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CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

I'm bad at this, I'm sad to be bad at fanmixes because I love them, but three songs? I can probably find three songs about Illyana Rasputin.

* Emily Jane White, Hole in the Middle
Everybody's got a little hole in the middle
Everybody does a little dance with the devil
And you know I'm evil now, and you shout it loud and proud

* Radiohead, Climbing up the walls
And either way you turn, I'll be there
Open up your skull, I'll be there
Climbing up the walls

* May and Robot Koch, Bad Kingdom
Vacuous winter stare
Worn out version of yourself
Too tough to fall
But not strong enough to turn

And just a bonus where the song globally doesn't work except for one line

* Marina and the Diamonds, Buy the Stars
Oh, we don't own our heavens now
We only own our hell
And if you don't know that by now
Then you don't know me that well

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works.

Oh, I've done this some previous years, but it seems I'm gonna do it again. And with a trope I already talked about, but it was a very long time ago :D

So, one of my fave tropes is "Enemies forced to work together"
It can be against a common enemy, to save the world, to save themselves, because of an old promise they have to honor, all is good to :D

It can be the beginning of a long-time redemption, or, more rarely, corruption arc, or it can be something they agree to never mention again, both are good to me.

What do I love in it: the fact that they have to understand more things about each other. Or sometimes the fact that they already know so much things about each other.
I love the competence kink, the strengths complementing each other instead of fighting against each other, and how far they can go (one of the very rare versions I don't like is when when they join the heroes for a while the villains become very much weaker for absolutely no reason). I love when sometimes they have to show each other's weaknesses.
I love the emotional points, them realizing that oh no, they respect each other, they care about each other, maybe even they trust each other? Maybe they're right about it, or wrong?
I love when there is betrayal of principles for an enemy they can't let die. I also love when their principles or just pragmatism force them to save an enemy they hate so much.

The first encounter with the trope I can remember was a quite late episode in McGyver where Murdoc asks McGyver help to save his sister. The character asking their enemy for help because they didn't know where else to go is still a nice topping to the trope, even it it's not mandatory.

I love enemy shipping, and when two enemies you ship are doing this, inn canon or fanfic, it's always fantastic.
For a long time, i read a lot of fics like this about my ships. I think at the time one of my fave ships for it was Xavier/Magneto. it happens in canon (in the X-2 movie, and in too many comics to count, and in some of the nineties anime), and I wanted all the fics, that were the same, just with more ship.
I often say that my romance trope is not actually enemies to friends to lovers, it's enemies to enemies forced to work together to grudgingly trusting and understanding each others to friends to lovers :D
Sometimes it happens in canon! Buffy/Spike or Root/Shaw were such good enemies to lovers ships to me, for this!

But actually! I adore it in gen too! I think that it was the s2 episode from Veronica Mars, where Veronica and Clarence Wiedmann had to work together, that I realized, no, amount of shippy feelings: 0 but amounts of competence kink feelings: up the roof.

I'm lucky it's a very popular trope. In lots of fantasy/sf shows i was following, it was some kind of compulsory figure, be it as a funny episode that would never be talked about again, or as the Big Finale against a worst enemy.

But! Also! Sometimes I'm in a fandom where not only it happens but it's the main theme! And when it's well done, I'm so happy about it!
Last year, one of my friends lent me The Coldfire Trilogy by Celia Friedmann, and it's the main plot, a warrior prince having to ally with the main evil of his religion to save the world. their relationship and its evolution is absolutely perfect.
Last year, I also fell deep into Bungou Stray Dogs where the writer decided that past basic character introduction most situations should be resolved by some enemies working together situation, and the hero having to work repeatedly together with his enemy and their relationship slowly evolving because of that is one of the main plot points.

Please if you know fandoms like this, character arcs, romance arcs, or just very good individual episodes about this, don't hesitate to give me recs :D


But also, I hesitated about which trope to choose, so have a post to a non-snowflake post I made some time ago, about my shipping obsession for underlings with a crush on their boss.

LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good.

* I have a very good memory for my special interests and ability to research hard and fast. It's nice for ficcing, nice for work sometimes, and I feel accomplished whenever I get to help my friends with questions like "which books would you recommend for creole fairy tales?" "what's a creature that's the conceptual opposite of a gnome" or "in which TMA episode does this thing happen?"

* I sure can be determined and patient when I have decided to do something.
Even if sometimes I joke that it's easier for me to put something on my todo-list, do it, and then cross it with a triumphant laugh, than to actually do it, I'm not mad at myself for it. Actually it's funny.

* And you know what, I don't always love my writing, but I always love that I'm writing.

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

* First, I'm gonna do like some other people here and say: I love feedback on my fic! If you have some fic of mine marked for later, now is the moment!
Here is my AO3 page, and, for people who only read English, here is the one with my fics in English.

* I've entered recently the Bungou Stray Dogs fandom, after everyone, and even if there are tons of fics to be found at AO3, I'm not sure where to find fanart. There's lot on deviantart, but it's 1) cruelly unsources, and 2) all PG-rated max.
If you have some recs of fanart, by the original artists, I would be happy. I mostly ship Dazai/Akutagawa/Atsushi and any subpart of it, but if the fanart is good I might be interested in anyone. If it's a bit smutty, even better.

* Recently for one of my reading catagories, I had "a pop-up book, or other book with a non-standard way of cutting pages". I can go in any good library and read one, but it would be far better if I was able to read soemthing that's actually good, a maasterpiece of pop-up.
So if you love the genre, or even met a very good one my accident, and have some recs... (kids or not, all's fine)

Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

Right now I want to write a love letter to the people who share or have shared my fandom obsessions.

Some of you I only shared a fandom with, and for six month only we were offering each other gifts and visiting each other in real life, and you know? It was still awesome.

Some of you have gotten into fandoms just to be there with be, out of trust for my opinions. Some of you I have gotten into a fandom for you, and it was so worth it.

Some of you we missed each other time-wise, and still, when you get into something I was into ten years ago, you're being all "yeah!" about it, because you remember and same in the other direction, I'm so reading all your old posts.

Thank you all <3