Snowflake Challenge Day 10

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Day 10


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.


I was struggling with depression, or really more some heavy emotional weight, the last week and some, so I got behind on everything, and plainly, WAY behind on the Snowflake Challenge, but I still think it's a really cool thing, so I'll try to complete it now.

1. Well, I suppose the best gift I ever received was the literary analysis of my fic "Angels at the Door" that kalliel did for me. I know it's not most people's thing, but man, if you ever felt like doing such a thing about one of my fics, I would be over the moon.

2. Likewise, any art you might feel inspired to make for any of my fics. I have yet to have art for any of my fics (though that will change with the RBB--still, the fic is a collaboration, so it still won't feel exactly like it's for one of my fics), so that would be tremendously exciting for me.

3. Some really arty SPN icons would be awesome!

Comments

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I agree with your whoooole first paragraph--fanwank is just not something I have any interest in engaging in. Fortunately, (most of) the people who respond to my metas seem to respond in the spirit in which it was written--of sharing perspectives in hopes that something one of us has noted might be enlightening for others, so that if we put together all the puzzle pieces, we're all happier fans for it.

As for the writers, I actually do think they have a huge amount of self-awareness, and an awareness of what it is they're producing, even if the game plan is sometimes "winging it" (which hey, I can respect!) and the story they know they need to tell outstrips their ability to tell it.

Well, after this week's episode, I have a lot more faith, but YESSS, I so agree with this. It seems clear a great deal of discussion has gone into the direction they're taking the show and that they really feel like they're expressing something and getting somewhere with it ... I just so often feel like their analysis/planning skills are better than their storytelling and "show don't tell" skills ....

There's something very free, and risky, and untutored about the whole TV thing that I just love (and that fan fic, as a genre, totally gets to bask in and take even further).

I feel another one of those long comment threads coming on (which reminds me--you mentioned in the Tricycle Man thread that the TM project explained something about our earlier threads to you, but I can't think which discussion you might be referring to and I'd love to be reminded ...), but YES, I love this about t.v., too, although it leads to a lot of contradictory plot points, both in SPN and in Buffy and other successful, freestylin' shows I've seen, which can be frustrating, too. But at least THEY GET TO GO WHEREVER THEY WANT, explore all kinds of different themes and ideas and such, and God bless SPN for never dipping a toe but diving whole-hog right into the mire!!

[kalliel]

<33333333 God, this week' episode was so beautiful, I can't even. XP

As for Tricycle Man, oh! At some point we were just talking about how cool I thought fan fiction as a thing was, and how it'd be cool to write something that had fic for it, or something with a similar sort of interconnectivity, and you said that you had thoughts about this, too, but you would share them at a later point in time, when it felt right. And then tricycleman came along, and I thought, oh hey! There are those thoughts! The time is ripe! :DD <3