Brainstorming and Fanart Collaboration Post

[dark_administrator]

There have been some great discussions happening about this challenge elesewhere (as for instance), and if you have thoughts or comments or questions about it that you'd like to share with other community members, please use this post to link to them or repost them as comments.

You can also talk about ideas you'd like to see someone take on, in the hopes of inspiring a writer looking for a topic.

In addition, this is the post where you can mention what you are working on, and ask for fanartists who might be interested in collaborating with you though images or icons or manips.

Fanartists! You are welcome to comment here with your ideas of what you would like to work on, in case there is a writer interested in collaborating with you.

Comments

[yhlee]

Hello! Fanartist checking in, would love to collaborate with someone. I don't have a lot of examples of color work (I usually use ink & brush, so black & white), but here are a couple: Kaiu Tsuchikau (L5R character portrait), The Red Crane (L5R), fanart: Yuuko from xxxHolic.

I'm not familiar with very many fandoms--Buffyverse, Veronica Mars S1-S2, Fullmetal Alchemist, Claymore, The Vampire Diaries (TV), probably some sf/f book fandoms as well--but if you think I might suit, ask me. You never know!

[chaosraven]

I'm super interested in doing art! I'm going to do a fic of my own, but if anyone is interested in an illustration feel free to let me know!

[shirozora]

After chatting with my roommate a bit I decided I'm writing a short fic with biracial Sam and Dean Winchester. Collabing with a fanartist would be pretty awesome but not necessary; I plan on pointing at real people and saying, "That's what s/he looks like."

Question is, can someone help me find an approximate real life person for biracial Sam? I'm looking at Daniel Henney for Dean and Kim Yunjin for Mary (although that's just for me; obviously she won't be in the fic), but I'm drawing a major blank at good ol' Sammy. Help?

[wistfuljane]

You can also talk about ideas you'd like to see someone take on, in the hopes of inspiring a writer looking for a topic.

A conversation I just had made me think about all the characters who were played by biracial or mixed race actors & actresses and who could have been coded as non-white by TPTB, but instead in later canon were confirmed, I guess is the term, as white. Shawn Spencer from Psych and Michael Scofield from Prison Break come immediately to mind, but there are endless others. I don't know if anyone had tackled this, but I would love if someone rewrote the backstory TPTB gave us and, for example, have Madeleine, Shawn's mother, be Chicana instead or both of his parents be Chican@/Latin@ and write Shawn Spencer as Chicano. How this backstory would make Shawn different and the same.

[softestbullet]

I would love if someone rewrote the backstory TPTB gave us and, for example, have Madeleine, Shawn's mother, be Chicana instead or both of his parents be Chican@/Latin@ and write Shawn Spencer as Chicano. How this backstory would make Shawn different and the same.

I would love love love to read this.

[wordsatourbacks]

I would be allllllll over this, as a reader!

[gloss]

This is a great idea.

More candidates: Ann Perkins of Parks & Recreation and Karen Fillipelli of The Office. Both are played by Rashida Jones, but their backstories remain ridiculously underwritten.

[vanitashaze]

SECONDED. Somebody please to be writing Chicano!Shawn Spencer.

[mercredigirl]

Hi! I'm a fic writer, and I'm looking to re-imagining Andros (Power Rangers in Space) as Chinese. I've never done any collaborations before; they'd not be necessary, but would be welcome if anyone's into this idea! :)

[vanitashaze]

Fanartist here, and I'd love to collaborate with someone. I'm familiar with a whole host of Western fandoms - sadly, I have very little knowledge of any anime or manga - so if you're interested, drop me a line!

