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firecatCatching up on Snowflake Challenge!
9. https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/53756.html
Brag about yourself.
Something I like about myself right now? I really enjoy writing fanfic. I like my own writing. I enjoy doing it the way I want, and I also like participating in fandom challenges. I like taking personal risks and challenges with my writing. I love that I get a little thrill
Why is this important to me? Because for most of my life I hardly ever felt that little thrill about anything. I would achieve goals and accomplish things, and I'd feel like:
But now at least where writing fanfic is concerned, I feel like:
I've also managed to do this while living through one of the worst periods of my life, during one of humanity's less good historical moments, in the context of the climate's increasing hostility to humanity (all of which are still happening).
So along with bragging about my newly enhanced ability to feel joy, I guess I'm also bragging about my superpower-level dissociative skills.
I'm invited to rec my own work. I feel that this little piece hasn't gotten the attention it deserves, probably because it's tagged Gen and Multi-fandom, and who the hell searches on that? But maybe you'll like it.
Sex Pollen: An Origin Story (533 words) by firecat
Fandom: Multi-Fandom
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Additional Tags: Sex Pollen, Obsession, Genetic Engineering, Allergies, Star Trek References, Jurassic Park References, Intelligent Life in the Universe, Probable incorrect usage of scientific jargon
10. https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/53981.html
Write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, creator, episode, or it could be your fandom friends. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to.
Dear Fandom:
I love you. You've been there for me almost my whole life, since I first developed the ability to squee. You've saved my life several times. You waited for me during times I pretended I didn't care about you, and you opened your arms to me each time I came back and admitted I was wrong. You've introduced me to so many wonderful people, and some wonderful communities too. I can't imagine my life without you.
It's four o'clock in the morning, and my eloquence is not fully online right now, so I'm going to let one of my favorite Grateful Dead songs speak for how I feel about you.
"Attics of My Life"
In the attics of my life
Full of cloudy dreams unreal
Full of tastes no tongue can know
And lights no eye can see
When there was no ear to hear
You sang to me
I have spent my life
Seeking all that's still unsung
Bent my ear to hear the tune
And closed my eyes to see
When there were no strings to play
You played to me
In the book of love's own dream
Where all the print is blood
Where all the pages are my days
And all my lights grow old
When I had no wings to fly
You flew to me
12. https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/54402.html
Resurrect an old meme.
If the above image of Grumpy Cat created via ICanHasCheezburger.com isn't enough for you, take a moment to enjoy what Wikipedia claims is the eighth most viewed YouTube video. This is one of the few memes that I was aware of while it was actually happening. One of my favorite memories is doing the dance with a little girl in Trader Joe's.
13. https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/54540.html
Tell us about 3 fandom resources you use or enjoy.
15. https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/55290.html
Talk about Your Snowflake Experience
I've seen people on my DW friends list do this event for years. This year I was glad that I felt like I had something to contribute. I didn't spend as much time on it as I wanted to. I enjoyed making some new connections with people and strengthening connections with a few other people. When I made time to look at what other people were contributing, I loved the enthusiasm and variety. I hope to be in a place where I can do it again next year.
9. https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/53756.html
Brag about yourself.
Something I like about myself right now? I really enjoy writing fanfic. I like my own writing. I enjoy doing it the way I want, and I also like participating in fandom challenges. I like taking personal risks and challenges with my writing. I love that I get a little thrill
\0/ whenever I write something I particularly like, and especially when I finish something. Why is this important to me? Because for most of my life I hardly ever felt that little thrill about anything. I would achieve goals and accomplish things, and I'd feel like:
But now at least where writing fanfic is concerned, I feel like:
I've also managed to do this while living through one of the worst periods of my life, during one of humanity's less good historical moments, in the context of the climate's increasing hostility to humanity (all of which are still happening).
So along with bragging about my newly enhanced ability to feel joy, I guess I'm also bragging about my superpower-level dissociative skills.
/0\I'm invited to rec my own work. I feel that this little piece hasn't gotten the attention it deserves, probably because it's tagged Gen and Multi-fandom, and who the hell searches on that? But maybe you'll like it.
Sex Pollen: An Origin Story (533 words) by firecat
Fandom: Multi-Fandom
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Additional Tags: Sex Pollen, Obsession, Genetic Engineering, Allergies, Star Trek References, Jurassic Park References, Intelligent Life in the Universe, Probable incorrect usage of scientific jargon
10. https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/53981.html
Write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, creator, episode, or it could be your fandom friends. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to.
Dear Fandom:
I love you. You've been there for me almost my whole life, since I first developed the ability to squee. You've saved my life several times. You waited for me during times I pretended I didn't care about you, and you opened your arms to me each time I came back and admitted I was wrong. You've introduced me to so many wonderful people, and some wonderful communities too. I can't imagine my life without you.
It's four o'clock in the morning, and my eloquence is not fully online right now, so I'm going to let one of my favorite Grateful Dead songs speak for how I feel about you.
"Attics of My Life"
In the attics of my life
Full of cloudy dreams unreal
Full of tastes no tongue can know
And lights no eye can see
When there was no ear to hear
You sang to me
I have spent my life
Seeking all that's still unsung
Bent my ear to hear the tune
And closed my eyes to see
When there were no strings to play
You played to me
In the book of love's own dream
Where all the print is blood
Where all the pages are my days
And all my lights grow old
When I had no wings to fly
You flew to me
12. https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/54402.html
Resurrect an old meme.
If the above image of Grumpy Cat created via ICanHasCheezburger.com isn't enough for you, take a moment to enjoy what Wikipedia claims is the eighth most viewed YouTube video. This is one of the few memes that I was aware of while it was actually happening. One of my favorite memories is doing the dance with a little girl in Trader Joe's.
13. https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/54540.html
Tell us about 3 fandom resources you use or enjoy.
- I assume AO3 is the free space.
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fail_fandomanon — This is where I first found out about exchanges and challenges, and I frequently hang out in the often-wanky "Bangs, Fests & Exchanges" comment thread. As an old Usenetter, I find searching through lots of flames and blather for the useful and funny comments kind of comforting. And I think meme, as it's called, has a fascinating culture. I'm sure my attitude will change the first time I end up getting wanked about, but so far I'm too new to have been noticed.- what_ho_library is a relatively new DW community that has lots of stuff for people interested in and/or writing about English and American culture in the early 20th Century, but the slang timelines and dictionaries linked there go a lot further back (and forward). Lots of queer and smut resources.
- Seventh Sanctum has a collection of generator tools — names, species, magic spells, etc...
15. https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/55290.html
Talk about Your Snowflake Experience
I've seen people on my DW friends list do this event for years. This year I was glad that I felt like I had something to contribute. I didn't spend as much time on it as I wanted to. I enjoyed making some new connections with people and strengthening connections with a few other people. When I made time to look at what other people were contributing, I loved the enthusiasm and variety. I hope to be in a place where I can do it again next year.