Monday, February 7, 2011

Fan fiction merchandise

I've been wanting something to show my devotion to Twilight Fan Fiction. Maybe a bumper sticker? License plate frame?

Nope (though they're not totally out of the question). I decided that I wanted to have a t-shirt. You really can make anything nowadays. I used the fandom friendly Cafe Press to make my own creations. I wanted to represent stories that I love and that others would recognize.

My very first story into the fan fiction universe was Wide Awake by Angstgoddess003. It remains my all time favorite fic. It has everything I love in a story and it always makes me cry and sigh. It has a lot of great quotes that would make great slogans for t-shirts "I missed the shit out of you" "Shining Fucking Curls" "Red Bella White Bella" etc. But I settled on the moment that Edward knew that Bella was more than just a girl who, with real flowers and cookies, allowed him to sleep.
"The switch was gone and my girl was beautiful." -Wide Awake

I love that moment! When she gets back from Arizona after the trial. Gah! I love this story.

Now once you start designing t-shirts on your favorite stories, it's hard to stop. I have several already but I only made and bought one more. The other story I'm going to wear with pride is Snowqueens Icedragon's Master of the Universe. Fifty is a classic character. The incident he has in Echo Charlie makes me cringe every time. My heart can't help but beat itself out of my chest whenever I re-read the story. It's so so good (that's what she said). It also doesn't hurt that I'm going to be waring Rob all over my chest.
"Master of the Universe // 50 Shades // by Snowqueens Icedragon"

It makes me want to walk in Downtown LA or at the next Kings game in Staples Center and try to make eye contact with everyone to see if they recognize the stories or their references. 

So I think for sure, the next bit of merchandise will be either a license plate frame or a window decal. Is "FORKS" too subtle? I do not want a "I drive like a Cullen" plate frame. That's lame. Maybe just "Addicted to Fan Fiction" or "Caution! Lemons ahead!" What do you think? :0)

4 comments:

  1. When I saw you wearing your 50shades tee I had to say something!!! So glad to have met a fellow fanfic reader :-) Wide Awake was my 2nd fic- The Office was my first...

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  2. Hi, just wanted to know if you actually were able to make the Fifty Shades t-shirt and order and have it delivered? If you did then is there any way that I could get the image to make one as well?
    Thanks,

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  3. Hi, just wanted to know if you actually were able to make the Fifty Shades t-shirt and order and have it delivered? If you did then is there any way that I could get the image to make one as well?
    Thanks,

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  4. @T, I just looked at my cafe press account and apparently the 50 Shades design was flagged and I can no longer use it (or download it). The text was added using Cafe Press's t-shirt design tools. The only bit I added was the picture of Rob with the background erased so it's just him. You'll need some type of photo editing software to download the initial picture then erase the white background to create the image again. I don't have it any more. I'd sell you mine but I've been wearing it for the last 10 months and it's seen better days haha.

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