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Whatās your fannish ID? AO3: original fanfic as brittlestars, plus fanworks of other fanworks (translations, fanart, podfic, etc.) as metaderivative; tumblr: metaderivative
What types of fanworks do you create? Mostly I read and write fanfiction. I sometimes record podfics or translate other peopleās Spanish-language fics to English. I also occasionally doodle fanart and make animated GIFs of fanart. I have super top-secret hidden wish to embody Mattās public identity suit from Mark Waidās comic run but cosplay aināt cheap.Ā
What are your favourite types of fanworks, when youāre not creating? On Discord I have fun reading and collaborating on headcanons, snippets-without-homes, and various other not!fic.
What do you like in particular about this fandom? Superhero origins and explorations of their powers: the alienation and responsibility, identity shenanigans and identity reveals, parallels to queer identities, the authorial struggle to express or represent unknowable perceptions of reality, the grey and overlapping borderland between sciences and the fantastical, the raw persistence of extraordinary faith and courage and hope and compassion wielded by everyman characters suddenly beset by fantastical power and equally impossible challenges, negotiation of evolving relationships with non-powered friends and ordinary citizens (especially outsider POV), the deep, abiding, gruff love of NYC and her denizens for her heroes.
Do you like participating in fan events? I love DDE and have participated three times. So much fun to see the work everyone produces, not just the excitement of your own personal gift and the challenge of your gifteeās prompt(s). My first fics in the DD fandom were posted in response to significantowlās Daredevil bingo, which I won right at the deadline. The first Avocados server telephone exchange and the first MattFog week (DDE: check out @themattfogblog !) went swimmingly and I canāt wait to participate again. I also love to be pulled into writing or creative sprints with a prompt and just a few minutes of preparation time; the words seem to flow particularly well when thereās a clock ticking and friends also working away at similar ideas.I was introduced to Discord through VoiceTeam 2020, an annual podficcing collaborative extravaganza.
What about your creating process? Since joining various Discord servers Iāve found communal timed writing sprints to be incredibly fun and productive! I can take a prompt and produce 500-1,000 words of banter pretty quickly. Though these fics donāt usually have all that much plot, they are often fun! I also occasionally dictate in-character voice notes on my phone, especially when my brain has an idea while Iām trying to fall asleep.
Do you interact a lot with other fans? Mostly I left comments on AO3 until I stumbled into some friendly Discord servers, where Iām now fairly active. I would love more interaction with Spanish-speaking fans especially. I am always happy to receive critique and constructive feedback on any of my works. Likewise, all of my work is remixable, with the request that you link back to me and let me know so I can be excited about it!
Is there any particular piece youād like to showcase for this post? For recent works in the fandom, Iām surprised āOscillations are steady; this is me (us) vacillatingā (https://archiveofourown.org/works/30913472) hasnāt had more hits. Itās short and captures a certain bittersweetness to Matt & Foggyās strained relationship in early NMCU DD season 1. Also, Josie makes a small appearance and Josie is great! Read āOscillationsā if you want to get a sense of the typical rhythm of my fanfic, which can be boiled down to: not a lot of plot but tons of banter. The āTeam Red Discord Server Inaugural Murder Mysteryā (https://archiveofourown.org/works/27648184) deserves special mention for being hugely collaborative and a fun story featuring lots of this fandomās favorite characters and some auxillary/peripheral characters as well. āMinds, and Heartsā (https://archiveofourown.org/works/14475504) is the fic Iām most proud of. Itās in the fandom of The Flash TV show but can be read fandom-blind and deals with a lot of the same topics I like exploring in Daredevil; namely: how do everyday lives change when we suddenly have super-heroic powers of surveillance? āFomitesā (https://archiveofourown.org/works/8889973) is fun as a densely-interwoven mystery based on a board game but grounded in science ā and is therefore easy to read fandom-blind.
Do you have other fandoms youād like to talk about? Look, I just really like superheroes okay? I fell for Cole & Zeke (inFAMOUS) shenanigans and bonding before I found Matt & Foggy. I love Cisco Ramonās simultaneous infectious enthusiasm and burdened reluctance in the face of superpowers on The Flash, and his abilities mirror Mattās in interesting ways. My longest-abiding curiosity is probably for Spider-Man, in almost all his incarnations.
Is there anything else you want to tell us about yourself? Iām probably not a sophisticated and compelling artificial intelligence masquerading as human. (I am not sophisticated.) Oh, and I heckinā love dogs.Ā
Where can your fanworks be found? https://archiveofourown.org/users/brittlestars/works
Thank you, @metaderivative !
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