snowflake challenge #7 and #8

AKA rec yourself and rec at least three fanworks you didn't create.

I wanted to post at least one fic before I got to this challenge LOL, but my WIPs are not collaborating with me right now, and I'd like to catch up with the challenge, thank you very much (I have a rare free day, so I'm going to try to do as many of these as possible. Sorry in advance for spamming your reading pages).

Since it wasn't possible, I'll link to a couple of posts I posted in @monthlysupergo for this month's challenge: icons. In my case, Wonder Woman icons (misc, and from this week's anthology issue). I made my dreamwidth icons too, and I'm quite proud of them -visual arts of any kind are NOT my thing, but these all turned pretty well, if I say so myself. And since I have so very little output in terms of fanworks, here are the icons or headers I use in other platforms too :)

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As for other people's fanworks: one of my favorite things in fandom, one that never fails to impress me, is fanart. Maybe it's because I struggle to draw a straight line with a ruler, I don't know. But there are so many gorgeous pieces out there, and at least 70% of why I made myself a tumblr account was to reblog them and have them stored somewhere. Some of my favorite ones:

• DC
  
  • BatCat fanart: Selina with a cat and a jewerly collection and Batman in her mirror (I know some people complain about comics and other canons returning Selina to a jewerly thief from time to time but... can't relate, I love it. It's The Chase!), vampire Bruce in a mascarade, and this adorable drawing of Bruce presenting himself as a gift to Selina, naked minus the cowl and an strategically placed bow xD
  • Diana as a boxer. 
  • Harley and Ivy kissing on pride parade in the famous V-J Day pose.
  • Jason Todd as a very frustrated Batman, and as a priest in Flashpoint. And as Red Hood in various canons and uniforms.
  • And this amazing fanart from the TV show Gotham of teen Bruce with an ominous Batman shadow.
• Disney:
  • From The Little Mermaid, have Ariel as Ursula's apprentice and this gorgeous homage drawing to the film.
  • And this chilling Tangled fanart.
• Vaggie from Hazbin Hotel as an avenging angel.
• Mrs. Coulter from His Dark Materials sitting on a throne.
• These Jennifer's Body drawings that are both cute and unsettling, somehow.
• Marvel
  
  • Superior Iron Man being hot.
  • Tony with a sword and shoulder armor, because.
  • Tony and Pepper fighting back to back in Endgame.
  • Rule 63 Winteriron Sleeping Beauty AU, with bonus armor porn.

And to finsih it off, I wanted to rec two fics I read recently (and finally commented on): O Rose thou art sick, an Aurora/Maleficent what-if for the Disney film (mind the warnings); and itches in the front, a short BatCat smut fic with some domme Selina.

snowflake challenge #9 - promote one canon you adore

This is a great opportunity to make the Legacies rec post this blog needed.

First, and most importantly: the show is FUN. It has endless charm and I haven’t been bored in a single episode, even ones where my favorite characters were away. And though it IS an spin-off of an spin-off, I’ve watched neither of those and can follow it pretty well (I plan on watching the previous shows at some point because I’m sure they’ll enhance the experience, but my point is, you don’t need to).

The story is set in a boarding school for supernatural kids; witches, werewolves and young vampires, for the most part, with a few rarities thrown in. It follows a monster of the week structure (or more accurately, creature of the week; “monster” doesn’t really fit some of them) that I hadn’t realized I missed until I stumbled into this show. Its Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer homages are shameless and I love it for it.

There are characters, ships and dynamics for everyone. I happen to fall in the non-canon and/or problematic camp, but that’s just me LOL.

The lead character, Hope Mikaelson, is an orphan and the descendant of powerful supernatural lines, and somehow a witch/werewolf/almost vampire hybrid. She’s closed off and prone to anger, pretty badass and a marshmallow on the inside.

My favorite characters are the twins, Josie and Lizzie (points to icon. Lizzie is the blonde one, Josie the brunette one). They’re the human Headmaster’s daughters (I don’t know if “somehow even more of a questionable Headmaster than Dumbledore but nowhere near as brilliant” is a selling point here, but it makes for interesting plots LOL). They’re witches, but instead of having their own magic, they can only use it if they absorb it from their surroundings. Their biological (dead) mother was a witch, and there are dark secrets in her former coven that will haunt the twins. Their co-dependent dynamic is everything to me. And Lizzie's actress is a comedic genius, I swear.

My other favorite is another witch (witches FTW) that’s just been added to the show, Alyssa Chang, as the Mean Girl. I liked yet another Mean Witch, Penelope -Josie’s ex-, but it looks like the actress has left the show for good. Other characters you’ll find are Rafael, a recently turned werewolf (the werewolf mythos in the show is pretty interesting, BTW), and Landon, his foster brother with a mysterious backstory; Dorian, a badass human teacher; or Kaleb and MG, two teen vampires that take very different approaches to their status as such.

The show is the most fun I’ve had with a new fandom in years, and it has plenty of lovable characters to pick from, and interesting relationships all around. Its antagonists and creatures of the week are often hilarious -a few episodes ago there was a Santa vs. Krampus fist fight. It was awesome-, or reveal interesting sides from our main characters. It’s only a season and a half long at the moment (26 episodes total), the first one available in USA Netflix, and it’s already been renewed for a third season, so you don’t need to be concerned about a possible cancellation.

I don’t really like to put the focus on representation when it comes to recommending fiction, and though it’s not perfect by any means (the racial dynamics have some issues, although from what I’ve heard, not nearly as much as the parent shows), the show does interesting things when it comes to mental illness (Lizzie is canonically bipolar, and it’s a topic treated with immensurable sympathy by the writing), and it acts on the assumption that any of the teens could be queer and it’s no big deal (Hope was recently confirmed as having at least once crushed on a girl).

I would love to find people to talk with about this show, so I’d ask that you guys give it a try! You'll get a The Wish homage episode that made my year, powerful teen witches wreaking havoc, supernatural creatures harder to find in genre fiction, great family and friendship dynamics, hilarious villains, and did I mention the Santa vs. Krampus fight? That sure was something.

random fandom stuff

-I nominated a few stories for the once-upon-a-fic exchange (for fairy tales, myths, etc.). I'm not sure I'll sign up, because gift exchanges don't look like my thing, but at least I might get to read fic for some of my favorite stories out there.

-Why is it that almost every time I stumble onto a headcanon about how to "fix" Endgame, it somehow makes the story 300 times worse? LOL. I know it's partially because I don't feel there's much to fix in that film -I sympathise and even agree with a lot of its criticism, but they're usually about things I could take or leave either way-; what I wanted out of it was to watch Tony's swan song, and I got exactly that. But a lot of those fix-its sound directly counter-intuitive to the propose of the post itself. It's weeeeeeird.

-Really, my only complaint about Endgame (other than the fact that it plausible argues that Thanos' actions might have made the universe if not better, at least not worse) is that since it came out it seems I can't find Pepperony smut, at least not how I used to. Things like this is why I'm not big on domesticity as a trope LOL. I hope things change with the pepperony kinkmeme these Valentine's Day.

-After the conclussion of the last The Good Place episode I started wondering if the show will end ( spoilers )

 

-Everyone look at the cute Wonder Woman themed icon @seleneheart made for me.