tellshannon815: (desmond)
Challenge #2

In your own space, write a promo, manifesto or primer for your fave character, ship or fandom.

Okay, so if you know me well, you know all this, but my favourite ship of all time is the pairing of Sayid Jarrah and Desmond Hume from Lost.

This has been my ship since Season 4 - while the characters were both around prior to that, their storylines didn't cross as much in season 3. What eventually made me realise I shipped these two was the aftermath of the death of Charlie, which had been a big part of Desmond's season 3 arc, and yet the show didn't really deal that much with his reaction to it as much as it could have done. At this point, Desmond and Sayid were now getting more screentime together as they had now arrived on the freighter, and I thought that Sayid would have been the ideal person for Desmond to bond with over this, since we had seen in a Season 1 flashback how Sayid had been so determined, and yet still failed, to save his old friend Essam. This was a perfect opportunity for the characters to bond, and the writers missed it. So naturally, what else could I do but write it myself?

As time went on and I thought about these characters, I realised they actually have more similarities than just about any other combination in the show. Both come from a military past. Desmond's search for Penny could be compared to Sayid's search for Nadia. And all this potential was just wasted. So I decided to try and do something about that. They became my OTP. I'd rewrite their ending, give them the future they deserved (Smokey McSmokeFace is dead to me following The Candidate, and that episode has gone right to the top of my multifandom DNR - Do Not Rewatch - list.)

I was honestly shocked to read the tag for this pairing on AO3 and realise how little fic there is, (and only about half of that is nothing to do with me. And in the process of writing this post I just realised I never crossposted one fic about them to AO3, so have just rectified.)

https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Desmond%20Hume*s*Sayid%20Jarrah/works
tellshannon815: (tal rho)
Snowflake Challenge promotional banner with image of three snowmen and two robins with snowflakes. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.


Challenge #1

In your own space, update your fandom information!

Well, if you're taking part in this challenge you'll know that I already did this as my intro post was one of the ones linked to as an example for anyone who wasn't sure what to post, but hey, posting anyway to promote the challenge. And I am working on rejigging some of my icons to reflect shows that weren't represented - if you know me well, you will know that I like to have as many characters as possible represented, and if you don't, well, you'll get to know more over the course of Snowflake. So it's not been easy and still being worked on, but getting there!
tellshannon815: (peter bishop naked tuesday)
In your own space, tell us who you would recast in a film, tv series or webseries, or maybe someone voicing a cartoon or videogame. Or who would you cast to play a character in a book, comic or maybe even your own fiction!

Okay, I hope this example's all right because it's actually something that I had in mind about ten years ago, although it does relate to a project that I intend to continue (a two part fic. Part one was posted ages ago, part two has been on my to-finish list for...a very long time.) Anyway, the idea was a rewrite of the season 3 finale of the show Fringe, where instead of our universe surviving, the parallel universe being destroyed and Walternate crossing over, I've flipped that on its head with the parallel universe being the one to survive and Our Walter being the one to cross over and try to intervene. It's partly about how things change in the parallel universe and how Walternate has made conditions worse by destroying ours, and how lots of people end up with reasons to hate Walternate, partly about how AltLivia and Peter's baby Henry grows up in that world, raised by AltLivia and AltLincoln, who are trying to keep him from ever knowing that his DNA was used to turn on the machine that destroyed our universe, his biological father with it.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/2803634 - This is part 1. Part 2 will deal with the fallout when he does find out.

Anyway, that was a lot of ramble leading up to the actual question. So, at the time I was thinking about this idea, I'd watched Lost (where, in the flash sideways, Jack had a son, David, who was revealed in the finale to have been a construct of the flash sideways and never actually existed), and then I started watching this other miniseries Awake (which I swear I need to go back and finish, I can't remember now why I never finished it off after I got about half way through and my laptop had to go for repair), where Jason Isaacs plays a guy whose family have been involved in an accident, and one morning he'd wake up in a reality where his wife survived, next morning he'd wake up in a reality where his son survived. David and Rex were played by the same actor, Dylan Minnette (more recently aka Clay from 13 Reasons Why) and I remember thinking at the time about how he seemed to be playing characters who weren't supposed to exist, and I thought it would be great for him to also play the role of the teenage Henry Dunham if that character were ever to appear on screen, and he was who I was picturing as Henry while writing the scenes of him finding out his history.

