fic, i wrote it! (also, the racebending challenge and why i think it is awesome)
Much has been written about "The Last Airbender" and why you shouldn't go see it. There have also been an outpouring of fannish responses, including 
dark_agenda's Racebending Revenge Challenge. This challenge asked people to reimagine white characters as characters of color.
I think this idea is fascinating, and the results are amazing. I really recommend checking out all the entries. Part of what makes this challenge is interesting is seeing the different ways people interpreted it, whether they changed the settings, or just single characters and how people reacted to them.
I had the pleasure of making a piece of art for
mjules's fic Don't Go to Strangers. She retold the story of "The Little Mermaid." She chose the first approach I mentioned and reimagined the story with Ariel as a singer. In her talented hands it becomes a study on passing and choosing between worlds. I highly recommend it, but note it does contain explicit racism. If you don't have the spoons to deal with it, you will want to pass on the art as well. If you do want to check it out, it is here.
Surprisingly, I also wrote a fic for the challenge: The Rules of Roles. It is Entourage fic. I have a love/hate relationship with that fandom that more often falls on the hate spectrum, which is why I don't think I'd mentioned it before. That show fails so often in so many things, that I wanted to see what would happen with a single change. I made the Chase brothers black.
The fic is just a short single scene, but I hope I was able to convey the differences it would make. But note, I didn't bend Ari Gold. He is still the same racist, homophobic asshole. Because of this, the same warning as above applies.
On a different note, writing that jogged my authorly impulses, which have been MIA for quite some time. I am tossing around ideas two small fics and one epically long fic. (Fandoms for the three include The Wire, Community and Supernatural, in that order.)
This entry was originally posted at http://kristin.dreamwidth.org/31861.html. Feel free to comment where you feel more comfortable.
dark_agenda's Racebending Revenge Challenge. This challenge asked people to reimagine white characters as characters of color.
I think this idea is fascinating, and the results are amazing. I really recommend checking out all the entries. Part of what makes this challenge is interesting is seeing the different ways people interpreted it, whether they changed the settings, or just single characters and how people reacted to them.
I had the pleasure of making a piece of art for
mjules's fic Don't Go to Strangers. She retold the story of "The Little Mermaid." She chose the first approach I mentioned and reimagined the story with Ariel as a singer. In her talented hands it becomes a study on passing and choosing between worlds. I highly recommend it, but note it does contain explicit racism. If you don't have the spoons to deal with it, you will want to pass on the art as well. If you do want to check it out, it is here.
Surprisingly, I also wrote a fic for the challenge: The Rules of Roles. It is Entourage fic. I have a love/hate relationship with that fandom that more often falls on the hate spectrum, which is why I don't think I'd mentioned it before. That show fails so often in so many things, that I wanted to see what would happen with a single change. I made the Chase brothers black.
The fic is just a short single scene, but I hope I was able to convey the differences it would make. But note, I didn't bend Ari Gold. He is still the same racist, homophobic asshole. Because of this, the same warning as above applies.
On a different note, writing that jogged my authorly impulses, which have been MIA for quite some time. I am tossing around ideas two small fics and one epically long fic. (Fandoms for the three include The Wire, Community and Supernatural, in that order.)
This entry was originally posted at http://kristin.dreamwidth.org/31861.html. Feel free to comment where you feel more comfortable.