aquietjune

Responding to plenty of snowflake_challenge challenges all at once today! sparkles

The goal: be concise, to the point, and offer thoughts that can generate discussions.

Snowflake Challenge #3: In your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time.

Being a "fan" doesn't have a specific aesthetic or a specific way of doing things. ( Read more... )

Snowflake Challenge #5: Talk about what has improved in your life thanks to fandom.

Definitely my knowledge and mastery of language, as well as foreign languages, and of many other things (skills, crafts, and pure notion-based knowledge). ( Read more... )

Snowflake Challenge #6: Share your favourite piece of original canon.

I don't know if I interpreted this challenge right, but I won't talk about a canon in general but a piece of it. Still, I will twist this a bit: it's not so much what I like about a certain canon, but a certain aspect that makes me enjoy a canon a lot more.

I am a live-action role-player (larper). Since I've started with this activity, I've found that the thing I enjoy the most is the rendering of atmosphere, or rather: my style of play is "immersionist". I care about quests very little, and limitedly about story and character arcs, as long as I'm made to inhabit the very specific fictional time and place we get to play in. It can be the local pub of a small village in the 1980s, or an underground bunker 100+ years after nuclear collapse: if I can sit down in a corner, or navigate corridors, and think "Oh, I am actually here!" then... I won the LARP.

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Snowflake Challenge #7: In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a wishlist of sorts.

Not big on asking for things, but I'll try:

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The big news is that I reached the end of my story—the fic I have been writing for exactly a year, that is, has its first draft completed, minus for half a scene and a fictional text I can’t bring myself to finish right now.

160k words.

( Rant about writing and the fandom and my self-worth )

Let’s move on; there’s not so much time for that. Because yep, I have other things to do, not even counting IRL stuff:

( Other projects, still a bit melancholic )

Thanks for reading this mainly-a-rant post. I really wanted to write here again, but I needed to get this out first—the rest of the summer starts now, and it’s going to be exciting.

Other media things:

( Anime, manga, tv, books )

See you in the next update!

Two challenges in one post because I missed many days and I want to do them before January is over. While I haven't been able to participate to every challenge, it has been fun! I

( Goals for 2023 )

( On the future of fandom )

Thanks for reading.

Edit: I also joined the snowflake_challenge Friending Meme!