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Your top 5 fandoms for 2023 were:

I started this year still continuing my sui generis rewatch of The Vampire Diaries. It was inspired by "stacked natural", this thing started by Supernatural fans where they rewatched the episodes of the show in the anniversary of their airing date, instead of in order. I decided I would do it with MY favourite problematic, cynical, seen-as-silly-due-to-genre-conceptions-but-quite-sharp-about-human-nature CW show. AND I had a blast doing it. It's all on my tumblr under the tag "stackediaries".

After that I had a very brief love affair with Yellowjackets. I binge-watched the first season just as the second started airing. I loved it. The second season... eh. It didn't quite land for me. I still haven't watched the season's finale and I don't know if I will. I'd have to hear great things about season 3 from my trusted dash.

IIRC it was around the same time when I started dipping my toes back into the DCU, which is definitely my star fandom of 2023 (and will predictably be the star fandom in 2024). I finally caught up with Young Justice, I started to read comics in earnest again (with a focus on Jason Todd, determined to read all the appareances I hadn't read or missed since I dropped comics, but I inevitably expanded my interests), I watched and rewatched some films, I rewatched Gotham (or what I call The Baby Batcat cut. Which means I kind of skip/half-watch scenes of subplots I don't find as interesting. Tbf that doesn't mean I only watch Bruce and Selina because there WERE other parts of the show I loved LOL, but they are my main focus)... and so on.

I think this fandom counts by at least 5 all by itself, so I'll stop counting here. Especially since I haven't really participated in others, with the exception of a couple I'll mention in a moment.

Your top 5 fandom spaces in 2023 were:

Tumblr remains my number 1. It has its downsides and it's not as active as it used to be, but I make do. Especially when I put in some effort. It's where My People are, it's where I keep finding more. I can post pretty gifsets, AND more involved meta posts (although those get the least attention lol), AND my random bouts of bitchiness :P

Discord has been a nice one as well. I'm not in a lot of groups because I struggle keeping up, but the ones that I participate in are small and filled with my writer friends.

Reddit has been one I've used more this year! It can exasperate the HELL out of me but it can also be pretty fun. And I don't mind getting into an argument with a troll once in a while. I have my fun trolling back LOL.

Other than thatt I didn't really use other spaces much. I didn't post any fic, although I did read & comment in some in ao3. I commented in some author's substacks and ko-fis. I have platforms like twitter and so on but I rarely if ever use them tbh. They just don't work for me.

The top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom/top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions in 2023 were:

stackediaries was definitely fun. I was doing it by myself lol (minus a mutual who did watch a handful of episodes), but I met a lot of other fans that way and we had great combos thanks to it.

I had so much fun that I went and did it with another problematic CW fave this year: stacked100, aka The 100. It's me and a handful of mutuals from back in the days the show aired, because I REALLY didn't vibe with the fandom at large and as consequence, I ended up finding My People, with whom I could enjoy the show with, without getting sucked into all the drama.

And since as I said, I didn't finish any story in 2023... I went to see my tumblr stats so I could link to my most popular posts LOL.

1. The Silly Shitpost (cannibalism edition). Because those are ALWAYS the ones that get the notes lmao. 1.798 as of now.

Screenshot from a tumblr post from laufire (with an icon of Caroline Forbes smiling and putting in a fluffy birthday crown). It shows an image from Yellowjackets where Mari, a bit deadpan, expressionless, says "I guess... no one wants breakfast.", the morning after they all ate Jackie's corpse. After that in text it's added "she is so me for this. funniest person in the wilderness, likely future victim of the cannibal cult for the foot-in-mouth disease." The tags say "and also for that moment where jackie used her to make shauna jealous, which i would've been totally there for, i know shauna still thinks of that, yellowjackets, yellowjackets spoilers, yellowjackets 2x03, mari yellowjackets, part of me wants her to be a secret big bad i think she has the range, love her xDD, id in alt text, captioned, cannibalism mention". It was posted 9 months ago on April 7, 2023, at 4:39 pm.

