silveradept | Entries tagged with fandom snowflake: 2026

snowflake_challenge would like us to recommend to others a way in to finding a place in a fandom that we're already part of.

Challenge #14

Create a promo and/or rec list for someone new to a fandom.

The two of those things are quite different, I might note. The promo is about trying to get people into a fandom based on the strength of the canonical materials (whether the smart writing, the intricate plot, or the hotness of the actors), and the rec list is about getting people into a fandom (or at least the transformative fandom part) based on the fanworks that are available to someone. Neither of these methods are inherently wrong, but depending on your approach, someone might get into the fandom with radically different ideas of what the source material or the fandom is about. (This is not necessarily a bad thing, but approaching something from the fannish side might make you suspect there's more nuance and depth to the source material than there actually is.)

Anyway, since I am both not very good at collecting new fandoms and not very good at getting and remembering works in the fandoms I have, this would normally leave me in a pickle about what to do, except I have plenty of older fandoms and recommendations for you that will make up for my utter lack of newish fandoms for you to experience.

( Pern, RWBY, Into the Woods, In Other Lands, Long Live Evil )

Current Mood: rejuvenated
Current Music: "Weird" Al - Your Horoscope For Today

snowflake_challenge wants us to think about the places where we have come together in shared pursuit of our fandoms, or the same fandom, or many other ways of joining us together and showing us that we are not alone in our pursuits.

Challenge #13

TALK ABOUT A COMMUNITY SPACE YOU LIKE. It doesn’t need to be your favorite, or the one where you spend the most time (although it certainly can be). Maybe it’s even one that you’ve barely visited. But talk about that space and how it helps support fannish community.

( In community, we join, and nowhere else is that more evident than at convention. )

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Jamiroquai - Soul Education

snowflake_challenge would like us to take a moment, for challenge #12, and appreciate the people who make life better for you in your fandoms.

Challenge #12

Make an appreciation post to those who enhance your fandom life. Appreciate them in bullet points, prose, poetry, a moodboard, a song… whatever moves you!

( I am not a rock, but neither am I someone who is in a great amount of community. )

Finally, I say this almost every time I talk about it, not because I believe that she'll ever come across it, but if that moonshot ever does happen, I want her to know it with certainty: Caroline, if you're still out there, we love 9th Elsewhere. And while we hope that maybe you'll pick it back up and bring it to a close, what we really want you to know is that the journey that Eiji and Carmen have taken holds a special place in all of us, so thank you for what you've done. I hope that knowing you have people who are fans and who have found this particular journey meaningful helps you with your own life, wherever you may be, and whatever you might be doing right now. I would love the opportunity to discuss umbrella-related poses with you again at some point.

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Yoko Shimomura - The 13th Dilemma (Luxord)

snowflake_challenge dropped their eleventh challenge, and it's a call-back.

Challenge #11

Grant someone's wish from Challenge #5.

( Merrily a wassailing... )

Current Mood: nerdy
Current Music: ROZEN - Master vs Master

The

snowflake_challenge has put out challenge number 10, and it works in media that I generally do not think in nor work in.

Challenge #10: Big Mood (Board)

CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

( I suppose I can make a fanmix for El Higgins? )

Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: Bloodhound Gang - I Hope You Die

It's time for another

snowflake_challenge, and this one is geared more toward those of us who like to talk about the building blocks, the character types, and the storytelling pathways that link and underlie any given specific story being told.

Challenge #9

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

( Discard the momomyth and understand that Tropes Are Tools )

Current Mood: weird
Current Music: Dove - Cymande

We're over the halfway line at

snowflake_challenge, and this challenge wants us to introspect about how we turn things out.

Challenge #8

Talk about your creative process.

( Not exactly a process that has a lot of visible things )

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown - My New Philosophy

The dreaded "say nice things about yourself" challenge has appeared at

snowflake_challenge!

While we’re busy celebrating fandom, it’s good to remember to celebrate ourselves, too. Fandom is all of us! I know it’s often easier to talk about what we like about other people than it is to talk nicely about ourselves, but challenge yourself here --

Challenge #7

LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.

( Challenge: Say good Things About Yourself. Difficulty: Very )

Current Mood: energetic
Current Music: Yoko Shimomura - Lord of the Castle

snowflake_challenge has sent up number 6 on the challenge list, and it's one of the ones I struggle more with than not, the recommendations-related one.

Every challenge we try to make at least one rec post, and each year, we try to find a new way to make it fun for everyone. This year's attempt:

Challenge #6

Top 10 Challenge.

