Snowflake Challenge: Day 8
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quietmoonDay 8: In your own space, post self-recs for at least three fanworks that you created.
*rubs hands together* Oh, I love prompts like these. They give me an excuse to pointedly ignore the long ramble I could go on about my love/hate relationship with my works and consciously thinking of other human beings actually reading them, and just go ahead and rec some stuff of mine I enjoyed writing/think turned out well. I'm afraid there's not much for variety as I'm a bit of a monogamist when it comes to writing; I tend to write for the one fandom for a year or more and then move on wholly to something else. The most I've managed is writing for two separate fandoms at the same time, which truly was an achievement for me pff.
Anyway! I'll go over what I consider the highlights from the past few years. (ღゝ◡╹)ノ
Fairy Tail: a fondly remembered time, and a fandom I could easily see myself returning to. I dabbled in fic for ft for a few of my teenage years. Generally, I'm fond of all the fics I wrote back then haha, they all have a similar... flashfictiony imagery-filled feeling. I love them.
Haikyuu!!: I didn't publish the vast majority of what I wrote for hq, but I did hash out some stories I remember fondly.
Boku no Hero Academia: I would consider this a much newer fandom for me. I've been interested for a bit more than a year, and writing for near half of one.
Generally, the stuff of mine I enjoy reading the most is definitely my earlier work, specifically my ft fic. Funny how stuff works out that way. My style did a sort of flip on it's head in the past couple years somehow, where when I used to write short targeted stories, my fic nowadays is long and sprawling and complex, with simpler writing and much longer plots.
But more than that, I think I truly wrote for the love of writing, for the love of the characters I was giving words, for the stories I was almost uncovering in a way. That excitement and joy and self-satisfaction and, if I'm forthright about it, honesty, is something I want to recapture as I write moving forward. I want to write from the heart as I did when I was younger.
*rubs hands together* Oh, I love prompts like these. They give me an excuse to pointedly ignore the long ramble I could go on about my love/hate relationship with my works and consciously thinking of other human beings actually reading them, and just go ahead and rec some stuff of mine I enjoyed writing/think turned out well. I'm afraid there's not much for variety as I'm a bit of a monogamist when it comes to writing; I tend to write for the one fandom for a year or more and then move on wholly to something else. The most I've managed is writing for two separate fandoms at the same time, which truly was an achievement for me pff.
Anyway! I'll go over what I consider the highlights from the past few years. (ღゝ◡╹)ノ
Fairy Tail: a fondly remembered time, and a fandom I could easily see myself returning to. I dabbled in fic for ft for a few of my teenage years. Generally, I'm fond of all the fics I wrote back then haha, they all have a similar... flashfictiony imagery-filled feeling. I love them.
- carbon copy princess: has a very soft spot in my heart since it spawned a dear friendship and an absurd series of rareship shortfic (the absurd part being that it existed at all).
- quiet moments of the castle: fantasy world fairy tale romance that I will never tire of. I think it's just so cuuuute.
- no, c'est la vie, maybe something's wrong with me: canon-compliant scene snippets. This is the sort of stuff I loved writing, finding meaning in minor characters' actions, fleshing out backstories left to our imagination.
- not the end of the line: perhaps my favourite fic from back then! the first sign of my obsession with writing about prejudice, man-made villains, and classism.
- the worst thing about you: I think the prettiest thing I've written. I'm in love with imagery about the ocean, and the metaphor I used here is very personal and still gets me. ; u ;
- ab aeterno: god, all my writing from back then was so personal! that's probably why I love it so much though. This is a reincarnation story that spoke of my own heart, and I'm... enamoured with the ideas in it. I hope to write about something like this again.
Haikyuu!!: I didn't publish the vast majority of what I wrote for hq, but I did hash out some stories I remember fondly.
- yellow white red (camellia/gardenia): my first hq fic, and a fluffy sappy romantic mess of one. Writing the confession scene was so satisfying.
- owl be there for you: I think it was writing this story that cemented my love for gen so deeply. I think it's funny and I like how it reflects hq canon.
- eye of the beholder: in a weird sense this was my goodbye to hq. I'm sure nobody else can tell that from the surface, but it has the adventureand tongue-in-cheek humour and friendship that I love about the series and what I aimed to find in my writing for it.
Boku no Hero Academia: I would consider this a much newer fandom for me. I've been interested for a bit more than a year, and writing for near half of one.
- I only have the one fic to really recommend so far, being cicadas. It represents a few firsts for me: first attempt at pwp (22k... probably failed), first attempt at todobaku (can't see how one can fail at that), first time posting publicly in years (terrifying!!!!!).
Generally, the stuff of mine I enjoy reading the most is definitely my earlier work, specifically my ft fic. Funny how stuff works out that way. My style did a sort of flip on it's head in the past couple years somehow, where when I used to write short targeted stories, my fic nowadays is long and sprawling and complex, with simpler writing and much longer plots.
But more than that, I think I truly wrote for the love of writing, for the love of the characters I was giving words, for the stories I was almost uncovering in a way. That excitement and joy and self-satisfaction and, if I'm forthright about it, honesty, is something I want to recapture as I write moving forward. I want to write from the heart as I did when I was younger.
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Date: 2019-04-16 10:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-16 04:37 pm (UTC)The funny part is that there were people posting their responses the same day as the prompt who were apologizing for being "late" because it was the end of the day or technically the next day in their time zone… it's like what we were talking about in another thread, I think fans too often start to internalize fandom as a contest where it's about being first/best/getting-the-most-comments. I'm enjoying to just chilling and chatting with folks.
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Date: 2019-04-17 11:02 pm (UTC)i definitely caught myself falling into that mindset of rushing. i'm glad i took my time in the end.
yeah i wonder if there's maybe too much focus on numbers in general? instead of meaningful interaction. i've been thinking along that trail of thought for a while, that it starts feeling too competitive especially when when interaction/appreciation is shown in numbers (likes, kudos, shares) rather than the depth or interest of responses.
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Date: 2019-04-17 11:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-18 04:44 pm (UTC)i couldn't keep up with the constant pressure to be up to date, so i figured if i can't keep up with the stream (or even if i could, wouldn't want to) then i'll leave it altogether. i'm so much happier not feeling like i need to always be plugged in, at the beck and call of a notification.
i'm a big fan of linkspams! it's a cool way to share content, especially that which isn't new and therefore may have passed under your radar. every time i log onto dreamwidth i find myself lost deep with five new tabs to spend a few hours reading lol. it's a good problem to have.
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Date: 2019-04-18 07:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-19 02:54 pm (UTC)I'm really glad for you! That's definitely something to treasure.
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Date: 2019-04-19 06:42 pm (UTC)I swapped beta-reading duties with someone and it was so painful on both sides. To me, her writing was overly serious and a bit dull, but also lacking detail to the point that it was confusing. Meanwhile, she was always making notes about how I should cut dumb jokes because they were jarring and cut extra narrative that (I thought) helped give the characters depth, and cut explanations that she kept insisting were unnecesssary. It was so clear, we we were never going to be on the same page. It was constantly me going "This is confusing. I think it needs more narrative explaining the set-up" and her going "This is unnecessary. You're overexplaining and talking down to the reader. Cut this." (In those kinds of situations, you have to give up and only listen to what they say when they're pointing out typos.)
The problem is that even when you have a good beta, you can't often drag them into the next fandom with you (and most people are only willing to beta a fandom they know) and I've had bad luck with good betas getting sick or having babies and thus not having the time to beta again even when the story is one of their fandoms.