Snowflake Challenge 2024 #3: A List of Wishes

Challenge #3 asks us to think of ourselves first, so that others might bring us joy.

Create a wish list of fandom things (podfic, graphics, playlists, canon recs, translations, research help, vids, sky's the limit!) that you'd like to receive.

( Watch me flounder as I consider it. )

Still, may as well give it a try, right?

• I always like transformative works of my works. There's the AO3 Output tag, which has the summaries and some comments on the works, and broken up into chunks rather than trying to wade through the entire two hundred plus set of works on AO3 all by themselves. So if there's an image you want to draw, or a work that asks to be made into audio, or there's a moodboard or icons or other such things that you'd like to make, that would be really cool.


• I am serious about writing the thing that's your perspective, or that's the work specifically meant to be a callout to a creator that has loaded up their world with sexism, misogyny, transphobia and transmisia, racism, and other such social ills. Make their world better, and be sufficiently over-the-top that it's unmistakable that you're doing it because the original creator made poor choices and then doubled down repeatedly on it. Vivisect those poor choices in meta that makes it clear how terribly wrong things have gone and what it would take to bring things back to acceptable, much less good. The Web is full of strong opinions, why not give it a few that are organic and real, rather than generated by algorithms, clickbait, and confabulation machines?


• Last, even though it's likely to show up later in the challenge as another activity, it's really easy for creators to get snowed under in negative comments, or to have been doing a lot of creating without anyone commenting on the work at all. I don't need someone to comment on my things (you're welcome to, if you want), but if there's someone else work you've admired, leave them a nice comment where you can, and let them know. Yes, even if it's next to a hundred other comments if the same kind, because creators appreciate having as many of those nice feedback as they can, especially the ones who are doing neat things and then have campaigns orchestrated against them. Or leave a supportive comment for a marginalized creator you have learned from or enjoyed their work, because they're more likely to have the people trying to hound them off the Web.

These are hopefully doable things, and there might be ample opportunities to make them go over the course of the challenge.