Starmania Snowflake Challenge

1.Something I'm proud of o-o

I just noticed I hadn't post anything for week 4 so here I am >:0

The thing is, I (saddly) didn't do much in the fandom...BUT I guess I managed to do the whole stamaweek, and even if I could have done better, I still really like some of these drawings :D

This is for week 2 of @stmsnowflakechallenge !!

This one is sooo difficult because I made so many wonderful memories and met so many great friends through starmania fandom!! so here's a list of random memories that still make me smile a lot, in no particular order!!

obviously. every time i got to see the show live. 10/10 experience each time, i will never experience anything like it again. i'm not joking when i say it was always an out-of-body experience. i was bursting with excitement and joy every time oh my god oh my god. starmania 2022 come back the kids miss you.

when the video of Travesti 1979 was reuploaded?? it's nothing big but i distinctly remember where i was and what i was doing when it was posted. I was doing homework and I gave up so fast because I was so excited I literally could not focus because I had never seen it before!!

everytime i got to hang out with starma-friends!! whether at starmania-themed parties or at shows or concerts or even just grabbing a drink or exploring the far reaches of paris' public transit system. i love you all and getting to yap about starmania without feeling like i'm too annoying is always SO COOL.

live-commenting the paris olympics opening ceremony!! i know it's not *directly* starmania related but we made it about starmania. it was sooo funny and exciting!! now the entire world knows about thomas jolly!!!

starmaweek was awesome! even though i couldn't directly participate, i loooooved seeing what everyone made, it was amazing that we as a fandom could really get together and cheer each other on!!!

April Fools Day. i'm guessing most people here are already on the discord so you'll know what i'm talking about. i laughed SO MUCH all day it was crazy

One thing I find very interesting about the changes between different Starmania productions is how the opening song frames the setting and story, as well as the play itself.

In 79, the first song was Il se passe quelque chose à Monopolis, in which Roger-Roger introduces the city in utopian terms: “Cette ville qui semblait faite pour le bonheur des hommes”, “Cette ville modèle”, etc. It also describes some of its futuristic urban features (“Souterrains à l’air conditionné”/“Buildings de verre qui filtrent la lumière" /“Banlieues chauffées à l’énergie solaire”).

The song creates anticipation (even from a muscial perspective!) as it leads up to the first Communiqué and to Quand On Arrive En Ville, which frames the Zonards as the disruptive element (and coincidentally as villains). At this point in the story you have no reason not to believe what Roger-Roger says.

BUT THEN!!! In the 1988 production, they placed Monopolis BEFORE Il se passe quelque chose! Meaning that the capital is now introduced primarily through its negative features with a song about the monotony of the alienating metropolis (while the song only appeared late in the second act in 79)!

Beyond what changes this implies about Cristal's character, it also radically changes how the audience receives the rest of the story. In 88, Roger-Roger's claims in Il se passe quelque chose (sung right after Monopolis) are already discredited. The audience knows from the beginning that the media isn't a reliable narrator, while it's something you figure out a lot more progressively in the 79 album.

AND most importantly and what I think is the coolest about this change is how it represents a shift surrounding Starmania as a cultural object. The use of Monopolis throughout the 2022 production especially highlights how the show has become a topic of nostalgia for many people.

To me this is best exemplified by the change in lyrics about "l'an 2000" ("Dans les villes de l'an deux-mille, la vie sera/était bien plus facile"), which used to be an anxiety-inducing future (almost a deadline?) and is now an idealized past (almost a missed mark!). Having Monopolis open the show gives the audience a double shot of nostalgia, both about like, whatever memories they have associated with the song outside of the musical AND about a time when year 2000 was still the future. And the hologram of France Gall singing Monopolis in her 79 outfit crystallizes (haha) these two layers of reception!

Overall, I'd say that replacing Il Se Passe Quelque Chose with Monopolis as the opening song shifts the tone of the play. In 1979, Starmania was anticipation; today it's also... nostalgia for how the 70s imagined the future ?

