I have collected my last 7 Snowflake Challenge posts into a blog post. Scrolling down and seeing the collective John Redcorn and Slaxl goonery all together is pretty crazy.

Changed fannish opinion. Mine? Appreciating the term "yaoi".

This 3am ramble will discuss "problematic" themes in art, sexism and racism/xenophobia. Crossposted from my mastodon/fediverse account.

I used to be one of those annoying "my glorious gay porn, their bad yaoi for GIRLS" people when I was an underage tf2channer. So I know exactly how those people think, and hope they grow out of it by the time they're 17.

It comes from:

The funniest thing about the modern iteration of 'yaoi is bad gay porn', is that in Ye Olde Days, yaoi was the "bad gay porn" because it wasn't problematic enough to be cool! While now it's 'real m/m is good representation, yaoi is problematic"

snowflake challenge #9: make something

i am very inexperienced with manips but i wanted to do something funnnn. i also made a 100px version bc the great thing about working in dw icon size is it doesnt matter if it looks like shit bc its very tiny

I meant to mention it earlier, but the yearly Snowflake challenge is going on at Dreamwidth and started yesterday! It's a sort of day by day meme for the entire month of January, with a prompt every other day for something to do or write about on Dreamwidth.

There's no deadline or expectations, really, so it's fine to skip individual days or go back later and do prompts after the day they were posted, though it's really a January event in terms of fandom activity. I've always wanted to do it and always got distracted by other things, so I'm trying to do all the prompts this year. We'll see.

The first challenge (per the link) is to update your Dreamwidth profile/profile post. When I went to change my actual profile, I realized I had ... never updated it, as far as I can tell? I've had an account since 2009, and I still had my interests listed as what they were when I made my account and had never gotten around to the mini-bio at all. So I updated my interests and wrote up a little fandom blurb and posted about it for yesterday's challenge.

Snowflake Challenge #2

Challenge #2 - Write a promo, manifesto or primer for your fave character, ship or fandom.

I am lazy so instead of doing this, I linked (on Dreamwidth, friendslocked) all the manifestos I’ve already written and also add some thoughts about how writing those manifestos made me wonder at my sometimes unpredictable/inconsistent taste in pairings, and how Quodo is simultaneously a very new/unusual kind of OTP for me to have and also kind of at the intersection of multiple dynamics I’ve been drawn to in the past. It’s simultaneously a bizarre OTP for me and a completely predictable OTP for me. The full discussion is over at my journal in a friends-locked post, but here is a part of it I’m fine sharing publicly:

Snowflake Challenge #4

Challenge #4

In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Daria Morgendorffer finds more than one friend who is similar to her during her first semester of College. At the same time, her sister Quinn finds that she's interested in Mathematics after Ms. Li ropes her into tutoring Kevin Thompson.

At the end of Dracula we should all read the discussion questions on the back of the book. Make it a Meme Challenge or whatever y’all call it these days.

Snowflake Challenge Day 8

(Playing catch-up here again.)

Challenge #8: In your own space, create a wishlist.

1. Any fics based on prompts from the following exchange letters (the most recent letters have my most up-to-date Likes and DNWs):

2. Recs from 2020’s TRSB or Innumerable Stars. Grad school began before reveals for both of them and I barely had the time to glance at the collections, much less read anything. I’m not likely to be interested in anything movieverse or starring Morgoth or Sauron and won’t read anything with unhappy endings or where Elrond is shipped with someone who isn’t Celebrían or Arwen not shipped with Aragorn (and vice versa). I’m open to any Age of Middle-earth. Ships: gen, het, poly involving at least one woman, and femslash.