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Saturday, January 16th, 2016 04:21 pm

[community profile] snowflake_challenge  - Day 12


What 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.

I'm not very fannish, actually. I wrote about my journey into fandom last year. I watch a lot of TV shows but I was never so obsessed with one to call myself a fan and wishing to create things for or about it.

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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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015 12:40 am
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 )
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2015 11:59 pm
[community profile] snowflake_challenge  - Day 14

In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create.

(Tell us about specific fanworks that you think are great. These could be your all-time favorites, or some things you found recently that you're really into, or just the first three things that pop up in your bookmarks or tags. However you want to work it out. Recs are love! ... See if you can rec fanworks that are less likely to be praised: tiny fandoms, rare pairings, fanworks other than stories, lesser-known kinks or tropes. Find fanworks that have few to no comments, or creators new to a particular fandom who maybe aren't well-known or appreciated. Appreciate them.)


I have quite a varied taste in fic. I read a lot, from short PWPs to long chaptered AUs, multiple pairings, in different fandoms, various tropes, kinks, etc. I usually avoid incest (but read when I trust the author) and stop reading when the writing is very bad or when there is a lot of (even consenting) shaming (not sure if it's even the right term for this, but anyway, I won't read it).
My favourite is bandom though. That's where I started creating a bit myself. But I've recced lots of bandom-fic already, in this year's Snowflake Challenge (check out my "recs" tag) and in past years (2014), so I tried to rec stories that are not what I usually read but got bookmarked by me as favourites. But before I read bandom I didn't have an AO3 account for long so I don't have many bookmarks that aren't bandom. Oh well...


"Just Like That River I've Been Running" by miss_begonia (17.044 words, explicit) is a Bandom (Brendon Urie)/Adam Lambert mix and my comment on the bookmark was "Love the glimpse into the musicians minds and hearts."

"If This Is Love" by sunsetmog (85.591 words, explicit) is not a lesser-known fic in a rare fandom. It's One Direction, Nick Grimshaw/Harry Styles. But sunsetmog is a writer who I follow everywhere. I just like their writing and characterisations, and this fic is no exception. The tags for that story are "Unresolved Sexual Tension, Coming Out, Best Friends, Angst, Baking, Quite a lot of angst, Christmas, Toblerone" - everything that I love.

"by streetlight this dark night" by clumsygyrl (thegirlthatisclumsy), (5.329 words, teen and up audiences), My Chemical Romance, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Bob Bryar/Ron Weasley
“I carried an amp.” Ron said dryly. - Ron escapes his old life and finds a new one. I really like the beginning, how bleak Ron sees into the future, how war left everyone a loser. So nice to see him trying to getting his life back on track.


- And now for a few bandom-only-recs that I just came across again and thought maybe someone might like them:

"But Not the Song" by emilyray (emilyenrose), ignipes (192.263 words, explicit, other warnings) Panic! at the Disco, Ryan Ross/Spencer Smith/Brendon Urie/Jon Walker
"The epic bandom slavefic. Running and shooting and angsting and kissing and more angsting and a bunch of kids named Alex."

"Basement Rhapsody"-Series by autoschediastic, rivers_bend (27.514 words, explicit), Bandom, My Chemical Romance, Adam Lambert, Tommy Ratliff
A High-School-AU. I like how they write the guys. Not too cute.

"A Storm Brewing; in which the honorable Spencer Smith asks questions and finds answers" by bad_peppermint (25.073 words, general audiences), written for Bandom Big Bang 2013, Panic! at the Disco, Spencer Smith/Brendon Urie - and dragons.
Lovely AU with great detail in worldbuilding and insight in Spencer's thoughts and feelings.