2 & 3. My Best Friend Wolfgang. Again, silly live watching is what does numbers there lol. 905 and 752 notes, respectively.

Screenshot of a tumblr post by laufire. The text say "whispers pulling the “I know you’re not going to harm us, will, it’s not in you, you’re not a killer” card only for him to go “lucky for me one of my besties is :)” before a wild wolfgang appears ready to crash into a helicopter if necessary is one of the best moments in the show. wolfgang brings a real “always down to go on a righteous murder spree even if it ends me” energy into the group project and everyone loves it.", The tags say "also he killed his own father as a kid. cold blooded. premeditated. burnt his corpse too. he's gr10 is what i mean, talking to the void, my thoughts, sense8, sense8 thoughts, i'm just skipping scenes here and there, wolfgang bogdanow." It was posted 9 months ago on April 20, 2023, at 6:48 pm.

Screenshot of a tumblr post by laufire. The text says "everyone else: sun maybe think twice before murdering your brother? wolfgang: god forbid women do anything 🙄". The tags say "A Duo, talking to the void, my thoughts, sense8 thoughts, sense8, sun x wolfgang, a friend like wolfgang and a girlfriend like amanita. what more could one ask for, wolfgang bogdanow, sun bak". It was posted 9 months ago on april 20, 2023, at 10:57 PM.

That's my fandom wrapped!

PS: I'm also borrowing a meme I've seen from charlottenewtons and senmut : FEMFEBRUARY,

Basically: send me a fandom (you can check my sticky post for inspiration) + a female character + (optional) an specficic topic about her, and I'll write meta about her in February!

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Try something new. 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.

Today I posted a new entry of my author's newsletter. This time it's a short story (around 5k) that could serve as a "prequel" for one of my ideas, "Underground Elysium.

A visionary vampiress, belonging to a matriarchal society of vampires with praying mantis-like habits, saw the apocalypse as an opportunity to subjugate humanity and elevate her species in a new world order, after the outside world became inhospitable to humans. Between the choice of risking falling prey to the walking, rotting corpses that roam the exterior, and a life of servitude under the civilised blood-sucking monsters underneath, many submitted to the second option. Nonetheless, there’s those even among her own that don’t appreciates living under Lucretia’s iron fist; around every corner a conspiracy against her brews, right as election season approaches.

The story offers a window to the beginnings of Lucretia’s dynamic with Dana, the main antagonist, and I really enjoyed writing! It's also the first time I share something longer / self-contained of my original writing, so I am excited about that as well.

Picrew of a black woman with ashen skin and a youthful appearance. She has red eyes and painted red lips, and her hair is black, long, in relaxed waves. She's wearing white, and she has a silver sun crown adoring her head, as well as a light golden moon behind it, and a paper with faded writing in the background.

Picrew of a pale young white woman with freckles over her cheeks and the bridge of her knows. She has red eyes in spiral shape, and very dark red, short curly hair falling over her forehead and ears, around her face. Her lips are painted dark red, and she wears two fangs as earrings and a white half moon as necklace, as well as a blue dress that shows off her shoulders. Her background is an old ocre paper, and her head is framed by the shape of golden arrows coming out of it in a circle.

To finish this off, I'll let you with some picrews I made of the characters. I posted Lucretia's (left) in another challenge, and ended up making Dana's (right) afterwards.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: FKA Twigs - Measure of a Man

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Make a rec list! 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 fear you'll get tired of me reccing things (I feel I have done nothing but during this challenge!), but I'll obey the challenge,so, here: a few more! Exclusively comics, this time, and I'll try to pic some mini-runs and self-contained issues that I haven't talked about yet (that I remember lol).

