Snowflake Challenge - Days 5 and 6

Challenge #5

Talk about what has improved in your life thanks to fandom. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I found fandom late. I was in my 40s, peri-menopausal and didn't realize it and terribly unhappy. We got the internet at our house and I went hunting for --- connection and fund fandom. Made some nice friends, though my homelife was still strange. Got into the LOTR fandom and met a whole new and better set of friends. I met one person, a German girl twenty years younger than me in an online RPG. we got to chatting and became friends and in 2005, my 15 year old daughter was killed in a car crash. MY new friend called, sent things, cards and finally asked if she could visit. Hubby and I said yes. She and some other wonderful internet friends (Karen and Mel) came over Thanksgiving. We became BFFs and we've seen each other twice a year ever since except during the pandemic. We have visited her in Germany and in Spain this last October. So yeah, fandom might have saved my life.

Challenge #6

Share your favourite piece of original canon. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This Scene in Return of the King in which Gandalf talks of death to Pippin

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Snowflake Challenge - Day 7

Challenge #7

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a wishlist of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wishlist if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Check out other people's posts. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

I had to give this one some thought since I've been absent from fandom most of the last year. Here goes:

1. Fanart of any of my Marvel or LOTR fics, this includes icons. Link to my works. Also podfic is wonderful.

2. Rec new fandoms...I like superheroes, space operas, LOTR type fantasy.

3. Are there any Mad Men fans out there? I'd love recs, chitchat, opinions...Really anything.

FIC: Among the Flowers

Title: Among the Flowers
Fandom and Pairing(s): Keeping Up Appearances, Hyacinth/Richard Bucket
Rating: General
Word count: 281
Summary: Richard reflects on his life with Hyacinth.

FIC: The Man Who Wasn't There

Title: The Man Who Wasn't There
Fandom and Pairing(s): Mad Men
Rating: Teen and Up
Word count: 245
Summary: Don is a lot of people... or is he?

FIC: Stress and the Superhero

Title: Stress and the Superhero
Fandom: MCU
Rating: PG
Length: 288 words
Summary: Even Nick Fury is telling him to chill out.

( Stress and the Superhero )

Fic:: One Man's Ceiling (is another man's floor)

Title: One Man's Ceiling (is another man's floor)
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13 for language
Length: 268 words
Author notes: I need some humor these days.
Summary: Dean does not find the usual things very relaxing.

( One Man's Ceiling (is another man's floor) )