#fwff

[unfortunate-arrow]

My FFWF is about Georgie. Here’s why: A Georgie Parsons born in your Georgie Parsons lifetime is my long-deceased ancestor. (Imagine my giggles when I see your Georgie in diamonds and pearls) He was married to a woman who firmly believed in witchcraft, folklore, and superstition.

If your Georgie and my Georgie met, how would their interaction go?

Oh, that’s wild.

I imagine that their interaction would be interesting, as they seem to be quite different people. But I think they might get along, although my girl definitely leans more to the logical side. She’d find it quite interesting that they have the same nickname and surname, especially considering that she’s named after her paternal grandfather, George Parsons.

[texasflycaster]

Fort Worth Fly Fishers Fundraiser

FROM PRESS RELEASE We’re a week away from the Fort Worth Fly Fishers Annual Dinner and Auction.  Folks, this is our ONLY fundraising event, and the money we raise helps keep our club operating. It starts at 6:00 p.m. at the Elks Club Fort Worth. The money we raise goes to paying for outstanding speakers in our sport who we invite from all over the U.S. It pays for support of worthy…

[endlessly-cursed]

Happy FWFF! How/when did Adonis realize that he was in love with Minerva?

It was during a gathering in the Great Hall in their sixth year. They were talking and he suddenly heard Minerva's laugh. Something inside clicked, and a voice inside told him "That's Minnie. Your Minnie. And you love her." He couldn't get her out of his head ever again

[funwithfanon]

FAQs

DEFINITIONS & CLARIFICATIONS

What is fanon? “Fanon” is a portmanteau of “fan canon.” It’s the phenomena of a headcanon becoming so popular and widespread that it feels ubiquitous across a fandom, or even gets mistaken for canon! People have mixed feelings about fanon, but here at FwFF we believe there’s something wonderful about this kind of informal community storytelling and worldbuilding.

When does this event happen? Fun with Fanon Fest is a 2-day weekend-long quarterly event. Day 1, a Saturday, will focus on your favorite fanons and creations around those wonderful ideas. Day 2, a Sunday, will focus on inverting common fandom tropes and taking a different angle on popular ideas. This event runs four times a year, about once every three months. The next event will run March 25-26.

Is this for fandoms other than Tolkien’s Legendarium? This event focuses on the Tolkien fandom, as that is the mod/creator’s main fandom, but if you’d like to run your own Fun with Fanon Fest for another fandom, feel free to do so as long as you credit us for the idea! And let us know, so we can link you as a sister event!

I hate the fanon that ____! That’s okay! Fanon isn’t for everyone, and even fanon lovers have things they hate have gotten so popular. This event isn’t just about making more content around fanon ideas, it’s also for challenging those ideas. That’s what Day 2 is all about: Fanon Inversion!

However, we do ask you to be respectful of other people’s headcanons, no matter how popular they are. Don’t submit anything that is just trashing on fanon; instead, create something that fits your preferred version of events!

In summary: This is not a place to complain about fanon you don’t like. It is a place to offer your own take on fanon you disagree with! Write your own version, make your own story—don’t hate, create!

What’s Fanon Inversion? Day 2’s theme is Fanon Inversion, which means we encourage you to invert a commonly accepted fanon idea. You can do this with fanon you dislike, and offer an alternative instead; or you can do it for fanon you do like, to explore a different possibility! For example, you can take the fanon concept of “Maglor is Lindir” and instead write about how Maglor isn’t Lindir, and what the meeting of those two musicians would be like, since they’re separate people.

Are there kinds of fanon that are not acceptable for this event? Yes. To promote a peaceful and respectful environment, we will not be focusing on fanons that judge the morality of a character or the canonicity of a ship.

For example, some unacceptable fanons would be:

“evil Maeglin”

“Maedhros x Fingon”

Instead, we ask that you reframe those concepts in an in-universe context. Acceptable alternatives could be:

“Maeglin felt outcast in Gondolin”

“Everyone thinks Maedhros and Fingon are dating”

This way, it’s not about Maeglin being good or evil, but rather how he feels he is perceived in-universe. It’s an interrogation of his experiences, not a judgement on his character, but it still leaves the same sort of questions open for exploration. In the same vein, we’re not arguing if Russingon is canon or not, but rather how characters feel and perceive their relationship in-universe.

Both of these alternatives give plenty of room for interpretation and nuance. Did Maeglin feel outcast; was he viewed as Different; was he popular; was he he shy? Were Maedhros and Fingon actually in a relationship; how did they feel about people believing this, true or not; were they trying to hide a secret relationship; were they actually very obvious about their affections and still not noticed? These are all questions that don’t necessarily make a judgement call on characters or ships.

Sexuality and gender headcanons are also ineligible for this event. These are often deeply personal headcanons, and it’s no one’s place to declare them invalid. So no “gay Boromir” or “trans Bilbo” as fanon topics.

