Various people got involved in the "Create your own challenge" idea from ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
snowflakecomm and I'm going to put their answers here in a single post.
Frombarbaratp: Desafio Cinéfilo de Plantão: liste ao menos 3 filmes que você gosta e 2 que não, em ordem decrescente. Explique ao menos em poucas palavras porque o 5 é seu favorito e o número 1 não.
(translation: Movie Buff Challenge: list at least 3 movies you like and 2 you don't, in descending order. Explain at least in a few words why 5 is your favorite and number 1 is not.)
5. Pacific Rim
4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3. Jupiter Ascending
2. Pacific Rim: Uprising
1. Avengers: Infinity War
The first three embody 'heroism in unexpected ways'. There are your typical 'expected' heroes (the good-looking, well-muscled guy with military training), and there are the 'others' who don't embody the typical heroic archetype - either in appearance or background or character type.
Pacific Rim made heroes out of a lot of characters other than the Americans, or even the guy. 'The Mako Mori test' came out of Pacific Rim: one female character and that this character has an independent plot arc and that the character or her arc does not simply exist to support a male character's plot arc.
The fact that in Jupiter Ascending it is Jupiter who is the hero of the story, making the heroic choice and whom the story is about is a delight. The fact that she makes a choice that isn't usually counted heroic (when forced to choose between her family and 'the whole world', she doesn't do the 'expected heroic sacrifice' thing or the 'I choose both!' option, but unapologetically chooses her family and is rewarded by the storyline for doing so. (Jupiter Ascending also passes the Mako Mori test.)
Captain America: TWS features a number of 'unxpected heroes' - the appearance of Sam Wilson, the support of Maria Hill. While viewers fully expected Fury, Natasha, and Bucky to have significance in the story - both Sam and Maria are key to the forward movement of the story and Steve's character development in an assortment of ways, and both are unexpected (and non-traditional in heroic archetype).
Ironically, in the sequels Pacific Rim: Uprising and Avengers: Infinity War, both franchises opted to diminish the "unexpected hero" dynamic, with the heroes once again being entirely expected and telegraphed from the beginning of the movie. A lot of the good feeling of previous movies - the edge that "the unexpected/different" gave them - isn't present, and the movie is a very moralistically simple "good is the POV, evil is identified, we collect the necessary skills/technologies/allies to defeat evil, we confront it".
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Fromswitchbladeeyes: What is a fanwork you'd like to see? Maybe it's something you've dabbled with. Or you've thought about it, but are coming up blank. Or it's a medium you enjoy seeing but don't personally create with. Make a post in your journal about a fanwork you'd enjoy seeing. For all you know, someone may create it, know where to find it, or chat with you about their thoughts on the idea.
An epic action-adventure with relationship development fic or book or show for any of my OTPs in any of my fandoms. Almost none of which are canon.
*sigh* I want challenges and hard decisions, unexpected twists, and character development. I want falling in love or deepening relationships, and growth in relating to each other, and new insights into their world and their mindsets.
I mean, I'd take some Art Nouveau (non-AI) images about my favourite characters. But also: EPIC ACTION-ADVENTURE STORY.
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Fromauthorbynight: Talk about a remake, prequel or sequel you'd actually like to see. This can be anything from musicals, movies, books.
I'd like to see the Avengers Civil War done with Pepper Potts and Maria Hill heavily involved.
I'd like to get the actual sequel to Melanie Rawn's Exiles series (oh, for the unwritten Captal's Tower!).
I'd like to get a TV show (or cartoon) based around the Stargate Atlantis: Legacy series. It's basically a Season Six, but it takes the premise and moves it into a far more realistic and broad-minded setting than the military-scientific-American-isolationist one which dominated the show.
I want a TV show that is based off Janny Wurtz and Raymond E Feist's Mara of the Empire book series, complete with non-white, non-Asian-accented Tsurani.
I wish that Faith: The Vampire Slayer had been an actual thing, and that Wesley would have joined her as The Watcher That Wasn't.
A remake of Battlestar Galactica 2003, except with an Actual Plan instead of the one that they said they had and which turned out to be a tagline, not a statement of actuality?
So many possibilities...
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gingicat asked: What would you take on a three-month trip where you'd be essentially alone and out of touch? Assume that you'd have your personal favorite climate, all the conveniences that would make this fun but not onerous, but no electronics except for indoor climate control panels, household appliance control panels, and assistive and medical devices.
You can bring people with you - who would you bring? Are there any that you wouldn't bring with you but would want to have on a contact-exception list?
