Snowflake Challenge 15: Squeeage

[author_by_night]

The 15th Snowflake Challenge is to come up with your own, possibly for others to do (as I understand it). One thing I really miss about fandom is the squee and the meta, as I've said before, so I tried to think of one way to incorporate that into a challenge. I had a few more specific ideas, then I decided to open it up just a little.

So in the comments, or on your own LJ, talk about a fandom, or several.. Here are some prompts:

- Theories and/or headcanons (whether silly or serious or a bit of both - and yes, you can totally do this for closed canons)

- Unpopular opinions (this doesn't need to be fandom specific)

- Characters you wish canon had done better by

- Characters you think the canon creators liked too much


I'd love to see what everyone comes up with!

Comments

[resnullius_bells]

BTW, speaking of The Hunger Games: have you heard about the prequel? It's been announced that it'll center around Snow, and I've seen a lot of people up in arms about this. I can't say I agree -putting aside that I don't think there's anything wrong with writing from the POV of a villain, it feels waaaaaaay too early to criticise the book for being "apologist", you know? Besides, if I trust someone to give politically relevant commentary in YA, it's Suzanne Collins. Not to mention readers have enough critical thinking to recognize what Snow became, IMO.

[author_by_night]

I had heard that! I'm not a fan of preemptively judging something before you've read it, so I'm with you. We haven't read it yet. Besides, can't you argue that no one is simply born a villain? I think it might actually be interesting to see how he became that sort of person.

I think I would have preferred a prequel that delved into how Panem became, or maybe even a companion novel that focused on another side of the clearly Lost World (assuming Panem wasn't the only place left), admittedly. I'm not as intrigued by this. But I wouldn't assume it will be apologist, unless there's something major I don't know. (I'm not really in THG fandom, I've read the series and liked it a lot, but that's really it.)

[resnullius_bells]

I'm with you on having preferred other ideas (even among the villains, I was more interested in Coin. Though a prequel entirely about her would be limited to Distric 13 and Snow's offers a bigger scope). Responses about the backlash crossed my tumblr dashboard, and I ended up looking what it was all about. The result is that I was once again convinced it's a better idea to participate actively in fandom here in dreamwidth and leave tumblr for passively reblogging pretty edits LOL. There's too much vitriol over there, even about content people haven't even read yet.