Snowflake Day 1

In your own space, talk about why you are doing the Fandom Snowflake Challenge? What drew you to it as a participant? What do you hope to accomplish by doing these challenges?

I usually start these things and never finish them, but I'm going to try this year.

I do the Fandom Snowflake Challenge mostly to nut out my own thoughts on why fandom and what I like and why I like it, but also partly to extend myself beyond my circles, because I'm not naturally someone who'll explore out into fandom - too many bad experiences in my 15 years of online fandom.

And each year I hope I'll complete it. I haven't yet. Maybe this will be the year!

need help - MCU ladies tagset

Creating the tagset for the MCU Ladies Exchange 2016 - I need help adding characters, because I just know I'm going to forget one or two or a dozen.

Ladies of the MCU

This includes any and all female characters from Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, and any of the one-shots around. It can include female characters that are only seen in the comics tie-ins to the movie universe.

However, it doesn't include characters that are only in the comics, such as Kate Bishop (Hawkeye) - unless there's news that she's been cast in one of the It'sAllConnected-verse media?

If you have a moment (and the inclination), I'd appreciate the help!

Snowflake Day 2: fannish wish list

Create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts.

Well, I've never been afraid to ask for more of what I want. I just don't ever get it!

1. An epic action-adventure packed Steve/Maria story, where they come together, fall in love, have to defeat an enemy, and get out of it all. Civil War optional, or maybe just the process of Steve realising that while he doesn't want a home-and-family white picket fence kind of life, he does want this one woman, and then having to overcome his expectations of what she might want from him that he's not able to give (the white picket fence).

2. The Star Wars Original Trilogy story (again, epic) where Luke turns to the Dark Side in the Emperor's Throne Room and Leia has to escape Endor, learn to be a Jedi and turn her brother back from the Dark Side.

( spoilers for SW:TFA )

3. I would love a Mucha-style drawing of Maria Hill. Something like the graphic here, only with her standing in uniform, guns in hand, ready to fire. (Alternatively, in the red dress from AoU, Steve's jacket on her shoulders, gun in her hand, looking out of the picture.) The problem is mostly that I don't want one of the promo or movie stills of her superimposed on a Mucha-style background - I want actual hand-drawn art by an artist - original pose, original design, and a reasonable (or, at least, recognisable) resemblance. This is not easy to find.

(Incidentally, I made the graphic in the link; I used Cobie's face, hodgepodged a whole bunch of other elements together (the dress, the arms, the jewel) and then added the hair, the background, and the arch. It took a long time. If someone was willing to take the time to do something like this in graphic art, that would also be amazing, but it takes a willingness to spend a lot of time, and a certain amount of determination to do it right.)