Snowflake 2018

Day 2:
In your own space, share a favorite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, crazy times with fellow fans (whether on-line or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

One of the special memories from my early Tolkien fandom days (2004) was discovering Misfits by Kharessa Bloodrose. I loved it so much I actually rationed myself to a chapter a night, it became the way I ended my evening (bedtime story, yes). It was Haldir/Melpomaen, which idea would make me blink hard now. Kharessa was a great storyteller who created fanon, set trends, formed ideas. Her Storm Kiss series is amongst the earliest Erestor/Glorfindel concepts. It reads like a cliche now in many parts until you remember SHE DID IT FIRST.

No idea where she is now, she hopped fandoms and then vanished off my radar, but I hope by now she's a published author because damn, she should be!

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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.

On the Eve of the Morannon by Talullah Red (Tolkien)
Gift for me in the lotr_community's Yule swap. I asked for "Maglor and Gildor's paths happen to cross in a pub somewhere. Beer, conversation, or whatever your muse suggests.." She delivered. Absolutely. Their voices ring so true, the bittersweetness of family, the sense of people who operate in the shadows... I love this fic!

Sweet Delusion by deslea (X-Files)
Alex Krycek/Marita Covarrubias
I have this bookmarked as 'Perfect Alex/Marita that broke my heart'. Have tissues ready.

Birth of the Coldest Night by CynicwithaSecret (Game of Thrones)
The end has come. The Walkers have defeated the allied forces of Daenerys Targaryen and the North, obliterated Winterfell and marched all the way to King’s Landing and beyond. The North is overrun with wights and no help is in sight for an unlikely group of survivors waiting in a cave, no longer hoping for deliverance. Can hope be found in the darkness?

36 chapters. Completed. Read it, it is brilliant!!!

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I've done days 4, 5 and 6 before (more than once) and have nothing new to add. On to...

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.

It's January, we're all busy, I've been less visible in 2017 - checked in every day, but quiet a lot of the time - so if you don't want to leave lurve here, I understand. Though I will do better this year. No, this time I mean it! But if you'd like to, you would make me smile and make packing up and throwing out a little less dire. Moving in the middle of an African summer is not fun.

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Day 8
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I did this one before and this is still the piece most guaranteed to give me goosebumps so I'm just linking back to it: Snowflake 2016, Day 7