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Snowflake Challenge 7
Jan. 13th, 2020 01:09 pmChallenge #7
Promote/Rec/Sing the Praises* of Yourself! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I wasn't sure if I was supposed to go personal or fannish, but ultimately, I think anything goes, so I decided to do a mixture.
I can grow pretty great tomatoes. Okay, so, dad was a huge gardening fan and his thing was growing tomatoes. Before he died he started to teach me how to grow them too, especially the Shirley variety once we got a greenhouse. Since he died I've continued learning on my own, and I think he'll be proud of my efforts because each year the tomatoes get better. No, I'm not an expert gardener and sometimes I think it would be so much easier just to buy veggies. Then I'll step into the greenhouse on a sunny summer morning, get hit by that tomato smell and know that it actually is worth it.
I'm very laid back, little riles me and even if it does I can get over it pretty quickly. I also like what I like and won't apologise for that, though would never push those likes onto others if they didn't like the same.
While I'm not completely there, I'm much more body confident. In years past I wore skirts to my ankles and covered up, now I'll happily wear my compressions under a skirt/dress that's knee or mid-calf length without wearing leggings too. I'll also wear strapless tops and if my bingo wings offend anyone, well that's on them. I'll never be 'normal' shaped, but I've worked damn hard to get where I am so I'm not going to hide under excess fabric. Well, unless it's cold, then all bets are off.
I also think I can spin a good story. I love world-building and thinking about plots. I'm not the best writer out there but I don't need or want to be, I'm just having fun. So, going on from that, some stories I'm proud of.
We've No Way of Knowing. This was for The Good Place and I wrote it for fandom stocking last year. I wrote this fast and it felt good to do so and a nice change to write away from my usual fandoms. I still like the voices in this, and that I took a chance on something new.
Turn to Dust or to Gold. Written for what turned out to be the last popslash sesa. It has unicorns and JC risking his life for the karma sutra. Add in a bit of animal transformation and it would have summed my popslash stories up, really.
And bandom. It's hard to pick for this one as I've written so much and so many of the most popular stories are now ancient. I mean, going off kudos it's Like a Bunk and Cramped Sleeping, which always makes me laugh as Frank/Gerard was never a favourite pairing. However, the story under that is And the Painted Ponies, Frank/Mikey, where Mikey is a model and Frank the bodyguard who loves him. And like the popslash story above, I can point to this in terms of bandom and say, yeah, this is me.
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Ahem.
And now I need to go out for a while, but I'll be back to check other replies as I know this is a hard challenge to lots of people ♥
Promote/Rec/Sing the Praises* of Yourself! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I wasn't sure if I was supposed to go personal or fannish, but ultimately, I think anything goes, so I decided to do a mixture.
I can grow pretty great tomatoes. Okay, so, dad was a huge gardening fan and his thing was growing tomatoes. Before he died he started to teach me how to grow them too, especially the Shirley variety once we got a greenhouse. Since he died I've continued learning on my own, and I think he'll be proud of my efforts because each year the tomatoes get better. No, I'm not an expert gardener and sometimes I think it would be so much easier just to buy veggies. Then I'll step into the greenhouse on a sunny summer morning, get hit by that tomato smell and know that it actually is worth it.
I'm very laid back, little riles me and even if it does I can get over it pretty quickly. I also like what I like and won't apologise for that, though would never push those likes onto others if they didn't like the same.
While I'm not completely there, I'm much more body confident. In years past I wore skirts to my ankles and covered up, now I'll happily wear my compressions under a skirt/dress that's knee or mid-calf length without wearing leggings too. I'll also wear strapless tops and if my bingo wings offend anyone, well that's on them. I'll never be 'normal' shaped, but I've worked damn hard to get where I am so I'm not going to hide under excess fabric. Well, unless it's cold, then all bets are off.
I also think I can spin a good story. I love world-building and thinking about plots. I'm not the best writer out there but I don't need or want to be, I'm just having fun. So, going on from that, some stories I'm proud of.
We've No Way of Knowing. This was for The Good Place and I wrote it for fandom stocking last year. I wrote this fast and it felt good to do so and a nice change to write away from my usual fandoms. I still like the voices in this, and that I took a chance on something new.
Turn to Dust or to Gold. Written for what turned out to be the last popslash sesa. It has unicorns and JC risking his life for the karma sutra. Add in a bit of animal transformation and it would have summed my popslash stories up, really.
And bandom. It's hard to pick for this one as I've written so much and so many of the most popular stories are now ancient. I mean, going off kudos it's Like a Bunk and Cramped Sleeping, which always makes me laugh as Frank/Gerard was never a favourite pairing. However, the story under that is And the Painted Ponies, Frank/Mikey, where Mikey is a model and Frank the bodyguard who loves him. And like the popslash story above, I can point to this in terms of bandom and say, yeah, this is me.
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Ahem.
And now I need to go out for a while, but I'll be back to check other replies as I know this is a hard challenge to lots of people ♥
