6 things I made that I’m most proud of
@taiey tagged me in this not long ago, and I assumed it was a 6 things I made this year meme so I waited a week or so to do it, and then I realised it was actually just (’just’) a 6 things I made anytime that I’m most proud of meme. Oooh. Ooooooh….
(I’ll just stick to fanfiction/fandom stuff)
1. I’m still very fond of Things They Talked About In The Playground. (Was that really almost four years ago? Jesus.) I don’t know how it happened, but god it’s important to me. Still chills me, too.
2. I kinda like my article about female Star Wars fandom, the Prequels and what it’s like to Like Boy Stuff when you’re A Girl
3. The Doctor Who Bechdel Test blog and related infographics etc wasn’t remotely all me, but I think it kinda counts. Also I love making infographics now
4. Humanity In The Abstract is a deeply personal story about life, death, love and madness, as told with the assistance of an apocalypse, a blue guy, a demon child and an anthropomorphic personification of mortality who sometimes speaks in emoji. It’s sad, and weird, and flawed, but it gives me courage sometimes.
5. The Storyteller is a Spider-Man fanfic set in the universe presented by the Raimi movies, in which everything had…sort of more realism, I thought, than the average superhero movie. This is the tale of a good, decent woman who was just on the periphery of Peter Parker’s story but deserved her own.
6. A late entry! A week ago, inspired by The Force Awakens, I wrote A Snow Song. Which is Star Wars meets A Christmas Carol, because…well, those are two works of fiction so deeply embedded into the public consciousness that they ought to meet at some point? I like the whole thing, but mostly I like it for this one line I think: “Do you think there is anything so evil or so powerful in the galaxy, Luke, that could permanently part a parent from its child?“ I love that line. It sums up Star Wars for me.