Snowflake Challenge Day 6

[flamingsword]

Day 6

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.

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I want a Darcy story where Tony Stark adopts her because they both suffer from the after-effects of benign neglect. I want a story of maybe Tony teaching her that there's nothing wrong with being charmingly outrageous, but that she doesn't have to use that to deflect attention from the fact that she has feelings. I want to see two people who don't feel safe with feelings talk about why that is, about expecting the people who love you to ignore you unless you are entertaining. I want a story about Tony being a grown up, and Darcy being vulnerable about stuff that actually matters to her and not just performing vulnerability with stuff that's not that big a deal to her to appease someone because she thinks that's what they want. And I dont want to write it myself. Any of those things would be really lovely, if someone wants to write them.

I want more stories about women and nonbinary people, even if I do have to write them myself. I want more stories where non-men and non-white characters take center stage and get time to shine, have character development and get important narrative arcs. And I will darn well learn to write them because changing fandom's cultural tendency to focus on white dudes starts at home.

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Wish granted!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Avengers fanfic about women:
"Dolls and Guys" features Betty Ross.
"Birthday Girl," and "kintsukuroi," and "Up the Water Spout" feature Natasha Romanova.

The Ursulan Cycle is a shared world of genderbent Arthurian Cycle. Most characters are the opposite sex from the original legends, which means most of them are women.

Original work:
Schrodinger's Heroes and The Blueshift Troupers are both shared worled ensemble science fiction with very mixed-race and mixed-gender cast lists.

My series led by one or more female protagonists:
Aquariana in Polychrome Heroics (superhera with water powers)
Calliope in Polychrome Heroics (gendershifting superhera with various powers)
Cassandra in Polychrome Heroics (escaping from abusive parents)
Fiorenza the Wisewoman (historic Italian fantasy)
The Moon Door (dark fantasy of lycanthropy as a cure for chronic pain)
The Origami Mage (Asian fantasy about paper magic)
Path of the Paladins (gritty fantasy)
P.I.E. (urban fantasy of a private investigator in a wheelchair)
Walking the Beat (my one-and-only this-world series is lesbian romance)

Nonbinary characters:
An Army of One features several nonbinary characters including both humans and starships.
Kung Fu Robots features mostly nonbinary neuter characters.
The Steamsmith features a black, British, genderqueer steampunk engineer.

Nonwhite characters:
Danso and Family (black teen father)
The Origami Mage (Asian fantasy about paper magic)
The Steamsmith features a black, British, genderqueer steampunk engineer.

I also recommend dialecticdreamer and siliconshaman who frequently write about nonmale, nonwhite, and/or nonbinary characters.

If you want more:
I'll be running a Poetry Fishbowl in my blog on Tuesday, January 8 with a theme of "That's not a mistake!" You can drop by to give me prompts, and I'll write poetry based on whatever I get.
dialecticdreamer runs two prompts calls a month, Magpie Monday (various themes) and Feathering the Nest (nonsexual intimacies). Leave prompts, get ficlets.
crowdfunding hosts a Creative Jam on the third weekend of each month. Leave prompts, people make whatever they want. Usually it's fiction or poetry, occasionally arts, crafts, music, etc.

Of course, there's a whole lot more -- that's just the stuff already batched so it's easier to find.

Re: Wish granted!

[flamingsword]

*boggles*

*is verklempt*


Thank you. I feel like that is an inadequate thing to say when you just gave me so much, but right now my brain is toast, and my gears are still spinning and not catching onto anything.

Thank you.

Re: Wish granted!

[ysabetwordsmith]

No problem, it's all stuff I already had up, other than the recs for other sources. Pleased to meet you. But fair warning: fans have described my work as "flypaper for eyeballs." Love Is For Children -- the Avengers stuff I recced samples of -- is the size of several novels. I have over 5000 poems on my blog; some of those series are also novel-size. Make sure you've got some time to kill when you start reading it, because if you like it ... well, people have lost whole weekends down that rabbit hole.

Re: Wish granted!

[flamingsword]

I have chronic pain, and some days I need to read engrossing things to dissociate from my body. So you have given me more than you know.

Re: Wish granted!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I have friends with various flavors of chronic pain, hence the inspiration for The Moon Door, so I'm glad I could help.

For maximum engrossment, use the series guides:
Love Is For Children landing page
Serial Poetry page

There's more, but those are the biggest chunks organized in my best guess of series-chronological order.

Re: Wish granted!

[flamingsword]

You might want to grab a friend who is more computer literate than me and ask them how to make your website https instead of http. It now reads as an insecure website with a warning not to enter information, which may drive down some of your traffic. I know that ther is something about a different programming standard for websites now, but that's about all I know.

Re: Wish granted!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Sadly, neither Weebly, Dreamwidth, nor LiveJournal are sites I own or really control. I don't know if they have the https option. I don't currently have an active webwizard to help me update them either. :(

Re: Wish granted!

[flamingsword]

I asked the husband, he of the programming knowledge, and he knew what I meant and what to search for. He recommends this FAQ from Weebly: https://hc.weebly.com/hc/en-us/articles/115010923107-Enable-SSL-for-Your-Site?mobile_site=true
He says that anyone with computer literacy and basic knowledge of how websites work should be able to do it. It looks pretty step-by-step? I might be able to do it with some caffeine and a little patience. YMMV.

[saekhwa]

Oh! Have you checked out the St. Trinian's fics by language_escapes?

Focuses entirely on the female characters and gives them AMAZING plot through the Chosen and Defined series.

[flamingsword]

I have zero knowledge of St. Trinians. Is it a TV show, book series, comic? How much knowledge of it do I need to read the fic?

[saekhwa]

Of gosh of course. So it's a movie. It's considered a reboot of an older film, but the fic series focuses on the reboot and its sequel (which practically had a new cast, except for 2-4 characters).

And I kinda feel like you could read the Wikipedia entry and be fine. Mostly I say this because language_escapes focuses on fleshing out background/minor characters so it can almost read like original fic.

[laraflame]

*lara drops by*
Wow, that's awesome! I love those movies so much but I had no idea there are fices. (Of course there are always fices, silly me!)
Thanks for the rec.

[saekhwa]

You're welcome! And same! These movies were so fun to watch. I wonder if I can find them again and do a re-watch.

But yyyyyy. It was a lovely small fandom back in the day with 171 total fanworks on AO3. But this is my absolute fave series. ^_^ Hope you enjoy it, too!

[osidiano]

I feel you about more stories focusing on gals and NB folks. I came into fandom during a time when female characters were treated so badly and I stayed away from writing them in my more formative years because of bad review experience. Now that I'm older and fandom is more chill (on the girl front, anyway), it feels like that part of my writing repertoire is so stunted and far behind all my other skills from lack of practice. It's frustrating! I haven't made much headway on changing the demographics of my fic focus, but I'm working on a couple stories, and I'm always available to cheerlead, chat, and share resources. ^~^

[flamingsword]

Thank you for the offer! I will probably need a cheerleader here in a week or so, if I stop grinding my gears and actually rework this fic I seem stuck on.