Fandom Snowflake Challenge #1 (2024)

[maidenjedi]

Will this be the year I complete the challenge? Stay tuned! I'm starting several days late, so...

Anyway, Snowflake #1!

Challenge #1

Update your fandom information. 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.


Well, let's see.

My primary fandoms these days are MCU and Jane Austen. If I'm watching or reading, it's there, and if I'm doing fannish activity online it's probably writing Jane Austen. I'm always talking about doing more (the padawan has asked me for Jyn Erso/Cassian Andor fix-it fic, so...), and I'm really and truly only productive in micro-fandoms meant for Yuletide, but there you have it. My primary participation in fandom is in fic writing and reading; I've stayed out of the forum/community/whatever circuit for awhile, with the last really being The Americans.

Historically, I came up from X-Files fandom and haunted Harry Potter fandom for awhile. I was an almost day-one Livejournal addict, ran a website for awhile, participated in niche groups for X-Files on forums and email lists that eventually moved to LJ or died off.

My fic is housed here at AO3. (I think that's all of it, or all that I'm willing to keep published)

Comments

[wendelah1]

Selfishly, I wish you'd written more fic for The Americans.

I'll be interested to see what you come up for your Padawan. I love Rogue One but I haven't loved most of the fic.

[maidenjedi]

I never could land on what to write, after the show ended. But you never know. Thanks for the vote of confidence :-)

If I write up the Rogue One story I'll definitely share. I found some I liked over the years but I honestly can't get enough of some fix-it stories.

[wendelah1]

The show ended in a pretty definitive way for Philip and Elizabeth, unless you wanted to write about life in the USSR. That leaves Paige and Henry. Maybe Oleg? We didn't really find out what happened to him. But the last couple of seasons were intense. I needed a break from the characters. I don't think I'll ever be able to rewatch the show either. I don't have the stomach for the violence.

[maidenjedi]

I think I would dive more into their early family life, while the kids were small; I re-read the Christmas story I did about Elizabeth having to accept American Christmas rituals in order to maintain the lie, and I feel like there's more that could be said about those years. Otherwise, Paige and Henry, much later, interest me - how did they both move on, if they did at all?

Yeah, I don't think I would rewatch it. I mean, I loved it while it was airing, but I moved on emotionally and felt like it ended well.

[dizzydrea]

MCU and Jane Austen. A fan after my own heart. I never did go down the Rogue One rabbit hole, but I since everyone dies, it has to be better than the movie's ending, right?