dceu_kinkmeme | Discussion/Writing Post

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Discussion/Writing Post

This post is for everything that's not prompts, fills or comments on prompts/fills. You can discuss the movies or trailers or headcanons here, but you can also use this as a writing post: talk about fic ideas you've had (whether they're based on kinkmeme prompts or not), brainstorm with others, bounce ideas off someone, or post snippets you've written to get some feedback. Or even just some cheerleading and support while you write. You can also use this post to find a beta.

Basically: if it doesn't go on the prompt post, you can do it here.

Prompt post #1 is here. All non-DCEU prompts go here.

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AYRT

I'm sorry to hear that you've faded back into lurking since the slow heat-death of lj. I only stepped back into fandom in 2014 after a very long time away from it, and the fandom I got immediately attached to was SPRAWLING and active, and it's everywhere, on nearly every platform (except dreamwidth, it's pretty much crickets). Twitter turned out to be great for that fandom because there's a critical mass of fans sharing & chatting.

But what I love twitter for, is its absolutely MASSIVE DMs. I'm a part of a 45-person fannish DM for a fanfic series of all things, and we basically use it like an IRC channel that only invite peeps can show up to. I appreciate the... out-of-the-public-eye space that gives me. My online persona and my professional persona aren't well-separated. I'd prefer not to spam all of my acquaintances with my love of fic, if I can absolutely avoid it. xD

In all of these different pockets of fandom I've found, the uniting feature is I've found them through fic challenges. (I'm kind of a big bang addict. O:) Even if I wasn't participating in them directly, in some of the best fic challenges, there's a wonderful sense of community that can get created. One challenge that I ran, we had a chatzy chatroom, and the writers, artists, and other fandom people who were just interested in talking could all hang out. It was massively fun. I'm not sure if I'm trying to pitch participating in a bang or not. (Especially since there's only one currently running DC one. I've been thinking on that too. Hmm. xD)

I was surprised by Gotham's lack of traffic too! But I think another nonny in the thread nailed it when they said it's probably due to an underage Bruce. He does seem to be one of the lightning rods for shipping in dc fandom (as well as Dick Grayson and Clark Kent).

So far, in the CW universe, there's been a bit of sweet romance, but no pairing or shipping dynamic that just clicks with me. And I can understand that. I generally don't ship easily. When I do, I fall into that fandom hard and never want to claw my way back out again.

Ayrt

Intersting about the twitter DMs! I'm an artist, not a writer, so I didn't realize people used DMs for that! I definitely understand the desire to keep some fannish things private. That's what's so great about th LJ/DW format, was the members-only communities and such. IIRC tumblr has an invite-only feature for side blogs now or something? Never got around to playing with it, but I wonder if it could be used to replicate an LJ style community?

And not that there's anything wrong with lurking, but I miss the connections and collaboration that comes from being a participant in a fannish community. I love big bangs and other challeneges! I wish the Superbat big bang was still running... I have modded big bangs and challenges before on LJ, and I've been considering starting one for DC, but I honestly wouldn't know how to go about doing it now on tumblr.

I'm the same way with shipping. OTPs for life <3

AYRT

I've hosted/modded three big bangs on tumblr now, so if you want to do a superbat big bang (or a different kind of challenge), nonny, I'd be thrilled to co-mod it with you (probably after October. My two currently-running bangs finish in the september/october timespace).

I've gotten pretty handy with setting up tumblrs & all of that jazz. The only trouble would be prying the superbat fans out of their little hidey-holes. Luring them in with fun and kinkmeme cookies. Building their sense of anticipation. (See if there's any actual interest in the superbat writers participating in such a thing!)

I'm with you: connections and collaboration are why I love fandom communities best of all. Challenges are fantastic. <3

Ayrt

I'll have to get back to you on that! I'm not sure if I have the time for it this year. Maybe a smaller type challenge?

And yeah, IDK if there would be enough interest? Not to mention, with DC there's so many different canons, how would we ensure we get enough artists who are familiar with them all? I never understood how mods run multi-fandom bug bangs (eg. Rarepairs, femmeslash, etc). Unless a writer/artist duo signs up together (which I feel defeats the purpose of a challenge, tbh. If you know you want to work together with someone, just do a collab?), how can the mods make sure everyone's going to get paired up?

AYRT

I'd definitely be interested in running a smaller type challenge! I've got some thoughts on smaller challenges that could be run. There are a lot of options. Mini-bangs with word count minimums at 8-10k. Reverse-bangs where artists submit art, and writers pick art pieces and use those as prompts to write fics of 3k+ words. A trope fest with submitted prompts (like the kinkmeme) that then get paired up with artists for extra awesome!

(Of course that's if there's any interest in it; I could hit up a few of the bigger-name authors on tumblr to see what they might think about the interest-level in a superbat challenge.)

I ran a pairing-specific challenge like our current hypothetical superbat challenge, the T'hy'la Big Bang. That's Kirk/Spock if you're unfamiliar. Our problem wasn't having enough artists--it was having enough writers. We had teams of up to four people (one writer, two artists, one fanmixer) because we had something like 12 drafts, and 30+ artists/fanmixers, with people excited to work on multiple stories.

It turned out fine, everyone was really excited to collaborate in teams. I know superbat is way smaller than K/S, with a different set of issues... but they're not too different in their core issues. There's just a difference in degree (star trek has mirrorverse, dc has justice lords/injustice; star trek had an animated series, dc has several; trek has reboots, dc has a LOT of reboots; everyone has Specific Feelings about the reboots which leads to wank behind closed doors).

Just judging superbat by the amount of art versus the amount of fic that's produced, I have no idea which way the sign-up imbalance might be for a hypothetical challenge. My gut tells me, based on past experience, that artists that sign up for bangs are generally willing to tackle stories in canons they might not be 100% familiar with. Because the fun's in the collaboration.

*ponders question some more, as it is a good one*

OHH So here's an idea.

Whatever our hypothetical challenge is, we could do something like yuletide. Yuletide has a fandom nominating period, based on what people want to prompt for/write/get written. Maybe we could have a nominating period for superbat, so people could chime in about what *areas* of superbat they'd like to write in. And then, god help us, we could have a more complete picture to sell artists on. Instead of just going 'shoulder shrug' when artists ask what people are writing, we could point them to the fandoms that have been nominated. For example, if people nominate Young Justice, Batman v Superman (or the DCEU in general), Nolanverse/Superman Returns crossovers, but don't nominate Smallville or the 90s Batman movies, or Lois & Clark... that would help us focus on pitching to artists who are interested in those fandoms.

Yep okay this comment ran away from me for a challenge that doesn't even exist yet. Suffice to say, I spend a lot of time thinking about fandom challenge logistics. xD

Not a big bang or challenge, but I know that someone is planning a DCEU fic (and art?) exchange some time in August, if that's relevant to anyone's interests.

oh my god anon this is TOTALLY relevant to my interests. Do you know any more details?

I'm going to make a thread about my exchange plans in this post here later. :) /potential exchange mod

AYRT

Yessssssss. Looking forward to hearing about your exchange plans! 8D

Da

Details please! XD

Ayrt

Maybe we could start small with a tropefest! It would be less of a comittment (for participants, and maybe less of a timesink for mods too?), and there are SO MANY tropes in comics, it would give people a chance to play around with those.

But any modding stuff for me would have to be mid-Sept at the earliest.

AYRT

Yes, that sounds absolutely great! And yeah, mid-September to end-of-September is when I'd be able to start modding for the event. *rubs hands together gleefully*

Ayrt

Sounds good! IDK how you want to arrange it? Should we post our usernames here so we can get in touch later or...?

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