Sunshine 2019: Prompt Five

[enemytosleep]

Check out the Master List to find links to all of the 2019 challenge posts.

Prompt 5: Fulfill A Wishlist Item for Someone Else

As the sunshine_challenge continues, we invite everyone to embark on something of a fannish scavenger hunt! More details below the cut. Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time or go back and do any prompts you've missed!



Now that we’re well into this challenge, we hope that most of you have been able to reach out to new folks and begin to cultivate new fandom relationships. We’d like to see this go a even a step further!

This challenge is to explore other journals to find wish list items that you can fulfill for someone else. Lots of people have Dear Creator Letters, Fandom Wish List posts from other challenges, and other such posts that readily list their fandom wishes (and if you’d like take this opportunity to create one for yourself now, please do!).

Maybe your new friend has a New Year’s goal post with some fannish wishes tucked therein. Maybe someone would love to find new readers for their fic, some fanart to accompany that WIP they’ve been working on, new icons, paid time for their journal or community page … the ideas are endless. You can choose to sign your name to the granted wish or you can gift someone their wish list item anonymously. What’s important is knowing that you yourself did something to make someone’s day a little bit brighter.

I like to think of it as a bit of a fannish scavenger hunt. Look at other people's profiles and find interests that you share. Check back to this post later and see if any interesting wishes were granted!



If you create any fanworks, feel free to add them to our AO3 Collection.

Once you’ve finished fulfilling someone’s wish, leave a comment to this post saying you’ve done it! Include a link to your pages if you feel comfortable doing so. Let everyone know whether you are "Ready for visitors!" or "Lurking for fandom fun".

Most importantly, please check through the comments and go visit new journals, comment on their shiny posts, and maybe make a new friend or two. We encourage everyone to aim to comment on two new journals if they are able (of course, you are welcome to do more!). ♥




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Comments

[alexseanchai]

I am ready for visitors, and as it happens my fandomgiftbox is right over here. Miraculous Ladybug, Emelan, and Original Work. That won't reveal for months, though, so here is also my snowflake_challenge 2018 wish list—which dates from at least a month before I ever watched an episode of Miraculous Ladybug, and, uh, my current fannish obsession is probably Obvious? Also you will notice in my AO3 bio over EllieMurasaki way that I have a blanket permission statement re transformative works of my transformative works. I love such things.

*tracks these comments*

Update: I have filled two wishes! Only commented on one new journal, but that's only because the other wish I filled was a comment on a different new person's AO3. That counts, right? (Also it would be nice if my brain would cooperate, because "this is New and therefore Stress and therefore Avoid" is a thing my brain does and is not at all that author's fault, and I really would like to read the other 24 chapters of this!)

[autobotscoutriella]

That's awesome! Thanks for participating! (And yes, AO3 comments totally count--people get nice emails from those, too!)

[sodium_amytal]

My fandomgiftbox is here, my Dear Creator letters are on the sidebar of my journal. Or consider reading and/or commenting on one of my fics, or an art post on my journal. Or something else I'm not creative enough to think of. I'll be thrilled with pretty much any kind of positive engagement. c:

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[oldtoadwoman]

I have had your fic bookmarked to read later for a while now and I just haven't found the time to start it, but I took a look at your art just now and you are brilliant.

offering free doodles

[oldtoadwoman]

I am offering to fulfill your wish… provided what you are wishing for is a weird doodle.

Comment at my journal with "doodle request: " and I will respond with a doodle that may or may not look anything like your requested subject.


I make no promises on how long it will take me to reply to you, but the first few could be done tomorrow and then it just depends on how long the list gets. I also might need to declare a cut-off if more people than I think actually want a weird doodle.

Re: offering free doodles

[enemytosleep]

For the record, your weird doodles have been brilliant and I'm highly enjoying the comments on that post!

[enemytosleep]

One of my wishes is that someone who feels overwhelmed by the idea of this prompt can instead channel that energy into doing something nice for themselves. ♥

[alexseanchai]

I like this. Seconded!

