#my year in fandom

[danpuff-ao3]

This year has had many ups and downs, and as of late it feels as if the whole world is a down. Real life has really smacked me down, and I've felt so isolated from all of the things and people I love. But as ever, the world is looking up, and I can see the light...and looking back brings me so much joy and fulfillment. I've accomplished so much that I don't give myself credit for. More than I'll dare type up here, but let's go through the highlight reel, shall we?

For my dear friend Beth's birthday, I finally posted some of my HP Astro work to AO3! (Speaking of which, I really should work on adding more soon...)

A_Loveunlaced (@a-loveunlaced) is an artist I very much admire, so the start of the year was super cool getting to chat with them, seeing their Snarry art, and writing a ficlet for said art, Again (and Again).

Delved into and fully embraced the controversy by running HP Chan Fest with @cindle-writes, which was such a cool and meaningful experience.

Plus I wrote some fics I'm really proud of for said fest: profane holy, Cruel Summer, The Virgin Bride.

Also my dear friend Viran (@mrviran) drew some fanart for Cruel Summer, I believe while it was still anonymous and everything! But she also totally called that it was me who wrote it, which is always fun for me when people know me in the Anon stages!

I wrote more fics for Kinkuary and Kinktober (which I always love!)

Shared more meta on AO3 with The Half-Blood History (I really do need to import more meta there!)

Finally wrote and posted chapter 3 for smile with sweet surprise (aka Stepdad Snape fic)

Started writing and sharing WIPs I've been long excited for: Wasted for Love (Golden Triad + Snarry) and A Taste for You (Sugar Daddy Harry).

I ran HP Fruit Fest solo! Which was a lot, but I had fun and I was super thrilled to not be the only one super into fruit!

I taught myself how to bind books, and now I have a growing collection of bound fics! Check out #danpuff binds to see some!

More recs, as ever, but especially the ongoing Dead Dove Diaries series of rec lists.

Speaking of recs, I'm helping mod @hprecfest, which is so fun for me! I love seeing people's recs, and I love being part of an event that is spreading so much fun and love around the community!

Also, making my own recs for the event! I've got at least one fic queued up for each day, I think! And some days have even more!

For Snarry-a-Thon I wrote a companion piece to last year's Contempt (aka my heart and soul), called Devotion, which my friend Aristi kindly beta read for me! The whole series is so deeply meaningful to me and it feels so huge to add more to it.

For Snarry Bang, I teamed up with my pal Viran (@mrviran) for The Curse of Anteros. I wiffle-waffled on what to write for the longest time, but my vacation to Orlando unlocked something in me. The whole fic hit me like a hurricane and came out in like a 2 week period. And the art Viran created for it is spectacular (I'm still obsessed). Oh, and it was such a treat having the fabulous @writcraft beta! There's nothing quite like having a creator you admire help your work be its best version!

And, of course, I had another opportunity to chat with my friend Beth for @fanficmaverickpodcast, with the episode: A Very Snarry Christmas.

And lots more, but this is plenty enough to be going with! Not half bad for the year, yeah? 😄

#danpuff stuff #2023 #my year in fandom

[livingfandomly]

Walker? Sir? Mr. Actor?

Jokes aside. That look? That anger? Percy finally having enough and being pissed off with a God who doesn’t care about his children, insulted his friends, ruined their quest and wants to start an unnecessary war where he has nothing to lose? But most importantly… Percy literally QUAKING with unchecked rage for a God who came in the way of him saving his mom?

#gods help ares #the beginning of a lifelong rivalry #ares ‘bout to get DECKED #my 12 year old macho man #percy jackson disney+ #percy jackson show #percy jackson fandom #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson spoilers #percy jackson #pjo ares #ares god of war #pjo episode 7 #pjo ep 8 #pjo show #pjo spoilers #pjo fandom #pjo series #pjo tv show #disney pjo #pjo disney+ #pjo adaptation #ares vs percy #percy vs ares

[letitrainathousandflames]

"I don't even go here" has to be one of my favorite tags to use on here.