The only exception to this rule is regarding dwarf gender, which is in a bit of canon grey area. So feel free to explore fanons like “Female Narvi” or “some dwarves in Thorin’s company were women.” Basically, if it’s judging the validity of a queer identity, it’s not allowed.

If you have questions about whether your fanon concept is eligible, don’t hesitate to ask! I promise I don’t bite :)

Is ___ fanon? Fanon is fundamentally a subset of headcanon, so if it’s a canon detail, it doesn’t count as fanon, even if you have a counter-canonical headcanon.

However, if canon is confusing or unsettled (as it often is in this fandom!) but there is a prevailing fandom interpretation, your concept does count, even if there is a version of canon that supports it. 

Also not allowed are straight up Alternate Universes.

So, the following are not fanon:

“Boromir lives” (AU)

“Eöl didn’t actually kill Aredhel” (counter-canonical)

“Bilbo stole the Arkenstone” (canon)

But the following would qualify for this event, even if they’re not strictly “just” fanon, because they’re not really canon either:

“Gil-galad son of Finrod”

“Míriel survived until Fëanor’s adulthood”

Both of these concepts are canon to at least one draft, but are not popularly accepted as canon in the fandom.

However, we also have more typical fanons that are concepts without canon support one way or another, or that build off canon but aren’t necessarily confirmed.

“Lightly Toasted Amrod”

“Celebrimbor and Narvi were best friends”

These would qualify as fanon.

If you’re still not sure if your idea counts as fanon, it’s up to your judgement! But if you’d like, we can give you our opinion :)

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SUBMISSIONS & ORGANIZATION

What kind of submissions are accepted? Any format of submission is welcome! You can write fic, create art or graphics, make headcanon posts*, share playlists, make crafts, or whatever else you can dream of!

*Headcanon posts are absolutely welcome, but we do ask that you make sure your submission has substance beyond simply stating your headcanon. For example: “Celegorm is a redhead” is not substantial, but “Redheaded Celegorm who blends in with the Ambarussar so much people think he’s their triplet” absolutely is! You don’t have to write an essay, or even more than a sentence, but please give at least a little elaboration.

How do I submit my creation? You can submit your work directly to this blog or make an original post on your own blog with #funwithfanon in the first 20 tags (minus the hashtag). You can also @mention this blog or send the mod a DM with a link to your submission.

In your submission, please give a BRIEF (>1 sentence) summary of the fanon you’re having fun with! This will help us organize the blog :)

Examples:

“Maglor and Lindir are the same person” → “Maglor = Lindir”

“Celebrimbor’s father-name is also Curufinwë” → “Curufinwë III Tyelperinquar”

“Maeglin felt like an outcast in Gondolin” → “Outcast Maeglin”

If you really can’t sum it up in a few words, that’s okay, but let’s try to keep the character count down :)

Can I focus my fanwork on OCs? Absolutely! We are OC-friendly?

Do I have to participate every day? Nope! You can participate as many times as you want to, whether that means submitting one creation or 20 or just consuming other people’s content. We are happy to have you here no matter how involved you want to be!

What if I don’t like the prompts? Then don’t use them! The prompts are there to inspire you, not to restrict your creativity. We accept all kinds of content, related to the prompts or not.

Can I contribute an in-progress work? Yes! You can contribute whatever kind of fanwork you want, even if it’s not finished. We want to inspire you to celebrate fanon, and if that means you continue on with it after the event is over, that’s great! Additionally, if your work is already in-progress and you want to update it or promo it during the week, that is also encouraged, so other people can find and consume your content!

What if I don’t finish my fanwork in time for the event? Feel free to post what you have and tag us anyway - we accept in-progress works! Alternatively, tag the blog whenever you are finished and ready to post it - we will be happy to promote it even outside the event. Or, just wait a few months for the next event!

Why haven’t you reblogged my post? Posts are queued as the mod encounters them! Your post should be reblogged within 24 hours or so. If you see a like on your post from the mod @arofili, your post is in the blog’s queue! If it’s been 24 hours and you don’t see a like and your post hasn’t been reblogged, we may have missed it - feel free to send it to us or ask us if we’ve seen it! We want to boost your content, but tumblr’s tagging and @ing mechanisms can be faulty.

What do the numbers in the tags mean? This is our tagging system to keep track of which event your submission is part of. It follows the pattern of [year].[quarter]. So a post tagged 23.1 was submitted for the first event of 2023!

Is there an AO3 collection for the event? Yes! You can find it here.

Are there any other rules? Only a few!

Do not repost content by other creators without their explicit permission.

Respect other people’s headcanons and interpretations, even if you don’t share them.

Content and creators espousing bigotry in any form are not allowed to participate. Please check our sister event Tolkien Gen Week’s Code of Conduct page for a specific list on this topic.

