wyntir_knight | Snowflake Challenge

Day 5

Recommend a fannish or creative resource. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This is a tough one because I don't really know any fannish resources to suggest. I'm pretty much on the periphery of my various fandoms so I don't really know of any post-a-thons or guidelines for posting or such.

Now that being said, if I was speaking with a new member to the fandom who was concerned with writing for a fandom with a long history (like, say Transformers that has over 30 years of varying canon and semi-canon behind it) then the best advice I could offer is to check out the various wikias. TFWiki, Wookiepedia, Memory Alpha, Warehouse 13.wikia, etc. These sites are usually fan-run and re full of useful information if you need a catalogue of characters, episodes, expanded universe stuff, these are always a good place to start, because, let's face it, sometimes there's just too much backstory to be intimately familiar with. And sometimes you just can't remember the name of that one-off character who showed up in episode 5 of a TV series that's been off the air for 30 years.

I'm not sure if that really fits the parameters of the question, but it's what I have *shrug*