you won't make yourself a name if you follow the rules

Day 01

In your own space, talk about why you are doing the Fandom Snowflake Challenge? What drew you to it as a participant? What do you hope to accomplish by doing these challenges? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I want to feel more of a connection with fandom. I haven't been feeling fannish for months and that's not good.


Day 2

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. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wish-list if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Check out other people's posts. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

Hmmm. Specifically things we're afraid to ask for? There isn't much I'm afraid to ask for...

1) All the genderswap AUs. Not just Rule 63, where a canonically cis man-or-woman becomes a cis the-other-one. Genderswaps where canonically cis characters are trans of the same gender (so for instance cis woman to trans woman). Genderswaps where canonically cis characters are trans of the same assigned-at-birth gender (so for instance cis man to trans woman or genderqueer/nonbinary individual). Genderswaps where about half of the canonical characters are Rule 63'd (or otherwise transmogrified), not just one or two prominent characters. ALL THE GENDERSWAPS. (Except if you take a canonically trans character and make them cis, I will be most displeased.)

2) All the racebending AUs. Or rather, all the racebending AUs that take canonically white characters and make them people of color. Or otherwise take people of the locally dominant ethnicity and make them not—so making Bakura Ryou of Yu-Gi-Oh! a white Brit instead of Japanese would be legit. (Black Brit or Indian Brit would be more interesting, mind you.)

3) I don't think there's a term for this, but all the AUs where a canonically abled character is disabled. Somebody's got asthma. Somebody needs a wheelchair. Somebody's got epic anxiety. Yadda.


Day 03

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 in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

King of Games' Solution (140 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mutou Yuugi & Yami Yuugi, Jounouchi Katsuya & Mutou Yuugi | Yugi Moto & Joey Wheeler
Characters: Yami Yuugi, Mutou Yuugi
Additional Tags: Poetry
Summary:

He is a Puzzle.

mens sana in corpore sano (286 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Yami Yuugi
Additional Tags: Community: fic_promptly
Summary:

Working out in inclement weather.

some things even Pharaoh may not do (781 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mazaki Anzu & Yami Yuugi, Mutou Yuugi & Yami Yuugi, Mazaki Anzu & Mutou Yuugi
Characters: Mazaki Anzu | Tea Gardner, Yami Yuugi, Mutou Yuugi
Additional Tags: Community: fic_promptly
Summary:

"Just because you can set things on fire with your mind doesn't mean you should."

Artisanry (1010 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mutou Yuugi & Yami Yuugi
Characters: Mutou Yuugi, Yami Yuugi
Additional Tags: Female Yuugi, Female Yami Yuugi, Community: fan_flashworks
Series: Part 2 of Daughter of the Sun
Summary:

Yuuki has a surprise for her other self.

In your own space, create a love meme for yourself. Let people tell you how amazing and awesome and loveable you really are. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Surf the comments and find people to give love to.

♥?

In your own space, talk about your creative process - from what inspires you to what motivates you to how you manage to break through blocks. Does your process change depending on the type of creating you're doing? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I've never figured out what inspires me, honestly. What motivates me—there's the "stories beating at the inside of my head" factor, and the "not enough stories featuring marginalized people" factor, and depending on the term the "this is a school assignment my grade depends on it" factor. (but obviously that last isn't fannish per se)

I'm not so good at breaking through blocks. Usually I just wait till they go away on their own.

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 in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This may be cheating, but I'm going to rec my three most recent completed fanfics, because they're actually pretty reflective of my breadth as a fanficcer. Except for the bit where two are poetry; I swear I don't ordinarily do that much fanpoetry.


La Belleza, La Bestia (159 words) by originally, AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Beauty and the Beast - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Belle | Beauty (La Belle et la Bête)
Additional Tags: Fairy Tale Retellings, Poetry, Podfic & Podficced Works, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: M4B, Audio Format: Streaming
Summary:

Upon the selfish woman, curse is cast.

every stitch with love (633 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Killdeer - Anne B. Walsh
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elspeth Kolesar & Duskdance
Characters: Elspeth Kolesar, Duskdance
Additional Tags: Bechdel Test Pass
Summary:

Elspeth tries to remember something her parents taught her.

hope chest (115 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Amandine's Mother/Oberon
Characters: Amandine (Toby Daye), Amandine's Mother (Toby Daye), Oberon (Toby Daye)
Additional Tags: Poetry, Sonnets
Summary:

Amandine's mother and the choice between parents every faerie child must make.

Spoilers for The Winter Long.

You'll notice that all of these are pretty short. Most of my fanworks are. This bodes ill for my goal of being a novelist.

