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"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.

"Write a promo, manifesto or primer."

Imagine, if you will, an epic crossover between Homer's Odyssey and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, with all the ancient Greek and medieval Christian religious beliefs and holy figures running around, equally, and interacting with each other and the protagonists. Then marinate this crossover in Cervantes's Don Quixote for satire and irony. Finally, generously dust it with shredded Spenser's Faerie Queene for allegory and top off with a slather of gooey melted Dante's Divine Comedy for worldbuilding. And it's funny. So funny.

That wild mash-up would be a western literary approximation of the eastern literary classic The Journey to the West, which is set in 7th-century China, and was published as the hundred-chapter novel we know today circa 1592. It's attributed to Wu Cheng'en (questioning the real authorship is a thing a la Shakespeare, only more so, because the original publication was anonymous). It wasn't translated into English at all until the early 20th-century, and wasn't translated into English in full until the 1980s, but of course it's been available and loved in many other languages for centuries. Like the European works I mention above, the hundred-chapter-novel of JttW draws on previous literature, folklore, and real history and religion to craft a literary achievement that has stood the test of time and been itself endlessly adapted. The way many of us might casually refer to Arthur's sword or Odysseus's journey, folks who grew up with JttW might casually refer to Wukong's rod or Xuanzang's quest.

We need a back-cover blurb here, right? Wikipedia says: "Enduringly popular, the novel is at once a comic adventure story, a humorous satire of Chinese bureaucracy, a source of spiritual insight, and an extended allegory." ( Read more... )

Meme picked up from lightbird...

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On Thursday, celli shared a 33-question "AO3/fic" meme and said she'd like to read others' responses. Here's my take. (I'm attempting to type without a brace on for the first time in almost 3 months; we'll see how it goes.)

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Meme lifted from Celli and adapted:

72% of my AO3 works are FK; 13% HL; 15% everything else. Given that, it's interesting that 0 of my "Top 5 by Hits" are either FK or HL. And 0 of my "Top 5 by Kudos" and "Top 5 by Bookmarks" are FK (3 of each are HL).

Synthesizing kudos, bookmarks, and threads (while ignoring hits), I believe that the most popular stories I've been able to share so far are: BtVS "Fortune Prove" from Willow's perspective (Teen, gen, 13K words) (2009: 62 kudos, 13 bookmarks) and HL "To Reason Why" from Methos's perspective (G, gen, 3K words) (2017: 58 kudos, 10 bookmarks).

I do try to play with such numbers only inside the closed, limited habitat of my own stuff. Comparing to others would be apples and oranges! Blackberries and strawberries? Pecans and almonds...