snowflake challenge #3

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Challenge #3:
Create a wish list of fandom things (podfic, graphics, playlists, canon recs translations, research help, vids, sky's the limit!) that you'd like to receive.

Forever hoping for the machine that will take the ideas out of my head and turn them into the fics I've been imagining. :D

Fandom Wishes:

Online resources: Where do people go when they're trying to find out more information about a new city/state/country? Or even careers that you don't know anything about.

Music recs: I like pop and alternative

Book recs: I love historical mysteries (and contemporary that has minimal explicit violence), modern and classic/historical romance, and I'd love to get into "lighter" scifi

Someone to brainstorm/talk about fic and fic ideas with

Fics, fic recs, fanart/icons, fanvids, and/or fanvid recs for my favorite ships:
Gilmore Girls: Rory/Jess, Rory/Paris, Luke/Lorelai, Lane/Dave
MCU: Bucky/Natasha, Bucky/Sam, Natasha/Pepper, Natasha/Sam, Nebula/Rhodey, Peggy/Steve, Sam/T'Challa, Sam/Erik Killmonger, Steve/Tony
Smallville: Clark/Lois, Clark/Oliver, Clark/Lois/Oliver, Lois/Tess, Lois/Lana, Lana/Tess
Suits: Mike/Harvey, Donna/Rachel
Ted Lasso: Keeley/Roy, Keeley/Roy/Jamie, Sam/Jamie, Ted/Rebecca
stock icons (or links to posts with these things): books, coffee, sunsets/sunrises, seasonal (fall, winter, spring, summer), desserts, ocean, lighthouses, writing

Comments

Re: Thoughts

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Oh, that's a good idea. I know there is a lot of information out there for visiting places, which I have definitely looked up when I have my characters go on vacation, but I was curious on how not to fall into stereotypes or sound like too much of a tourist when I have a character live in a place I've never even visited.

Thank you for the suggestions.

Re: Thoughts

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>> I know there is a lot of information out there for visiting places, which I have definitely looked up when I have my characters go on vacation, but I was curious on how not to fall into stereotypes or sound like too much of a tourist when I have a character live in a place I've never even visited.<<

This depends entirely on your characters. How do they approach a trip?

* Get in the car, start driving, and pull into a gas station 10 minutes later because they forgot to pack snacks. Arrive at destination and rent a fleabag motel room because they didn't make reservations. Drive around the next morning with no plan looking for whatever catches their interest. To duplicate this, get on Yelp or another rec site, type the category (i.e. "restaurant") and the city, then scroll down and pick a random one (or roll dice and count).

* Make reservations. Pack car and drive toward destination. Stop at first rest stop in state, pick up armload of flyers, spend rest of drive arguing about which attraction to visit. They will get major and some medium attractions.

* Drive to destination, visit tourist office, collect flyers there or ask for advice. This will net smaller local attractions as well as big ones.

* Pull into hotel and ask for advice on where to go. This will get a handful of flyers and a resident's favorite places. A good hotel always has flyers for tasty nearby restaurants. Not bad ones, because that risks "tuck a lousy pizza into the bed" type protests.

* Meticulously research routes, hotels, restaurants, and attractions. Plug restaurants and attractions into a database and generate a list averaging everyone's highest priorities. Carry list with you in case anything is closed and you need a Plan B. Our secretary friend did that for us once and it was one of the best trips I've ever been on. Restaurant closed? Get the next address on the list and go. <3 To make this list, we each picked our favorite topics and searched "Best X in Louisville Kentucky." Plus restaurants.

* Look at Famous Attractions, wrinkle nose, hunt down something like "Off the Beaten Path" and pick from that instead. This was what we did for a couple of long trips out West, except for hitting a few bucket-list stops like Yellowstone. We went on cave tours where, if it was all spelunkers, the tour guide would say, "You wanna sit in the dark for half an hour instead of half a minute? Sure, we can do that." -- while 2 college professors, several spelunkers, a couple of hippies, and several geekspawn all fansquee over all things Cave. To duplicate this, search the city/state name plus variations on "hidden treasure," "hole in the wall," "local restaurant," and any other description you can think of to turn up things that aren't widely advertised. Do you know anyone from there? Ask them. I can tell you my favorite African grocery store in a nearby town.

>>Thank you for the suggestions.<<

*bow, flourish* Happy to be of service.