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rthstewart) wrote2019-01-03 06:51 pm
rthstewart) wrote2019-01-03 06:51 pm
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Snowflake challenge Days 1-3
Because all the cool kids are doing it and it seems like fun,
Day 1 - Talk about your Happy Place - the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane.
Day 2 - Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.
Day 3 - Share a favorite piece of original canon.
Day 1 -- Happy Place
My spousal unit grills me on this all the time, in the form of, where do you want to retire. My happy place involves four things: reliable internet access and my computer; dog; a well stocked and supplied baking kitchen; and some place with natural beauty and abundant wildlife. My favorite places in this regard are the areas around Grand Teton National Park and parts of Yellowstone (without all the people), Hatteras National Seashore, and the deserts of Joshua Tree and Anza Borrego.
Day 2 Recs --
This is so hard. Basically I have to rec all the fics that are posted in the annual Narnia Fic Exchange, such as these amazing Susan stories by a writer that I've followed for 10 years.
Also, this amazing Killjoys vid,
Level Up [vid] (270 words) by Scribe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Killjoys (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Dutch (Killjoys), Johnny Jaqobis, D'avin Jaqobis, Pree (Killjoys), Alvis Akari, Pawter Simms, Fancy Lee
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Festivids, Team Feels, warning: physical triggers (flashing lights), Video Format: Streaming, Download Available, Video Format: MP4, Author's Favorite, Vidder's Favorite
Summary:
Team Awesome Force goes to war.
I"ve also received some pretty spectacular gifts.
Day 3 - Share a favorite piece of original canon.
I'm not sure why this one is so hard...I'm going to go with Star Wars. I'm pretty happy with Luke's recognition in TLJ that the Jedi Order contributed significantly to its own demise through arrogance and blindness. They are AWFUL in the prequels and I liked someone actually acknowledging it. I also like how the prequels seem to get so bogged down in dumb plot -- trade negotiations, really? Clone army? what? where? Why? Who? Except that it is all part of Palpatine playing a very long game to manufacture the pretext for a war (that also marginalizes non-humans), then creates an army in order to fight that war, then isolates the Jedi who must lead that war so that no one can defend them when they are surrounded by and murdered by their trusted troops and then uses that pretext to declare himself Emperor.
I liked that everyone in Rogue One died and that Rogues became Rogues thereafter to honor that sacrifice. In the same way, I'm still pretty pleased that Vader killed the younglings in the Temple and I really thought that George wouldn't go there. And that it's all Obi-Wan's fault and his a rat bastard liar.
Also, it's Legends, so technically only EU canon but Mara Jade. She's awesome in her very first incarnation and nothing every really improved on Mara in the first Thrawn trilogy. Mara is an icon for self-determination and agency and I'm the person I am today, with the friends and hobbies and life that I have due to Mara Jade.
Day 1 - Talk about your Happy Place - the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane.
Day 2 - Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.
Day 3 - Share a favorite piece of original canon.
Day 1 -- Happy Place
My spousal unit grills me on this all the time, in the form of, where do you want to retire. My happy place involves four things: reliable internet access and my computer; dog; a well stocked and supplied baking kitchen; and some place with natural beauty and abundant wildlife. My favorite places in this regard are the areas around Grand Teton National Park and parts of Yellowstone (without all the people), Hatteras National Seashore, and the deserts of Joshua Tree and Anza Borrego.
Day 2 Recs --
This is so hard. Basically I have to rec all the fics that are posted in the annual Narnia Fic Exchange, such as these amazing Susan stories by a writer that I've followed for 10 years.
Also, this amazing Killjoys vid,
Level Up [vid] (270 words) by Scribe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Killjoys (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Dutch (Killjoys), Johnny Jaqobis, D'avin Jaqobis, Pree (Killjoys), Alvis Akari, Pawter Simms, Fancy Lee
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Festivids, Team Feels, warning: physical triggers (flashing lights), Video Format: Streaming, Download Available, Video Format: MP4, Author's Favorite, Vidder's Favorite
Summary:
Team Awesome Force goes to war.
I"ve also received some pretty spectacular gifts.
Day 3 - Share a favorite piece of original canon.
I'm not sure why this one is so hard...I'm going to go with Star Wars. I'm pretty happy with Luke's recognition in TLJ that the Jedi Order contributed significantly to its own demise through arrogance and blindness. They are AWFUL in the prequels and I liked someone actually acknowledging it. I also like how the prequels seem to get so bogged down in dumb plot -- trade negotiations, really? Clone army? what? where? Why? Who? Except that it is all part of Palpatine playing a very long game to manufacture the pretext for a war (that also marginalizes non-humans), then creates an army in order to fight that war, then isolates the Jedi who must lead that war so that no one can defend them when they are surrounded by and murdered by their trusted troops and then uses that pretext to declare himself Emperor.
I liked that everyone in Rogue One died and that Rogues became Rogues thereafter to honor that sacrifice. In the same way, I'm still pretty pleased that Vader killed the younglings in the Temple and I really thought that George wouldn't go there. And that it's all Obi-Wan's fault and his a rat bastard liar.
Also, it's Legends, so technically only EU canon but Mara Jade. She's awesome in her very first incarnation and nothing every really improved on Mara in the first Thrawn trilogy. Mara is an icon for self-determination and agency and I'm the person I am today, with the friends and hobbies and life that I have due to Mara Jade.
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The Problem of Susan was one of the things I considered talking about for Day 3. The older I get, the more I love her [and am, once again, outraged on her behalf].
Those are EXCELLENT choices to retire adjacent to. :)
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As for Susan, welp, I didn't put her in the canon discussion because I'm still a million words into telling that story. I had a reader lay it for me in comments this fall but the short answer is that there is no Problem of Susan and screw canon. I did address how there isn't a Susan Problem in my story Food for Thought but I'm going deeper now and just upending canon entirely. There are many very good reasons why Peter fights with Susan and they have nothing to do with lipstick and nylons.
Furthermore I've come to see that The Last Battle as a betrayal and contrary to the other stories of the Chronicles where there is a dilemma and adventure, Aslan coming to aid and rescue, denouement. In TLB there is no rescue and worst Lewis decides to kill it all so you can't ever get there unless you die. So those fantasies I and everyone else had about finding my own way to Narnia -- yeah, nope, unless you die. Really, Jack? Was that necessary?
Ultimately Aslan's message is, go to your world, find me there. TLB betrays that message that is consistent across all the other books. My million words of Narnia fic have all been about doing what Aslan said -- finding good here, doing good here, finding here what you loved about Narnia, using the skills of Narnia to make this world better. And, well, I've now decided I like my own vision better and that it's TLB that's the problem. Susan makes a choice to live in this world as Aslan instructed and it just takes a little longer for the others to realize that they need to do that too.
Ahem... I have feelings on this. Also there's been lots of Susan in the 3SF.