brightknightie: Schanke reading Emily's novel (Reads)
I posted 7 fanfic stories this past year, which is more than I've posted in a single year since 2011. And 4 of them were "just because" stories, not for an event or exchange. I'm feeling very happy with both of those statistics! I hope to do as much or more, as well or better, this year, circumstances permitting.

Link list of stories )

Some of the stories I'm personally happiest with from this year include: "Allow Me To Demonstrate" (BSG78) for helping me earn a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Sheba character, and for contributing an angle I feel is rare in the currently available fandom fic. Similarly with "So the Heart May Become the Eye" (D&DC) for the same with the Terri character, plus exploring evergreen unresolved canon questions. And I'm also -- though very differently -- happy with "By Zoom or Skype or Google Meet" (D&DC); this is just a deep-cut long-post-canon id-fic of our heroes all being okay at a dark time, and may, frankly, be unreadable outside that context, but it made me feel okay, too, while I was writing it, and I'm grateful. ♥

brightknightie: With Hank and Diana in the lead, the children confront Tiamat. (Other Fandom D&D poster)
The [community profile] everywoman '23 exchange (collection by fandom) has revealed its authors. So here are just a few recommendations:

  • BSG78: "Duty To Each Other" by [archiveofourown.org profile] malinaldarose (G, gen, ~3K words) (Cassiopeia, Sheba). This is the one written for my exchange request, previously recommended here for relating an attack on the fleet from the perspective of a lumbering shuttle moving civilians between larger ships. I love getting the civilian point of view within BSG78, and I love getting more of the growth of Cassiopeia and Sheba's deeply fraught friendship (canon may forget that Sheba resented Cass, but I don't forget).

  • Ancient Greek Religion & Lore: "Red Flowers of Autumn" by [archiveofourown.org profile] calenlily (T, m/f, ~800 words) (Persephone). Myths are a good place for metaphors and symbols to be all too literal. This Persephone finds that returning to the underworld doesn't just bring autumn to the overworld as her mother grieves losing her again, but integrally affects her own body.

  • P&P (Austen): "Give It Time" by [archiveofourown.org profile] yletylyf (G, m/f, ~2K words) (Caroline Bingley). Caroline, of course, is the Bingley sister who wanted to marry Darcy herself. This is a nice post-canon pick-up in which Caroline has -- without losing her sharp edges -- done some introspection and personal growth. When she's content that she doesn't need a husband (after all, she does have a personal fortune, as well as a rich brother), that's when she meets Colonel Fitzwilliam, who appreciates her just as she is, sarcasm and all.

  • MCU: "Lost Without Her" by [archiveofourown.org profile] capsquared (Not rated, gen, ~500 words) (Maria Hill). This is set after Winter Soldier. I feel it packs a punch for a reader coming off Secret Invasion.

The story I wrote for the exchange is D&DC "So the Heart May Become the Eye" (G, gen, ~6K words) (Terri, Sheila). It's for DesertVixen's request, in which she wanted to explore whether Terri, a one-episode character who came from and returned to the same amusement park as our heroes, ever returns to the Realm, and what she tells the adults back home. While the requested Terri and Sheila are the starring, perspective characters, and Diana has the third-most screen time, the whole gang appears and all get at least a few lines and contribute a plot point. In the nice way that exchanges sometimes accomplish, I really enjoyed getting to know the Terri character and her episode more deeply than I ever had before.

brightknightie: Cassiopeia, in uniform (Other Fandom BSG)
As you know, the [community profile] everywoman exchange released this past week. Visit the collection by fandom.

I can't well list recommendations until the stories de-anonymize, because that would process-of-elimination reveal which I wrote to those who know my fandom scope. :-) But I have now read every story in the exchange in fandoms I know that doesn't have a personal DNW in the tags, and there are several gems!

One is the BSG78 story written for my request (G, gen; ~3K words), which poses an exciting scenario that could easily have been the B plot of a canon episode: a clunky civilian shuttle is caught in transit between bigger ships during a Cylon attack on the fleet.

brightknightie: Cropped screenshot of my PokemonGO avatar as seen in gyms (Pokemon Go)
"Tell us about 3 creative/fannish resources, spaces, or communities you use or enjoy."

Tip-top canon resources:
  • Bulbapedia, "the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia," is the highest-quality public wiki I've ever seen. It reports and tracks every bit of canon across the entire sprawling IP. ♥

  • Now available only via the Wayback Machine, the old dungeonsanddragonscartoon.com fansite is still the very best D&DC resource, "from the Alicorn river to the hills of Zorm." Forever respect and gratitude to its fan creator!

  • It's super ugly and advertisement-ridden now, but it's as accurate and comprehensive as ever: Portal: Battlestar Galactica (TOS). I depend on its Colonial vocabulary lists.


brightknightie: With Hank and Diana in the lead, the children confront Tiamat. (Other Fandom D&D poster)
"Add something to your fandom’s canon."

