Snowflake meme: Day 7

[stripytights]

Day 7: Stretch yourself a little and try something new. Go play in a new fandom or with a new pairing. Try working in a new medium. Or check out some fanworks that are new to you. (The recs from Day 2 might be a good place to start.)


This is probably the most difficult one so far! I honestly wasn't sure how I could stretch myself without venturing into reading for fandoms without knowing the canon. I can't vid, draw or do anything even remotely clever with my hands. I write and read in all kinds of fandoms, across all kinds of kinks and pairings so it was hard to find something new within that, and I'm a very slow consumer of canons (if they're not books) so I didn't feel I could legitimately claim that either

But here goes a few small things

1) Thank you snickfic for reccing The Haunting of Hill House. I'm only three episodes in, and I am loving it! I'm just so sad that Yuletide is done
2) Thank you to spatz for reccing District 13. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time I was watching it - what action sequences! It whetted a long-standing enjoyment of really well done action films.
3) I'm in the process of writing for three new-to-me fandoms, two of which are absolutely mini, for the purposes of fandom_stocking. So even though they're not finished, I am absolutely counting that.
4) I waded into a book discussion space (classiclitclub) which while certainly not new to me, well it's always been a long time since WI've done that
5) I've read some lovely fic as a result of the recs of this challenge, and I have a little pile of bookmarks that I need to get back to and start leaving comments.

Comments

[corvidology]

Writing for a wide range of fandoms means you must always be pushing yourself out of your comfort zone. That definitely counts.

[stripytights]

Thanks <3 I do love small fandoms

[kiki_eng]

That's a pretty impressive list. :)

[stripytights]

Appreciated :)

[snickfic]

YAY, I'm glad you're enjoying HoHH! I would suggest Chocolate Box if you wanted to request it, but signups for that are closing in four hours, and I expect you're asleep. But there'll be requests to treat, if you feel the urge!

[stripytights]

Hilariously I woke up exactly four hours after you wrote this comment and rolled my incredibly sleepy self over to Chocolate Box to try for a last minute sign up, then fell asleep again!

Treats though...treats I can do. Thanks again for the rec!

[snickfic]

If you want to get fancy, someone made a cool app that makes it way easier to browse requests. There's some Haunting of Hill House incest requests that I am extremely *eyes emoji* over.

And you're very welcome!