Snowflake the first

Challenge #1

In your own space, introduce yourself! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

It me

Right, let's see. I am donutsweeper aka donut, penguinsweaters, or ibble depending on the platform (donutsweeper on LJ, DW, a few discord servers and AO3, penguinsweaters on tumblr and in some discords and ibble on the rest of the discords, especially Yuletide's and EAD's).

I write a lot for exchanges but mostly treats as I rarely sign up. My goal this year, as it has been for... the last 6 years I think(?) is to actually write something outside of an exchange/promptfest/whathaveyou. We'll see if it happens this year.

I do a lot of crafts so often post pictures of rugs I made or crochet projects I finished. (Although I am also very likely to forget to post about them as well because brains, what are they?)

Fandomwise, I'm not really "in" anything at the moment, although I've been reading a ton of NDZS/The Untamed fic of late and reccing a bunch of it over at recthething which I also crosspost here when I remember so I suppose that counts. There's a ton of other fandoms I randomly flitter though though.

I need to do a Yuletide wrap up post with the seven fics I wrote for it this year and maybe I'll try a year-in-review thing too, but, ehhh, we'll see. I've also been vaguely considering an overall Yuletide retrospective that'll include stats and whatnot on everything I've done for the 11 years I participated but... effort. And time. Why don't time turners exist in the real world?

Yuletide Reveals!

Well, I did even less this year for Yuletide than last year and didn't meet my personal goal, but it's not the least I ever did for Yuletide so I guess that's something. In no particular fandom order I wrote:

By Jove, I Think He’s Got It (No Wait Never Mind) - Without a Clue - Summary: Reginald Kincaid was starting to really embody the role of Sherlock Holmes, although there might still be some tweaks that still needed to be worked out. (1829 words)
{This is one of my favorite titles I think I've ever come up with}

Out of the Way Assignments and Astrophysics - Tremors (1990) - Summary: Trylos Seven was a sparsely populated, mostly ignored, and exceptionally boring part of space. When Rhonda had been assigned to monitor the observation post there she'd expected she'd spend a boring term collecting and correlating data. She was wrong. (3892 words)
{Tremors IN SPACE!!!! Such fun to write}

Appeasement Fed - The Yellow Wallpaper crossover(ish) with The Residence at Whitminster - Summary: Everything had been planned down to the tiniest of details. It had to be, or the ritual would not work. (1078 words)
{Two creepy stories, one creepier fanfic}

Splitting to a New Direction - Wild Wild West - Summary: Things going a little awry normally ended badly for Jim. Not this time. (1328 words)
{This is entirely a result of a WWW gifset I saw once}

How to Thrive in the Cloud Recesses - MDZS Q with nods to other MDZS canons- Summary: Wei Wuxian had thought that every copy of How to Survive in the Cloud Recesses had been destroyed. He was wrong. (1209 words)
{an offshoot of the 4th episode and the book WWX wrote in it, lighthearted and fun, like the show}

Clarity, of a Different Kind - MDZS donguha with nods to other MDZS canons - Summary: Lan Wangji has been carrying Wei Ying's clarity bell for a long time. (1290 words)
{the cartoon's darker tone kind of broke me so I needed to write something a little hopeful}

Frame of Fearsome Symmetry - MDZS donguha with nods to other MDZS canons - Summary: When, in a combination of irony and revenge, Wei Wuxian took Wen Zhuliu's core and crushed it, he hadn't expected the result. (1060 words)
{canon divergent from ep 15 and kind of dark but come on, there was a golden core *right there*}

I got a great story based off of The Little Free Library short story I promo-ed and nommed, as did someone else so now there's two stories for the fandom in the archive which is all kinds of exciting. Spreading the love of fandoms is so fun.