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Challenge #3

In your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time. 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.

I think the opinion that has changed the most, honestly, has been my ability to watch shows like My Hero Academia and the like without going "why are they making children do this oh my god." As a teacher myself, it's harder and harder for me to accept that young children (you know the age, the fifteen to nineteen years-old protagonists) just have to save the world and there's not a thing the adults and mature people around them can do except cheer them on. Rewatching Bleach (or trying to) or Fullmetal Alchemist I'm constantly yelling at the television "He's a CHILD! You can't expect a child to do XYZ!" Anyway.

It's a fairly tame one, I suppose. I can't think of any other major opinion I have that has drastically changed, just gained nuance over the years. Some examples I can think of:

  • I've always preferred m/m ships over f/f ships. Now, with years of experience, I've identified my dislike was because most fandoms have little development of female characters and especially few connections between female characters and other characters in general, while giving men huge backstories, so it was easier for me to see connections between the men than women. I still don't always enjoy f/f ships, but good fanfic authors give me the connections and development I'm looking for and I no longer actively ignore f/f ships.
  • I've always believed Tony Stark to be right in Civil War, and while that hasn't changed, I've softened my stance on how angry I was at Steve Rogers' side. I don't agree with him at all, still, but I'm less inclined to want to see him grovel in stories lol
  • I've never tied authors to their work — i.e., when Joanne Kathleen wrote the HP series, I never really cared about them personally, just enjoyed playing in the world they created (especially when it was so poorly written that nothing was well-explained, giving me huge freedom to do my favorite thing: world-building). So when they came out as transphobic, and when I found a whole list of actors and writers who refused to support palestine — or actively worked to support israhell — it didn't detract from my ability to turn their work into something I can continue writing about, even if I don't engage with their new movies.
  • I've never enjoyed the propaganda slant of Marvel (it's why I liked Iron Man movies, they were all about the main character messing up and realizing it was his own people and flaws that made his problems, not some outside ooOooO scary terrorist) and what with the blatant cash grabbing of Disney and the terrible, terrible character of Sabra in the new Captain America movie, I'm just happy I divorced from caring about Marvel when I did, which was at Endgame with the terrible plot and writing. I tried to get into the Marvel series (I had loved Agent Carter when it came out) and started Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but it just seemed empty, and I watched the Kamala Khan series but it was... more than a little disappointing, from a Muslim perspective.

I honestly can't think of any other big opinions I have in fandom beyond, like, preferences and ignoring certain parts of canon to keep writing, or the like. And overall, growing older has only really enhanced my understanding of why I hate or dislike ABC.

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Challenge #2

In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story. 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.

I think the very earliest I remember really being in fandom and liking a story well enough to create my own fanfiction of it was, of all things, Robin Hood. I must have been... ten? Eleven? Creating a "children of Robin Hood" story, with a daughter of Robin, a son of Will, etc. I also vaguely remember creating a transformers spin off, and my first real story I wrote was a retelling / redo of Logan/Wolverine's origin story, except as teenagers because teenagers were cool to me when I was barely out of middle school.

But fandom and writing has always been something I've loved to do, and with practice and growth I eventually became really enamored of X-Men fanfiction while in early college. It was a weird branching for me — I was looking for something entirely different and ended up finding male slash fanfiction (lemon, is what it was called in that day and age) on a web page called LeDiableBlanc. (I'm tempted to see if that website is still up and running...)

It was home to a lot of fanfiction, all centered on Remy LeBeau / Gambit (my second or third fandom crush) and him with various other male X-Men, and it really had a formative effect on me, my writing, and what I liked to read and write. From there I fell into The Losers fanfiction, and then into Marvel (The Avengers, specifically). There were many other smaller fandoms (you can see my fandoms and pairings here, if you're so inclined) but those are the big ones that stuck with me — X-Men, The Losers, and Phase 1 and 2 of The Avengers.

(Oh my god, it's still around. I may just fall down the rabbit hole of rereading all these old fanfictions. Here is the main page of LeDiableBlanc, and here is the fanfiction page that enraptured seventeen to nineteen year old me.)

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Challenge #1

Update your fandom information. 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.

I'm going to link to last year's post, as I can't really find much difference between then and now, which is maybe a little depressing, but who knows.

But for reference, my fandom spaces that are active are:

Ao3: My writing

Tumblr: My (very old) blog

Less active (practically INactive), but existing, is here (livejournal), on dreamwidth, or on pillowfort.

My bio (which has not changed): 30-40 y.o. block | cis | pronouns: she/her | heterosexual | Arab-American (white-passing/white) | this author stands with Palestine 🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸

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Okay so I super like these. Thank you [livejournal.com profile] reeby10! These are really fun.

Oh, and this one ranks dirty tropes. >:D You can rate your own here.

