Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Days Five to Eight
I was busy writing for 
fandom_stocking, so missed the last few days, and right now my mood is odd and vaccillating somewhere between some sort of directionless anger and wanting to cry, so distraction by way of positivity may be a good idea.
Day Five: In your own space, talk about a creator. Show us why you think they are amazing.
This was hard to decide, because there are so many awesome people on the SWG and elsewhere, but
dawn_felagund is amazing. She's not just an incredible writer whose stories have both haunted and inspired me years down the road, and made me pick up writing again by leading by example of showing what she loved, and, well, she's the founder of SWG, in itself a treasure, and quite aside from that she is a wonderful, helpful and kind person who must be in possession of one of those Harry Potter time-turners because I can't imagine how she fits so many things into a single day and doesn't hibernate for a week just to recharge afterwards.
Day Six: In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul.
There are two major works that impacted me - the first being the X-Files as gateway fandom from when I was very young, and also the fandom that got me on the internet, the first I actively read and wrote fanfic for and the one that taught me the main fannish ropes.
The other being Tolkien's legendarium. At the point the movies came out I was starting to be bullied badly at school, and even though I'd read and enjoyed LotR a while before that, I didn't have a problem putting the books aside afterwards until the movies rekindled my interest (I remember sitting in the cinema while the credits were rolling and not wanting to move, until my mother elbowed me in the ribs). This sounds schmoopy, but they didn't just offer me a retreat (and still do), the various eucatastrophes and resistance against the darkness also gave me hope that I'd get out of the situation I was in (Above all shadows rides the sun and stars forever dwell / I will not say the day is done, nor bid the stars farewell was my mantra for the longest time) and connecting to other fans gave me commmunity and support I didn't have in RL. I met a lot of wonderful people through this fandom, some of whom I've known for more than a decade now and also met in RL (Lyra, Vicky, Jen, looking at you three in particular) and they (the books and the people both) are the reason why some unsavoury thought experiments at that point remained thought experiments only.
So, for however much I dislike some aspects of the legendarium, there is so much more to be grateful for that the first time you can expect me to let go of these books is when I'm dead and buried and my finger bones have crumbled to dust.
Day Seven: In your own space, create a fanwork. A drabble, a ficlet, a podfic, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. A picspam. Something.
My muses are refusing to come play, and I don't feel like dragging them out, so here's a link to something I made a while ago but never shared widely: The Tolkien Ladyfic Prompt Generator - exactly what it says on the tin, contains all (as far as I could ascertain) female characters in Tolkien's legendarium and can be used for either female-centric fic or even femslash.
idleleaves kindly let me steal and adapt her coding. :)
Day Eight: In your own space, create a love meme for yourself. Let people tell you how amazing and awesome and loveable you really are.
How about my thread on the anon feedback meme instead, where you can drop crit, concrit and positive feedback for my writing? (Please don't just shower me with praise, I don't deserve that.)
This entry was originally posted at http://elleth.dreamwidth.org/313469.html.
fandom_stocking, so missed the last few days, and right now my mood is odd and vaccillating somewhere between some sort of directionless anger and wanting to cry, so distraction by way of positivity may be a good idea.
Day Five: In your own space, talk about a creator. Show us why you think they are amazing.
This was hard to decide, because there are so many awesome people on the SWG and elsewhere, but
dawn_felagund is amazing. She's not just an incredible writer whose stories have both haunted and inspired me years down the road, and made me pick up writing again by leading by example of showing what she loved, and, well, she's the founder of SWG, in itself a treasure, and quite aside from that she is a wonderful, helpful and kind person who must be in possession of one of those Harry Potter time-turners because I can't imagine how she fits so many things into a single day and doesn't hibernate for a week just to recharge afterwards.
Day Six: In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul.
There are two major works that impacted me - the first being the X-Files as gateway fandom from when I was very young, and also the fandom that got me on the internet, the first I actively read and wrote fanfic for and the one that taught me the main fannish ropes.
The other being Tolkien's legendarium. At the point the movies came out I was starting to be bullied badly at school, and even though I'd read and enjoyed LotR a while before that, I didn't have a problem putting the books aside afterwards until the movies rekindled my interest (I remember sitting in the cinema while the credits were rolling and not wanting to move, until my mother elbowed me in the ribs). This sounds schmoopy, but they didn't just offer me a retreat (and still do), the various eucatastrophes and resistance against the darkness also gave me hope that I'd get out of the situation I was in (Above all shadows rides the sun and stars forever dwell / I will not say the day is done, nor bid the stars farewell was my mantra for the longest time) and connecting to other fans gave me commmunity and support I didn't have in RL. I met a lot of wonderful people through this fandom, some of whom I've known for more than a decade now and also met in RL (Lyra, Vicky, Jen, looking at you three in particular) and they (the books and the people both) are the reason why some unsavoury thought experiments at that point remained thought experiments only.
So, for however much I dislike some aspects of the legendarium, there is so much more to be grateful for that the first time you can expect me to let go of these books is when I'm dead and buried and my finger bones have crumbled to dust.
Day Seven: In your own space, create a fanwork. A drabble, a ficlet, a podfic, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. A picspam. Something.
My muses are refusing to come play, and I don't feel like dragging them out, so here's a link to something I made a while ago but never shared widely: The Tolkien Ladyfic Prompt Generator - exactly what it says on the tin, contains all (as far as I could ascertain) female characters in Tolkien's legendarium and can be used for either female-centric fic or even femslash.
idleleaves kindly let me steal and adapt her coding. :)
Day Eight: In your own space, create a love meme for yourself. Let people tell you how amazing and awesome and loveable you really are.
How about my thread on the anon feedback meme instead, where you can drop crit, concrit and positive feedback for my writing? (Please don't just shower me with praise, I don't deserve that.)
This entry was originally posted at http://elleth.dreamwidth.org/313469.html.