I'm also posting at InsaneJournal: winterlover, but no Bandom-related stuff
My fic and art can be found at Archive Of Our Own (AO3): winterlover
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I'm also posting at InsaneJournal: winterlover, but no Bandom-related stuff
My fic and art can be found at Archive Of Our Own (AO3): winterlover
( Transformative Works Statement )
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akamine_chan made me check out hamsterwoman's
Communally Sourced Reading Bingo
I'm curious which squares the books will fit that I'll read, and I might use the cards for inspiration when choosing the next book to read.
( Cards and rules under the cut )
akamine_chan made me check out hamsterwoman's Communally Sourced Reading Bingo
I'm curious which squares the books will fit that I'll read, and I might use the cards for inspiration when choosing the next book to read.
( Cards and rules under the cut )
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snowflake_challenge 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.
Only this week I saw reports about the first openly gay figure skater taking part in the Olympics, Adam Rippon. Of course years ago I knew another openly gay figure skater who did it all before: Roman Wild. He was one of the two main characters of my first fandom "Alles Was Zählt". Check out my tag on DW or AO3 if you're interested.
For my Day 9 of the Snowflake-Challenge I uploaded a AWZ / Doctor Who crossover photo-comic to AO3.
What I loved about this fandom was mostly the international community, first on YouTube (where the EKP (Eskimo Kiss Project) cut the best scenes from every episode and subtitled them so that non-German speaking folk could enjoy them as well), then on InsaneJournal. I feel still close to a lot of the people who were involved, even though we've moved in different fandom-directions. But we still share the same humour that made being an AWZ-fan so great. Unfortunately the TV-company didn't like their show to be shared on YT (long story) any more, so all the fanvids that my fandom-friends made were disabled, too. I found some, but what I really loved about the fandom, the humour, loving-mockery and non-too-sappy enjoyment is gone.
This fandom changed me from pure lurker to participant, gave me insight into social networking in so many ways and made me enjoy crack and smut. Often at the same time.
I will link to a couple of videos, even though they were made long after the "real EKP-fandom" was gone (The first two definitely).
1) this did make me smile and feel a bit sad because I miss this happiness. And yes, they did kiss a lot (and still not enough)
2) The second video was supposed to prove that the show WAS about figure-skaters, because in the first video that was coming a bit short. But - well, have more kissing and a slightly too sappy song. But... the kissing...
3) ICE-SKATING!!!!
Oh memories!
snowflake_challenge Day 10: In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most. Feel free to include recs and examples!
I'm reading a lot of different kinds of fics. I don't really have an OTP, even though I have favourite pairings in the fandoms I read. So I don't have a special trope etc. that I'm searching for, but why I enjoy reading Bandom-fics so much might be because of the band-, gang-, friendship-group thing. Friends to lovers, pining, getting together, found families - these are a lot of the themes going on that I enjoy reading. I like humour, fluff and happy endings, but if it gets too sweet and loved-up I might cringe.
I feel very lucky to have found a lot of brilliant authors that I follow on AO3, and I'm still discovering new ones, so I won't run out of fic to read in the forseeable future.
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snowflake_challenge 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.
I just scanned through my recs from previous years. Because I only posted one fanwork in 2017 so there are not enough new things for me to rec.
I had linked mostly to my fic, so this time I've decided to link to some graphics/comics/digital art that I made and had a lot of fun creating.
1) Alles Who's Zählt
- Photobucket ate my pictures in the original post on Insane Journal, so I've just uploaded it to AO3 -
Originally created as a birthday present for a friend in my first active fandom "Alles Was Zählt" in 2011, this comic is a cracky mix-up with Doctor Who. I had so much fun creating it so I thought this would be a good opportunity for a re-upload.
Creaotor: winterlover
Fandom: AWZ/Dr.Who (10th doctor)
Additional Info: graphics-heavy
Rating: G
Summary: “There’s an Alien in the Center. Who could it be?”