Oracle: Year One. This criminally short story can be found in "The Batman Chronicles" #5. It should be AT LEAST four issues long, on par with other "Year One" arcs (the Joker is getting THREE FREAKING ISSUES this month smh), but it is pretty damn near perfect as it is. A love letter to Barbara Gordon's character and a look into how she rebuilds herself after TKJ. The perfect un-fridging.
JLA/Titans #1-3. Mainly a Titans story and a precursor for Titans (1999). Very, very interesting, seemingly like everything Devin Grayson writes, one way or another.
The Enigma of the Amigara Fault by Junji Ito. Just read it. I won't spoil anything, just embrace the creepiness.
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #1-6. If you know and love Kara Zor-El, read it. If you're only vaguely aware of who her character is, READ IT.
Dark Knights of Steel #1-12 (+ Tales from the Three Kingdoms). A "medieval" AU of DC. Quite interesting concepts. Might inspire you.
Batman '89 #1-6. A must if you liked Burton's Batman. It's set after Batman Returns, it's only six issues long, and it has a great (and very different) Barbara, AND a new Robin character that I feel for almost immediately.
Waller vs. Wildstorm #1-4. A reddit comment described its writers as “a de facto communist and a diversity hire grifter”, so it had to be at least interesting. Also, it has a better Waller than the one in canon rn.
Batman: Son of the Demon. A classic. Great Talia, great Brutalia, and the original inspiration of Damian.

If you have a short run/one-shot comic you'd like to recommend, feel free to leave a comment!

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Current Music: Mägo de Oz - La Dama del Mar

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Tell Us about a Personal Win. Share whatever wins you’re comfortable with telling us all about. Found a new fandom that makes you light up? One of your creations has earned more kudos than you dreamed of? Wins from life, new job, new school, new adventure? You have a couple of wins you want to celebrate, we want to hear about them. Share a win or two so we can cheer for you.

I have mentioned this in another entry, but one personal win I had recently was last year, when I finally finished my degree(s) (although the certificates haven't arrived yet Because Bureocracy LOL). Due to some external factors I really struggled for a few years on the academic side of things, and it was such a relief to finally accomplish what I set out to do there. Things are far from settled for me in my professional life, but that was a huge step in the right direction.

Another thing I feel proud about is having started an author's newsletter, something I had wanted to do for a while. So far there's only one newsletter out, but there are two upcoming ones coming soon: another one with updates in February, and one with an original short story before the month is over. After some years floundering in the writing department -since sorting things out in academia took priority-, I also feel like I'm back on track on that front, too.

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Dixie Chicks - Landslide

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In your own space, create a fanwork. 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 decided to make a few icons! They're all from DC comics I've read (or reread) the last month or so, seventeen in total.

( Bruce & Talia - Detective Comics #411, Batman #244 )( Bruce & Talia - Detective Comics #411, Batman #244 )( Bruce & Talia - Detective Comics #411, Batman #244 )
( Steph & Tim, Detective Comics #648 )
( Dick & Helena. Nightwing/Huntress #2 + #4 )

( Barbara & Cassandra. Batman #567, Detective Comics #734 )
( Dick & Jesse. Titans #11 + #12 + #19 )
( Jason & Kara. Batman/Superman Annual #1 )
( Zatanna. DC Speechless! #4 )
( Damian & Talia. DC's 'Twas the Mite Before Christmas )

ETA: let me know if you use them! They're 200x200px, so adjust them if you need to.

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Five Things! The five things are totally up to you. 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.

In one of these challenges I asked people to send me questions about my top fives, whatever they'd wanted.

This time I want to ask one myself: what are your top 5 female characters?

They can be from anywhere: books, films, shows, an OC you've created and nurtured for years... go nuts.

