...which is apparently part of how some people use it?
Part of the ethos of Snowflake is to step outside of your comfort zone and do things that are a little bit scary to you, and for many people who participate, interacting with new people falls under "do new scary things."
But the point of Snowflake is to be freeform and amorphous - you do challenges you want, in the time frame of your own choosing, and sharing the results with who you choose to share them with. \o/
I do appreciate the freeform and do-what-you-want nature of this challenge. I'm a completist by nature, so I do want to try to do everything, but sometimes with modifications and such -- it's definitely nice to have the flexibility.
Thank you for running this challenge, and continuing to do so! It was a great deal of fun for me last year, and I was looking foward to it this January too :)
Hello! I came to peek at your Snowflake wishes, and found your reading post, which filled me with great delight. Perhaps next year I'll manage something as long and thoughtful! We have many similar interests and bookish loves: Goblin Emperor, Captive Prince, Points. Are you on Goodreads?
Edited to add: Locke/Sabetha - what a long, long buildup to NOTHING. One of my most disappointing books!
Hi! Nice to meet you -- or, rather, nice to talk to you, because I've definitely noticed your name in posts of shared friends (we seem to have quite a few!)
I'm only just dipping into Points/Astreiant, having read just the novella, but I liked it a lot and plan to read more of the books.
Poking through your LJ and interests, I also really like the Swordspoint books (although, in the interests of full disclosure, I like Richard and Katherine a lot more than I like Alec :P)
I'm sort of on Goodreads, in that I have a Goodreads account, but I only use it to keep track of what my flist is reading for those folks who don't post about it on LJ -- I just have Goodreads email me their updates. I don't actually post there myself, but I do write about everything I'm reading on LJ. I try to keep things under the reading tag, but that one gets pretty messy, so the easiest way to find anything specific is via my author tags (and I love talking about books whenever, so if you do read any of those write-ups and want to talk, I am totally game,
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I'm not generally good at posting (unless it's Snowflake, or I'm doing an occasional NaBloPoMo), but I do manage to get out a Reading Wednesday post each week. And because I'm a person who loves making lists, and crossing things off of lists, I do several challenges at Worlds Without End. The first ones I did were the Women of Genre Fiction ones, which have been really helpful in my discovery of new authors to love.
I came across your Reading Wednesday posts and was very happy you're doing them too! A number of folks on my flist do, and that always makes Wednesday something to look forward to :)
I had no heard of Worlds Without End before, but having browsed, some of those challenges sound neat (and I love the titles :)
As far as reading challenges go, I find Reading Bingos work for me quite well, because they allow for, and even dictate, a spread of things, and yet I can mostly still read in my preferred genres. Plus, as you say, you get to cross things off, and there are short-term milestones (bingo!) before the final one (blackout). I've still got a couple of bingo cards from 2015 going (it was actually the result of last year's Snowflake Challenge), but I think I'm going to run out before the end of the year, so I should do something about that...
In 2015, I did read books written by a man, i.e. Max Gladstone. Apart from that, I basically stuck to women. We'll see what I end up reading this year.
These are great covers. The cover of The Summer Prince is my fave for the books I've read this year, I think.
Oh, that is a LOVELY cover -- I love the glowing tattoo thing on her arm -- it's very prettily done. (Also, I want to read some Alaya Dawn Johnson at some point; I've really enjoyed all of the short stories by her I've encountered in various anthologies, but haven't had her longer work come floating my way, so it hasn't happened yet. But some day!)
The tattoo is even a bit shiny on the paperback cover. That's so cool. :-)
I need to read more of her novels. I've loved this one so much that I'm a bit afraid I won't love the other ones as much, so I'm giving myself time (also, I have too many books to read already XD).
I have got to read the goblin emperor fics. For chocolate box I both requested them and actually offered for them, which terrifies me.
I see Csevet and Maia as more equal than people would think because Csevet does SO MUCH without running it by Maia. It's his job. He runs a lot of things that Maia is clueless about and will never touch. Maia would be lost without Csevet and vice versa.
For chocolate box I both requested them and actually offered for them, which terrifies me.
Oh, neat, I hope that leads to more TGE fic!
Having read a bunch of the TGE stories from Yuletide, it is my non-fanfic-writing opinion that it seems to be a book whose style is fairly easy to evoke so long as one pays attention to the pronouns and descriptive details (and, of course, all the fiddly naming bits XD)
I see Csevet and Maia as more equal than people would think because Csevet does SO MUCH without running it by Maia. It's his job. He runs a lot of things that Maia is clueless about and will never touch.I totally agree about that, and this is why Maia/Csevet does not bug me the way a lot of pairings with a power imbalance do -- but I do think *Csevet* thinks of them as unequal, or at least of needing to keep that distance. Which makes it interesting on the one hand, but on the other, I don't want that mental monologue in my fic, so I'd prefer Maia's POV, because Maia's view of their power dynamics is very different than Csevet's,
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I need to brush up on my pronouns, I know. And I'll stress the namey bits. If I end up writing it, of course.