In your own space, share something you are proud to have contributed to Starmania fandom :)

Mmm je pense avec réussi à écrire des fics, de plus de 1k, et d'avoir même réussi à écrire un deuxième chapitre pour l'une d'entre elle ! J'ai énormément de mal à mettre de l'ordre dans mes idées, bien mettre en forme, faire passer ce que je veux dire, et dans le cadre de la fiction, rajouter des éléments qui apportent une ambiance, des petits détails qui paraissent superflus mais habillent l'histoire. Alors quand on me dit que ça paraît vivant, réel, ça me fait extrêmement plaisir !

Et aussi, de contribuer à la propagande sadiajohnny, car depuis le départ se sont mes prefs, je les aime tellement, donc d'être le fournisseur officiel de ce ship me fait extrêmement plaisir

Set some fandom-related goals

Continuer à expérimenter avec mes fanarts, et accepter de ne pas toujours faire des dessins parfaits, c'est ok de faire des petits projets ou des choses pas finies !

Écrire d'autres fanfics, terminer des wip : la dernière update date de juin 2025 ! J'ai eu beaucoup de problèmes persos qui ont eu de gros impacts sur ma vie, mais j'aimerais réussir à écrire de nouveau car ça me manque

J'aimerais faire des edits, j'en ai fait quelques uns, mais malheureusement, le manque de contenu officiel (cough cough) est un frein dans la création, donc en autre solution...

Essayer de faire des animatics ! Principalement sur deux chansons, j'ai les idées en tête, mais c'est l'exécution qui est difficile à mettre en place. Mais c'est un challenge à essayer ! Et au pire, si c'est pas parfait, j'aurais tenté ! (cf premier point)

It's never too laaaaaate...

This year, I am hoping to:

Finish two WIPs: Johnny/Cristal Pirates AU with Massmedia, and "5 times Johnny kissed Cristal," which are both OLD AS BALLS at this point

Write some sequels: the Stella/maid(/Gourou) side of the Knight!Cristal story, and a continuation of the Cristal/Johnny/Sadia Space AU

At some point Massmedia and I sketched out ideas for Part 4 of the Cargo!verse AU, where Johnny and Cristal would meet up with Sadia again, years later, and I'd love to revisit it

Finally get over my stagefright and get started on a timeloop story...

Participate in @starmaweek again!! It's gonna happen, right?? It was such a great time getting to see so many new works, and I want to see if I can repeat last year's miracle!!!

for this week's @stmsnowflakechallenge !!

I've been having a Weird Time lately about my relationship to fandom in general so... figure that out, probably???

I need to write more!! It has come to my attention that I'm not going to improve if I don't practice... I need to find a way to write without getting so self-conscious that I stop after like 500 words, never to open the document again. Which is paradoxical because I know that like 5 people max are going to read my fics if I post them! (Which weirdly doesn't help motivation-wise) But I also know that if I got into another, larger fandom I probably wouldn't write at all?(cf. my first point)

In the same line of thought, I love fluff and fix-it and stories where the characters have a good time and I would love to write some, but I'm always scared of it being ooc since our canon is so sad and angsty! So my goal is to figure out how to do this and then I'll be unstoppable

I have a tango WIP that I should probably finish (if it's salvageable) and I also have a couple ideas for trio fics (AU and post-canon) that I need to work on.

The same goes for art. I didn't consider myself an artist at all before I got into starmania, and I feel like I improved a lot because of it, but I still have a long way to go! I'd love to develop a simpler, more cartoonesque style that allows me to make quick, funny doodles to put the characters in silly situations (or just to make them smooch)?

I want to get into linocut and to make Starmania themed prints ! That way I could make you guys t-shirts and post cards and tote bags 😭

I need to post my participation for the other prompts of the stm snowflake challenge before tomorrow...... but who knows if I'll be able to???

Also look at you cleverly using the challenge to fulfill the challenge.

