[challenge] fandom snowflake | days o6 - o10
day oo6.
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.
as i actually wrote a fic on the sixth, i'm going to count that.
protect and serve. teen wolf. parrish. pg-13. 369.
parrish first knows he wants to help people when he's five, peering between the balusters of the stairs, watching as his parents are murdered before his very eyes.
day oo7.
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.
character wise, i love characters who are intended to be "the bitch," or "the slut." those characters almost always turn out to be my favorites and most of the time are so much deeper than their archetype, but most viewers don't care enough to delve any deeper. chloe from my mad fat diary is one example. she's a lot more loved now (yay!) but during the first season she was utterly despised. i was seriously the only person i knew who loved her.
i'm also a huge fan of made families. the best example i can think of off the top of my head is leverage. oh! and speaking of leverage, i love when characters who are amoral (thieves, etc.) actually do these "bad" things in order to help people. ugh.
i also am a big fan of fight like a married couple, avengers assemble, aw they really do love each other, and you are better than you think you are.
as for fic my favorite trope has to be pretend relationship, in any format. i think it's the pining. and the angst? the angst, the angst, the angst. but always with a happy ending! angst with a happy ending fic is my fave of all fic. which is probably why pretend relationship is absolutely my number one fic trope. another one that is kind of related to this, friends with benefits. which also has all of the pining and angst and then the happy ending but with this one there's sex throughout and not just at the end.
some fake/pretend relationship recs:
mcu
i've been careless with a delicate man by paraxdisepink
steve lets shield think he and bucky were boyfriends so they’ll let him see the winter soldier in medical.
kissing under the mistletoe (and other christmassy activities) by selenay
"how hard could it be to pretend for a few days?" clint continued. "all those kids around, we'd be able to keep it strictly pg and your sister would never have to know. it'll be great."
phil stared. "you're actually volunteering to spend christmas pretending to be-"
"your boyfriend." clint nodded. "i've had worse assignments."
"fine." phil pulled up a website and began hunting for flights. "remember, you volunteered for this."
the city bleeds its aching heart by renne
the one where steve and bucky pose as a happily married couple while on a mission for shield, to catch an international arms dealer hiding in a suburban neighbourhood.
merlin
no matter how far away you roam by lady_ragnell
“i was wondering if you might come home with me.” merlin stops mid-rant and stares at him, and then down at his panini again, and back at arthur. this is a panini of lies and pain. he can tell already.
“for Christmas? i’ve got an uncle and a mother and a sister waiting for me at home, in case you hadn’t remembered, i’m not going home with you just because you’re a workaholic.”
“no, it’s. my mum might be under the impression that we’re a little bit married.”
in which merlin gets conned into spending christmas with arthur's family and pretending to be his husband, because somehow this is his life.
one direction
here for you by blitztrigger
“i can be your boyfriend for when you go home at easter,” harry says in one quick breath, “fake boyfriend, i mean. If you- um, if you want?”
or, an au where louis needs a bit of a hand, and harry's more than willing to help out.
spin me like a record by zarah5
uni au. sometimes, louis poses as harry’s boyfriend. it doesn’t mean anything. really.
teen wolf
can't be hateful, gotta be grateful by halffizzbin
"be cool, dad, we've decided to con grandma."
(or, the one where the stilinski men drag derek to thanksgiving dinner at grandma's and she gets the right wrong idea.)
gravity's got nothing on you by zosofi
“three weeks,” derek says.
“still don’t want to,” stiles says.
“i’ll pay you,” derek says, and that… that has stiles interested. alf’s antique’s may be a great job, but it’s not a high-paying job, and half of stiles’s tuition is coming from financial aid, so…
“how much,” stiles asks, “are we talking here? because i know your family, dude. and it’ll be kind of awkward after.“
“my family thinks you’re some sort of fucking gift to the world,” derek seethes, like he’s jealous, “they’ll probably be pissed at me when we break it off, so don’t worry about that. five hundred bucks.”
“a thousand,” stiles says, because screw ethics. also, the hale family is loaded. derek can deal.
aaand a couple of friends with benefits ones:
mcu
bulletproof by foxxcubb
at age fifteen, steve rogers had been in love with tony stark.
by age twenty, he’d (mostly) gotten over it. and then he promptly became tony stark's fuck buddy.
launch your assault by foxxcubb
phil coulson was more than halfway through his six year plan, and everything was chugging along nicely.
unfortunately, he hadn’t foreseen a cocky junior art major waltzing into his life, or his floor.
teen wolf
my heart comes tumbling down by devildoll
"this is a casual, adult relationship based on sex, and it is awesome." in which stiles and derek have a great time buddyfucking until a burrito ruins it all.
the hunger games
all this could be yours by flyingcarpet
katniss doesn't do relationships. peeta doesn't do one-night stands. he'll just have to convince her, one way or another.
day oo8.in your own space, create a love meme for yourself. let people tell you how amazing and awesome and loveable you really are.
please in now way feel obligated to do this, i'm really only even including it because of it's part of the challenge.
day oo9.
in your own space, talk about what surprises you about fandom. it could be a pairing or fandom you never thought you'd like. a fanwork type you never knew existed.
how big fandom is! i've really always felt like it was more of a secret, something you'll only ever admitted to being involved in if you knew the person you were speaking to was involved in it as well, but that isn't the case. fandom has gotten so mainstream recently, with hollywood and co. starting to use terms like shipping, it's incredible.
day o10.
stretch yourself a little and try something new. go play in a new fandom or with a new pairing. try working in a new medium. or check out some fanworks that are new to you.
i'm currently working on a clarke/raven fic right now, which is both a fandom and pairing i have never before written in. here's a snippet.
clarke has nice hands.it's not something raven notices at first, not like she does clarke's attention demanding sunflower hair and eyes that seem to actually sparkle if the light hits them just right.
i also just started a new show yesterday, looking on hbo with jonathan groff. i love him so i think i'm gonna keep going with it, despite that all of the guys look the same and that is confusing to no end.