(pssst there's new Killdeer canon over thisaway, and the rest of Killdeer canon is linked from the fic's notes)

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 in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


The Fairest Of Them All is a long poem retelling Snow White in hexameter. The title character is mostly fantasy-Welsh, part fantasy-Japanese, because why the hell not, and her prince is a trans man, because why the hell not, and the seven dwarves are her loyal friends (including the prince) from all classes, because why the hell not.

Let Your Demons Run is an exploration of where the first demons in Supernatural came from, specifically (because megexchange) including Meg, reputed to be Azazel's daughter. Multimedia experience pulling in the Books of Genesis and Enoch. Jossed, of course (I posited Metatron female, and I'm sure there's other things I can't think of offhand or don't know about due to not having seen past 9x04), but I'm really proud of it.

Now I'm Not Gonna Stop is a return to the not-quite-dead-yet fandom of my heart, Anne Walsh's Dangerverse AU of Harry Potter. (AO3 synned "whydoyouneedtoknow's Dangerverse" to "Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling". I'm pissed.)

Golden and Broken and Lost is the story of how Cinderella came to sing at Jack's Place in Seanan McGuire's song of that name. Cindy's black, because I could, and the Little Mermaid is Arabic, because I could, and the afternoon bartender is Kaguya-hime, because I could.

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. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wish-list if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Check out other people's posts. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

spn_bitesized. I miss it.

I've been thinking about creating a successor comm, mini_spn or some such thing. Same mission of comment-sized fanworks for Supernatural, all media accepted, new themes to prompt for every week (or two), Pinboard account to keep track of prompts and fills. And now that it's not December anymore and the incoming workload has dropped off immensely, I can actually seriously consider doing it. I mean, I'm still working all the overtime, but it's catching up, not treading water or falling behind.

Thing is, somnolentblue assures me that bitesized was difficult to handle with a mod team of three, would be ridiculously difficult with two and flat out impossible with one, and four would probably be better than three.

So that's my three fannish things. Three co-mods.

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.

I love this one to pieces and nobody else seems to: Talitha Rising, in which Jo Harvelle is the righteous woman and Jessica Harvelle (played by Adrianne Palicki, just to clarify) is the girl with the demon blood. I should probably give it more than four days before complaining about its not getting love, though. And possibly write more of the 'verse. (There is so much more 'verse.)

I'm also quite fond of My Soul to Take. Mary's trying so hard to make sure none of the backlash from her deal lands on anyone else, and so relieved when her deadline passes with no harm done...

Bending the Truth was a lot of fun to write, even given all the trouble I had keeping names straight. I'm kind of curious who had the nerve to produce the first public piece of art mocking or opposing Firelord Zuko, though.

this story has a happy ending had to have that title. (Even if every time I see it I get Diamond Rio stuck in my head. I'd follow you to Timbuktu like Scarlett followed Rhett...) Because it does, but that part isn't, can't be, on the page. Not with such a tight focus on the Winchesters (including Jess) and their family tragedy.

The Moon Is Just The Sun At Night—the challenge was to change the species of the pairing, so instead of Ruby the demon and Anna the fallen angel, I did Anna the demon and Ruby the fallen angel, and I racebent it for kicks (for given values of 'racebent'—pre-hell Ana is part Spanish, part Ohlone, and I'm not sure how she thought of herself at the time but today I'm pretty sure we'd call that Hispanic; post-hell Ana is played by Julie McNiven), and quite a lot of bitter ex-Catholic came out in the fic but I think the new backstory makes both women plausible enough bitter ex-Catholics themselves that that's all right.

And that is pretty much my 2012 in stories I wrote that I like. There's one more, but it's still anon. I'll come fix this post when it's not.

...I'll catch up. >_>

In your own space, ask for help. Need a beta? Always wanted to learn how to make a vid? a fanmix? icons? Maybe you’d want to have someone cheering for you while you work on an upcoming big bang or fannish bingo? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I would really appreciate a beta for my sncross_bigbang. Someone who doesn't mind not knowing the non-Supernatural canon, because said canon is not published yet. (Author of said is stuck in publishing limbo.) I have successfully conned said author into betaing me even though she does not know Supernatural, so I'm not worried about that side of things, but I'd really appreciate having someone who knows Supernatural canon to go 'wtf you doin' at me.

In your own space, talk about a talent (or talents) you have. Everyone's got something they're good at. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I put words together. My posts at Slacktiverse. (I keep forgetting to link them over here.) And elliemurasaki. I'm told I'm good at this. Now if you don't mind, I need to get back to it. I signed up for the getyourwordsout 10% challenge, which given my GYWO goal is fifteen thousand words in one story, and I've got a sermon to write for the Unitarian Universalists. I'm making progress! I've got nearly eight minutes' worth!