Continuing to churn these out...

Challenge #6: Share your favourite piece of original canon.

( Favorite piece of original canon )

Challenge #7: In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a wishlist of sorts.

( Wishlist )

I posted this on Tumblr a while ago; thought I would copy it here:

( About artists thinking of their art/fic/etc. as 'content' )

Also, here are my thoughts on various AUs done for this AU Bingo meme. I'm still taking requests for this, by the way!

( FFIX + 20th Century AU )
( FFT + Monster Hunter AU )
( ST:DS9 + Royalty AU )
( ST:DS9, Quodo + Superhero AU )


And then to round out this post, just a couple of links I wanted to share:

- The Hidden Racism of Book Cover Design -- I knew what "black woman author" book cover style they were talking about before any examples were given... There are also book genres that my partner calls Blue Book and Pink Book, and you can instantly tell which type of book is being advertised on the subway with basically no information given, just based on the graphic design of the ad. It's very powerful visual branding!
- Magic: the Gathering now has a game state in which you need to prove that there are an infinite number of twin primes to win

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 )

My Press Start / press_start_comm recs (note: this is very much biased toward the particular set of games I'm familiar with and interested in):

( Dance Dance Revolution; Final Fantasy VI, X, and Tactics; Trials of Mana )

I've been on a meta kick lately!

I watched Grave of the Fireflies yesterday, which I kind of regret because that movie is too depressing to watch twice in one’s life (but it is a good reminder of the horrible miniature tragedies that war and instability and poverty create, particularly for the least hardy human beings i.e. young children -- an important reminder in this time of refugee crises and border wall fanatics). One thing I did genuinely enjoy, however, is the use in the opening scenes of the train as a vehicle that conveys people to the afterlife. I looked this up on TV Tropes because I was sure this has to be a larger phenomenon in fiction, and it's called Afterlife Express.

( Rambling about examples of this trope )