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Scenes from Two Lives, Converged (1326 words) by venusinthenight
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Elementary (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Marcus Bell & Joan Watson (Elementary)
Characters: Joan Watson (Elementary), Marcus Bell
Additional Tags: Male-Female Friendship, Alternate Universe, compilation of 221B ficlets, Slice of Life, Domestic, lifelong friendship, Ableist Language, Community: holmestice, Interracial Relationship, Canon Character of Color, Black Character(s), Asian-American Character, Long-Term Relationship(s), Easter Eggs
Summary: Six 221B-style slices of life in an AU where Joan and Marcus are (nearly) life-long friends.</p>

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The Day 6 challenge is: In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts.

I'm going to link back to my Fandom Stocking fic prompt list, as I've several prompts listed there. As I note there, I'm fairly easy to please, but I do have a small handful of Do Not Wants: A/B/O, rape/non-con, watersports, scat, graphic violence, and major character death.

Some other things I'd like to see are...

* More fanart, fanmixes, and suchlike based on fanfic.
* More fics based on fanart.
* More femslash featuring canonical female characters.
* More mixed orientation pairings/relationship configurations.
* More interracial relationships where no one is white.
* More trans and non-binary headcanons!

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Day 5's snowflake_challenge prompt was thus: In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create.

First, I'd like to promote moreholmes (along with its corresponding AO3 collection), which was started to showcase fanworks from smaller Holmesian fandoms (e.g., the Granada TV series, the Russian film My Dearly Beloved Detective, Rathbone Holmes).

Second, a fanvid rec....

Panic Cord | A Rachel Duncan fanvid by sharkodactyl (announcement post here)
Fandom: Orphan Black
Character: Rachel Duncan (several other characters are in, but the focus is on Rachel)
Notes/Warnings: suicide, torture, blood, gore, noncon, eye horror, flashing images
Music: "Panic Cord (Hucci Remix)" by Gabrielle Aplin

Third, a fic rec...

Sucker Punch (3409 words) by sanguinity
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Elementary (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gina Cortes/Joan Watson
Characters: Joan Watson, Gina Cortes
Additional Tags: Boxing & Fisticuffs, Hate Sex, First Time, Missing Scene
Summary: Joan figures she can battle Cortes to a respectable draw, and then they can both walk away, tempers spent and faces saved. Joan is wrong.</p>

(I received this as a holmestice treat in the most recent one!)

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It's that time again! snowflake_challenge time! :)

The Day One challenge is this: In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

Have some recent(ish) works...

I made an Elementary S1 icon set (100x100 and 250x250) featuring Sherlock and Joan for this past holmestice.

For the June Holmestice this past year, I wrote a Watson and Holmes fanfic...

A Time To Remember (1779 words) by venusinthenight
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Watson and Holmes (Comics), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Irene Adlero & Violetta Smith
Characters: Violetta Smith, Irene Adlero, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Music, Female Friendship, Canon Character of Color, Black Character(s), Life-Changing Moments, Female-Centric, Volume 2 Spoilers, More Holmes
Summary: The Adventuress was a pivotal album for Violetta, but meeting the woman who made it would become life-changing.</p>

Watson and Holmes is a series of comics in which Holmes and Watson are depicted as black men living in Harlem. Holmes is a consulting detective for the NYPD; Watson is an ER doctor. In the second volume of comics, they did modern takes on "The Man with the Twisted Lip", which featured Violet Smith (in the comics as Violetta), as well as "A Scandal in Bohemia", which of course featured Irene Adler (Adlero). In the comics, they connected Violetta and Irene to each other as student and teacher -- the former taking voice lessons from the latter. I expand things and explore how they came to know each other. Very woman-centric.

And have a gif set I made of Hamilton's soliloquy in "The World Was Wide Enough" from Hamilton! It is one of my favourite moments in the show, and I was so happy to see the staging of it in the Hamildoc that I absolutely had to make a set.

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Backtracking to Day 14 of snowflake_challenge...

In your own space, share your love for something fannish: a trope, cliché, kink, motif, theme, format, or fandom.

( Thing the first: Found/Chosen FamilyCollapse )

( Thing the second: FemdomCollapse )

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Today's snowflake_challenge is to rec at least three works by other people. :)

( I have more than three...Collapse )

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Today's snowflake_challenge...

In your own space, post a rec for fannish and/or creative resources and spaces. Tell us where you go to dig up canon facts for your fandom, or where you get all the juicy details about your favorite ship. Where do you like to hang out and squee like a squeeing thing?

Fannish resources: I tend to google it or head to Wikipedia if I need to look something up. Or if needs must, I'll rewatch an episode.

Creative resources: Some of this is a copy-paste job from my resource list at venusresources & venus_resources (which is stickied, btw), but I've added some other resources.

Colouring/PSDs...
* icon_colouring
* selectivecolor
* phonography_x
* chaoticresources PSD tag

Photoshop Actions...
* Julia Starr (formerly known as night-fate on deviantART. She often provides free PS actions, so you don't always have to spend money. I still have some of her older, now unavailable free actions that I use often.)
* Best Photoshop Tutorials: 25 Color Enhancement Photoshop Actions
* thedreamcolours

Fonts...
* Da Font (free)
* My Fonts (commercial; some foundries deeply discount new font families when they're first released. There are also fonts in some families that are available for free.)
* Font Garden (free + commercial; the latter are super inexpensive!)
* Fonts for Peas (free handwriting fonts)
* Font Squirrel (free)

High-Res Photos and Screencaps...
* Screencapped (lots of different TV shows and films; all capped in 1080p and logo-free, I believe. Useful if you don't want to do your own screencapping.)
* Far Far Away Site (specializes in high-res press photos from various tv shows, plus of the various actors who appear in them)

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Backtracking a bit to Day 4 of snowflake_challenge...

In your own space, create a fanwork. Make a drabble, a ficlet, a podfic, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. Arts and crafts. Draft a critical essay about a particular media. Put together a picspam or a fanmix. Write a review of a Broadway show, a movie, a concert, a poetry reading, a museum trip, a you-should-be-listening-to-this-band essay. Compose some limericks, haikus, free-form poetry, 5-word stories. Document a particular bit of real person canon. Take some pictures. Draw a stick-figure comic. Create something.

Since they recently went live, here are various things I did for others' fandom_stockings...

Another Year, Another Descent (511 words) by venusinthenight
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Orphan Black (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rachel Duncan
Additional Tags: Canon Disabled Character, Missing Scene, References to canonical character deaths, Trapped, Angst, Freeform, Stream of Consciousness, Community: fandom_stocking
Summary: A missing scene set during 3x10, before Rachel is reunited with her mother and given custody of Charlotte.

A short Elementary/Luther crossover AU thingie (Joan Watson, Alice Morgan, reference to Alice & Moriarty; gen)

And I made a bunch of 100x100 icons from Elementary and Orphan Black! I have now archived all of them here at venusresources and here at venus_resources.

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Day 6

In your own space, create your own challenge. What’s something you want to see more people doing in fandom? Is there something you’ve tried that you think other people would enjoy if they gave it a go? Dare your friends to try it out, and have fun with it.

I'd love to see more Reverse Big Bang-esque challenges, wherein writers are challenged to write fics based on others' fanart. Plus, more fanarts based on fic!

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