The Writers

Signed up for smallfandomfest for two fandoms so far, namely Moonlight (Beth/Josef) and Bastard Son & Devil Himself (Annalise/Nathan/Gabriel). Now out of the two fandoms, I've most recently rewatched BS&DH like this summer (thus it's a little fresher in my head although I'm a little nervous writing for the fandom) and Moonlight I don't remember rewatching anytime recently but I knew I loved the pairing so I figured I'd try that. I was also interested in a few Alcatraz, Birds of Prey, Being Human (US), Charmed (2018), Ghost Whisperer, Nancy Drew (TV 2019), The Gates, Nine Lives of Chloe King, and Sense8 of course so if I finish up the two claims I might go into those if they are still available. I didn't think to post prompts for fest, so a few of those fandoms have less choices for me to pick from but at least a few have "writer's choice" for characters/pairings.

So I'm currently doing a rewatch of Moonlight in preparation of writing for the prompt which was "What if Beth never met Mick and asked for Josef to provide her protection?" Which if you're rewatching the series for the first time like since that premiered or bought the DVD (which I did), the series is not very helpful in that regard because I think Josef is in some sort of financial business stuff, not quite bodyguard/protection type stuff. And there's a lot less Josef than I remember. But maybe I'll get more inspired as the series goes on or I'm just gonna ignore canon all over the place. Also I really hate the slow motion scenes... And there is a lot of those. Not great. Honestly the rewatch is harder to like? Like the series is rooting for Mick/Beth I know, and I know I liked that pairing the first time around although I always loved Beth/Josef too (made a LJ community about them after all) but this rewatch? Meh. Although I do see moments I would love to icon, lol. I just finished episode 8 of 16 so we shall see. Also another reason why I picked Moonlight, mostly to get back into the fandom so I could finish my table for Beth/Josef (only 3 prompts left!) and I wanted to see it again so I could fandom pimp it on vampiremedia. I did end up uploading my Moonlight fics (along with a few other fandoms) to AO3 since last post (13 fandoms to go). 

I just finished a rewatch of The Gates as well, because I was in the mood for vampires & werewolves and I remembered loving the series so I figured I'd try it again, mostly so I could fandom pimp it on vampiremedia & werewolvesden which I will definitely do soon. I ended up shipping mostly the same things I did the first time around, but this time, I see all the queer-ness of the series. Granted, not canon gay but still holy shit I was oblivious to it the first time around. Now I know most people shipped Nick/Dylan and Brett/Lukas mainly 'cause the little fandom there is, it was filled with those pairings but yeah now I see them & ship them along with Nick/Dylan/Claire, Nick/Dylan/Claire/Sarah, Claire/Karen, Brett/Lexie/Lukas, Charlie/Brett, Brett/Charlie/Lexie (pairings I also like & originally liked was Dylan/Claire, Nick/Claire, Nick/Leigh, Brett/Lexie, Lukas/Lexie, Charlie/Lexie). If only we got another season, I'd love to have seen more scenes between everyone. I found only a few things dragged for me, and I wish we got less of certain characters & more of others but that's basically the same of any show or film I watch. Anyway I don't have a lot icons for this show so I just reuploaded the Claire icon I saved (see post's icon). 

Also SUPER funny to realize that Frank Grillo (actor behind Nick) eventually ended up portraying a werewolf in Werewolves (2024), although granted that was not a great movie to watch. I was oddly bored through most of it (the movie that is, not The Gates). Anyway also fun fact that he appeared both in the MCU and DCEU. Also Colton Haynes (actor behind Brett) would become a werewolf again on Teen Wolf and joined Arrow as Roy Harper. Janina Gavankar (actress behind Leigh) would go on to portray a shapeshifter on True Blood and a witch on TVD and also appeared in Arrow.  Paul Blackthorne (actor behind Christian) went on to join Colton & Janina in the Arrowverse, but so far I don't think any other type of supernatural creature. Funny enough Rhona Mitra (actress behind Claire) portrayed a vampire in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (I really need to watch that again) and also appeared in Supergirl. Skylar Samuels (actress behind Andie) portrays a cat type-shifter in Nine Lives of Chloe King and she went on to portray the Stepford Cuckoos in The Gifted and the most entertaining news I've learned going on wikipedia to check out the cast, was finding out that Skylar ended up marrying Lucas Till (aka Havok in the X-Men films). So now all I want is Havok/Esme or Sophie or Phoebe. I was going to go through the rest of the cast to check if they ended up portraying another supernatural creature or ended up in the Marvel or DC worlds, but meh, I think I got lucky with that last bit of information and I think I'm good.

Anyway my other fandom/prompt is for The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself (Annalise/Nathan/Gabriel, Hold Each Other by A Great Big World).... I love the characters and ship so much, and I've literally lost count how many times I've rewatched the series so I know I can write them but I can't help feel kinda intimated? There is just a lot of good fanfiction for them, plus I just wish we got just a little bit more canon for the show, I need more. I'm going to try and work on that this week and hope for the best. Plus I need to listen to the song a bit more.

In other news, I did two icon colors (so far) for lgbtrainbow both of SkyMed characters. If I get any more done for the challenge, I'm going to probably use SkyMed as the fandom because I need more of it out there. The fandom is tiny, but I did find out that there will be a Season 4 which I'm completely happy to find out! Season 3's finale was kinda a great ending to the series, so I was afraid there wasn't going to be more. And wickedgame got me Episode 1 screenshots so that's excellent news for iconing and I managed to save a bunch of caps from Paramount+ website. Seriously I love this show, I've rewatched it at least once every few months since I stumbled upon it last year (? Season 1 and Season 2 was definitely out by the time I saw it but I don't remember the exact time I found it, maybe sometime after Season 2 was released?). Hayley/Wheezer is my OTP but so is Lexi/Stef and Milosz/Tristan. 

I also participated in challenge 30 of screen_icons - which were all fairly simple, but I love them. I was going to do all different fandoms but I just loved those two Ghosts (US) pictures. Participated in Round 61 of fandom10in30 along with the vampiremedia's 20in20 challenge (combined old fandom loves and new ones).

Muse-Insanity.org/Icons has been updated a bit more. I finished renaming all my old icons (minus the crossover ones) so I'm currently working on making the fandom pages for each, I think I have most if not all the icons already uploaded to the site so I just need to write up the individual fandom pages really. My problem is I keep making more (or I also get distracted by something else), so it slows me down, lol. 

I also need to make a list on what to tackle on the fandomtrees this weekend, or at least by next weekend. Also signed up for the Sapphic Stocking Stuffers, my thread is HERE.

Added "Writing Prompts" posts to basically all my communities:
angelrogue, bethjosef, brucebarbara, brucekara, gargoyles_fic, karaflash, karaoliver, legion_fic, scottandemma, scottandkitty, scottandrogue, superville, nciscrossovers, xmen_heroes, zatanna_dc 

New header here at my journal (featuring Madelyne Pryor) and over at svpromptstables.