Answer in comments or in your own space, as you prefer.
...is this an ideal world but without computer/smartphone/personal electronic devices?
Are there gardens? Small animals? Are we setting up a post-apocalyptic isolated paradise? Because something like that but without urgency/onerous-ness is my kind of fun, tbh. But so is sitting back quietly and chilling with a book/something to read. Or chatting with people over tea and teasing out ideas.
Am I dragging people along for my entertainment, or for their benefit/enjoyment?
If I treat this like a 'disconnected holiday', I'd take along a bunch of friends who seem like the sort to get away and just relax but who also have interesting conversations. M and maybe her husband F, L and maybe her husband N (F and N are big IT geeks, almost permanently connected to their phones), C and her husband J (in this case, J would probably enjoy this more - he's a 'doer' kind of guy so we'd give him little things to do/fix/sort out, while C has health issues that means she needs to rest a lot). And Y because she's geeky. I'd take my friends M&K from gardening world, because M is great for conversations and K is great for crafting and droll observations (although she'd probably hate having all the people around, she's very introverted in the "these are my people and it's good, but those are strangers and imma hide"). I'd drag a few DW/LJ friends along to get them away and out, I'm tempted to pull in a cousin who I really want to talk to and it's really difficult to actually sit down and discuss things over...
This is all presuming a magical house that has our basic food and cleanliness needs, etc.
I'd take my sewing machine, cutting board, cutting tool, and fabric. A notebook to write in, maybe my grandfather's typewriter to write with (although I have no idea how I'd go with the whole cp thing. I delete whole swathes of my stories before I'm satisfied with what results.)
I'd actually enjoy wandered around a local area, meeting locals, sitting down and watching life, go on walks through nature, swim in the sea (it'll be somewhere near water, because why not), take cultural tours...
None of this is 'alone and out of touch' though. Mostly because 'alone and out of touch' is not anywhere that I'd want to be for three months. I mean, I could. But if I'm bringing along people and things, then...that's not 'alone and out of touch.
For actually 'no other human beings, and no connectivity', I'd at least want an electric word processor to write with, a slew of books, my quilting things, and a cat for company - presuming I had all the things I needed for physical comfort...
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And there is, of course, my own challenge: If you had to transpose one of your fandoms into another form of media, what media would you turn it into, and how would the story change? Would the story change?
snowflakecomm and I'm going to put their answers here in a single post.From
barbaratp: Desafio Cinéfilo de Plantão: liste ao menos 3 filmes que você gosta e 2 que não, em ordem decrescente. Explique ao menos em poucas palavras porque o 5 é seu favorito e o número 1 não.(translation: Movie Buff Challenge: list at least 3 movies you like and 2 you don't, in descending order. Explain at least in a few words why 5 is your favorite and number 1 is not.)
5. Pacific Rim
4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3. Jupiter Ascending
2. Pacific Rim: Uprising
1. Avengers: Infinity War
The first three embody 'heroism in unexpected ways'. There are your typical 'expected' heroes (the good-looking, well-muscled guy with military training), and there are the 'others' who don't embody the typical heroic archetype - either in appearance or background or character type.
Pacific Rim made heroes out of a lot of characters other than the Americans, or even the guy. 'The Mako Mori test' came out of Pacific Rim: one female character and that this character has an independent plot arc and that the character or her arc does not simply exist to support a male character's plot arc.
The fact that in Jupiter Ascending it is Jupiter who is the hero of the story, making the heroic choice and whom the story is about is a delight. The fact that she makes a choice that isn't usually counted heroic (when forced to choose between her family and 'the whole world', she doesn't do the 'expected heroic sacrifice' thing or the 'I choose both!' option, but unapologetically chooses her family and is rewarded by the storyline for doing so. (Jupiter Ascending also passes the Mako Mori test.)
Captain America: TWS features a number of 'unxpected heroes' - the appearance of Sam Wilson, the support of Maria Hill. While viewers fully expected Fury, Natasha, and Bucky to have significance in the story - both Sam and Maria are key to the forward movement of the story and Steve's character development in an assortment of ways, and both are unexpected (and non-traditional in heroic archetype).
Ironically, in the sequels Pacific Rim: Uprising and Avengers: Infinity War, both franchises opted to diminish the "unexpected hero" dynamic, with the heroes once again being entirely expected and telegraphed from the beginning of the movie. A lot of the good feeling of previous movies - the edge that "the unexpected/different" gave them - isn't present, and the movie is a very moralistically simple "good is the POV, evil is identified, we collect the necessary skills/technologies/allies to defeat evil, we confront it".
