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wyntir_knight
Day 9
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. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Ah, personal recs. This can be hard because it can be so easy to sit there and convince ourselves that our work really does deserve recommendations. I'm determined to get over that this year, so here are some of my favourite fics that I would like to recommend to you all:
The What Ifs and Wisdom of Solomon - I've never really been into DC Comics, but I have always found Captain Marvel/Shazam! interesting. When he was portrayed in the Justice League cartoon he came across as what a child thinks a hero should be. There's an innocent perfection there that contradicts the hard background that Billy Batson comes from. So this is my first (and currently only) foray into Captain Marvel and that dichotomy.
Rooftop Confessions - I enjoy writing more introspective pieces where I examine the mindsets of characters. In this fic I wanted to look at Smokescreen's role in Special Operations and I wanted to play with the idea that he isn't trust by everyone. And just what that can do to a person. This is far shorter than I originally wanted it to be, but I think I got the point across.
Conformity - This was written in response to a prompt on a rare pairings community: Shockwave/Elita One - Queen. I found the idea intriguing but I have never been able to think of Shockwave as anything other than completely asexual. The idea of an insidious sort of possession came to mind with this fic and I wanted to play with the idea of the control and the conformity that we see in Shockwave in the Marvel comics. I was aiming for an almost Borg-like intensity and I'd like to think that I accomplished my goal.
Embers of Memory - When Avatar: The Last Airbender ended there was a line about Azula's fate, how she was being cared for but it was never really explored. After all, it was the end of the series and Kora never came back to the character. I wanted to look at what happened to her. After all, how do you care for the world's most dangerous fire bender when she is completely and totally insane? I got my opportunity when I came across the prompt "The freedom of the wholly mad". I'm not sure if I got the prompt right, but I think that these are some of the best visuals I've come up with.
Forced Fit - This is a fic based on the 2003 TMNT tv series. I've always identified with Donatello as he was presented in the original comics and here in the 2003 series. I always felt like he was viewed as a tool by his family, to be pulled out when needed and put back on the shelf when they were done with him. I wanted to get out my own insecurities by writing them down and transferring them to someone else. That way, the characters could deal with the problems that I wasn't yet ready to face in my own life. I'm very proud of this fic because of the characterisations and the resolution of it all. It's not pat and perfect. It's more real than that.
It's All Over But The Crying - The first time I played through Fallout 4 I took the Minutemen ending and I missed a lot of stuff. That ended up leaving me with a lot of questions about the ending and I ended up having this vision of the Sole Survivor (Nora, in my case) having a complete breakdown as the reality of what she had done hit her. This ended up being an attempt at train of thought writing, and I think I managed it quite well.