pronker

In your own space, remix an existing work into a new media, and/or rec three or more remixes that do the same. [...] (And) or do a rec list including the original and the transformative work, and consider including why you like the change in media.


This is the challengeriest challenge yet. I can't say I've read many remixes or listened to any podcasts not even one. Here are two pieces of mine that might work? They aren't very current, however. :/

The Official Fanfiction University of POM used the blanket permission of Camilla Sandman (Miss Cam) to play with the notion of ficcers needing a professor's instruction, a curriculum and fellow classmates to learn to write good fanfic. The original work is Miss Cam's The Official Fanfiction University of Middle-earth, which portrays an earnest student and her ilk doing their very best to graduate. I loved the idea, the fic and the style, so it was fun to tweak the model into another fandom as many others have done.

Marlene Gets The Gollywobbles: The Fic began with my cartoon here. The authors coruscera (impractica) and linbot wrote Special Circumstances Questionnaire for Sexual Partners (Male): Long Form so it seemed fair to write a F/M version. As I read the source, I couldn't help but pay tribute to The Master-Apprentice Archive, home base to many a delicious Star Wars slash fic; some of the characters there are switch hitters. :)

In your own space, resurrect an old meme. Have fun with it! Which is the goofiest meme you can think of? Put on your party hat and be silly!!

The world needs more silliness and I oblige as I pin on my home-made fascinator with the blue jay feathers, which is my party hat:

First, because I've worked in numerous libraries and even set one up once upon a time ...





This seems reasonable.

Next, because the AO3 stats page is a-callin' ...

1. What’s your first and second most common work ratings?

Teen and Up (44)
Mature (19)

2. How many fics have you written in each relationship category? Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?

Gen (37)
F/M (29)
M/M (14)
Multi (3)
Other (2)

Well, here they are and they surprised me because some time ago (like years back), the first three were nearly equal. I seem to have drifted into Gen. On January 16, 2014, I compiled stats on what I recc'd on crack_van as follows:

Gen 39 %
Het 27 %
Slash 34 %

3. What are your top four fandoms by numbers? Are you still active in any of them, and do you tend to migrate a lot?

Penguins of Madagascar (33)
Star Wars - All Media Types (22)
Star Wars Prequel Trilogy (11)
Star Wars Original Trilogy (9)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types (4)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1)
River Monsters RPF (1)

Here are all the fandoms so 46 are Star Wars and no, I'm not active in that anymore after decades of hyper interest. I ... guess I migrate in a limited fashion, less than a monarch butterfly but more than a clam? I'm pleased that Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea surged *ha!* on a wave *ha ha!* of heretofore unknown popularity, both here and on Fanfiction.net. I'd not realized how many folks still swam there until posting and receiving comments.

4. What are your top four character tags? Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?

Obi-Wan Kenobi (29)
Skipper (Madagascar) (26)
Anakin Skywalker (19)
Rico (Madagascar) (19)

Oh it matches, except I'm puzzled that Rico got tagged more times than Private.

5. If we look at the top six relationships, they are:

Marlene/Skipper (Madagascar) (13)
Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker (12)
Ferus Olin/Leia Organa (5)
Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi (4)
No Romantic Relationship(s) (4)
Johnson & Manfredi (Madagascar) (4)

Marlene and Skipper are the easiest to write, despite being interspecies, because the funny animal cartoon genre adapts itself to humanizing so much. I'm fond of Ferus/Leia because Jude Watson's YA series put them together and it was fun to extrapolate their relationship. Johnson and Manfredi are basically "face" characters whom canon did not focus on visually except for two minutes, and the sky's the limit on writing them. :)

6. How many WIPs do you have currently running on AO3? Any you don’t plan on finishing?

Freedom's Just Another Word is at 7/34 chapters and will be completed. Undertow is moving along briskly enough at 95 chapters and will be completed.

Only two. I blame my work ethic.

Last, because I am hungry, the What Kind Of Chinese Food Are You? meme ...

You Are Beef and Broccoli

You are a smart, no nonsense type of person. You are very low maintenance compared to most people.

You are often thinking of everyone else but yourself. You feel the most comfortable when you are putting yourself last.

You tend to order quickly yet carefully from the menu of life. You don't have a lot of time to agonize over decisions.

