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Snowflake Challenge Day 4
Jan. 24th, 2022 02:47 pmIn your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, and/or that you'd like someone to create or do for you.
This list feels incredibly selfish and ungrateful to say out loud.
In order from most want to still want:
1. Comments on my fics! Oh, to wake up and get an email notification on Inbox(1)...I write for the sake of the ideas, but I'd be lying if I said the lack of response doesn't affect my speed or motivation at all, and during periods where I get incredibly stuck, it just compounds a lot.
2. I want the stigma around fanfiction to disappear for the FTL fandom. I have been trying to do this by keeping the TV tropes page updated from time to time (and also posting fics that I've tried very hard to polish so no one can accuse it of being poorly written), but that requires 3 to be a thing as well. I don't think anything I've done has mattered.
3. More fic for the FTL fandom
4. Specifically, more Rebfed (Rebel/Federation, this canon's enemies to lovers) romance fics
5. I NEED an alternative to google docs. Basically google docs but with native doc mode. All the extensions are borked, docs does not care, and there are no real competitors out there like it. I don't like Word/Microsoft 365 and they have annoying ads. I'm even okay with paying but there is just nothing like it! Currently I have resorted to just changing my page black but I absolutely hate it because it messes up the doc on mobile (I write primarily on desktop) and I hate having to use workarounds. I use an extension to darken the background and as a result the colors are messed up (if I want to highlight something or change font color, I have to turn off the extension because it literally messes up the whole box of colors). I need this because right now I have a medical issue and this is frankly unacceptable. It seems so easy to add but docs has been doing a couple of small updates (of what, you can't tell from the front end) that then broke the extensions that did help.
6. I wish to have a beta. I already do, and I talk with some (as I enjoy getting multiple opinions). I love and appreciate their help, but I feel like they are running out of things to suggest. They definitely still help with soundboarding and making sure logic sticks as well as just general feedback, but I wonder if I am starting to run into problems that they too don't know how to solve. Also I won't be able to work with a couple of them in the near future, and they were two of my main helpers so the beta situation is currently up in the air.
7. A smut beta. I also just would love to have someone specifically to beta smut, because it seems smut betas are a rare breed. I haven't had a beta for my smut in over a year now ;-; I hear stories of people with these lovely beta-writer relationships and I'm so jealous! haha It's like reading about your favorite pairing and living vicariously through them, and I am doing the same thing with what I hear about other people and their betas xD
8. A cheerleader! Someone who loves my writing and wants to cheer me on!
9. Character art sounds so cool! My current focus are two characters who I primarily write for (for these fics). I made pinterest boards for them a long time ago xD Pell's was hard because people just don't draw Indians, much less in manga style. I had to be creative about her pictures, basically combine them all together to get what I kind of picture her as. Seinen's was a lot easier. He reminds me sometimes (look-wise) of Dazai from BSD, but I actually didn't know BSD was a thing years after I had come up with his character! Here are Seinen's and Pell's Pinterest boards. Here are their respective uniforms (more or less, color is wrong and so is the style a bit.): Seinen and Pell
10. ...Can more people write Harvard/MIT fic? That is such an amazing pairing and it's a shame there's only the one fic from a Yuletide ways back! I'm writing one of my own (curse that author for the inspiration lol), but I had to make it so it doesn't count. For those curious, this is the glorious Yuletide fic. This idea is the epitome of "I didn't know I wanted it until I learned it existed". Literally had no concept that this could even be possible until someone was talking about reading a fic about it and I was like "...What did you say?"
11. ...Same with Chlorine/Fluorine. And just Periodic Table fics in general tbh. Come on, it can't just be me (Coming Soon to an AO3 Near You). Someone wrote a fun gen fic for PT this year. I must have more!
12. Victor/Cardia fics! From Code:Realize. Love those two.
This list feels incredibly selfish and ungrateful to say out loud.
In order from most want to still want:
1. Comments on my fics! Oh, to wake up and get an email notification on Inbox(1)...I write for the sake of the ideas, but I'd be lying if I said the lack of response doesn't affect my speed or motivation at all, and during periods where I get incredibly stuck, it just compounds a lot.
2. I want the stigma around fanfiction to disappear for the FTL fandom. I have been trying to do this by keeping the TV tropes page updated from time to time (and also posting fics that I've tried very hard to polish so no one can accuse it of being poorly written), but that requires 3 to be a thing as well. I don't think anything I've done has mattered.
3. More fic for the FTL fandom
4. Specifically, more Rebfed (Rebel/Federation, this canon's enemies to lovers) romance fics
5. I NEED an alternative to google docs. Basically google docs but with native doc mode. All the extensions are borked, docs does not care, and there are no real competitors out there like it. I don't like Word/Microsoft 365 and they have annoying ads. I'm even okay with paying but there is just nothing like it! Currently I have resorted to just changing my page black but I absolutely hate it because it messes up the doc on mobile (I write primarily on desktop) and I hate having to use workarounds. I use an extension to darken the background and as a result the colors are messed up (if I want to highlight something or change font color, I have to turn off the extension because it literally messes up the whole box of colors). I need this because right now I have a medical issue and this is frankly unacceptable. It seems so easy to add but docs has been doing a couple of small updates (of what, you can't tell from the front end) that then broke the extensions that did help.
6. I wish to have a beta. I already do, and I talk with some (as I enjoy getting multiple opinions). I love and appreciate their help, but I feel like they are running out of things to suggest. They definitely still help with soundboarding and making sure logic sticks as well as just general feedback, but I wonder if I am starting to run into problems that they too don't know how to solve. Also I won't be able to work with a couple of them in the near future, and they were two of my main helpers so the beta situation is currently up in the air.
7. A smut beta. I also just would love to have someone specifically to beta smut, because it seems smut betas are a rare breed. I haven't had a beta for my smut in over a year now ;-; I hear stories of people with these lovely beta-writer relationships and I'm so jealous! haha It's like reading about your favorite pairing and living vicariously through them, and I am doing the same thing with what I hear about other people and their betas xD
8. A cheerleader! Someone who loves my writing and wants to cheer me on!
9. Character art sounds so cool! My current focus are two characters who I primarily write for (for these fics). I made pinterest boards for them a long time ago xD Pell's was hard because people just don't draw Indians, much less in manga style. I had to be creative about her pictures, basically combine them all together to get what I kind of picture her as. Seinen's was a lot easier. He reminds me sometimes (look-wise) of Dazai from BSD, but I actually didn't know BSD was a thing years after I had come up with his character! Here are Seinen's and Pell's Pinterest boards. Here are their respective uniforms (more or less, color is wrong and so is the style a bit.): Seinen and Pell
10. ...Can more people write Harvard/MIT fic? That is such an amazing pairing and it's a shame there's only the one fic from a Yuletide ways back! I'm writing one of my own (curse that author for the inspiration lol), but I had to make it so it doesn't count. For those curious, this is the glorious Yuletide fic. This idea is the epitome of "I didn't know I wanted it until I learned it existed". Literally had no concept that this could even be possible until someone was talking about reading a fic about it and I was like "...What did you say?"
11. ...Same with Chlorine/Fluorine. And just Periodic Table fics in general tbh. Come on, it can't just be me (Coming Soon to an AO3 Near You). Someone wrote a fun gen fic for PT this year. I must have more!
12. Victor/Cardia fics! From Code:Realize. Love those two.