Warnings/Spoilers: rapid time-movements, i.e. haircuts and clothing from different eras and blurry pictures.
Author's Notes: I don’t own any of those characters or pictures.
They belong to RTL and BBC and some unknown artists/photographers.
No money is made from this. (Originally created for lilithilien’s birthday.)
2) Lost in Space
Created for
turlough for the bandom_meme fanwork gift exchange 2013, prompt set #9 "Gerard/Grant Morrison, lost in space - because space AUs are awesome!"Creator: winterlover
Fandom: Bandom/ComicsRPF/Dr.Who (5th doctor)
Additional Info: graphics-heavy
Rating: G
Summary: “Gerard Way and Grant Morrison lost in Space.”
Warnings/Spoilers: none
Author's Notes: I don’t own any of those characters or pictures. No money is made from this.
3) Art for "No Future In Our Dreaming" by Prophetic
Creator: winterlover
Fandom: Bandom, My Chemical Romance, London
Additional Info: graphics-heavy
Rating: G
Summary: Art for Prophetic's story "No Future In Our Dreaming" for Bandom Big Bang 2016.
Warnings/Spoilers: none
Author's Notes: I own most of those pictures, only borrowed some.
No money is made from this.
This is my most "critically acclaimed" artwork (meaning the number of comments and kudos on AO3) and I'm proud of what I did because I used mostly photos I had taken myself (the London-pics, not the photos of the bandom-guys) and had a lot of fun altering them to fit the noir and moody theme of Prophetic's fic. I especially loved creating the bedroom-picture where I put some of the photos on the wall in the background and even added some real artwork from Gerard Way's twitter (or instagram?).
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snowflake_challenge Day 8: In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.
What else could I write about than my first and non-digital fandom on this day when it's his birthday!
David Bowie would have been 71 years old today, on January 8th.
I became a fan when I was 15. One year later I exchanged letters with other fans. If the internet as we know it now had existed then, I'd been active on tumblr, LJ, twitter and everywhere, but we had our ways to connect as well, swapping tapes and videos, collecting articles and writing, writing, writing letters to each other.
The first time I met a fellow fan in real life was at a Bowie convention in Essen, Germany, which was an exciting day. We watched videos, looked at all the merchandise and talked about David Bowie.
The next year we visited the second convention and met more fans in person. We saw him live, wrote more letters.... and drifted apart.
I lost contact to most of the fans and never really started to join the online Bowie-fandom. Probably also due to the fact that you had to pay to access all features of "Bowienet", the official website, which kept me away during the first years, and now that there are many more possibilities to access info, I have turned to other fandoms.
I do love to browse tumblr for pictures and watch videos on Youtube, follow some twitters, but I don't really interact with Bowie fans. Well, there's a time for everything.
Here are two pictures I took at that second convention that I had digitalized recently:
(promo-pictures and -records, and two Bowie-dolls)
(original suit he wore as Ziggy Stardust (right) and the red Glass Spider Tour suit from 1997)
P.S. I seem to turn to Bowie every time on Snowflake challenge. But with January being the month of his birth (8th) and of his death (10th), it's understandable, isn't it?
I made some icons in 2013.
I shared a video in 2014.
I was happy about a new release in 2016.
I mourned him in 2016.
So I celebrate him today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, David!
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snowflake_challenge Day 7 : In your own space, create a love meme for yourself. Let people tell you how amazing and awesome and loveable you really are. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Surf the comments and find people to give love to.
Well, I'm skipping my own love meme, but I gave love and well-wishes to someone else.
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snowflake_challenge Day 6: Leave feedback for a fanwork. Or multiple fanworks. It can be as simple as I liked this to a detailed list of all the things you loved about the fanwork. The key is to leave some sort of feedback.
If you've already left feedback in the course of a previous challenge, it totally counts. But you're free to leave more feedback.
