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Day 9: In your own space, create a fanwork. A drabble, a ficlet, a podfic, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. A picspam. Something.

I'm counting my last post of not-really-meta on Supernatural, because everything is either completely uninspiring at the moment or too long to produce in under 50k words.

Day 10: In your own space, talk about a creator. Show us why you think they are amazing. It can be a detailed, thoughtful analysis, or a squeeful, joyful post. Or maybe a combination of the two. Make a recs list, link to their archives or master lists or websites, maybe create a Fanlore page for them.

[archiveofourown.org profile] NewYorkReload is amazing. She's into a bunch of different fandoms, but she has pretty much written the end-all and be-all fic in The Losers (and it's not done yet – I hope to encourage her to write more on it when things aren't awful), We Know How It Works (the world is no longer mysterious) which is Jensen/Cougar first time pre-canon that made be bawl like a little baby and then made up for it by making my heart pound out of my chest. Her characters are so well drawn, so in character, the dialogue is amazing, the story is just… I can't even. Roque, I cry so hard for him and Cougar and Jensen and just. Everyone. Everyone is so well-drawn, I can't even. I love it.

I also love her cracked out office!AU, A Cry For Help, which is one of the few Losers AUs (including my own!) that really work for me. It's not an easy canon to go mundane AU with; the characterization is tough to pull off. She has an SGA sequel, too, The Atlantis Herald, which is JUST as awesome (that one John/Rodney – I seem to luck out in having her OTPs be my OTPs). Her high school music AU (Ten Dollar Rock Stars) is also just unbelievably good (Mama Roque! I LOVE HER!).

She has high-concept fics (In The Dust Be Equal Made where Cougar is Death and Jensen is Life and they are not what you might think (with AMAZING art from [archiveofourown.org profile] zoronoa)) and delicious dark fics (Between Your Smile and Your Sleight of Hand) and just… everything. She's amazing.

Also, she is one of the coolest, kindest, warmest, wonderfulest people I know. I love her a ridiculous amount, and for way more than for all the wonderful things she's brought to my tiny fandom.

Day 11: In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favourite interview, a book) and explain why you love it so much.

I'm going to count my recent posts about Supernatural for this one, too.

Day 12: In your own space, rec at least three fanworks that you think would make a good intro into XYZ fandom. Rec a fandom overview, a introductory picspam, stories that define and shape the fandom.

I did this really well for The Losers last year, and I don't honestly think there needs to be any more recs/primers for McShep in SGA, and I haven't come anywhere near to reading/watching enough to find good intro stuff for SPN, and I haven't had another fandom where I can provide a good intro, so… this is me officially skipping this one. :( Maybe I'll do Supernatural next year. Or have a different fandom to do!

Day 13: In your own space, ask for recs. Something as simple as "I like XYZ (where XYZ is a kink, a pairing, a trope, etc) - please rec me some."

Actually crawled out from under a rock for this one: my request for Supernatural recs. I'll always take more, of any shape or size, incest, slash, femslash, angels and humans or demons or whatever, gen, RPF, whatever. I want it all – the good stuff.

Day 14: In your own space, 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 you love and squee as loud as you want to.

Ah, whoops, okay, I'm doing this the seriously lazy way, but my I'm going to go with my recent Supernatural posts on this one too. Sorry I'm boring. /o\

Day 15: In your own space, share a favorite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, crazy times with fellow fans (whether on-line or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone.

I have so many of these. I can't even think of which particular one to tell. I have met so many amazing people through fandom in so many different venues, on-line and off-line, in states all across the U.S. and in England… Oh. Okay. Yes, I'll tell a few stories about [personal profile] fyrefly101. We were supposed to go on a roadtrip together from CA (San Francisco, maybe?) to Seattle, WA And I was only going to be on that coast for a few days so when I realized it was a sixteen hour drive or something, we decided to fly, instead. And she and I sat on that plane and outlined a bunch of stuff for my original vampire fic, from how the aging process works to where in London James would have lived back in the day. God, that was brilliant. We had such a great time, and she is just the sweetest person ever (I can still hear her say "Bless!" in my head) and when I got to meet up with her in London and walk all over the place, it was just as cool, though we weren't really as fannish then (and I was in a shitty place – that London trip was with an ex of mine, a really manipulative, awful person who said terrible things to me about meeting up with her (along the lines of things that internet friends aren't really friends – which was pretty rich coming from a woman I'd pretty much woo'd over chat)), but it was just as good to see her again and just spend time with her lovely personage. I love seeing her around DW and am happy to follow her adventures and know that I met a really awesome cool person through Buffy fandom that I will consider a friend for the rest of my life.

And that's it! Hopefully next year I'll be able to keep it up like I did the first time around, but this will have to do for this year.

on 1/27/13 05:30 am (UTC)
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