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From
switchbladeeyes: What is a fanwork you'd like to see? Maybe it's something you've dabbled with. Or you've thought about it, but are coming up blank. Or it's a medium you enjoy seeing but don't personally create with. Make a post in your journal about a fanwork you'd enjoy seeing. For all you know, someone may create it, know where to find it, or chat with you about their thoughts on the idea.An epic action-adventure with relationship development fic or book or show for any of my OTPs in any of my fandoms. Almost none of which are canon.
*sigh* I want challenges and hard decisions, unexpected twists, and character development. I want falling in love or deepening relationships, and growth in relating to each other, and new insights into their world and their mindsets.
I mean, I'd take some Art Nouveau (non-AI) images about my favourite characters. But also: EPIC ACTION-ADVENTURE STORY.
--
From
authorbynight: Talk about a remake, prequel or sequel you'd actually like to see. This can be anything from musicals, movies, books.I'd like to see the Avengers Civil War done with Pepper Potts and Maria Hill heavily involved.
I'd like to get the actual sequel to Melanie Rawn's Exiles series (oh, for the unwritten Captal's Tower!).
I'd like to get a TV show (or cartoon) based around the Stargate Atlantis: Legacy series. It's basically a Season Six, but it takes the premise and moves it into a far more realistic and broad-minded setting than the military-scientific-American-isolationist one which dominated the show.
I want a TV show that is based off Janny Wurtz and Raymond E Feist's Mara of the Empire book series, complete with non-white, non-Asian-accented Tsurani.
I wish that Faith: The Vampire Slayer had been an actual thing, and that Wesley would have joined her as The Watcher That Wasn't.
A remake of Battlestar Galactica 2003, except with an Actual Plan instead of the one that they said they had and which turned out to be a tagline, not a statement of actuality?
So many possibilities...
--
gingicat asked: What would you take on a three-month trip where you'd be essentially alone and out of touch? Assume that you'd have your personal favorite climate, all the conveniences that would make this fun but not onerous, but no electronics except for indoor climate control panels, household appliance control panels, and assistive and medical devices.You can bring people with you - who would you bring? Are there any that you wouldn't bring with you but would want to have on a contact-exception list?
Answer in comments or in your own space, as you prefer.
...is this an ideal world but without computer/smartphone/personal electronic devices?
Are there gardens? Small animals? Are we setting up a post-apocalyptic isolated paradise? Because something like that but without urgency/onerous-ness is my kind of fun, tbh. But so is sitting back quietly and chilling with a book/something to read. Or chatting with people over tea and teasing out ideas.
Am I dragging people along for my entertainment, or for their benefit/enjoyment?
If I treat this like a 'disconnected holiday', I'd take along a bunch of friends who seem like the sort to get away and just relax but who also have interesting conversations. M and maybe her husband F, L and maybe her husband N (F and N are big IT geeks, almost permanently connected to their phones), C and her husband J (in this case, J would probably enjoy this more - he's a 'doer' kind of guy so we'd give him little things to do/fix/sort out, while C has health issues that means she needs to rest a lot). And Y because she's geeky. I'd take my friends M&K from gardening world, because M is great for conversations and K is great for crafting and droll observations (although she'd probably hate having all the people around, she's very introverted in the "these are my people and it's good, but those are strangers and imma hide"). I'd drag a few DW/LJ friends along to get them away and out, I'm tempted to pull in a cousin who I really want to talk to and it's really difficult to actually sit down and discuss things over...
This is all presuming a magical house that has our basic food and cleanliness needs, etc.
I'd take my sewing machine, cutting board, cutting tool, and fabric. A notebook to write in, maybe my grandfather's typewriter to write with (although I have no idea how I'd go with the whole cp thing. I delete whole swathes of my stories before I'm satisfied with what results.)
I'd actually enjoy wandered around a local area, meeting locals, sitting down and watching life, go on walks through nature, swim in the sea (it'll be somewhere near water, because why not), take cultural tours...
None of this is 'alone and out of touch' though. Mostly because 'alone and out of touch' is not anywhere that I'd want to be for three months. I mean, I could. But if I'm bringing along people and things, then...that's not 'alone and out of touch.
For actually 'no other human beings, and no connectivity', I'd at least want an electric word processor to write with, a slew of books, my quilting things, and a cat for company - presuming I had all the things I needed for physical comfort...
--
And there is, of course, my own challenge: If you had to transpose one of your fandoms into another form of media, what media would you turn it into, and how would the story change? Would the story change?
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