To break the ice, I'm gonna go with five female characters from my own original stories, Just Because. Not necessarily a definite Top 5 (I love them all, your honour), but a Top 5 RIGHT NOW :P

Captain Latoya. She is and probably will always be number one in my heart. Space pirate, alien-human hybrid, daughter and grandaughter of tyrants. Arrogant, idealistic, ruthless, sharp, brave. A killer, a history savant, a natural performer and a hopeless romantic.
Lady Vela. Years ago Vela requested the fairies' aid to free herself from the monsters raising her at home. Now, the fairies want to collect the debt. Vela is a young woman of deep, hidden melancholy with a trickster streak of her own, with a very tragic past and little hope for the future.
Sadie Maxwell-Arriaga. A young, self-trained witch of immense natural talent, in love with magic above all things. Scrappy, greedy, kind, risk-prone, of easy-going manners broken occasionally by righteous anger. And murder suspect!
Fanny. Seductive, deciteful femme fatala playing opposite to Giulietta, a lovelorn private investigator, both human woman (with a few extrasensory talents, in Giulietta's case) navigating a noir city of supernatural creatures. More than meets the eye 😉
Imperatrix Lucretia. Visionary (or dictatorial, depending on who you ask) thrice elected leader of an underground society where vampires rule humans in exchange of protection from the outside world. Lucretia rose from the lowest depths of her society to the very top, fighting for her vision. She's calculating, paranoid, and pitiless, and would die before relinquishing power.

I added some images using this picrew, in order, from left to right:
Picrew of a light brown skinned young woman, with dark frekless over her nose and cheeks, red eyes with black scleara, and short black hair braided close to the scalp. She's wearing a white and golden outfit that leaves her shoulders uncovered, and has black wings. Her background shows the silouette of a sun framing her head, over a celestial sky.

Picrew of a light brown skinned young woman, with dark frekless over her nose and cheeks, red eyes with black scleara, and short black hair braided close to the scalp. She's wearing a white and golden outfit that leaves her shoulders uncovered, and has black wings. Her background shows the silouette of a sun framing her head, over a celestial sky.

Picrew of a young asian woman, with light skin, green eyes, and a beauty mark under the right eye. She has black hair, braided down, and a white start on her forehead. She's wearing a sleeveless, high top with geometrical folms in ocre over maroon colour, and has pink and silver earrings. Her background is light, with drawings of eyes, moons, and stars.

Picrew of a young, dark skinned, curvy black woman with grey eyes. She has thick, volouminous, curly black hair adored with two light yellow roses, and wears a soft yellow that shows off her shoulders, and an ocre relaxed ribbon as a necklace.

Picrew of a pale white woman with big, dark brown eyes and plump limps painted red. She has long, styled, voluminous brown hair. She's wearing an open, long sleeved light blue shirt with small purple flowers in the colar, a light silver chocker, and earrings with a drawn grey eye. Her background is in sliding golden and dark brown, with the golden sillouete of a crown of laurel framing her head.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Mirel Wagner - No Death

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Rec Us Your Newest Thing. 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 feel like all I've been doing during this event is recommending things LOL, but why not continue? I do like talking about my new shiny interests.

Titans (1999) #1-20. I just finish Devin Grayson's run in this volume and I really, really enjoyed it. It's definitely unpolished in some parts, heavy-handed in others but a.) the plot is solid and traps you, b.) the characters are MIGHTY interesting in this, and c.) the dynamics involved between them are JUICY AS FUCK. And the art is peak comic-book art. I really don't ask for more.
"Lud-in-the-Mist" by Hope Mirrless. This book has been on my to-read list for a long time now, after a friend's recommendation. I've just started it, I've only read a few episodes, but it's been a while since a book ensnared me so quickly. The jist of the premise is as follows:

Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country Dorimare, is a port at the conﬂuence of two rivers, the Dapple and the Dawl. The Dapple has its origin beyond the Debatable Hills to the west of Lud-in-the-Mist, in Fairyland. In the days of Duke Aubrey, some centuries earlier, fairy things had been looked upon with reverence, and fairy fruit was brought down the Dapple and enjoyed by the people of Dorimare. But after Duke Aubrey had been expelled from Dorimare by the burghers, the eating of fairy fruit came to be regarded as a crime, and anything related to Fairyland was unspeakable. Now, when his son Ranulph is believed to have eaten fairy fruit, Nathaniel Chanticleer, the mayor of Lud-in-the-Mist, finds himself looking into old mysteries in order to save his son and the people of his city.

