Lay down your pride and your gun

Can you believe I forgot to do this until the next year? I can, for several reasons including that I do have a precedent for leaving thing like this for months.

Anyway, today's prompt is "formative fandoms" from 100demons. I'm not 100% sure what this really means, but I'm going to give it my best shot.

( I have a general idea but IDK it is somewhat vague. )

Favorite tropes, prompted by 100demons! This is going to be sort of hard; I'm not usually the world's biggest fan of tropes? Which seems weird because of the trope bingo thing? I dunno man they're great but this is such a hard question. (Also sorry for being late again :> I was going to post on time but then I started watching the season 1 finale of Orange is the New Black, so I think this time I at least have an excuse.)

( Spoilers for Legend of Korra? )

I'm supposed to rec a fanwork I've found recently, "within the past month or so." (This is, again, prompted by krait, who has been making an astounding percentage of the prompts I'm getting.) I thought this'd be a bit hard because I haven't been super active or anything, so I started working on it sometime last week, and like.... look at this. I have seven recs here. The majority of them fail strict definitions of "fanwork" or "one month" but they're just so great I would feel terrible if I didn't talk about them.



These ones mostly seem self-explanatory and I'm not totally sure what to say other than "they're great," which is what tends to happen in videos and stuff, so I'm lumping them under the same cut.

( Various art, pictures, and video recs )

Then there's this fic that fails the "fanworks I found in the past month" because I found it probably within months of joining the Homestuck fandom and it's just still so great.

( A Hymn of Empire )

This is a fic that I found like two days ago and might fail the "fanworks I found within one month" in that I'm not totally sure it's a fanwork? It's technically original? IDK it's a parody and it's hilarious and beautiful.

( Working Title / Ghost Soup Infidel Blue (reboot) )

AND NOW WATCH ME REC AN ENTIRE BLOG (probably fails most "fanwork" definitions in a technical sense, definitely fails the one-month thing)

( Basically trying to rec a webcomic and a half here )


I think that's it! If there's anything that you or somebody you know would like to ask me to talk about and then have me talk about it seven times as much as you asked, you can still comment here (or on this post if you're lazy) and I will add you to the list and do it.

The prompt is "what I've been doing lately," and it's one I prompted to myself in a relatively transparent effort to prompt you to prompt me. (Wow, that's ridiculous.)

( This is a great idea. )