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fandomtrumpshate · 4 months

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Unlisted Fandom Challenge

Two days ago, at our last Unlisted Fandom Challenge update, we had a 3-way tie for first. Today? One of those fandoms has taken the lead AND a new fandom that hadn't had even a single signup before has jumped all the way into a 4-way tie for second. Your fandom could do the same, in the hours still left before signups close!

At present, our leaderboard looks like this:

7 Danny Phantom

5 Carmen Sandiego (2019) 5 For All Mankind 5 Tortall 5 Yu Yu Hakusho

4 Ace Attorney 4 Alan Wake/Remedyverse 4 Formula 1 RPF 4 Ted Lasso 4 The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison 4 The Stanley Parable

3 Greek Mythology/Religion 3 Buffyverse 3 Bungo Stray Dogs 3 Call of Duty 3 Detective Conan 3 Dragon Ball 3 HBO War 3 Kingdom Hearts 3 Persona Series: 3-5 3 Professional Wrestling 3 Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb 3 Shades of Magic - V. E. Schwab 3 The Mummy films 1999-2008 3 Undertale

Given the way Carmen Sandiego came from *nowhere* to tie for 2nd place, a single signup really can shake things up! And for the next few hours, signups are STILL OPEN! Do the thing!

The rest of our unlisted write-in fandoms under the cut for length -

2 Ghosts (TV) 2 Black Sails 2 Cosmere 2 CSI 2 Cyberpunk 2077 2 Dead Friend Forever 2 Death Stranding 2 Dice Punks (podcast) 2 Dimension 20 2 Donten ni Warau / Laughing Under the Clouds 2 Dracula 2 Dune 2 Firefly 2 Glee 2 Guardian/Zhen Hun 2 Hermitcraft/The Life Series SMP 2 Imperial Radch Series 2 Inception 2 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 2 Mob Psycho 100 2 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury 2 Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint 2 Ordem Paranormal Quarentena 2 QSMP / Quackity SMP 2 Riverdale 2 Saw 2 Slow Horses (TV Show) 2 South Park 2 Stormlight Archive 2 The Bear (TV) 2 The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros 2 The Folk of the Air (Holly Black) 2 The Radiant Emperor Series 2 Venture Bros 2 Voltron 2 Wolf Pack 1 1670 1 A Court of Fey & Flowers 1 a league of their own (TV series) 1 A Plague Tale (Videogame Series) 1 American Gods 1 Among Us 1 Bandom RPF (Bad Omens) 1 Bandom RPF (Lorna Shore) 1 Bandom RPF (Motionless In White) 1 Beastars 1 Bendy (and The Ink Machine/Dark Revival) 1 Horror 1 Bioshock 1&2 1 Blue Beetle 1 Blue Eye Samurai 1 Books of the Raksura 1 Boondock Saints 1 Breakfast With Scot 1 Bunny - Mona Awad 1 Buzzfeed Unsolved/Watcher Entertainment RPF 1 Cabin Pressure 1 Cats the musical 1 Charlie's Angels (2019) 1 Cherry Magic 1 Chronicles of Narnia 1 Cobra Kai 1 Coffee Talk (Video Game) 1 Criminal Minds 1 Death Note 1 Devil May Cry 1 Dexter 1 Digimon 1 Discworld - Terry Pratchett 1 Disney Theatrical Animated Universe 1 Divergent 1 DMBJ (Grave Robber's Chronicles) - Xu Lei 1 Dream SMP 1 Dungeons and Daddies (podcast) 1 Endeavour/Morseverse/Inspector Morse (ITV/Dexter) 1 Ensemble Stars!! 1 Fallout Video Game (Bethesda) 1 Falsettos 1 Fargo FX 1 Farscape 1 Fire Emblem (4-10, 13, 14, 16) 1 Five Nights at Freddy's 1 Friends at the Table 1 Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid 1 Grantchester 1 Green Creek 1 Grey's Anatomy 1 Grimm 1 Gundam (see below for details) 1 Hatchetfield 1 Hawaii 5.0 1 Hello From The Hallowoods 1 High School Musical 1 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni 1 Hollow Knight 1 Honkai Star Rail 1 Horizon Zero Dawn 1 Infinity Train 1 IT (Movies - Muschietti) 1 Jeff Satur - music videos 1 Julie and the Phantoms 1 Kushiel's Legacy 1 Law and Order 1 Legend of the Galactic Heroes 1 Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4) 1 London Spy 1 Lovecraft Mythos 1 Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic 1 Magnificent Seven 1 Mary Grant Bruce's Billabong series 1 Mrs. Davis 1 My Little Pony 1 Nancy Drew (CW Series) 1 Narcos (TV) 1 Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard 1 NU: Carnival 1 Omori 1 One Direction 1 Orphan Black 1 Outlast 1 Paranatural 1 Phantomarine 1 Re-Animator 1 Resident Evil/Biohazard 1 Sex Education (TV) 1 She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 1 Simon Snow Series 1 Skins (UK) 1 Slam Dunk 1 Starry Musical 1 Succession 1 Sunless Sea 1 Super Sentai 1 Sweeney Todd 1 Team Starkid 1 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 The Adventure Zone: Balance 1 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension 1 The Adventures of Tintin 1 The Artful Dodger 1 The Good Place 1 The Greenhollow Series - Emily Tesh 1 The Hollows - Kim Harrison 1 The Last Kingdom 1 The Left-Handed Booksellers of London - Garth Nix 1 The Lunar Chronicles 1 The Mechanisms 1 The Pairing (Casey McQuiston) 1 The Saint of Steel 1 The Shadow Campaigns - Django Wexler 1 The Terror (TV 2018) 1 Three of Hearts 1 Tin Can Bros 1 Tower of God 1 True Detective 1 Twilight 1 Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold 1 Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) 1 Weak Hero Class 1 1 Westworld (TV) 1 Yellowjackets 1 Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

