Snowflake Challenge Day 14

In your own space, write a love letter. Write it Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, or to your flist. Share you love and squee as loud as you want to.

Dear Fandom,

You and I, we've had a long relationship. You've been there for me when I've both loved and hated canon pairings, when I've been so frustrated with UST that I just needed the characters to give it up and bang, and most especially when I simply couldn't get enough of a series but canonically it was over.

I've changed, as you have, and I think we're both better for it. I started out shyly poking at individual's sites, wondering if maybe I should give writing my own fic and drawing my own art a go. You stated out as halting little fingers of the internet, dealing with love and scorn in equal measures. You've evolved into this gorgeous, beautiful thing and you know what? So have I.

I can't wait to see you in the years to come. I want your big, squishy arms to wrap all around the internet and out into the 'real' world and just... give it love like you always have. I want to see more sites like tumblr. I want there to be fan-made movies and audiobooks and novels and artbooks and just everything and I want them to be enjoyed around the world.

Now that I've been as cheesy as ever with you, Fandom, I just want to say thanks. Always.

BFFs 5ever,
Czigány

Snowflake Challenge Day 10

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wish-list if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish.

Oh, wishes? I have enough to fill the ocean.

1. More rarepairs. I love me some m!Shep/Tali and Harry/Hermione but what about all those poor lonely others? I'd love to see something like Kaiden/Jack or Theo Nott/Luna. Even Antimony/Jack (from Gunnerkrigg Court) and Zidane/Amarant (FFIX) don't get enough love.

2. More rare characters in general. I know that the basis of games like Mass Effect is their ability to let you mould the main character how you want, but what I'd like to see is a story focused on, say, Kahlisa al'Jilani or Kal'Reegar or Amy Wong with little to no interactions with the main cast. What do these people get up to in their spare time? What happens to them in the spaces where they're not tracking down the main character? It's not just Mass Effect, either. I want to know what happens to Gunnerkrigg Court's Jack Hyland after the Spring Heel chapters. Has the Court forgotten him completely?

3. In that same vein: more character studies. What makes these people tick? I know there's a lot of canon on Jack Harper/The Illusive Man, but how did, say, Kai Leng factor into the equation? How did Mordin (or Kirrahe) become so famous, even within the STG? What made Pip Bernadette (from Hellsing) even get started as a mercenary?

4. Fix-it endings and what-ifs. Mostly applying to Mass Effect, but what about V for Vendetta? I love 'V lives' fics. How about some 'Desmond lives'? Or Haytham never becomes a Templar? Saving Sidonis? Mordin? Kal'Reegar? Canon divergences are my bread and jam, lovlies.

5. On a different track, coffee shop/bakery AUs! They're so cozy! I just love them, so I'd love to see more of them.

I'll leave it there for now, because otherwise I'll keep going forever.