Poking this Snowflake thing with a sharp stick...
So I'm going to give this Fandom Snowflake thing a go, seeing as I want to write and post more, maybe this will keep me motivated for a bit...
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. Drop a link to your post in the comments.
Bottom of the Ninth
(NCIS Gibbs/DiNozzo, 17,857 words) This is a bit of a common trope for me to write. I do it in a number of fandoms (I've done it in H50, NCIS: LA - well, sort of - Star Trek: Enterprise (though that one never got *quite* finished. I keep saying 'someday'.), SGA and SG-1. Basically I hate with the fire of a thousand suns that trope of two straight-appearing guys who after some life-and-death-situation/office-rumor-mill-gone-amuck/whatever-other-stupid-short-term-event suddenly look at each other, realize it's TWUE WOVE and kiss like goby-fish in front of God and everyone and announce their pending civil ceremony all in three pages. So I like to write long drawn-out courtships where they do that thing real people do where they a.) worry about whether or not the other person is 1.) some form of GLTBQ and 2.) interested in them as an individual (because, contrary to common misperception, someone who's Bi is not necessarily attracted to anything bipedal and breathing) and b.) actually date for at least a little while before falling into bed. Which probably WON'T happen on the same day as the first time they kiss each other.
Anywho... I did this for an exchange and it's turned out to be (by AO3 hit-count standards) my most popular work to date. And personally, I like it a lot. I go back and re-read bits of it when I need to little pick-me-up. I think I got the voices right and managed to keep both of them in character pretty well. (Little note: it was written before "Baltimore" aired, so there are some little details that have been Jossed, but overall the fic holds up, even after that ep.)
PTSD: Post Torchwood Stress Disorder
(Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 20,490 words) I don't do *plot* very often. I mean, my stuff usually has a *point*, but not usually something with a rising action, climax, falling action kind of thing. This has that. There's a whole missing-person plot that has to be resolved. It was a 'little' something that was born from one of my first stories having a line about there only being 11 people left from Torchwood 1 after the Cybermen. Someone pointed out that some quasi-official BBC website had it as 25. So then someone (Bodlon?) said, "Who said that just because 25 people survived the attack that a year later (Torchwood Season 1) that all 25 were still alive?"
And so 20K words were born. I think it addresses a lot of things the show never wanted to - like how the hell any of them really stayed sane - especially Ianto after everything he went through in London and then on through to Cyberwoman.
You Can Be Interesting Tomorrow
(Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 3768 words) I love writing humor. And once I got going on this, I was on a roll! This is the perennial "Stoned!Ianto" story that a fair number of writers have to take a stab at. It's kind of stream of consciousness writing... so you know, my brain sober, is pretty much as scary as Ianto's when he's stoned. :) I've done a fair number of short humor bits, but for the most part, this one strikes me as the overall funniest. (Possibly my best one liner is in "SEALs in the Antarctic", but I had to work awfully hard to get to the one punchline in that story. This is just funny from start to end.)
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. Drop a link to your post in the comments.
Bottom of the Ninth
(NCIS Gibbs/DiNozzo, 17,857 words) This is a bit of a common trope for me to write. I do it in a number of fandoms (I've done it in H50, NCIS: LA - well, sort of - Star Trek: Enterprise (though that one never got *quite* finished. I keep saying 'someday'.), SGA and SG-1. Basically I hate with the fire of a thousand suns that trope of two straight-appearing guys who after some life-and-death-situation/office-rumor-mill-gone-amuck/whatever-other-stupid-short-term-event suddenly look at each other, realize it's TWUE WOVE and kiss like goby-fish in front of God and everyone and announce their pending civil ceremony all in three pages. So I like to write long drawn-out courtships where they do that thing real people do where they a.) worry about whether or not the other person is 1.) some form of GLTBQ and 2.) interested in them as an individual (because, contrary to common misperception, someone who's Bi is not necessarily attracted to anything bipedal and breathing) and b.) actually date for at least a little while before falling into bed. Which probably WON'T happen on the same day as the first time they kiss each other.
Anywho... I did this for an exchange and it's turned out to be (by AO3 hit-count standards) my most popular work to date. And personally, I like it a lot. I go back and re-read bits of it when I need to little pick-me-up. I think I got the voices right and managed to keep both of them in character pretty well. (Little note: it was written before "Baltimore" aired, so there are some little details that have been Jossed, but overall the fic holds up, even after that ep.)
PTSD: Post Torchwood Stress Disorder
(Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 20,490 words) I don't do *plot* very often. I mean, my stuff usually has a *point*, but not usually something with a rising action, climax, falling action kind of thing. This has that. There's a whole missing-person plot that has to be resolved. It was a 'little' something that was born from one of my first stories having a line about there only being 11 people left from Torchwood 1 after the Cybermen. Someone pointed out that some quasi-official BBC website had it as 25. So then someone (Bodlon?) said, "Who said that just because 25 people survived the attack that a year later (Torchwood Season 1) that all 25 were still alive?"
And so 20K words were born. I think it addresses a lot of things the show never wanted to - like how the hell any of them really stayed sane - especially Ianto after everything he went through in London and then on through to Cyberwoman.
You Can Be Interesting Tomorrow
(Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, 3768 words) I love writing humor. And once I got going on this, I was on a roll! This is the perennial "Stoned!Ianto" story that a fair number of writers have to take a stab at. It's kind of stream of consciousness writing... so you know, my brain sober, is pretty much as scary as Ianto's when he's stoned. :) I've done a fair number of short humor bits, but for the most part, this one strikes me as the overall funniest. (Possibly my best one liner is in "SEALs in the Antarctic", but I had to work awfully hard to get to the one punchline in that story. This is just funny from start to end.)