#fth 2024 #fandom trumps hate #fanworks charity auction #unlisted fandom challenge #signups are STILL OPEN!#do the thing!

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scarydeadlavender · 10 months

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New Fandom!

Hello everyone! How are you doing?

I'm going to add a fandom to my writing list... And know... Detective Conan! Yeahh

I take into account all the characters! Rei, Kaito kid, shinishi, heji ext

Writing list : open

-detective Conan

-kaito kid

-harry potter magic awakened

-hogwart legacy

#harry potter magic awakened #daniel page #daniel page x reader #hpma x reader #fanfiction #hpma #harry potter #hpma mc #hpma daniel #detective conan #kaito kid x reader #Rei furuya #akai shuichi #Kaito kuruba #X reader #Xreader

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peromiin · 1 year

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i havent properly introduced myself :) im kevin! or peromiin, whichever you prefer :) im a game design student at a university, and i like drawing my favorite things! right now those favorite things are hogwarts legacy and detective conan. thank you for looking at my art!

look below to see how to navigate my blog!

Because I'm a multifandom blog, and I understand the controversy surrounding a few fandoms I'm in, I try to keep my blog as filterable as possible, so that people can mute tags or topics for me! Here are the tags I frequently use :) Hogwarts Legacy -> #hogwarts legacy specifically my MC Sable -> #Sable Thorebourne Harry Potter Franchise/drarry -> #harry potter Detective Conan/Magic Kaito/kaishin -> #dcmk Homestuck -> #homestuck Personal photos or topics -> #personal shitposting/random thoughts -> #rambling ALL of my art -> #my art stuff with little effort/doodles -> #pero doodle

#personal #my art #meet the artist

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marzowo · 11 months

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I technically have been here for two years buuut i havent actually doen any kinda introductions,just said i was a twitter refugee amd left it buuut a intro would be nice so here i am :))

hi im marceline, just call me marz

Ive been on earth foor 16 years? and some months,ive got a fuckton of siblings and a crippling mentality

Im in a shittone of fandoms and i have a different fixation per day

Im easily distracted and me holding a relationship is like me holding warm butter so if u can handle distant anti socials

Hi :]]

I have a crippling Ao3 addiction and have short term memory (kinda)

I also read manhwa if ur into tht too (manhwa,manhua,manga,danmei(limited) u name it)

Unfortunately i dont really do anime anymore,like i know basic summaries but i dont watch the anime

i mostly read the manga

I am a Neptunic NB who goes be all pronouns +Star/Starself (if u couldnt tell i have a space hyperfix)

List of Fandoms im in

Percy Jackson

Welcom Home(current fixation #1)

My Mxtx Era(Mdzs[Mo dao Zu shi],Svsss[Scum Villain Savin System],tgcf[Ti/Tu guan ci fu..only srry iforgotifitstiortuguanlol)

uhhhĥhh Bungou Strsy Dogs 🐕

Spiderman (Specifically Tom Holland)

