I love the winter...

snowflake_challenge  - Day 15



Although I'm done all the entries for the challenge, I haven't finished looking at other people's contributions.

For me this year's challenge mostly was introspective, remebering last year and seeing if there were changes of how I do fandom.
I enjoyed how many people started posting on their journal again and I'm looking forward to future interactions.

Thanks to everyone who looked at my journal, but mostly thanks to the lovely and enthusiastic mods! <3

snowflake_challenge - Day 13


What have I read recently (i.e. last year) that impressed me or made an impact?

1) "Document" by azurejay (and chimeras)
Bandom, Fall Out Boy
23.910 words
Summary: The one where Patrick is not a girl.

I read this after I'd seen a documentary about a trans tenager, and lots of the personal subjects of that doc I found in that fic again. Combined with brilliant writing and "boys on tour" I enjoyed reading it very much.


2) "That one regret is you" by thescrewtapedemos
Bandom, Panic At The Disco
13.969 words
Summary: There’s a witch living way out in the woods (that’s Spencer) and there’s someone running blindly through said woods (that’s Brendon) and that’s about where the similarity to a fairytale ends (there’s a cauldron but Spencer only uses it to make soup so Brendon’s pretty sure it doesn’t count).

Citing my own comment: "Your summary had me already, but then your story turned out not only funny, but also heart-wrenching and really lovely.
I'm glad I found it."


3) "Six Years On" by speakingwosound (sev313)
One Direction (Band)
46.582 words
Summary: All it takes is Harry standing in his doorway and Louis remembers, in technicolor, why he’s spent so long being angry and guilty. Because the alternative – the bone-deep, missing-a-lung, constant ache of missing him – is unbearable.
Six years after One Direction breaks up, Harry wants to publish a tell-all book.

Yes, my journey through AO3 from author to author to author's bookmarks has also lead me to One Direction fic. Although I'm not keen on their music, only know about three songs, have avoided to look at many pictures online, I enjoyed reading some of the fics. After all they're a - erm, a GROUP NOT A BAND (my pet-peeve) and the touring-, gang-mentality-, found-family tropes are all in there.
This is a future-fic with lots of pining, misunderstandings and feelings, ending in a three-way relationship that really appealed to me.

[insert witty concluding statement here - today I don't seem to able to write them - see also last posts.]
 

snowflake_challenge  - Day 11


I'm not good at liking myself. Not sure if that's just a me-thing, a not-being American-thing or something else that lets me shy away from praising my own character-traits.

But anyway....

1) I like my humour. Which is mostly ironic sarcasm, but I find it funny. I learned laughing about myself which wasn't easy.

2) ...

3) ....

Nah, doesn't really feel right. Sorry. Failed this challenge.

snowflake_challenge - Day 9




I'm not very good with goals, I don't have good ideas when under pressure, so I'm keeping this quite open and relaxed.

- I want to read lots of great fic.
- I'd like to be inspired to write something myself.
- I had fun doing graphics and digital art, so I'm looking forward to what inspiration I'll have.

We'll see. :-)

Snowflake Challenge 2016 - Day 7 snowflake_challenge  - Day X

What a great day for this challenge: David Bowie has released his newest video "Lazarus" today, and tomorrow is the day that his new album "Blackstar" goes on sale.
The first time I started interacting with other fans was because of David Bowies. We swapped tapes and videos and articles, wrote letters and met at parties and concerts.
I feel lucky because I was able to see Bowie performing live several times.
Although I'm not really in touch with other fans anymore, I still buy his records and enjoy his strange artistic output.
Here's an old favourite, performed live:


And this is his new video for "Lazarus": Link to VEVO here if the embedding doesn't work.

snowflake_challenge  - Day 5
I started doing this yesterday and will continue doing it. *goes to read entries for days 3 and 4*

snowflake_challenge  -  Day 3



1) Icons and Artwork for the Bandom Holiday Exchange 2015
My most recent work. I'm very happy that the recipient liked what I created.

2) Poison Pink
Art and ficlet for a bandom_meme  prompt.

3) Oh, Tom
Words for the little known fandom "Alles Was Zählt" which I mentioned in another entry. No knowledge of the fandom is necessary to read this, mostly because I finished an old draft and have no idea myself what exactly this was about. But I liked the sentiment, so I put it on AO3.

This year I'm late to the challenge because I was away for the last few days to celebrate New Years Eve with a friend, but now that I'm home again I'm looking forward to catching up with reading the others' entries and challenging myself. So, let's start:

snowflake_challenge  - Day 1

I usually start work after the holidays on January 7th, so the Snowflake Challenge always has been a lovely thing to start the new year and spend my days off doing fannish stuff. Looking forward to a new challenge each day also made the first days of work in January easier.
Of course I also make resolutions to create more during the coming year - with mixed results. Oh well.
Mostly I do it because it's fun and a great opportunity to read about other fans and their fandoms.