Snowflake Challenge Days 1 &2

[thisbluespirit]

Belated, but I'm going to try and do this now!



Day 1

In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Fannishly, rather than physically (which I assume is what's wanted?), probably my main 'happy place' out of recent fandoms over the last few years has been Once Upon a Time. It may have many faults, but its ridiculous-awesome meta fairy tale soap opera open crossover nature, has been a go-to for cheering up, at least when it comes to things that aren't beige or black & white and at least 35 years old. Especially Regina and Lana Parrilla and her face.

In old TV, James Maxwell has been an excellent TV boyfriend in so many ways, saving only burninated stuff I can't have (*pines*). He also had an interesting life, despite claiming to be super-ordinary, and is a very satisfactory person to like all round. This year was particularly good because I found an actual interview with him and someone magically sent me his autograph online via tumblr and a dream. Thinking about all of this makes me happy.

Also Adam Adamant Lives! AAL! is like old Brit TV happy-making medicine. I don't know if Sydney Newman put that in his instructions to Verity Lambert back in the day, but probably.


Day 2

Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Okay, three of the most recent of my (non-Yuletide) bookmarks:

Kindred by trufflemores (G, 2981 words. Arrowverse, Barry Allen & Kara Danvers)
1.18. Barry and Kara share donuts on a rooftop. Sweet & fun missing scene from Supergirl and the Flash's first encounter.


Decade of Hell by fogshadow (G, 5333 words. Star Trek: Voyager/Sapphire & Steel, Silver.)
When I tell you that Time has moods, a disposition to be intuited, I'm not speaking metaphorically. Anger is one of its moods—anger and the desire for retribution, vengeance. Time itself has tried to punish me for my arrogance. It has kept me from my wife, denied me my future. —Captain Annorax, "Year of Hell: Part 2" Or, Silver gets stuck on one hell of an assignment. Unusual crossover, which is accessible from either end as Silver gives an outsider POV on a particular Voyager incident. Excellent.


Notes from the Past by KittyEden (Teen, 4298 words. Sapphire, Steel, Magnesium)
An empty house, stacks upon stacks of blank paper, and a string of mysterious deaths: Sapphire and Steel- and Magnesium- have been assigned. Great missing assignment with a lovely OC Element. (Archive-locked).

Comments

[sovay]

Notes from the Past by KittyEden (Teen, 4298 words. Sapphire, Steel, Magnesium)

Thanks for the link to this one! I hadn't seen it before.

[thisbluespirit]

My pleasure!

[swordznsorcery]

Snowflake Challenge! I always forget this. And then I think I ought to try doing it again, look at the questions... and shuffle quietly away in short order. I don't even know what question three means! And I'm not doing four. Or six. I applaud your attempt though!

And I'm sure that Sydney Newman did indeed make happy-making medicine a part of his original design mandate for AAL!. :) It certainly is that, anyway!

[thisbluespirit]

I don't even know what question three means!

Day 3 is just sharing a favourite bit of a favourite canon (book/film/TV show), so like one book/scene/episode etc., which isn't that bad, at least not compared to talking to strange people! ;-)

(Besides, it's in the rules that you can skip days anyway.)

[executrix]

Maybe it helps to think of the burninated stuff as "wonderful stage performances I truly would have enjoyed seeing"?

[thisbluespirit]

They mostly were, given how much of that period was the West End re-done for TV! It does not help all that much at all. I pine a bit over the stage performances as well. I should probably like current people, but there we go...

[espresso_addict]

Glad you are joining this! And thanks for the Voyager crossover rec; I do love crossovers that are accessible only knowing one of the fandoms.

[thisbluespirit]

My pleasure! As someone who knows both, I can't 100% guarantee it, but I think it's really interesting either way - from Voyager, it works as a really unusual outside POV on that two-parter, from S&S it's another weird assignment as ever.

[corvidology]

James Maxwell! I could immediately 'see' his face but then I had to take a minute to remember what I'd seen him in. :D

[thisbluespirit]

<3 I usually have to explain a lot because understandably no one else has ever heard of him. (What did you see him in? ;-D) I didn't mean to get into him, but he was great in Shadow of the Tower and when I looked him up to see if he was alive or dead, the internet told me he was a ghost. And then you just have to try and find out what the hell, right? And if you're home, bored and alone and ill, I think we all know how that one goes...

[corvidology]

That was the weird thing. When I looked at his filmography I realized I knew him most from guest roles. I have American friends who say England only has 20 actors and they show up in everything. :D

[thisbluespirit]

I have American friends who say England only has 20 actors and they show up in everything.

It used to be more - like, at least 40 - but there was so much more TV. *nods*

I was curious as, as you say, what's survived is mainly guest appearances, so most people who know are either historical RPF people who've watched Shadow of the Tower, or Raffles fans via the TV pilot (which is quite impressive in itself). He did his fair share of the usual suspects, though, and often twice. :-D

[lokifan]

Thanks for the Barry & Kara being cute rec!

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, always glad to be able to share a good thing!