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Fanfic meme: Answer Post The Fourth

19 by pensnest
19. Do you prefer canon-compliant, AUs, or something in-between?

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nobody:
5. What’s the fic you’re most proud of?

That's a bit of a tricksy question, in part because I've written SO MUCH FANFIC that it's hard to pick any one.

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Today, I am not in the mood for humaning, let alone adulting. Just let me crawl back into bed and sleep until the thirty-third day of Never.

I offered answers for a fanfic meme back in June, and promptly forgot about it. (Sorry!)

answer post the first
answer post the second

Forthwith, the third post!

30 by sharpest_asp
30. Tooth-rotting fluff or merciless angst?

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3 by pensnest
3. What do you think makes your writing stand out from other works?

I like to think it's that I write different characters to the mainstream, and I write them differently to the mainstream.

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Two more to go! #19 and #5.

If you want to ask one of the questions, drop the comment in the original meme post.

Answers to < href=https://tielan.dreamwidth.org/1421…>the fanfic meme I posted last week.

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17. A trope you’ll never, ever write for. requested by rmc28

I have yet to write an A/B/O trope, and I'm pretty sure that'll never happen, although one never knows. I'm not a big fan of biological determinism, and although it could maybe be subverted, it would probably take more effort than I could be bothered expending!

22. Do you listen to anything while you write? requested by sharpest_asp

Mostly I don't. I like quiet so I can think and someone singing at me just gets distracting. Also, music has a lot of associations for me, so that can also divert my thoughts from what I should be writing to whatever mood the song has me in.

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Still to come: 30, 3, 19, and 5

Answers to the fanfic meme I posted last week.

27. What’s the nicest comment you’ve ever received? requested by beatrice_otter

I've gotten a lot of comments over the decades, and I can't actually remember which one was "the nicest". But I can tell you the ones that I love receiving and often later re-reading when I come back to a story and read the comments weeks, months, even years later.

It's always delightful to hear from people who loved the story, but particularly delightful to hear what they loved: the phrasing, the characterisation, the situation/crisis and how I resolved it.

As an example, my recent fic 'Twelve Steps' is a canon-divergence from Endgame, and quite a few of the comments mentioned that they not only loved the changes I made and the reasons I gave, but also they loved that I'd followed the logical conclusion of the events of the movie, as well as how clear it was that the characters had changed in their time apart from each other.

Those are the comments that warm my heart: where people appreciate and pick out the details that struck them, particularly when those details are ones that I took pains to include in the story.

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2. Why do you write fanfiction? requested by rmc28

Thinking all the way back to my earliest days of fanfic conceptualisation, it was usually because I wanted to see a variation on a story that wasn't contemplated in canon.

I wanted to see Leia save the galaxy and her brother. I wanted to read more about Generation X (of the X-Men comic books)'s interactions with each other and the world around them as teenagers rather than as superheroes. I wanted Sam Carter to end up with Jack O'Neill without losing her sass and her delight in technology and her duty in the military. I wanted to explore the dynamics between the characters of the Justice League cartoons both when the world's fate rested on their shoulders and when it didn't...

A lot of times, I write fanfic because I want to see a scenario about a character that I like, but who isn't well-liked by most fans, or whose fans can't write them as the character in which I see them. And yes, I have a type when it comes to fanfic characters, and yes, they're a bit like me in character (which makes it considerably easier to write tem).

And, you know, the feedback is nice. :)

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Coming up: 17, 22, 30, 3, 19, and 5.

Challenge #10

In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, creator, episode, or it could be your fandom friends. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Dear Maria,

You appeared in the opening scene of a movie whose precedents I hadn’t paid much attention to. Oh, I’d watched them, enjoyed them, but they were popcorn films, full of action and heroics of characters I liked watching but didn’t really hit it off with.

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I was only going to give up alcohol for a month, but I wasn’t prepared for the impact it had
I drank to pretend my life was more interesting. Feeling slow or a little sad in the mornings was so normal I barely noticed it.

Frankly, I don’t think I could handle if my life got any more interesting. I do like a drink every now and then – a glass of wine or a cocktail with dinner.

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The Guardian : Jail if by sea, through the gaps in the system if by air.

