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Snowflake Challenge - Day 2
Jan. 6th, 2023 11:25 amChallenge #2
In your own space, write a promo, manifesto or primer for your fave character, ship or fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I'll be honest. My eyes glaze over whenever I try to read a manifesto or meta about fandom. It seems like bellybutton gazing to me, for the most part. If you can't see the beauty or value in a fandom, then I can't make you see it. A fandom either clicks or it doesn't.
I yack my head off about my faves IRL with my best fiend, but to write it... hmmmm.
I have a lot of fandoms and I actually have written in 50+, I think, but my two favorites are:
Tolkien:
When I was 13 or 14 maybe, I came across a paperback copy of The Hobbit, probably on a rack in a grocery store. When I began it, it was like walking into a new world for me. I was a voracious reader, but had not read anything approaching this before. Sometime later, the LOTR trilogy came out in this particular edition. Reading them was like opening a door to a MUCH bigger world than that in the previous book. I was changed, it seemed to me. I remember getting The Silmarillion when I was 17, 18? It was like a key to an even more mystical world that either of the other two.
Roll forward many years and I saw a preview of The Fellowship of the Ring in the movie theater. I remember Arwen. I wanted to see the movie - needed to, in fact, and that was it for me. I jumped in with both feet and I never looked back.
Reading Tolkien (and seeing the movies) is like opening a door to a world that no longer exists and never did, really. But it should have!
Marvel:
I never read comic books growing up. They weren't really popular here in the 70s. I do remember reading Archie Comics (yes, really!), but that was about it. I did grow up with superheroes, though. I watched George Reeves as Superman every afternoon and he was wonderful.
Also we had Batman with Adam West and Burt Ward and a wonderful Saturday morning Spiderman cartoon. But superheroes were strictly kids' entertainment in those days.
One day in the summer of 2011, Larry and I were in Walmart and the front section was filled with Marvel action figures and toys. I told Larry that they were making some kind of movie about some guy in WWII who was a superhero. Well, we went to see this superhero movie and I fell in love, not with the actor, but with Cap. He was, to me, the perfect man - the man of my dreams, actually. Smart, blond, big, loyal, and sooo sweet.
One thing led to another and soon, I was writing Captain America and then the rest of the Avengers. Oddly, I have only recently begun to see him shipped with Bucky. I saw him with Tony Stark, but was never an insane shipper. I still everyone should get a fic with Cap.
Those are my origin stories and perhaps they're the best way I can convince someone to look into these fandoms.
Ta-da. Done.
In your own space, write a promo, manifesto or primer for your fave character, ship or fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I'll be honest. My eyes glaze over whenever I try to read a manifesto or meta about fandom. It seems like bellybutton gazing to me, for the most part. If you can't see the beauty or value in a fandom, then I can't make you see it. A fandom either clicks or it doesn't.
I yack my head off about my faves IRL with my best fiend, but to write it... hmmmm.
I have a lot of fandoms and I actually have written in 50+, I think, but my two favorites are:
Tolkien:
When I was 13 or 14 maybe, I came across a paperback copy of The Hobbit, probably on a rack in a grocery store. When I began it, it was like walking into a new world for me. I was a voracious reader, but had not read anything approaching this before. Sometime later, the LOTR trilogy came out in this particular edition. Reading them was like opening a door to a MUCH bigger world than that in the previous book. I was changed, it seemed to me. I remember getting The Silmarillion when I was 17, 18? It was like a key to an even more mystical world that either of the other two.
Roll forward many years and I saw a preview of The Fellowship of the Ring in the movie theater. I remember Arwen. I wanted to see the movie - needed to, in fact, and that was it for me. I jumped in with both feet and I never looked back.
Reading Tolkien (and seeing the movies) is like opening a door to a world that no longer exists and never did, really. But it should have!
Marvel:
I never read comic books growing up. They weren't really popular here in the 70s. I do remember reading Archie Comics (yes, really!), but that was about it. I did grow up with superheroes, though. I watched George Reeves as Superman every afternoon and he was wonderful.
Also we had Batman with Adam West and Burt Ward and a wonderful Saturday morning Spiderman cartoon. But superheroes were strictly kids' entertainment in those days.
One day in the summer of 2011, Larry and I were in Walmart and the front section was filled with Marvel action figures and toys. I told Larry that they were making some kind of movie about some guy in WWII who was a superhero. Well, we went to see this superhero movie and I fell in love, not with the actor, but with Cap. He was, to me, the perfect man - the man of my dreams, actually. Smart, blond, big, loyal, and sooo sweet.
One thing led to another and soon, I was writing Captain America and then the rest of the Avengers. Oddly, I have only recently begun to see him shipped with Bucky. I saw him with Tony Stark, but was never an insane shipper. I still everyone should get a fic with Cap.
Those are my origin stories and perhaps they're the best way I can convince someone to look into these fandoms.
Ta-da. Done.