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

snowflake_challenge 3:

Create a wish list of fandom things (podfic, graphics, playlists, canon recs translations, research help, vids, sky's the limit!) that you'd like to receive. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'm mostly blanking on things I want that aren't on my fandomtrees wishlist (which has Emelan, Encanto, Miraculous Ladybug, and Yuri on Ice prompts) or holiday_wishes wishlist (though the only fannish bits there that aren't on the fandomtrees list are in the spending-money section).

But! The first chapter of starting right now I'll be strong and all chapters of Jeu des princesses avec les pommes d'or de la discorde, inscribed 'to the fairest', both canon-divergent Yuri on Ice fics, are told entirely through stuff the characters said on the internet. Notably on Instagram. Thing is I do not have either the art skills or the art commission money to illustrate most of those Instagram posts. So if I can't glue the Insta post together using canon screenshots, Wikimedia Commons, and Unsplash, then the Insta post has to stay text-only. (You can see in the second chapter of Jeu des princesses how well that's going. I do have two and a half of the images for the first chapter of starting right now—the first one, the Minami one, and the top half of the one where the bottom half is Yuuri stole Phichit's Pikachu hat—but comparing those two chapters may illustrate why I haven't added those images yet.)

So in addition to what's listed on fandomtrees—and I'm joining the chorus of Snowflake participants who want people to look over all those wishlists, or at least the ones with fewer than two gifts, and fill what you can—I am asking for fanart that's the image part of one or another of the Insta posts in one of those two fics.

And! fandomtrees doesn't do Creator's Choice of Fandom, which is valid, but does mean I had to leave this prompt off that list:

* exploration via historical documents, primary and secondary sources, etc., of canon characters/events and their effects on the local, regional, and global courses of history. this could be set a couple hundred years after canon and thus explore canon from a historian's perspective (social media posts could be both primary and secondary sources here, depending), or it could be set around, during, or before canon and explore characters who have been name-checked at most.

Also, the how to use CSS to make iOS messages look realistic guide by CodenameCarrot and La_Temperanza makes it seem like there should be a way to use background-image in the CSS from the how to use CSS to make vintage-2016 Instagram posts look realistic guide by gadaursan (with instIcon1 instIcon2 instIcon3 instead of instIcon, as well as instIconRight instHeart) so that those five little icons don't display when creator style is off. But so far all I seem to be achieving is making them not display when creator style is on, either. Send help?

(partly because the Insta stuff is all dated 2019–2020, and still has to fit into the rest of canon, which is dated ?? 2014–2017 ??)

[meta] ML episode order (9691 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 3/?
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Meta, Nonfiction, Fanwork Research & Reference Guides
Summary:

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Or, causality is not an oxymoron.

A suggested episode order for Miraculous Ladybug canon, with reasoning.

Chapter 1: First-watch order, spoiler-avoidant (with dates of upcoming episode premieres)
Chapter 2: Chronological order
Chapter 3: Episode order reasoning (assume spoilers for all aired-in-order episodes and all deuterocanon)

For snowflake_challenge 4, "add something to your canon", and marchmetamatterschallenge

woo, I have done a snowflake_challenge! challenge 6 at my Tumblr

challenge 4 will be on AO3, Hopefully Soon?

snowflake_challenge 6: Create something.

purr as the driven snow (100 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir Needs a Hug, Marinette Dupain-Cheng Needs a Hug, Fluff, Drabble, Community: 100words, Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Podfic Welcome
Summary:

When the weather outside is frightful—

or read it at 100words

(these are kinda traumatic spots for angelofthequeers and Reiaji to leave off on, fyi; GalahadWilder however is writing a fluffbomb; also thecrazyladybug drew cute fluffy Adrienette and chataclysmes—who probably didn't know my birthday till after posting this—drew cute fluffy Snekmouse!Adrienette)


Unwise (4667 words) by GalahadWilder
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Aspik, Multimouse - Character, Bee!Adrien - Character, Bee Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir - Character, Snake Adrien Agreste | Aspik - Character, Rat Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Multimouse
Series: Part 3 of The "Fix Buggachat's Laptop" Fic Drive
Summary:

Ladybug is exhausted, and Chat convinces her to finally start bringing on the temp wielders permanently.

Unfortunately for Chat's poor kitty brain, she chooses to use that opportunity to set up Multimouse with Aspik.

He is SO SCREWED.


whose woods these are (I think I know.) (52013 words) by Reiaji
Chapters: 15/24
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug), Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Chloé Bourgeois
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fairy Tale, Cinderella Elements, Mutual Pining, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, ladrien, Marichat, #LetAdrienBeADisneyPrincess2k19
Summary:

Four years after his future turns to cinders, Adrien is a servant in the house he was meant to inherit. Disowned by his father and abused by his stepmother, his days are filled with drudgery until he meets a masked huntress in the forest behind his father's chateau.

