Snowflake Challenge #4
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brightly_litIf you got the opportunity to add one thing to the canon of any of your fandoms, what would that be? Maybe there’s a character who didn’t get much of a backstory/storyline and you’d like to do something with them, maybe a show was axed too soon and you had thoughts on what could happen in a subsequent season, maybe there’s a new episode you’d like to have added.
This is exactly what fanfic is for! Or actually, for me, original fiction. I loved Edward's insufferable arrogance and Alice's terrifying monstrosity (or at least, that was how I took that character), so I zeroed in on those qualities and wrote a series that included two vampire characters fitting those descriptions, casting off basically everything else about Twilight (except what I also read as BDSM death porn). In the wonderful anime Nana, I was most interested in one minor character named Shin, who's a prostitute, so I ended up writing an entire novel about a teen male prostitute that was partially inspired by that character, as I was most dissatisfied with the lack of information given at the end of the show about him and what was to become of him.
That said, most of the time, I just wish for more seasons of a show (as long as the creators are inspired; I've seen far too many shows that went on after the writers were completely out of ideas, argh). A friend and I were joking about the anime Free! She said she didn't think it needed to go on for three seasons. I countered that I thought it should have 100 seasons, so that every person in the audience at that apparently life-altering-for-every-witness relay race they had in elementary school would have their own season. That's my general feeling for every show I love. If it's still good, by god, I just wish it would keep going until the creators feel done. More art in the world! More beauty!! That's what it's all about, as far as I'm concerned.
This is exactly what fanfic is for! Or actually, for me, original fiction. I loved Edward's insufferable arrogance and Alice's terrifying monstrosity (or at least, that was how I took that character), so I zeroed in on those qualities and wrote a series that included two vampire characters fitting those descriptions, casting off basically everything else about Twilight (except what I also read as BDSM death porn). In the wonderful anime Nana, I was most interested in one minor character named Shin, who's a prostitute, so I ended up writing an entire novel about a teen male prostitute that was partially inspired by that character, as I was most dissatisfied with the lack of information given at the end of the show about him and what was to become of him.
That said, most of the time, I just wish for more seasons of a show (as long as the creators are inspired; I've seen far too many shows that went on after the writers were completely out of ideas, argh). A friend and I were joking about the anime Free! She said she didn't think it needed to go on for three seasons. I countered that I thought it should have 100 seasons, so that every person in the audience at that apparently life-altering-for-every-witness relay race they had in elementary school would have their own season. That's my general feeling for every show I love. If it's still good, by god, I just wish it would keep going until the creators feel done. More art in the world! More beauty!! That's what it's all about, as far as I'm concerned.
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Date: 2023-01-09 12:31 pm (UTC)Ah, this, on both sides. There are so many shows that deserved more, and so many shows that should've stopped before the dying horse had been beaten to a pulp.
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