Spiderverze! (i still need to fisnih my spiderson smh)

Danny Phantom

Genshin Impact

Hannibal

YOI(Yuri [its actually yaoi smh] on ice)

Harry Potter

Very limited as im yet to read it buuut,Hunger Games

DBH(Detroit Become Human[Kara my beloved])

PJSK :D(Project Sekai)

Underworld Office (bcs Eugene)

DC(not DC comics lol,Detective Conan :))))

Assassination Classroom

Murder Drones(Fixation #3)

LMK(Lego monkie kid/king-fixation #2 lol)

Code geass(Lelouch has me by th shirt collar omfg)

Fullmetal Alchemist

Voltron(Me when they lowkey forced LancexAllura lmao)

SHE-RA(Unfortunately just the modern one,older she-rq looks badass af+he-man is a total himbo )

OrV(Omniscient Readers Viewpoint,Has me pulled away by the ankles atp. Fixation #4)

Wednesday (reluctantly atp,its probably the only series ive finsiged within the last 12 months/srs)

Hmmm maybe Demon Slayer/Kimetsu No Yaiba

Encanto,if it counts

BL(Blue lock ;])

Erased/boku dake gai inai dachi(i think thats right)

OHSHC(Ouran highschool host club)

Criminal minds ofc,but only till s3 or s5,i got too lazy to finsih it b4 it was taken off netflix

Showtunes/Musicals(Specifically the songs lol buut,Heathers,uhh Dear evan hansen,a lil Hamilton, etc...etc)

Enola Holmes

Saiki K

Umbrella Academy

SpyXFamily

Legacies

TBP(The black phone :/)

Legally Blonde 1 & 2

Oshi No Ko(my idol? i think. Manga Timeline only)

TNMNT(Specifically the 20 something one,2020?2022?

unOrdinary

Moriarty The Patriot(Its just Gay Sherlock and Jame Moriarty)

Carmen Sandiego ofc (shes a queen)

{coming to the end lol}

the Owl House

The Queens Gambit(Im gonna rewatch it agian :>)

Bridgerton(bcs dramatic Victorian ppl are really hot)

Avatar(The one from my childhood,Guess which)

Twilight (bcs i have an older sister)

TBHK(Toilet bound hanako kun)

And very reluctantly (i left 5 months ago) My..My dsmp phase

+More :D extensive list i know.

Theres more

But ill stop here bcs i dont think anyones gonna read allat

Anyway pls follow me everywhere bcs i shitpost constantly

Literally whatever is in my brain goes online

Uhh heres my alternative socials

Reditt/Reddit

Twitter

Ao3:I forgot

Special Mention:Spotify

Marz has invited you to join a Blend on Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/blend/taste-match/a0d45a403ea80217?si=V1jNTL7zR2CwVmMwXvnmgw&fallback=getapp

Also i kinda do art sometimes

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takaraphoenix · 2 years

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Fanfiction Wrap-Up 2021

When I did a rough version of this last year, I noticed that I can just... copy the list of my FFNet Docs Manager and it fits neatly into a chart where I can sort it however I want. So, unlike usual, I didn’t delete any docs this year, to give me an actual full list of everything I’ve posted this year and do a real breakdown!

I’ve posted a total of 160 objects (oneshots and chapters)!

They amounted to a total of 649,679 words!

That’s 92 oneshots, making up 411k, and 68 chapters, making up 238k!

I’ve written for a total of 10 fandoms this year:

Shadowhunters (64 updates, 294k)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (31 updates, 235k)

DC Comics (7 updates, 65k)

Detective Conan/Magic Kaito (13 updates, 48k)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 updates, 27k)

Shadow and Bone (4 updates, 9k)

Harry Potter (2 updates, 18k) * as a crossover with PJO, they are also counted there

Marvel (1 update, 8k)

Teen Wolf (1 update, 689 words)

Vampire Academy (1 update, 646 words)

I’ve written for a total of 39 ships, my top five being:

Shadowhunters, Magnus/Alec/Jace (26 updates; 18 chapters, 8 oneshots, 107k)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Nico/Percy (23 updates; 13 chapters, 10 oneshots, 98k)

Shadowhunters, Magnus/Jace (19 updates; 12 chapters, 7 oneshots, 75k)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Nico/Jason/Percy (17 updates; 14 chapters, 3 oneshots, 68k)

Detective Conan/Magic Kaito, Kaito/Shinichi (8 oneshots, 30k)

(Bonus shout-out to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Spike/Buffy, which also had 8 updates but fell short with 27k!)

