Shiny new things

[thisbluespirit]

As I said, there's suddenly a lot of activity round here, with new comms born every minute, it seems. Here are some things I've spotted that seem potentially cool and relevant to people's interests:


* snickfic's friending meme is huge, and still very much ongoing.

* meta_warehouse - for sharing fannish meta.

* 100prompts - prompt tables (no specific pairing/fandom/character claims needed) in tables of 30 and 50, plus daily word prompts, and Friday challenges.

* historium - a general comm & hub for all history fandoms (RPF and fictional). I've yet to promote it, but I've finished all the initial tweaking now & will do so presently. (Your mods are me and auroracloud and I'd be very happy if anyone else wanted to join us.)

* clachnaben is hosting a Magical Realism Commentfest - You know the drill, multifandom, also rec posting welcome.

(Looking at this, I realise my definition of magical realism is way narrower than theirs; I always had it pegged as like David Almond (Skellig etc) and Frank Cottrell Boyce (Millions, Framed) where it either it's not quite magic or it isn't but the real world has a magical effect in itself. I was a children's librarian and they are the only magical realism people I've read. At least, according to my maybe weird definition. But it seems to be more just magic in the real world? Which is an easier definition than "like these two Brit YA authors and I'll know it when I see it...")


(If you're interested in knowing about these sorts of things then the places to follow are chiefly fandomcalendar, dw_community_promo and fandom_on_dw.)


(This still isn't an introductory post. ;-p)

Comments

[paranoidangel]

Ooh, I am now following some of these! It would be nice to have community stuff going on in DW, like LJ used to have.

[thisbluespirit]

Yes. I mean, there is some - I have a few that I follow already, but it'd be lovely to see more!

[maplemood]

I tend to have a bit of a narrower definition of magical realism, too, but it is such a slippery genre to define--I'd definitely consider most soulmate AUs magical realism, because they take a fantasy element and make it part of the real world to the point that it's considered completely ordinary and even non-fantastical, but it's so much trickier with other types of fic!

[thisbluespirit]

I tend to have a bit of a narrower definition of magical realism, too, but it is such a slippery genre to define

It is! I was really interested to see a commentfest with that theme, as I'm not even sure exactly what to prompt and what not to for that reason. Magic? Magic Realism? Realism? Horror?

And, yes, soulmates AUs is a good example, that's true.

[giddyant]

Thanks for linking to the meta community. That looks really interesting.

[thisbluespirit]

Glad to be of use!

[jhall1]

Isn't magical realism what Angela Carter is supposed to have written? Sadly that's about as far as my knowledge of it goes.

[thisbluespirit]

Probably! I think the definition may actually be "I'm not sure how to put it, but I know it when I see it." :-)

[corvidology]

Look, if you're not going to make an introductory post, so be it. But where, may I ask, is your gilt-edged calling card on my hallway table? The butler is beginning to get a bit sniffy...

[thisbluespirit]

LOL!!

I have made one now but it involves sewers and not gilt-edged things, so probably the butler might not let me in anyway?