As his friendship with Ladybug turns to first love, he dreams of a future spent at her side.

Then, on the eve of the Princess's masquerade, he meets his guardian—and is granted a wish.

[Ladrien Cinderella AU]


Hold Me By Both Hands (145743 words) by angelofthequeers
Chapters: 46/49
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Luka Couffaine, Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug/Kagami Tsurugi, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug/Kagami Tsurugi, Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe, Juleka Couffaine/Rose Lavillant, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Kagami Tsurugi
Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Kagami Tsurugi, Luka Couffaine, Nino Lahiffe, Alya Césaire, Chloé Bourgeois, Lila Rossi, Classmates (Miraculous Ladybug), Master Fu (Miraculous Ladybug), Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug), Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug), Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Mylène Haprèle, Wayzz (Miraculous Ladybug)
Additional Tags: Romance, Identity Reveal, Polyamory, Miraculous Ladybug Love Square, Marichat, Adrinette, Bisexual Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Bisexual Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Pansexual Luka Couffaine, Asexual Kagami Tsurugi, Asexual Alix Kubdel, Lesbian Chloé Bourgeois, Pansexual Alya Césaire, look - Freeform, no one is straight in here, no one - Freeform, Kwami Swap, temporarily, Season 2 AU, Dorks in Love, Chloé Bourgeois Redemption, Adrien grows a spine, Autistic Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Autistic Kagami Tsurugi, Hot Mess Marinette Dupain-Cheng, group chat shenanigans, Lila is a turd, as usual, Master Fu is actually helpful, Don't copy to another site, Akumatized Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Gabriel Agreste is an Asshole, Gabriel Agreste's A+ Parenting, Demiromantic Kagami Tsurugi
Summary:

“I know he said never to take you back,” Plagg mutters. “But he’d change his tune if he knew.” He looks Adrien straight in the eye and, more serious than Adrien’s ever seen him before, says, “There’s someone you gotta meet. He’s been looking for that book for ages.”

How differently might the events of season 2 have gone if Adrien had also known of Master Fu from the start?


ETA Jan 15: I am repurposing this list for snowflake_challenge prompt 8: Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

silveradept assures me it is not cheating at snowflake_challenge prompt 1—

Introduce yourself!

—to post this:

Tell me how you would introduce me to someone else in fandom.

snowflake_challenge!

Share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life.

Harry Potter, no contest.

In other news, one of the folks I met through Harry Potter fandom is starting a socially conscious speculative fiction publishing company. First book off the presses is to be Speculative Masculinities, an anthology exploring and deconstructing and reconstructing assorted definitions and varietals of 'masculinity' through speculative fiction.

Create your own challenge. Whatever your challenge is, and have fun with it!

Make a fanwork in a new-to-you artistic medium.

Write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, or to your flist/circle/followers. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
That artists dream and paint, that poets write:
From Undersea to orbit stars ablaze
With light that won't for years reach Terra's gaze;
To Middle-earth and Narnia—rewrite
To bring each social justice point to light—
New York and two-lane blacktop fill my days.
I learned to write from you—how to create
Breathtaking settings, most intriguing plots,
And characterization to elate—
How to reach for help when tied in knots—
What to discard and what to emulate
Of others'—fandom, how you've shaped my thoughts!

(hat tip Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

snowflake_challenge!

In your own space, create a love meme for yourself. Let people tell you how amazing and awesome and loveable you really are.

...yesplz.

I feel like I should talk myself up here but I can't think of anything right now.

snowflake_challenge!

In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create.

Mordre, She Wroot (8040 words) by sistermagpie
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Wife of Bath, Second Nun, The Host (Canterbury Tales), Pardoner (Canterbury Tales), Clerk (Canterbury Tales), Prioress (Canterbury Tales)
Summary:

At least one pilgrim will not make it to Canterbury.

( hiding most of them for length reasons )

snowflake_challenge time!

In your own space, talk about why you're participating in Snowflake and, if you’ve participated in the past, how the challenge has affected you. What drew you to it? What did you take away from it? What do you hope to accomplish this year?

Snowflake is an opportunity to connect with other fans. I have participated several years and I think I have consistently come away with at least one new friendly acquaintance. Snowflake is also an opportunity to be fannish in a way I have lately been finding difficult. I look forward to the inevitable "make a fanwork" challenge and the inevitable "comment on a fanwork" challenge, though re the first I haven't the faintest what I'll do!