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18 November 2016 @ 01:50 pm
ATTF: Let's See How Much Further We've Come  
Hello honorable comrades, and welcome to the latest All the Things Friday! I'll be your host this week, sort of. More on that in a minute. If you want to be a host for a future ATTF, go to this page and check out the info!

Firstly, credit to [livejournal.com profile] inkvoices and [livejournal.com profile] workerbee73, who masterminded the ATTF I'm mostly copy-pasting for this one. They ran a really successful and super fun Friday a few years back, so here's to hoping that spirit will return, and shower us with loads of great fanworks, just in time to procrastinate all out holiday exchange fics :))) not that I'm speaking personally or anything, and/or cushion the blow of November holidays with relatives. One would hope.

There are three parts to this ATTF challenge/game. If you'd like to participate, you can choose any or all of the options, or just sit back and glut! :D

1. Rec a fanwork (fic, art, podfic, graphics, mural graffitied on a wall in town, etc.) by a fandom newcomer, or just an underappreciated work that you feel deserves some love.

2) Tell us the first thing that you wrote/made in this fandom. How did you get into it, what was the inspiration, was it hard to do? What do you think about it now, either in content or composition? Tell the story of your story! Link if you're brave enough :D

3) Rec something you wrote/made in this fandom that you’re most proud of, or that’s your favourite.

Discussion Ideas: How have your thinky thoughts or creative leanings changed since that first thing you wrote/made? How far have we come since the film was released? What is it about the shiny new things coming through that are different, that have changed your thinking?

We've had a few good recs and discussions on this community lately, but with the way the movies, comics, and, basically, 2016, I think it'll do us some good to harken back to the golden days. Maybe it'll give us some inspiration for the future. <3

What are your three things for this Friday?


And a few things to keep in mind:
1) Always label NSFW (Not Safe For Work) stuff in the title and post under a cut.
2) Fic and artwork needs to have a rating and warnings (or you can say that you’ve chosen not to use warnings).
3) For people with annoying internet connections, say in the title if a comment has is graphic/images/gif heavy and post picspams under a cut.
4) Have a damn good time! (Because if that’s not happening then this post has clearly failed.)
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[identity profile] alphaflyer.livejournal.com on November 18th, 2016 11:02 pm (UTC)
What a great idea! And welcome to ATTF!!

My three things:

1. A fanwork ... that you feel deserves some love. "history is what you've travelled on and take with you (http://archiveofourown.org/works/906905)" by [livejournal.com profile] inkvoices. This is such an atmospheric and amazing AU that it (a) convinced me AUs were a Thing I could actually enjoy, and (b) baffles me that it doesn't have 1,000 kudos. I read it in the car on a glorious fall day as we were driving down Highway 7 towards Lake Ontario, the golden light and pumpkins a perfect counterpoint to the story. Just lovely.

2. Tell us the first thing that you wrote/made in this fandom. How did you get into it, what was the inspiration, was it hard to do? What do you think about it now, either in content or composition? Tell the story of your story! Link if you're brave enough :D

Well, that would be "Going to Ground (http://archiveofourown.org/works/520261)", a post-New York fic. I came out of the theatre wondering what Clint and Natasha did after getting into that car. (Ah, those heady days when Clintasha was all but canon ... :P) I had been reading a lot about PTSD in connection with our troops returning from Afghanistan, and was impressed by that scene in the med bay, when Clint tried to ask how many people he'd killed, and Natasha told him he needed to "level out" and this was "nothing we were ever trained for"? I mean, how DO you deal with what they just went through? Pure fanfic gold!! Hilariously, not really being in the fandom yet I thought I was being hugely original -- didn't realize that post-New York stories were pretty much of a trope, and that there were dozens and dozens of them. Oops.

I joined the comm a few days after posting it, posted it here - sometime in October 2012, and found my tribe! :-) Also, just to prove that this is the story that just keeps on giving, just last week, [livejournal.com profile] crazy4orcas made the most gorgeous fan art for it which I used as a cover for the story -- do go look at it!!!

3. Rec something you wrote/made in this fandom that you’re most proud of, or that’s your favourite. Hmm. Favourite? Can't really say, because I actually rather like a lot of the stuff I've done in this fandom, for a host of reasons. Proud of? Maybe "Highway of Diamonds (http://archiveofourown.org/works/759841)"? It was pretty hard to write, as it deals with some pretty dark stuff, and I was very relieved/pleased when I got through it.


Edited 2016-11-18 11:05 pm (UTC)
[identity profile] kiss-me-cassie.livejournal.com on November 19th, 2016 03:03 pm (UTC)
Everyone should read Going to Ground. It's fabulous! (And being a latecomer, I never knew it was your first MCU fic, so now I'm doubly impressed!)

Also, [livejournal.com profile] crazy4orcas is crazy talented, not just on the new cover art for this fic, but for her other art too. Does she have a home for her art? I just seem to stumble on it randomly.
[identity profile] crazy4orcas.livejournal.com on November 29th, 2016 03:07 am (UTC)
Thanks so much for the compliment!

I don't really have a home for the art. They're mostly things I've put together at polyvore.com (I'm "crazy4orcas there too).

:)