8 Jan 2019

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Still catching up!

Day 5

In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


Some comms of my own:

[community profile] tardis_library - a Doctor Who reccing comm, made as a successor (but different from) the lovely [community profile] calufrax (now inactive, but with an amazing backlist that is still one of the best ways to get at gems from the Teaspoon Archive) - recs from all corners of the Whoniverse, posted anywhere, and in any media format. I'm so pleased with how this has taken off - more people & more recs are always welcome!


[community profile] historium which I have just set up as a central hub for all history fandoms, whether RPF or fictional to meet, post stuff, or use as a launching pad to set up more specific comms. It's had a great beginning & I need to get back to it once I am a little more recovered.


[community profile] tic_tac_woe or Apocabingo - a panfandom mini bingo challenge (using a tic tac toe 3x3 card) with all apocalyptic prompts! No deadlines, just sign up for a card & then end worlds/countries etc. or save them as you wish. (Fictionally, obviously.)


[community profile] who_allsorts - as an extra, because I meant to only include three, but I've a soft spot for this one. It's another Doctor Who community - an old-school prompt table with claiming, but with bite-sized tables. You can sign up for up to two at once and claims are very flexible (anyone can make the same claim, pairings/characters/eras/themes are all accepted, so you can choose how wide or narrow to make it). I created it with the object of enabling more DW content of all kinds, and I still think the prompt tables are very pretty!


Not-by-me communities:

[community profile] hc_bingo - still my favourite bingo, despite frequently being terrified by the prompts! It's very flexible about interpretation of prompts, and fills can be comfort, or hurt, or hurt/comfort as you please, and any fanworks are eligible. It runs once a year, but there are fun amnesty challenges and you only need to create one fanwork a year to stay eligible for the next round. It's been the perfect excuse to write a lot of things, and I've really enjoyed the Amnesty challenges when I've taken part. (Which are open to anyone if that works for you better than a bingo.)


[community profile] fic_rush - we need to sort ourselves out for another round soon, but this 48 hour actual ficathon (i.e. writing marathon) has been a wonderful supportive & social ingredient of my journalling life ever since I first plucked up the courage to join. There are ninja penguins, alien fish, glowsticks, and writerly pasta and attempts at galactic domination, but you don't have to worry about that. I mean, until and unless the penguins get you...


I enjoy recs and reccing comms, the main two of which I follow here are [community profile] fancake (though I never can get myself together to post for a theme) and [community profile] gensplosion for gen recs (which I have recced for, but am bad at doing), both of which have led me to some excellent fic, and both of which are panfandom.


There are so many comms I like! Here are, quickly, some more:

[community profile] who_at_50 (general DW comm, despite the name)

Bingos - [community profile] ladiesbingo, [community profile] trope_bingo, [community profile] allbingo and [community profile] genprompt_bingo. (Of these I particularly like [community profile] genprompt_bingo (which takes any kind of fills, despite the name, it's just that the prompts are gen prompts) but they're all good in their different ways.)

Icons - [community profile] iconthat, [community profile] icontalking, [community profile] icon_library, [community profile] icons10in20, [community profile] icons & [community profile] fandom_icons. (A mix of challenge and general posting comms.)


Which is probably enough from me, but I still like comms. And that's even before we get to all the exchanges or my other comms I run or co-mod...
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And now for today's (not that I'm caught up yet, but nearly):

Day 8
In your own space, post self-recs for at least three fanworks that you created. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


This took some thought, since I wanted to rec at least two of the three I recced last time. And last year I did two memes that involved self-recs, and I recced those same works then, plus a handful of others. So, I thought hard and came up with something that wasn't Salt of the Earth (but if you don't know me, hi, I think Salt of the Earth is pretty accessible without canon knowledge, being about a minor character, and I still like it, and it's about as me as you get, really).


So, first off, talking of Sapphire & Steel...

Assigned (100 Element Prompts) (37901 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 38/38
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sapphire/Steel, Sapphire/Silver, Silver/Steel, Sapphire/Silver/Steel, Copper & Silver
Characters: Copper (Sapphire and Steel), Cerium (Sapphire and Steel), Steel (Sapphire and Steel), Silver (Sapphire and Steel), Diamond, Sapphire (Sapphire and Steel), Gold (Sapphire and Steel), Jet (Sapphire and Steel), Ruby (Sapphire and Steel), Lead (Sapphire and Steel)
Additional Tags: Ficlet Collection, being fannish about the periodic table, Tropes, Trope Subversion/Inversion, Telepathy, Elemental Weirdness
Summary: A collection of various Sapphire & Steel ficlets/short fics written for a table of 100 fanfic cliche prompts.

I love S&S, and I love Elements (or whatever they are) and their relationships (or whatever they are), and I also love the generator that provided these prompts (its near doppelganger is here), I loved writing them all. So... read any one of them you please - there is an index here. (I'm not reccing a 37,000 word fic, don't worry. The individual pieces vary from perfect drabbles to ~1500.)

They vary, but, yes, very me, and if you can go with 'it's just weirdness and time and inhuman beings who put stuff right and we don't really know anything and then there's flirting' it's probably as accessible with or without canon. Possibly?


Also, I love Doctor Who, Once Upon a Time, libraries, Clara, Belle, crossovers and [x] times type fic.

Shelved (or The Whistle Stop Library Tour of the Universe) (1712 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Once Upon a Time (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Belle (Once Upon a Time)/Clara Oswin Oswald, Belle (Once Upon a Time)/Eleventh Doctor/Clara Oswin Oswald
Characters: Belle (Once Upon a Time), Clara Oswin Oswald, Eleventh Doctor
Additional Tags: Crossover, Humor, Libraries, Books, Alternate Universe, Fluff, Crossover Pairings
Summary: The Doctor and Clara show Belle the universe, one library at a time.

(I don't know how accessible it is, but there are no spoilers for anything at least.)


I wrote an origfic canon for the LJ Runaway Tales comm for quite a while, and loved doing it. I have a few AUs involving my favourite pairing on AO3, written for other challenges, so they are basically standalone romance fic. This one I wrote in response to oonaseckar who said I couldn't write the two of them having a fake relationship in the 21st Century and so obviously I had to prove that there is no century Edward and Julia couldn't have an awkward fake relationship in. But I still like it, I think it's fairly light and fun, and has fairy tale undertones that please me.

Substitute (13695 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Original Female Character/Original Male Character
Characters: Julia Graves (OC), Edward Iveson (OC)
Additional Tags: Community: hc_bingo, Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Romance, Grief/Mourning, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Brief mention of car accident, Community: runaway_tales, Fluff, Humor, Angst, Community: genprompt_bingo
Summary: Julia Graves has perfectly reasonable motives for fake-dating a customer – it’s all about interior decorating, honestly…


(It's really weird seeing familiar old fic like this with the wrong name on!)

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