Recommend a fannish or creative resource

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I'm in a bit of trouble with this but may as well be honest.

getyourwordsout doesn't come as a surprise, I guess, and it's a perfectly normal and valid resource. It's for writers by writers and gives you endless tips and tricks, articles, videos - basically anything you can imagine. The monthly check-ins make sure that I motivate my sorry ass to write at least a little, even if I'd rather procrastinate away into the sunset.
It really is the best!

I'm pretty sure I recommended this too last year, but it's still one of the greatest BL resources out there - many things a BL lover would want, Yaoi Otaku Forum has. I lurk there from time to time in search of novels and mangas, but wasn't really active on it this past year.

Okay, now to the trickier part. 2019 was eaten up by Mo Dao Zu Shi on main, then Guardian and SCI. And the content on Twitter out of all places pretty much consumed 80% of my phone's memory and a huge chunk of my freetime. And it turned my account into a Xiao Zhan-Wang Yibo-Mo Dao Zu Shi all adaptations altair I religiously retweet sacrifices on. Okay, I'm in a special kind of hell, I know, but Twitter guys, Twitter. I never would've believed but my fandom is primarily over there. Yesterday I just copied my saved pics to my laptop and up into the cloud. 6200, people. Just in the aforementioned three topics.
I can't even... >----<

But the most horrifying part comes now...
WATTPAD.
HOLY F*CKING SH*T
It's because of the danmei novels, sure, most English translations I found are over there and listen, it still gives me the heebie-jeebies but I HAD TO. My sanity was on the line but now I apparently have a library full of saved chinese BL novel-translations on Wattpad. It's nice and cosy and saved me from the closed ward, I think. SO. It's a win but at the same time feels like I lost my innocence or something.


As far as
Commit an act of kindness goes...

So, I work half the time as a barista (without the papers and the payraise, mind you, but I'm just a dumb bitch like that, okay), right, and yesterday I accidentally handed a customer a huge glass of pricey fresh orange juice instead of the cheaper, smaller, bottled one he actually ordered. We smiled big time at each other, me, an innocent bystander and him, who took the offered goods with satisfaction. My colleague was handling the register and the orders and one of our superiors was there talking to us a mile a minute about some inconsequential stuff like yearly tax return or so and successfully diverted our attention. She had even pointed out that an orange juice was missing from the tray (I was serving up the cappuccino, fancy leaf in the foam and all that). So I put an orange juice there. They didn't specify.
At least the dude's day started damn fine and I didn't care either way but we laughed a lot with my colleague after.

Also, yesterday after the closing shift (that means 9.30 pm, haha) we surprised one of our other colleague with cake and fancy hand-craft beer and atrocious singing and a round of playing cards as a birthday present. It was fun and he's such a sweetie, he didn't expect it at all! (You know, this is a rambunctious group of friends made up of youngsters mainly, and we're terrible at keeping secrects... He's just so good and innocent, haha!) :D (Damn did I feel old next to him and we're only three years apart)

Also, there's one more thing I have to mention. It made my year in advance and I was in such a state after I got home at 1 am that I ranted and raved for an hour at least about how I became the luckiest person alive.
SOOO

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE COMES TO HUNGARY IN JULY. I cried and prayed and stressed and painted my eyes red and listened to their albums on loop after I accepted the fact that I couldn't go to the reunion concert in LA. And now they're coming to this puny little country and I feel like I've been blessed by Life itself.
On another but similar note. An official Comic Con will take place in Hungary for the first time this year in August. I can't even... ugly crying but happily When you can't go to San Diego, bring San Diego to your doorstep.
Thank you deities for loving me, I love you too.

This year's gonna be the best of my life so far. I just know it.

Well.

I love my life.

Hey, this is me again, rambling on.

Challenge #6

In your own space, make a list — anything between one and ten things is a sweet spot, but don't feel constrained by that! - of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, or that you'd like someone to make for you. Are you dying for podfic of your writing? Do you need icons for a character that doesn't get much fanart? Is there a story you want to read? Are you looking for new canons to get into? Would you like a collaborator for a project?

Maybe you want more people to talk about a certain fandom with, or you'd love to trade ficlets with somebody over email. Maybe you're new to a fandom and would like some recs to start reading, or communities to join. This is the time to ask!


Wishlist. Hmmm, that's a hard one, but I'll try.