By doing the best you can in each moment, you've done pretty well in life. People truly respect and admire you.

It's uncanny! How does it know??

In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, creator, episode, or it could be your fandom friends. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to.

Dear Fandom,

How are you? I am fine. I am in the second grade. My teacher is the prettyest one in the school because she has red hair and plaies the pianno when we sing. She makes us give book reports and I love Greek mythology so I read Bulfinches Mythologie. It was not written by a bird, ha ha. It is a big book. I finished it in a month when my custuddy parent drove me to her place on the frieway on weekends. It takes half an our each way. It was boreing until I read my book. I love reading. Maybe I shoulde not have read in the car because I got car sick and my custuddy parent had to pull over right their on the freiway. That was not fun.

My other custuddy parent says I am a fan and he says read, pronker, read so I do. I love my custuddy parent and I love beeing a fan. He says your going to need spex and my other custuddy parent got some for me. They have sequueins on the corners and I love them. Here are fan things I love: my freinds who talk with me at lunchtyme about our favorit tv shows the nite before, my fat books about Greek mythology and my skinney Little Golden Books about Bugs Bunny and Bambi and other movy stars, and my family when we sit around the tv and talk about what we see. I learnd a lil bit of reading from the credits, here is one name I see all the time on any chanel: Glen Glenn Sound.

I want to read and watch tv and maybee wrtite and draw some day. thank you, fandom, for all you do for me.

Love,

pronker

P. S. squeeeeeeee

In your own space, create a wishlist.

I'm up for these wishes:

In the spirit of fandom, I wish that folks would browse here to see inspired designs.

I wish I knew more ways to go back to sleep after awakening at least once nightly.

A so far out in left field that even Ka'ai Tom would have trouble catching it wish: that an artist cartoon Dame Judi Dench as a penguin.



And now, back to familiar territory with a twist:

I wish for someone to comment on any one of 363 stories by a favorite author, Random Guise. There's fandoms galore and so much to choose from!

If fanart is your thing, then I wish you'd sneak a peek at The Gayest Comic by madamedobato. There are years of fully realized work here.

And lastly, yes, I wish for a comment for one AO3 story of mine, Whump!

In your own space, rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

Oh boy, have I got some lovelies for you, so here goes:

FANART

First, a quote by LeoKatana from deviantArt about a new fancomic ("This Is All For Show") in the Penguins of Madagascar 'verse: "So here my girlfriend Nessaka-V and I start to work on this fan comic project for our dearly beloved Penguins of Madagascar, She is such a great stories writer and so good at doing storyboard and sketches, so she take charge of that while I did the rest lineart, coloring, shaded and light and rough background." Never have penguins looked more adorable and a puffin enters the picture, too.

This Is All For Show

FICS

COMPLETE

Here is a recent movie tie-in fic in the prodigious oover of Random Guise, master of missing moments you always wanted to find found: Give a Hand to the General. This fic explores how Sheldon The Respectable Dentist and Vince The Retired Secret Agent from the film The In-Laws may have tied up a loose end in their adventure. It goes pretty well, actually. I always like how the author provides a thumbnail of any of his fic's original's basic plot, so you can keep up with the story even as it barrels along into comedy, drama, pathos and other genres. Check out the FFN profile here and be amazed at the output in movie, video game, book and other categories.

TheYeeteor takes us into Central Park Zoo's penguin exhibit and shows how an addition to the commando team surprises everyone, even the protagonist. It's called Average Jo(e) here on Fanfiction.net and it's also on AO3 here, where the author's illustrations shine. :)

Made of Wood by LeslieTheSorceress features the humanized penguins as detectives; Skipper is gaga over Lola, the bobblehead doll he romances beyond all reason in Madagascar 2. It's a fateful love affair for him and for his team as Lola does her best to fit in; the fic is also on AO3 here.

WIP

There are some characters who need more ficcish love and Kitka The Falcon is one, IMHO. Yeeteor gives readers the tantalizing beginning of an adventure throwing Kitka back together with Skipper in Flight(less) of Fancy, cross-posted at AO3.

In your own space, create some goals. I did so poorly with 2020's goals ... :/. This time I'm sticking to two things I love: reading and writing. I want to read my breviary and I want to continue writing my long story (TM).

I did it.