Wear the colour that you want to cling to

[dolorosa_12]

It's the last sunshine_challenge prompt today: violet. The challenge mods are encouraging participants to use this prompt as a way to offer [things to] others to bring a little sunshine into their lives.

I can't make graphics or vids, and I can't reliably write fic on the spot (unless it's for one of my tiny book fandoms-of-one, which I suspect is an unlikely thing for anyone to request).

But what I can do is cheerlead, comment, and essentially provide a lot of enthusiasm. (Seriously, every Yuletide I set myself the goal of commenting on at least 50-70 fics in the main collection, and at least 20 in Madness, and I generally do so.) And so what I am offering is this: comment with a link to one fanwork (art, fic, vid, fanmix, graphics, whatever you choose) that you are especially proud of, and I will leave you a comment either on Ao3 or Dreamwidth. It doesn't have to be a fanwork you produced for sunshine_challenge (you don't have to be participating in the challenge at all), just something you made and feel happy about.

Obviously it will be easier for me to make a substantive comment if I am familiar with the fandom, but I will do my best even if it's not something I know much about. Likewise, I will be quicker at commenting on visual fanworks, or shorter fics than on 100,000-word epics, but if the latter is what you want to share with me, I will comment eventually!

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A quick update on 28th July

I am overwhelmed with the response to this offer, and I am definitely looking forward to reading (and commenting on) all your fic, but it might be some days before I get to it. If you haven't had a response from me yet, it's definitely going to happen, but it may not be before the weekend. I will update this post again when I've commented on everyone's fics.

Comments

[iberiandoctor]

What a lovely offer, Ronni ♥ Let me make the same one to my followers (a much much smaller circle than yours ;)), and please let me reciprocate - recc me something of yours!

You've already read the two Lions stories I've written, and I've read yours ♥, so let me send you across another historical story in a fandom-of-three: Restoration-era French RPF politicians, who lived with and were buried together at Pere-Lachaise (my historium pimping post is here!). IRL, Manuel didn't live to see the 1830 Revolution, but he does in this fix-it from Yuletide 2019: L'Homme qu'il n'aurait pas quitté.

If RPF isn't your bag (it isn't many people's bag!), here's my Yuletide Call Me By Your Name story - three different AUs in which an academic and an academic's son reunite after their summer of love: Nostos.

[dolorosa_12]

I'm so happy to see how enthusiastically people have responded to this offer. I'm in fandom for the discussion and sense of community, and try to do my best to be the sort of fan I want to see in my main fannish spaces (Dreamwidth and AO3) — someone who comments on fanworks, contributes to discussion, and so on. It's so nice to see that people still want that!

I have no issue with RPF if involves figures who are no longer alive and events no longer in living memory, so your Restoration-era French politicians are fine! I view that kind of RPF as historical (fan)fiction. (And obviously I have no problem with people writing and enjoying RPF of living individuals, I just don't want to read it!)

Please don't feel any pressure to reciprocate — you've already read my Lions of Al-Rassan fic and commented extensively. If you still feel moved to read more, the fic of which I'm probably most proud is The Heart's Gold Thread, which is a post-canon story which weaves the characters of Amal El-Mohtar's 'Seasons of Glass and Iron' f/f fairytale with the stories of other mythological and folkloric women. My other favourite work of mine is Like Bitter Chocolate, written for Robin McKinley's Sunshine novel. This is a 5 times + 1 fic featuring baked goods (with recipes) and supernatural beings.