snowflake challenge #5

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Challenge #5:

In your own space, talk about an idea you wish you had the time / talent / energy to do. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I would love to learn to make fanvids and gifs, because then I could do so for some of my favorite rare ships, but I don't think I have the patience. I always have so many ideas for songs that would work for certain couples yet I can't summon up the willpower.

For fics, I always have so many ideas bouncing around in my head and just not enough time for all of them. The main ones:

Clark/Lois fake dating fic set in s5- this is the one that has been in my head for the longest, but I can't decide how to rework certain aspects of canon so it stays in my head.

A Clark/Oliver fic that has Clark kidnapped by an evil version of Oliver and then when he is saved, he has some attachment issues that Oliver tries to help him get over (and is pining). I think the problem here is it would be slightly darker than anything I've written and I don't know if I could pull it off.

Sam/Bucky IW/Endgame AU where they survive the snap and Steve (and someone I haven't thought of yet) don't. I was going to do this for a Big Bang story I signed up for last year, but couldn't put it together, because I didn't know how I would work out the time travel situation.

DCEU/Aquaman/WW fic where Atlanna ends up in Themyscira instead. The problem is that I don't have a solid plot or where to go. I just think it would be neat lol

I've definitely stated making note of my plot bunnies as to not forget, but we'll see if I ever get around to doing any.

Comments

[ultra_fic]

I have an ideas folder on my computer for fanfiction. Every document is a different fic idea, some just a sentence or two, some a whole lot of notes, some even a half or whole first chapter but little else. Currently, there are 35 documents. There are not enough hours in the day, and there are certainly not enough hours/days when I have the motivation to work on all these things, but the ideas? Never short of those!

[lambourngb]

I desperately want to learn how to gif, but yeah, I don't know if I have the patience. Solidarity!

[bradygirl_12]

My notebooks are filled with notes/story ideas. Some sit there for years before I work 'em out, but I'm in no hurry. :)

[brokenhighways]

If I can't figure out a way to rework the canon, I just pivot off a certain point. You could try that for the Clark/Lois fic (and it's not like the show didn't just jump all over its own canon half the time, lol)

[tellshannon815]

I'm now trying to think back to season 10 of Smallville and wondering what the late Oliver Queen from Clark Luthor's universe had been like, the only thing I really remember is that Jonathan Kent had no opinion of him although he wasn't necessarily evil. It's a couple of years now since I went back and watched those episodes (and even then, it was for a fic where Earth 2 Jonathan Kent got accidentally pulled into Earth 1, so Oliver Queen wasn't strictly necessary to the plot and I didn't give it much thought then) - but I might be tempted to use that Oliver as a starting point if I was doing that fic. Love the idea!

[senmut]

That Aquaman/WW sounds AWESOME.

[tsuki_no_bara]

sam and bucky surviving the snap while steve doesn't is intriguing!

>>because I didn't know how I would work out the time travel situation<<

honestly, i don't think the russos really knew what they were doing with the time travel either, so you could probably get away with anything.

[peaked]

Clark/Lois fake dating fic set in s5- this is the one that has been in my head for the longest, but I can't decide how to rework certain aspects of canon so it stays in my head.
GIVE MEEEEEEEEEEE. This is my favourite season and it had so many great Clois moments. (The Red Kryptonite episode lives RENT FREE in my head.) THIS'D BE EPIC. 🥺🥺🥺🥺

re: your dark idea—I felt (and feel, I won't even lie) this way wrt writing darker fic. I was so in my head about it that I just stopped myself from exploring those aspects of character and canon for the longest time. But then I figured out why I was stopping myself and started to push through that, and I've written some stuff that I feel is dark (and hope to go a little darker).

What makes you think you can't pull it off? I'm sure you can! It's definitely scary to write something out of your comfort zone and it might feel like you're trying to walk on ice in socks, but I think if you let yourself do it, be rough and messy and imperfect, you'll get the imperfection out of your system and be able to fine-tune it to what you want.