Iron Fist exchange and general fandom stuff

[sholio]

There's a small Iron Fist exchange running this week, and I could not be more thoroughly delighted with my gift, the color purple, a teamy genfic about board games and banter and friendship that is EXACTLY what I was hoping for from my prompt about characters hanging out and doing friendship-type things. ♥

Another thing from the exchange I really loved was this Luke/Danny high school AU fanart (includes the supporting cast from both shows and Defenders), which is ADORABLE and full of delightful details. I love how readily recognizable all the characters are and how their personalities/styles are translated to their high school selves. I also look forward to finding time to read as long as we're together (does it matter where we go?), a long between-seasons Danny/Colleen fic that looks really good.

I wrote Sunflower, a Defenders fic for my recip's prompt about Danny collapsing after healing someone and needing to be looked after. Like most of my Defenders fic, it includes a lot of grouchy-concerned Jessica because she's far too much fun to write.

--

Signups are running 'til April 13 for Marvel Femslash Exchange. I am still in dither mode on signing up for this; in the interests of not completely overloading myself, I was thinking I'd leave it up to how far along I'd made it by that point on my other exchange assignments, and, uh. I still have a LOT of unfinished (*cough* unstarted) assignments. Still, I'll see how things are progressing before signups close.

Not Prime Time (medium sized fandoms exchange) is taking tag nominations 'til the 15th: Tagset | Nominations instructions | Eligibility instructions. Most of my current/recent active fandoms are eligible (Agent Carter, Iron Fist, Punisher, Defenders, Stranger Things, White Collar, Umbrella Academy, etc). I'm optimistically hoping that by the time signups open for this one, I will have made more progress on the other stuff I'm currently signed up for, because I would like to get in on this one!

It's particularly interesting seeing NPT come around, because back in the day, I used to be really excited about this one - it was the only non-Yuletide multifandom exchange that I knew about, and often the only chance at ALL to get an exchange fic for non-Yuletide-eligible fandoms that weren't big enough to have their own exchanges. There are just so many more exchanges now, it's interesting to look back on how excited I used to get about NPT when it was the only one of its type.

ETA: Oh, and Gen Prompt Bingo is running again! Because I totally need another source of prompts. AAAAAAAA someone stop me.

Comments

[sheron]

Hmm, technically Marvel 616 would fit into NPT, even though MCU is megafandom. Interesting :)

[sholio]

Yeah, NPT is really generous with fandom sizes - their minimum is lower than Yuletide, so a lot of fandoms fit in both, and the "megafandom" cutoff is also set really high; it does genuinely have to be a megafandom to get bounced!

I used to really look forward to this one because I could ask for fandoms like White Collar and Highlander and various other non-Yuletide-eligible stuff. It feels less special now that there are so many exchanges, but I think nearly all of the fandoms I'm most into right now are eligible, soooo .... *nominates* XD

[chelseagirl]

Why didn't we get so much more Defenders? Dammit. Loved the story!

[sholio]

Thank you! :)

I'm still so heartbroken about those stupid cancellations, dammit, Netflix. It was such a complex and interesting world they'd created. I love all the cross-connections between the various shows and the way that it felt like an entire world in the same way the MCU movies do. I've been trying to console myself by reminding myself that if you add up all the shows, you get as many episodes as a 6-7 season run of a network TV show with normal-American-TV-sized seasons, which is A LOT. But it's still so frustrating and heartbreaking that they clearly had a lot more story to tell with ALL of the shows and now they'll never get to.

[chelseagirl]

It's just so maddening that it wasn't because of low ratings or any other reason except business. It used to be that I feared my favorite shows would be cancelled if not enough people watched them. Now, even being a minor -- or major -- hit isn't enough.

[kore]

Yeah, Daredevil at least got to a pretty good resting place, but Luke Cage really didn't, and I'm just hoping Jessica gets a good finale. (If we ever GET JJ S3, jeez.)

[kore]

Everyone seemed to loathe Defenders except a couple people on my flist, but I just loved it. I wound up rewatching it twice as basically comfort viewing.

[chelseagirl]

Really? I spoke to different people, then. Certainly I might not have made those story choices, but the four main characters together? Amazing. (Plus all the others.)

[kore]

LOL maybe it was mainly reddit and the critics, I don't remember. It might've suffered from coming out less than six months after Iron Fist S1, because that really took a pounding.

[kore]

I've been hearing about Marvel Femslash, but after that post by snickfic now I am SUPER tempted to sign up for Gamora/Nebula.