Fandom Snowflake Challenge (05)
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static_whisperDay #5: In your own space, talk about an idea you wish you had the time / talent / energy to do.
A to podfic idea that I'm not sure when I'll have the time to do:
I can't say this the longest fic I've run across or anything, but it's the longest fic I have pencilled in to ask for permission for. In the course of searching for a Podfic Bingo fic in the summer of 2021, I came across this fic that I read ages ago and I have a weird amount of nostalgia for it. It's probably going to sit at the bottom of my ask list for the foreseeable future.
An idea that I don't have the skill set or inclination for:
There's not exactly a shortage of resources for digital or graphic art online. I've had to do a small amount of messing around for a class way back when, and I managed to put something together after I realised that a fest required writers to include an art element [after sign ups] a few years back. However, it was painful, and I was not surprised when someone else won the community poll's award for best art. I have only included cover art in podfic when someone else has made it.
An idea that I currently don't have the energy to do:
I used to have something about losing energy for a fic I started writing for a Voiceteam 2021 challenge here, but then I tried to look for a Reddit for this show (a bit easier to look for fannish activity than Twitter, in my experience). After glancing through OrdinaryJoeFans, there's some level of confusion even amongst people currently watching the show and a desire for a spreadsheet to keep track of each universe. I feel that.
The premise isn't intolerable, really. One character [Joe Kimbreau] is at a crossroads, and canon is a mix of three AUs that look at how his life plays out from certain decisions he made after graduation in 2011. Each version has a certain colour scheme, which in theory helps differentiate them, so there's a mix of using colour and which Joe is it to talk about the different versions of the other characters. Nurse Joe and Jenny, Blue Amy, Red Frank, Green Nurse Joe. The only character with a different name in each version is the kid - Christopher, Lucas, or Zeke. It's not like the Wikipedia page doesn't do an alright job with a basic explanation, but I would probably give up out of frustration at trying to track the details for a fannish work.
A to podfic idea that I'm not sure when I'll have the time to do:
- "An Image of Lethe" by Lomonaaeren - 168,375 words; 43 chapters. My word count to time estimate comes in at 18 hours and 42 minutes to 23 hours and 23 minutes. Harry Potter fandom; it deals with a Dark Magic affinity detector.
I can't say this the longest fic I've run across or anything, but it's the longest fic I have pencilled in to ask for permission for. In the course of searching for a Podfic Bingo fic in the summer of 2021, I came across this fic that I read ages ago and I have a weird amount of nostalgia for it. It's probably going to sit at the bottom of my ask list for the foreseeable future.
An idea that I don't have the skill set or inclination for:
- Creating cover art for my podfic.
There's not exactly a shortage of resources for digital or graphic art online. I've had to do a small amount of messing around for a class way back when, and I managed to put something together after I realised that a fest required writers to include an art element [after sign ups] a few years back. However, it was painful, and I was not surprised when someone else won the community poll's award for best art. I have only included cover art in podfic when someone else has made it.
An idea that I currently don't have the energy to do:
- Figure out a way to explain Ordinary Joe for fannish use.
I used to have something about losing energy for a fic I started writing for a Voiceteam 2021 challenge here, but then I tried to look for a Reddit for this show (a bit easier to look for fannish activity than Twitter, in my experience). After glancing through OrdinaryJoeFans, there's some level of confusion even amongst people currently watching the show and a desire for a spreadsheet to keep track of each universe. I feel that.
The premise isn't intolerable, really. One character [Joe Kimbreau] is at a crossroads, and canon is a mix of three AUs that look at how his life plays out from certain decisions he made after graduation in 2011. Each version has a certain colour scheme, which in theory helps differentiate them, so there's a mix of using colour and which Joe is it to talk about the different versions of the other characters. Nurse Joe and Jenny, Blue Amy, Red Frank, Green Nurse Joe. The only character with a different name in each version is the kid - Christopher, Lucas, or Zeke. It's not like the Wikipedia page doesn't do an alright job with a basic explanation, but I would probably give up out of frustration at trying to track the details for a fannish work.
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Date: 2022-01-19 02:45 am (UTC)Still...
And that Ordinary Joe sounds fascinating! I have an idea for an original story that sort of has elements of that, of parallel universes and whatnot. I find it a fascinating way to imagine how life could be different and the same based on random choices and roads less traveled.
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Date: 2022-01-19 05:22 am (UTC)Your story sounds interesting, and I've heard that such an idea does sound appealing when mentioning Ordinary Joe to others. I think the problem of selling other people on the show is that for some viewers actually watching one actor play three different characters isn't as easy to keep the characters and their timelines separated as they were expecting. (I'm unsure how well the non-color tells work for green-red colorblind viewers, tbh.)