bay_alexison

Challenge #14

In your own space, remix an existing work into a new media, and/or rec three or more remixes that do the same. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Okay so I actually have a couple remix recs I have that are based off my fanfics!

The first remix rec is for my fic Foul Play. A reader by the name of justanotherartistgirl did two fanarts based off my fic! One is a scene from Chapter 5 where a Murkrow stole Grimsley's ring while another one is based off Chapter 8 where a Charjabug chewed on Grimsley's scraf. They're both fun art that I love.

The next remix rec is for my 2017 fic Dancing With Butterflies and Dragons. It's a Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice fic where Amara gets rescued by Dhurke and the two started to fall in love again. Suzume did a cute fanart of the couple loosely based off my fic and oh my gosh just look at them.

An honorable mention: Just last week someone commented on an old FMA fic of mine asking if they would like to do a podcast on it and I said sure! I'm very looking forward to that.

Challenge #12

In your own space, resurrect an old meme. Have fun with it! Which is the goofiest meme you can think of? Put on your party hat and be silly!! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So I went and did the Which Fantasy/Sci-Fi Character are you quiz and oh my gosh I got Gabrielle from Xena! This is great as back last fall I binged watch Xena: Warrior Princess through SyFy's website and I love her.

Gabrielle
Passionate and pure of heart, you are a faithful companion in times of need.

That's what friends do, they stand by each other when there's trouble.

Gabrielle is the partner of Xena: Warrior Princess. The Legendary Journeys wiki includes her biography.

Challenge #10

In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, creator, episode, or it could be your fandom friends. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I admit I've been feeling eh over certain aspects of fandom. At certain points, I thought I belonged to a group, only for some people to ignore me and favor someone else. Besides that, there would be harassment and gatekeeping going around ("why ship x when you can ship y" for instance). However, I learn that it's better to have fun with a few close friends than to try to fit in.

So, a short love letter to my friends that I bonded over various fandoms and that I still talk to even when we go on to have different interests. Sometimes we might share new interests, which is nice.

Also special shoutout to my friends from the Pokemon fandom that I've been friends with the longest. Many of them also support my niche story and ship, which I was convinced that no one but me is interested in. Some of them also convinced me that maybe I should seriously think about attempting original writing.

The FE3H fandom deserves an honorable mention, too. While it does have its bad side (the harassment and gatekeeping mentioned earlier), there's also the good side. The Felix/Annette community in particular have been very sweet and supportive of one another. Also, the VAs from that game are cool and love to interact with the fans. It's also the series that I enjoy writing at the moment and still have many ideas for.

And I think that's it! Here's hoping 2021 I have a better fandom experience!

With love and fandom,
Bay

Challenge #8
In your own space, create a wishlist. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Artwork/feedback of my fanfics
So, there are a few of my FE3H fics that I would like to have more feedback on! Making artwork for them is also a bonus but if you can't that's cool. If you stumble upon this and aren't in the FE3H fandom but know someone that does, spread the word!

1. The Lone Wolf and Reclusive Bear: Felix/Bernadetta. Felix goes turncoat and fights for the Empire. During that he starts to have feelings for Bernadetta.

2. Head Over Heels For You: Felix/Annette. Annette tries to grab Felix's attention by flirting with him and wearing fancy undergarments. NSFW

3. To Carry A Burden: Dedue/Mercedes. Dedue wakes up from a nightmare and Mercedes comforts him.

Fanart/Fanfic/ DW Icons
So with me semi-returning DW and having new interests, I would like some icons! For specific characters/ships:

FE3H: Dimitri/F!Byleth, Felix/Annette, Felix/Bernadetta, Dedue/Mercedes, Balthus, any Blue Lions
Pokemon: Nanu, Grimsley, Kabu, Piers, Cynthia, Kukui, Swampert, Absol, Primarina. Nanu/Grimsley, Nanu/Kabu, Kukui/Burnet
Ace Attorney: Mia, Simon Blackquill, Nahyuta, Rayfa, Dhurke, Amara. Simon/Nahyuta, Dhurke/Amara
The Untamed: Wen Yuan (aka Lan Sizhui), Lan Xichen. TV Tropes of the Lan Clan.

If you're feeling generous, fanart or fanfic of those characters/ships listed are also cool but I would be just as happy with icons!

