Snowflake 2018

Day 9

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

In December 2016 I asked for requests for gift ficlets (probably around 500 words each, I thought). The character and prompt mix was pretty varied, some of them rather stretched me, and most were around or over 2,000 words. I like the variety, I like that I just wrote a line for what each should be about and got on with it, no flailing and whining, and I like that I can go back and read them and (mainly) not cringe. There are a couple of spin off ficlets and a gap filler and a few with people I never imagined I'd write but enjoyed. (And a few never made it, but I still have the requests and they will appear eventually because I get mad at myself when I do that).

So -- Gifties: December 2016 . Here's the character mix -- yes, yes, a fair bit of Erestor but still less than half....

Osse and Gil-galad
Erestor/Glorfindel (in Nevrast)
Gil-galad and Cirdan
Erestor/Gil-galad, Gildor, Elrond, Elladan, Glorfindel.....
Erestor/Elrond
Erestor and Gil-galad
Feanor and Nerdanel
Beleg/Haldir
Celebrimbor, Galadriel, Annatar

Snowflake 2018

Day 11

Share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I remember exactly when I fell in love with The X-Files. It was Anasazi - the arc that started end of season 2 - which I hired to maybe look at after some movie I wanted to see. I think it might have been a bad night at Blockbusters. Anyhow, I'd missed it when it aired - I was a more casual viewer till then because I was usually out Friday nights. I put it in the machine after the movie and watched. Got coffee, ran it back, sat on the floor in front of the tv, watched it again. Did it a third time. Realised the birds had started singing and that I HAD MISSED (and needed to find) SO MANY EPISODES!!!!

It was this amazing feeling, like falling in love - all the excitement, all the fascination for this new, wonderful thing in my life, all the controlled terror that it might implode as soon as I began to trust it. And let's face it, the show changed, lost some sparkle, had a ghastly 'ending' .... but that's okay, it's the X-Files, I can just pretend none of the ugly bits happened (and that Alex is alive and well and off somewhere busily selling secrets).

This was my first true fandom, as in following all the details about the show and the actors, writing episodes of the mythology in my head, devouring fan fiction when that opportunity finally came ---- my primary motivation for wanting my first computer was based at least partially in needing to get online at home and find out more!!! I've never actually written any X-Files fic. By the time I had the confidence and experience to do the people I love justice, things were quieter and I was very involved with Tolkien, but still one of the best things that can happen for me on Ao3 is to find a really good fic I've not read yet (and if it has Alex and Marita, even as secondary characters, it's like Christmas morning).

Guilty secret time: when Season 10 came back after all that time, I didn't give a damn if it was brilliant or totally sucked. I just cared that it was out there. First love is like that, I guess.