Snoflake Challenge 2026 #15: Five Stars
Jan. 29th, 2026 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptLast call for this year's ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
snowflake_challenge, and, it's a bit like all the things asking us to rate and review them with our time.
I intend to keep going back and checking out entries when I'm not doing something else, and leaving comments, and trying to build that community and see interesting things that people have posted. It probably won't go that quickly, and I may not make it all the way through in a timely manner. But I'll try.
According to my own tags, this is the tenth year that I've done this, and it went just as all the others have - introspection, always feeling slightly orthogonal to fandom-at-large, doing my best to be understandable, sometimes even succeeding at it. New people stopping by, and stopping by new people. The thing that it's supposed to be about - going around and seeing what other people have done, and leaving an answer in your own journal for others to come see. To say that it is Snowflake-as-usual is not to say that it's boring, or ill-run, or any other kind of thing that's negative. After all, I run on a dopamine-deficient system, it seems, and I keep coming back for it every year. Because, mostly like the ever-shifting Tartarus of the Hades franchise, every time I embark on this, there's novelty enough, from prompts, participants, and others, that it's Calvinball - never exactly the same way twice. It's not entirely all new, and it's not entirely all the same, which makes it pretty much like the convention experience - a big burst of activity over a short period of time, with some familiar things, some new things, and a whole different group of people experiencing it alongside them. Some of those people are people that I already know well and am happy to have along with, and some of them are going to be new friends, or are the friends that only show up when we're in the same convention space. It's a yearly tradition at this point, and I'm probably building an interesting archive for myself to go look back on in time or when feeling nostalgic. Or when I'm thinking about how my relationship has changed over time. It's a good time to check in with myself and be okay with it all.
There will be one more thing, the final friending frenzy on the last day of January, Call it the 19th hole, if you like. If you also want to dive into something where you'll get to start making things, and making tiny things, go seethreesentenceficathon, because there are thousands of prompts there to look through and leave tiny ficlets for. For more grand things, fandomtrumpshate is currently open for signups, and with the way the United States and the world is these days, hopefully there will be a lot of resources available to donate to the chosen charities this year.
snowflake_challenge, and, it's a bit like all the things asking us to rate and review them with our time. Challenge #15
How Did the Fandom Snowflake Challenge Go?
I intend to keep going back and checking out entries when I'm not doing something else, and leaving comments, and trying to build that community and see interesting things that people have posted. It probably won't go that quickly, and I may not make it all the way through in a timely manner. But I'll try.
According to my own tags, this is the tenth year that I've done this, and it went just as all the others have - introspection, always feeling slightly orthogonal to fandom-at-large, doing my best to be understandable, sometimes even succeeding at it. New people stopping by, and stopping by new people. The thing that it's supposed to be about - going around and seeing what other people have done, and leaving an answer in your own journal for others to come see. To say that it is Snowflake-as-usual is not to say that it's boring, or ill-run, or any other kind of thing that's negative. After all, I run on a dopamine-deficient system, it seems, and I keep coming back for it every year. Because, mostly like the ever-shifting Tartarus of the Hades franchise, every time I embark on this, there's novelty enough, from prompts, participants, and others, that it's Calvinball - never exactly the same way twice. It's not entirely all new, and it's not entirely all the same, which makes it pretty much like the convention experience - a big burst of activity over a short period of time, with some familiar things, some new things, and a whole different group of people experiencing it alongside them. Some of those people are people that I already know well and am happy to have along with, and some of them are going to be new friends, or are the friends that only show up when we're in the same convention space. It's a yearly tradition at this point, and I'm probably building an interesting archive for myself to go look back on in time or when feeling nostalgic. Or when I'm thinking about how my relationship has changed over time. It's a good time to check in with myself and be okay with it all.
There will be one more thing, the final friending frenzy on the last day of January, Call it the 19th hole, if you like. If you also want to dive into something where you'll get to start making things, and making tiny things, go see
threesentenceficathon, because there are thousands of prompts there to look through and leave tiny ficlets for. For more grand things, fandomtrumpshate is currently open for signups, and with the way the United States and the world is these days, hopefully there will be a lot of resources available to donate to the chosen charities this year.
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Date: 2026-01-30 07:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-01-30 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-01-30 08:29 am (UTC)It's good to hear that the Snowflake Challenge has been such a consistently fun thing for you, and I'm happy to have followed along with you (even if I didn't have that much to say...). You'll see me again for the next challenge you'll be doing!
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Date: 2026-01-30 05:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-01-30 09:05 pm (UTC)It was my pleasure! I'll most probably be there for the Sunshine Revival Challenge, then, and for whatever posts grab my attention in the meantime.