December Meme?

[melannen]

Okay then, let's do this. My goal is to post to DW every day in December. It's also my goal to make a lot of the sort of slight short posts that I'm really bad at - but also post some of the long posts that have been hanging around in my WIPs.

So! I have pre-filled in a few dates with posts I know I want to make, but you should give me topics for the rest! Ask me anything! ETA: Limiting it to two requests each for now, because I pre-filled so many that I don't want to run out of dates early. Here's the list so far:

December 1: kitties
December 2: Pokemon pinata plan
December 3: Sedoretu worldbuilding for the fandom of your choice
December 4: How to make a discussion post happen on DW
December 5: fictional_fans
December 6: on DW, Tumblr, AO3, social media trends, and where fandom is going next
December 7: What's your favorite physical non-living object? So, no people or pets, but could be a piece of art, a book you own, etc.
December 8: a book rec from your FMK
December 9: first fanvid you ever watched
December 10: First fanfic you ever read
December 11: Let's Read a Scientific Paper!
December 12: Fandom trends you miss/Fandom trends you want to make happen
December 13: Thoughts on Canon Het
December 14: DVD commentary on a fic of your choice
December 15: Show and tell time! Tell the story of some interesting object you have in your possession.
December 16: A characteristic you enjoy in fan characters and can't stand in RL
December 17: gender in cross-cultural perspective (somehow)
December 18: what money means
December 19: the story of one wish-fulfillment self-insert character from your teenage years
December 20: Wildcard
December 21: the Gelatin Hektograph Adventure
December 22: a story you'd never want to write, but would love to read
December 23: - Travel Day -
December 24: Finally Post That Christmas Fanfic You Started In 2002
December 25: Yuletide day!
December 26: Rivers of London and/or fun crossover ideas thereof
December 27: 5 headcanons for the character(s) of your choice that will probably never show up anywhere. (It can be favorite song or color or something if you don't have something bigger you want to share.)
December 28: Something about where you live
December 29: Favorite pre-20th-century literature
December 30: Kesh
December 31: year-end media wrap-ups



I'm going to go through and try to fill in everyone else's, but if I miss someone, lmk! (It's going to be the same request for everyone because otherwise I will have an anxiety about what if you read the wrong thing into *me* requesting *that* of *you*. But also because I really want to see what everybody comes up with for this one!)

Comments

[noxelementalist]

Random things:
-favorite soft drinks
- first fanmix you ever heard
-a story you'd never want to write, but would love to read

[melannen]

I'm pretty sure first fanmix I ever heard is lost to the mists of time, but I could do the other two! (I could do "first fanvid I ever watched" though...) Pick dates?

[noxelementalist]

first fanvid works (and bonus points if you still have a link to share it!)

dates:

December 9: first fanvid
December 16: favorite soft drinks
December 22: a story you'd never want to write, but would love to read

[melannen]

You and Lanna clashed on 16, so I'm going to give you two dates each for now and then I'll fill in the third one if there are days left.

[noxelementalist]

Sounds good to me ^^

[lannamichaels]

Fandom trends you miss/Fandom trends you want to make happen
DVD commentary on a fic of your choice
A haiku about something normal in your day

[melannen]

Pick days?

[lannamichaels]

12/12, 12/14, 12/16

[melannen]

You and noxelementalist clashed on 16, so I'm going to give you two dates each for now and then I'll fill in the third one if there are days left.

[tassosss]

Dec 8 - a book rec from your FMK

[melannen]

...oh right, that's a thing I'm supposed to finish doing at some point...

[slashmarks]

A while ago you made a post about alternatives to sexually active female characters in history/fantasy raising children that I found really fascinating. So, if you're up for it (I understand if you're not!) I would be interested in reading another post by you about gender, history and sociology's overlap, with whatever specifics. 12/17

Also, sedoratu world building applied to fandom of your choice. 12/3

[melannen]

The dec 17 one may end up being about the real-world analogues of sedoretu AU, just to warn you. :P

[slashmarks]

That is one hundred percent okay with me!

[kore]

December 10 - Can you remember the first fanfic you ever read?

[melannen]

I can! I can probably even still find it online, even, and happily rec it to people. :D

[kore]

Aww, sweet!

[monksandbones]

OOh, okay! How about something you think is interesting about where you live (leaving "where you live" open to your interpretation for anonymizing/other purposes)? And how about Dec 28?

[melannen]

Done! That one will take some thinking.

[harpers_child]

5 headcanons for the character(s) of your choice that will probably never show up anywhere. (It can be favorite song or color or something if you don't have something bigger you want to share.) 12-27

[melannen]

27th it is! We'll see which characters are in my head by that time.

[jjhunter]

1. Rivers of London and/or fun crossover ideas thereof

2. fictional_fans comm

[jjhunter]

As for days, how about 12/27 and 12/5 respectively?

[melannen]

27 was claimed so I put that one in 26 instead (which is a good slot, because I'll have probably spent much of the previous 24 hours reading all of the RoL in Yuletide.)

[marginaliana]

What's your favorite physical non-living object? So, no people or pets, but could be a piece of art, a book you own, etc.

(I, too, am asking the same question of everyone.)

I'm also doing this - my most recent post is where you could leave a question.

[melannen]

That's actually pretty similar to the question I'm asking everyone! GREAT MINDS. Although I went with "interesting" rather than "favorite" in mine, and that's going to be two very different answers for me.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Printing experiment from the convention. Say on the 28th but you could slide it about as convenient.

[melannen]

I'll be away from home that whole last week, so I'm going to put this one in the week before, if that's okay, so I'll still have easy access to my notes and supplies. (It was on my extended list of things to post about! Yay for an excuse!)

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Yay, a week earlier, oh how can we content ourselves? *\o/* =) *\o/*

[dhampyresa]

Dec 1: Kitties?

[melannen]

And here I thought I could sneak today off! Okay, done.

[umadoshi]

(Any remaining day) Is there a trait you love in fictional characters that you can't stand in people in real life?

[melannen]

Done!

[hannah]

Any remaining day: Kesh AUs.

[melannen]

So, in theory, yes!

...in practice that's what I'm writing for yuletide so it will be really tough to do that in the week before author reveals without making it really obvious which yt story I'm conspicuously not talking about.

So I've screened this thread. Start a new thread with something non-kesh if you want a December topic, and I will talk about Kesh AUs in my author reveal post in the first week of January, promise. :)

(...also maybe I will send you a thing to beta if I actually get it written in time for beta.)

[hannah]

Life has been kicking my ass, but I've kicked it back hard enough I'll have a couple free nights to beta-read something and give you general comments.

[skygiants]

December 29: talk about a favorite piece of pre-20th century literature?

[melannen]

Got it!