Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Day 1

[dawn_felagund]

I am going to try to do the Fandom Snowflake challenge this year. Like all of it. I usually do a day here or there, but I've liked journaling daily as part of the photo-of-the-day (although if my performance on that is any indication, then I'll miss a few days of Snowflake as well).

Day One's challenge is:

In your own space, post a rec for at

Comments

[oloriel]

Until you wrote this, I didn't even realise what a privilege small archives like the SWG are coming to be. Somehow, I've been assuming that it's a matter of course that there are plenty of home-grown archives catering to specific tastes, and the big melting pots of ff.net or AO3 (which is not meaning to say that these two are in any way comparable, except as massive multi-fandom, multi-genre platforms) have had... a reason for existing, sure, but too big to easily navigate. Even when recced (and thus directly linked to) a story, if I have several archives to choose from, I'll always prefer to read it on SWG or LJ rather than AO3 or (Valar help me) Tumblr. (Unlike you, I'm a bit of a Luddite; it's not that all new technology/platforms are evil, but I'm certainly not eager to leave a comfortable space for something "new and exciting", and Tumblr in particular rubs me entirely the wrong way. I sort of like the theory behind AO3, but haven't yet felt the urge to sign up.) It's so sad to see a mess like what happened to LOTRfanfiction, or

[engarian]

I, for one, am so grateful for all you have done for the Tolkien fandom. I was pulled into it by reading stories including your "Another Man's Cage", then participated and read LJ and the B2BeM stories, then I began writing and posted to SWG and/or MPTT. All of these have your hand and your thorough stamp on them. Mere thanks are totally inadequate, but "Thank You" is all I have to offer. Thanks for all you do in this community, Dawn. You are AMAZING!

- Erulisse (one L)

[hhimring]

Originally, when I started using AO3, I was just thinking of it as an opportunity for on-line back-up. I confess it is more than that to me now--I found more readers there than I expected. But I still regard SWG as my online home and am so grateful for the passion and effort invested by you and the other mods into maintaining and improving it. If I upload something to AO3 before SWG, that's because in the case of SWG I actually care about not swamping the Most Recent box and am spacing out my uploads, whereas I figure AO3 can take it, even if I hurl a fistful of drabbles at it.

I'm sorry I have so little capacity for volunteering. I'm hoping to work on those back-up bios I promised you ages ago this week, although I've unfortunately gone down with a cold. (If you ever need a pinch-hitter for compiling the Around the World and Web section of the newsletter, I might be able to help as well.)