Only "add," not change, fix, override, or redirect, hmmm? Three ideas:

HL )
BSG78 )
D&DC )

brightknightie: Cassiopeia, in uniform (Other Fandom BSG)
The [community profile] everywoman mods have revealed the authors, so I can share that I wrote "Conjunction" (BSG78) (Cassiopeia & Serina, w/Paye, Dietra, Salik, Rigel) (G, gen, ~2K words) for [personal profile] senmut's prompt: “sisterhood,” “friendship,” “making a life out of tragedy,” and “true caring between characters.”

If you feel inclined, please read. If you have constructive criticism and don't want to put it in public, DM me.

Yep, it was one of those double-match exchange situations. I wrote for the author who wrote for me, and we both wrote BSG78 (rec). I appreciate having more BSG78 around! Did you know that it has only 244 works by 92 authors on the AO3? Check it out. I've been told that people just didn't write fanfiction back then, completely aside from whether it could have been preserved and propagated, and that I shouldn't expect more, but... only 244? For BSG78? I understand that I'm biased in favor of a story I love so much, but how could they all have resisted the urge to fill in those blanks? With the abrupt cancellation and the despised sequel? Humans have been fanficcing -- I mean, intertextualizing, yeah -- at least since Homer. We have 3 separate versions of what happened to Iphigenia, and those are just the works that survived millennia. Heck, I personally wrote fanfic before I had a clue what it was! I feel it's much more likely that some people did write BSG78 stories, if only for themselves, and those diaries and spiral notebooks and letters just never made it to us here and now.

I bet some of those diaries and spiral notebooks and letters were awesome.

brightknightie: Cassiopeia, in uniform (Other Fandom BSG)
The [community profile] everywoman exchange has opened its '22 collection! Check out all 74 works. Authors are still anonymous.

The gift I received:
"From Reporter to Pilot" (891 words) (Gen, G) (stars Serina; Boxey, Apollo, and canonical extras get a few lines)

This story is an archipelago of missing scenes, bridging select gaps from one canonical Serina appearance to the next, building a through-line from, as the title says, Serina as reporter to Serina as warrior pilot. The story reminds me again how amazing the Serina character is, was, always, and how disjointed canon often is around her, with what they left off-screen versus what they put on. (Apollo falls for Serina because she is the kind of person who successfully leads shell-shocked survivors out of a burning city, and exposes corruption and profiteering, not because she cooks colorful desserts. Network television, in any decade, you will never live that down.)


I haven't yet read any other stories in the collection, but I observe that there's a second BSG78 story in addition to mine, 1 Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, 3 BtVS, 2 MCU, 1 SGA, and a drawing/painting of Luna Lovegood.

brightknightie: Cassiopeia, in uniform (Other Fandom BSG)
I'm playing [community profile] halfamoon '22 as a recommendations challenge...

For the second theme, "Politics," I recommend this Battlestar Galactica (1978) story in which we get to re-experience early canon from the civilian side with the main female characters. While that might at first seem far from the political struggles of the Council and Commander, this story shows the grassroots as the front lines in whether and how society will rebuild.

"Ragtag" by [archiveofourown.org profile] malinaldarose
10K words
G


brightknightie: Cassiopeia, in uniform (Other Fandom BSG)
[community profile] retrotvexchange de-anonymized its stories over the weekend. Some familiar contributors include [personal profile] malinaldarose (ST:TOS "Diplomacy"), [personal profile] greerwatson (MASH "Crabapple Cove"), and [personal profile] senmut (Doctor Who "Invasion of Feelings").

The story that I wrote is:

"The Field Trip"
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
G, gen; 4,639 words
Apollo, Athena, Starbuck, Cassiopeia; cameos for Boxy and Rigel

My recipient requested action/adventure/plot and a look into Apollo and Athena's sibling relationship. The idea arrived as two episodes' worth, but it arrived late, and became thirty minutes' worth. I feel that was a blessing in disguise. If I'd had more time to work on the story, the way to go should have been deeper, not wider, and I might not have realized that.

brightknightie: Cassiopeia, in uniform (Other Fandom BSG)
From the [community profile] harvey_fanaid fundraiser for hurricane relief, I made a donation and [archiveofourown.org profile] merfilly kindly wrote a new Battlestar Galactica (1978) story for us all to enjoy:

"Acknowledging the Problem" (~1K words) (gen, G) (Cassiopeia, Starbuck, Apollo, glimpse of Adama)

I supplied a prompt about the redevelopment of civil society. We received a two-layered look at the shape of things: up close, a not-entirely-successful party, and at a distance, a road toward renewed civilization.

Thank you, [archiveofourown.org profile] merfilly!

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