Challenge #11: In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.

Since I wrote my Bravely Default canon promo last year, I've been meaning to post a discussion about trios that strongly fit a ( Sun/Moon/Star aesthetic )


Challenge #12 is giving me a bit of a hard time and I might need to meditate on it a bit more. And I might be too shy for Challenge #13 -- in any case, giving it a bit more time seems like a good idea. So I'm going to just skip ahead to Challenge #14?


Challenge #14: In your own space, create your own fandom challenge.

I feel like in this year's challenge, there wasn't really a lot of opportunities for people to talk about specific characters they like in fiction, so I'd like to ask a question related to characters. So feel free to answer any of: Do you have a character you used to be obsessed with and no longer are, or a character you've encountered recently that you're like, "Younger me would have LOVED this character"? Which character do you find yourself thinking about the most / rotating in your mind lately, and why? Do you have a character you feel has been done dirty by fandom, and if so, in what way? Do you have a canon that you think does a particularly good job at establishing its cast of characters, and if so, what would you say is its secret to success?

February sure went by in a flash... phoenixdown_ex sign-ups close tonight (I am signing up to do art only -- about 60% done with my sign-up...) and there is also a Final Fantasy Kiss Battle going on, for those interested!



Huh... Remember how I was doing these? ^^; It is becoming increasingly unlikely I'll be able to do these, but maybe I'll try a couple more and call it a day (...a month, a year...).


Challenge #7: Make a list of fannish and/or creative resources.

I don't really have that many resources to give that I haven't mentioned before, so I'm just going to link my DW profile, where I link some Dreamwidth communities I think are neat. They range from fannish events, writing/art/icon support communities, and rec comms.


Challenge #9: Rec Us Your Newest Thing.

Very much NOT my newest thing, but this challenge mentioned that "You can absolutely use this space for that manifesto or fandom promo that you’ve always wanted to pen," so I decided to use it to try to finish up some fandom promos I've been writing up for my more obscure/hard-to-get-into fandoms and which I've been sticking in the bottom of my generic exchange letter. But they're NOT my newest thing because all the possible fandoms I could write a promo for are really old ones for me. And then unfortunately, doing just ONE of these promos took wayyy longer than I expected, so... here's my Bravely Default promo -- that's all I've got. It's... apparently 1558 words. I hope people looking to pick up new canons are willing to read mini-essays... (To be fair, most of it is just a list of things I tend to request in exchanges, which can be easily skipped.)


Challenge #10: Five Things! The five things are totally up to you.

I've decided to write up my top 5 ideas for a BFE (bangs, fests, exchanges) type multifandom event. These ideas are all too much for me to mod so I'm putting them up for adoption.

( 1: Telephone Fictionary )
( 2: One Trope Only )
( 3: One True Character )
( 4: Team-up Exchanges )
( 5: Reverse prompt/Prompting-for-prompts meme )

Challenge #9 - In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year.

I mean... It's got to be writing a complete(!) novel-length(!) Quodo fic.

It's true that I have definitely gotten more confident in my writing each year since joining getyourwordsout (which is especially true when it comes to Quodo, which for some reason has consistently been easier for me to come up with longer plots for and draft than any other fandom/pairing I've gotten into ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). But... at the same time, it is still a bit difficult for me to believe I pulled this off. First, while my writing skills HAVE gotten stronger since 2019 when I first joined GYWO, it must be said that I joined GYWO because I specifically wanted help finishing off two multichapter WIPs... and noticeably, NEITHER of those fics are finished yet, and both of them are STILL shorter than that Quodo fic (they're at ~27k and ~20k).

So basically, I am very aware that writing multichapter fics (especially with a plot) is hard. So I am really surprised and proud of myself for pulling off a finished fic WAY longer than anything I've ever done -- and it is a fic I like a lot too!

(Of course, now that I'm aware I have it in me to write novel-length Quodo fic, I find that I'm eager to write more this year. I have one Quodo idea that could easily be novella-length (20-30k words maybe) and another that will definitely be novel-length if I finish it (it's currently ~24k words and maybe 1/3 done).)

Challenge #10 - In your own space, create a fanwork.

So I decided to make some icons, of Bravely Default (a fandom I was hoping to get some icons for in fandomtrees but didn't, so need to go make them myself) and also icons from my own art. Oh, also I finished up an old Trials of Mana icon I started.

( Cut for images )

Feel free to take any of them if they are relevant to your interests! Also, I've finally archived these and a whole bunch of older icons I made for requests at my icon journal:
- 48 drawn art icons (video games, animanga, my fanart)
- 46 live action icons (TV and film, mostly Star Trek)

Challenge #11 - In your own space, Talk about your favorite trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.

Okay I swear before I even saw hamsterwoman's entry, I was also going to talk about Five-Man Bands.

( Five-Man Bands )

What is this?
Some of us are bored and are in need of some Bravely ideas and inspiration. And hey, the 10th anniversary of Bravely Default's release is coming up soon! Hence this prompt meme -- leave some Bravely Default-related prompts, and make some Bravely Default-related fills.

How does this work?
Prompting: Leave a comment on this post with your prompt. In your comment, you should include the game, character(s) or ship(s), and whatever your prompt is. You may leave prompts anonymously if you wish!

Filling: In order to fill a prompt, reply to that prompt and either put your work in the body of the comment or post your work elsewhere (e.g. AO3) and leave the URL in your reply. Please put the word "FILL" in the title of your comment. You may fill prompts anonymously if you wish!

You may also reply to prompts to ask follow-up questions or just express enthusiasm for a prompt!

Note: While this post itself does not contain any adult content, prompts and fills may contain 18+ content, so please use caution when browsing!

Some other links of interest:
bravelyseriescollabs - Is running an art collab to celebrate BD's 10th anniversary. If you're an artist, check it out!
Bravely Series Discord - A Discord for discussing the series.
bravelydefault - A Dreamwidth community for the Bravely series.
bravelykink - Kink meme that ran from 2014-2015ish.

Rules:
1. All Team Asano games are considered on-topic for this event. This includes: 4 Heroes of Light, Bravely Default, Bravely Second, Bravely Default II, Bravely Default: Praying Brage, Fairy's Effect, Brilliant Lights, Octopath Traveler, Triangle Strategy, and Various Daylife. Prompts involving crossing over any of the previously-listed games with any other media are also allowed.
2. No kinkshaming.
3. Please provide warnings for explicit content and common triggers.
4. There is no requirement to warn for spoilers. I believe all games have been out long enough that spoiler warnings are not needed. However, let me know if you disagree and would like spoiler warnings.
5. Fic, art, vids, all media types are ALLOWED for fills, as long as the prompt doesn't specify a particular medium. There is no lower/upper bound on word count. Filling your own prompts is ALLOWED! This is to get the creative juices flowing, so do what you like!

Aaaand I had too many Altdea feelings that I ended up also writing a ship manifesto for them. Note that this manifesto contains two types of spoilers: minor spoilers related to Alternis's backstory and characterization, and major spoilers for Bravely Default and Bravely Second that could easily change your experience playing the game. The first set of details is necessary for understanding the basics of the relationship. The second set is necessary for a more complete understanding of the relationship, but is optional. So I've split this post into two sections: a minor spoilers only section and a major spoilers section. The division between sections is clearly marked so you can stop reading before you hit major spoilers.

( Manifesto under the cut )