The category(ies) you choose are up to you. You can give top 10 Fics you read last year, the top 10 songs to create to, the to 10 guest stars on your favorite show, top 10 characters in your favorite book series, top 10... well, you get the idea.

Can't think of 10 of anything? That's okay, 10 is just an abstract. It's totally up to you.

This is one of those situations where being profoundly multifannish is a disadvantage, because a top ten list of anything may or may not make it to me. Or I might not get so deeply into a fandom to where there would be enough material for a top ten list. And while I read and enjoy the gifts that get sent my way in the various exchanges that I participate in, they don't necessarily cohere to any kind of top ten list of anything, either.

Eventually, a random idea will settle into my head, and I can go forward with it and see what might happen from there. So, here you are:

( 10 roles one person played during my formative years )

Current Music: ROZEN - Midna's Darkest Hour

snowflake_challenge's fifth request is upon us, and it asks us to do things taht some of us are not very comfortable with:

Challenge #5

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

( A few things that will hopefully be manageable )

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy VIII - Find Your Way

snowflake_challenge posted their fourth prompt, and I had to look at it a couple times before I started getting close to an understanding of what was being asked for.

On many of the fannish websites we use, our history is easily compileable into "pages". When we look back through those pages, sometimes we stumble upon things that we think are rather cool.

Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

( Here's where I admit I don't use fannish websites all that much. )

Current Mood: refreshed
Current Music: Infinte Rivals - Dive to Heart (Third Inception)

snowflake_challenge has posted prompt #3, asking us to talk about the things we love about the communities that we are part of, or about the properties we form our communities around.

Challenge #3:

Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

( It's often the people. )

The best thing I like about fandom is that it grows and evolves and produces new stories and new interpretations of stories, and new tropes and new ways of telling stories and smashing them together. The next best thing about fandom is how many people there are in it who are there to have a good time and to make community with others. Yes, there are always going to be people who feel like they have to defend their territory against all comers, or who loudly proclaim that their way is the only way and all others must yield, but most fans that I've encountered seem to be less concerned with purity, fortresses, or defense and are instead more concerned with community, mutual aid, sharing, and trying to encourage people who are in the fandom to stay in it or to getr even deeper into it. Maybe I just have good people around me and I've avoided the people who want to drag me into wars, but even if that's the case, the last thing I love about fandom (for this entry, anyway) is that it tends toward self-correction, and with time and maturity, most fen who stay, grow in ways that make their works better and their communities better.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Infinite Rivals - The 13th Struggle (Xigbar)

The

snowflake_challenge has posted prompt #2, and this time, they're definitely asking for something that will get a lot of people stopping by to say hello, in hopes that people might use the (somewhat limited) amount of image hosting that Dreamwidth has, if they have an account that has access to the image hosting.

Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

( Pets, in all their forms )

So that's the extended riff about pets in fandom. Hopefully there's something there that you find interesting, or that you want to chase up or find more detail with. If not, have a good time exploring the other entries in the challenge for this time around, and we'll see you back in a couple days.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Army of Lovers - Crucified

Turns out I was wrong, it's not housekeeping, but introductions requested of us for the start of the series. Which usually means that the thing we can expect is "Hello, new people!"

Challenge #1

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

( Hello again! )

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: ROZEN - Kokiri Forest

Profile

Silver Adept

May 2026

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31

Materials Of Potential Interest

Syndicate

Page Summary

Active Entries

Style Credit

Base style: Refried Tablet by zvi and Aaron B. Russell
Theme: Black Eye II by dancing_serpent

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags

Page generated May. 21st, 2026 05:05 pm

Sense, Nonsense, and Not-Sense

A waystation of News and Opinion

Entries tagged with fandom snowflake: 2026

Snowflake Challenge 02026 #14: Primers and Recommendations

Snowflake Challenge 02026 #13: Community

Snowflake Challenge 02026 #12: A Token of Our Appreciation

Snowflake Challenge 02026 #11: Wish-Granting Engine

Snowflake Challenge 02026 #10: The Aesthetic of It All

Snowflake Challenge 02026 #9: Tropes Are Tools

Snowflake Challenge 02026 #8: Process the Creative

Snowflake Challenge 02026 #7: Be Nice.

Snowflake Challenge 02026 #6: The Top Ten

Snowflake Challenge 02026 #5: Wishlist

Snowflake Challenge 02026 #4: Page File

Snowflake Challenge 02026 #3: Love

Snowflake Challenge 02026 #02: Pets

Snowflake Challenge 02026 #01: Hello again!