But really, what has captured me is Mirrless' prose. It's vivid, whimsical in the best way, and utterly, utterly beautiful. Prose that is just functional has its place, don't get me wrong, but I do often feel that prose itself -beyond characters, tropes, ships, whatever-, receives very little appreciation. Craft matters!! And I love it when I'm before a book where the writer obviously gave it their all, where they thought long and hard about it, where every word is well-placed and produces a nearly musical effect. I want to write like this, damn xD

To close this, I wanted to link to the ficlets I've received in response to my prompts in the three sentences ficathon, so far

DC comics, Dick Grayson, family. Dick & the (Teen) Titans, by lumiosecity
DC comics, Jason Todd, Robin. By wingedflight
DC comics, Kara Zor-el, homesick. By lyntergalactic
DC comics, Stephanie Brown, vindication. By be_themoon AND by saiditallbefore
DC comics, Talia al Ghul, tragedy. By starriewolf
DC Comics, Dick/Helena Bertinelli, second one-night stand. By templefugate

And that's all for now! But I encourage you to share your recs here, especially if you know any book with beautiful prose.

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Destiny's Child - Independent Women, pt. 1

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Talk about a current fannish project (fic, art, vid, crochet, funko pop village) that you are creating or enjoying.

A chance to ramble about my current WIPs? I'll gladly take that.

This month I went low effort, to ease myself into what's going to be a veeeeery busy week. The fics I'm tackling are two, and only one of those will be (hopefully) finished this month. Both are DCU fics, following my current obsession.

The short one is a 5+1 one-shot type (although I guess there's a chance I'll divide those in short-ish chapters). I've labelled it "Immortal Jason" because it's precisely about that lol. There's an argument to be made about new earth!Jason having some resurrection capabilities -or, maybe more accurately, about how the ~universe~, corrected by Superboy-Prime's punch, just... rewrites itself and puts Jason back alive, as he "should" have been. So I thought it could be interesting to write about different members of the Bat Clan finding out about it! At first it was a more diffuse project, but at the beginning of this month I set it on a definite timeline: all post-UTRH, pre-Countdown/Batman R.I.P, (ymmv on whether those would still happen after the fic; not my problem xD). With a more stretched out period than the comics allowed, because they can't allow any breathing rhythim, of course (technically right after UTRH there's a one-year time skip). I've roughly decided that a period of three years goes between those events, for this fic's purpose, and that works out great for the fic. So far, I have rough drafts of (in order), Tim's, Cass', and Dick's scenes. Next would be Damian's, Alfred's, and Bruce's.

The long project is... well, a long one lol, and I'll be tackling it for the next few months. It's a long fic set in Young Justice, the animated show, set after the last season and focused on briging Jason back to the fold, and introducing Damian with it. It takes a little inspiration, among other comic timelines (even a little of pre-crisis!Jay), from the DCAU version of Jason that was written into a comic a few years back; just a little bit, because I found the treatment of his character there fucking atrocious LOL, but there were a couple elements that I found interesting (mainly, Jason having an older sibling that dies before Bruce takes him in. A brother, in the comic, but I've genderswapped the character). Other than that, there's a lot of Jason, a lot of the Bat Clan and the al Ghuls, a lot of flashbacks visiting Jason's time as Robin Because I Love It, and a lot of secret identity shenanigans, because Jason conceals his true identity for a long part of the story.

I'm still working out the kinks -seeing what characters to include and how prominent they'll be, what events I want to show in flashbacks, key events I want to include, etc.-, and I've written a lot of the flashbacks and a handful of scenes down the line. I'm really enjoying it, because this is a huge passion project of mine that's been floating around my head for years, and it's now finally crystalising.

I'm also enjoying the three sentence ficathon. I've received some fills and I've written a couple myself; I'll publish a masterpost about it later down the road, in case I write or receive more ^-^

Finally, I've mentioned this before, but other than that, this month I'm focusing on an original short story, telling the backstory of the protagonist and antagonist of a slightly longer tale: two vampiresses that veer for control of an underground empire in an upcoming election. I aim to publish that in my newsletter by the end of January.

