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Challenge #6

In your own space, share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.



This is an iconic moment from my bulletproof fandom, Ace Attorney. I kind of want to just post it without context, but the challenge is to explain why you love it so much, lol. I basically have to give the "quick version" of the story behind this quote. Good thing I love rambling about AA!

( Ace Attorney 1 spoilers ahoy! )

IN OTHER NEWS, today was More Joy Day, something I learned from ride_4ever. To spread joy in fandom, I went through my bookmarks and left kudos and comments for fics I hadn't done that for yet. I'm also going through the ones I have downloaded on my kindle. Some people are going to get digest emails full of kudos from me, lol.

Mostly the comments I'm leaving are not as robust as I wanted to leave, which is why I hadn't left a comment already. I figured ANY comment is better than NO comment, so I took advantage of the day to catch up.

Day 6: Who was the first hero you wanted to be saved by? And from what would you need rescuing?
Bonus: Who's a hero you could save?

I put this question off because I actually have no answer. Partially because my memory of my childhood is so poor, but I also don't think I thought about stories that way. I imagined myself as the hero a lot. It went so far that sometimes watching movies, I'd just pretend the hero was a woman so I could be the hero. 

I guess what I wanted to be rescued from was being overlooked and forgotten, and imagining I was the hero was the way to do that. By the time I got into writing fanfic, though, I wasn't writing self-insert type stuff anymore. Fanfic was more about torturing boys and watching them get plowed than anything else!

Day 7: Who was the first villain you admired, even if only a little? Why?

I'm not quite sure about admiring any of them tbh. I remember enjoying Ursula from the Little Mermaid a lot. The villains from most of those 90s Disney movies were pretty enjoyable, but Ursula definitely stood out. I do remember realizing that she used to be the ruler of the ocean before Triton and being like "Yeah, that's not fair! How come she can't be queen??" 

I think Star Trek: Deep Space 9 was the first time I had morally grey or questionable faves. I mean, I was too young to understand what the fuck was going on in that show, but I really liked Garak, and I knew he was bad, only he wasn't, or maybe it was complicated?? Star Trek in general was good at presenting lots of antagonists that way, but Garak was the first one I really cared about. 

Day 8: Tell me something about the last fandom thing you wrote. Or the last thing you read. Or the last thing you recced. Or all of them.

I've been writing a very bizarre and unexpected crossover fic of Due South with Spartacus. As usual with my dumb AUs, it was supposed to be short and sweet, but it's spun wildly out of control! I am in the home stretch though, no beginning of an unexpectedly sprawling epic that that I never finish this time!

Speaking of which, though, the last fandom thing I wrote before that was the start of my foster kid Holden Ford sequel, for Mindhunter fandom, and I posted that-- a year ago?? Holy hell. I really, really want to finish that this year. That was another fic that was supposed to be just a short one-shot, ended up being over 100,000 words of actual mystery (when I've never written a mystery before) and then I sort of shunted over all the big emotional questions to a sequel. And then I got super busy and distracted. Why can't life just be fanfic?? 

For recs, I was chatting with a Mindhunter fandom friend about that old show Andromeda, and we ended up talking about Holden as a ship's avatar. She wrote a fic of it and I am OBSESSED!!! I want her to write more, but there's only so much nagging you can do, especially for something so niche, lol.

The last thing I bookmarked was in Spartacus fandom, an Agron/Nasir fic called Payment For Their Offensive Births. I have read some of this author's other fics, but this one really stood out to me.

In canon, Agron and Nasir sort of fall in love off-screen-- you can see the chemistry when they meet, but after a few events, they're just sort of suddenly a couple.The show has too many couples to juggle to give everybody a slow burn romance, of course-- there's a LOT of love at first sight going on, so I can't criticize it for that. But this fic does a really good job of showing Agron's perspective on Nasir changing as they work together.

It's also suuuuper angsty and tragic, as every Spartacus fic should be IMO. That whole show is just one big exercise in pointless sadness and I, for one, love every minute of it.