Rank Name
1 BDSM
2 A/B/O
3 Animal themes/characteristics
4 Hurt/Comfort
5 Multiple partners (orgy, gangbang, etc)
6 Toys and devices
7 Orgasm denial (intentional or accidental)
8 Talking/communication kink (dirty talk, banter, phone sex, etc
9 Age difference
10 Body(part) worship
11 Magic/Spells/Telepathy during sex
12 Incest
13 Oral sex (cunnilingus, fellatio, blowjobs, etc)
14 Aphrodisiacs/Drugs/Sex pollen
15 Confined spaces
16 Clothed sex
17 Intercrural/interfemoral sex
18 Anonymous sex (glory-holes, alley sex, one-night stands)
19 First time
20 Passionate/Emotional sex
21 Servicing/Prostitution
22 Rape/Dubious consent
23 Penetrative sex
24 Uniform kink
25 Vanilla sex
26 Voyeurism
27 Solo/Masturbation
28 Hate sex
29 Do or die
30 Selfcest
31 Breath play
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Huh. O.o

Snagged from [livejournal.com profile] reeby10. This was super fun - rate your tropes here!

keeping this here for future reference, because I figure I participate in enough fic challenges that this is probably gonna be used again

Rank Name
1 Hurt/Comfort
2 Vampires/Werewolves AU
3 A/B/O
4 Soulmate Identifying Marks: Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc
5 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
6 Found Families
7 Loyalty Kink
8 Royalty/Arranged Marriage
9 Adopting/Raising a Baby
10 Magical Connection (telepathy, etc)
11 Age Difference (possibly due to time travel)
12 High School/Uni AU
13 Sex Pollen
14 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
15 Amnesia
16 Incest
17 Trapped in an Elevator/Snowed-In Cabin/etc
18 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
19 Friends to Lovers
20 Espionage AU
21 Role Reversal AU
22 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
23 Rivalmancy
24 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Warp
25 Fake Out Make Out
26 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
27 Actually Unrequited Pining
28 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
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(Stolen from [livejournal.com profile] alexcat)




Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust

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(Stolen from [livejournal.com profile] alexcat)






Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust



Read more... )
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so, sorry for anyone who may be following me - I'm gonna put this under a read more cut, but I don't know if that will work and so, apologies in advance if you read my self-pitying rant.

Read more... )
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(Stolen from [livejournal.com profile] alexcat)




Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust

Read more... )

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Fandom Snowflake Challenge banner
Day 5: In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story. How did you come to fandom, why did you choose your fannish name, do you have more than one secret identity?

Goodness. Trying to remember my fannish origin story. Eesh.

The Very Beginning
Well, it started with X-Men. Specifically, the 90s television show. It also started with Digimon, Power Rangers, Dragonball Z, and my sister. We actually weren't allowed to watch television all that much, so we snuck episodes when we could and built our universe when we couldn't. From there, which was to me like a very early form of roleplaying (verbalized roleplaying, with each of us having different roles [I was Gambit and Logan and she was Android 18 and Sora, for example]), I began writing stories loosely based on the television shows I watched or books I read. One of my earliest attempts at fanfiction - and my only actual finished work from the age of 11 to I think about 19 or 20 - was an 'origin' story of Logan (called Solo in my fic because I was a dramatic teenager). Other ideas included cars that were bodyguards to the descendents of a royal alien line (transformers), a group of pre-teens captured and taken to a French castle and they had to get free in medieval england (Robin Hood) and a ham-fisted attempt at writing a story that wasn't too much like Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail but failed miserably at being distinctive, really.

My Chosen Pseudonym
But I suppose what I really have to thank, for my original name L'Ange Noir, was finding fanfiction on the internet. It was Gambit fanfiction, and it was him in a relationship with Wolverine, which was amazingly hot and dirty to a very young pre-teen who knew exactly what my religion said about such relationships and what my father would do should he catch me sitting on the family computer reading such sites. (I learned how to wipe my history, wipe the site from the internet file folder, and remove any cookies - if there was another way my dad could have found which site I was on, I didn't know it but neither did he.) L'Ange Noir comes from Gambit, and a very old story I had about him - in the comics, Remy LeBeau is sometimes referred to as the Le Diable Blanc, the white devil, because of his eyes. In my fanfiction story, L'Ange Noir was Remy's lover, a winged mutant with black skin. My current fanfic penname is AngeNoir, as I fell out of writing fanfic sometime in the last years of my undergraduate degree, and when I came back it was to Ao3, not the other sites I posted on. Those stories... well, I still know how they end. I remember most, if not everything, about their plots. I just... haven't completed any of them.

Defining Influences
But yeah, without that one author, Ximeria, and another archive, LeDiableBlanc, and one last author who was a defining influence on how I wrote and really started me on my worldbuilding kink, Lightning On the Wave - these three are really the beginning of my origin story in fandom.

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