face the strange

Day 10: Reserved for one or two questions from Day 3! (I'm definitely going to do most, if not all, of these questions! ♡ So this is just part 1. :D)

Which character either because of story/backstory or performance broke your heart and why?

Oh, this is definitely Quentin Coldwater, hands down. It's all because of the ending, so the solution is to just ignore this part of canon and pretend it didn't happen, which most of the fandom has been cheerfully doing for the last 4+ years. xD But still, it was honestly the saddest that a fictional story has ever made me feel in my entire life.

Rika Furude broke my heart too, mostly in Gou, mostly in this scene/episode, which I immediately made into an incorrect quote graphic (the quote is NYTMinusContext) in order to tame it via crack, as I do, but it didn't get much less heartbreaking tbh.


Also Jaskier is currently inexplicably breaking my heart in S3 of The Witcher, like, this is weird and doesn't have ~logical reasons~, but it doesn't change the fact that he just does, lol.

I'll be sharing my exchange gifts a bit later because I just finished my intoabar assignment so that's what I'm sharing now. :D

Far More Interesting by facethestrange
Fandom: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry, The Magicians (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Furude Rika & Julia Wicker
Characters: Furude Rika, Julia Wicker
Additional Tags: Crossover, Fanart, Drawing, Community: intoabar
Summary: Rika, a first year horomancy student at Brakebills, goes to Encanto Oculto without really knowing what to expect. She's relieved to find someone else who also prefers the study of magic over wild beach parties.

( art embedded under the cut )

Bidding is now OPEN at fandomtrumpshate, and you can bid on my offer(s) HERE! :D

Bidding closes at 8:00 PM EST on Sunday, March 5.

I'm offering 3 pieces of fanart, and the fandoms are Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, Paper Girls (TV), The L Word: Generation Q (can definitely include the original show too), Yellowjackets, The Wilds, The Magicians, The Last of Us (TV), Skins (UK) and Derry Girls + ANY crossover between them or with any other fandom(s) you know I like. :D

Here's the round-up of the recs I posted in the second (and last) week of halfamoon. :D The first week is here.

Each post has two recs, one not-self-rec (all fics) and one self-rec (all fanart).

Day 8 - Healers and Medicine - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (twice)

Day 9 - Space - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The 100

Day 10 - Leaders - The 100 (twice)

Day 11 - Love - Orphan Black, The Hunger Games

Day 12 - Dealing With Adversity - Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: Picard

Day 13 - (Spirituality and/or) the Supernatural - Derry Girls, Pretty Little Liars/The Magicans

Day 14 - Celebrations - Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, Pretty Little Liars/Game of Thrones

Challenge #14 - In your own space, do the Fandom Wrap Challenge.

What were your top 5 fandoms for 2022 based on the amount of time you interacted with them?
1. Yellowjackets
2. Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni
3. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
4. The Wilds
5. The Magicians or Discworld

What were your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) you experienced fandom in terms of time spent?
1. AO3
2. Dreamwidth
3. Reddit
4. Tumblr
5. Discord

What are the top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom in terms of time? Did you write? Comment? Send positive energy into the universe? Create art?
1. Drawing fanart
2. Participating in AO3 exchanges
3. Making lots of random graphics
4. Participating in Fandom Trumps Hate
5. Fannishly squeeing on dreamwidth

What were your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions? (i.e. in terms of likes, kudos, reblogs, comments, etc.)
According to AO3 kudos:
1. The Endless Halloween (Death of the Endless, The Sandman)
2. Confusing New Friend (Bruno Madrigal & Camilo Madrigal, Encanto)
3. Everyone's Favorite Wedding Photo (Eda Clawthorne/Raine Whispers, Eda Clawthorne & Hooty & King & Luz Noceda & Raine Whispers, The Owl House)
4. Rooftop (Jinx/Vi, Arcane)
5. When in Doubt, Food! (Aang & Sokka, Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Have a Top 5 List you'd like to share?? By all means!
=> Top 5 TV shows that premiered in 2022:
1. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
2. Red Rose
3. Paper Girls
4. Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin
5. The Sandman

Challenge #11 - In your own space, talk about your favorite trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.

Peggy Sue! The specific type of time travel where a character goes back to their own past and to their old body in order to re-live their life (or a part of it) and do it right this time around. It can be a time loop (Groundhog Peggy Sue) or just a one-time thing. That's it, that's my most favorite trope in the universe. ♡♡♡

I got a number of wonderful Peggy Sue fics in several of my fandoms as exchange gifts (I'm not linking them because without re-reading I might confuse some of them with a different type of time travel fix-it), and a week ago I wrote a Yellowjackets drabble about it myself (I'm mainly a fanartist, not a fanfic writer, otherwise I'd write at least one of those for each of my fandoms).

This trope is the reason I absolutely loved Being Erica despite not even vibing with the main character. It's the reason why Higurashi is my main fandom right now. It's the reason I'll watch and read things instantly without even knowing of their existence beforehand as soon as someone tells me that the trope is a big theme.

And of course I'm taking recs! For entire new-to-me fandoms where the trope is canon, and for fics in any of my fandoms (the trope is usually very character-centric, which is also what I love about it, so reading fandom-blind is not really possible). If it's a Peggy Sue story, I'm automatically 100% interested! :D

➽ This icon is what I needed, like, I made it earlier today because I needed it so much. :D

➽ Let me finish the blorbo meme that I abandoned last spring right before the end! I have exactly 2 fandoms left to do, so I'll do one today and one after the next Snowflake post, but if you want to give me more fandoms you can always do so. :D I have both more fandoms and more friends now, and my friends have more fandoms too, so there are more possibilities! ♡ (Or maybe you just missed my posts before, that's okay too. :D)

Shadowhunters (asked by tamsin)

I've only watched one season of Shadowhunters and it was a while ago, so my answers might be funny to read for someone who's a hardcore fan? :D Also feel free to convince me to watch more! ♡

❤️ blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)
I don't quite have a blorbo, but my favorite character would be either Izzy or Clary.

❤️ scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)
I think there might not be anyone who fits this description in the part of the show that I watched. *looks around*

❤️ scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)
I don't know who's underappreciated, but I know who's frakking awesome and didn't get enough screentime - the alternate version of Izzy from the other universe! The alternate version of everyone, tbh, like, Magnus too. But mostly Izzy. I adored her SO MUCH after the few minutes she was on screen. ♡

❤️ glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)
I mean, that could be the alternate Izzy too, but I have a better/weirder/more accurate answer here - THE SEELIE QUEEN. Who is not in season 1. So I have never actually seen her on screen. Which only makes sense when I tell you that I watched the show for Lola Flanery (Madi on The 100), and only then I found out she wasn't going to show up anytime soon. So yeah, I wouldn't shut up about it for a week if she had actually shown up, lmao. :D

❤️ poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)
I feel like Magnus fits here, in the way that he can be shady af but also he's kind of Eliot Waugh.