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snowflake_challenge prompts ...
#10. Create a fanwork. I researched and wrote a post for the Tolkien Fandom History blog about the concept of "Mary Sue" in the early 2000s Tolkien fanfiction fandom, emphasizing primary source texts from Tolkien fanfiction archives and websites: A Girl Falls into Tolkien Fandom History ...
I have lately been having so much fun on old Tolkienfic sites on the Wayback Machine that I started feeling bad for my perceived overuse of it and sent them a donation. I am still turning over in my mind the best way to store/track WB information from these old sites; some of it is very specific to me and not necessarily appropriate for Fanlore. I really need to get my own website back up and running; then I can build things to keep there without worrying about pleasing anyone else. It was fun to research this piece, though posting it to Tumblr was murder, as Tumblr kept eating links from my drafts and once, after I used COMMAND+Z to undo a mistyped sentence, watched as half of my post deleted, not to be recovered by a matching COMMAND+Y. 😱 So I actually probably wrote this piece three times over, by the time Tumblr cooperated. (I will not be writing in Tumblr in the future; it just seemed easier to manage with all the images I wanted to post. LMAO.)
#11. A favorite trope or theme. Okay, this is absolutely the Unreliable Historians of Arda trope, which I did not invent but have certainly exploited in my own work. In a nutshell, this is the idea that the narrators of the "Silmarillion"* are unreliable and biased, being only human,** so fanworks can reflect other perspectives that challenge those potential biases and still remain within the bounds of "canon."( Read more... )
snowflake_challenge prompts ...#10. Create a fanwork. I researched and wrote a post for the Tolkien Fandom History blog about the concept of "Mary Sue" in the early 2000s Tolkien fanfiction fandom, emphasizing primary source texts from Tolkien fanfiction archives and websites: A Girl Falls into Tolkien Fandom History ...
I have lately been having so much fun on old Tolkienfic sites on the Wayback Machine that I started feeling bad for my perceived overuse of it and sent them a donation. I am still turning over in my mind the best way to store/track WB information from these old sites; some of it is very specific to me and not necessarily appropriate for Fanlore. I really need to get my own website back up and running; then I can build things to keep there without worrying about pleasing anyone else. It was fun to research this piece, though posting it to Tumblr was murder, as Tumblr kept eating links from my drafts and once, after I used COMMAND+Z to undo a mistyped sentence, watched as half of my post deleted, not to be recovered by a matching COMMAND+Y. 😱 So I actually probably wrote this piece three times over, by the time Tumblr cooperated. (I will not be writing in Tumblr in the future; it just seemed easier to manage with all the images I wanted to post. LMAO.)
#11. A favorite trope or theme. Okay, this is absolutely the Unreliable Historians of Arda trope, which I did not invent but have certainly exploited in my own work. In a nutshell, this is the idea that the narrators of the "Silmarillion"* are unreliable and biased, being only human,** so fanworks can reflect other perspectives that challenge those potential biases and still remain within the bounds of "canon."( Read more... )