I did it. I checked out some of the recs from Day 3 and also commented on other fanworks during the last days.
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snowflake_challenge Day 5: Recommend a fannish or creative resource.
Can't really do this at the moment. Maybe I'll come across something, will add it later then.
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snowflake_challengeI don't have many wishes, but because other people have mentioned the lack of comments for fanwork, I guess maybe the small number of kudos or comments on my artwork, compared to the number of views, is not because it's so bad but maybe because artwork on AO3 is rare and more lilely to be consumed than appreciated.
I must admit being guilty myself. So I promise to be better in regards to kudos and comments for artwork and wish for others to be as well.
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Day 3: In your own space, post post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create.
I love this part of the challenge and I'm sure I will find some fanworks that I will enjoy in other people's posts. I was looking through my AO3 bookmarks trying to remember the reasons why I bookmarked the fics other than that I thought they were brilliant.
1) "Empty With You" by akamine_chan and Jiksa
Words: 36.411
Rating: Explicit
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M, F/M
Fandoms: My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Bandom
Relationships: Frank Iero/Gerard Way, Mikey Way/Pete Wentz, Kristin Blanford/Mikey Way, Patrick Stump/Pete Wentz, Lindsey Ballato/Gerard Way
A soulbond-fic about not-soulbonding. This collaboration was done for this year's Bandom Big Bang and when you have read fic from both authors, you know that their combined effort had to be even more heartbreaking and rewarding. To cite myself from my comment: I also love that, even if it's not really featuring the Bandom-bands as themselves, it's still set with music, in clubs, Gerard performing, and cameos of almost everyone throughout the story.
2) "Dance While the Sky Crashes Down" by maryangel
Words: 55.940
Rating: Explicit
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Category: M/M
Fandom: My Chemical Romance
Relationship: Frank/Gerard
Additional Tags: Podfic Desired
It's an apocalypse-road-trip story. I couldn't stop reading until the end (no pun intended).
3) "The White Stone" by Aldiara
Words: 78.827
Rating: Explicit
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Category: M/M
Fandoms: Spartacus Series (TV), Spartacus: War of the Damned
Relationships: Castus/Sabinus, Agron/Nasir, Belesa/Saxa, Tiberius Licinius Crassus/Sabinus
As my third rec I included a fic that I haven't read yet, because of lack of time before and around christmas. But I know the author. She's a brilliant writer and I have read her other fics and admired not only her ability to tell great stories, but also her use of language, especially in her Spartacus-fics, which fits the subject so well. Go and check out her shorter stories if you don't want to jump into a long one first. She's also written in other fandoms, so go to her AO3 and have a look!
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Day 2: In your own space, share a favorite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, crazy times with fellow fans (whether on-line or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone.
I‘ve not participated in many fandoms, but in the two that I mainly write or create in I‘ve been welcomed by lovely people. I was shyly lurking long before I tried to comment or create myself, but friendly replies or kudos were a great reward.
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snowflake_challenge - Day 1
In your own space, talk about why you're participating in Snowflake and, if you’ve participated in the past, how the challenge has affected you. What drew you to it? What did you take away from it? What do you hope to accomplish this year?
OMG, it’s 2018 already, and I’m still at my friend‘s house where I celebrated New Year‘s.
I‘ve been taking part in the Snowflake Challenge for some years now. Last year I wasn’t home during the first days, and after that work stopped me doing most of the days. This year I‘ll try to do at least a few more.
I like the low pressure nature of it, I like to read other fan‘s entries, and I enjoyed being inspired to create by seeing others‘ enthusiasm.
I hope that this year I will be able to write and to create something. At least I‘m looking forward to trying.
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I was not a big fan, but of course I was shocked to hear about his untimely death.
Still there are two things that have stuck in my mind:
1) When I was in the US for the first (and only) time in 1986 around Easter during a school exchange, there was "Kiss" on the radio, like every time I got in a car.
