Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Day 1

[itsadrizzit]

Day 1

In your own space, talk about why you're participating in Snowflake and, if you’ve participated in the past, how the challenge has affected you. What drew you to it? What did you take away from it? What do you hope to accomplish this year?

I'm participating this year mostly because I had a great second half of 2017 in terms of connecting with fandom (at least my small subset of fandom) and I want to keep that going. Since I operate mainly in the realm of small(ish) fandoms and rarepairs within those fandoms, I've always done well carving out my niche of a few people, but felt like a bit of an outsider in fandom as a whole since I wasn't into the big spaces where most of the conversations were happening. In 2017 I charged back into writing and started having conversations again and it has felt SO GOOD to do that.

My fandom goals for 2018 (make more podfics, work on a VERY LONG AU series) will mean I'm probably not writing big things with deadlines all the time and will both free up space for me to do things at my leisure and reclaim my life outside of fandom, but! they will also mean I won't be producing content as regularly and will feel a bit of the distance from fandom. So, I thought this would be both a good way to sort of centre myself and set my intentions, keep myself posting and engaged, and possibly get to know a few more people along the way so that when I'm not active and engaged in writing and constant creation of fanworks I can still keep some of the good feelings going.

I've never participated in the Snowflake Challenge in the past, but have enjoyed reading friends' posts and thought it seemed like something worth doing, so here I am. I'm just hoping to see what comes of it all and perhaps get myself some more concrete goals for my fandom life in 2018.

Comments

[spikedluv]

Staying connected to fandom can be so difficult! Good luck with that!

[itsadrizzit]

Thanks. I feel like especially these days there are so many places to be connected and in theory it's so much easier than it was back in the days where you just had to hope you followed the right people on LJ, but also now there is SO MUCH going on that keeping connected can be a full-time job if you let it. So you have to find the balance.