Snowflake Challenge Day 14

In your own space, write a love letter. Write it Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, or to your flist. Share you love and squee as loud as you want to

I've been a fan of some very awesome, iconic even things that I still love dearly in spite of their flaws. Star Trek, Star Wars, Elfquest, X-Files, The Big Bang Theory, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Lord of the Rings, Fullmetal Alchemist, Saiyuki, Black Butler, Ghost Hunter, Fairy Tail, Blue Exorcist and so very many more. I would recc these to anyone.

But more important to me than even that are the people I've met through fandom. Yes, there are those that make you crazy but mostly they fall away, taking their venom with them. I have met some of my best friends through fandom.

I have people on my livejournal and facebook that I've known from 1982 and there are some I just met in the last few weeks. I cherish the support I get from them. Many are just an ear to listen and often it's not just there for fannish stuff but real life too. Twice I've had fandom friends offer me a home to live in when I had none. I've had them bail me out money wise and I've helped other friends.

Some of them have become editors for my original fiction and I couldn't love them more for that. Thanks to them, I have a novel coming out in under two weeks now. It would never be as good as I think it is now without my fandom friends helping me.

If there is anything I miss about the dwindling of blog-based fandom is the closeness I share with my fannish friends. I live in an area of next to nothing to do (it's almost 15 miles to the nearest grocery store if that helps paint a picture). If I didn't have my fandom friends, my life would be work and the couch in front of the tv. They give me something more.

Snowflake Challenge Day 15

In your own space, create your own challenge. What’s something you want to see more people doing in fandom? Is there something fun you’ve tried that you think other people would enjoy if they gave it a go? Dare your friends to try it out, and have fun with it.

I would love to see people to just continue to write/draw and share it on more than one forum so more of us can see it. I would like to see people co-write every once in a while just for the challenge of it.

And read more (this includes myself). Take the time to comment. Please. Seriously. If you read it and like it, SAY something, if even 'good story.' How long would that take? I get kudos on Ao3 and favorited on FFN which is great, don't get me wrong but I would love to hear from the people even if it's just those two words? It really makes the writer/artists day when we hear from you.

If you hate it, I'd ask you hold your tongue. I have no patience with those who mock stories. If you don't like it, just move on. It hurt to see whole communities dedicated to mocking stories. What if they were young teens? Or a shy older writer just starting out and those cruel words crushed their writing/drawing spirit (and I have seen this happen SO many times).

I would love to see more tolerance. Take a look at my lj flist. I have people who love and write things I simply can't stand. I don't drop into those stories and say 'this pairing sucks!' I have no idea why people feel the need to say that. It's fine to say on your own journal but it's not fine to drop into someone's story merely to bash their pairing. What I'm really getting at is if you don't like a pairing, don't read it. There are far too many trolls as it is.

What I really want most is for us to keep creating, to keep shining and sharing. Drop in on that favorite author/artist you've never spoken to and tell them how much you enjoy their work. Share a list of your favorites for the rest of us. Find a new fun fandom, tell us about it (and harder still, don't be too disappointed if we don't all love it. Admittedly it is disappointing though when not everyone shares your love even though you know that is the truth about everything.)

This has been a fun challenge and a difficult one. THIS was the hardest yet. Thank you for running it.

Birthday wishes and random other stuff

Happy birthday (and late birthday) to makd and ital_gal. Hope you ladies had a good day.



As for me I seriously considered eating my brains with a spork during the first school of science meeting that was a 2 hour bitch fest and this on top of a day where i run and talk for 5 straight hours (I don't think people realize I stand all day) without even a lunch break.

On the other hand outside of some mild knee pain I DON'T hurt today at all.

I got my writers group stuff in on time and I filled out the cover specs for my steampunk novella. YAY me. (I wrote most of that during the spork me please meeting).

I was also lucky that the mods of fmabigbang gave me a touch of leeway (I was just a bit short due to all this pro writing).

Fan art calendar and it's one helluva a pretty one.

OMG the 70s I DARE the writers here to use these wall treatments in a story. Sad part? that swimmer mural thing? we had something like that and still do on the downstairs doors! And the flocked wallpaper on the shaggy staircase. Grandma's. No lie.

The last two Snowflakes Day 14


Day 15

declutter day 184 item tossed -Old antibiotics why kept-Infected why tossed -Made me sick, never took, expired