Snowflake Challenge
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tellshannon815In your own space, talk about an idea you wish you had the time / talent / energy to do.
I'm actually feeling a little annoyed with myself right now, because I know there have been many times over the years when I've said that "There's a fic out there to be written about X, but I'm not sure I'm the one with the talent to do it", and when it comes to answering the question, so much of it has gone out of my head. Maybe it's ideas that became irrelevant when canon contradicted and I just never thought of again, but I know I have said this several times.
Having said that, there are some things I can ramble about. A few years back, when I was reading the Game of Thrones books, I got to where Daenerys was cursed by Mizzi Maz Duur, “When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, when the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves, when your womb quickens again and you bear a living child, then he will return and not before.” and Jon manages to persuade her that she was just messing with her head, and then when Daenerys eventually finds out she is pregnant Drogo has returned. It was only ever intended as a short fic, but when it was posted people started requesting a continuation (well, one person just commented a rant on how much they hate Drogo, but I don't engage with comments that are just "I hate Character X"), but I don't know if I have the talent to really take that on.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/12111504 is the original fic.
Another is from years and years ago, an old Lost community had a challenge to take a character who hadn't ended up in DHARMA era in season 5 and imagine the storyline if they were there after all, and I chose Sun. I got three chapters in to this fic, and started trying to write a fourth...I will have to be careful how I word this here as I know I have someone on my list who has S6 to watch, but let's just say that season 6 caused me to lose heart and feel I couldn't carry on with the fic. Recently I've been regretting that and wishing I had continued, but I don't know if I ever can. Still thinking about that one.
If you know me well, you can probably guess this one, but if I had the right plot, or if I had any more than the basic art skills, I would love to create something RUMPLE/ROWENA!
Also if you know me, you will know that if I have one pet peeve, it's when the same characters get all the attention while others get little or no development despite there being so much potential there. I could rant for hours on this subject when it comes to Lost, but since that is something I have tried to rectify many times over the years e.g. more backstory for the Others, I won't get into that one here for this post. The one I will bring up is It's A Sin, where the character Ash was the least developed of the flatmates. While we see Ritchie's small town family and their bullshit like asking Jill where she was "really from" rather than accepting Woking as the answer, Roscoe's family's lack of acceptance leading him to walk away from them and tell them his forwarding address was 23 Piss Off Avenue, London W Fuck, and Colin's awesome accepting mammy who puts the whole lot of them to shame, but we never see the background Ash comes from. He gets that bit of story where he starts working at the school and is expected to censor the school library to fit in with Section 28, but apart from that he really doesn't get a lot of his own story, and that has always bugged me. Part of me would like to see more of his background, but I'm not sure I'm the one who could create that when there's really not that much to work with on the original show.
Slightly tangentially, I realised there was a line I couldn't cross when there was an episode of Legends of Tomorrow once where the Legends met a young Barack Obama. I found myself briefly imagining what could have happened if they had instead met a young Trump, and managed to break the timeline in such a way that meant he didn't become president...then realised that the one line I can't cross is writing Donald Trump.
I'm actually feeling a little annoyed with myself right now, because I know there have been many times over the years when I've said that "There's a fic out there to be written about X, but I'm not sure I'm the one with the talent to do it", and when it comes to answering the question, so much of it has gone out of my head. Maybe it's ideas that became irrelevant when canon contradicted and I just never thought of again, but I know I have said this several times.
Having said that, there are some things I can ramble about. A few years back, when I was reading the Game of Thrones books, I got to where Daenerys was cursed by Mizzi Maz Duur, “When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, when the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves, when your womb quickens again and you bear a living child, then he will return and not before.” and Jon manages to persuade her that she was just messing with her head, and then when Daenerys eventually finds out she is pregnant Drogo has returned. It was only ever intended as a short fic, but when it was posted people started requesting a continuation (well, one person just commented a rant on how much they hate Drogo, but I don't engage with comments that are just "I hate Character X"), but I don't know if I have the talent to really take that on.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/12111504 is the original fic.
Another is from years and years ago, an old Lost community had a challenge to take a character who hadn't ended up in DHARMA era in season 5 and imagine the storyline if they were there after all, and I chose Sun. I got three chapters in to this fic, and started trying to write a fourth...I will have to be careful how I word this here as I know I have someone on my list who has S6 to watch, but let's just say that season 6 caused me to lose heart and feel I couldn't carry on with the fic. Recently I've been regretting that and wishing I had continued, but I don't know if I ever can. Still thinking about that one.
If you know me well, you can probably guess this one, but if I had the right plot, or if I had any more than the basic art skills, I would love to create something RUMPLE/ROWENA!
Also if you know me, you will know that if I have one pet peeve, it's when the same characters get all the attention while others get little or no development despite there being so much potential there. I could rant for hours on this subject when it comes to Lost, but since that is something I have tried to rectify many times over the years e.g. more backstory for the Others, I won't get into that one here for this post. The one I will bring up is It's A Sin, where the character Ash was the least developed of the flatmates. While we see Ritchie's small town family and their bullshit like asking Jill where she was "really from" rather than accepting Woking as the answer, Roscoe's family's lack of acceptance leading him to walk away from them and tell them his forwarding address was 23 Piss Off Avenue, London W Fuck, and Colin's awesome accepting mammy who puts the whole lot of them to shame, but we never see the background Ash comes from. He gets that bit of story where he starts working at the school and is expected to censor the school library to fit in with Section 28, but apart from that he really doesn't get a lot of his own story, and that has always bugged me. Part of me would like to see more of his background, but I'm not sure I'm the one who could create that when there's really not that much to work with on the original show.
Slightly tangentially, I realised there was a line I couldn't cross when there was an episode of Legends of Tomorrow once where the Legends met a young Barack Obama. I found myself briefly imagining what could have happened if they had instead met a young Trump, and managed to break the timeline in such a way that meant he didn't become president...then realised that the one line I can't cross is writing Donald Trump.
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Date: 2022-01-11 02:38 am (UTC)That's (unfortunately) really funny about the LoT timeline idea. Because that would be a cool alternative plot, to see the flipside. But at what cost?? It's always a little sad discovering a line that can't be crossed when you see there might be something shiny hiding in the sand there.
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