I still think of Columbus, Ohio, whenever I hear that song.
2) This suit:
RIP Prince. RIP Prince's ass. <3
Still there are two things that have stuck in my mind:
1) When I was in the US for the first (and only) time in 1986 around Easter during a school exchange, there was "Kiss" on the radio, like every time I got in a car.
I still think of Columbus, Ohio, whenever I hear that song.
2) This suit:
RIP Prince. RIP Prince's ass. <3
snowflake_challenge - Day 15Talk about what you're taking away from this challenge. Did you learn something? Did you interact with new people? Or did you try out different fandoms or formats or relationships? What's changed between Day 1 and Day 15 of this challenge?
Although I'm done all the entries for the challenge, I haven't finished looking at other people's contributions.
For me this year's challenge mostly was introspective, remebering last year and seeing if there were changes of how I do fandom.
I enjoyed how many people started posting on their journal again and I'm looking forward to future interactions.
Thanks to everyone who looked at my journal, but mostly thanks to the lovely and enthusiastic mods! <3
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snowflake_challenge - Day 14Share your love for something fannish: a trope, cliché, kink, motif, theme, format, or fandom.
Being a single child I never had the siblings-experience. It was a good thing to be able to send the kids home after I was exhausted by them, but I never got very close to other people because of that, too.
So reading fic about gangs, bands, close friends who are together most of their lives and have fun, fight, pine and love is what I like to do.
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snowflake_challenge - Day 12What makes you fannish? And by that we mean, what is it about a tv show/movie/book/band/podcast/etc that takes you from, "Yeah, I like that," to "I need MOAR!!!" Is it a character? A plotline? The pretty? Subtext that’s just screaming to be acknowledged?
In your own space, tell us what it is that gets you to cross that line into fandom.
There are a lot of bands that I love but don't feel like reading fic about (or only found bad fic for), and I found out about bandom through authors, not the other way round. But fic and the fans on the web made me curious about the real persons behind the stories.
So last year I saw Adam Lambert and Queen live and Fall Out Boy in concert, I'm following the former MCR guys on twitter and I would have gone to see Gerard Way and Frank Iero if they would have come to a venue near me.
When I create myself, fic or art, I need to feel something about the characters I write. And in art I do have to find the people at least a bit attractive.
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snowflake_challenge - Day 11In your own space, make a list of at least 3 things that you like about yourself.
I'm not good at liking myself. Not sure if that's just a me-thing, a not-being American-thing or something else that lets me shy away from praising my own character-traits.
But anyway....
1) I like my humour. Which is mostly ironic sarcasm, but I find it funny. I learned laughing about myself which wasn't easy.
2) ...
3) ....
Nah, doesn't really feel right. Sorry. Failed this challenge.
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Lately I've been disappointed a lot of times because none of the bands I would like to go and see live was coming anywhere near me since I had become interested in bandom-bands. To be fair, they all played here BEFORE. But not last year when I would have bought a ticket.
So I had been waiting excitedly for tour news, only to be disappointed. Again and again. 5 times actually, hence the title of this post. With one exception!
( 5 artists/bands who didn't play in my city and one (two) that did - under the cut because of pictures )
So I had been waiting excitedly for tour news, only to be disappointed. Again and again. 5 times actually, hence the title of this post. With one exception!
( 5 artists/bands who didn't play in my city and one (two) that did - under the cut because of pictures )
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- about me,
- adam lambert,
- bandom,
- fob,
- frank iero,
- gerard way,
- mcr,
- picspam,
- pintd,
- queen
snowflake_challenge - Day 12In your own space, talk about what you bring to fandom. It can be something tangible, or not.
I've always been someone who's motivated by other peoples' enthusiasm and creativity. And of course by positive feedback, comments or kudos for my work.
So I try to give something back by commenting on fics that I loved or giving kudos. I always try to say why I enjoyed a particular story or what I thought about it because that's how I like it myself.
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