Now I'm feeling inspired to go back and complete this one, as well as finally finishing off the Legends of Tomorrow in the Wars of the Roses one, and even maybe the Lost fic I abandoned years ago where Sun ends up in 1977. Snowflake is giving me inspiration.
tellshannon815: (daenerys)
In 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.
tellshannon815: (jin)
In your own space, put some favorite characters into an AU, fuse some favorite canons together, talk about your favorite AU/fusion tropes, or tell us why AU/fusions aren’t your cup of tea.

The kind of AU that I really like to write is more like alternate timelines, along the lines of "What if Jin made it off the freighter in Lost and became one of the Oceanic Seven?", trying to fix things from the original canon (seriously, never get me started on that particular storyline, although that rant is maybe not one for this post), or alternate endings, such as The Flash one where Eobard manipulates Nora into giving Barry the metahuman cure. At least that way, working within the original canon, that makes it easier for me to stay true to the characters, whereas I don't think I'd even know where to start with something like, say, making Sam Winchester a Samantha, and I don't find things like high school AUs easy.


As for fusions...crossovers used to be something I never thought I could do, possibly because when I started out in fandom I was mainly writing for one (Lost) and didn't have a lot of experience in others. Now I do write in others, I've enjoyed some combinations such as Lost and Fringe (those are two I feel go well together, although one of those crossovers I wrote ages ago is one I kind of wish I could go back and improve on. That was a pinch hit written at the eleventh hour for an exchange, where Miles is revealed to have been part of the Cortexiphan trials, and with more time, there's more I would have done with that.) One idea I had ages ago and still want to expand on is Supernatural and Legends of Tomorrow (seriously, Dean Winchester and Mick Rory would totally get along really well), and I have been wanting to pair Rumple from Once Upon a Time with Rowena from Supernatural for years.
tellshannon815: (nick)
In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.

Okay, well, in terms of fannish goals, I'm going to go back to one I had last year about getting a few more fandoms done for the 100fandomschallenge, which I started in 2019 and still have a long way to go. Also planning on getting as many of my WIPs as possible finished - still need to find a way of completely screwing up the history of England (for context, that story is a Legends of Tomorrow fic set in season 3 where the Princes in the Tower are pulled into the present day, it's decided that they can't be restored to 1483 because in the original timeline they were never seen after that and returning them would change history, but Nate and Zari decide to try anyway, I now need to decide how that screws up the timeline.)

Also planning to try and make some progress with my increasingly longer list of shows to check out.

In terms of non-fannish goals, I realised recently that what I sometimes need to do is acknowledge when it's time to let go of or scale back on some goals - my last but one manager, not so affectionately known as "Cornelius Fudge" (she had the same trick of burying her head in the sand, forming her own conclusions about what was happening and acting on that and then only realising they were wrong when the evidence smacked her in the face, and not investigating anything properly. The whole time I worked for her felt like living in the world of Voldemort's return). Anyway, one issue with Fudge was that because she didn't spend enough time with the staff she managed (I understand now, but didn't then, that the structure in place was a part of the problem - she managed lots of people, based at about five different sites, while she worked from another one altogether and never spent any time with the teams), she had no idea what actually went on on a day to day basis, and was trying to set us goals without understanding that what she was setting wasn't really achievable, and not working with us to try and understand the reasons why they might not be and trying to help us work out what might be. And for a long time, I would try as hard as I could to still meet those goals anyway, and I realised recently that there's still a part of me that tries to live up to that even now, long after that manager's gone. So I'm setting myself the goal of knowing when it's time to let go of goals.
tellshannon815: (kate kane)
So the Snowflake Challenge prompt is to create a fanwork, and this one also fits with a 100fandoms prompt:

Title: The Third Twin
Fandom: Batwoman
Characters: Kate, Alice, Beth
Rating: PG
Warning: Spoilers for all aired episodes
Summary: Kate and Alice struggle to deal with the arrival of a new Beth following the creation of Earth-Prime, however Alice wonders if she can turn it to her advantage.

Read more... )
tellshannon815: (observer)
Promote at least one canon that you adore (old, new, forever fandom)

I'm conscious of the fact that I have probably shared a lot of these in previous posts. However, I'm going to do it anyway, I figured it doesn't have to be a big deal because a lot of people either won't remember it or won't have seen it in the first place.

