Fandom Snowflake Challenge #4
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kateIf 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.
In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon.
This is such an interesting ask. I can't tell if it's supposed to be basically the same as "create a fanwork" or basically the same as "create a headcanon" (which I firmly believe IS a fanwork, and just as valuable as any other fanwork, but it is a specific STYLE of fanwork so...). The other option is to discuss what I would do if I had creative control over the IP.
The first is easy and I have done several and I'm not super interested in creating a fanwork on the fly today. The second is very interesting but takes more time than I want to put into it to properly think of something interesting. The third is SUPER interesting and is about the right amount of commitment and time I'm willing to put in today.
MDZS is tough because there are SO MANY canons. I don't know the donghua or the manhua super well; I think I could probably find links to them but I'm not going to bother. I haven't read the book in years and despite NEEDING a reread, I'm not going to do it today, certainly. So I guess that leaves me The Untamed. If I had creative control over that IP and lived in a fantasy world where I had all the money I needed, access to the wildly popular original actors, and no pressure from outside forces, I would create a short season of The Untamed where WangXian officially, on-screen, get together. I wouldn't want to write the episodes, but spitballing for ideas, I'd love to see the following:
* A WangXian confession of some sort
* WangXian First kiss
* Lan Sizhui coming to the Jingshi to see Lan Wangji and having the two of them be in a moderate state of undress
* Working out what the future means to them; will Lan Wangji give up his chief Cultivator position so they can travel? Will Wei Wuxian move to the Cloud Recesses?
* Lan Qiren dealing with... everything
* SOMETHING to do with Lan Xichen (I have too many ideas and too little investment to care what this is)
* Yunmeng Shuangjie make-up sweater
* Wei Wuxian telling Jin Ling about his mother... and reluctantly his father
* Casefic with the juniors (these would be the delightful filler episodes)
* Moar Wen Ning. All the Wen Ning. I don't care what, just. All Wen Ning, all the time.
Possibilities, but I'd be okay without them:
* A REAL wedding for WangXian
* Lan Wangji whump and Wei Wuxian saving the day (there's plenty of the reverse out there)
* Something something Nie Huaisang (fuck it - make HIM Chief Cultivator, that'd be fucking HILARIOUS, and also would take Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian scheming to make it happen, I think, and how to scheme above and beyond the master schemer would be amazing)
* An actual child for WangXian? Adopting some small child after a night hunt?
* Exploration of Lan Sizhui's history, and him coming to terms with what his current clan did with his previous one
* Jiang Cheng having to figure out the succession of the Jiang clan (possible marriage/children plotline for him? Wei Wuxian as a matchmaker?)
* Outlining WHAT, exactly, Lan Jingyi's bloodline is (related to succession issues for the Lan clan)
* Some kind of moving forward of Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen
What would you like to see?
In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon.
This is such an interesting ask. I can't tell if it's supposed to be basically the same as "create a fanwork" or basically the same as "create a headcanon" (which I firmly believe IS a fanwork, and just as valuable as any other fanwork, but it is a specific STYLE of fanwork so...). The other option is to discuss what I would do if I had creative control over the IP.
The first is easy and I have done several and I'm not super interested in creating a fanwork on the fly today. The second is very interesting but takes more time than I want to put into it to properly think of something interesting. The third is SUPER interesting and is about the right amount of commitment and time I'm willing to put in today.
MDZS is tough because there are SO MANY canons. I don't know the donghua or the manhua super well; I think I could probably find links to them but I'm not going to bother. I haven't read the book in years and despite NEEDING a reread, I'm not going to do it today, certainly. So I guess that leaves me The Untamed. If I had creative control over that IP and lived in a fantasy world where I had all the money I needed, access to the wildly popular original actors, and no pressure from outside forces, I would create a short season of The Untamed where WangXian officially, on-screen, get together. I wouldn't want to write the episodes, but spitballing for ideas, I'd love to see the following:
* A WangXian confession of some sort
* WangXian First kiss
* Lan Sizhui coming to the Jingshi to see Lan Wangji and having the two of them be in a moderate state of undress
* Working out what the future means to them; will Lan Wangji give up his chief Cultivator position so they can travel? Will Wei Wuxian move to the Cloud Recesses?
* Lan Qiren dealing with... everything
* SOMETHING to do with Lan Xichen (I have too many ideas and too little investment to care what this is)
* Yunmeng Shuangjie make-up sweater
* Wei Wuxian telling Jin Ling about his mother... and reluctantly his father
* Casefic with the juniors (these would be the delightful filler episodes)
* Moar Wen Ning. All the Wen Ning. I don't care what, just. All Wen Ning, all the time.
Possibilities, but I'd be okay without them:
* A REAL wedding for WangXian
* Lan Wangji whump and Wei Wuxian saving the day (there's plenty of the reverse out there)
* Something something Nie Huaisang (fuck it - make HIM Chief Cultivator, that'd be fucking HILARIOUS, and also would take Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian scheming to make it happen, I think, and how to scheme above and beyond the master schemer would be amazing)
* An actual child for WangXian? Adopting some small child after a night hunt?
* Exploration of Lan Sizhui's history, and him coming to terms with what his current clan did with his previous one
* Jiang Cheng having to figure out the succession of the Jiang clan (possible marriage/children plotline for him? Wei Wuxian as a matchmaker?)
* Outlining WHAT, exactly, Lan Jingyi's bloodline is (related to succession issues for the Lan clan)
* Some kind of moving forward of Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen
What would you like to see?
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on 1/7/23 09:50 pm (UTC)