snowflake fandom challenge day 09
Jan. 9th, 2018 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaixo
Day 9
In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Preface: I've been writing fanfic for the past twelve years and across four fandoms. So far I have written 138 works, and as a result, I've gotten quite unsentimental re: fanfic.
When I'm in the throes of the story I'm all, No one's gonna love you more than I do, and I bend and break over the idea. However, once it gets through beta and posted -sometimes beta is only a letter in my world- I honestly don't think about the stories at all afterwards.
It's the thrill of doing the prompt (because 90 percent of my stories are prompted) and seeing if I can answer the request and have it interest me at the same time.
As a result, I tend to write a story with the aim of one person in mind (the prompter). As long as they like it, everything else is gravy. If they don't say a word about it, I do feel a bit put out, because I'm not above rewriting a story if someone doesn't like it. I'd rather someone tell me thanks but no thanks, than the howling silence from their end (that's happened more times than I'd care to admit).
- Sentiment Despite what people might think, it's not sentiment that makes Diego Simeone bring Fernando Torres home. Diego Simeone/Fernando Torres, Football RPF. Rating: G. Normally when I'm finished writing a bit of fic, I tend to kick myself about for a bit. I frown at scenes where I should have tweaked or wonder about scenes I should have put in or taken out. This is the rare story where I got to say everything I wanted to say, and I am happy with the result. My feelings about Diego Simeone, Fernando Torres and their love of Atletico Madrid. How you can love a football club enough to leave it, get some perspective and return to serve.
- loose ends Eric Dier, an aristocrat flirting with disaster, has found himself suspended from his family's firm due to his inability to control his drinking. Dele Alli is back in London, in between music gigs and battling with family affairs that he'd rather avoid, thank you very much. Both of them meet in a bar in London on a Tuesday, and the story starts from there. Dele Alli/Eric Dier, Football RPF, Universe: AU, rating: Teenage. This story is strange. I wrote it in a fever haze in nine days based on someone's prompt, posted it and moved on. I was pretty meh about the story (for reasons I shan't get into here), so imagine my surprise seven months later when itsadrizzit expressed a desire to podfic it 1. I love this story because I love whatitsadrizzit did to it and for it. She turned it from a flimsy piece of nothing into a proper movie of the mind. People live, love, and dance there. There's the solid stout mugs of tea on crockery, and a sick dance beat. She really went to town on the whole concept and pushed the medium. I love the story because of what she did for it and to it. It was so strange, actually waiting on tenterhooks for her to finish it, to make it available for loading. I remember FINALLY downloading it. I listened to it, and truly enjoyed it. Only at the end, to realise, the story didn't belong to me anymore. I'm totally at peace with this fact, and it brought home the power of a Transformative Work.
- With Malice Toward None Tony and Reed trawl the multiverse for a Captain America to be the face of the SHRA. Tony finds out you can't go home again. 616 Tony Stark/Ultimates Steve Rogers. Marvel Comics (616/1610) Rating G. I loved working on this story. I had a physics and engineering student who helped me with all the theories. I really enjoyed learning about said theory and equations behind said theories, and this story was a happy by-product. My beta at the time warned me the story wouldn't get any readers (because the Ultimates verse wasn't really widely liked, back then2) but I honestly didn't care. As long as I liked it, everyone else was welcome to jog on. That bloodymindedness has stuck with me since.
That's about it, really. There are some stories I love only because the recipients loved them, but these linked fics actually brought a sea change to my outlook in terms of the content being produced.
1: Writers, have you posted your permission statement for Transformative Works today?
2: A lot of the characterisation and designs of Marvel Movie Avengers are based on the Ultimates comics which are all sorts of interesting in this light
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Date: 2018-01-09 02:37 pm (UTC)Hah!
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Date: 2018-01-10 12:25 am (UTC)Anyway, thanks for the rec while reccing your own work. I do like that Torres/Simeone story quite a bit. It's got that lovely sentimentality to it.
Yeah, it's kinda weird
Date: 2018-01-10 07:26 am (UTC)But it all comes back to my own theory of stories hitting where they're supposed to hit and who they're supposed to hit. Which is one of the reasons why I'm not worried if some stories don't get much love or traffic because the right story finds the right reader. You were the right reader for this story.
Torres/Simeone! I honestly didn't expect that story to be as popular as it was, but it's like a lottery I guess. Because some stories I've written I've LOVED but haven't gotten a nibble, and other stories that I've rolled my eyes at writing have gotten tons of kudos and comments (and I'm like...HOW?). So yeah, a bleedin' lottery.