My forever fandom always has been and always will be Lost, the one that got me into the world of fandom in the first place. I think it was the "Locke in the wheelchair suddenly able to walk" flashback that really drew me in and got me hooked on the mysteries, and I loved being able to fill in the backstories of all those like the Others who we only really learned bits about (do not get me started on this, you will never shut me up).

A few months ago, the show The A List was recommended to me, and that's a canon I will promote (I'm literally aware of only two fics about this show, one of which I wrote myself. That's not counting my current work in progress for the Rare Pairs challenge at 1_million_words.) In some ways, the story did remind me of Lost, from the "smoke monster noises in the woods" heard by Alex and Harry and later Kayleigh to the labs Mia, Alex and Harry found that had been abandoned for about 20 years (totally the Peregrine station of the DHARMA Initiative, and Mags was totally typing 4 8 15 16 23 42 to summon her mysterious employer). And Harry and Petal's attempts to escape the island are totally just going to end up in their getting stuck there as per Desmond's "bloody snowglobe" quote! While the story of Midge, generally ignored at a summer camp until a near fatal fall leads her to become the new persona queen bee Amber and using it to mind control all her former campmates, becoming the new queen bee herself, isn't exactly Lost I have enjoyed having this substitute.

My favourite for celeb spotting is always Harper's Island. Seriously, the CASTING. Imagine Laurel from Arrow marrying Walsh from Once Upon A Time, with OUAT's Granny as their wedding planner, Smee from OUAT, Aleister from Bitten and Dylan from Slasher S1 as the best men, "Bobby Singer" as the town sheriff, Logan's father from Veronica Mars as uncle of the groom, "Ben from Point Pleasant" as father of the bride and "Paula" as a bridesmaid along with "Agent Liberty's wife from Supergirl", and "one of the Tweedles from OUAT in Wonderland" as the town's resident bad boy, seriously there are so many times now when I'll be watching a show and think "There's X from Harper's Island" (doing exactly the kind of thing I used to laugh at Grandad for doing years ago).

Buffy the musical is always going to be a favourite of mine. I'd never really watched the show before I saw that episode, but some of my ex's friends were really into it and had happened to put it on, and that immediately had me hooked. From relating to Buffy "going through the motions" to laughing at Anya singing about Bunnies, the episode managed to make me smile when I needed it, and it set the bar for all musical episodes.

And my ramble from last time about my all time favourite The Fandom book series:


So, for anyone who didn't see my first post on this, The Fandom was about a group of friends attending Comic Con for their favourite book, The Gallows Dance (think The Hunger Games and you're on the right lines. In the future, the "Panem" equivalent is a London filled with Genetically Enhanced Men (Gems), who are the equivalent of Hunger Games Capitol, while the Imperfects (Imps) are the society outcasts, and the story is that of their rebellion.)

The villain of The Gallows Dance, President Stoneback, wants an ending where the villains win, so he was trying to influence the original author to write such an ending to the sequel, eventually leading her to jump from her balcony. His next tactic, on seeing how the "loop" of the story going round and round again was being slightly changed by the creations of fanfiction, was to try and recruit the fanfic writer "AnimeAlice" to write a pro-Gem sequel, and ended up pulling in the entire group by mistake. They then had to complete the story in order to get home.


The next one in the series picks up the year after the end of The Fandom. Alice and Violet have written the sequel, but it's not the one President Stoneback wanted. Violet's brother Nate, shot by the president's nephew in the fandom world and stuck in a coma for a year in the regular world, is about to have his life support switched off, so Violet and Katie try to get themselves sent back to Gallows Dance canon to bring him home. Alice, stuck in the regular world, discovers that some rogue writer called Fanboy is writing the pro-Gem uprising that Stoneback originally wanted, so she then has to try and rescue things from here.

Without revealing too many spoilers, including the identity of Fanboy, I will say that a dispute running through the second book about whether to write another sequel is resolved when Alice and Violet decide to give the characters over to the fandom: they set up their own fansite where anyone can contribute, where writing about all characters is welcome, and anyone trying another Fanboy stunt will be removed.

