#fandom creators

[slugterra-confessions]

I miss cyan bro!!!!

They were everywhere in the early slugterra fandom and I was so exited when they’d post on wattpad years ago! COME BACK WE NEED YOU (but dont if you don’t want to, I can’t force you but like….pleaaaaasssseeeeeeee)

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[summer-of-clones]

Help your followers get to know you a little bit better! Answer these 20 fandom creator focused questions and share them to your blog…invite your fandom creator moots and followers to do the same ☺️

Do you create fanfiction, fanart, both, or something else?

What brings you the most joy being a fandom creator?

Why did you become a fandom creator?

What was the first fandom you created for?

How many fandoms have you created for (so far)?

What is your current fandom(s)?

What is your creative weakness?

What is your creative strength?

What is your favorite trope to create for?

What trope do you enjoy from other creators but don’t yourself?

Do you listen to music while you create? If so, what’s your go-to?

What beverage fuels your creativity?

What snack fuels your creativity?

What time of day do you feel most creative?

What time of day do you feel least creative?

What is your favorite medium to create with?

Who has inspired your creativity?

What has inspired your creativity?

Where do you enjoy being creative the most?

What advice do you have for someone becoming a fandom creator for the first time?

[animatedmess]

A little reminder to appreciate the writers and artists in your fandom spaces!! Comments and likes and reblogs are a great way to encourage the creators keeping the fandom spaces alive. ❤️‍🩹

Fandom is a community! So let’s keep the community alive together.

Also remember that a lot of creators have commissions available and that’s a great way of supporting them as well if it’s possible for you 🩷

[savethegrishaverse]

Hello Third Army! Just some quick announcements as MagicCon (@magiccon_de ) kicks off!

Firstly, we want to say thank you so much to everyone who has kindly donated to our Ko-Fi! What we are able to do here would not be feasible without each and every one of you!

Now for the rest: please know that our bookmarks are missing in the first few con-bags at MagicCon 😅, but hopefully if you come find us we can give you what you're missing - and we can hand out some more bookmarks and stickers as well! (We only have very few lanyards left, though, so keep that in mind)

One of our campaign organizers brought a copy of the "Dear Netflix" book for fans to take a look at as well! Look for Zaruina's nametag while at the Con or message @zaruinas on insta to check it out!

[phantomoftheorpheum]

does anyone else feel like being a fanfic writer has become increasingly lonely recently? i think it's all fandom creators, really, but i haven't been doing other forms of content creation recently. does anyone else feel like they're sitting in a glass box and loads of people are walking by, looking in the windows, but almost no one thinks to acknowledge you with a wave, and even fewer bother to say hello?

[kybercrystals94]

Last Line Challenge

Rules: In a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you like)

Tagged by: @probadbatch @the-little-moment @just-here-with-my-thoughts @theproblemwithstardust @insertmeaningfulusername @snips2112

Thanks for the tags, everyone! I actually, truly love doing these tag games, but I've been distracted for some reason😅

I should be working on chapter 9 of the Hostage and getting that story wrapped up...and yet, another WIP has entered the chat. Who knows, I might coerce it into fitting future Summer of Bad Batch prompts...where there's a will there's a way 💪

But here it is:

Omega shrugs, tearing her eyes off her plate to look up at her brothers, glancing at each in turn. “I dunno. Because I can? I’m not a kid anymore, and I thought it would be kinda nice to get away for a night and be by myself.” Those were not the words she rehearsed.

More like a last paragraph, but I thought a little context would be nice 😏

I'll try to tag 7 people since that's how many words are in my literal last sentence...

