meridian_rose

Challenge #14 - Try something new.

I've written in other posts about new crafts I've tried out, and I've dabbled in all sorts of fanfic, poetry, fanmixes, graphics and art.

So I thought I'd read in a fandom I've never read before in a fandom type I'd not specifically sought out before, namely music videos.

( Read more... )

Challenge #11 In your own space, create a fanwork.
I made 5 Icons for lands_of_magic challenge "Villaintines Day" for villains and antiheroes.
I choose Eliot Spencer from "Leverage". An antihero who joined the team whose premise is "sometimes bad guys make the best good guys" but even in the current "Leverage: Redemption" feels he can never be redeemed.



I have so many other icons from this round at that comm!

Challenge #6 - share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much

This is a difficult one because how do I narrow it down to one scene, one episode, of one thing?!

So I'm going with the ending of "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (the show which spawned the spin off Xena: Warrior Princess and introduced me to Bruce Campbell as Autolycus and I've loved so much of his work since) because it's one of those rare endings I don't hate. ( Read more... )

Challenge #9 Rec Us Your Newest Thing

Hmm. A lot of my current stuff is recurring, new seasons of shows I'd already been watching, movies I've seen before/next in franchise, or older shows which are new to me but old hat to others.


I fell in love with the character of Domingo Chavez in the final season of Jack Ryan last year and requested the character for Yuletide and did get matched on it so that was fun :) I couldn't find a gif so instead here's an image; I made this "name" poster for part of a lands_of_magc challenge:
(click image for full size)

I watched and enjoyed "Fast X" at the weekend, Jason Momoa was a fun villain camping it up in a movie that embraces it's silliness and over-the-top action scenes while retaining the key theme of Family in all the ways the characters understand that.


I was surprised how much I enjoyed the rebooted "Gladiators" which has moved to BBC. Bradley Walsh and his son host and the whole thing is very much leaning into the over to top cheesiness against the adrenaline fuelled backdrop and it's capturing a lot of the nostalgia crowd and younger fans. Might even encourage children to take up more exercise!

(click the banner to go to the challenge)

I'm going to jump forward a bit to Challenge #8: – Talk about a current fannish project

I'm working on my small fandom big bang piece for smallfandombang with a mininum 10k wordcount. Rough draft is due end of the month. I'm almost done with the first draft and it's going to be about 20k.
The fandom is Jungle Cruise (movie) which I'm surprised has so little fic on AO3 and aside from a couple of gifs and art on Tumblr has almost no fandom.

screencap of a tumblr post with art and caption comparing Jungle Cruise and The Mummy

I found it very similar in style to The Mummy movies which are still popular though I admit never so popular as to exclude them from Small Fandom fests and exchanges. I really fell in love with this and fell into a bit of Jack Whitehall fangirl spiral and I blame Clifford the Big Red Dog for priming me in advance of this movie
I should get matched with an artist for some art or other non-fic medium piece. I doubt I can find a beta but I'm pretty pleased with how well using Balabolka text-to-speech helps me find errors and check pacing. The first draft will require quite a lot of editing.

I mean, I had to rein in the outline to tighten things up when I realised how far I was behind on writing but that's not a bad thing. I did have to rejig a couple things because despite having the rough outline and initial scenes broken down in Scrivener (and I highly recommend the "paste your notes into each scene to avoid blank page terror" advice) things needed some work as I actually started to write, beginning at the prologue and start, but then jumping around to write particular scenes I had planned more thoroughly than others which then led to necessary changes to the overall structure.
Then I did some research and dithered and did some more research and then made stuff up but also did more research because of a need to touch on or specify some 1918 geography/travel and mythical creatures/spirits plus etymology online got used a lot to see which phrases were in use or not.
(I can't share any quotes/bits I'm proud of while it is a WiP as that's against the rules of the community)

I'm pretty pleased overall I think though I've gone back and forth with "what was I thinking" a couple of times! It's strong on friendship and family dynamics, but has some dark themes; angst, depression, spiritual possession, period typical homophobia, and some suicidal ideation. It does of course have a happy ending because hurt/comfort/angst with happy ending is a large part of what I write!

Challenge #1 Update your fandom information. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space.

I actually updated some of my profile info in 2023. I'd been away for a while and then came back gradually and suddenly my pinned posts were in my feed not future-dated and somewhat out of date in general. So DW and LJ and more recently FF.net (I'm rarely posting there but do sometimes post for older fandoms).
I updated some of my interests but they probably need more work. My tags, recent posts, and what I post to AO3 are probably more indicative of current trends.

I have just updated my AO3 profile to tidy it up a little.

My profiles at LJ, DW, AO3, all include a statement on transformative work.

Challenge #2 In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.
( Read more... )