Fandom Snowflake Challenge (Day 10,11,12)

[talkingtothesky]

Day 10

In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most.

Hurt/Comfort - and I really do like both, although whump no comfort is more common and that's fine, I'll take that. My favourite stories, though, take as much time and detail describing the recovery process as the torture/accident/injury phase. And that's difficult, I know that, as a writer, because it feels like it becomes necessary to know a little bit of medical stuff in order to fix the hurt character...but honestly, I don't mind how accurate it is. I'm not going to know in reality all the complications that might follow from a gunshot wound - but I'd like there to be complications, and all the angst that the characters go through trying to deal with that...it's my jam, okay. Ideally, I don't want the story to just end when they are rescued. (Although the rescuing part itself is always excellent. XD)

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence. SO MANY of my stories are this. Change one thing about canon and what cascade of consequences does that produce? It probably fixes things and breaks others, and navigating the choices made by canon writers and exploring the unseen paths is what fanfic is all about, for me.

Day 11

Share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life.

LIFE ON MARS (UK). I've met my best friends through this tv show. And it has plenty of whump in canon - Sam Tyler is in an RTA in Episode One and spends the rest of the show in a coma in 2006 while still doing his job in 1973...and sometimes he feels medical effects filtering through to his body. It's so damn good, okay. And the music is heaven. It introduced me to so much music that I probably would never have heard otherwise.

Day 12

In your own space, create a fanwork. Make a podfic, an icon, a sketch, a meta, or a rec list. Arts and crafts. Cross stitch. Draft an essay about a particular medium. Put together a picspam or a fanmix. Write a review of a book you love, a ship manifesto, a you-should-be-listening-to-this-band essay. Create something.

I've been wanting to try making a fic cover for ages, so here's my first attempt, for one of my favourite Harold/Grace, Harold/John first kiss stories:

Comments

[jadesfire]

I am right there with you so n the canon-divergence AUs. It’s always fascinating how one tiny detail can make so much difference.

I love your fic cover! Such great expressions for all of them.

[talkingtothesky]

Thank you! <333

[spikedluv]

Canon Divergent AUs FTW!!!

Nice job on that cover. <3

[talkingtothesky]

Yay, thanks! :D

[smallhobbit]

That fic cover is truly lovely!