I have another question... Contact us via an ask, or reach out to the creator @arofili on their own blog :)

[fischerfrey]

Happy FWFF! Some Nova headcanons, please?

thank you! these are a little random, but here are a few recent ones!

nova gets another friend in declan rovere by @potionboy3, when he starts to sit with her at lunch sometimes. she's not too happy about it, but she's making progress on the friendship front!

she adopts a pet turtle once out of hogwarts. its name is papaya.

want to play? send me a ffwf ask!

[cyborgraptor]

All of my entries for Felwood Fright Fest! It helped me get out of a drawing funk so I had fun drawing these up. Didn’t help that my cintiq croaked in the middle of my last drawing though, so I took an extra 2 weeks to make the gif and the last drawing as is PFFFF I have tagged specific people’s characters of my posts on twitter instead if people are curious!

[sineaden]

happy ffwf! what’s a line from any of your fics that has never left your heart and head, that you find yourself often thinking about to this day? why do you think that is? make sure you link the fic! 🤠

bonus question: have you ever had a line from someone else’s fic resonate so deeply that you just can’t forget it? (—avatraang 💛💛💛)

Thank you for the ask! You are an angel coming in with all these ffwfs! 🙏

So, to be entirely self-indulgent, one of my favorite lines I've written comes at the end of chapter 16 in I'll Be Seeing You. To put it in into context, you know when little kids ask adults "how much?" and then the adult stretches their arms out wide and says "this much".... So (spoiler alert) when Toph asks Sokka how much he'll miss her, my favorite line is simply, "My arms don't stretch that far."

I suppose I was proud of finding a way for him to express how much he'll miss her without saying it outright. That chapter is one of the angstiest, but also one of my favorites as writing it felt like a bit of gut-punch, but oddly therapeutic for me.

Now, for the bonus question, I have to give a well-deserved shoutout to my friend @cats-and-metersticks, who by the way has never written a bad fanfic in her life. Seriously, all her work is phenomenal, and though I'm biased, I have to say I particularly enjoy her Tokka fics. She seriously nails the characterization, the dialogue, the pacing, the sentence structure. Just an exceptional writer all around, and I've learned a lot from her.

But anyway, I'll never forget the first time I read The Quest is a Metaphor and I literally gasped out loud when I got to this line (spoiler alert):

"Although before he fell asleep as well, he made sure to take her hand in his, so if he dreamed again he wouldn’t let go."

Now, outside of the story, it's a nice line, right? But I'm telling you, when you read it in context it really packs a punch with how poetic it is. Like, you know when you read someone else's work and it's so good that you actually get a bit jealous that you didn't write it? That's how I feel every time I read @cats-and-metersticks's work, but in particular, that line just.... oof. *chef's kiss*

[ellie-e-marcovitz]

Happy FFWF!

How would Ellie describe each member of the quidditch squad?

Oh wow, it’s been a while

Orion – Eccentric, but good natured. Just really hard to understand sometimes. The riddles border on downright cryptic at times. He could probably work for MI6 or the CIA, if it didn’t seem to go against other parts of his personality. 

Murphy – Talkative, and the only one of the quidditch group I recognised prior to joining the Quidditch team. I still won’t play him at Wizarding Chess. Learned that quick, ever since giving him the set in first year.

Skye – Intense. I don’t blame her, though, I would never enjoy having a famous last name. There’s a part of her that wants to be treated normally, and another that wants to enjoy the perks without the stress.

Rath – Cold, honestly. I don’t necessarily agree with Skye, on her dislike of Rath, but I’m not sure why she doesn’t like me. 🤷🏽‍♀️ But we did work together well enough to save the Dragon club, so… she’s not all that bad.

[hailing-stars]

Happy FFWF!

What tags do you filter while searching for new fic to read? Is there something that you absolutely won't read?

happy super late ffwf!!

I don't usually filter tags!! There's not anything I won't at least try out - I think looking at fics and deciding they're awful horrible unmentionable based on a trope or a pairing is a really shallow way to view fic and just fiction in general. That doesn't mean I don't come across something in a fic and decide, okay I'm really not digging that and close out, just means the things I shy away from will exist in fics, from time to time, despite what it's tagged with.

[unfortunate-arrow]

Happy FFWF!

How did Simon felt when he woke up and saw Nilüfer was back because of him?

The first hour or so, Simon was quite out of it. He was still a bit confused and thought that Nilüfer was a hallucination, conjured up by a feverish mind, as his body temperature had spiked towards the end of his unconscious spell. So, he babbled a bit and then fell back asleep for another three hours.

When he woke up the second time, his first request was for water as his mouth was really dry and that was all he could focus on. However, he had most of his wits about him and once he’d quenched his thirst, he realized that Nile was actually there with him and was floored. He hadn’t been expecting it, having accepted that there were too many differences for them to overcome. He was British nobility, even if he connected with the Irish identity more, and she was Ottoman royalty. Simon just didn’t quite know how to react or feel. There was relief and frustration and pain and love and so many other conflicting emotions.