When Trump says ‘infested’ we know he’s talking about people of colour: And again the burden of explanation falls disproportionately on non-whites.

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I Kissed Christianity Goodbye.

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Male directors don’t really capture the intimacy of female friendships.

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Chinese Australian History predates the First Fleet

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Well, fuck.

The Crane Wife

Warning, this is traumatising if you have the remotest speck of empathy for women and/or have been through this yourself.

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Put down the Self-Help books, resilience is not DIY.

We later verified these results with more than 7,000 young people around the world, but this was the first proof that let us say with certainty that resilience depends more on what we receive than what we have within us. These resources, more than individual talent or positive attitude, accounted for the difference between youths who did well and those who slid into drug addiction, truancy and high-risk sexual activity.

I have to admit it, the diagram made me tear up. We had proved that resourced individuals do far better than individuals without resources, no matter how rugged the latter might be.

Why is this in 'opinion' and not in 'science' or 'politics'? Seriously!

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And this is why I probably shouldn't go reading other people's reactions, because it sparks off all my own thoughts and feelings

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I really do miss when I could just enjoy these movies. I think I lost that later than most people – after Age of Ultron when the news for Civil War came out, tbh. Maybe that’s why I enjoyed Dr. Strange and GotG2: because they didn’t make my head hurt. (While Civil War made my heart hurt with the sheer lack of Maria in the storyline that introduced her in the comics, even as an antagonist over the Accords or something.)

I don't know if it will be the panacea for all ills, per se; you're probably wanting your favourite rather than mine, and the fixits will be coming thick and fast, but seriously, imma point you at the other side of infinity for something that yes, made my head hurt while writing, but which I'm pretty sure for which I closed all the really huge plotholes...

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What if we defined the cost of a full-time parent?

A friend of mine is a stay-at-home mom (Another question: when all the kids have gone to 5-days-a-week school, is she still a stay-at-home mom? Or is she a housewife?) and once calculated that she added $55K AUD of value to the household per annum. Childcare + meal prep + washing + cleaning + oddjobs + income she made from her hobbies = $55K.

She said it helped her think of her job as 'adding value' to her family, even if she wasn't 'paid' for it, even it wasn't recognised.

I'm pretty sure that everyone reading this is well aware of the discussion about the unpaid labour of women adding to the economy, and not every woman is going to be able to add that much value to her household.

In J.D. Robb's book series 'In Death', a future America (2080s, I think) has a 'stay at home parent wage' that is paid to parents with a child under a certain age.

My question is: if we paid - or even attributed - to women (and the men who are stay-at-home parents) the actual value of the work they did in relationships/parenting/household, would that be 'monetizing parenthood'? Would we be 'staining the soul' of parenthood by acknowledging the cost of primary care for a child? Would adding money to the equation cheapen the relationship between parent and child - reduce it to something done for financial gain, instead of something done out of love?

I mean, I can see the neocons blathering that such things "cheapen the purity of the maternal (because ofc it's the mother staying home) relationship by adding money to the matter", and I know, taxesgovernmentebiluntrustblahblahblah, and peoplerortthesystem, and weshouldn'tevenhaveasystemifitcanbecoopted, etc.

But do you think it would?

What if we defined the dollar cost of a full-time parent? Would our appreciation for what parents do change?

Thought.

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Anyway, today I'm finishing a quilt, and trying to ease people into an action scene which gets progressively worse until it all goes completely to cock. As they do.

I made a post on Tumblr about this, I'll be briefer here.

Authors of tie-in novels and novelisations of movies have less ability to define and determine the sexuality of canon characters than fans think they do. Kindly don't bitch them out for being 'wishy washy' on character sexuality.

When an organisation (like MGM or LucasArts) hires an author to write a novel based on characters they own, they may be extremely picky about how those characters are depicted. And if the author steps out of the company line on this front, then the company will shear off the author's toes to keep their right to define the characters as they please.

Major characters - particularly those from movies and TV shows - are prone to heternormalisation, even if dynamics suggest otherwise to fans.

Yes, it would really great to have confirmed representation of the things we see in canon that aren't heteronormative; but in tie-ins and novelisations in particular, that decision is very frequently not up to the individual author.