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Challenge #8

In your own space, create a wishlist. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

My wishlist is strange this year. You see, I've written an original fantasy novel. It may not be fandom, but, as some of my first readers will attest, there are many homages to my fandom favorites found within it. I've face-claimed many characters, basing physical characteristics and friendships on Jack and Daniel, for instance, and peppered side-characters with others.

I'd love for any of my talented artist friends to take a whack at artwork for my characters. I'd love to do a t-shirt, or a design for mugs or coasters based on my novel, but I'm not about to steal a real person's image for that.

It's definitely a pie-in-the-sky request, since I know art is a work of the heart and you all have no reason to love my characters yet. I just wish, that someday, Jonas and Matthias, Barca and Fabius, Deok and Naten, might inspire someone.

Thanks for listening to be drone on and on about my original novel yet again. (I'm pretty excited!)


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Snowflake Challenge #5

In your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Whether it is to fix-it, honor it, or expand upon it, canon is why we are all here. So, let's celebrate canon today and talk about our favorites. Nostalgic, new, problematic, or forever canons are all welcome to be loved, dissected, and discussed. Have a favorite scene? A much-loved character? A much-maligned character? Just love the whole thing epically? Talk about it all or as little as you want!

Look at my icon. Now back to the challenge. Then back to the icon. Then to the title. Okay, enough Old Spice commercials! I'm just saying that 'Odd Man Out' is the reason for my plunge into fanfic. It's the reason I dived into fandom and never want to surface. It is the part of canon that intrigues me, riles me up, and gets my defenses going into overdrive.

But, to have an Odd Man Out, you first need a team.

A good team. A team that works well together, solves the crimes, captures the aliens, saves the world, finds the answers. A team that is family, that has a bond, a close friendship. A team that stands for each other and holds each other up. That has gone through hell and, shoulder to shoulder, come out the other side.

That's why the Odd Man Out scenario pulls at my heartstrings. In almost all of my fandoms, there is - on occasion or as part of the backstory and make-up of the team - one member to bears the brunt of the jokes, gets put down, ignored, or treated with disdain. And that person? That's my person.

Ianto Jones in Torchwood. Face in The A-Team. Daniel Jackson in SG1. Tony DiNozzo in NCIS. Dr. Reid in Criminal Minds. Zack Addy in Bones. Ron Weasley in Harry Potter.

Ianto is just a coffee boy who gets the crap jobs. Face is OFTEN ridiculed and not believed for using his greatest gift for the team. Daniel has to explain himself endlessly for his theories to be considered. Tony is ... okay, just don't get me started on the head-slaps and disdain he deals with on a daily basis. Dr. Reid is an awkward, loveable genius. Zack is kept so outside the main group that he falls into the thrall of evil. And Ron - well, he's mostly insulted by the author herself.

These are my people. These situations got me so disgusted that I wrote fanfic to fix it. My first fanfic on ff.net was about Daniel proving, once and for all, that he is worth listening to. That's my jam.

Whether you can say you love it or hate it, the Odd Man Out formula works if only to engage the emotions of the viewer. These are always my favorite characters.