My shortest oneshot of this year is Icarus Improved with 597 words!

My longest oneshot of this year is Captain Bane’s Most Treasured Booty with 19,109 words!

Lastly, a multi-chapter fic breakdown on how many chapters/words I posted for each of those!

Percy Jackson, Nico/Jason/Percy: The Legacy of the Big Three (14 chapters, 57k)

Percy Jackson, Nico/Percy: The Prince of Pluto (11 chapters, 45k)

Shadowhunters, Magnus/Alec/Jace/Simon/Raphael: The Primal Instinct (7 chapters, 37k)

Shadowhunters, Magnus/Alec/Jace: Through the Portalverse (15 chapters, 25k)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spike/Buffy: Keeping Up With the Scoobies (6 chapters, 24k)

Shadowhunters, Magnus/Jace: The Incubus and his Ace (6 chapters, 24k)

Shadowhunters, Magnus/Jace: And They Were Roommates (6 chapters, 24k)

Shadowhunters, Magnus/Alec/Jace: The High Warlock’s Vampires (3 chapters, 19k)

That’s been my 2021 in fanfiction!

#2021 Wrap Up #Fanfiction #Stats #I'm a nerd. I like lists

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ninja-muse · 3 years

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May 2021 Wrap-Up

Books read, in rough order of personal worth-it-ness:  

Flyaway - Kathleen Jennings (A cryptic note sends a timid young woman in search of her vanished family, by way of gothic fairy tales.)

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power - Ryan North, Erica Henderson (College orientation? New roomie? Supervillains? Squirrel Girl has got this!)  - BIPOC secondary characters, 🇨🇦

All's Well - Mona Awad (A teacher makes a deal with the devil to cope with her chronic pain and put on the perfect play.) Out in August.  - MC has chronic pain but the rep is complicated, 🇨🇦, author of colour

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (A writer tries to explain the fire-bombing of Dresden.)  - “protagonist” has PTSD

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (A theatre troupe in the post-apocalypse, with missing members. A fading actor, contemplating life. About legacies and hope.)  - BIPOC, one 🏳️‍🌈 POV character, 🇨🇦, tw: pandemics

First, Become Ashes - K.M. Szpara (A warrior-mage, confronted by the fact he was raised in a cult and there is no magic, goes on his quest anyway.)  - 🏳️‍🌈, BIPOC secondary characters, #ownvoices, tw: rape and sexual abuse

The Conductors - Nicole Glover (A married couple uses wits and magic to solve a series of murders in Reconstruction Philadelphia.)  - BIPOC, 🏳️‍🌈 secondary characters, #ownvoices

Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood - Marjorie M. Liu, Sana Takeda (A young woman, hunted and on a mission, sets sail for the Island of Bones.)  - BIPOC, disabled MC, #ownvoices

The Last Bookshop in London - Madeline Martin (Grace gets a job selling books during the Blitz. It goes much better than she expected.)

Zoe Rosenthal Is Not Lawful Good - Nancy Werlin (Zoe has Life Goals. Zoe has found fandom. Surely she can have it all?)  -Jewish MC, 🏳️‍🌈 secondary characters, autistic secondary character

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England - Ian Mortimer (A social history of the 14th century—food, fashion, housing, and all.)

Fatal Fried Rice - Vivien Chien (Lana takes a cooking class. Someone kills the instructor.)  - BIPOC, #ownvoices

Hana Khan Carries On - Uzma Jalaluddin (Hana’s family’s halal restaurant is struggling, and then cute-but-clearly-evil Aydin starts another a block down. You’ve Got Mail restaurant AU.)  - BIPOC, Muslim cast, #ownvoices, 🇨🇦

Jay’s Gay Agenda - Jason June (Jay’s determined to make his gay dreams come true now that he’s in Seattle, but are they more important than friendship?) Out in June. - 🏳️‍🌈, BIPOC secondary characters, #ownvoices

Rereads

The Grey King - Susan Cooper (Will Stanton is sent to Wales on a quest for the Light, and meets an unusual boy.)  - albino secondary character

Currently reading

Kindred - Rebecca Wragg Sykes (What we know about Neanderthals, and how we know it.)

