Snowflake Challenge 2024 - Challenge #1

Challenge #1: Fandom Information

Decided in the end to just make a new post instead of updating my sticky introduction post, as I just couldn't figure out how to adjust it, LOL.

So! Fandom information.

I'm TisStrangerEerierAndPreposterousUsername on AO3 (I was trying to max out the characters in my username in an attempt to have more Vibes~ in my fun fandom hobby, LOL). I'm *hoodwinked* on Squidgeworld Archive and Ad Astra (a Star Trek fanfiction archive), both built on AO3's code.

I wouldn't say that I'm really *in* a fandom right now; at the moment I'm more just coasting between different fandoms/pairings I find interesting, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm *invested* in them, if that makes sense. I don't think I quite latch onto fandoms in that manner where I get like super, super into something, but I tend to always have 5 or so fandoms I'm interested in enough to read and write fics for.

I don't know, I've ruminated on fandom before and to be truthful I think it might be a result of limited spoons for fandom stuff, and just a preference for using those spoon I do have to write fun fics, instead of necessarily talking about/with the fandom. Lots of executive dysfunction and chronic pain is perhaps not the best combination, LOL.

Last month I wrote four fics, all different fandoms. One Blade (Movie Trilogy) fic written for smallfandomfest, a Call of Duty fic, one for Hit the Floor (TV) and one fic for A.M. Burrage's short story The Attic written for tinyfandomflash (which I run!).

I think that's pretty much where my fandom interest lies these days when it comes to 'things I want to write' (but maybe not? Will I actually write more for any fandom I've dipped my toe into before? Impossible to say) but 'things I want to read' goes much, much wider; as evident, I'm very much not monofanish.

Over the years there have been occasions where I've gotten pretty invested in a new fandom/pairing very quickly and go on reading sprees on AO3, but they typically don't last long enough for me to write a lot of fics myself, and my burning desire to Read All The Fics tend to burn itself out very quickly. DCU and ATLA are probably the longest-lasting examples of this; those fics can be found on hoodwinked, my older AO3 account I'm not much using these days.

There are characters I'm more perpetually drawn to even when the larger fandom interest fades; Jason Todd (DCU), Draco Malfoy (HP) and Kuei (ATLA) are probably the ones at the top. But that doesn't translate into any 'constant' interest, it's more a case of going back to them every once in a while, just because I'm still intrigued and would like to do more exploration.

Mood plays into a lot, I think. Sometimes I'm in the mood for Teen Wolf fics, and then I'll read a bunch for a week and then that'll mood change and I'll go for something else. So it's always hard to say 'I'm into these and these and these specific fandoms.'

Hmmm.

Snowflake Challenge 2024 - Challenge #2

Challenge #2: Goals

I signed up to both getyourwordsout and inkingitout with a 500k word goal, so that's my big writing goal for the year. I don't think I'll actually make it, LOL, it's more a case of setting a ridiculous goal so I'll be proud of the progress I *do* make instead of disappointed with the progress I *don't* make.

My smaller, but arguably more important, writing goal is to rewrite the kidlit novel (written in my native language, so one of my few projects not in English, LOL) that I finished in December because yikes, it needs to be gutted and redone almost from the top. But I would love to get that done!

I read 41 books in 2023 according to my reading log, so surpassing that would be cool, but it's not an Important™ goal.

I'd like to keep doing Ad Astra's monthly Review Hunts, because I do think they're helping immensely with getting comfortable with commenting. I've made great strides in Actually Interacting With People™ in the last year, as opposed to just lurking and wondering why nobody's saying hello, and I'd like to continue that.

Most of that has happened on Dreamwidth, because things just move too quickly on discord and I can never figure out the appropriate time to interrupt a conversation in order to say hello, or whatever. I like the chance to sit with my replies and properly gather the energy and spoons for an Interaction™.