Day One

[cornerofmadness]

Yeah my face is like Mustang's in the icon. Honestly day one wasn't that bad but some students didn't know TR meant Tuesday and Thursday and weren't there. The book store failed AGAIN. That's the biggest issue for me. Other than that my day is long and otherwise uninteresting so let me launch into some Snowflake challenges

Challenge #8

In your own space, create a quiz or a poll (or tell us your thoughts about answering quizzes/polls). Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I almost took a pass on this because my brain was a) WHEE love this idea b) I HAVE NO QUESTIONS. Snort. Here's something I half assed because it does interest me.

Poll #28257 Older Fandoms

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26

View Respondents

Are you still active in a fandom that's been off the air more than 10 years

View Answers

yes still very active
12 (46.2%)

yes but occasionally
14 (53.8%)

no
0 (0.0%)

What keeps you going in an older fandom

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still love the characters
10 (38.5%)

there are more stories to tell
1 (3.8%)

the friends you made in fandom
0 (0.0%)

all of the above
15 (57.7%)

other
0 (0.0%)

Challenge #9

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, time you spent in the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Okay fandom wise there are these stories I'm super proud of (They're all Prodigal Son)

Digging Up Bones the latest novel-length entry into my series where Ainsley tried to cover her crime by killing Malcolm and what happens when he survives.

Bound by Fear the latest novel-length entry into my series where Martin did try to kill Malcolm as a kid and what happens when he survives (are we seeing a pattern)

Forbidden my AU romance for unconventionalcourtship using Gil and Jessica (which is wild since in general I don't do AUs)

What the Hex Is Going On? A story with Edrisa and Malcolm (which tends to get much less notice) with a supernatural mystery flare for both fandomtrumpshate (a charity auction that might interest you) and spook_me (one of my favorite challenges)


Ignis Aurum Probat Episode 3X11 in a fan written virtual season for Prodigal Son. This was HARD. I don't like script writing much as it turns out and working with this many authors was more of a job than loads of fun. Still very proud of my script and the whole series.


Outside of fandom I'm very proud of Red of Tooth and Claw my 1980s era monster hunting college kids team story is 3/4ths the way done. I'd still love an alpha/beta reader for it and regardless I DID write a little holiday thing for it right here Fire Hazards

Also I went to New England on my own in spite of fears. For newcomers to my blog, in one month it'll be 2 years (somehow) since I had a serious fall and nearly lost my right leg. 2021 was me learning to walk and 2022 was continuing recovery. I was afraid to fly if the knee couldn't handle it and I wasn't sure I was up to a drive that big. As it turned out I had no issues at all.

Also very proud that I went HIKING with friends. Yes it was flat, yes it was short but that was my first time in the woods since the accident.

Comments

[under_the_silk_tree]

Congrats on all these you should be very proud!

Enjoyed the poll made me realize a lot of my fandoms are older ones. lol

[cornerofmadness]

thanks so much.

yes mine are all older too

[turps]

That is an impressive list of stories you're proud of.

And the fact you did such a long trip after such a serious injury is amazing. Especially the hiking part!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks all around

[trobadora]

Do book fandoms count as "off the air?"

Congrats on that impressive list of stories!

[cornerofmadness]

yes, yes books count

thanks

[spikedluv]

TBF, I wouldn't have known TR meant Tuesday and Thursday, either. That said, it's not an abbreviation for ANY day, so I might've at least asked?!!

Yay for being able to go on vacation and hiking!!!! That's great progress.

[cornerofmadness]

I had a few more do it but at least they caught it now. Once I had a student miss a month of thursdays. I'm like did you not wonder HOW you were missing so many notes.

but yes it should be T-TH or T-TR it's weird

[flamingsword]

Hurray for the cleverness of an education system that doesn’t teach kids to ask clarifying questions, I guess? Having gone to public school myself, after I got out it took a long time for me to ask questions of people in authoritarian structures like schools. If I couldn’t find out the information on my own without being sneered at or looked at as one more irritant to someone’s underpaid day, then I just tried to do without it. Public high school was hell for so many of us, and it’s probably worse now that the amount teachers make is proportionally even lower than when I was in school and y’all have whole new worries like school shootings.

*points at icon*
I am in multiple old fandoms, including the Good Omens book fandom, because that was one of my formative teenage books! So thank you for asking!

[cornerofmadness]

Perhaps I should have been more accurate and said I had little in the way of general fandom questions that interested me. (Seeing as I'm an educator and know perfectly well how to ask questions)

I have several older ones myself (looking at you Buffyverse). I enjoyed the Good Omens mini series


eta- that came out way snippier than I meant it. Sorry about that

[goodbyebird]

Oh wow, that must have been an extremely scary fall. So glad you managed your trip without issues, hopefully you've released some of the anxiety you had to push through. ❤️

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. Oddly enough the fall was against my couch but the knee bent backwards and that's all she wrote. I have beaten back so many fears at this point

[svgurl]

Congrats on the accomplishments, especially being brave enough to go back to where you got hurt and be able to hike after such a serious injury! You should totally be proud of that. :D

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks so much. Actually I got hurt right on my couch (and actually walking past that was hard). Sadly I don't think I can DO the hike right before I got hurt (too steep) but getting out there at all is an achievement

[harpers_child]

The state of my brain is such that occasionally I have to go read a bunch of Highlander fic. The ROG has to get sacrifices of my time once or twice a year and that's just the way things are.

I wish I could find new to me Le Femme Nikita fic about my boy in the icon.

[cornerofmadness]

I hear. Can't help with Le Femme Nikita

I am bad at reading fanfic. it's one of the reasons I decided to do the comment_bingo thing just to get me back into reading

[malinaldarose]

Congrats on the accomplishments, especially that last one! Almost all of my fandoms are very old ones, so, yeah. In fact, it occurred to me at work the other day, when conversing with my young coworker that she only gets most of my references because her husband is my age.

[cornerofmadness]

thank you. Opps, yeah my students don't always get my references most of my fandoms are old