The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson (A history of and explanation for America’s Great Migration, largely told through the stories of three migrants.)  - BIPOC, #ownvoices, tw: racism, murder, assorted hate crimes

The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (Victorian detective stories)  - major disabled character

Stats  Monthly total: 14 + 1    Yearly total: 71 + 3    Queer books: 2  #ownvoices POC books: 4    Canadian authors: 4 

Read any of these? Interested in them? I’m happy to talk about my thoughts further!

January February March April

#books #booklr #bookblr #reading wrap-ups #rec lists #book recommendations #read in 2021

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autolenaphilia · 3 years

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Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street By William S. Baring-Gould

I have this 1975 paperback edition of the book, and it is kinda worth it just for the cover-art here by Richard Clifton-Dey

This 1962 biography of Sherlock Holmes by William S. Baring-Gould is a weird book. It is an example of “playing the great game”, with the book being written from an in-universe perspective. Arthur Conan Doyle exists but only as the literary agent of Doctor Watson.

The main problem with this book is that is padded with these long quotes from the canonical cases, all be it re-written in third-person. Certain stories are re-told this way, while others are just mentioned in a sentence or two, and the selection often feels arbitrary. Sometimes there are changes to reflect Baring-Gould’s theories about the story, but most often it is just the canonical text, except in third-person. It is boring and unnecessary, for few would read this book without knowing Conan Doyle’s works. And shorter summaries would have sufficed to provide context for Baring-Gould’s theories, both for new-comers and to refresh the memories of fans. It feels like padding, these borrowings from the canon probably takes up half the book which would be a slim volume without them. I will confess I skimmed them.

What is the actually interesting about the book is Baring-Gould’s theories. It is by necessity mostly his own invention. The canonical information about Holmes’s life is very sparse and the chronology of his cases contradictory. So in order to create a biography Baring-Gould must invent a lot. The book is essentially fan fiction.

Still the book has been very popular in the Sherlock Holmes fandom and Baring-Gould’s theories became accepted as fanon for many. As a source of ideas about the life and chronology of Holmes, it is certainly useful when the actual canon has no information. You can see its ideas reflected in many pastiches. The idea of a third Holmes brother named Sherringford (after a rejected name for Sherlock in Acd’s early drafts) is very popular. The idea that Moriarty was once Sherlock and Mycroft’s mathematics tutor is used in Nicholas Meyer in The Seven-per-cent-Solution. The film Sherlock Holmes in New York is more an adaptation of Baring-Gould than Conan Doyle.

Still the book is definitely fan fiction, and it hasn’t changed that much in the last 60 years. Baring-Gould shipped Irene Adler/Sherlock Holmes. Turns out Godfrey Norton is a bad sort, and Holmes has to rescue Irene from him. They later get together in Montenegro during the great hiatus and have a son, who becomes Nero Wolfe, the detective in a series of books by Rex Stout. Holmes’s decision to retire is motivated by Irene’s death, and when he dies he says her name. It is of course an absolutely ridiculous love story. It is not supported by anything in SCAN and seems to exist mainly to make Holmes straight. The book is perhaps the main wellspring for the Sherlock/Irene ship and that might be the most negative legacy of this book in my opinion. It’s a middle-aged man writing fan fiction, and it is just as ridiculous as the worst of what 15 year-olds on AO3 dream up, except far more heteronormative.

Still there is actually something of value in this book. A lot of this book is similarly absurd as the Irene Adler love story, but in a far more entertaining fashion. I even enjoy the Nero Wolfe connection in that story, just because it is a bonkers cross-over.

It is not the only crossover in the book actually. In an early chapter discussing Holmes’s family, Professor Challenger and Sherlock are said to be cousins. This connection to the hero of The Lost World returns later in the book, which requires some explanation. In The Norwood Builder, Watson explains that not long after Holmes’s return, they dealt with “the shocking affair of the Dutch steamship Friesland, which so nearly cost us both our lives. “ And in The Lost Worldthere is another ship by the same name, “the SS. Friesland, a Dutch-American liner, “ which spots a pterodactyl that Challenger brought to London and who escaped. In Baring-Gould’s book, the two ships are the same. “The shocking affair” involved Holmes and Watson hunting the pterodactyl aboard the ship, and Watson killing it with his revolver, saving Holmes. The book anticipates The Asylum movie by almost 50 years.

Baring-Gould similarly makes the most of Holmes’s Tibetean sojourn during the hiatus, and has him searching and finding the yeti, the abominable snowman. It’s all ridiculous but also fun. And probably deliberately so. Baring-Gould was definitely aware of the humorous aspect of pretending Holmes was an historical person and writing his biography, which we get him having fun writing dinosaurs and yetis like this.

