Snowflake Challenge #8

Starting in the middle like a champ!

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well.

Like a lot of people, 2021 is a hard year for me to look back on and actually find some good. Thankfully, the list of starter ideas from the challenge post helped me come up with something.

I am proud that I posted more fics than I thought I did. I've been so focused on what I didn't do, I've been neglecting what I actually did do.

Aside from my usual fair:

I did a fest I wouldn't normally do because some of my “friends” were being highly judgmental and policing the subject matter of my fics the last couple years, without me realizing that was changing what I was writing for fear of alienating them. I had fun. The fic has been well received. I'm not friends with some of those people anymore (because boundaries) and I've been better off for it. (Yup, vague on purpose.)

I wrote for several fests in a fandom (Batman) that I don't normally write fic for, despite being in it for years, even though I was terrified of being roasted in said fandom and my alpha reader had to bail on me before she even got to read anything (for very legit IRL reasons). I'm proud of myself for actually posting. And I was just overthinking things. My fics are fine. Basically, I was holding back because one person's comments were living rent free in my head and I finally got over it.

I wrote a fic for a fandom I haven't written for in two decades. (Happy Days)

I made a Batman/Addams Family crossover AU and it's weirdly wholesome.

I finally posted part of my Batman/Avatar: the Last Airbender crossover Occult AU.

I actually completed a Horror Movie Synopsis Challenge at the fffc on time.

I finally started posting my Rowena (Supernatural)/Morgana (Merlin) fics.

I started writing Clark Kent/Jimmy Olsen because there is almost none on AO3 and it feels like a crime against fandom.

So clearly, I am a badass. (I'm kidding, but I am proud of myself.)

Snowflake Challenge 2022 Master Post

Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2022




Day 1 In your own space, update your fandom information! A new about me post with mostly the same info as the old one, but updated and, hopefully, more streamlined. Not all the links in the important links post are up-to-date, but most are. My transformative works policy, my “please comment to be added” post (aside from a new banner), profile bio, and interests all don't need to be updated.

Day 2 In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.

Day 3 In your own space, put some favorite characters into an AU, fuse some favorite canons together, talk about your favorite AU/fusion tropes, or tell us why AU/fusions aren’t your cup of tea.

Day 4 In your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, and/or that you'd like someone to create or do for you.

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8 In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well.

Day 9 In your own space, list your Fandom Wrap categories.

Day 10 In your own space, rec a fanwork (fic, art, vid, playlist, anything!) you did not create.

Day 11 In your own space, Interact with someone. I did this, but there isn't a post for it.

Day 12 In your own space, tell us who you would recast in a film, tv series or webseries, or maybe someone voicing a cartoon or videogame. Or who would you cast to play a character in a book, comic or maybe even your own fiction!

Day 13

Day 14 In your own space, post your pictures of your fandom scavenger hunt results.

Day 15

Snowflake Friending Meme (links directly to mine)