Snowflake #s 9 and 10
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flamingswordChallenge #9: Favorite Tropes
Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)
Curtainfics are so soothing when they're done well. I get that reading things with angst or action or people having giant realizations make for the usual sort of good reading that everyone wants to write. But when writers have the chops to make quiet domestic happiness into something meaningful and interesting - oh yeah. That's the good shit. Like, you see these characters who are used to every kind of violence and rootlessness? They get to go on the journey of being untrusting of their own happiness and slowly relaxing into coming to ground somewhere safe and someone loving and beloved. It appeals to the part of me that knows that Happily Ever After, or even Happy For Now is a lot harder than it looks to put any faith in for a certain kind of person.
And Found Family / Families of Choice are the stories that have taught me so much about how to relate to people I don't really understand. They're a happiness that reaches into my monkey instincts and says that I, too, can have a bigger tribe, that I, too, can fit into a tribe even if I don't understand the Rube Goldberg machine of moving parts in unusual shapes accomplishing amazing things together.
Challenge #10: Big Mood (Board)
CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).
Post your answer to today's challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.
Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Also, feel free to entice engagement by giving us a preview of what your post covers.
I'm feeling Star Wars-y today, and I want to share some songs. Unfortunately, these are on Youtube, bc I lack other accessibility that is not equally terrible.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi - Brave - by Sara Bareilles
• Anakin Skywalker - Alive - by Sia
• Ghost Company - Start a Riot - by Duckwrth and Shaboozey
Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)
Curtainfics are so soothing when they're done well. I get that reading things with angst or action or people having giant realizations make for the usual sort of good reading that everyone wants to write. But when writers have the chops to make quiet domestic happiness into something meaningful and interesting - oh yeah. That's the good shit. Like, you see these characters who are used to every kind of violence and rootlessness? They get to go on the journey of being untrusting of their own happiness and slowly relaxing into coming to ground somewhere safe and someone loving and beloved. It appeals to the part of me that knows that Happily Ever After, or even Happy For Now is a lot harder than it looks to put any faith in for a certain kind of person.
And Found Family / Families of Choice are the stories that have taught me so much about how to relate to people I don't really understand. They're a happiness that reaches into my monkey instincts and says that I, too, can have a bigger tribe, that I, too, can fit into a tribe even if I don't understand the Rube Goldberg machine of moving parts in unusual shapes accomplishing amazing things together.
Challenge #10: Big Mood (Board)
CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).
Post your answer to today's challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.
Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Also, feel free to entice engagement by giving us a preview of what your post covers.
I'm feeling Star Wars-y today, and I want to share some songs. Unfortunately, these are on Youtube, bc I lack other accessibility that is not equally terrible.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi - Brave - by Sara Bareilles
Nothing's gonna hurt you the way that words do
When they settle 'neath your skin
Kept on the inside and no sunlight
Sometimes a shadow wins
But I wonder what would happen if you
Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave
• Anakin Skywalker - Alive - by Sia
I have made every single mistake
That you could ever possibly make
I took and I took and I took what you gave
But you never noticed that I was in pain
• Ghost Company - Start a Riot - by Duckwrth and Shaboozey
Make way (make way)
I'm comin' through with my crew to make 'em pay
I don't need no super suit, I'm feelin' brave
Don't be a hero, turn around and walk away