The book’s Tibetean chapter is actually a highlight of the book, also for reasons that are not quite as silly. The chapter touches upon Holmes meeting the Dalai Lama, and puts forth the theory that Holmes became a buddhist. And quotes a bunch of Holmes’s words and actions from the canon to support it. Probably my favourite theory from the book.

The chapter about Holmes hunting Jack the Ripper is also great fun, and features Holmes crossdressing as a sex worker to trap the ripper.

There are some other less interesting theories in the book, like Holmes actually being a touring stage actor for awhile in his youth. Another involves John Watson having a wife before Mary and moving to the US for a few years in the early 1880s. This is mainly so Baring-Gould can solve some continuity issues, and barely registers on the weirdness scale compared to the dinosaurs and yetis.

So this book is a mixed bag, which I can’t really recommend, certainly not unreservedly. It is an important part of fandom history, but it’s definitely heavily flawed. There is a lot of boring padding where Baring-Gould just retells the canon, the Irene/Sherlock shipping is annoying and turned out to be a bad influence. But there is also some outlandish imaginative ideas here that are fun to read. I can’t deny the joy of reading about Holmes crossdressing and going off hunting dinosaurs and yetis.

#william s. baring-gould #sherlock holmes #my reviews

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raybyanothername · 3 years

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Fic Writer Questions

Tagged by @jadekitty777 and this looked like fun! Stats from 9-2-21.

How many works do you have on AO3 (or elsewhere)?

Currently 118 on Ao3! 215 on FFN. Roughly 224. Roughly because my math isn't perfect and I don't cross post everything because of FFN's guidelines.

What’s your total wordcount?

310,484 on Ao3 424,600 on FFN Apparently I average just 1975 words per story! Gotta love FFN's legacy stats.

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

63! (Thus why I call myself a fandom hopper! XD) RWBY, SEAL Team, and DCU are probably the ones I've written the most. Gallagher Girls had a real moment for me on FFN back in the day too.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1. Way Weirder (452) - Spider-Man 2. Chaperones are for Bad Influences (359) - DCU 3. Master Chief and the Bad Feeling (266) - SEAL Team 4. Post-Mission Decompression (248) - SEAL Team 5. Dungeon of Sadness (247) - Girl Meets World Both the SEAL Team fics are chapter fics, probably gives them a boost! Good snapshot of what I write though.

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yup! I try to respond to all of them in a timely manner, but... sometimes it takes me a while.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I think Not Afraid? It's an Azula fic I wrote about her time in a mental hospital. Features hallucinations and a panic attack. Can't think of anything more angsty.

Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve ever written?

Sometimes! It's a fairly recent development actually (as in the last few years) and I've been really happy with the creativity required to insert one fandom's characters into another fandom's world.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Not recently.

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Definitely! That was my jam for a while as a teen. I still write it on occasion, especially for special events or when prompted. I've been in more of a humorous angst mood as late.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I am aware of.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

A couple of times, yes.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

A couple of times, mostly I've done collab drabbles, or me and another writer wrote a different version of the same fic on purpose.

What’s your all time favorite ship?

I don't know of a harder question... My favorite right now is probably Q/Icheb.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

This will probably come as a shock considering I have WIPs that haven't been updated in years and this is one that I updated a few months back, but... Stereotypes are for Sissies.

What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue or characterization probably. I tend to hyperfocus on little details about characters, especially speech patterns.

What are your writing weaknesses?

...staying focused.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I think it's totally awesome, if you speak the language. And I say that as someone who has done it with a language I do not speak (my otaku stage, we don't need to talk about that). It's very difficult to do well if you don't speak the language so it's not something I would recommend (or do myself anymore).

What was the first fandom you ever wrote for?

Pokemon, then YuGiOh, then Detective Conan I think. :)

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

Hard one, but... probably Safety. DCU fic that focuses on Damian after an attempted assault. It was part of my Summer Prompt Fic in 2019. Lots of angst, little bit of humor - exactly what I'm into right now.