1) A great, quality translation of SCI Mystery in English, so I can read it before I learn Chinese on a sufficient level and my curiosity kills me. (It's a real risk, okay.) I watched the drama, and guys, it's a FUCKING DISASTER but I love it so much. And it ended on The Cliffhanger of All Times© 🤯 And while Season Two was confirmed some time ago - theoretically they'll start shooting this summer - anything can happen. AND IT'S TOO FAR OFF ANYWAY!!
So many feelings, so many, I'm drowning. Not even enough fic material to quench this thirst! So I guess I'd like any interaction with anyone who got sucked into this story, too. 🥺🥺🥺 That would be lovely! SCI fans out there, I hope we find each other sooner or later!

2) Guardian fanarts from the novel!!! I did search for it, I still do from time to time but it's hard to find, or I'm just not familiar with those corners of the fandom.
I mean, I love everything about the drama too, but guys. Just imagine a smoking Zhao Yunlan. Or the fairy market. Lord Kunlun under the peach trees. A young Ghost King!Shen Wei, blood dripping down his chin... Zhao Yunlan's mother beating his son with a rolling pin XDXDXD Lin Jing as a fake monk posting shitty selfies on crime scenes. Or Lin Jing as this: "After the New Years celebrations, Lin has gained weight as if he were hit by an air gun. Stroking his big fat dumpling of a chin..." Or the raging skulls at the Sky Burial Master's hut! The three Soul Fires a human has! (That's a beautiful picture, especially with one dangling from Shen Wei's neck...) Chu Shuzhi in his glorious form of a zombie, skinny, pallid skin, haunting eyes and all that. (I adore the beefcake version of the drama and maybe salivate over him a little bit and god, his acting is marvelous but the original version is just asgasdgsd. Intriguing.) Shen Wei's... questionable bedroom design (you know what I'm talking about, it's creepy but glorious).
Unfortunately I have no talent in drawing and while my imagination makes up for it most of the time, I really love (fan)art! My respect for artists is paired with a neverending wonder and hero-worship.

3) So, this may sound silly. Yeah, yeah it does but I'm a sentimental sap, so here it goes.
I love getting mail. Letters, postcards. I'm old-fashioned that way. I love fannish things. Fics, art, stickers, basically everything. I love many fandoms. And this might be overly naive, but getting some fannish mail from time to time - and prepairing and sending some - that would feel like peak existence. Life maxed out. And I know it costs money and things can get awry with the post office, or a hurricane, guerilla attacks, alien invasions, whatever. And it requires some personal informations (PO boxes and fake names nothwithstanding) which might be a big no-no for many people. Internet offers a million more - free, colorful, shiny, moving, screaming - options to surprise your fannish friends with but there is something about letters... Something warm and fuzzy and utterly joyous. Even just one fannish penpal and I'd be in heaven.

I don't even know what I'm talking about anymore, haha

Anyway, onto a more general list I'd wish to see:

comments - even if you just type a quick 'Good job' or 'I liked it' you boost author's  and artists mood and creativity like nothing else could! Comments are love, so please be respectful and kind with your constructive criticism :)

gifs, gifsets, icons - I'm a sucker for those (too)! Would love to see more in my preferred fandoms!


Uhm, I think that's it. All I could come up with and now I should probably go and sleep some so I could be productive tomorrow today. XD





I hope, that everyone will have at least one wish from their list fulfilled this year!
We could all use some cheering up!

A little bit about fannish history - or rather, a lot. >>>

It all started with Star Wars, I think. I wasn't involved in the fandom in an "official" manner, you know. We were poor, for many years we didn't have a computer, internet was a mystery I didn't have access to, merch was out of the question (I didn't even know what it was) and we lived in the middle of nowhere anyway. There was no one to connect with.
But my father loved Star Wars with all his enthusiasm and we watched the movies together many times. Strangely the original series I liked but they didn't made as much of an impression as the Prequels did. Oh boi, how hard and fast I fell in love with those! (I know I'm a rare type of fan...) Stranger thing even, my father loved them just as much and he grew up on the sacred original three! I never grew out of this love and watched the movies many times but with the arrival of Harry Potter, things changed.


