January talking meme

bearshorty asked; the book that influenced/changed your life.

Easy! Dorothy L. Sayer’s Gaudy Night. i read this book when I was around fourteen and it was the first Sayers I ever wrote. Now all Sayers fans will scream and say that this is the very book you really shouldn’t read first because backstory! Spoilers! Well, that is what I did. And I can tell you I didn’t got about half of it. All those ints of Harriet’s previous history. What dead lover? For all that matters, Lord Peter’s previous history. And I was quite young and a lot of the various discussions about women’s right place frankly went over my head.

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The Snowflake Challenge; Day 12

Day 12

What makes you fannish? And by that we mean, what is it about a tv show/movie/book/band/podcast/etc that takes you from, "Yeah, I like that," to "I need MOAR!!!" Is it a character? A plotline? The pretty? Subtext that’s just screaming to be acknowledged?

Hmm… On a general level I tend to enjoy media which is well written. I enjoy character’s who are a bit ambiguous, or at least well nuanced with both good and bad characteristics. I like, if not exclusively, media with fantastic elements. I like visual media where care has been put into what we see. I loved Hannibal for example thought it was far too bloody and violent for my usual taste because it was so heartbreakingly beautifully filmed. And I can’t stand period dramas like The Tudors and Reign because they so blatantly disregard what fashion actually looked like. It’s not that I have to have historically accurate costumes into itty bitty details, but I like costumes who has a message and are thought through and at least gives the basic idea of what a certain fashion looked like. I love Reine Margot for example, despite not being HA, because they are so visullý stunning and fits into the narrative. And the Man in the High Castle show us what an early 60’s fashion may look like in a culture that has stagnated under dictatorship.

But what it is that makes me actively fannish, well, that is harder. There are a lot of media I adore that I never feel inclined to write for, or often even read fanfics about. But most of the fandom I have felt compelled to write in (and all I have written a lot in), have characters with a moral ambiguity, regardless if they are good or bad ones.

The Return of the Thin White Duke

Well, I know we are being flooded with tributes to David Bowie right now, but this story, originally published in Neil Gaiman’s Trigger warnings is too lovely not to pass on. It also have absolutely stunning artwork by Yoshitaka Amano. Gaiman himself calls it fanfiction.

The Return of the Thin White Duke