See you next year 🌟

Challenge 1, week 4

Share something you are proud of having contributed to the Starmania fandom

ooh i dont really knoww 😔 maybe my animatics ?? I think i've made three or four but haven't posted one here (i should probably remake the older ones too)

Or this post, which is one of my first posts and was a hit in this fandom, me from 2024 was so real for this

also created a confessions blog (@starmaconfessing) and helped manage the starmaweek blog a bit :)))

Challenge 2, week 4

Set some goals for the year

More animatics/remake old ones

Redraw art in general

More fic ! Specifically : the egg sadia one i've been working on, more chapters of my MJ/Stella multichap only i care about, some stuff about Cristal headcanons, Trio de la jalousie things, mythology AU (i probably wont finish all that anytime soon)

More shitposts

Post about headcanons

Challenge 5 : Share something about your favourite theme/trope/motif in Starmania canon or fanworks.

It may be a bit off-topic but I've already talked about the ET so I will be talking about the 2022 costumes.

I think it's the first version to fully commit to a style or theme for each character (79 did it a little I guess?) I love how (almost) each character can be recognized by the same outfit used in different ways :

Obviously Cristal : All her outfits have the same cut and huge shoulder pads, yet they reflect how she evolves. She goes from a golden star (twice) to the same top mixed with the Etoiles Noire's uniform and ends with a fully black outfit matching Johnny's.

After she joins Zero, Stella wears the same long dress in black then white.

Zero has one suit in both black and white too (notice how Stella and him never wear the same color at the same time)

Ziggy has a tank top and boots I guess lol

Last but not least : Sadia's iconic silver Ce soir on danse dress, which actually hides the same patterns as her normal one ?! Part of the pattern is the same as Cristal's Monopolis dress ??? She ate and left no crumbs

I'm a big fan of how cohesive this is. It feels a bit like cartoon characters reusing outifs and I find that fitting. It's also easy to see from far.

Something I'm proud to have contributed:

"The story of Starmania as told through the Onion headlines" Act 1 & Act 2 might be the thing I've made that I'm proudest of! I think some of them fit SO PERFECTLY and they make me laugh every time I see them again!

In fact, a lot of my text posts I really like! You know what, I'm gonna queue a few that I particularly enjoy so they come up again in the next few weeks :D

But also, I came up with the headcanon of Johnny washing with dish soap at the Underground Café and I feel like it's made its way around, which makes me happy too :D

2. Goals:

Make more text posts! (I have a big word document full of things I want to use, but finding images that I haven't already used 100x is hard!)

I want to go through the cast's insta profiles and save a lot of things they posted that I didn't prioritize at the time, thinking "oh it's on their profile, everyone can see it/it'll stay." However it is clear that some of them are deleting things, so they are getting lost, and that's a tragedy!

And if I can get painfully sincere for a second here... Above all else, my main goal is to still be active here this time next year 🥲 As of now there are still 350+ posts in the queue, but at the rate it is posting, it'll last 3.5 months. I still have a bunch of saved media to queue up, enough for a few more months after that, and former cast members are going into new projects which helps dilute the queue and draw it out... But I think we all know that we have entered a Long Starmania Winter. Meanwhile, new, lower-effort/higher-reward interests are popping up, as they will in fandom, and time and energy are finite! So, really, mostly, I just want to still be making and posting new things and being here with all of you, all through the year, so I get to set the same exact goal again next year again.

1.MEMORIIIIIEESSS

(Before doing week 3 leettts do week 2-)

I actually have 3 memories to share HERE WE GO-

(Sorry if what I wrote doesn't make much sense or if there are any typos, I'm very tired right now-)

My parents are good friends with our ex-neighbours, so when we're around they often invite us over.So.One time when we were at there appartement.I was a bit borred and started intensely looking around WHEN !!!!!! WHAT DID MY EYES LAID UPON !!!!! V I N Y L E S 0-0 Of cours I rushed toward them and started to look at what they had.GUESS WHAT.STARMANIA 79.I imediatly showed it to my mom ("OHMYGODSTARMANIAAAAAAAAAAAAAA")and one of my ex-neighbour was like "We don't have a vinyle player anymore, so if you want it you can have it :]".Of course at first I tried to refuse, because they invited us over, made us super good food and I wasn't going to be like "Okay I'm taking this with me bye :D".But they genuinly wanted me to take it, so what did I do ???

