Snowflake Challenge: 15

[keiliss]

Day 15
In your own space, create your own challenge. What’s something you want to see more people doing in fandom? Is there something fun you’ve tried that you think other people would enjoy if they gave it a go? Dare your friends to try it out, and have fun with it. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Want to see more femmeslash? Challenge your friends list/feed/followers/snowflakes to create some. Love Cthulhu Mythos fusions and are saddened by the sheer lack of them? Make a challenge for it, though I suspect this will be more along the lines of a dare. Want more comments, more transformative works policies, coffee shop AUs? You know the drill

Wow -- I've loved this challenge. Did them all, found some simpler than others, some really time swallowing, but it's been great to be so fandom focused. I've met new people, collected a long list of fic recs, and found things to sit quiet and think about. It's been a very positive way to start the year!! I'm not sure about the wording of this final prompt though. It's not about personal challenge, it's about challenges to throw out to the community, but that's not really who I am (though if it was about personal challenges, I did think of a theme for a kind of coffee shop AU and might eventually explore it. Have three deadlines to meet first).

First thing that comes to mind, as Spiced Wine and Oshun have already said, is REVIEW! If you read something that entertained you, say so. It's too easy to leave a quick kudo on AO3 and even easier to skim and move on here or on other archives. Here is your challenge - SAY YOU LIKED IT.

How to comment: There is no such thing as a stupid comment, or needing to say something intelligent, or to engage the writer (I'm guilty of that --- brilliant fic, can't comment, don't know what to say, everyone else has written six paragraphs of articulate praise). All anyone really needs to know is you --- person with a name, a profile - read it and liked it. There is nothing quite like looking at hundreds of page clicks and wondering if they all hit the back button after the third paragraph. I do not instinctively know my fic was wonderful and touched your heart and made you want to go write something yourself - you have to tell me that.

And here's another one --- UPDATE. I care what you're doing, what you're feeling, about that messy drabble you wrote and wouldn't dare put on an archive but would like to share with friends, your writer's block, whether you should post your weird non-canon private soap, and here's a sample. If you've been gone a while -- like several people I know - even more reason to have a Presence (love that term *g*). Let's not go and crawl back into our respective corners after this, but keep talking and sharing? And if you see a comment on a friend's post by someone you'd like to get to know, comment back to her, start a conversation. That's what fandom is about at its heart - a community of people with a common love, supporting and encouraging one another. Let's be those people!

Did I mention I love you guys?

Comments

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

Teenage girls have such a special way with Angst, don’t they? *g*. ‘die in a hole’ – love it!

I’ve had someone tell me they don’t review because they don’t know what to say and all the other reviews seem so clever. I’ve also recently seen someone apologise for not knowing what to say beyond ‘I liked this very much’. I don’t know if the bar’s been set too high somewhere, but much as I love expansive reviews, I’m happy with a handful of ‘nice fic’ type comments - they help shut down that little voice that yells ‘THEY HATE IT’ (Secure writer? Me? Hahaha)