And much as I think there is scope for more (I personally would have liked to see the characters of Ash and Nate get more of a voice, and I know how I would personally do that), I do like the idea of giving it to the fandom. I like the way that all characters are welcome, and if someone does want to give the villains a happy ending they can. Anyone who knows me at all well knows how much I love to write any possible character, especially those who don't get much fandom attention. I've said before that Ben Linus from Lost would have likely recruited me for a pro Others fic, and I would have happily worked for him because I did feel that the Others had so much untapped potential. Instead of main character PWP, I was fleshing out their backstories. And the message at the end of The Fandom Rising was that it's not only okay, but encouraged, to be That Writer, the one who spends time on minor characters, the one who sometimes lets the villains win.
tellshannon815: (kayleigh the a list)
More Snowflake - this time recommending fanworks I did not create.

Starting with https://janie-tangerine.livejournal.com/71205.html - a Sawyer and Boone take on It's A Wonderful Life - two of my favourite characters, what's not to love? It also inspired me to do something with Christian showing Jack what would have happened if his reset had worked.

Because The A List does not get enough love (I am only aware of two fics for this show, one of which was my own and was typically about the character who was seen the least and fleshing her out in flashbacks) here is the other, Kayleigh-centric: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21413527

Any icons mysticxf ever made for Lost and Fringe, I used to love those captions!

And here's a Pretty Little Liars, Lucas/Hanna: https://eternal-moonie.livejournal.com/154348.html#comments
tellshannon815: (Default)
So the latest challenge is to share some goals, be they fannish or otherwise.

I'm planning on getting as many prompts for 100fandoms done as I can, especially trying out some shows I haven't written before. Since there's no time limit, it doesn't matter if I don't set a target to do all 85 I have left this year, so I won't put the pressure on myself to commit to that. But I will do as much as I can.

Also going to try and clear out as many WIPs as I can. (Of course, if there's something that's only about 33 words and is about a theory that's long since been disproved by canon, I will probably just get rid of those. But things like the Legends of Tomorrow one where the Princes in the Tower in 2018 are an anachronism they can't fix without cocking up the timeline even more...that one will be finished for sure. And don't get me started on the alternate ending to S3 Fringe where Over There was the universe that survived...guess I know what 2 of my 100fandoms will be, there are prompts those ideas fit with.)

Also looking to get to know more people in fandom.
tellshannon815: (Default)
So today's challenge is to promote our favourite communities and challenges.

I will nominate [livejournal.com profile] 1_million_words - always has lots of writing and graphics challenges and is a lot of fun.

I also started doing the 100 fandoms challenge at DW last year, https://100fandoms.dreamwidth.org/ - so far I have made it to 14 and it has got me into writing shows I never thought I would. Currently in the middle of my 15th which is about How To Get Away With Murder.
tellshannon815: (salem)
So today's challenge is to promote our favourite communities and challenges.

I will nominate [community profile] 1_million_words - always has lots of writing and graphics challenges and is a lot of fun.

I also started doing the 100 fandoms challenge at DW last year, https://100fandoms.dreamwidth.org/ - so far I have made it to 14 and it has got me into writing shows I never thought I would. Currently in the middle of my 15th which is about How To Get Away With Murder.
tellshannon815: (frank)
So the latest prompt is to discuss our fannish history. Some of you will have seen some of this before, so apologies for that.

I first really became aware of the existence of fandom when I was in my second year at St Andrews and my then-boyfriend persuaded me to see the first Harry Potter film, after which I started reading all the books. Even though I don't speak to the guy any more, the fandom has stayed with me. A couple of the girls in his friendship group were into writing slash fanfiction, mainly about Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship Of The Ring having been released not that long afterwards). After I split up with the ex and ended up cutting that friendship group off completely, I tended to stay away from the whole fandom community in the hope of avoiding The Piss Artist Formerly Known As Xander (my ex's friend Sal, who had this kind of alter ego Alexander, posted her fics under that name, and when people assumed that was her real name she went along with it and created this whole Xander persona for herself, ended up getting engaged to this Australian woman she met in the fandom and didn't come clean to her for ages...all very odd.) But Harry Potter is still one of my favourite fandoms, and if you have ever read any of my RL posts (an uncle who makes so many requests for Christmas and birthday presents that I call him Dudley Dursley to his face, a job that had such high turnover it became known as the Defence Against the Dark Arts job - Voldemort was the safe character to blame that on; the real problem was my ex manager who was a "Professor Umbridge" - which was her way of avoiding the "Cornelius Fudge" style of her predecessor and didn't understand that could itself be a mistake) you will know it still has an influence on me!