[slippy]

I have entirely too many ideas. I've thought about picking:
+ Charlotte (Disney's The Princess & the Frog)
+ Xanxus (Katekyo Hitman Reborn) - an Italian character, which brings up questions of who is considered/coded as 'white', and in turn shows the bloody arbitrariness of racial classification. But considering his role in canon, he'd be an interesting character to make a different race.
+ Elizabeth (Pirates of the Caribbean)
+ the silver-haired gentleman (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell) - though this might not fit with the challenge, and the meta might do my head in. The nebulous idea is that the story is set in a universe where the book 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' is a history. People argue the veracity of various details, and then someone brings up the subject of the silver-haired gentleman's race.
+ Ed & Al (Fullmetal Alchemist)
+ Agatha (Girl Genius) - which has potential with regards to the ubiquitous "Priestess" that always hung around with the Heterodyne Boys, doesn't get a name, is portrayed as chromatic, and about who nothing is known. (To be fair to the creators, I think they're trying to make a point there.)
+ Someone please stop me before I say Bella from Twilight--


I keep wondering if I'm approaching these from the spirit of the challenge - part of me wants to make a point, and another part is enjoying this idea as an AU in the usual "ooh! What would happen next!" way. Possibly this is part and parcel of this being a fandom challenge, where you are writing your darlings.

[mercredigirl]

Bella.

If you rewrite Bella, I will applaud. :D

Especially because the entire 'point' SMeyer presents is the 'oversexualised' or secular Bella contrasted against the chaste, abstinent Edward. The sexualisation of coloured women would add a whole new layer, and I'd be interested in exploring that...

If you don't write Bella, I just might. :P

[slippy]

Please write Bella! I didn't even think of your point - and it's an interesting one, because one of the vanishingly small positive things about Bella's portrayal is that she gets to take the initiative in showing desire. If she's a character of colour, though, that quality does start getting problematic.

Mostly I'm afraid of writing the Quileute characters - I don't think I'd be able to do it respectfully and authentically, and currently I'm short on time for research.

[mercredigirl]

Your latter point does concern me, especially since I have little to no awareness of race relations in the USA, coming from a whole different part of the world. :x Also, I am only passingly familiar with Twilight. But I'll think about giving it a shot.

[simargl]

I could possibly do some art with Ed and Al.

[cesy]

I would love it if you did Elizabeth.

[el_staplador]

After some humming and hawing about whether I have time to commit to this, etc, I find myself over 500 words into a Rigoletto fic, and have discovered the following:

- that I really need to do some more research into the demographics of northern Italy in the sixteenth century;
- that singers of pretty much every ethnicity have played Gilda over the years;
- that Leontyne Price, who is the first BME operatic soprano who came to my mind, didn't, although she did play pretty much every other Verdi heroine;
- that, because an opera is reinvented with each production, and no production is 'definitive', it's actually quite easy to picture any given character as being of a different ethnicity. ('Different from what?' I hear you cry. Well, precisely.)
- but that, when you start looking harder at it, you still have to think about the difference it makes, that Gilda doesn't look how Verdi envisioned her.

I'd love to collaborate with an artist if anyone's interested.

[blackeyedgirl]

I posted fairly rambling thoughts about my attempts to work out how to do this challenge with Leverage and an African American Nate here. (Link goes to the second cut in the post, which is the part relevant to the challenge).

If anybody's interested in weighing in, or in helping me cast (or with art!), thoughts are welcome :)

[st_aurafina]

I'm not going to have time to write for this one, but I'd love to make manips and icons for someone's fic. I've got my favourite fandoms, but if I'm not familiar with yours, I'd be happy to work with you on what you'd like to see. I'm probably going to be best at working with TV shows, or casts with actual people.

Here is a link to some manips I made for the Chromatic Casting meme earlier this year.

[cesy]

I'm not actually participating, but I can cheer-lead if anyone needs a cheerleader, and I can also do grammar/readability beta. So many of these ideas sound really awesome.

[mjules]

So I know this is very last minute, but if anyone wants to do art for a completely AU'd, brown-skinned Ariel from the Little Mermaid, Disney version, as a nightclub singer in late-1940s New Orleans... uh, I have a 2400 word fic that would LOVE that. :D

[ruuger]

I could give it a try, if you haven't found anyone else - I can do both digital/manip stuff and 'proper' art :)

[ramblin_rosie]

Late to the party, I know, but my longish SPN AU in which John Winchester is Navajo seems to want art. I've found a Diné actor who would make a good John, but I keep trying to picture what the boys would look like and not quite managing it.
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