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.

Comments

[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.