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Our monthly challenge for May will be a (mini) Big Bang! Choose one or more of the posts made for the inspiration challenge, be inspired by it, and create your own work!

( little boys )

( dark romance )

( trains and train stations )

( purple )

( period drama )

( city inspiration )

( train and train stations )

( neon and vibrant colors )

( postapocalyptic )

It seems there are tropes about everything! For this challenge, we'll be taking inspiration for our work from bookish tropes!

Let's start with some stock icons and sig tags based on the tropes 'magical library/librarian/book'.






One text icon using the trope 'portal book'.


One big collage of pictures using the trope 'useful books'. Click for original size.


One ficlet using the trope 'book on the head'.
Title: Prom Night
Fandom: The Faculty
Character: Casey Connor, Stokely Mitchell
Word Count: 532
Rating: PG13
Link: https://p-r-i-s-c-a.dreamwidth.org/150378.html

One ficlet using the trope 'genius book club'
Title: The Genius Book Club
Fandom: The Faculty
Character: Casey Connor, Zeke Tyler
Word Count: 211
Rating: PG13
Link: https://p-r-i-s-c-a.dreamwidth.org/150665.html

It's time for an Inspiration Post challenge! Your job will be to create a post collecting images, sounds, and words meant to inspire our members' muses. You will not be creating any new work for this challenge.

You can make up to three inspirational posts.

Spring
1. Icons
2. Spring Quotes
3. Artwork
4. Single Prompts
5. Color Palettes
6. Spring Songs
7. Spring Gifs

Note: for the pictures click for original size

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Fashion

1. Quotes about Fashion
2. Colour Palettes
3. Prompts (fashion accessories)
4. Art
6. Songs about fashion
7. Fashion Gifs
8. Fashion in TV Shows

Note: for the pictures click for original size

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You can quote me on that
Sometimes words are so perfect that they transcend the situation in which they were originally said. That's what this challenge is meant for.

Because I won't be around next week (yeah, finally going back to the baltic sea together with a good friend), I've only made four works for this challenge.

( Here we go )

If I had a million dollars

Write a list of at least five things a character would do with a mega-million (billion) dollar windfall.

Surprise! I will go with three characters of The Faculty (yes, I know, I am boring, sorry). Please notice: the lists will be slightly AU because they are based on the fanfiction I write.

1. Casey Conner
- restoring the old farm of his grandparents because it's the place he felt most happy during his childhood
- moving to New York or San Francisco, any place where he can finally feel free and live the life he wants (maybe together with his secret one and always crush Zeke?!)
- buying all the photo equipment he can only secretly dream about
- visiting the most famous photo schools to learn from the best
- with the rest, he would support other people, like underrated young artists who are waiting for their chance or talented children coming from poor circumstances

2. Zeke Tyler (The Faculty)
Well, I am sure...
- after some time of wild parties and pouring money down the drain, he would finally realize that it is about time to grow up, and he would go back to highschool to graduate
- restoring his old GTO (which got crashed during the alien incident) instead of buying a new one
- officially starting his own business instead of secretly brewing Scat in his garage
- looking for ways to secretly support Casey because he knows this little geek would never accept any help from him
- finally, he would leave Ohio behind, move to New York or San Fransisco, starting an exciting new life (hopefully together with Casey ;))

3. Stokely Mitchell (The Faculty)
- buying lots of black dresses with a touch of red, after Stan told her that she looks great in it
- buying a house for her mother and her little siblings
- visiting workshops about writing led by her most famous authors
- self-publishing her first SciFi novel
- making her most geeky dream come true: a trip into outer space

Note: Keep in mind that I am living in Germany, so maybe not all mentioned titles are available in your country.

( TV Shows )

( Movies )

( Audiobooks )

Note: Keep in mind that I live in Germany, so maybe not all mentioned titles are available in your country.

( TV Shows )

( Documentaries )

( Movies )

( Audiobooks )

In your own space, share a favorite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, wild times with fellow fans (whether online or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone.

Another easy challenge. Or maybe not, because there are so many memories I don't want to miss. But because here it is asked for a favorite one, I will go with Ring Con, because this is the first one that came into my mind.

Ring Con is a german convention that, in the beginning, was based on the Lord of The Ring fandom. I guess I mentioned before already that I usually am a more introverted, shy person, and visiting an event like that was new and exciting for me. But to my own surprise, it never felt like being at the wrong place.

Meeting people I had met online before and watching some actors of my beloved movie on stage was sooo great. Fun fact: for some of the actors (like Sarah McLeod or Craig Parker), this con was a new experience, too, but they all were so lovely and interesting. The most well-known actor at this con was Brad Dourif, and we all hadn't even seen him on-screen back then, because Two Towers was not even out. But it was so exciting to stand vis-a-vis him during the autograph session.

Over the following years, I visited the con every time, and I got to meet more popular actors like Billy Boyd (what a nice guy), John Rys Davis (when he starts talking, there is no end ... laughs ... he's driven the poor stuff crazy during the autograph session because he wanted to chat with every fan), David Wenham, Miranda Otto, Andy Serkis and lots more. The highlight for me was meeting Sean Astin. Only for him, I stepped over my lines and went to a photo session - no, I won't show the photo because I am looking like a dork, but I love it and even more the memory of this particular moment.

Later, Ring Con started to change, other fandoms found their way to the con, when the interest in Lord of the Rings began to fade away step by step; finally, it got renamed into Magic Con. And I started to lose interest.

Until in 2019, the Lucifer cast (Tom Ellis, Rachel Harris, Kevin Alejandro, D.B. Woodside, and Lesley-Ann Brandt) was announced. I knew I had to go and see them. And even if it was not the same anymore, most old friends had long stopped visiting the con, but nevertheless, it was a great convention I did enjoy so much.

Last month, Spotify sent out their yearly “Spotify Wrap” - summary of our listening habits over the past year, divided into categories of “Top 5 __”. We don’t have Spotify’s ‘scientific algorithm’ but we can do what we do best - estimate!

In your own space, list your Fandom Wrap categories.

Okay, this one is tricky, because I actually have only two main fandoms. The rest is more fandom-hopping - whenever a movie or TV show gives me an idea for a drabble/flashfic, I will probably write it down, but it is possible that I will never come back to this fandom again.

But let's see...

What are your top five fandoms for 2021 based on the amount of time you interacted with them?
1. The Faculty
2. Jeremiah (TV)

3. Cobra Kai
4. The Umbrella Academy
5.

What are your top five fandom spaces in terms of time spent? (AO3, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, Dreamwidth, and others)
1. Dreamwidth
2. Livejournal (though I am using it only for x-posting stuff from DW)
3. AO3 (but I admit, I've almost neglected my account there)
4.
5.

What are the top five ways you interacted in fandoms? (Reading fanfic, writing, commenting, watching videos, chatting with friends, making art, or anything else you can think of).
1. Writing fanfiction
2. Making icons
3. (Co) modding fffc
4.
5.

What are the top five things you did to contribute to fandom in terms of time? Did you write? Comment? Send positive energy into the universe? Create art?
1. participating in various writing challenges
2. making icons for 100fandomicons and dailyicons
3. organizing challenges for fffc
4.
5.

What things did you create that took the most time?
1. writing various drabbles and short ficlets
2. creating 100 icons for 100 different fandoms
3. organizing stuff at fffc
4.
5.

Have a Top 5 List you'd like to share? By all means!
5 audiobooks I enjoyed to listen:
1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
2. Survivor In Death (Eve Dalles 20) by J.D.Robb
3. The Collini Case by Ferdinand von Schirach
4. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett
5. The Marco Effect / Buried by Jussi Adler-Olsen