Sunshine Revival '25 #1

[brightknightie]

sunshine_revival '25 Challenge #1: "Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025."

My fannish goals for the rest of this summer include:

• Participate in everywoman, the fanfic exchange starring women characters, when it comes along. I will definitely offer D&DC, TLOZ, and BSG78; others' requests will influence what else I may list.


• Build a pattern of recommending something once per week on recommendation communities, and then including a wrap-up of my recs here in my own journal in my monthly "Enthusiasms" post. (Or give it its own monthly post?) Probably usually in recthething, but it could be any suitable recs community. (Is it appropriate to cross-post recs to multiple recs communities? Maybe at staggered intervals?)


• Finish writing and post an odd TLOZ piece I'm thinking of as: "Three Gerudo Ficlets in the Past of Tears of the Kingdom, Before Age of Imprisonment Totally Josses Them." You see, I'd already sketched two story concepts of this sort before AOI was announced, one with Kotake and Koume, the other with Naboris (presumed name of the masked Gerudo sage). There's no way I'll grow them both up into "real" stories before the game launches, but if I wait for them to grow fully into themselves, the game will absolutely "joss" them (that is, turn the canon/lore in such a way as to void them). So it occurred to me that I could polish and share them as the little stubs they are, but... three would feel so much more complete! So I'm out for a third idea, ideally another Gerudo woman character to place in this milieu. I plan to review the cut scenes this holiday weekend. If that doesn't light a spark, I'll go to my favorite ZeldaTuber theorists, starting with Zeltik and moving down my list.

At the end of the year, of course I plan to participate in hlh_shortcuts, the annual Highlander fanfic exchange.

Catching up on TV whenever, I plan to watch Andor (season two) and Ironheart (season one). I wish that they released one episode per week, not tranches of episodes! I find one-episode-per-week so inviting, and these tranches so overwhelming, that I end up putting off watching these, while I am of course wholly caught up on the current season of Grantchester. Back-watching TV, I will continue my one-episode-per-week first-time viewing of Babylon 5. (Again, if you mentally classify the special effects as meant for stage instead of screen, this show does much more than merely "hold up;" I feel that it beats the heck out of most of what we have today. Storytelling, acting, episodicness and continuity...)

I already have my pre-sale tickets for Superman (2025) and The Fantastic Four (2025), of course. (Please let me say again that folks should consider watching Thunderbolts*; it's rich and satisfying in multiple layers. I'm disheartened that so many people skipped it. It's well-made and deserves better.)


How about you...?

Comments

[autodach]

I see people crossposting to multiple communities all the time. Don’t worry about that!

[brightknightie]

Thanks! I appreciate knowing that.

[lightbird]

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I enjoyed the sunshine_challenge and was disappointed when it didn't happen last year. Glad other people got on it and created a reboot!

[brightknightie]

You're very welcome! I'm grateful when thoughtful folks revive/reincarnate good communities in this way. For example, everywoman is the successor/descendant/evolution of at least three predecessors. And of course there's the progeny of Fandom Stocking.