Snowflake Challenge 1 and 2

I always mean to do this, and then somehow work restarts and things go wrong and I forget that DW exists for another year. Let's see if I can manage more than one post in 2023...

• Transformative Works Policy: On my AO3 page: "If you want to translate, remix, make a podcast of, or otherwise adapt or play with anything I've written I would be delighted, please feel free to do so, let me know so that I can add a link."



• Current Passion I am still learning Mandarin, which is both a fannish and non-fannish hobby I guess. Fannish passions: at the minute I am still embarrassingly interested in KinnPorsche and I spend too much time seeing what the actors are up to, because they're all delightful and genuinely seem to be enjoying their success. Also still very into DMBJ, still invested in Guardian, and this year I added Tan Jianci and Yin Zheng to my list of Chinese actors I will watch in any show. Additionally this year I loved Beyond Evil so I'm sliding more towards Korean crime and corruption dramas.



• Where to Find Me: I'm on Tumblr (as achray1) but not terrifically active. The only place I'm consistently active is Discord and I find large servers impossible to keep up with, so I generally only interact with small groups or one on one. I will always respond if people say hello or ask me something and will be pleased about it, but I'm not great at social media overall, not because I wouldn't like to be, but because of lack of time.


I don't have a master list, I'm no good at such things! Other than some Tumblr and DW ficlets, everything I've written is on AO3.


Challenge #2

In your own space, write a promo, manifesto or primer for your fave character, ship or fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

It’s hard for me to deny that my current obsession is KinnPorsche and especially, as a character, Porsche. I was so taken aback to find myself feverishly writing fic about this show that I started out posting it anonymously (3 episodes in), which I’ve never done before. Last week I graduated to writing RPF, which I still might anonymize because what am I doing XD.

I started watching the show out of curiosity because I’d seen the chat around it, and I had no idea what to expect. I’ve tried a few BL shows and I don’t get on with them, because generally I am interested in fucked-up middle-aged characters, not in high school/college/young people in general. And then as ep 1 proceeded I had that sinking “oh no” feeling that precedes total fannish obsession with a property you never expected or wanted to like. The show just has a character dynamic I always fall for - I especially love chaotic, disastrous bi characters who are extremely good at whatever they do, but have zero sense of self-worth, and I also love the highly repressed men who love them – and I like how the characters are universally sketchily drawn yet with the kind of fucked-up backstories that are catnip for fic writers. In real life I know a great deal about Victorian-era melodrama and popular tropes of that period, and Porsche, an orphan fighting and fucking for money and to support his younger brother, could not be a more mid-Victorian character unless he also had consumption. I love the gulf of social/class status and morality between him and Kinn. I love his bravado and his desperation. I love how much he cares for others and how little he expects anyone to care for him. I also love the many brilliant ways in which fic writers have explored all of this.

All the actors sell their characters and the show with total conviction, but I can see that whether I want to or not I’ll end up following Apo and Mile through their next projects, because their dynamic is so great. And also they’re very, very pretty.

So that was the unexpected turn my fannish interests – and a lot of other people’s – took in 2023. Which goes to show you never know where you might end up, whether you want to or not.