If y'all are interested! Tagging @moonbeeorangeheart @do-what-the-knight-tells-you @mega-ringsandthings-world @laserfocus

#ray rambles #ask ray #asked and answered #fic writer #fic writer meme

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aion-rsa · 3 years

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How Netflix’s The Irregulars fit in with Sherlock Holmes Canon

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The titular “Irregulars” who star in the new eight-part Netflix series are total badasses, but outside of their shared team name, they are significantly different from the Baker Street Irregulars who originated in the pages of the Sherlock Holmes canon as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This isn’t to say that The Irregulars defies the Holmes canon per se, but it does weave an alternate dimension of the 221B universe, one populated by a lot of elements we never saw in the classic Watson-narrated stories. In Doyle’s ‘The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire’ Sherlock debunks the existence of an undead bloodsucker, famously saying “Ghosts need not apply!” But in The Irregulars, ghosts and demons are everywhere, complete with a secret society of paranormal disciples (based on the real-world 19th century Order of the Golden Dawn).

This is a long-winded way of saying, the points of departure between The Irregulars and the canon of Doyle’s Holmes are numerous. Unlike Enola Holmes — in which you could squint and imagine those adventures lining up with the Doyle canon — The Irregulars is straight-up fanfic. That said, the inspirations for Bea, Jessie, Billy, Spike, and Leopold are found in a handful of legit old-school Sherlock Holmes stories. Here’s how the Netflix series comes from the canon of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and how it plays with that canon, too.

The Origin of the Baker Street Irregulars

In the first two Sherlock Holmes novels (there are only four total) — A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four — we’re introduced to some Dickensian street orphans whom Holmes calls “the Baker Street division of the detective police force.” Remember the Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist? That’s pretty much the Baker Street Irregulars; streetwise urchins who act as the “eyes and ears” of Sherlock Holmes in terms of what’s really going on out there in the world. This trope pops up in a lot of other fiction too, but it’s notable to mention that despite the famous name “Baker Street Irregulars,” this unofficial gang of children doesn’t appear in very many canonical Holmes stories, and we certainly don’t know many of their names.

The term “Baker Street Irregulars” comes from the title of Chapter 8 in The Sign of the Four. In that novel, Holmes enlists the Irregulars in tracking the progress of a boat on the River Thames. One of the Irregulars is named “Wiggins,” who is their leader. Notably, in stories set eight years apart (A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four) Wiggins is still the primary Irregular that Holmes deals with. This detail is just one of countless examples in the Doyle canon in which things just do not add up; such as the shifting location of Watson’s infamous war wound. In-universe fans (Watsonians) attribute these mistakes to a greater truth lurking below the surface of the stories; one that suggests that Watson actually repressed a lot of information in the telling of these tales. After all, Wiggins can’t be a young child for eight years! Then again, in The Irregulars, all the “kids” are much older than the ones who are described in the canon. We’re mostly dealing with teenagers now! So, the “ageless” Wiggins from the canon, is sort of a model for our contemporary irregulars in the Netflix show.

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Outside of those two Holmes novels, the only other story in which the Baker Street Irregulars are mentioned outright is in ‘The Adventure of the Crooked Man’ in which there’s a reference to one of the “Baker Street Boys,” and specifically a kid named Simpson. In ‘The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax’, there’s also a reference to Holmes’ “agency,” which, in some books — like The Sherlock Holmes Companion (Bramhall House, 1962) — is close enough to count. In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes has “Cartwright,” who is disguised as a country boy, and in ‘The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone,’ Holmes is assisted by a pageboy named Billy – the same name as Jojo Macari’s character in The Irregulars. So, if you count all of that, there are three novels, and three short stories that reference the gang; a total of six references. That’s not a lot! There are 56 Holmes short stories and four novels. Six references is nothing.

Then again, the evil Professor Moriarty is mentioned or appears in only three stories and novels (‘The Final Problem,’ ‘The Empty House,’ and The Valley of Fear) and you’ve totally heard of him, right?

The Irregulars in The Irregulars

In the new Netflix show, the various Irregulars are employed by a slightly underhanded version of Dr. Watson. Because Holmes already uses another version of the Irregulars in A Study in Scarlet, you could imagine that this incarnation of the Irregulars could exist after that. Indeed, you could also imagine that everything in The Irregulars takes place at some point after ‘The Empty House,’ if you wanted to. Without giving away spoilers, the show presents a very different version of Sherlock Holmes who at one point says that he’s not really the man he used to be.

The larger point is, none of the new Irregulars have direct analogs with the canon, and that’s okay. The show is clearly about these new characters and not really about Holmes at all. In this way, the Irregulars in the series are kind of like the Teen Titans and young leads Bea (Thaddea Graham) or Jessie (Darci Shaw) is like Robin, while Holmes is obviously a washed-up Batman. Who Watson is in this analogy isn’t clear, but you get it.

