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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.

I didn't create a whole lot in the last couple of years, and most things I could think of that are recent I recced in the last two times I did this, so this year I'm going with "older things that haven't gotten a lot of attention and which I'm still fairly proud of". Which is long-winded and also kind of hard for me, because I can see the flaws in my writing way more than the good things, but, here goes.

Fair warning: The Newsflesh one is hard to mention at all without spoilers, though only through book 1, so if you're stringently avoiding, uh, don't even read the notes.

( All fics; Sanctuary, Hunger Games, Newsflesh, Firefly )

Day 7: In your own space, create a love meme for yourself. Let people tell you how amazing and awesome and loveable you really are. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Surf the comments and find people to give love to.

I skipped day 5, because I could think of nothing, and I need to do day 6, because yesterday was long and busy, but I wasn't going to do a post for that anyway, so here we are.

I am so awkward with this one, because first of all, asking for love is hard, and I'm so bad at doing anything that's supposed to be open to people to respond; I ramble awkwardly and get weird and I think I scare people off or something, or maybe just my habit of failure at interaction scares people off, or... I don't know. Whatever. Interacting is hard, basically. And then I forget to comment to other people's things, even though I want to, until it's so late I get awkward doing it, and... yeah.

I am trying to work on being less of an awful commenter in both Dreamwidth in general and creative stuff this year, but we'll see. I'm already behind on comment responding for this year, which, please forgive me if I haven't said something to you this week, it's kind of been A Week at points. *facepalm*

Anyway. I'm doing that ramble awfully thing again, so let me cut it off here and say if you give people love, you're awesome, and if you want to give me love in any form, I am always so, so grateful to people who do that, whether or not I remember to say so in a timely fashion.

*flings the post at Dreamwidth and runs flailing away*

Day 3: In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create.

This is my favorite day. I really like reccing shit, okay. Which is why I constantly go overboard. *shrugs*

The theme is Vids With Under 2,000 Plays/Views. Because why not. I meant to write commentary on them, but 1) it's getting late in the day and I want to get to day 4 today too, and 2) they'd all just be incoherent squeeing, honestly. XD

( 11 Vids: MCU (general and Agent Carter-specific), Hannibal, Leverage, Sanctuary. )

(I am going to dance back and do day 7 today at some point, possibly in conjunction with the January meme, since the next prompt I have up I want to do fic for. But here goes.)

Day 8
In your own space, make a list of at least 3 things that you like about yourself. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I am far from the first person to say this, but I kind of hate this question. My self-esteem issues are epic and all-consuming and that's without getting into the part where my sense of self is kind of screwed up. But I am trying to get all the days done, so here goes nothing, I guess.

( Iiiii stared at this for about ninety minutes and I still kind of copped out on the last one. )

Day 03
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.

And I've been kind of meaning to think about goals all week, so uh. Let's see. Where to start.

( Goals for 2017. )

Day 2
In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul.

This was a hard one for me, weirdly enough.

( Rambling and multiple answers below. )

Day 03: 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.

The theme to this list is "things I'd like to do more of", whether that's media forms or stories I want to continue.

( Self-recs below. )


And I will answer comments and generally exist more tonight; I am off to steal 5-ish hours sleep.

Day 01

In your own space, talk about why you are doing the Fandom Snowflake Challenge? What drew you to it as a participant? What do you hope to accomplish by doing these challenges? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I did a little bit of the challenge last year, but got distracted/busy. I read along to other people doing it a lot, though, because it makes me excited for fandom all over again. My fannish activity has been pretty low lately, but I love fandom in a lot of ways, and talking about it, and reading what other people have to say about it, reminds me why.

Also, you know, reasons to talk to new people! ...I'm bad at that thing but I'd like to be better at it, so I like participating in things that give something to talk about.

I really hope this is coherent cause I'm on my way to bed and can't entirely tell.

I am home early (YAY) and going to take advantage of this to catch up a bit on snowflake challange. i apologize in advance for the spam. which will probably be a retrospective apology by the time most people get to this post but, eh.

In your own space, talk about what surprises you about fandom. It could be a pairing or fandom you never thought you'd like. A fanwork type you never knew existed. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

( Things that have surprised me. )