snowflake challenges 2 and 3
it's that time of year again! i'm back on my snowflake bullshit. :D (ok, i just wanted an excuse to say "i'm back on my bullshit" because a. i love it as a phrase, and b. it implies i was ever OFF my bullshit.)
challenge #2: set some goals!
1 figure out why i keep putting shit off, and maybe stop putting it off so much [1]
2 finish cowboy bebop (live action) and cowboy bebop (anime)
3 finish leverage: redemption
4 stabilize my closet rod and hang up my damn pants >.<
5 maybe put up some art
6 did i forget something? i probably forgot something.
7 when covid is less scary, join a gym and actually go. that's what i forgot.
challenge #3: talk about au's!
way back when spn was pretty much my only fandom i preferred canon-compliant (well, -ish) fpf and au rpf. like, i wasn't interested in reading au's of the winchesters, but i only wanted au's of jared and jensen. (i still only want rpf au's. i'm not interested in rpf that reflects people's real lives or real relationships with each other. i don't want canon compliance, if you will. it feels too invasive.) but never say never, right? i like a good what-if, and sometimes you just gotta see what happens if you tweak canon a little bit, or stick characters a and b in a different time, or a different place, or a different genre, or just different jobs. (for a while i was really into regular-mortal joe/nicky au's, a year or so ago when i let the old guard swallow me whole. found lots of super cute ideas on tumblr.) there's a really fabulous steve/bucky punk au on ao3 - i'll raise you like a phoenix - that's set in new york in the late 70s and obviously there's no hydra, there's no ww2, there's no super serum, and yet steve and bucky (and howard and peggy and at least some of the howling commandos) are very much recognizable as themselves, and the writer figured out how to translate things like bucky's arm so they make sense in this new context. it's amazing. i love that shit, i just don't have the patience to look for it. (someone recced it when i said i wanted punk!bucky and hipster!steve. i never would've found it by myself.)
i'm always curious about historical au's of contemporary canon - or contemporary au's of historical canon - but honestly, most of the time i just want to know someone's thinking about it, and when push comes to shove i don't really want to read it. sometimes all i need is a gif set on tumblr and the knowledge that someone somewhere gave thought to the avengers as a 60s cop show, or agent carter as a leverage fusion, or what it would look like if the old guard was a horror movie. or how star trek might translate into a 21st century road trip story, or what if the trojan war revolved around a college fraternity party. and au art? gimme.
also, i love the coffeeshop au, or at least i love the idea of it. because it can't be all historicals all the time around here. and sometimes you just need a good genderswap.
[1] by which i mean, my holiday project for writing group is due tomorrow and i haven't even started it yet. >.< i have to merge rpgs/the gaming community and arthurian myths, plus lesbians, so the knights of the round table is now a gaming group and they're all girls. speaking of au's. :D arthur has been renamed regina, guinevere is still guinevere, and lancelot has been renamed lake so i can call her lake dulac - lake of the lake. :D (that was my roommate's idea but i love it so much i'm compelled to share at the least provocation.) but i don't have anything that looks like a real story. i've been putting it off since the beginning of december and now i have until tomorrow afternoon to bang out at least 1500 words that form a complete story that makes sense. wish me luck. i wonder if i can just write about tristan and iseult instead. (tristan's mother named her after morgon's sister in the riddle-master of hed books.) (i have all this ridiculous backstory but no actual story that i can submit to people for critique. argh.)
challenge #2: set some goals!
1 figure out why i keep putting shit off, and maybe stop putting it off so much [1]
2 finish cowboy bebop (live action) and cowboy bebop (anime)
3 finish leverage: redemption
4 stabilize my closet rod and hang up my damn pants >.<
5 maybe put up some art
6 did i forget something? i probably forgot something.
7 when covid is less scary, join a gym and actually go. that's what i forgot.
challenge #3: talk about au's!
way back when spn was pretty much my only fandom i preferred canon-compliant (well, -ish) fpf and au rpf. like, i wasn't interested in reading au's of the winchesters, but i only wanted au's of jared and jensen. (i still only want rpf au's. i'm not interested in rpf that reflects people's real lives or real relationships with each other. i don't want canon compliance, if you will. it feels too invasive.) but never say never, right? i like a good what-if, and sometimes you just gotta see what happens if you tweak canon a little bit, or stick characters a and b in a different time, or a different place, or a different genre, or just different jobs. (for a while i was really into regular-mortal joe/nicky au's, a year or so ago when i let the old guard swallow me whole. found lots of super cute ideas on tumblr.) there's a really fabulous steve/bucky punk au on ao3 - i'll raise you like a phoenix - that's set in new york in the late 70s and obviously there's no hydra, there's no ww2, there's no super serum, and yet steve and bucky (and howard and peggy and at least some of the howling commandos) are very much recognizable as themselves, and the writer figured out how to translate things like bucky's arm so they make sense in this new context. it's amazing. i love that shit, i just don't have the patience to look for it. (someone recced it when i said i wanted punk!bucky and hipster!steve. i never would've found it by myself.)
i'm always curious about historical au's of contemporary canon - or contemporary au's of historical canon - but honestly, most of the time i just want to know someone's thinking about it, and when push comes to shove i don't really want to read it. sometimes all i need is a gif set on tumblr and the knowledge that someone somewhere gave thought to the avengers as a 60s cop show, or agent carter as a leverage fusion, or what it would look like if the old guard was a horror movie. or how star trek might translate into a 21st century road trip story, or what if the trojan war revolved around a college fraternity party. and au art? gimme.
also, i love the coffeeshop au, or at least i love the idea of it. because it can't be all historicals all the time around here. and sometimes you just need a good genderswap.
[1] by which i mean, my holiday project for writing group is due tomorrow and i haven't even started it yet. >.< i have to merge rpgs/the gaming community and arthurian myths, plus lesbians, so the knights of the round table is now a gaming group and they're all girls. speaking of au's. :D arthur has been renamed regina, guinevere is still guinevere, and lancelot has been renamed lake so i can call her lake dulac - lake of the lake. :D (that was my roommate's idea but i love it so much i'm compelled to share at the least provocation.) but i don't have anything that looks like a real story. i've been putting it off since the beginning of december and now i have until tomorrow afternoon to bang out at least 1500 words that form a complete story that makes sense. wish me luck. i wonder if i can just write about tristan and iseult instead. (tristan's mother named her after morgon's sister in the riddle-master of hed books.) (i have all this ridiculous backstory but no actual story that i can submit to people for critique. argh.)