Snowflake Challenge: Days 7-9

[narya_flame]

Challenge #7

In your own space, create your own challenge. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

2020 was tough, but with any luck 2021 might be a year of rediscovering at least some of the pleasures we've had to put on hold. In that spirit, I invite you to apply the sense of rediscovery to your fandom life too. Check in on an old fandom you haven't visited in a while. Re-watch a favourite film. Revisit an old community. Re-read and comment on that fic you've loved for years. Write/draw a character you haven't done much with lately. Reach out to old friends.

Challenge #8

In your own space, create a wishlist. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I wish for health and happiness for my fannish friends, who already give me so much.

Challenge #9

In your own space, brag about yourself. Tell us what things you've done that you're proud of; the things that make you the wonderful person you are. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

 

I am proud of the event I co-mod, the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang. Artists submit Tolkien-themed art to be claimed by writers, who write long-ish fics (5k+ words) based on the piece they claim. Raiy and I threw the first one together on a whim in 2018; we saw a small increase in art pieces submitted from Year 1 to Year 2, and then last year the event just exploded. 116 artworks were submitted, and at least one fic was written for each.

We've already had people asking about 2021's event, which we're hard at work on, and we've brought three new co-mods on board to reflect the size of this beast now. I can't believe we've gone from being a casual event with participants who mostly all knew each other, to an Actual Fandom Thing, but each year we pull it off and the feedback is overwhelmingly positive. Let's just hope 2021 stays true to form...!

Comments

[independence1776]

<3

TRSB is awesome and I'm already trying to figure out what art I'm making for this year's. (For obvious schedule reasons, I'm not sure I'll be able to write fic.)

[narya_flame]

Thanks, Indy! I'm so glad you're planning to take part this year :)

[seleneheart]

I will have to follow the Tumblr comm, because I'm intrigued!

As it so happens, on Saturday, I picked up an old fav book that I haven't read in probably 20 years. So here's to me meeting your challenge!

[narya_flame]

Hurray! :D

[sjh2009]

Snowflake always encourages me to re-read or re-watch so many old favourites. Someone posted a fan vid of Stargate Atlantis yesterday, which is one of my favourite fandoms and it's made me want to watch the series from the beginning again!

Wow, well done with the Tolkein reverse bang, that's such a wonderful, amount of artwork, I will have to check those all out. What an awesome achievement to get that up and running and have it turn into such a success, you have every right to feel proud of that.

Thank you for sharing.

[narya_flame]

Thank you! And yes, Snowflake is wonderful for that.

[spiced_wine]

I love those.
And you and Raiyana should be rightly proud of TRSB 👏

[narya_flame]

Thank you :D

[spikedluv]

Snowflake gives us the opportunity for new! and shiny!, but I think it's good to take a look back at some old favorites, too!

What a lovely wish.

[narya_flame]

I completely agree! And thanks :)

[keiliss]

I love your challenges, I'll be taking a few to heart. And TRSB is awesome and this year I will not let life overwhelm me.

Need to catch up on Snowflake, it has been so much that kind of week!

[narya_flame]

<3 <3 <3

I hear you on having that kind of week; I will probably be catching up on challenges 10 and 11 at the weekend.