Realizing I should make a pinned intro with hashtags. I’m Speranza aka Cesperanza, in #fandom since the 1980s and online since the 1990s, #dueSouth archivist, #OTW and #AO3 founder, #fanfic writer and sometimes #vidder, currently writing #MCU#stucky but with many other fandoms and #startrek forever. I believe in a #DIY nonprofit #opensource ethos for fandom. I get by with a lot of help from my friends. Fandom is my fandom.
I know people can be sniffy about fanfic but I'm just finishing up a 600k retelling of The Untamed/MDZS but everyone has daemons ala His Dark Materials and omg...
The writing is as good as/better than a lot of published books I've read in terms of style, execution, and quality. Written for fun, shared for love.
You guys are missing out, I'm telling you.
Trying for a consolidated #introduction post: hi, I’m Caroline, my handle is usually avawatson/avawtsn in #fandom spaces but I’m experimenting here. Been on #ThreePatchPodcast since around 2013, when my fandom life began properly with Sherlock in the s2 hiatus. I didn’t find another long term fandom until #TheUntamed#mdzs and cast (esp #WangYibo) in 2020. I adore fanworks, especially #fanfic, and dabble in art/shitposts (attached), #podfic, #vidding, writing, some translation, etc. More 👇
So one of the ways writing fanfic, specifically fic for live-action series, improved my writing craft was it made me start asking myself, “Would this character be a fun role for the actor?”
Here is where I confess I know jack shit about acting, so this is definitely not acting/screenwriting advice, but for the purpose of the exercise it lead me to try and always write characters with well-defined inner lives and rich emotional expression, and put them in a variety of (often cross-“type”) situations (i.e. the comedic character having dramatic scenes, etc.).
#OTW volunteer, #fanlore gardener and at this stage I'm probably a #FandomOld. Too many #fandoms to mention but I'm a #sff fan who loves books, audiobooks, #fanfic and I'm starting to get into #podfics. I'm auntaggie on #ao3 and #tumblr, but hoping to find some new folks to follow here
I'm also #irish, so there will likely be lots of retoots bout the state of the weather. Agus retoots as #gaeilge. Táim ag iarraidh mo scileanna teanga a cleachtadh 😊
#Introduction
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I'm a writer, reader, crafter, cat person, and tabletop, board, and video gamer. I recently finished a novel-length fan fiction and have more fan fic and original fiction in the works.
Anybody here bored? Fandomstats.org is finally migrated to a new VPS, which means that tag graphing works again!
PLUS, I treated myself to a bit of useless coding and built a tool that will give you a random AO3 work from a tag, or any other AO3 work list: https://fandomstats.org/ao3-random-work/
I'm gonna try it on the Yuletide collection, I think that's gonna be a fun way to browse it.
I'm soliciting donations to RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services) and HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society). One dollar nets you 100 words of #AvatartheLastAirbender#fanfic. Donations of more than a dollar are combinable into one story, but don't have to be, it's up to you. Just send me a screenshot of your donation along with your prompt(s).
I'm Alis! I'm an #SFF#author and I love #monsters so write books about them (kissing). I also sometimes (very rarely) draw, and (mostly) play too much #FFXIV.
I'm also the admin of fandom.ink, a #fandom centric Masto instance, inspired by the #tumblr exodus and aimed at #fanart, #fanfic, #RP, and other general fannish content.
When I'm not doing that, I'm probably writing bad #php for #oldweb sites, reading too much #danmei, or playing #DnD.