A few years later, I discovered Lost, and that was the show that really got me into trying out online fandom for myself. If you know me at all, you will know that I love to write fics about characters that are less well developed in the shows, don't get as much love in the fandom, and Lost gave me lots of material to work with there. Seriously, don't ever get me started on backstories of the Others because you won't be able to shut me up. That was the first fandom I really stuck my toe in, and it will always be my favourite one.

As time went on, and I was getting to know people in the Lost fandom, other shows were gradually recommended to me. Fringe was the next show I really got into after Lost, then over time on other people's recommendations I started picking up other shows, Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Vampire Diaries-verse, Arrowverse, Game of Thrones, How To Get Away With Murder, iZombie, The 100, Hunger Games, Gotham, Supernatural, Shadowhunters, Scream, AHS, Riverdale, Pretty Little Liars, Teen Wolf, Manifest, Smallville, the list's quite a long one and gets longer all the time (and will no doubt be covered in other questions on this challenge!)

Yeah, I've had my times that were more active than others - 2013 is still referred to as "zombie year" after Grandad died (that's the incoherent ones on Walking Dead, not the ones on iZombie who can pass as human) because I went through that year pretty much on autopilot and wasn't being very active. But I plan on remaining more active this year, and even now I still take on quite a lot of new shows, even ones that aired ages ago (I recently took up Lucifer and Veronica Mars).
tellshannon815: (Default)
So the latest prompt is to discuss our fannish history. Some of you will have seen some of this before, so apologies for that.

I first really became aware of the existence of fandom when I was in my second year at St Andrews and my then-boyfriend persuaded me to see the first Harry Potter film, after which I started reading all the books. Even though I don't speak to the guy any more, the fandom has stayed with me. A couple of the girls in his friendship group were into writing slash fanfiction, mainly about Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship Of The Ring having been released not that long afterwards). After I split up with the ex and ended up cutting that friendship group off completely, I tended to stay away from the whole fandom community in the hope of avoiding The Piss Artist Formerly Known As Xander (my ex's friend Sal, who had this kind of alter ego Alexander, posted her fics under that name, and when people assumed that was her real name she went along with it and created this whole Xander persona for herself, ended up getting engaged to this Australian woman she met in the fandom and didn't come clean to her for ages...all very odd.) But Harry Potter is still one of my favourite fandoms, and if you have ever read any of my RL posts (an uncle who makes so many requests for Christmas and birthday presents that I call him Dudley Dursley to his face, a job that had such high turnover it became known as the Defence Against the Dark Arts job - Voldemort was the safe character to blame that on; the real problem was my ex manager who was a "Professor Umbridge" - which was her way of avoiding the "Cornelius Fudge" style of her predecessor and didn't understand that could itself be a mistake) you will know it still has an influence on me!

A few years later, I discovered Lost, and that was the show that really got me into trying out online fandom for myself. If you know me at all, you will know that I love to write fics about characters that are less well developed in the shows, don't get as much love in the fandom, and Lost gave me lots of material to work with there. Seriously, don't ever get me started on backstories of the Others because you won't be able to shut me up. That was the first fandom I really stuck my toe in, and it will always be my favourite one.

As time went on, and I was getting to know people in the Lost fandom, other shows were gradually recommended to me. Fringe was the next show I really got into after Lost, then over time on other people's recommendations I started picking up other shows, Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Vampire Diaries-verse, Arrowverse, Game of Thrones, How To Get Away With Murder, iZombie, The 100, Hunger Games, Gotham, Supernatural, Shadowhunters, Scream, AHS, Riverdale, Pretty Little Liars, Teen Wolf, Manifest, Smallville, the list's quite a long one and gets longer all the time (and will no doubt be covered in other questions on this challenge!)

Yeah, I've had my times that were more active than others - 2013 is still referred to as "zombie year" after Grandad died (that's the incoherent ones on Walking Dead, not the ones on iZombie who can pass as human) because I went through that year pretty much on autopilot and wasn't being very active. But I plan on remaining more active this year, and even now I still take on quite a lot of new shows, even ones that aired ages ago (I recently took up Lucifer and Veronica Mars).
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Yes, it's that time of the year again!

The first challenge is to introduce ourselves. The honest answer is that it isn't that long since I updated my introduction post for the Sunshine Challenge, and nothing has really changed since then so there's not a lot I need to update on it so I will link to it here. Feel free to check it out, new friends always welcome.

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