Snowflake Challenge day 1
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turpsDay 1
In your own space, talk about why you're participating in Snowflake and, if you’ve participated in the past, how the challenge has affected you. What drew you to it? What did you take away from it? What do you hope to accomplish this year? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
For me, the Snowflake challenge strengthens fannish bonds. I love the sense of community that rapidly becomes apparent, and that people comment so readily, both to people known to them and strangers. But at the same time, this is a challenge that recognises that to some people, interaction is hard, or something they don't want to do, and that's fine. It helps strengthen the idea that everyone is important in fandom, from the most active to the lurkers.
I've done this challenge for years now, and have met many new awesome people along the way, many I still read/comment with now. And I love that, too. It's like all around you fannish doors are thrown open, as people from your own fandom or other fandoms take a moment to say hi. And who knows, one of those fandoms may be your next big thing.
What do I hope to accomplish? Daily posting I hope. In the very distant past I'd post daily without thought, and sometimes I wonder what the hell I found to talk about. But I did find stuff, and like now, I very much enjoyed talking to people via comments. So, yeah, daily posting will be great.
Non snowflake related. Bandom exchange authors have been revealed, and I can say I wrote A Not So Wonderful Life forakamine_chan who also wrote the fabulous Not Touched the Stars for me, and really, when I think about it it had her touch all over it.
So yeah, my story. It has a not-elf called Brad, Gerard facing death, bad times, mentions of self cest fanfic writing, and future happiness. Knowing Aka I tried to strike a balance of angst while remembering it was a holiday exchange, and I'm pleased with the end result.
Thank you, Aka, both for my story and helping run what remains a fantastic challenge.
In your own space, talk about why you're participating in Snowflake and, if you’ve participated in the past, how the challenge has affected you. What drew you to it? What did you take away from it? What do you hope to accomplish this year? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
For me, the Snowflake challenge strengthens fannish bonds. I love the sense of community that rapidly becomes apparent, and that people comment so readily, both to people known to them and strangers. But at the same time, this is a challenge that recognises that to some people, interaction is hard, or something they don't want to do, and that's fine. It helps strengthen the idea that everyone is important in fandom, from the most active to the lurkers.
I've done this challenge for years now, and have met many new awesome people along the way, many I still read/comment with now. And I love that, too. It's like all around you fannish doors are thrown open, as people from your own fandom or other fandoms take a moment to say hi. And who knows, one of those fandoms may be your next big thing.
What do I hope to accomplish? Daily posting I hope. In the very distant past I'd post daily without thought, and sometimes I wonder what the hell I found to talk about. But I did find stuff, and like now, I very much enjoyed talking to people via comments. So, yeah, daily posting will be great.
Non snowflake related. Bandom exchange authors have been revealed, and I can say I wrote A Not So Wonderful Life for
akamine_chan who also wrote the fabulous Not Touched the Stars for me, and really, when I think about it it had her touch all over it.So yeah, my story. It has a not-elf called Brad, Gerard facing death, bad times, mentions of self cest fanfic writing, and future happiness. Knowing Aka I tried to strike a balance of angst while remembering it was a holiday exchange, and I'm pleased with the end result.
Thank you, Aka, both for my story and helping run what remains a fantastic challenge.
