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Snowflake challenge Day 8 : In your own space, talk about a talent (or talents) you have. Everyone's got something they're good at. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'm good at baking.

Some samples of my work :( Read more... )

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

1. I really love icons made from drawings - like

or

I need icons for Arsène Lupin, for brit com (QI especially. That would be awesome), for 2 Broke Girls, for Spaced - oooh, for Skins also. Oh and Revenge.

2. Still hoping for that 2 Broke Girls epic adventure fic I requested for yuletide.

3. Chibi brit com art? (WHAT, THAT IS A TOTALLY NORMAL REQUEST. SHUT UP.)

Snowflake challenge Day 6 : In your own space, rec at least 3 fanworks you thought you wouldn't like (because they weren't your fandom or they pushed against your boundaries or you thought you just wouldn't be interested) and that you ended up loving.

It's Not About Pasta by Nemo_the_Everbeing. Sherlock. Sherlock/Lestrade
I would never have read this if Calico hadn't bookmarked it, honestly. Mostly because it seemed like it was going in the "John goes on a date and Sherlock is jealous so he sleeps with Lestrade" direction. But holy cow, am I ever glad not to have missed this.

Easy There by syllic. Merlin. Arthur/Merlin
podfic by revolutionaryjo
I'd stopped reading Merlin by the time revolutionaryjo posted her podfic of this story. I loved it so much though, it went right to the top of my most-listened-to-podfics list.

Woman Inherits the Earth by xenakis. Jurassic Park. Kelly Curtis Malcolm/Lex Murphy
I've never seen Jurassic Park, but I harassed xen until she read my Yuletide fic, so it seemed like I should read hers. Everyone should read this. There's a mutant raptor called Marie-Antoinette.

Snowflake challenge Day 5 : In your own space, share something non-fannish you are passionate about with your fannish friends.

Ok so this post is so late that everyone has moved on and no one cares about day 5 BUT, in my defence, snowflakes are a way of life where I live right now, and I've got like 2 more months of snow to put up with. So I have to make the challenge last.

Photographic evidence : ( really a lot of snow )

ANYWAY, a thing I am passionate about. The first Brahms piano quartet. ( Read more... )

Snowflake Challenge, Day 2 : In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Drop a link to your post in the comments. See if you can rec fanworks that are less likely to be praised: tiny fandoms, rare pairings, fanworks other than stories, lesser known kinks or tropes. Find fanworks that have few to no comments, or creators new to a particular fandom and maybe aren't well known or appreciated. Appreciate them.

Science Abuse by valderys. Peep Show. Mark Corrigan/Jeremy Usbourne. Mark, Jeremy, Super Hans and Alan Johnson conduct masturbation-with-objects experiments. First one to shoot his load gets to win.

Drink by marginaliana. British Comedian RPF. Charlie Brooker/David Mitchell. For the prompt: David is a vampire. Charlie knows it's masochistic but, fuck it, he's a downright willing victim. Way less absurd than it has any right to be.

The Long Way Home by withalacrity. The Trip. Rob Brydon/Steve Coogan. Clearly there should be whole campaigns to heap excessive praise on Rob Brydon, just to wind Steve Coogan up. Yuletide 2011, written all for meeeeeee.

Because she is a great friend, yue_ix yelled at me yesterday because I claimed I didn't really do anything in fandom and therefore had no business participating in the Snowflake Challenge.

11:39 PM
yue.ykx: your mistake here is in thinking this is for fics
11:40 PM
You've held hands with people (with ME). You've brainstormed. You gave ideas, received ideas, made prompts that were filled. Maybe you've betaed. You've CREATED A PODCAST.
11:41 PM
don't bloody tell me you haven't done anything in fandom
11:45 PM 
‪yue.ykx‬: You prompted me to write sexy homework commentfic in chat. Who the world else could have done that but you.

yue_ix knows how helpless I am in the face of peer pressure.

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Snowflake Challenge Day 1 : in your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Drop a link to your post in the comments.

1) Like yue said - commentfic. I didn't write this, but I definitely instigated it :

title : xen is more like snails than me
author : yue_ix
fandom : friends list RPF
summary : AND AUTOCAD IS HER ROBOT FETISH

read here : ( xen/architecture anthropomorphic RPS )

2) There is only one episode, but I was definitely heavily involved in the creation of fansinapod. There were teddy bears! I did a really terrible sexy voice!

3) Kate Beaton drew me a Chopin :

Obviously the drawing is not my fanwork. Going to the book signing and talking about Chopin and Liszt is.

A and I cannot stop watching this clip.

The music doesn't match the video exactly but OMG WHO CARES, THAT IS SUCH A GOOD SONG (warning for some serious misogyny in the lyrics though).

Wait, Kat Dennings and the dude who plays Johnny on 2 Broke Girls are dating?

Man, I'm so uninformed.

*spits out coffee*

Guys, someone bookmarked my Arsène Lupin fic and, in the notes, called it a PWP.

I am very very pleased, though I couldn't tell you why. Is that normal?

My life holds few distinctions, Internet. May I safely boast that I inadvertently wrote what someone considered a PWP, without nudity, fucking, or indeed, orgasms?

Well, a random dude on the street just asked me out for coffee.

I was just in a good mood because I made one of the cash register ladies at the pharmacy laugh! Then by the time I was on the sidewalk, I smiled in a random dude's direction! Argh.

Smiling at people on the street : a risky endeavour. Or, well, not so much "risky" as "with possibly random results".