Snowflake Challenge: Day 2

[narya_flame]

This is my fannish goals post! I'm keeping it fairly light this year and not setting too many specific targets; this is more about prioritising where I focus my fandom energy.

1. Finish the gift fic I started for spiced_wine about one of her OCs - should be achievable in the near future, a lot of it is already hand drafted.

2. Work on my two longer WIPs, Summer's Song and The City Over The Mountains.  More progress has been made on these than the current posted wordcount would suggest, but I'm not holding myself to finishing either of them this year, especially given what the world threw at us all during 2020 and 2021.

3. Give some love to the unpublished WIPs, snippets and ideas lurking on my desktop.  (Dependent on progress on Point 2, as well as on time and inspiration.)

4. Make sure that everything on my desktop is actually backed up, in case of another laptop disaster.  

5. Run TRSB again.  Already in train; the mod team are at work on schedules and updates!

6. Continue building a pan-Tolkien fanfiction archive.  This originally started as a bit of a secret squirrel project when Faerie blew up; I wasn't sure I had the time or capability to do it, and I didn't want loads of people asking me when it would be done.  Still, enough people do now know about it that I don't mind sticking "make some progress" on this list as a goal.  No promises as to quantity or speed of progress.  No ETA exists at the present time.

7. Get better at using Canva for edits and moodboards, since Adobe have put so many features behind a paywall now.

Comments

[ruico]

Let me just steal number 4 from you, after my pc crashed in november and I had to wipe the whole thing, I sure do need to get better at this too.

Good luck!

[narya_flame]

Steal away! :D thank you, good luck to you too.

[spiced_wine]

1. Finish the gift fic I started for spiced_wine about one of her OCs - should be achievable in the near future, a lot of it is already hand drafted.

2. Work on my two longer WIPs, Summer's Song and The City Over The Mountains. More progress has been made on these than the current posted wordcount would suggest, but I'm not holding myself to finishing either of them this year, especially given what the world threw at us all during 2020 and 2021.

These all make me squee! I’m so excited 😆

4. Make sure that everything on my desktop is actually backed up, in case of another laptop disaster.

Oh god yes! 😭

I’m also very excited about the archive though I know it’s an ongoing ‘as and when’ your year has been so very busy!

Big hugs 🫂

[narya_flame]

These all make me squee! I’m so excited

<3 <3 <3 I hope they live up to the excitement!!

*hugs back*

[spiced_wine]

Well, I already adore The City over the Mountains and Summer’s Song :D And it will be a treat to read some of the St. Andrews crew again, even though Claire and Maglor aren’t there.

[spiced_wine]

I was going to say, Canva isn’t too bad, I think? It’s even okay-ish on an iPad but probably easier with a laptop or p.c. They have a ton of free stuff and you can also upload your own which I like.

[narya_flame]

I have played with it a couple of times, but not quite got my head around it. One for when I have a bit more peace, and time. I made that Ulmo edit via Adobe with a bit of help from GIMP, but that may well end up being the last piece I make through Spark.

[rekishi]

oh heyyyy, I haven't seen you in a while! (probably because I was also gone, uhm)

tell me more about this pan-Tolkien fic archive, even if you have no promises, ETA or anything else to give, it sounds rad!

[narya_flame]

Hello! I have kind of dropped off the face of the earth lately too, so don't worry about it <3 nice to see you!

I think I am going to make a separate post about the archive, but basically, since Faerie capitulated (the old mod let the domain rights lapse, I think) Tolkien fandom hasn't had a dedicated active archive where all Tolkien-based fanfic is welcome. There's AO3, which is great for many reasons, but I've been in fandom too long to trust all my eggs to one basket. The Silmarillion Writer's Guild is very active and is a great community, but the clue is in its name - it is Silm focused, so fans who primarily write LOTR (book or movie 'verse), the smaller works, etc., don't really have their own space. I am (very slowly) working to fill the gap.

[rekishi]

Ohhhhhh, that sounds really good! I'll look forward to whenever you get around to that!

And yeah I hear on all the eggs in one basket, I do keep frantic double backups of my things. Because you know, not my first rodeo.

[elwinfortuna]

Continue building a pan-Tolkien fanfiction archive

I would love to hear more about this when you have the opportunity! Also, if you need a hand with anything I'm good at, I'm very willing to help out!

[narya_flame]

I think I'm going to make a separate post about it, as realistically, if it's just me with no-one to bounce ideas off or keep me accountable, it's going to take years - but I really want to create a separate space where works based on all Tolkien canons are welcome.

Thank you very much for the offer of help; I may well take you up on that!

[turps]

As someone who lost everything after a computer crash last year, I should also steal number four.

Good luck with all of those goals!

[narya_flame]

Thank you! :D

[athaia]

Those are great goals! I've bought an external hard drive recently, and now sleep so much better knowing that all my stuff is in at least two separate locations (although of course it should be in more than two - what if the computer crashes AND the external hard drive is corrupted? O.O)

I love AO3, don't get me wrong, but I miss dedicated fandom-specific archives... so although I'm not in Tolkien fandom, I'm cheering you on from over here!

[narya_flame]

Thank you! :D the cheering is appreciated, I am not tech-y at all so this is quite a learning curve.