Snowflake Challenge - Day 2!
Day 2
In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Fandom tends to clump together, and that's has both positive and negative effects. It's the basis of our support networks, our intertwined lives, but it also tends to isolate us and we forget the existence of other fans outside of our chosen place. Maybe it's time to reach out to fans on other platforms, in other places and say hello.
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fan_flashworks This is a fantastic comm with "flash" monthly themes, as well as regular amnesty periods. The themes are always multi layered so you have lots of freedom, but yet they give some structure for those "what the heck should I write next" moments. The current theme is "resolutions," which can be taken in any of its meanings, etc. (fantastic theme!!!)
oxoniensis Porn Battle! The link is to her account, where she hosts this awesome event - and the next round is coming RIGHT up. This event is awesome and exists on lj, dw, tumblr, AO3, etc. People from all over fandom participate and leave prompts in a huge variety of fandoms and it's great!
kink_bingo Fantastic comm that runs challenges for kink. On hiatus until next year, but in the meantime has a wealth of information and ideas and fic.
fancake With the demise of Crack_van on livejournal (SOB), this is an invaluable source of detailed recs. You know, when you need descriptions and reasons, not just a bookmark. Comm has themes and amnesty periods and has a huge range of recs already (and is actively seeking more variety in types of fandoms). Anyone can rec.
bestthingever This comm is for reccing recent (posted in the last three months?) fic. A fantastic resource for those "what is new that I might want to read?" moments. Sometimes, you just want a great fic, and the fandom doesn't matter that much - or you can discover a new one. Again, anyone can rec.
Also, I love pinboard (well, not as much as I loved Delicious back when it actually functioned for me in the way I wanted)! Super functional and does what I need: pinboard.in/u:cathalins
Finally, tumblr! Looking back at the posts I've Liked is... kind of a snapshot of my brain, I suppose haha! Though I go weeks sometimes without going on there, other times I'm on there waaaaay too much: cathalins.tumblr.com/
Well and honestly, I spend a lot of my time on archiveofourown.org/users/cathalin . Well, not on my own page haha - on pages of others, reading fic in a multitude of fandoms.
Also posted at My Dreamwidth. Comment in either place. <3