No pressure tags: @callsign-denmark (I know for a fact you have lines 😂) @royallykt @fanfoolishness @holdingonforheaven @waywardsou2 @ladyanidala @merkitty49

[waytooinvested]

Fandom creators tag game

1. What sort of content do you create, and what is the thing you’ve made that you’re most proud of? Mostly I write fanfiction. Sometimes I make little needle felted character dolls. Over all proudest is probably still The Hands I Used to Touch (Call the Midwife), but for my current fandom (Supergirl) it's Forgotten, Not Forgiven, as that is my latest big project and home to all the fluffy supercorp that I need in my life (okay not in the published chapters but IT WILL BE EVENTUALLY I PROMISE)

2. What fandom(s) do you create for? Right now just Supergirl, and I have only written three fics for that one so far (but hopefully more to come!) Before that it was Call the Midwife.

3. What is your current favourite ship (or brotp if you prefer), and how controversial is it? Supercorp, ie Kara/Lena for Supergirl (I know, I’m so quiet about it on this blog you would never have guessed). It occupies an interesting space of being simultaneously entirely non controversial in that it is by far the biggest ship I have ever engaged with, while also being extremely divisive, both within and beyond fandom spaces. But I arrived here LONG after most of that had happened, and am now just happily playing in the sandpit of creative space while the bones of drama stay *mostly* buried. Always a bit of a shock when one rises up to try and kick down your sandcastle though (yes, I am aware that that is a mildly horrifying visual)

4. For your answer to question 3, are they canon? They are not (TECHNICALLY), but there is enough raw material in canon to build The São João Baptista, and that is enough for me. That and the 21,302 (and counting) fics with their relationship tag on AO3.

5. What was your first fandom, and how old were you? The first I actually engaged with other fans over was Call The Midwife in my early 20s, and that was because I snapped after seeing one too many tv lesbians get hit by a car.

6. What is your most unhinged fandom creation to date? Unhinged is not really my brand so I don't really have anything good for this one. Is Kara gets accidentally miniaturized unhinged? Or a bait and switch Lena "villain" arc? I think probably not really to either, but that's the closest I've got for this fandom so far...

7. Do you remember what started you off creating fandom content, and if so, what was it? The aforementioned incident between Delia and a car, which left her with amnesia and taken away to Wales mere moments after she and Patsy had moved in together. But I’m over it. Honest.

8. Do you let people you know in real life see your fandom creations? Not usually, I get shy about it. The exceptions are my wife (but we met via fandom so that one maybe doesn’t count) and on occasion my best friend, who talked me round by being an enthusiastic sweetheart.

9. How do you feel about fanworks of fanworks? Has anyone ever made something based on a thing you made? A few people have made fan art for my fics and it felt like the absolute highest compliment that could be paid to my writing. It was amazing to know that something I wrote meant enough to people to inspire them to go and create their own thing from it, and I loved getting to see other people’s takes on the version of the characters/story I had created. I think it's one of the best things about fandom communities! But I do understand why other people might feel differently about something they have poured so much of themselves into making, so I guess the main thing is trying to be respectful with it, crediting the source, and accepting people's boundaries. Basically I think we should all just be kind to each other and have fun.

10. What feeling do you most often try to evoke with your creations? I'm generally seeking my own catharsis through writing fix-it fic for painful things that happened in canon, so I guess a certain amount of pain followed by the eventual fluffy feel good satisfaction of resolution, but honestly I consider it a win if I can evoke a whole spectrum of emotions along the way.

11. Has someone ever paid your work a compliment (in any form) that has stuck with you, and what was it? Someone once liked my fic so much that she married me about it, so it’s hard to beat that haha. But on a more usual level, people making fanart for my fic was a HUGE one. And also just when people have left particularly in depth comments, commented on every chapter, told me they're rereading or that a fic of mine was their favourite etc... Basically just knowing that something I made has really meant something to someone gives me all of the warm fuzzy feelings, and I am very grateful to each and every person who has taken the time to tell me so!

12. What’s your favourite thing someone else has made that you’ve seen in the last 24 hours (and link it if you can find it again!) Originally I had the bouquet toss ficlet by @fazedlight here, because it just captures the characters so beautifully, but then I left this sitting in my drafts and it is now more than 24 hours ago that I saw it, so I'll add this adorable art by @awaitingrain, because LOOK AT IT! They are so cute??! Also I relate to gentle nomming as a display of affection XD

13. Give a small sneak preview of something you’re working on right now (eg a couple of sentences of fic from a WIP, a gif set theme, a small piece of a larger picture, whatever you feel happy to share) "Lena Luthor was dangling from the side of a cliff, nothing between her and the vast chasm of space below but the small jutting nodule she was clinging to to keep from falling.

