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Snowflake Challenge 6: Fandom Wish List
Jan. 25th, 2020 10:14 pmAlright, I'm back and ready to see how many of these challenges I can get done. At first this challenge seemed a bit difficult since I usually am more passive in fandom creating/consuming, but after a bit of thought here's what I could come up with:
1. More plot-centric gen fic. Most of the longer or more plot driven stories also focus heavily on a ship, and of course people can write whatever makes them happy, but for myself I would enjoy a story more if a romantic ship wasn't given much attention (hence my own limited writings, which will eventually be long and gen).
2. I recently got into The Glass Scientists, a webcomic by Sabrina Cotugno, so if anyone wants to chat with me about that I'd be super excited!
3. I live for the meta! Most of the fandoms I'm in are already pretty good about cranking out brilliant meta, but it would be fun to see more active discussions/conversations and partake in them as well.
4. More love given to the support cast or even main cast members who aren't part of the Major Ship. This isn't as much an issue in fandoms where rare-pairs and multi-shipping are already more common, but when there is one big Major Ship it often feels like every other interesting part of the story gets forgotten, which usually makes me far less likely than even normally to actually engage with the fandom at all.
5. Non-ship-centric analyses of stories in general.
That's about all I can think of really? Again, obviously people can and should write whatever makes them happy and excited, but this an Ideal Wish List and not a call to action, and I truly can't think of what other Wishes I would have for fandom things. Mostly I'm just happy if there is fan art of whatever my favorite series at the moment happens to be, and I don't really expect anyone to interact with my own contributions (not in like, a weepy way, but in a 'I rarely create anything and then take eons to update it and my tastes just naturally tend to differ from the masses so it would actually be a lot weirder if suddenly I got a ton of attention? Like logistically how would that even work lol' kind of way). So there we have it! Hopefully this year I will be able to create more things on my own to pursue these, I shall make an endeavor of it!
2. I recently got into The Glass Scientists, a webcomic by Sabrina Cotugno, so if anyone wants to chat with me about that I'd be super excited!
3. I live for the meta! Most of the fandoms I'm in are already pretty good about cranking out brilliant meta, but it would be fun to see more active discussions/conversations and partake in them as well.
4. More love given to the support cast or even main cast members who aren't part of the Major Ship. This isn't as much an issue in fandoms where rare-pairs and multi-shipping are already more common, but when there is one big Major Ship it often feels like every other interesting part of the story gets forgotten, which usually makes me far less likely than even normally to actually engage with the fandom at all.
5. Non-ship-centric analyses of stories in general.
That's about all I can think of really? Again, obviously people can and should write whatever makes them happy and excited, but this an Ideal Wish List and not a call to action, and I truly can't think of what other Wishes I would have for fandom things. Mostly I'm just happy if there is fan art of whatever my favorite series at the moment happens to be, and I don't really expect anyone to interact with my own contributions (not in like, a weepy way, but in a 'I rarely create anything and then take eons to update it and my tastes just naturally tend to differ from the masses so it would actually be a lot weirder if suddenly I got a ton of attention? Like logistically how would that even work lol' kind of way). So there we have it! Hopefully this year I will be able to create more things on my own to pursue these, I shall make an endeavor of it!
