Ramble On

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. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Dear Fandom-In-General,

Thank you for being the place I can go when I need to escape, the place where I feel free to be as weird as I want, and where it's okay to
"obsess" over things--comics, tv shows, movies, etc--that other people consider trivial. Thank you for encouraging creativity and for being more accepting than society as a whole. You're not perfect, of course. But as messy--and yes, wanky--as you can occasionally get, you're still one of the best places to be, filled with some of the best people one could possibly know.

Sincerely,
Carrie

Today's challenge: Day 11

Stretch yourself a little and try something new. Go play in a new fandom or with a new pairing or trope. Try creating a different kind of fanwork. Or check out some types of fanworks that are new to you.

For day 11, I decided to check out one of the last movies I ever thought I could get fannish over: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.

I'd watched part of it before and couldn't really get into it, but today I decided to watch the whole thing. And I'm happy I did! It turned out to be a lot of fun--campy, funny, gory, and fabulously cracked out in all the best ways. It may never be something I go full fan for, but I liked it enough to head over to AO3 in search of fic.

Which leads me to...

Court and Spark by Nerissa
Summary: Hansel is consistently terrible at flirting. There's a reason for that.
Hansel/Gretel

While I'm not normally a fan of incest ships, this fic really worked for me on almost every level. Aside from some time/space issues in the beginning, the writing is solid and engrossing. The characterization is on point, and the fic manages to capture the same funny/gross tone as the movie. (It's also a Yuletide 2013 story.)

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I'm working on a few H&G icons for the "creating a different kind of fanwork" part of today's Snowflake Challenge. I haven't busted out Photoshop in a while, so they'll probably suck, but...oh well. :)