[shadowhive]

I’m ready for visitors, I’ve not filled a wish yet, but I did a post with some things I’d like here including recs for The Flash or Lucifer, music recs and the kinda fic I’d love to see (mostly band related), and a general call for Doctor Who/Star Wars people cause Ill be rambling about both in the coming months

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[oldtoadwoman]

I'm always around for Doctor Who and Star Wars.

[lilly_c]

I'll pop back and look at other peoples wishlists later on, mine is this way :)

Visitors and lurkers welcome :)

[autobotscoutriella]

Thanks very much for the link! I left a comment over there--I might be able to help out with a wish or two. :)

[independence1776]

Visitors welcome. Here's my wishlist. (Largely but not exclusively Tolkien and Star Wars.)

[venusinthenight]

I left a little something for someone already. ♥

I have prompt posts from the 2017/18 and 2018/19 rounds of fandom_stocking if you want to peruse those. You can also check out my fics on AO3 (venusinthenight) and leave kudos and/or a comment and/or make me a transformative work based on them (my transformative works statement is here as well as on my AO3 profile page). Visitors and lurkers welcome.

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[oldtoadwoman]

I left a little something for someone already. ♥

Fantastic!

[kingstoken]

Hi, I am willing to make an icon for anyone who would like one, the fandoms I am in and am familiar with are listed in my About Me sticky post, although I may be willing to try other fandoms if I can find good photo sources.

My fandom giftbox is here, but, like others have mentioned, I won't be able to see and respond to any lovely gifts until September.

hmmm mayhaps icon requests?

[goodbyebird]

As my brain isn't consuming much fannish stuff atm - though if you're into ttrpg, I did ask about favorite source books and stand alones in a recent post, and if any of the vids in my recent vid rec post were to mysteriously get some more views/comments, that'd make me very happy indeed as they're all from VidUKon ♥ - not sure if requesting anything wouldn't just be moot.

But hey, I make icons? So I'm gonna open up for requests, and then collect them in a mini-post at spankulert. So ask away if you're pining for your faves in icon format (I do comics too). Though if you don't have any screengrabs, all I can do is google.

Re: hmmm mayhaps icon requests?

[sodium_amytal]

omg your icons are gorgeous! I snagged one for later use! ♥_♥
(if you want to consider this a request, my icons page on dw is a good representation of my faves)

[nyctanthes]

I have a wish I am going to fulfill and I know who it will be for. It'll just take a couple of days. Or weeks.

And I am terrible at keeping secrets!

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[oldtoadwoman]

Good luck! ♥

[pauraque]

I decided to do this one by taking fic prompts. You can leave me one here. I can't promise to fill all of them, but I'll do at least one!

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[oldtoadwoman]

I submitted a prompt. ::fingers crossed:: ♥

[tellshannon815]

https://tellshannon815.dreamwidth.org/11013.html - Leaving a wishlist so that anyone can fulfil a wish for me. All visitors welcome.

I will also create a fic or icons for any of the fandoms mentioned in that post.

[autobotscoutriella]

Thanks for joining us! I may take you up on that icon request at some point--I see some overlap in our fandoms. :) (Also going to see what I can find, fic-rec-wise--I don't write for most of those fandoms, but I know people who do.)

[dunmurderin]

My Wishlist

I've done one wish fulfillment and I'll keep looking for other ones to do as well.

[autobotscoutriella]

Thanks for joining us!

[silveradept]

I got to talk about why wishes are hard for me, even if wish fulfillment is much easier. Visitors welcome, and I'll be looking about for wishes to fill. I've already got a wish or two to fill in the hopper based on exchange participation, but those won't be for a while yet, so maybe something in here will strike inspiration and a gift of some sort will come out of it.

[autobotscoutriella]

I absolutely feel you on wishes being hard--I always have more trouble filling this prompt than I expect. Glad you joined us, though!

