Snowflake Challenge
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tellshannon815Challenge #3
In your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time.
Despite society's insistence otherwise, the beliefs and opinions that we hold about things change over time. We thought it was important that we reflect that (and perhaps laugh at our previously ill-considered opinions) with this challenge.
I've been wracking my brains trying to think of something to answer this with, and then as I was typing out bits of a fanfic about the character in my icon, it came to me.
If you know me well, you will know that I will try writing any character at least once, and try to write as many characters as I can, but at one time, I used to avoid those characters I didn't like. As per my fandom history post, my Lost writing began life around writing Michael out after he shot Ana Lucia and Libby. (As far as that goes, I did mellow on Michael as time went on, he's no longer my hated character - come on down, Mr. Smokey McSmokeFace/What's His Face Bastard/The Dickhead in Black - so I guess that's a fannish opinion that changed over time too). And after a certain episode of Lost season 6 which I don't particularly want to rewatch, I did vow never to write Smokey McSmokeface again.
But over time, I realised that even if the character isn't exactly my favourite, (same applies to pairings), they still have story to tell and I can still do that for them. Let's take Dark, one of my current favourites. Hannah, the character in my icon, does some shitty things, a lot of which arise out of her obsession with Ulrich, but she's still got her story to tell.
Another one I could mention was Fringe. For anyone not familiar with the show, there was a character called Astrid, and a running gag with another character, Walter, repeatedly getting her name wrong, calling her things like Asterix, Asteroid, Asterisk. I found it particularly irritating when he used Astro, as that was my unviersity ex-boyfriend's nickname (he studied astrophysics, and he had the same first name as one of his friends, so that friendship group used to call both those guys nicknames to distinguish the two). But I'd just roll my eyes, grit my teeth, know that he wasn't calling her that at me and she'd probably be Asterisk the next episode. What I wasn't factoring in was how the actress, Jasika Nicole, felt about it until she spoke out about it five years ago. John Noble's apologised for it, although she's never blamed him - he was just doing what he had to with the scripts he was given. But reading about how Jasika Nicole didn't find that set a safe space puts a whole new perspective on the scripts.
In your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time.
Despite society's insistence otherwise, the beliefs and opinions that we hold about things change over time. We thought it was important that we reflect that (and perhaps laugh at our previously ill-considered opinions) with this challenge.
I've been wracking my brains trying to think of something to answer this with, and then as I was typing out bits of a fanfic about the character in my icon, it came to me.
If you know me well, you will know that I will try writing any character at least once, and try to write as many characters as I can, but at one time, I used to avoid those characters I didn't like. As per my fandom history post, my Lost writing began life around writing Michael out after he shot Ana Lucia and Libby. (As far as that goes, I did mellow on Michael as time went on, he's no longer my hated character - come on down, Mr. Smokey McSmokeFace/What's His Face Bastard/The Dickhead in Black - so I guess that's a fannish opinion that changed over time too). And after a certain episode of Lost season 6 which I don't particularly want to rewatch, I did vow never to write Smokey McSmokeface again.
But over time, I realised that even if the character isn't exactly my favourite, (same applies to pairings), they still have story to tell and I can still do that for them. Let's take Dark, one of my current favourites. Hannah, the character in my icon, does some shitty things, a lot of which arise out of her obsession with Ulrich, but she's still got her story to tell.
Another one I could mention was Fringe. For anyone not familiar with the show, there was a character called Astrid, and a running gag with another character, Walter, repeatedly getting her name wrong, calling her things like Asterix, Asteroid, Asterisk. I found it particularly irritating when he used Astro, as that was my unviersity ex-boyfriend's nickname (he studied astrophysics, and he had the same first name as one of his friends, so that friendship group used to call both those guys nicknames to distinguish the two). But I'd just roll my eyes, grit my teeth, know that he wasn't calling her that at me and she'd probably be Asterisk the next episode. What I wasn't factoring in was how the actress, Jasika Nicole, felt about it until she spoke out about it five years ago. John Noble's apologised for it, although she's never blamed him - he was just doing what he had to with the scripts he was given. But reading about how Jasika Nicole didn't find that set a safe space puts a whole new perspective on the scripts.
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Date: 2025-01-07 11:52 am (UTC)I really like that sentiment and I'm going to try to keep that in mind.
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Date: 2025-01-20 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-11 06:30 am (UTC)What? She didn't like it and they kept doing it? That sucks.
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Date: 2025-01-20 10:40 pm (UTC)