Harry Potter (as for many of us, I suppose) is my fandom home. I can always go back to it, and it welcomes me with open arms. I love everything about it, even the things (Umbridge…) that I hate. I have approximately a million fic ideas and started projects and read just as many fics and I'll never stop loving it, working in it. My as of that time closest friend introduced me to the world of fandoms on the internet and it blew me away. (Forever thankful for her!!!!)
Addiction, from the very first moment. I immediately consumed every kind of Drarry content, as a budding slasher, and wrote a fic impulsively which grew out to be 41k long but is still unfinished (right now, I plan to finish it, whenever my muse hits me). With growing older, taste even more refined I got into the, khm, slightly toxic pairing of Tom/Harry and Voldemort/Harry. Mortal enemies to friends to lovers became My Thing™ and Voldemort is kinda my favorite character ever, so. This obsession will never fade.


Along the way I stumbled upon Teen Wolf, and I cannot be more thankful for it - this fandom gave me the bravery to use my language skills and start to write fics in English, create fannish profiles on LJ, AO3, Tumblr, DW... Posted quite a few fics on AO3 and they're still getting good comments and many kudos regardless of some of them just sitting there, patiently waiting for the anxious author to get back around finishing things she started ^^''''''''' I'm an obsessive kind of fan, with an impatient thirst to devour everything about the topic that interests me so I consumed many fics in a short span of time - mostly Stiles/Peter ones, because that's my sacred OTP.

I arrived late to the party (as is usual with me, I have literal years to catch up on) but enjoyed it anyways - Season 6 helped with that but cooled it down too. I feel like I have to rewatch the series to get on track again. Tho I have the inspiration, my canon facts are lacking (and I could watch that disaster show anytime for my darling Stiles).
 

 

A show that I still haven't finished - because of obsesssions out of my control taking up my brainspace - is Gotham. But. It's MAGNIFICIENT. I totally fell in love with Robin Lord Taylor's acting and the dynamic of Jim Gordon and Harvey Bullock, his partner at GCPD. That show should get more recognition, it's insanely good! I remember reading all the fics I could get my paws on! (Not that many; all the more reason to enjoy and treasure them!) It was sort of a gateway for me into the hero business. Sure, before Gotham I watched Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy and thought that was the best interpretation we'll ever get. Oh boi was I wrong. DC's strongest point has always been it's villains (in that department MARVEL is quite weak and simple) and this show, guys. I have a weak spot for villains and this show is all about them! It's really worth watching, forget about Suicide Squad and other horrible attempts to revive DC, Gotham did it single handedly.
 

 

Now, now, time to reminisce about Supernatural. I'm sure I don't have to go into details with this one. Except - I want a bunker like the boys have. And a '67 Chevy Impala, black with cream leather interior. My favorite episode is Bobby's Day™ and I haven't watched the last two seasons yet. I'm procrastinating. I love monster of the week types of eps the most tho and Charlie is Best Girl and it's sad that it's gonna be over but at the same time I'm kinda glad. Supernatural will never be over, after all. The fanbase is too strong and too invested for that. And Misha, too XD
 

 

AN HONORABLE MENTION - THE ABSOLUTE FAVORITE HENCE I'M PUSHING BACK THE DAY I STEP INTO THE (TOO LITTLE) FANDOM SHRINE

Bartimaeus Trilogy. I read it before I read Harry Potter and love it even more. Differently, deeper. It's something that shaped my impressionable little teen mind that was unusually interested in politics and social problems and other serious topics. Plus, Bartimaeus, as a bloodthirsty, narcissitic and unpleasant (towards humans and absolutely unbearable towards his own kind - entities from The Other World) character who has the most sarcastic humor ever is someone out of this world. (Literally just as much as figuratively.)

I found his monologues, his existence, his views on humanity and life beyond wise and unique and status quo-shattering. (I'm using he/him/his pronouns but actually it should be they/them/theirs. We're talking about a demon who can take up any shape or form but has none at it's home - The Other World.)

The thing with these children books is, that they are not really books for children, I think. Sure, they are fantasy novels and kids can understand them aplenty, but there're so many deeper messages in them.

I read some comments from readers and got quite baffled that many people don't like the series because the main characters - three in total - are not likable. They're jerks, bad jerks with foul tempers and many shortcomings and bad deeds under their name, to put it simply. Strictly speaking, readers described them as villains, who still get the main narratives. This might be true from a black and white viewpoint, to the simpler audience (I'm sorry).

But fact, these faults, unpleasent and selfish personalities and dark pasts make these characters so painfully real and loveable! These novels are true masterpieces, dealing with timeless social issues, untraditional views on good and evil, and the mystery and power of love beyond boundaries. Jonathan Stroud is a genius.

