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Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Day 9

Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:55:52 GMT

Day 9

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I haven't been particularly fannishly creative over the past year, so I'm just reposting my answer from last year's challenge:

I'm still pleased with The Longest Night, a LoTR fanfic I wrote in 2015 for the International Fanworks Day challenge over on lotr_communitylotr_community. It came in 2nd place in the Tree and Flower Awards 2015 for Favorite Story Featuring a New Author, which was a most pleasant surprise!

Honesty, an SPN fanfic that I really need to remember to post on A03, is one I think I include in this challenge every year but it's one of my favorites. It's a drabble based around Dean and Future!Cas' conversation in the truck during 'The End'. Future!Cas breaks my heart, he truly does.

Through the Gates, a Goblin Emperor fanfic written for smallfandomfest Round 19 and based on the prompt 'It's not quite love, but it's not just duty, either.' It's about Maia and Csethiro's developing relationship, because I wanted to see more of that, dammit!

Calling Frequency, a Dead Space fanfic also written for smallfandomfest Round 19 and based on the prompt 'Trapped on Tau Volantis after the events of Dead Space 3, an injured Carver has to rely on Isaac for help.'. This one was challenging because a) I've only played DS3 single-player and thus only really know Carver through cut scenes and b) it's mostly dialogue and I had a hard time remembering to include actions and descriptions and not wind up with something that read like, as How Not to Write a Novel says, two disembodied brains in a jar having a conversation. But I succeeded!

For the curious, previous versions of this challenge are at the following links: 2016, 2015, 2014.

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Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Day 8

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 18:08:17 GMT

Day 8

In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan. Spock's death scene. Oh my god. Just amazing and so emotional and tragic and gorgeous. I still can't watch it with dry eyes. The only thing that's ever made me cry that much is the (first) death of (the first) Optimus Prime.

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Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Day 2

Tue, 02 Jan 2018 12:12:28 GMT

Day 2

In your own space, share a favorite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, crazy times with fellow fans (whether on-line or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I met my best friend through fandom! They posted in a newsgroup (remember those?) looking for fellow fans in our area. I answered, we met up and off we went. :D

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Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Day 1

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 18:10:17 GMT

Day 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?

Hey, alright, Fandom Snowflake's back! Also known as that time of year I swear to get back to actually interacting with people and creating fanworks and end up failing around March or so.

In my defense, the last couple of years have been really kind of shitty for everyone and I got distracted by real life matters. Last year was exceptionally bad in that I didn't even finish Snowflake and looking forward to that was pretty much what got me through December 2016. Last year was also...up and down, improving towards the end of the year.

So, don't know how things will go this year but I'll do my best.

I come back to Snowflake because it has the things I think fandom has lost over the past several years: interaction and discussion. Reading and viewing things other people have created is great but I don't find Tumblr to be the best medium for discussion. It's great for sharing easily but I find the comment threading to be harder to track than it is on Dreamwidth/LJ.

I always come back to Snowflake feeling so cheered up. ^_^ That's what I've looked forward to in past years, and again this year.

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