Do you see it? Your art/writing is about a ship/media that I've never seen, and of which I know absolutely nothing and yet I am compelled and moved by the unique spin you put on it. You did such a fine work that I now want to know the source material. Perhaps you even did such a fine work that the source material doesn't hold a candle to the stuff you make.

I don't even go here. I appreciate you giving me a tour though. <3

#fandom my beloved #i was today years old #and found out about an obscure ship through some INCREDIBLE ART

[mackerel08]

its that time of year again

(comm me)

#413 #homestuck #john egbert #dave strider #karkat vantas #jade harley #rose lalonde #terezi pyrope #kanaya maryam #gamzee makara #calliope #dirk strider #jake english #theyre in the background but still #my art #i cant believe its been 4 years since i joined the fandom😭

[they-bite]

happy dannyversary! here's some of my favorite danny phantom pieces over the years

#man what's it been now like? 8 years in the fandom almost? #this doesn't cover that breadth at all (i think the oldest here would be from 2019) but still #dannyversary #dannyversary 2024 #danny phantom #my art

[lunarlivs]

me <3 this werewolf

remus as pics from pinterest that reminded me of him

#this started with me feeling like absolutely shit and drawing the help. one #and tadaa #here he is :3 #my boy :3 #my 64 year old grumpy noodle #honestly #the amount of time i spend thinking about his is probably not normal #but look at him!!! #remus lupin #remus lupin fanart #marauders #marauders era #fanart #sirius black #wolfstar #marauders fandom #james potter #harry potter #peter pettigrew

[bizarrelittlemew]

i can't wait to be 30+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 40+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 50+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 60+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 70+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 80+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 90+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to look back on my life and know that i loved things deeply and passionately and was inspired to create and was part of communities with incredible people from all over the world brought together by the stories that touched us

#and still be mad at shithead executives for unfairly cancelling my pirate show #also imagine what my ao3 word count will be like. gonna be writing my little fics in the nursing home #sometimes when i get frustrated over my writing i have to remember that i've only been doing it for a little over a year #and not in my native language #there is still so much time and so much to learn and try and discover and explore and i am EXCITED #there is something so ancient and beautiful about humans being brought together by stories #storytelling is what humans have always done and will always do and what will always connect us #to our past to the future to each other #sorry for the 1 am ramblings #fandom #🐭📓

[piratespencil]

This is so funny to me. Reducing them down to their simplest attributes. Turning them into symbols.

#this is some bouba kiki shit #also!! i said this in the tags of another post but i've finally gotten to the point in my op reread where i've hit the moment #when i stopped reading op back in like 2014 #that's almost ten years ago holy shit!!!! wild #i know a lot of what happens in later arcs bc i've been keeping up with the op fandom online #but it's weird to be reading chapters that i've never read before... new and fresh op content #(i stopped reading around chapter 750 btw) #(and this is from the sbs at the end of chapter 757) #one piece #zosan #kk talks about stuff #kk talks about op

[jorenilee]

warrior cat designs based on those fuckass ultimate guide color palettes

Swatch diagrams made by @/Sunnyfall , please look at them because what was happening behind the curtains that lead to cinderheart being blonde and ivypool brown

#hello warriors fandom i havent read a book in years #this entire thing is funny because whoever chose those swatches clearly had 0 idea what was going on #yellowfang ivypool and runningnose all have the same colour and its Not gray #art #bluestar #leafstar #dovewing #jayfeather #lionblaze #warriors #moonflower #hollyleaf #wc #warrior cats #wc designs #warrior cats designs #warrior cat designs #my 12yo self leapt at the opportunity to draw the murder cats again #warriors ultimate guide

[madamemiz]

sad: falling out of a hyperfixation

tragic: watching your beloved friends and mutuals fall out of the hyperfixation while you're still in it

