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Day 7:

In your own space, create a love meme for yourself. Let people tell you how amazing and awesome and loveable you really are. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Surf the comments and find people to give love to.

Haha, ok. Here it is! Now to post this and go leave some comments for other people. :)

Day 5

Recommend a fannish or creative resource. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So years ago, my wife and I spent an inordinate amount of time playing Lord of the Rings Online (aka LOTRO). This was pre-marriage, and we were still long distance then, so playing the game online was way for us to regularly interact as well as have fun and hang out with other people.

One of the things you can do in the game is forge legendary weapons - at least you used to be able to, I'm assuming you still can now? Anyway, whenever I'd make a good one, I'd go to this site to come up with a Sindarin name for my newest, coolest weapons, haha. I spent a lot of time agonizing over picking the perfect names for my items, which would only be replaced within a short amount of time, as such is the nature of MMOs, but it was always fun to play around with in the meantime.

The page looks like it still works, at least the pre- and post-fix translations are there, which is awesome. Hopefully this resource, albeit a very specific one, can be useful to someone else out there, and I know I'm bookmarking it now that I've found it again. :)

Day 3

In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Cheating a little bit here, but I posted a list of recs from Yuletide 2017 to my journal not too long ago, which you can find here.

There are six (6) fics listed there, with a summary and/or comments added to each one. They're all worth checking out if you're into those fandoms and/or genres, so go and have a look! :)

Day 1

In your own space, talk about why you're participating in Snowflake and, if you’ve participated in the past, how the challenge has affected you. What drew you to it? What did you take away from it? What do you hope to accomplish this year? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

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I'm participating this year because I want to try and jump start my writing efforts for 2018. I've taken part before, but it's been a few years I believe, and I don't know that I've ever actually completed the whole thing. I know that's not required, but still.

I was drawn to it from seeing someone else take part years ago, and it made me want to give it a shot. Not enough to finish it, apparently, hah, but it looks like fun. And that's what drew me back to it this year, to see if I can have some fun with it.

I hope to improve both the consistency and the quality of my writing this year, which is probably what 99.9% of the participants want to do, I'm sure. I did take some steps toward this last year, mainly by pairing up with my cousin who is also trying to write consistently. We meet on a weekly basis to exchange tips, advice, and to review each other's writing. My plan for 2018 is to keep that up, and to enter more exchanges/contests over the year. We'll see how it goes.

So, I'm decided that I'm going to participate in this year's Fandom Snowflake Challenge! Today's challenge is to write a rec for three or more of your own fanworks, so here you go:


Will You Call My Name?

A Beca/Chloe Pitch Perfect fic I wrote for Yuletide. It's the longest thing I've ever posted there, clocking in at just over 12k, and I had such a fun time writing it you guys. It's far from perfect, it's not really that good even looking back, but I wrote it not too long after seeing the movie and getting into the fandom and was so excited as I wrote it.

That wasn't my first Yuletide (it was my second though haha) but it really cemented my love for the exchange and for posting on AO3 in general - I wrote a lot more frequently after that.


Preach and Desist

A little Father Ted fic I wrote as a treat for someone last Yuletide. It didn't take me all that long, as the inspiration fortunately came to me fairly quickly and I just blurbed the whole thing out in one sitting. I know they say only a fool laughs at his own jokes but I still giggle my ass off when I reread this, heh. I just love the show so much and it was very fun to write the characters, I don't think I could do them justice in anything longer than something like this though.


The 'New' Roommate

My assignment for this year's Yuletide (sensing a theme here, hmm), and another comedic piece. I think I fare better with those than I do with anything else I write, or so it seems. I'm a huge fan of this show and have written a couple of things now for it, and I love writing each of the characters in it for different reasons. Nick in particular is a blast to write, I really had fun coming up with his dialogue.

The main reason I think I like writing comedy, now that I think about it, is that it tends to focus on dialogue more so than other genres, and I think I'm much better with dialogue than I am with descriptive writing.


Mrry Crisms.

Another Yuletide treat, this time from this year, and one of the few comic pieces I've attempted to create. I only recently started reading the current Hawkeye run and am a huge fan, especially of Kate Bishop who is amazing. I'm not caught up with it yet but I really want to be, and when I saw someone requesting this I just had to take a shot (ZING!) at it.