Current Mood: determined
Current Music: Sade - King of Sorrow

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Make a list of fannish and/or creative resources. 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 tend to think everyone knows about The Submission Grinder, a site for fiction and poetry writers to keep track of open submissions. But if you didn't know about it, or you're just starting to get your stories out, it might be useful!

And if you're on tumblr, check out Writeblr Graduates, to promote your published (be it traditional, indie, online, etc.) original writing.

Recently I found out about PostyBirb, a site that helps you speed up the process of posting to multiple sites and schedule posts, which can be useful for artists or writers trying to promote their work.

For my fellow DC fans, I wanted to post about the DCU guide, which I often use to track down characters appearances, chronologies, etc. (very useful for a completitionist like me lol). Although I mostly read batclan-related comics, and for that I tend to go for this regularly updated google spreadsheet of characters appearances and mentions.

Finally: if you haven't seen it, the three sentence ficathon is out! Go post your prompts! I posted a few myself (all about the dcu, of course), in case anyone's looking for inspiration 😉

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In your own space, 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. . 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.

A while ago I started doing posts with a few recs that got sidetracked when I stopped using this journal for a little while, so I thought I'd do one of those!

ONE SHOW: yesterday I decided to watch a few episodes from the first season of "Batman: The Animated Series" and was once again overtaken by how much I love that show. I haven't really watched the other seasons, but from what I've seen new adventures didn't quite land that... baby's first gothic vibe season one had going on. Season one though? Superb. The Cat and the Claw and the first meeting between Bruce-Batman and Selina-Catwoman, the utter heartbreak in Heart of Ice, the melancholy It's Never Too Late, the tragic bent in On Leather Wings and ESPECIALLY Feet of Clay, the catharsis in Joker's Favor... this show had hit after hit after hit.
ONE FILM: "The Lion in Winter". If you enjoy a good story about an immensely fucked up royal family, this one is my favourite of all time. No character leaves you indifferent. And although we're already halfway through January, I love to watch it in winter. Really gets me in the spirit of the holidays!
ONE COMIC: I recently read "Nightwing/Huntress" (written by the infamous Devin Grayson, whose writing I'm just getting familiar with). Loved it. It's a take on Dick not everyone will enjoy, but I dig it, and the dynamic it presents between the characters is fascinating. Also, it's only four issues long, the art is gorgeous, and Helena should always wear that version of the suit.
ONE BOOK: "The Sanguine Sorceress" by Camilla Andrew. I don't get tired of recommending this book and this author, someone who I consider both a friend and a remarkable artist. I love a good tale of revenge starting an imperfect victim, with opulent descriptive prose and a detailed fantasy worldbuilding, and this novelette has it all. The paperback edition (still available for purchase) finally arrived in the mail, and it has gooooorgeous illustrations (ETA: forgot to add credit to the artist, Rachel Bostick). If it sounds like it could be the story for you, I wholeheartedly recommend it.

three pictures. The first one shows a book opened on its first page, with an illustration on the left. Over a black background, there's a maiden dressed modestly, in white, drawn as in inside a white guilded cage; over her, the red shadow of a butterfly obscures her. The middle is a book cover for "The Sanguine Sorceress", with red vines over a black background that form the shape of a ribcage, with a dagger insearted in the hard encaged in it. On the left there's another illustration of the same woman, now dressed in black, inside black vines, with the same butterfly shadow; this time, she seems to have blood on her mouth.

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Kovacs - Diggin'

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Search in your current space, whether brick-and-mortar or digital. Post a picture (a link to a picture will be fine!) or description of something that is or represents:

Very well!

