Take my time.
Jan. 2nd, 2012 11:42 pmGoing out to the movies late this afternoon with my brother was a nice way to spend the time - his semester break ends in a few days and it's good to catch face time where we can - except for how doing it on a whim broke my regular Monday routine and left me unable to pick it up where I'd left it. I ended up leaving the afternoon free of accomplishments, and I'm going to have to remember to not do this again without at least two day's advance notice so I can get the cooking done ahead of time and not stay up late with it.
As it is, I've got plenty of minestrone soup for lunches next week, so that's something useful to come out of the day. And here's something else.
In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Drop a link to your post in the comments. See if you can rec fanworks that are less likely to be praised: tiny fandoms, rare pairings, fanworks other than stories, lesser known kinks or tropes. Find fanworks that have few to no comments, or creators new to a particular fandom and maybe aren't well known or appreciated. Appreciate them.
As is so often the case with fandom, there's the problem of having too much good stuff, so since I'm taking this challenge as an opportunity to try to bring people into Team Fortress 2, here's three things that are fairly well-known already and for good reason.
1. Devil With A Blue Dress. Genfic filling in the map of the world of the game that the characters live in, and exactly the sort of thing that makes me sit up at attention and beg for more. Tense, well-paced, with shining characterization and seamless worldbuilding. It's nearly to the end, and I await that day with patience.
2. Dance Fortress 2. Well-known to the point of over a million views on Youtube, and worth every single one of them. Everyone is perfectly in-character, the animation is smooth and seamless like the best of Pixar, and trust me, it's worth it to download to watch as big as you can so you don't miss any details.
3. Tentaspy. Not exactly an individual fanwork, not exactly part of the canon, but its own well-rooted piece of the fandom, complete with cosplays and roleplays and long-running romances. This is one of the aspects of the Team Fortress 2 fandom - a one-off joke that took hold and integrated itself into the fandom's meta-canon - that I haven't seen occur anywhere else. The backstory is an attempt to create the least likely crossover possible, with The Little Mermaid winning that round, and as far as I can tell, what happened next was that half the fandom stopped and said, "We could use some tentacles around here." And then the other half said, "Hell yeah!" And then everyone just ran with it. Everyone. Trust me, if I didn't already have a list of stories I need to work through, I'd try my hand at a tentaspy piece myself.
What I find really remarkable about it is how much the fandom's embraced the cephalopod nature of this thing. Let me say once again that after years of people who claimed to be into tentacles but only wanted pseudopods, coming to a fandom that really wanted tentacles - suckers, beaks, ink and all - was supremely gratifying.
This isn't precisely a recommendation and more of a suggestion, but TeratoMarty does fantastic, awesome porn - one of the few men around in fandom who does - and his stuff can't be beat for chair-squirmingly fantastic sex. It also can't be beat for strange, deranged, twisted and tangled ideas, situations, and kinks, and exploits the tricks and tools of this particular fandom - abusing respawn was never so much fun - like there's no tomorrow. Emphatically not safe for work by any means. He also doesn't have a complete archive or repository anywhere, but there's a decent collection of his older stuff here. And hey, the guy wrote Egon/slime. Dude knows what's what.
Also, fannybaws has a pair of posts highlighting the fandom's fanart porn, and serving as a good introduction to some of the artists out there as well.
With a warning that this is a link to TV Tropes, their recommendations page is quite good as a starting point for finding further reading - and that this is a link to a website blocked by no small number of filters, TF2Chan is where most of the fandom activity takes place, and has several extensive forums devoted to fanart.
As it is, I've got plenty of minestrone soup for lunches next week, so that's something useful to come out of the day. And here's something else.
In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Drop a link to your post in the comments. See if you can rec fanworks that are less likely to be praised: tiny fandoms, rare pairings, fanworks other than stories, lesser known kinks or tropes. Find fanworks that have few to no comments, or creators new to a particular fandom and maybe aren't well known or appreciated. Appreciate them.
As is so often the case with fandom, there's the problem of having too much good stuff, so since I'm taking this challenge as an opportunity to try to bring people into Team Fortress 2, here's three things that are fairly well-known already and for good reason.
1. Devil With A Blue Dress. Genfic filling in the map of the world of the game that the characters live in, and exactly the sort of thing that makes me sit up at attention and beg for more. Tense, well-paced, with shining characterization and seamless worldbuilding. It's nearly to the end, and I await that day with patience.
2. Dance Fortress 2. Well-known to the point of over a million views on Youtube, and worth every single one of them. Everyone is perfectly in-character, the animation is smooth and seamless like the best of Pixar, and trust me, it's worth it to download to watch as big as you can so you don't miss any details.
3. Tentaspy. Not exactly an individual fanwork, not exactly part of the canon, but its own well-rooted piece of the fandom, complete with cosplays and roleplays and long-running romances. This is one of the aspects of the Team Fortress 2 fandom - a one-off joke that took hold and integrated itself into the fandom's meta-canon - that I haven't seen occur anywhere else. The backstory is an attempt to create the least likely crossover possible, with The Little Mermaid winning that round, and as far as I can tell, what happened next was that half the fandom stopped and said, "We could use some tentacles around here." And then the other half said, "Hell yeah!" And then everyone just ran with it. Everyone. Trust me, if I didn't already have a list of stories I need to work through, I'd try my hand at a tentaspy piece myself.
What I find really remarkable about it is how much the fandom's embraced the cephalopod nature of this thing. Let me say once again that after years of people who claimed to be into tentacles but only wanted pseudopods, coming to a fandom that really wanted tentacles - suckers, beaks, ink and all - was supremely gratifying.
This isn't precisely a recommendation and more of a suggestion, but TeratoMarty does fantastic, awesome porn - one of the few men around in fandom who does - and his stuff can't be beat for chair-squirmingly fantastic sex. It also can't be beat for strange, deranged, twisted and tangled ideas, situations, and kinks, and exploits the tricks and tools of this particular fandom - abusing respawn was never so much fun - like there's no tomorrow. Emphatically not safe for work by any means. He also doesn't have a complete archive or repository anywhere, but there's a decent collection of his older stuff here. And hey, the guy wrote Egon/slime. Dude knows what's what.
Also, fannybaws has a pair of posts highlighting the fandom's fanart porn, and serving as a good introduction to some of the artists out there as well.
With a warning that this is a link to TV Tropes, their recommendations page is quite good as a starting point for finding further reading - and that this is a link to a website blocked by no small number of filters, TF2Chan is where most of the fandom activity takes place, and has several extensive forums devoted to fanart.
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