Snowflake a bunch

[donutsweeper]

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. They are:

Words- finding the right one and whatnot - including lists for alternates for "said," "walk," and "very;" geographic descriptions; words to describe smells/sounds/touch/expressions/tone; body language and emotion terms; online dictionaries/thesauruses/etc; translation websites, etc. (on DW and LJ)
Titles- links for helping to come up with one including title generators, sites with searchable poetry and quote indexes, etc. (on DW and LJ)
Fighting/Military/Police - info on various weapons; writing different kind of fight scenes; military, police and forensic links and more (on DW and LJ)
Injuries/Medical stuff- a huge post with info on how to hurt and then treat your characters 'realistically', or at least somewhat. Includes basic first aid info, general/specific injuries/maladies, descriptions of various situations/injuries/etc, and lots, lots more. (on DW and LJ)
Useful writing/editing programs for the writing itself, editing, encouragement and more. (on DW and LJ)
Generators and things that offer prompts - for when you need help coming up with plots, names, spells, whathaveyou (on DW and LJ)
Folklore, Mythology, Paranormal, Map Making, World Building, Name and Language Creation Links both information on existing things as well as how to create your own for your own AU/world/universe. (on DW and LJ)
Helpful AO3 and general writing links- Tips and tricks for posting, using and searching AO3 as well as some general writing links- (on DW and LJ)
Cinema, Clothes, and History and Hygiene Links Plenty of Hollywood/movie/tv links (including scripts and other IMDB-type databases), historical research links (ranging from the 'ancient world' to the Victorian era to the old west to more modern and lots inbetween), food history links, lots of clothing (including armor) and hygiene links (historical through modern) and general fashion stuff- over 170 links in total. (on DW and LJ)
Randomness - 110+ links on survival/criminal skills, research, and much, much more (on DW and LJ)

So.. 850+ links sort of semi-organized and hopefully helpful and constantly growing since I'm always adding to them as I find more things.

(Some of the links died during the tumblrpocalypse and I tried to find them and replace if possible but if you come across any I missed just let me know and I'll delete/update the faulty link.)

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