How the hell had she ended up here?

Well. She knew how of course.

Kara Danvers was how."

14. Have you ever seen/read anything made by the person who tagged you? If so, what was it and what was your favourite thing about it? (pick a favourite if there are several) SO MANY!! it’s hard to pick a favourite of hers honestly because she is a RIDICULOUSLY good writer, but I’m going to go with The Next Best Thing by @cynicalrainbows. I don’t tend to read many kidfics but this one is the absolute best I have come across, she captures the child perspective fantastically well while also being incredibly engaging and entertaining to an adult reader. It is what successfully pulled me into reading Six fanfic despite (at that point) never having seen the musical. Even if you haven’t either, I wholeheartedly recommend checking it out. Or go and read her new Paperdolls fic and help grow that fandom, which I think currently has all of two people in it!

15. Do you leave comments on fandom works, and if so how would you describe your comment style? I do! I know how much I love it when people do it for me, so I try to leave comments on every chapter of the fics I read (or add tag notes for tumblr art/fic reblogs), and give specifics about what I like about it. Sometimes I just fully liveblog the fic reading experience, which is always fun. I also find it makes you engage and appreciate the work more because you’re taking your time to really think about it, AND it makes an author happy to receive (at least so I hope), which makes me happy.

16. How many works in progress do you currently have? Will you finish them all? Not counting a couple of dump documents of ideas and snippets, technically 3, I guess? One is Forgotten, Not Forgiven (Supergirl) which is my big one and will definitely be finished. The others are less certain – Storybooks and Siren Suits (Call The Midwife) is the one kidfic I have ever written, and is both my longest story at 151,020 (published) words, and also the one I am least likely to finish, because it has been stuck on the same chapter for around 3 years now. The other is Small Problem… (Supergirl) which could be counted as a finished oneshot, but I will probably end up adding further Adventures of Tiny Kara at some point.

17. what’s the longest it’s ever taken you to finish a fandom project?Well, see above re: 3 year stall on new updates. For actually fully finished and published stories I think it was around 6 months.

18. Describe the thing you made most recently in a way that is technically true, but also completely misleading. Link the thing if it’s published! Lena discovers Kara in Lex’s bed, then decides to lure her into friendship under false pretenses. Alex helps her do it. Forgotten, Not Forgiven.

19. Do you ever engage with fanworks for a fandom you’re not in? Which one(s) and how did you get into it? See above re: getting into fanfiction for Six!

20. Recommend a fan work from your fandom to your followers That’s tough because there are so many amazing ones, but I think I will go with I Guess I Live Here Now by @fabulousglitch, because it was both the first fic I really got into for supercorp and also contained everything I wish the characters could have had in canon. I know I am several years late to the party so if you are in the supercorp fandom you have probably already read it, but if you haven’t read it GO READ IT, IT’S SO GOOD!

Suggested tag list, but there are no rules here, follow your heart.

A mutual you have never actually spoken to but think seems cool @nottawriter

The most recent person whose content you engaged with (eg read a fic, reblogged art, whatever form you feel best fits) @sideguitars (and I still owe you a comment on AO3 for that!)

Someone whose content you saw via tags/reblogs and you followed them because of it @sssammich

Someone in your fandom that you think makes cool things @fazedlight

Someone in a different fandom that you think makes cool things @havaamina

Someone you always tag on things like this @cynicalrainbows

Someone you have never tagged before @thatonebirdwrites

Someone you would like to get to know better @thecasualqueer

Someone who makes art you like @pea-green (I don't know if you still do fandom drawing/writing these days, but your commissioned art is still up in my house/in my profile picture and I love it so much)

Someone who writes fics you like @fabulousglitch