[mizutoyama]

Happy FWFF! Besides Alice, who is your favorite character to write for?

Oh! Excellent question! So, Alice is my only OC (for now), which means I usually write for her, but there are definitely HPHM characters I include in those stories because I like writing for them. I think my favourite HPHM character to write for is Andre (with Tonks being a very close second), probably because I see a bit of myself in Ravenclaw's Style Wizard.

Thanks for the question!

[skeptiquex]

Hello! There's such a beautiful delicacy that you've created in She Was Pretty. What was your writing process like for that fic? How did you get the idea? What's your favorite passage from it, if you feel like sharing?

Hello dear Starry! She Was Pretty came from a few places so I’ll try to list them here.  1. I was not particularly sympathetic or kind to Lavender in Iustitia & Prudentia which was my first fic. I think it fits, but I also wanted to imagine what she would look like to someone who loved her and give her a chance to have a happy ending.  2. She Was Pretty took its name from the 2015 K-drama. Again, plot-wise it doesn’t resemble the fic at all, but it’s partly about the main lead dealing with the idea that the person she was has not become the person she imagined she would. “She Was Pretty” is as much something people say to her as she says to herself. And I think it’s a very interesting process for someone to go through.  3. All my Drarry is set like, 5 - 10 years down the line. I have always been generally more interested in what happens to periphery characters right after the War because they are unlikely to be as caught up in the central workings. They are trying to live their lives in the aftermath. The writing process for SWP was pretty straightforward which is surprising for me! I wrote it start to finish in a few days and most of the edits were elaborating on certain passages with my betas�� guidance or tweaking words here or there. Usually I kind of let things languish for a while but this was two weeks and then out the door. My favourite passage is: 

Her mother offers her pity mostly, raw and cloying. But there is love there too. She clucks at her the second day Lavender is home after a month spent in hospital. “They didn’t braid your hair tight enough, Lavvy. Come here.” Mum sits Lavender at her vanity in the master bedroom, with its charmed lights and array of perfume oils. She spends time with detangling potions, fingertips and comb, brushing out the fairy knots that have formed at the crown of her head and the nape of her neck. Mum braids her hair, even though she has arthritis in her hands and has been sending her to Auntie Yasmin to have her hair done since she was eight. She seals the end of each braid with a charm.

I wanted to make sure that Lavender was surrounded by love as a Black woman and it wasn’t just a matter of romantic love. Her mother shows familial love the way my mother has shown me love: with time and acts of service, even when it pains her. I think sometimes love isn’t saying the right thing. It is doing what you can, when you can. Her mother cannot fix the world for her, nor can she change what happened. But she can rub her back and braid her hair. 

[salytierra]

I noticed in your 2 most recent zukki fics, you made Suki and Zuko have a relationship, and then put Sokka into the mix. Most times it's the opposite (Sokka and Suki are already together), what made you choose do to it that way? Love your fics btw

Oh boi ✨

Well i just love Zuki. so much.

And there's very little on them despite the fact that their chemistry is outstanding. I fell in love with that pair while reading the comics, and while I don't wanna make Sokka sad by taking Suki from him, I get my kicks where I can. (in my AUs, that is to say).

Now, in Heave Ho it had to be that way, because I was writing from Sokka's POV.

In yesterday's one-shot I just was like "fuck it, Imma do it again" ✌️

[skeptiquewrites]

Hello Tee!! Happy Friday! For ffwf, I was wondering what inspires you to write?

Hello dear Fwoosh! Ooooo! Well I try to always take away something from everything I listen to/read/watch. But, I really love listening to music, that’s the fastest way for me to get a vibe down. I have a lot of Big Feelings so that, haha. I love hearing other people’s personal stories because I’m very nosy and strangers like to tell me things (not so much these days).  I am also very inspired by small and big trips. Haven’t gone anywhere far from my house for a while. I look at old photos a lot and look up places I’ve been. But I’m inspired by just the feeling of being somewhere new. Standing at the waterfront. Getting completely lost. Trying a new restaurant. Feeling very small in the world.  

[superherotiger]

Happy FFWF! What are some of your favourite metaphors you've written or read?

Happy FFWF!

I think my favourite metaphor would be from my Celestial Irondad AU Of War And Starlight, where Peter struggles with the quiet because it reminds him of the time he was abandoned in wild space before Stark found him. Describing the way Stark used his voice to create war in general was heaps of fun in that part, but the finishing line of “Stark had perfected his voice into a weapon of war, but for his son, and only for his son, it became a shield.” was by far the line I was most proud of!

Thanks so much for the ask and I hope you have a great day!

-Superherotiger