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kate ([personal profile] kate) wrote2021-01-22 09:35 pm
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Ongoing snowflake stuff?

So every January, I do snowflake. I love it. It reminds me of why I love fandom, it gives me simple, low-pressure challenges that I look forward to. I don't feel guilty if I miss any. And I always, always get comments from friends saying "oh, it's so good to see you on here again!"

And then I feel a little guilty, too, because I do have a hard time keeping up if I don't have something specifically goading me to post.

So I was thinking... what if there was snowflake stuff every month? Would anyone else be interested in that? I love the snowflake format, so I'd want to at least connect the challenges, if the folks at snowflake wouldn't want to do an expansion there. I mean, snowflake is really special, I get that. And I don't want to diminish it, but I also would like to keep things going in the interim between Januarys.

Any thoughts about this? Anybody willing to jump on the train to do this more often? (Maybe every other month, if not every month? Or quarterly? (since November is Nano and December is December))

Every other month would be March, May, July, September.... and maybe skip November because a) it's NaNo, b) all the holiday challenges etc., c) it would give a little extra break before the original snowflake started up again.

Okay, I could brainstorm all night, but this really was just supposed to be a placeholder for discussion. Let me know what you think?
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[personal profile] goddess47 2021-01-23 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm modding on Snowflake for the first time and I have mad respect for those that did it in the days there was a new challenge every day! All the responding is a ton of work, even at every other day.

I can see the March, May, July, September idea having a shot (although Sunshine was in that mix)... OTOH you'll never not overlap with something else. Maybe make them stand alone but in a co-op, so you pimp each next challenge out. Let Sunshine stand for July and come up with something for March, May and September. So when Snowflake ends, there's a "join us in March for X" and pimp the next challenge on all the communities.

March can be a 'Spring Fling' and May can be a 'Patriotic Parade' and September can be 'Fall [something clever]' which gives you a theme that should be pan fandom.

Let them vary. Some can be 3-4 challenges in the month, some can have more...

My $0.02 worth!