stripytights

I am running super behind on everything this year, from recs, to letters and everything else. So just a very quick note to say that Snowflake Challenge is running again. It's a really fun way to get to know other people, particularly on Dreamwidth and to generate some interesting thoughts through January. I really recommend it and would love to see some familiar (and new) faces.

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.

This is easily the most difficult challenge so far which is truly ridiculous really! But I just don't really visit many fannish places outside of heavily fic-oriented communities (even then mostly exchanges) and personal journals. So I was scouring my brain for ideas and coming up with absolutely nothing. A browse through my internet bookmarks however yielded the things below and I hope some of them are of some use. They're more resources than communities.

( Day 5: In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them.  )

Day 2

Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.


I haven't had nearly as much chance to read as much fanfic as I'd like in the past year, but what I have read has been amazing. There's no theme uniting these - they're simply individual pieces that I enjoyed a great deal and that I think no matter the size of their audience, could always use one more look. The only criteria I tried to keep to was that I had to have read them this year (not necessarily made this year)

( Fandoms beneath the cut are: Supernatural, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Lord Peter Wimsey, The Wire )