Offering feedback for Sunshine Challenge members.

[actiaslunaris]

I've been in fandom for a long time, and I've seen wishlists here and there, and I've even put a tag myself on my journal for things I want, but there's one thing I've noticed as a creator.

We're all too shy to ask for feedback on our works. We all have our reasons, I'm sure. In today's fandom, we tend to think if we are worthy we'll get them, but I think we've all noticed how comments tend to drop off in favor of kudos.

Well, I'm here to offer to look at your fanworks and then give you feedback. If you feel like you are a creator that doesn't get enough comments, please comment to this or PM me, if directly commenting feels too uncomfortable. If it's not too much for me to ask for my part, please only ask if you're a Sunshine Challenge member.

(I'm a huge introvert; putting myself out here like this feels uncomfortable for me, but I promise: I will go find at least one of your works and give you positive feedback.)

Re: Offering feedback for Sunshine Challenge members.

[oldtoadwoman]

This is the perfect gif!

I'm on AO3 here: OldToadWoman and to make it easy, I have a couple of drabbles and some art so you've got your choice of things that won't take long to look at (though I would dearly love it more people read my 72k-word The 4400 fic because it's rare that anyone is invested enough to read something that long in a dead fandom).

[mythicmistress]

I'll try to fulfill any wishes I can, but I'm sorry to say that I'll pretty much be lurking during this prompt.

[autobotscoutriella]

No worries! Sometimes people's wishes and participants' skillsets don't quite align--there's no rule that says you HAVE to come up with something for every prompt.

[lightbird]

Here is my post for this prompt, which includes my short wishlist. I am ready for visitors. :)

[autobotscoutriella]

Yay, thanks for joining us!

I will definitely be checking out your Mulan fic--sadly tonight I must turn in early(ish), but I have the whole weekend off and I've marked a few of those to read tomorrow afternoon when I tackle this prompt myself. There will be comments. :)

[novembermond]

I made a tiny little wishlist (but this is so hard?) for things from Spider-Man: Far from Home and Good Omens. While I was at it I also put an offer to write drabbles up. Ready for visitors here.

[sodium_amytal]

Thank you for joining in!

Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I have made a gather post for my wishes and those I have fulfilled. So you can see the content of certain wishes like recs and how-tos that would interest more than the prompter. My blog is ready for guests and I'm always looking for new friends.

Re: Done!

[oldtoadwoman]

Nice gather post. Good to see you sharing the love. ♥

[tabaqui]

The thing! :D
https://tabaqui.dreamwidth.org/208553.html

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[oldtoadwoman]

Thanks for joining us!

[cornerofmadness]

You can pop by my journal if you'd like and see my fannish faves and see one of my own fills here.

[autobotscoutriella]

Oooh, that fic looks fascinating! Thanks for linking it!

[autobotscoutriella]

Here's mine! In which I offer to do a close reading of any fic someone would like--basically, write several paragraphs of an academic essay based on a couple lines of your fic, or a paragraph, whatever happens to grab me. There's more information at the post, but I figure it might be fun for people who like academic essays on fic. (Slightly inspired by actiaslunaris's fill above, which I thought was brilliant.)

I'm not doing these unsolicited because I'm not sure everyone is comfortable with it (leaving regular comments in general, for now), but anyone who's interested, let me know here, at the post, or over DM.

[sodium_amytal]

This is so cool! Thank you for joining in!

[impala_chick]

My wishlist is posted and ready for visitors :) I'll be looking through the comments to fulfill others' wishes!

My wishlist is mostly requests for fanvid reccs and 2019 Jonas Brothers fanart.

[sodium_amytal]

Thanks for sharing! I rec'd you some playlists! c:

[octahedrite]

Here's my wish: https://octahedrite.dreamwidth.org/11431.html
I'll go through this post and check out others' wishes soon. <3

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[oldtoadwoman]

Excellent, I love the idea of wishing for a discussion space based on speculative fiction.