Thursday DE: big fan of your work

[needsmoreresearch]

So we're all creative fandom people here. But what about our characters? Has your character ever produced anything that could be called a fanwork? Fanfiction, doodles in their middle-school notebook, new verses of the popular folk ballad about [mytho-historical figure], cosplay...?

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[i_am_your_host]

I didn't think I would be able to answer this question without making something up, but Emcee has cosplayed as Marlene Dietrich's character in Der Blaue Engel, top hat and knickers and all. It's canon! In the Broadway production, he wears a costume inspired by hers, with a few embellishments and alterations to make it extra glam.

[never_promised]

...I love this fact. :D :D :D :D :D

[bjornwilde]

I have a loose head canon that Rollo had once thought of becoming a skald and so likely had tried his hand at composing a ballad or two abotu his favorite hero. Or he wrote songs about his future exploits. Not sure which. ; p (It's not a phase Dad, it's who I am!)

Sabine has created what we would like call fan art of famous bounty hunters. This is canon as can be seen in this shot of concept art of her graffiti covered cabin.

That's about all I've got, though I kind of love the idea of Sam posting Cap theories/head canons on the internet.

[misslucyjane]

That's about all I've got, though I kind of love the idea of Sam posting Cap theories/head canons on the internet.

I love this.

[bjornwilde]

Of course it would be after Winter Soldier. ; p

And it would likely be little things like Cap doesn't like hamburgers but loves hot dogs, which sparks huge debates about the deeper meaning.

[student_of_impossibility]

I am too lazy to log out of this journal, but I am quite certain that the only one of my characters who might have is Lois. Maybe Henry eventually.

Just-- yeah. No. Most of mine are either not creative that way at all (Anakin, R2, Tavi), not in a world and/or life situation where it would occur to them (see above, plus Evelyn because mages in Thedas get the worst), or are Eriond and he just doesn't.

Which is frankly hilarious because I am such a writer/fannish person and mine are all just... not.

[misslucyjane]

Steve wants to tell people about his and Bucky's childhood (headcanon is that this is the part of their lives that always gets glossed over in the biographies and biopics) and is looking for the right way to do it. I guess it's more autobiography than fanwork, though.

[ceitfianna]

This is fascinating question and I think some of them might do it but not really share it.

I keep meaning to write a fic and poke at how Quentin's social media life plays out as he has a fancy phone that works in the Summerlands. Also he's a teen in about now. I can't see him as a writer but he might provide meta thoughts on canons with fairies or nobles or injuries. He uses a pseud and lots of people are curious but he's really good at covering his tracks, it helps that he doesn't actually go to school.

Before he met Wade and went through canon, William definitely dreamed a bit about what would happen if he were one of the boys in the books he read. He'd be so brave and smart that someone would give them enough money to take care of everything. Now he doesn't but he thinks about stories as he rides. He wouldn't think about writing them down because in his mind, authors aren't like him. I might have to poke at this.

Charles was a complete Frank Sinatra fanboy as a teenager, he tried to dress like him, they have a similar body type and he and Raven snuck into night clubs when they were younger. That's about as close as he's come. He's very much inspired by The Once and Future King but his writing is more scientific.

Ivan and Miles and Elena used to pretend they were heroes from the holovids that they watched. He hasn't really done anything else since then.

Jane's author and a lot of her writing is interacting with other writing going on such as Northanger Abbey and the Gothic novel.

Moist completely plays on tropes that happen in stories to help with his jobs like the hard working clerk, the noble fallen on hard times, the lost mine.

[heroine_in_training]

If anyone ever wants to explain fanworks and cosplay to Catherine, she will be ALL OVER THAT SHIT. But it has never occurred to her.

[clayforthedevil]

...we have GOT to get her hanging out with the right nerds more.

[clayforthedevil]

If Joly had lived in a time where Science Fiction was really underway he would absolutely have been the sort of fan to try and figure out the plausible logistics of Fiction Science, draw up detailed ship plans, try to figure out the layout of galaxies, and so on. But he didn't, and in Milliways all the things that might have provoked such fandom-type behavior are real, so he's just a general tech nerd.


It's the nature of Gringoire's society that almost everything he gets called on to write is Bible Fanfic or RPF along the prompt of " let's make this rich powerful guy look really good to the audience". Whjile there's a definite technical challenge to these projects (" but how do I justify this particular atrocity in verse" ) he's not exactly passionate about any of it.

Bahorel, oh gad. He's done (and does) allll the fandoming. Cosplay, putting on reenactments of favorite scenes, flashmob performances, fanart, fic, ship wars, the whole deal. It's a big part of what Romantics in his era did. Milliways doesn't really have enough common culture to make all that viable, so it's kind of just him and Prouvaire right now. Alas.

[vive_lavenir]

Prouvaire writes fic. He wouldn't think of it as fic per se--just writing, about mythological figures, historical figures, figures from Romantic poetry....

He also cosplays almost continually as a medieval-type dude.