In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.

hi I am a cheating fucking cheater:

Out of the Woods - Taylor Swift (Music Video) (fanfic)
video and lyrics
And I remember thinkin'
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods?

Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
In the clear yet? Good!

This seems like it's set in a land of magic, doesn't it? The trees growing from the sand and the earth as she walks by. The ethereal nature of that bright blue gown against the shadowed forest, against the snow. Falling through the sea into the desert and then the snowy forest, still damp with saltwater. The wolves that chased her earlier now standing tamely beside her.

The lightning is a particularly striking visual, as is the forest on fire. And the final moment, when the her who has been through all this touches the shoulder of the her who isn't visibly marked by these experiences.

"I remember" is a repeated line. What is the significance of her memory?

"She lost him, but she found herself, and somehow that was everything."

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.

Going for the "define [my recent self] as a creator" theme:

(We Will) Never Be Afraid Again (1031 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Spectrum - Florence + the Machine (Song), Hellenistic Religion & Lore
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Ἑστία | Hestia (Hellenistic Religion & Lore)
Additional Tags: Political Content, Religious Content, LGBTQ Female Character of Color, Disabled Character of Color
Summary:

Have you ever looked into a flame and known that there is something holy there, something set-apart?

King and Queen of the 'Neath-lands (1583 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Theogony - Hesiod, Hymn to Demeter - Homer, Hellenistic Religion & Lore
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Ἁδης | Hades/Περσεφόνη | Persephone (Hellenistic Religion & Lore)
Characters: Ἁδης | Hades (Hellenistic Religion & Lore), Περσεφόνη | Persephone (Hellenistic Religion & Lore)
Additional Tags: Sonnets, crown of sonnets, Heroic Crown of Sonnets, YES THIS POET IS OUT OF THEIR MIND, why do you ask, Because #yuletide
Summary:

Sing, Muses, how the Gods first came to be,


each child of Earth and starry Heaven bright.


First Khaos, then the Earth. From Khaos, Night;


from Earth, Her equal, Heaven: He sired Sea...

The Finch on the Apple Bough (3132 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Aschenputtel | Cinderella (Fairy Tale)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Aschenputtel | Cinderella, Stiefschwester(n) | Stepsister(s) (Aschenputtel | Cinderella), Königssohn | Prince (Aschenputtel | Cinderella), Stiefmutter | Stepmother (Aschenputtel | Cinderella)
Additional Tags: Asexual Character, Aromantic Character, Acearo Character
Summary:

Ella just wants to be free of her stepmother. Charlotte and Angelica—well, they'd rather like the same.

Sovereign (2467 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Brave (2012)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Merida (Disney)/Original Female Character(s)
Characters: Merida (Disney), Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Pre-Femslash, Religious Content, Celtic Mythology & Folklore, Bechdel Test Pass, Misses Clause Challenge
Summary:

Merida turned a corner of the rocky cliff path. The seaside shrine of Áine should be just around one more corner, she thought, if she remembered Elinor's directions rightly. Merida herself had never been this way, but any young woman preparing to take on the responsibility of a Clan-headship and kingdom was all but obligated to visit Golden Áine's shrine at the approach of midsummer—

She rounded the next corner and found a lovely woman about her own age standing before Áine's statue. The woman startled away from the shrine, staring at Merida.

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. Feel free to include recs and examples!

Characters with faith. Characters with devotion. (Polytheistic faith and devotion by preference, but as long as we're not talking conservagelical Christian or asshole atheist here...) Characters who rely on that faith, who draw strength—or something else they find worth having—from that devotion. Fortes Fortuna adiuvat, or Fortune favors the brave—fortune with a capital F, because we are in fact speaking of the Goddess Fortuna. "Brave" is a verb, a doing-word. Like "love". Like "ally". Like "hope".