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Current Music: Anouk - Girl

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IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself. 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 gonna cheat just a little bit, because really, I find talking about myself extremely difficult. But! Lucky for me, I already had to do such titanic effort when I had to introduce myself on January 1st for my brand new author's newsletter (#selfpromo). So I'm just going to borrow from that section. If you want to read the rest (writing updates, an excerpt from an upcoming story, recommendations), you'll have to click the link :P

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As for an ice breaker... ask me a top 5 [insert anything here] in the comments, and I'll reply!

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Create a wish list of fandom things (podfic, graphics, playlists, canon recs translations, research help, vids, sky's the limit!) that you'd like to receive. 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 would definitely welcome sites where you can get information to help with research. Specially scientifical/medical information (a lot of complicated injuries and injury complications will be making an appearance in upcoming fic lol.

Generally, any good resource for writers you think is useful! You never know.

Book recs! I like adult lit, and welcome any genre, but tend to go for fantasy and sci-fi, preferably centered on women, and ideally writing by non-british, non-north american authors (just for variety!). Oh, and any good non-fiction you might have read recently! I favour philosophy/world history and autobiographies by interesting historical women, but I'd read anything that catches my eye.

And why not, fic recs! You can look at my sticky post for my fandoms, but I'm particularly in the mood for dc comics (especially Jason-related, but some other favourite characters of mine are Talia, Dick, Kara, Selina, or Diana), the buffyverse (Buffy, Lilah/Wesley, Faith, Angel, Willow, Giles), the plecverse (Caroline, Bonnie, Elena), or, weirdly, because it's not really one of my fandoms, ASOIAF (ANYTHING for the female characters that focuses on their damn selves and/or dynamics between them and ignores the guys pls... Cersei, Catelyn, Brienne, Daenerys, Arya, Shae, Sansa...). At the moment I'm interested in long, plotty fics; gen or shippy, although I know I'd be extra nitpicky about the latter class lol.

Thank you in advance ^-^

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I've been inactive here for a while, despite my determination to use this new-ish journal. Lucky for me, I knew the snowflake challenge was right around the corner, and I thought I'd take advantage of that!

Not much has changed since I made this journal. I'm still enraptured by detective comics comics –sometimes to my delight, sometimes to my frustration. My most darling character remains Jason Todd, who lives rent free in my mind when it comes to fandom, and who keeps inspiring new fic ideas I can barely keep up with (my goal this year is to finally do something with them!!). The Bat Clan in general has my attention, as do some 'verses outside the comics (Young Justice, Gotham, or Batwoman gave me some inspiration too... although yeah, often involving Jason xD).

Some other favourites you might see around here:

Authors & Books: Ana María Matute, Angela Carter, Camilla Andrew ("When the Stars Alight", "The Sanguine Sorceress"), "Carmilla", Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Dangerous Liaisons", Daphne du Maurier, "El cordero carnívoro", "Hymn to Demeter", Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley, "Medea", Miguel Hernández, Philip Pullman, "Pygmalion", Shirley Jackson, Terry Pratchett.
Comics: outside of DC, I tend to go for IDW (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees), Image (Monstress, Paper Girls, Saga), and Iron Man (volumes 1 & 3, Doomquest/Legacy of Doom, Fatal Frontier, the current run).
Films: the Alien franchise, Black Swan, Blancanieves (2012), Colombiana, El verdugo, Jupiter Ascending, Lust Caution, Pan's Labyrinth, Practical Magic, The Handmaiden, The Lion in Winter, The Mask of Zorro, The Terminator.
Shows: the Buffyverse, the Plecverse, Black Sails, Desperate Housewives, Dollhouse, Killjoys, Nikita, Person of Interest, Reign, Severance, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Sopranos, Veronica Mars.

But really, my primary focus is on my own original writing (I am my main fandom, in a way). I've mentioned my stories here and there on this journal, but going forward I'll discuss them & share my writing primarily on my brand new author's newsletter!

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In it I intend to post monthly updates (with excerpts, recommendations, etc.), as well as an extra publication with more in-depth narrative analysis over various topics and original short stories every month. You can take a look at that first entry, and see if it's something you'll be interested in!

ETA: I intend for this journal to be public.