Snowflake Challenge - Day 13

Day 13:
In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.



Writing Goals (from Get Your Words Out):

1. I'd like to get more short works done: 500 - 2000 words.
2. I'd like to write more longer works as well, fanifc or original doesn't matter.
3. I'd like to begin an edit and rewrite of Nano from several years ago.
4. I'd like to do more exercises in writing as well.
5. Would like to spend more time brainstorming/researching.

Real Life Goals:

1. Read more, 35 - 50 books.
2. Lose weight.
3. Have some medical tests done that I don't want to do.
4. Make it through another year.

Snowflake Challenge - Day 14

Day 14

In your own space, create your own challenge. Whatever your challenge is, and have fun with it! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

My challenge is to go out and find new fandoms to explore and new friends to make. Fandom isn't always about the thing; sometimes it's about the friends and the people. So my challenge to all of you and to myself is find a new fandom this year and really get into it and into the human interaction part of it.... having said that, avoid snark. Snark has no place in fun fandom, period.

Snowflake Challenge - Day 15

Day 15

In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, or to your flist/circle/followers. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so

Dear fanworld,

I want to thank you for all you've done for me... let me count the ways.
You gave a platform to write and to learn to write. I am not a master yet but I am better than when I started.
You gave me new worlds to live in. I have traveled the roads of Middle Earth, seen how big the TARDIS is inside, hung our with men of super powers, and solved mysteries with the best detective ever. None of those things were possible without fandom and imagination.
You gave me friends from all over the world. I have traveled to South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and Germany to see and hang out with fandom friends. I've had guests from Iowa, Massachusetts, Germany, Wyoming, and Colorado visit me in my home. The world is open to me and it opened my eyes.
You taught me that no matter where, when or who we are, we all want the same things: Better lives, love, acceptance and friendship.
And most of all, you keep me dreaming of better worlds when this one is dismal and scary.

Love, Alex

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Go do this!!!!

Friending meme questionnaire

Thought I'd put this here too:

Names I go by: alexcat, alex
Livejournal: alexcat (Dreamwidth too)
Twitter: alexcat
Tumblr: N/A
Facebook: Alex Cat
Pinterest: N/A
Instagram: N/A
Delicious/Pinboard: N/A
AO3: alexcat

The fannish platform(s) I am most active on is/are:
Livejournal
Dreamwidth
Ao3(just fic posting)

My main contribution(s) to fandom is/are: writing, reading, betaing, art, modding.

Link(s) to my Masterlist(s):
aO3
Of Elves and Men
Alex's Story Book - You may have to friend it to read.


Fandom(s) I enjoy:
Tolkien, Babylon 5, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Stargate: SG1, Sherlock Holmes, Alexander the Great, Firefly, Supernatural, Star Wars

My favorite people/characters in this/these fandom(s) are:
Tolkien - the old elflords
Babylon 5 - Londo and G'kar
Marvel - Captain America
Stargate: SG-1 - Jack O'Neill
Sherlock Holmes - Holmes
Alexander - Alexander
Firefly - Malcolm Reynolds and maybe Jayne
Supernatural - Dean Winchester

Pairing(s)/grouping(s) I ship within this/these fandom(s) is/are: Not so much of a shipper. Way more into friendship and bromance.

The type(s) of fanwork(s) I consume the most is/are: I really don't read much fanfic these days. I probably spend more time with source material.

Fanwork tropes/clichés I enjoy are: I love humor and friendship.

Non-fandom things I enjoy: I read and love movies and tv, love history and I rant about politics a lot
I post/want to post mostly about: Politics

One thing I am good at:
I try to keep the peace in fandom. I like harmony. IRL, I'm good at cleaning.

Other things I want to share about myself:
I am late 50s, married to the same man for 37+ years, had one child who died at 16 in a car crash, love classic rock and roll, live in the country, love cats and dogs but am allergic to both, liberal, love quilts and crafts, love country cooking, can be fierce when angry, can be sweet when not, always try to have an open mind but I hate bigotry and sexism.

If you want to know more, just ask me. :)
Oh, and my real name is Susan.