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snowflake: one and two
Snowflake Day One
In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created.
I'm going with three things that were pretty far outside what I normally write that I thought turned out really well.
Through the Looking Glass (BBT; T; 17k; TW for physical abuse)
There's a theory that goes a little something like this:It's actually fifteen separate AUs, divided into three parts each: the day, the day after, a year after. They were based on image prompts from a sheldon_penny summer/hiatus activity thing and I spent a lot of time working out exactly which things had changed in each AU to get us to where the characters were on the day, and how they would arrive at the day & year after. Which is probably why it stalled for a year or so. Genderswap, characters from the original pilot, mixing up pairings, mixing up universes, mixing up orientations. It was fun! I will probably crib from it to work things into original short stories! (In fact, I already cribbed from one of them to make the Penny/Sheldon on the run fic for BBBB.)
There exist a mind-boggling number of universes. Some would say it's an infinite number but no one can prove anything. Typical, right?
We live in one, or maybe all of them. Maybe we only live in a few. At any rate, everything that has ever happened, or could have happened, or might have happened - in short, everything that has ever, will ever, and never could possibly have happened will happen or has happened or could someday happen in one or several or all of these.
That's not a very good explanation but it will do.
A Terrible Ghastly Silence
(NPR (This American Life) / Bill & Ted / Hitchhiker's Guide; G; 2k)
IRA: Our story begins in California.Yuletide fic! I probably should have gone for a more conventional format but I wanted to follow the This American Life show format. And once I got Ira Glass's voice in my head, I couldn't really do anything else. The crossovers were completely unplanned. I honestly just set them on the road out of Chicago without having any idea what they would wander into.
We'd left the depths of a typical upper-Midwestern winter — bone-chilling, teeth-rattling, road-closing cold — for the sunny suburbs of Los Angeles. It's been almost twenty years since a most excellent victory and we were devoting an entire show to the anniversary.
Hey, pledge season makes you do some crazy things.
Two Planets (Pausing in Their Separate Orbits)
(Doctor Who (First Doctor); G; 26k)
"Do you ever wonder if there's some other reality just beyond this one?" he asked, as though it had been weighing heavily on his mind.I think this was the first actual longfic I ever wrote! I wanted to give all the Doctors a chance to see Ian and Barbara, and to give Ian and Barbara a history before the show caught up to them. And I did!
Barbara wasn't quite sure how to respond so she waited for him to continue.
"A somewhat bewildering reality that lurks just below the surface of ours?" Ian said, then groaned. That hadn't been what he'd intended to say, and now he sounded like a lunatic.
"You've been stuck inside your books too long," she countered. "All that science can't be healthy."
Snowflake Day Two
In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them.
Probably everyone already knows these, lol.
MedievalPOC: All this Tumblr does basically is showcase works of art from European history that feature People of Color. That's it. And it's insane how many times I've seen a post that blew my damn mind. Images that I have encountered dozens and hundreds of times in which the POC were removed or rendered invisible—by cropping, lighting, and my own prejudice and willful blindness.
Feminist Frequency: Web video series deconstructing and examining pop culture through an intersectional feminist lens. Right now she's doing Tropes Vs Women with a focus on video games, but she previously focused on movies and TV. I definitely recommend all of the videos, and her interviews with various media are illuminating as well.
Deadspin: If you can ignore the troglodytes in the comments, or fight back enough to get them to shut up (tall order!), this is my favorite sports site. Well, maybe Grantland, if you're into more longform, but Deadspin's the right mix of stupid and breaking news and wanting to firebomb some of the more stagnant conventions of sports journalism. Plus, they publish things like this from Chris Kluwe.
Here via Snowflake