The Legacy of the Baker Street Irregulars

Although the name is famous, The Irregulars presents the first time a ton of focus has been paid to this aspect of the Holmes canon. In the Benedict Cumberbatch-led Sherlock, the Irregulars became a network of homeless people that worked for Holmes. In the comedy film Without a Clue, Ben Kingsley’s Watson employed the Irregulars, but nothing like the way Royce Pierreson’s Dr Watson does in the new show.

Perhaps the most famous example of the group is actually the group of adults who call themselves “Baker Street Irregulars.” In 1934, founded by Christopher Morely in New York, a huge literary club devoted to Sherlock Holmes dubbed itself “The Baker Street Irregulars.” Many famous authors have been members over the years including Nicholas Meyer, Isaac Asimov, and noted contemporary novelist, Lyndsay Faye.

Author (and NBA star) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is also a member of the Baker Street Irregulars and has written excellent novels (and graphic novels!) about Mycroft Holmes. In 2017 Abdul-Jabbar revealed his own BSI even helped him win basketball games back in the day. “I even had my own Baker Street Irregulars,” he said in 2017. “I started paying special attention to the conversations among the ball boys and other staffers. When I overheard a couple ball boys joking about how Bob Lanier and his coach would smoke in the locker room at halftime, I decided to run Bob up and down the court as fast as I could in the second half.”

So there you have it. From one of the oldest fandom organizations on the planet to the eyes and ears of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the moniker “Irregulars” has a lot to live up to. Luckily, this new squad YA heroes is totally up to it.

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In order to keep updated with latest Gintama news, I joined the subreddit and Discord, to which I'm a silent reader most of the time. If it wasn't for the news, I don't really want to be in there, especially with the news that Gintama is ending soon.

I must say that people are being... way too pessimistic in something they've been praising.

The first thing is about the current cour of the anime, which they believe is too rushed, usually covers around four chapters on each episode. They start comparing which media is better between the manga and anime, and comparing between how 2015 was better. Uhh. I really hate this. Whining to anime only viewers that the manga is better is pretty douche for me. As a both manga reader and anime viewer, the fact that the anime adapted lots of chapter in one episode doesn't affect me that much, since Gintama anime has been very faithful to the manga. They rarely, or almost never, skip a whole dialogue. So I understand that it may caused disappointment for some people but that doesn't make this current cour any less great. We still get most of the idea, and nothing is really changed, but people kept talking as if the anime has went from Attack on Titan to outsourced filler Detective Conan episodes circa 2000's (lmao sorry). After all, Gintama is not intended to be Attack on Titan-grade to begin with, and yet it's still highly ranked in MAL. So what's with the constant complaining?

That's not the only thing. When the first rumor was ending in 20 chapters, people complained, saying that it's not going to tie the loose ends. Then it gets even shorter, and this time it's not a rumor: Gintama is ending in five chapters. The reaction has been generally negative, and I really hate it because for a moment it affected my point of view as well.

I mean... they haven't seen it all yet they are complaining. Some even accuse Shonen Jump to forcefully kicking Gintama out. Which makes myself wonder: really, though? I know that Gintama is not selling anywhere near One Piece, but they're still very popular. They're not a one hit wonder--aside from the manga having a good selling amount, the newest live action movie is highly anticipated; last year, the first live action movie ranked as the third highest box office movie. And although I don't have data in hand, pretty sure the movies would affect the tankobon sales. I don't think a series that slowly but constantly growing to be a cash cow would be so easily kicked out from Jump.

The thing is, with my experiences in multiple fandoms, all I know is it's so hard for people to move on. The easiest comparison for this case is Star Wars, where it's so hard to accept the change that's happening in the Skywalker legacy. In Gintama, it's so hard to accept that finally, this series is ending.

People immediately judge that "this ending will be too rushed!" "Gintama is going to get Bleached!" "how about my ships?" "Character A will not going back, then", as if the ending is the only thing to define its greatness, as if they KNEW what the ending would be. What's even worse is that they couldn't seem to keep their negativity to themselves. I immensely enjoy my very short experience with Gintama, and I really don't want to end my trip with such negative vibe.

I know it's hard to say goodbye to a series that we love. But why not give it another chance like we did when we first decided to watch or read it? After all, this is Gintama. It's all about the surprise--and I'm very enthusiastic to see what Sorachi has in store for us.

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