trope the focus of a vid can bring our understanding of a whole host of issues into focus. In Hourglass,
giandujakiss uses the time loop trope as featured in multiple shows to make points about repetition, fan works, and aesthetics, and to track the subtle and not-so-subtle changes that happen in these stories each time the loop recurs. Which makes it sound really deep and intellectual, and it is, but it's also a lot of fun. (And if you're into meta, definitely read her background notes about the vid.).
Okay, that's about all I can handle tonight. More catch-up tomorrow, I hope.
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DAY 9:
Send feedback to two fannish people - they can be anyone you want: a writer who’s made you happy, a moderator of your favorite exchange (not us!), a fanartist you avidly follow… There are so many possibilities. Just let someone know you appreciate their work.
Done! (Part of my "fight back against the encroaching darkness" plan has been to make myself leave comments on anything I finish on AO3.)
Day 10
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. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Okay, but I think there's still a word/character limit on these entries, so how do I even know where to begin??
I love so many classic tropes (one motel room, accidental baby acquisition, fake dating/married, handcuffed together, time loops, time travel, reincarnation, road trip, hurt/comfort, presumed dead, in vino veritas, reunions, locked in/huddling for warmth), and I especially love when they're subverted--when a fic writer takes what was generic and formulaic and uses it to enrich and deepen our understanding of a character or a relationship. When what was used as an easy shorthand in tv writing becomes exponentially more complex when the writer takes the situation and its consequences seriously. When a writer flips a serious trope on its head and finds the humor in it.
The thing is, I'm a little brain dead tonight (I'll take, "I had a meltdown at 6:30 AM and then drove for 9 hours" for $500, Alex...), and I can't think of a single fic rec. Which I could easily rectify by scouring my reading history, I suppose, but honestly, the thought of doing that is kind of exhausting.
BUT! I have a vid rec, one that shows how making the trope the focus of a vid can bring our understanding of a whole host of issues into focus. In Hourglass,
giandujakiss uses the time loop trope as featured in multiple shows to make points about repetition, fan works, and aesthetics, and to track the subtle and not-so-subtle changes that happen in these stories each time the loop recurs. Which makes it sound really deep and intellectual, and it is, but it's also a lot of fun. (And if you're into meta, definitely read her background notes about the vid.).
Okay, that's about all I can handle tonight. More catch-up tomorrow, I hope.
This entry was originally posted at http://akamarykate.dreamwidth.org/423221.html. You may comment either here or there.