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Day 7
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (More than one is okay, too.) Tell us about it, tell us why you love it, give us some examples and recs. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

There's something that fascinates me about time travel fic, specifically fix-it time travel fic. I love the idea that history is malleable when it becomes the now. I don't generally care if the time travel is intended to produce the same story as canon (fixing things that were worse than canon) or if it's meant to try for better results. I don't even care if the fix it attempts work or make things worse as long as the repercussions of the meddling seem plausible.

I've mostly seen this sort of story in Harry Potter and Naruto, but I don't see why it couldn't work for other fandoms. I haven't read any new time travel fics recently (largely because I haven't been reading much fic at all. I need to remedy that).

I highly recommend Deadwoodpecker's Backward With Purpose and its sequels (not all of those were complete the last time I checked). This is a Harry Potter fix it fic that starts from a world where things went considerably worse than they did in canon.

I'm sure I've got links for other time travel fics. I just no longer remember most of the titles and can't bring myself to follow all of the links I've saved off. I'm afraid I'd fall into the rabbit hole and never come out. Then again, it would probably be a good thing to start updating my recs site, and that requires following those links and rereading those fics.

Day 11
In your own space, post a rec for fannish and/or creative resources. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I've got three resources to recommend.

First,

metanews,

metanews. This is a newsletter that collects links to meta posting around the web. The link finders, of which I am one, do some searching of DW, AO3, Pinboard, and those meta blogs we've found out about. We're currently looking for someone to look for meta on Tumblr (we had someone, but they haven't been able to continue), and we would like someone to look for meta on LJ.

writethisfanfic is a writers' community. Every day, there's a check in post where writers can talk about their progress and support each other. I usually do check in posts for one week every month. The community is fairly quiet right now.

ushobwri is a writers' community. There are three posts a week, an inspirational post on Monday, a check in post on Wednesday, and a snippet post on Friday. This community is fairly active.