Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2020 - Day 4

I did not abandon this, I just...lost track. But hey, it's Snowflake so there's no deadlines. :)

Challenge #4

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

• I already posted a little bit about this when I did my end of year wrap-up for my writing stats in 2019 but I'd like to reach my target of 528,706 words for the year and an average daily word count of 1,458. The numbers are based on what I achieved the previous year, though since I wasn't working most of last year I'll not be surprised if I don't meet those targets, but that's okay. I'll just get a more realistic target for 2021.
• Start doing UI design again, maybe look at putting some stuff together to sell on Redbubble. I am not a magnificent artist but I can manipulate the hell out of pixels.
• Write some original fiction. Maybe even show it to people.
• Finish the Unplanned Reproduction expansion I've been working on since 2018. (They're giant robots and Accidental Pregnancy doesn't really apply to the version of TF reproduction I'm using.) One of the things slowing me down here is that I said a lot of what I wanted to say with this one in All the Good Things so I guess I'll just have to find new ideas to explore. :)

Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2020 - Day 6

You didn't miss 5, I just didn't do it.

Challenge #6

In your own space, make a list — anything between one and ten things is a sweet spot, but don't feel constrained by that! - of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, or that you'd like someone to make for you. Are you dying for podfic of your writing? Do you need icons for a character that doesn't get much fanart? Is there a story you want to read? Are you looking for new canons to get into? Would you like a collaborator for a project?

Maybe you want more people to talk about a certain fandom with, or you'd love to trade ficlets with somebody over email. Maybe you're new to a fandom and would like some recs to start reading, or communities to join. This is the time to ask!

 

Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

 

The challenge is going to be longer than the post, but... ^_^

• Art of Systematic Chaos maybe-demon!Jazz sitting at his desk, chin on his hand, idly playing with the little sparks* in the bowl on his desk with the other, and smirking. 
  • * Bluestreak persists in thinking of them as 'spark-like things' for his own peace of mind, but they are, in fact, sparks. Whether they're people-sparks compressed or shrunken somehow or not-people sparks is another question.
• As always, Finrod and Sauron's song-duel done with dueling guitars.
• Hell, just give me a rock-opera version of The Silmarillion. :P

Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2020 - Day 8

Challenge #8

Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Okay, let's look at my recc'd bookmarks from the past year:

Blank Page Waiting by spockandawe
You wake up early, but the drone is left on your doorstep even earlier than that. As soon as you get the alerts from your security system, it isn’t soon enough. The thing has been out there for breems already, right in full view of any curious passerby. You consider leaving it out there even longer—it would be an unmistakable insult to whoever sent it, but just vague enough to prevent them from acting on it—but that will just keep making your private business public, as more and more people see your… present.

Age by Bibliotecaria_D
Nobody thinks about surviving to old age during the war, but time passes.

[Tissue warning for this one.]

Playing the Long Odds by Bibliotecaria_D
A.k.a. the Curious Incident of Too Many Prowls. Starscream will never look at Prowl the same, but neither will Smokescreen.

[The fic offers the term 'an authority of Prowls' for any grouping of Prowls greater than two. I accept this.]

Giants of the Earth by HopeofDawn,Thefractured
How exactly do you hide a giant robot for fifty years? Very, very carefully ....

[A Transformers/Iron Giant crossover.]
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