Please check the series, if you're even remotely interested after my drivel!
 

 

To get a little back into the known, there's MARVEL and in it the MCU. Of course there is. Who doesn't love MCU or fallen at least a little bit into it's massive orbit? Not many words needed.

Actually, it was my Mom who saw Iron Man before me and got me addicted to it (and to RDJ, haha). Then the first Avengers movie made the world fall in love with a villain (finally, thank you, Tom Hiddleston, you wrote history, no pressure).

The massive success, all the movies that came after and will come in the future, I love. To different degrees and with different intensity, but I do. Guardians Of the Galaxy is still so dear to my heart, I cry and laugh every time I watch it. Both parts. Can't wait for the third, can't wait - still - for the stories they have to tell. And while I'm a bit angry, a lot sad for how they treated Tony (the official scapegoat of the universe) I can't not love MCU, with all it's faults and weaknesses too. Endgame really cooled me down, so I'm happily throwing myself into other stuff to cure my PTSD. There're always fanfics for Tony to live on forever.

 

So we're nearing present time!
 

 

The time I should talk about Boku No Hero Academia which groundbreakingly shattered my only one OTP per fandom tradition. I equally love the fiery duo of Midoriya/Bakugou and the molten lava love of Midoriya/Shouto. My mood is the deciding factor to what content I'd rather consume/create at a given moment.

It's such a perfect creation! I love even the side characters a lot, the plot, the manga, the anime, the movies, the merch, tha fan-theories, everything! The complexity and the simplicity at the same time.

Totally trumped the way MCU (and the western world in general) deals with heroes. I could go into excruciating detail, with rigorously outlined bulletpoints, charts, stats, laws, moral differences and real life comparisons. I won't, not now, not here. Just know, that japanese people are ahead of us in so many things, it's mindblowing.
 

 

And now. The moment has come. It feels like I don't do anything else with my time but gush about this, but it's well deserved.

Welcome to danmei hell.
 

 

Mo Dao Zu Shi

Guardian

SCI

a.k.a my Saint Three
 

 

Pros: canon BL love. Superior writing style. Long and complex stories. Loveable, realistic, colorful characters (to die for) and their dynamics. Endless pining and loyalty and love. Intruiging mysteries. Superior humor (Guardian, I'm looking at you, mainly). Many adaptations to gush over, made with love and care (especially in the case of MDZS - The Untamed officially ruined me and now I do believe in God - Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo are too fine creations to exist, and anyway XZ is an angel in -obvious- disguise. They kept me sane for most of 2019). I'd stress this againg, LONG stories - time to get to know everyone and beautifully work out the story arcs.
 

 

Mo Dao Zu Shi consumed me last year and I'm not willing to let it go, like ever. I remember when reading the novel there were parts I sobbed so fervently I couldn't read on. Had to stop and cry my heart out, just for the next sentence to kill me all over again.

It's that good. And exciting, adventurous, humorous at times and painful. So, so painful. But there's a happy ending! (One suffers more than enough through it, I'm glad Mo Xiang Tong Xiu had the common sense and good heart to end the story in the best, most beautiful way imaginable... Maybe except for the AU fics where everyone good lives on XDXDXD.)
 

 

Guardian I read twice (already have withdrawal symptoms), it's so good and it's not a tragedy that tears out my heart with every paragraph. No, quite the opposite. While it has it's beautiful, sombre and sad moments, all in all it's a delightful comedy with crazy characters, and family dynamics in a supernatural police department. It's perfect, and while MDZS makes you cry at every turn, Guardian makes you laugh out loud!

AND THERE'S STILL PINING, EVEN MORE THEN IN MDZS. HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE. Tho the drama ends on a tragic note, it's storyline is quite far removed from the original thanks to censorship (and the staff probably being high on extreme hallucinogens, because frankly? it's a crazy clusterfuck of a ride but still loveable.)
 

 

SCI, I'm extremely in the beginner stage with. I'm successfully delaying the drama, so I still have a few episodes to watch. I'm in love with it tho. So so much. In the novel I haven't got far - the longest translation I found is not the best quality and frankly makes it very hard to enjoy the otherwise amazing novel. Ah, but nevermind, I could watch Bai Yutang and Zhan Yao bicker all the time in the drama, low budget and funny CGI nothwithstanding (the previous ones prepared me well for that XD)

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