Snowflake Challenge Day 7
Day 1 is here.
Day 2 is here.
Days 3 and 4 were "go meet someone" or "go comment", so uh... things happened?
Day 5 is here.
Day 6 is here.
Day 7
In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Drop a link to your wish-list in this post. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.
Fuuuu this is a hard one. I don't participate in kink memes much because if I have some insistent idea I generally dash off to write it myself. But I shall give it a go, and see if we then manage to proceedeth to three...
The big one is that I'd die and go to the fannish Well if someone would produce something related to my OC, Nova Black. (I'm linking to the version of the story on FFN because I overhauled it and I have not had time to update the version here... sorry, DW!)
I'd love art about her (most detailed description of her looks is in Chapter 11, but I'd really prefer that people read the whole thing if they're willing, because she looks that way after a major plot twist) or fic about her, but I think it would be just as awesome if people did something less ambitious too, like putting her in something as a little cameo. That's something I've always thought would be so cool.
Or writing a bit of crack about how her facial scars look like jizz, because that thread was just the most hilarious example of failed trolling I have ever seen and although it annoyed me back then, it's since given me many a laugh. (This is the icon they're referring to.)
I can just see it now:
Megatron: You there! Random Seeker I have never before seen! Come here!
Nova: Of -- of course, Lord Megatron, but -- why are we even in the same room together? And why are --
*splat*
Nova: I will not insult Lord Megatron... I will not insult Lord Megatron... I will not YOUR MOTHER WAS A RETRORAT AND YOUR FATHER SMELT OF CYBERBERRIES!
*fusion cannon powers up*
Nova: Oh slag. Here we go again. *takes off, fleeing, with Megatron shooting at her*
TIME PASSES
CHAPTER 1 BEGINS... AGAIN
^_~
Other requests... Hmm. I don't know. I already have a wonderful illustration of Megatron and Starscream based on an RP I did, and treasure it dearly. (Seriously. It is amazing.) Maybe something with Megatron and Optimus/Orion/Nemesis, from one of the other stories?
And the third thing... last BotCon I saw someone with a shirt reading "Guns don't kill people, Megatron kills people!" Anyone know where I could acquire this? It would be very much awesomemazing to possess.
ETA: I saw this one somewhere else surfing the other challenge responses, so it is not my idea, but: a place to discuss meta. I don't expect this to ever get off the ground -- I think people have a tendency to get defensive and One True Way about meta and that leads to wank. But when it doesn't, when it's about what interests us rather than what angers or annoys us, getting deep into meta is wonderful. I loved the essays people used to post on crimson_optics because they made me think and that kind of interaction allowed me to easily share things I was thinking about even when I didn't put that thinky-stuff into fic. But it doesn't happen any more, and I think there are good reasons for that.
Still, I wish there were some kind of Meta Hall, set aside as a neutral place with rules against letting discussing become arguing. Because even in the times when someone challenged me angrily about my way of seeing things, the thing I loved most was when they'd answer thoroughly and thoughtfully about not why I was wrong, but why they saw things so differently. One of my fic recs from yesterday comes directly from a long-ago discussion that quickly devolved... precisely because everyone in it had such vastly different ways of seeing everything. I regret a lot of what came out of that discussion, as it got nasty fast, and lastingly hurtful to a lot of people. But I don't regret the lesson it taught me -- that sometimes the same pieces can be used to play an entirely different game.
This entry was originally posted at http://stainless.dreamwidth.org/29188.html.
Day 2 is here.
Days 3 and 4 were "go meet someone" or "go comment", so uh... things happened?
Day 5 is here.
Day 6 is here.
Day 7
In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Drop a link to your wish-list in this post. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.
Fuuuu this is a hard one. I don't participate in kink memes much because if I have some insistent idea I generally dash off to write it myself. But I shall give it a go, and see if we then manage to proceedeth to three...
The big one is that I'd die and go to the fannish Well if someone would produce something related to my OC, Nova Black. (I'm linking to the version of the story on FFN because I overhauled it and I have not had time to update the version here... sorry, DW!)
I'd love art about her (most detailed description of her looks is in Chapter 11, but I'd really prefer that people read the whole thing if they're willing, because she looks that way after a major plot twist) or fic about her, but I think it would be just as awesome if people did something less ambitious too, like putting her in something as a little cameo. That's something I've always thought would be so cool.
Or writing a bit of crack about how her facial scars look like jizz, because that thread was just the most hilarious example of failed trolling I have ever seen and although it annoyed me back then, it's since given me many a laugh. (This is the icon they're referring to.)
I can just see it now:
Megatron: You there! Random Seeker I have never before seen! Come here!
Nova: Of -- of course, Lord Megatron, but -- why are we even in the same room together? And why are --
*splat*
Nova: I will not insult Lord Megatron... I will not insult Lord Megatron... I will not YOUR MOTHER WAS A RETRORAT AND YOUR FATHER SMELT OF CYBERBERRIES!
*fusion cannon powers up*
Nova: Oh slag. Here we go again. *takes off, fleeing, with Megatron shooting at her*
TIME PASSES
CHAPTER 1 BEGINS... AGAIN
^_~
Other requests... Hmm. I don't know. I already have a wonderful illustration of Megatron and Starscream based on an RP I did, and treasure it dearly. (Seriously. It is amazing.) Maybe something with Megatron and Optimus/Orion/Nemesis, from one of the other stories?
And the third thing... last BotCon I saw someone with a shirt reading "Guns don't kill people, Megatron kills people!" Anyone know where I could acquire this? It would be very much awesomemazing to possess.
ETA: I saw this one somewhere else surfing the other challenge responses, so it is not my idea, but: a place to discuss meta. I don't expect this to ever get off the ground -- I think people have a tendency to get defensive and One True Way about meta and that leads to wank. But when it doesn't, when it's about what interests us rather than what angers or annoys us, getting deep into meta is wonderful. I loved the essays people used to post on crimson_optics because they made me think and that kind of interaction allowed me to easily share things I was thinking about even when I didn't put that thinky-stuff into fic. But it doesn't happen any more, and I think there are good reasons for that.
Still, I wish there were some kind of Meta Hall, set aside as a neutral place with rules against letting discussing become arguing. Because even in the times when someone challenged me angrily about my way of seeing things, the thing I loved most was when they'd answer thoroughly and thoughtfully about not why I was wrong, but why they saw things so differently. One of my fic recs from yesterday comes directly from a long-ago discussion that quickly devolved... precisely because everyone in it had such vastly different ways of seeing everything. I regret a lot of what came out of that discussion, as it got nasty fast, and lastingly hurtful to a lot of people. But I don't regret the lesson it taught me -- that sometimes the same pieces can be used to play an entirely different game.
This entry was originally posted at http://stainless.dreamwidth.org/29188.html.