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What’s your fannish ID? AO3: original fanfic as brittlestars, plus fanworks of other fanworks (translations, fanart, podfic, etc.) as metaderivative; tumblr: metaderivative
What types of fanworks do you create? Mostly I read and write fanfiction. I sometimes record podfics or translate other people’s Spanish-language fics to English. I also occasionally doodle fanart and make animated GIFs of fanart. I have super top-secret hidden wish to embody Matt’s public identity suit from Mark Waid’s comic run but cosplay ain’t cheap.Â
What are your favourite types of fanworks, when you’re not creating? On Discord I have fun reading and collaborating on headcanons, snippets-without-homes, and various other not!fic.
What do you like in particular about this fandom? Superhero origins and explorations of their powers: the alienation and responsibility, identity shenanigans and identity reveals, parallels to queer identities, the authorial struggle to express or represent unknowable perceptions of reality, the grey and overlapping borderland between sciences and the fantastical, the raw persistence of extraordinary faith and courage and hope and compassion wielded by everyman characters suddenly beset by fantastical power and equally impossible challenges, negotiation of evolving relationships with non-powered friends and ordinary citizens (especially outsider POV), the deep, abiding, gruff love of NYC and her denizens for her heroes.
Do you like participating in fan events? I love DDE and have participated three times. So much fun to see the work everyone produces, not just the excitement of your own personal gift and the challenge of your giftee’s prompt(s). My first fics in the DD fandom were posted in response to significantowl’s Daredevil bingo, which I won right at the deadline. The first Avocados server telephone exchange and the first MattFog week (DDE: check out @themattfogblog !) went swimmingly and I can’t wait to participate again. I also love to be pulled into writing or creative sprints with a prompt and just a few minutes of preparation time; the words seem to flow particularly well when there’s a clock ticking and friends also working away at similar ideas.I was introduced to Discord through VoiceTeam 2020, an annual podficcing collaborative extravaganza.
What about your creating process? Since joining various Discord servers I’ve found communal timed writing sprints to be incredibly fun and productive! I can take a prompt and produce 500-1,000 words of banter pretty quickly. Though these fics don’t usually have all that much plot, they are often fun! I also occasionally dictate in-character voice notes on my phone, especially when my brain has an idea while I’m trying to fall asleep.
Do you interact a lot with other fans? Mostly I left comments on AO3 until I stumbled into some friendly Discord servers, where I’m now fairly active. I would love more interaction with Spanish-speaking fans especially. I am always happy to receive critique and constructive feedback on any of my works. Likewise, all of my work is remixable, with the request that you link back to me and let me know so I can be excited about it!
Is there any particular piece you’d like to showcase for this post? For recent works in the fandom, I’m surprised “Oscillations are steady; this is me (us) vacillating” (https://archiveofourown.org/works/30913472) hasn’t had more hits. It’s short and captures a certain bittersweetness to Matt & Foggy’s strained relationship in early NMCU DD season 1. Also, Josie makes a small appearance and Josie is great! Read “Oscillations” if you want to get a sense of the typical rhythm of my fanfic, which can be boiled down to: not a lot of plot but tons of banter. The “Team Red Discord Server Inaugural Murder Mystery” (https://archiveofourown.org/works/27648184) deserves special mention for being hugely collaborative and a fun story featuring lots of this fandom’s favorite characters and some auxillary/peripheral characters as well. “Minds, and Hearts” (https://archiveofourown.org/works/14475504) is the fic I’m most proud of. It’s in the fandom of The Flash TV show but can be read fandom-blind and deals with a lot of the same topics I like exploring in Daredevil; namely: how do everyday lives change when we suddenly have super-heroic powers of surveillance? “Fomites” (https://archiveofourown.org/works/8889973) is fun as a densely-interwoven mystery based on a board game but grounded in science – and is therefore easy to read fandom-blind.
Do you have other fandoms you’d like to talk about? Look, I just really like superheroes okay? I fell for Cole & Zeke (inFAMOUS) shenanigans and bonding before I found Matt & Foggy. I love Cisco Ramon’s simultaneous infectious enthusiasm and burdened reluctance in the face of superpowers on The Flash, and his abilities mirror Matt’s in interesting ways. My longest-abiding curiosity is probably for Spider-Man, in almost all his incarnations.
Is there anything else you want to tell us about yourself? I’m probably not a sophisticated and compelling artificial intelligence masquerading as human. (I am not sophisticated.) Oh, and I heckin’ love dogs.Â
Where can your fanworks be found? https://archiveofourown.org/users/brittlestars/works
Thank you, @metaderivative !
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