Snowflake a bunch

Well, whoops, missed several Snowflakes in a row. Not sure why I find these kind of posts and interactions so daunting but I got busy with the EAD Birthday Bash and just kept saying 'oh, I'll do snowflake in a bit' and that time never came....

Challenge #5: Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've briefly interacted with and friend/follow them.

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!

Challenge #7: Promote/Rec/Sing the Praises* of Yourself!

Okay, so I'm going to look at the challenge posts for 6 and 7 and then see what people post so that'll take care of #5. For 6... I always love transformative works of my things if anyone has any desire to podfic or do art for something I've written I'd be thrilled if you do so. I can't think of much else to ask for that.

For #7: Let's see, for recent(ish) fic, I'm pretty proud of original fic I did for last year's Chocolate Box called The Unexpected Rescue (summary: Jake had been a lifeguard for years but he'd never had a summer like this before. length:9k- no canon knowledge needed for this one, obviously, and I had a lot of fun working in bits and bobs of lifeguarding life from way back when.)

Also, something else I'm pretty proud of/like to promote is that as a result of a snowflake challenge a few years back to provide links to helpful writing or fannish resources and I realized while I had hundreds of links on a lot of different platforms (LJ, DW, Tumblr, bookmarks, del.icio.us, etc) but it was impossible to navigate or find anything so I started poking about to try to organize them. After weeding out the duplicates (and triplicates) and the dead links I started making masterposts around various themes. I've kept adding to them since then and now there's more than 850 writing/resource/research links spread between the ten posts. ( Read more... )

Anyway, I'm sharing those mostly in hopes someone will find some of them useful so please feel free to poke around them!