Fandom Snowflake Challenge

Yay! It's Fandom Snowflake Challenge time.



(image snagged from sparrow2000)


Day 1: In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Share what you've created. Be proud of your creativity.

I'll recommend different categories I've stories that I've created. Most are set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom.

Sentimental: In Babylon 5, Dr. Franklin speaks of his travels to other worlds, when he was basically backpacking through the universe. Sailing Towards the Dawn looks at his time with the Markab people.

Funny: Please Come Again: Sexual humor based on Anya's misunderstanding of language.

Rewrite: On This Side of Goodbye rewrites a situation from the comics: bringing Giles back from the dead. It's got a kicker of a last line.

Remix: The Morning After remixes the start of the Responsible Adults (Joyce/Giles/Ethan) verse. It was written for a Giles hangover prompt.

Meta: The Man, which takes a meta look at movies, fandom, and Hollywood, is a remix of Critical Review, a story where Xander's great-grandaughter "wasted four years, considerable talent, and an inestimable amount of her current and future credibility, in a futile and meaningless effort to spotlight the achievements of a man who, much as his great-granddaughter might wish otherwise, had none."

Huh

One of my BtVS Top 5 posts is currently on the LJ front page as #4 in terms of popular entries. I'm not exactly sure how that happened, but cool.

Year in Review

Since AO3 provides a list of my stories, I'll just lists some of my favorites and stats from 2014.

Top 5 of my own stories from 2014:

• In a Corner of My Soul - Giles as the big bad of season 1. Quite a bit of editing went into this and I think it shows.


• The Man - What if Xander were the new James Bond? This is a very meta story touching on movies, fandom, Hollywood.


• On This Side of Goodbye - I've given up on the comics but still I've written my own version of how Giles was brought back as a 12 year old. Mine is funnier than Joss'. Just saying.


• Sailing Towards the Dawn - Babylon 5: During his hitchhiking days, Stephen realizes he isn't just running way. He's running to something, even if he doesn't know what it is yet. There is some great characterization in here and a kicker ending.


• Without a Passport - I'm getting pretty good at Anya's voice so I had to include one example even if it isn't one of the funnier ones.

Top 5 by hits according to AO3:

1. Shanshu - pickamix asked for a story where Spike shanshus because of his sacrifice in "Chosen". I've also given him amnesia because, well, more fun!


2. And If My Love Had Never Let Me Go - canon!Ethan messing with an Ethan and Rupert who had never broken up. Just because he can. This is a crossover with a graphic novel called The Unwritten and touches on other fandoms as they jump universes.


3. Special Delivery - I was playing with voice and picked Willy's because it's so distinctive.


4. The Revelatory Power of the Feminist Revolution is Obvious, Right? - This was hugely popular on Twisting the Hellmouth. Crossover with I Dream of Jeannie. She seems sweet and all, but damn can Jeannie be stubborn. But then again, so can Willow.


5. The Pen is Mightier - When Ethan turns Giles into a rabbit, you can imagine Anya's reaction.

Top 5 by Kudos:

1. Shanshu


2. The Pen is Mightier


3. Please Come Again - Anya. Sexual humor. Need I say more?


4. Alone - one of the runner-ups when I was working on my top 5 list (of my own stories). Written for a prompt: Buffyverse, Giles, it's the end of the world again, but this time he's alone.


5. Goblin Market - Ah, Drusilla. It's been ages since I've written her.

And a special shout out to Dinner, No Movie, from 2013, which has almost 30 times more hits than any other story I've posted to AO3.