(suspense suspense)

I BECAME THE EXTREMLY HAPPY OWNER OF A STARMANIA 79 VINYYYYLE YAAAAYYYY (This got me surexited for hours-)

HERE IT IS (so beautiful :,])

Its not even scratch or anything (well, the vinyls do sometimes malfunction (I don't have the right word, ils sautent quoi-), including on Travesti :,[

BUT NOW I CAN LISTEN TO L'AIR DE L'EXTRATERESTRE IN SOMEWHERE ELSE THAN YOUTUBE AND THATS EXTREMELY GREAT :D

n°2

When we got back home (just after that), our evening ended with me, my mom and my aunt (turns out she was a Starmania fan when she was younger ??????!!!) SCREAMING our lungs out to Starmania songs.We were at my grandparent's house.Some of the people present here were already asleep (I'm a bit sorry for them ;-;).IT WAS INCREDIBLE.

n°3

Challenge 7 : Share something you are proud to have contributed to Starmania fandom :)

This surprisingly won't be about fanart, or memes (and I've done a few of them!)

Today I'll brag a bit about the 2022 tierlists I made. We couldn't work properly as a fandom without one ; and it's the best way for everyone to give their opinions (do we judge? always)

I created one for the characters and one for the songs. I'm especially proud of the latter and am always happy to see people use them, seriously or for funsies.

Here's an example of what you can make!!!!

Finding pics that were both clear about the scenes and practical to add text was a long task so thanks to those who helped with that part <3

Challenge 3: Share something about a favourite Starmania-related memory

This fandom has had its (incredible) moments, however I will be getting a little personal this tome. Many people already know the memory I will share but I've never talked about it on [tumblr] so here we go: The last time I saw the show in November 2024.

I had bought my ticket more than one year in advance and was so worried about not being able to come, especially since the show's end had been announced at this point. I went anyway and wish to never forget that afternoon!!

My thought are a mess so :

It was my first time meeting other Starmania fans I had talked to online. It was so pleasant to chat IRL about the show even if it was short. It really felt like belonging to a group, it's so different from online conversations. Everyone was so nice too.

I was sooo glad I had the opportunity to see new (to me) singers <3

Switching seats mid-show to go from the back to the first rows elevated the experience so much. It try so hard not to forget what eveything looked like but noticing details, seeing the scene and the singers so close was fantastic. Completely changes the way you live the show.

Going in front of the scene for the encore: MINDBLOWING. Huge thanks to the person who let me in front of them so I was closer. Sadia touched my hand!!! I filmed but my hand went down at that very moment lol. Hearing people sing and the huge amount of applause every time Marie-Jeanne appears. My heart.

I had drawn and printed stickers to gift the cast (think I've never posted them here?). I am still so grateful that two of the singers went to the merch booth after the show and I like to believe it was because I asked beforehand😭They were so nice even if I took my time taking pics and showing my sketchbook, which they signed.

This list is getting impossible to read sorry

Overall it felt so good to have people recognize my little drawings. I was going through tough times but at that moment it felt like I belonged somewhere and there were people enjoying what I created. I may be overthinking but it was so heartwarming to get messages and a video, to see that a few of them still have a sticker on their phone case.

or something idk i forgot the exact thing

Hard to find a fave as usual ! But ☝️ i like how everyone decided trio de la jalousie was poly now

So i will do the second challenge of the third week : Make a rec list of fanworks

So here is a list of some AU fanfiction you should read (and of course, give some love to the authors if you do)

-Vers d'autres galaxies by @capitaletele / TeleCapitale : Space AU 🌌

-Est-ce la fin du monde ou le commencement ? by @docwormie / gayicedtea : Timeloop AU 🔁

-I know I'm going to hell in a leather jacket by massmedia : Band AU 🎵

-The Alternative by @falimojk / falimojik : Band AU/fix it 🎵

-Sunlight Reflection by @plynyl / Plynyl : coffee shop AU/ Modern AU ☕

-On dirait qu'ils vivent dans une autre galaxie by @lovalovalova / Harmony : MJ and Ziggy roomates AU 🎉

If you read the fics pleaseeee comment, leave kudos or something