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We could certainly use a lot of good things, either as distraction from the terribleness that is too much outside, or as a reminder that while there are always more fascists and wankers than we think, there are some really cool cats in fandom as well. Here's challenge #6:
Have I gushed sufficiently about Fantasia 2020 yet? Because there's an additional degree of awesome that comes from knowing that someone put together an eight-piece, fifty-minute playlist as a pinch hit and put together some animatic ideas for the pieces that hadn't already been animated as previous Fantasia segments? And how it's a wonderful suite of things I am familiar with, having already played them, things that are part of previous Fantasias, and several new pieces that I wasn't aware of, but that are wonderful and I'm glad to have been introduced to? (It comes with a playlist mode and an alternate Firebird, in case the original one gets copyright-blocked.) It's just such a delightful thing and it was a gift for me and it's one of those things that really exemplifies the best bits of fandom.
Second, because last week was Awesome Games Done Quick, and I want to stretch the idea of a fanwork to include people who do speedruns and sequence-breaks and otherwise showcase all the delightful ways that a game can still be played and enjoyed and sometimes made into a ridiculous version of itself through the application of good bugs, bad bugs, and good bad bugs, I have to admit that I have a soft spot for the Avoid The Noid speedrun from the Awful Block of AGDQ 2019, mostly because I spent a lot of time on that game as a small figuring out all the necessary parts of succeeding at it and where all the secrets were, and felt very happy at finally beating it . (And I remember a specific time where I thought I had it in the bag, only to get roasted by a dart on my final pizza right before opening the final door.) Despite the fact that it was pretty much a Domino's promotion game (did we mention that there's an HD updated version of the Doom Total Conversion that Ralston-Purina put out as a pack-in bonus with Chex cereal boxes? Because you should know about this thing, too, if you were a child of such age where it was considered a good idea that would appeal to kids to TC Doom into a much less bloody game and then distribute it.), there was a surprising amount of action and puzzling that went on in that game to defeat it, assuming you weren't playing it on the eye-searing CGA version.
Okay, third item. I always like good music, especially good music in games, and even more good music in those parts of the games that you're going to be listening to a lot. And I like orchestral arrangements and the official orchestrations put out by various games and official projects, like Video Games Live and the Square-Enix orchestral tours. And it's probably no secret that I like most of the music of the Kingdom Hearts series (much of it more than certain gameplay aspects of the Kingdom Hearts series), so when it comes to fanworks, I'm on board with whatever Project Destati comes out with, on whatever time frame they use to come out with it. The projects, so far, go all the way through the games released before Kingdom Hearts III, so I'm hoping with some new source material, they'll be gearing up to release another something soon.
Three fanworks, not created by me (or three groups of fanworks, maybe?). And one bonus item, mostly because there's clearly lots of skill and thought put into this, and the results are good for most of the time - 2 Mello's Chrono Jigga, which took the vocal tracks of the Black Album, by Jay-Z (the one that DJ Danger Mouse used to create the Grey Album when mixing it with the Beatles White Album) and paired it with various versions of the themes from Chrono Trigger. It's a thing to appreciate for the skill involved, even if you don't particularly care for either of the artists involved, as both the vocal tracks and backing instrumentals have some tempo shifts done to them to make them match up well, as well as some additional beats and sound effects applied. Have fun...possibly have fun WTFing at my taste in everything?
In your own space, rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. [...] You can include three or three hundred links to any kind of fanwork that strikes your fancy: meta, gifsets, podfic, graphics, fic, art, mixes, crafts, resources, whatever strikes you as having been pretty darn cool.I always love the breadth of fandom and what kinds of things that fandom can create and then showcase to everyone else. My niche is in writing, for the most part, which sometimes feels like the most common thing (and perhaps the lowest-valued one compared to the rarer one, but I am also reminded that there is an entire space of fandom that considers themselves unable, unskilled, or unversed enough to create, and so anything produced is neat for some of the audience.
I totally encourage people to include a note of why they liked the thing, but linking to them with accompanying exclamation marks also works.
Have I gushed sufficiently about Fantasia 2020 yet? Because there's an additional degree of awesome that comes from knowing that someone put together an eight-piece, fifty-minute playlist as a pinch hit and put together some animatic ideas for the pieces that hadn't already been animated as previous Fantasia segments? And how it's a wonderful suite of things I am familiar with, having already played them, things that are part of previous Fantasias, and several new pieces that I wasn't aware of, but that are wonderful and I'm glad to have been introduced to? (It comes with a playlist mode and an alternate Firebird, in case the original one gets copyright-blocked.) It's just such a delightful thing and it was a gift for me and it's one of those things that really exemplifies the best bits of fandom.
Second, because last week was Awesome Games Done Quick, and I want to stretch the idea of a fanwork to include people who do speedruns and sequence-breaks and otherwise showcase all the delightful ways that a game can still be played and enjoyed and sometimes made into a ridiculous version of itself through the application of good bugs, bad bugs, and good bad bugs, I have to admit that I have a soft spot for the Avoid The Noid speedrun from the Awful Block of AGDQ 2019, mostly because I spent a lot of time on that game as a small figuring out all the necessary parts of succeeding at it and where all the secrets were, and felt very happy at finally beating it . (And I remember a specific time where I thought I had it in the bag, only to get roasted by a dart on my final pizza right before opening the final door.) Despite the fact that it was pretty much a Domino's promotion game (did we mention that there's an HD updated version of the Doom Total Conversion that Ralston-Purina put out as a pack-in bonus with Chex cereal boxes? Because you should know about this thing, too, if you were a child of such age where it was considered a good idea that would appeal to kids to TC Doom into a much less bloody game and then distribute it.), there was a surprising amount of action and puzzling that went on in that game to defeat it, assuming you weren't playing it on the eye-searing CGA version.
Okay, third item. I always like good music, especially good music in games, and even more good music in those parts of the games that you're going to be listening to a lot. And I like orchestral arrangements and the official orchestrations put out by various games and official projects, like Video Games Live and the Square-Enix orchestral tours. And it's probably no secret that I like most of the music of the Kingdom Hearts series (much of it more than certain gameplay aspects of the Kingdom Hearts series), so when it comes to fanworks, I'm on board with whatever Project Destati comes out with, on whatever time frame they use to come out with it. The projects, so far, go all the way through the games released before Kingdom Hearts III, so I'm hoping with some new source material, they'll be gearing up to release another something soon.
Three fanworks, not created by me (or three groups of fanworks, maybe?). And one bonus item, mostly because there's clearly lots of skill and thought put into this, and the results are good for most of the time - 2 Mello's Chrono Jigga, which took the vocal tracks of the Black Album, by Jay-Z (the one that DJ Danger Mouse used to create the Grey Album when mixing it with the Beatles White Album) and paired it with various versions of the themes from Chrono Trigger. It's a thing to appreciate for the skill involved, even if you don't particularly care for either of the artists involved, as both the vocal tracks and backing instrumentals have some tempo shifts done to them to make them match up well, as well as some additional beats and sound effects applied. Have fun...possibly have fun WTFing at my taste in everything?
