Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 3

[aadler]

 
Continuing the meme/challenge begun and tracked here.

Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 3

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. Leave a comment here saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

We create stuff because we love doing it, so getting to talk about what we’ve done and why we love it — how great is that? It doesn’t have to be your most popular fanwork, or the one you think is the best representation of what you do. It can be something you did today, or decades ago, whatever you created that you want to share. And remember, we’re open to any and all kinds of fanworks. Fic, podfic, knitting, meta, a rec list, fanmix … the list is pretty much endless. If you think it qualifies, then it totally does. End of story. ☺

I didn’t even realize it till looking back for this post, but 2015 was a terrible fanfic year for me: 1) I wrote only remixes, 2) I wrote only three stories, and 3) one of the three was something I’d begun more than seven months before, back in 2014. I won’t use last year as my focus, then, because that would be too limiting (and pathetic); this time around, I’ll try for a less conventional approach. So …

“Tea and Oranges” was done last year. Last month, in fact, and so I still have some warm, fuzzy feelings for it. A remix, yes, but of jedibuttercup, who has ranged so far over fandom that any attempt to work with her material is going to be a challenge. This one — like her original — was a BtVS/Person of Interest crossover, and I had some fun with it. A Buffy story in which none of the BtVS characters actually appear (except in retrospective description by PoI characters), it provided an entertaining vehicle for the looking-at-the-Scoobies-through-the-eyes-of-people-who-don’t-really-know-what’s-going-on that I’ve seen elsewhere and done a few times myself. I played a little fast-and-loose with jedibuttercup’s plot-line (didn’t even touch on the most interesting part of her original, which was how the Machine saw Buffy), but she wasn’t offended and I enjoyed myself and a few other people also expressed approval, so I’ll call it a win.

“Quatrain” was a series of four linked drabbles, composed in 2006 to show my son how writing could be done. (Like his sister sroni, he more or less grew up with Buffy and Buffy fandom, and even attended the second WriterCon with me, but the fandom bug never really bit him as hard as it did me and my daughter.) I haven’t done many drabbles — only eight in the last dozen years — possibly because they come so easily to me that I don’t feel any real sense of accomplishment. I felt “Quatrain” was decently done, though, and remember it with some pleasure (as I do “Parting Shot”, done in the Amsterdam airport in 2006).

“Icarus”. In 2006 I signed up for NaNoWriMo, the only time I ever did so … and this story torpedoed me, coming literally in a dream on the first day of November. I wrote it instead of starting on my NaNo idea, and a few more days put me too far behind to feel that I could catch up. (In retrospect, I’d say I just wasn’t really that committed to NaNoWriMo in the first place, but I did sort of try.) A fandom I had never written in before, a character who had never particularly interested me … I could see myself getting caught up in a Batman story idea, but one about the Big Blue Boy Scout? Yet that was what came, and I still like it.

There you are, then. That’s the list. Make of it what you will.

Comments

[snogged.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Thanks for sharing. :)

[aadler]

Talking about myself? Always willing to do that.

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

There's always such an interesting story behind the stories when it comes to your work.


Gabrielle

[aadler]

Hey, I’m an interesting guy.

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

Yes, you are.


Gabrielle

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

As you know, I really appreciated Tea and Oranges, and am intrigued by gthe sound of the others, so will definitely put them on my to read list.

thank you for pointing them out.

[aadler]

I’m not at all shy about self-reccing, I just like to mix things up and not talk about the same stories every time. This was just another opportunity.