#oughhhhhhh #this is about the dca fandom but also about every other strong fixation ive had over the years lol #i know it's normal and inevitable esp for less popular works or minor characters with little canon content #and there's nothing wrong with smaller communities of course those rock #but there’s just something special about getting into something at the same time as a lot of other people all at once #and existing in this chaotic fandom space that's just bursting with creativity and passion #i've been in fandom spaces for as long as some of you have been alive and i've only come across that sort of unbridled joy like #a handful of times at best #it's just a heartbreaking feeling to see real lightning in a jar fandoms like that wither away as people drift away #(understandably so!) #anyway don't mind me i'm just having thoughts #musing about fandoms past as well #that i too eventually moved on from but remember fondly even if im not active in anymore #also my music just aint hitting right so im just sitting in silence which makes me more Contemplative(tm)

[buumbaby]

hello have a sparkle boy

#merlin #time to start posting my hoard of merlin and merthur art #sorry i forget tumblr exists im coming back now #merlin fandom come hither #i only watched the finale on september 3rd after putting it off for 3 years pls i need you #also if you need more merlin art then follow lauravian too hehe #dont tell her i sent you its a secret between us #if youre reading all these ty i hope its funny #bbc merlin #merlin bbc #merlin fandom #illustration #merlin art #merthur #colin morgan

[meggiscat]

bad omen

#good omens #gomens #good omens fanart #crowley #my art #(shows up thirty years late to a fandom) omg yall have you heard of this guy

[humans-are-tasty]

#whatever #sir crocodile #dracule mihawk #animation #crochawk #one piece #cross guild #my art #these are from the past few weeks except the gif which is early january #some are from pengu's whiteboard #i can't believe i'm still drawing crocodile and it's been over two years #this has been an s-tier hyperfixation #catboy mihawk #and autistic mihawk is kinda real to me #also if you're around toronto i'll be at TCAF in May debuting a graphic novel #it's not for fandom but if you're interested in comics and art come by... admission is free #i love mihawk's moustache... i hope he grows it long so it can be twirled / pulled on....

[hanadoesstuffwrong]

Something that I think ppl who ship both sukka and zutara don't acknowledge enough is the fact that poor Hakoda met both his kids' future spouses on the same day, in the same place and that place just happened to be prison.

#Hakoda: Wow Sokka's girlfriend is the imprisoned leader of an elite team of warriors surely it can't get more complicated now #*sees his daughter interacting for twenty-seconds with the exiled traitor prince of an enemy nation* #Hakoda: uh oh #those kids are the best 16 year migraine this man has ever had #my posts #zutara #sukka #zuko x katara #sokka x suki #wanted to put something fun in the zk tag since i've seen to many antis lurking in there #and i've got like half this fandom blocked already!

[ash-and-starlight]

one day, in a thousand years

#I THINK I HAUVE COVID #oh to meet your love after a thousand years at a museum exhibit of your past lives #thinking about them makes me so sick so ILL DISEASED #I AM NOT IMMUNE #spc i’m cursing u forever for this wtf. WTF bro wtf #ouyang’s last thoughts were a desperate plea for esen to wait for him. #he has NEVER called him by first name he has NEVER asked him anything #and his last thought is asking him to wait #and esen does. bc he would have given ouyang anything he asked for #god i hope u get rawed so good it makes up for all the lost lifetimes u earned it #he who drowned the world #she who became the sun #the radiant emperor #general ouyang #esen-temur #(zhu also present in the golden imperial dragon and the golden light of gayness that brought them together again) #my art #not super proud of how it turned out tbh tbh it looks better in my head 😔😔 #would’ve stayed in the drafts if not for my need to feed this 4 ppl fandom #and if not for robin motivation nfngdjfb ty kissa you forever #id in alt text

[itty-bitty-sunshine]

Fazbear Entertainment did not program him to deal with that

#me and my homies kicking amatonormativity and aphobes this week so what better way than with a silly immortal comic? #posting this instead of sleeping its currently 2 am and moon is coming for my ass #i regret nothing #Moon will not let Sun live that down ever. 100 years from now he will still be making fun of him for that #sun: i think this thing in this program is very neat #moon; bored: thank you so much for telling me! its an absolute honor being your friend :) #sun: thAT WAS ONE TIME #meanwhile perkeo is taking a nap in the back #immortal au #dca au #dca fandom #doodles #dca fnaf #dca sun #dca moon #oc #sunshine draws #immortal au art🎨