Snowflake Challenge - Day 13

Challenge #13

In your own space, rec three fanworks that you did not create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I just read this one and it's sweet: Stucky LOTR Nerds. by theemdash This is a college AU with both boys as LOTR nerds. There are two long stories and one short one. They make a fun afternoon read.

This one I betaed many years ago... it is the story of a wonderful zany OFC in Tolkien's universe. Strap in, though, because it's quite long. The Empty Vessel by zeesmuse.

And a Stony that grabs you and won't let you go. Reject Your Reality (and Substitute My Own) by dapperanachronism and Robin_tCJ.

Snowflake Challenge - Day 14

Challenge #14

In your own space, do the Fandom Wrap Challenge. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

What were your top 5 fandoms for 2022 based on the amount of time you interacted with them?
1. Marvel Cinematic Universe
2. Babylon 5
3. Sherlock Holmes
4. Tolkien
5. Star Wars

What were your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) you experienced fandom in terms of time spent?
1. Dreamwidth
2. Ao3
3. Discord
4. Tumblr
5. Twitter

What are the top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom in terms of time? Did you write? Comment? Send positive energy into the universe? Create art?
1. Writing fanfic
2. Interacting with other fans at Discrd
3. Ran some fansites and communities
4. Actually rewatched a lot of sourcematerial
5. Tint bit of fanart

What were your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions? (i.e. in terms of likes, kudos, reblogs, comments, etc.)
1. Better Than Any Video
2. One Night With You (is not going to be enough)
3. Heart and Soul
4. Just the Two of Us
5. Forget Me, Forget Me Not
NOTE: ALL are MCU and all but the last one are Steve/Tony.

Snowflake Challenge - Day 15

Challenge #15

In your own space, opine on the future of fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This can be positive, negative, ambivalent; about fandom as a whole, your own fandom(s), or your own plans. Alternately, what do you hope fandom will do? Imagine a best-cast scenario, and tell us what that would look like.

I think fandom, like the world, has become split apart. I think that divide will continue to widen over this next year and beyond. I don't see the older fans giving in quite yet to the puritanical notions of the younger fans. This puritanical thread has always run through fandom but seems to have become worse over time. Evidently, there is a generation of fandom that doesn't quite get the separation of fiction and reality. My writing about murder in a fiction does not make me a murderer. (You can insert whatever you want in place of murderer.)

I love ad free spaces like Ao3 and Dreamwidth, but I don't see Dreamwidth becoming the fanhub that LJ was once though it has grown a LOT since Tumblr gave in to the puritans and Elon Musk ate Twitter. I fear the rise of censorship in fandom... but that is a battle we've always fought.

In short, I think we will keep on keeping on, being fans and fighting the good fight. Whether we will win or not is up in the air.

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