Communities to join
Sooo I want to talk to more Dimileth (Dimitri/Byleth) fans outside of Twitter. Usually Discord has servers for the big FE3H ships, so if anyone knows any Dimileth Discord servers um hit me up? lol

Challenge #6

In your own space, rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Only three fanworks? Hm, there's so many I want to give shoutouts to, but for the three I'll be reccing it'll be one fanfic, one fanart, and one music.

For fanfic, you won't even notice I'm gone by curlsncollege. It's a FE3H fanfic that features the pairing of Felix and Annette with Annette worrying over Felix leaving her. A nice look into Annette's fear of abandonment due to her past.

For fanart, this Ace Attorney art by minastarfruit. So in the the Ace Attorney fandom there's this running joke every Christmas Eve that goes: "It's almost Christmas means that it's not Christmas." When the sixth game came out, a character named Rayfa has her birthday on Christmas Eve and her birthday gets overshadowed with the fandom joke. I was so happy that someone didn't forget her birthday.

For music, insaneintherain's Year of Sinnoh. Insaneintherain is a Youtuber that does jazz covers of various video game music. Last year he started a project called Year of Sinnoh where he covers music from the Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum games. If any of you are into the fourth gen games and love its music, defintely check Year of Sinnoh.

Challenge #4

In your own space, create some goals. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I have two big goals. The first one is to finish my Pokemon WIP, Foul Play. This year will be the 4th year I've been working on it, so I hope to finally finish it. I have about 6 more chapters to go, so it should be dolable!

My other goal is to read more books. I recently signed up for a Reading Challenge and I have myself go for 10 books this year. I already finished one called Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas, which I totally recommend everyone to check it out.

Maybe another goal is to get accepted into another fanzine? At the moment I've been focusing on ones for the FE3H fandom. There's two I got accepted last year, one as a writer and another as mod. Right now I'm writing a quick story to use as a writing sample for one or two zine applications but I'm totally unsure about my prose at the moment lol.

So I've noticed that Snowflake Challenge is running again! I remember participating in it a few years ago and enjoyed it, so I thought about trying it out again!



Challenge #1

In your own space, introduce yourself! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

For those checking this journal out the first time: Hi, I'm Bay! I'm 30+ years old living in California, USA. I used to do office administrative work, but then I wasn't assigned much work anymore and then the pandemic happened. Hopefully after that is over I'll be able to get back on my feet again.

Writing and reading are my big interests. For now I've been writing fanfiction but I hope to do original someday. I thought up an original premise last year that I would love to try my hand at (a modern day version of the classic Faust folklore). I also like playing video games even though I'm bad at them haha. After playing them, I tend to be inspired to write fanfic for them (you'll see with my AO3 account later). I also like listening to music! I tend to vibe with whatever, but rock tends to be my favorite.

In terms of fandom, I would jumped around every few years though there are some that I'm still very interested in. Currently the stuff I create are based off Pokemon and Fire Emblem: Three Houses. I'm also into the Chinese live action drama The Untamed (and plan to read the book that the drama was based off it someday), and Ace Attorney. While not creating for it anymore, I was into Fullmetal Alchemist and the Bravely series games and still am to some degree.

I'm mostly active on Tumblr and Twitter, though I'll still try to check up on DW once in a while! Links to those and my AO3 account and carrd info:

Tumblr: https://bayalexison.tumblr.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bay115
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Bay
Carrd: bayalexison2.carrd.co (more updated info on my interests, links, and such)

Yeah, I think that's it! If there's anything you want to talk about or just say hi go ahead!

Day 14: In your own space, write a love letter. Write it Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, or to your flist. Share you love and squee as loud as you want to.

So yeah, this is a love letter to my f-list.

( Love Letter ).

Day 12: In your own space, talk about what you think the future holds for fandom. What are your hopes and dreams for fandom? Do you have any predictions about what the next five years holds for fandom?

( Long general fandom thoughts )

Day 9: In your own space, rec at least 3 fanworks you thought you wouldn't like (because they weren't your fandom or they pushed against your boundaries or you thought you just wouldn't be interested) but you ended up loving.

( One FMA and two Homestuck recs )


Day 10: In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts.

( Fannish wish list )