Yeah, that's why it doesn't bother me either. Plus, Maia is too damn good to take advantage. He's too conscious of power schisms to exploit it. I read some of the (very few) fics there are so far and I liked them all, pretty much. I do agree, though, Csevet would view it differently and might have to be eased into it or assured along the way.
There doesn't seem to be any Csevet/Maia/Csetheiro though. Damn.
I've found one Csevet/Maia/Csethiro, in the context of a sex pollen Maia/everyone fic (this one) -- as in, it's Maia/everyone, but the ending points towards Csevet/Maia/Csethiro. But that's about it. Which is a pity and odd, because it strikes me as a dynamic that should appeal to more people and thus be written more.
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Part of the ethos of Snowflake is to step outside of your comfort zone and do things that are a little bit scary to you, and for many people who participate, interacting with new people falls under "do new scary things."
But the point of Snowflake is to be freeform and amorphous - you do challenges you want, in the time frame of your own choosing, and sharing the results with who you choose to share them with. \o/
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I do appreciate the freeform and do-what-you-want nature of this challenge. I'm a completist by nature, so I do want to try to do everything, but sometimes with modifications and such -- it's definitely nice to have the flexibility.
Thank you for running this challenge, and continuing to do so! It was a great deal of fun for me last year, and I was looking foward to it this January too :)
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Edited to add: Locke/Sabetha - what a long, long buildup to NOTHING. One of my most disappointing books!
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I'm only just dipping into Points/Astreiant, having read just the novella, but I liked it a lot and plan to read more of the books.
Poking through your LJ and interests, I also really like the Swordspoint books (although, in the interests of full disclosure, I like Richard and Katherine a lot more than I like Alec :P)
I'm sort of on Goodreads, in that I have a Goodreads account, but I only use it to keep track of what my flist is reading for those folks who don't post about it on LJ -- I just have Goodreads email me their updates. I don't actually post there myself, but I do write about everything I'm reading on LJ. I try to keep things under the reading tag, but that one gets pretty messy, so the easiest way to find anything specific is via my author tags (and I love talking about books whenever, so if you do read any of those write-ups and want to talk, I am totally game, ( ... )
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I had no heard of Worlds Without End before, but having browsed, some of those challenges sound neat (and I love the titles :)
As far as reading challenges go, I find Reading Bingos work for me quite well, because they allow for, and even dictate, a spread of things, and yet I can mostly still read in my preferred genres. Plus, as you say, you get to cross things off, and there are short-term milestones (bingo!) before the final one (blackout). I've still got a couple of bingo cards from 2015 going (it was actually the result of last year's Snowflake Challenge), but I think I'm going to run out before the end of the year, so I should do something about that...
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These are great covers. The cover of The Summer Prince is my fave for the books I've read this year, I think.
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I need to read more of her novels. I've loved this one so much that I'm a bit afraid I won't love the other ones as much, so I'm giving myself time (also, I have too many books to read already XD).
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I definitely know this feeling! But I hope the subsequent novels you read end up being just as good! :)
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I have got to read the goblin emperor fics. For chocolate box I both requested them and actually offered for them, which terrifies me.
I see Csevet and Maia as more equal than people would think because Csevet does SO MUCH without running it by Maia. It's his job. He runs a lot of things that Maia is clueless about and will never touch. Maia would be lost without Csevet and vice versa.
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Oh, neat, I hope that leads to more TGE fic!
Having read a bunch of the TGE stories from Yuletide, it is my non-fanfic-writing opinion that it seems to be a book whose style is fairly easy to evoke so long as one pays attention to the pronouns and descriptive details (and, of course, all the fiddly naming bits XD)
I see Csevet and Maia as more equal than people would think because Csevet does SO MUCH without running it by Maia. It's his job. He runs a lot of things that Maia is clueless about and will never touch.I totally agree about that, and this is why Maia/Csevet does not bug me the way a lot of pairings with a power imbalance do -- but I do think *Csevet* thinks of them as unequal, or at least of needing to keep that distance. Which makes it interesting on the one hand, but on the other, I don't want that mental monologue in my fic, so I'd prefer Maia's POV, because Maia's view of their power dynamics is very different than Csevet's, ( ... )
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Yeah, that's why it doesn't bother me either. Plus, Maia is too damn good to take advantage. He's too conscious of power schisms to exploit it. I read some of the (very few) fics there are so far and I liked them all, pretty much. I do agree, though, Csevet would view it differently and might have to be eased into it or assured along the way.
There doesn't seem to be any Csevet/Maia/Csetheiro though. Damn.
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