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Snowflake Challenge #5

In your own space, tell us about 3 creative/fannish resources, spaces, or communities you use or enjoy. (One or two is fine, especially if you're in a smaller fandom or like many people at the moment, fannishly adrift right now).

I always think of DW communities here, but I realized that one of the last times I did this, I had started a reference list for MDZS and BJYX things.

It's out of date now, probably could use some updating, but I'm not going to bother at the moment. I am actually going to rec three DW communities.

For multi-fandom recs:

fancake, which has found me some truly terrific pieces in a number of fandoms, including MDZS

For multi-fandom prompts:

fan_flashworks is a delight and has a nicely organized structure

For multi-fandom fests, exchanges, and the like:

fandomcalendar is a fandom staple

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Snowflake Challenge #4

In your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, and/or that you'd like someone to create or do for you.

Ah, there's already so many good things out there, though! There's

holiday_wishes (my wishlist here),

fandomtrees (my tree here), and I'm sure a bunch more that I don't even know about! If you are looking for stuff to make specifically for me (oh, you absolute sweetheart, you), here are my dear creator letters tag and make this for me! tag.

I love writing and I write every day, and I love writing support communities. If you do any of these things, there is a comm for you!

getyourwordsout is a serious comm with lots of support, frequent posting, and monthly checkins (and an amazing tracker spreadsheet!).

inkingitout has weekly checkins but is generally more chill. They don't kick you out if you don't make check-ins, and the bar for entry used to be lower, but I think GYWO has now created a much broader range of goals (including habit pledges instead of word pledges).

thedailywriter is a daily checkin community (though I think you can do it weekly though?) if you're looking for more concentrated accountability. There are plenty of those, so I'm not in need of more.

There are lots and lots of prompt and fandom specific communities, here or elsewhere, and I'd say I'd like a smallish MDZS writer's discord with a lot of activity but I'm already in several and don't participate in them (no time, and it's a bit scary), so I'm not going to ask for more that I won't participate in.

And then there's

snowflake_challenge, which is honestly the reason I come back to dreamwidth every January and post stuff! And its sister community,

sunshine_challenge, which I help mod for!

So I think I'm covered, really? The only wish I could have, which I wish for every year, is for writers (and any creator, really) to add a fanworks permission statement to their profile. It doesn't have to be blanket! You can say "hey, I am good with art and podfic, but not translation" or "no transformative works pls" or "go for it, it's all good" but something! It is so nice to be able to look at someone's profile and know if they are good for a podfic or not. And with my spur of the moment cold reading habits, if someone doesn't have a permission statement, I'm unlikely to go ask for permission, I'll just skip it and go one to someone else.

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Snowflake Challenge #13

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner featuring a wrapped giftbox with a snowflake on the gift tag. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31

In your own space, tell us about 3 fandom resources you use or enjoy.

Hm, you know, I don't actually use fandom resources that much. Not fandom-specific ones, anyway. I don't write the kinds of things that get into that kind of detail, usually. But there are a lot of good resources for The Untamed/MDZS, if I can track down links to them (I do actually save resources, I just don't reference them often).

MDZS/CQL (The Untamed) Resources

MDZS Timeline by thewickling
Additional Tags: Fanwork Research & Reference Guides, Meta, Nonfiction, Módào Zǔshī History
Series: Part 1 of MDZS-Dissecting, Zealous Shimei
Summary: A guide to MDZS's confusing chronology that I unwrangle in my spare time. The rest of that series is also very helpful!

Reference for Modao Zushi Writers: Chinese terms by chaoticjoy
Additional Tags: Meta, Fanwork Research & Reference Guides
Summary: This is to provide a reference for writers who are unfamiliar with Chinese literary conventions or terms used in canon. Prompted by https://three--rings.tumblr.com/post/187301034228/things-the-mdzs-fandom-desperately-needs-if-they

A reference post of references by

wangxianfics Everything you could imagine from timelines to very specific posts; writing-centric, I think?

Posts about very specific topics
Relationship terms in wuxia
Wuxia terms of address
Spreadsheet of who calls who what
Tons of linguistic references
MDZS Modern AU Fic Tips
Flying Times by Sword
Unusual colors in Chinese
three--rings on sex and consent in the novel (there are four parts; the other three are linked here)
a list of the Gusu Lan rules

Pronunciation tips etc:
As a podficcer, there are lots of pronunciation guides, but the one I found most helpful was by pumpkinpaix. Here is the pinyin post on tumblr; there are links to name pronunciation posts in there as well.

lunatique's pronounciation guide also links to a name pronunciation guide by

summertea.

Excellent blogs for various things:

hanfu-asks (hanfu and Chinese traditional clothing)

hunxi-guilai (lots of MDZS specific meta but also linguistic and cultural meta)

three--rings (MXTX meta)

wangxianfics (Catchall for meta and resource posts around tumblr)

Translations/manhua:
exiled rebels translation of the novel
tamingwangxian translation of the novel (incomplete)
Masterlist of translations including the above
mangakakalots manhua with English subs

BJYX (The Untamed RPF) Resources

Xiao Zhan filmography
Xiao Zhan filmography with links to English subs
Masterlist of Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo joint interviews

peekbackstage (C-ent information generally, and occasionally specifically about BJYX)

I'm gonna keep adding to this as I dig up my resources because I could use a nice place to keep them all, so stay tuned.

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Snowflake Challenge Day 5

Day 5

Recommend a fannish or creative resource.

Wow, there are already a lot of great ones on

snowflake_challenge so I am gonna put up whatever I find in my bookmarks. THIS OUGHTA BE FUN. >:)

( The link is breaking things for some people - gonna put it behind a text to save them )

That's a pretty cool collection. Hope you enjoy!

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Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 2

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wish-list if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish.

Oh, man. I always feel selfish when I do this, but you know, you guys are AMAZING and I have received some of the greatest gifts from this, so I'm going to do it despite my constant misgivings.

1. I'd love a few more Supernatural buddies. I know there aren't that many on DW, so if you're on tumblr and you can stand what is likely to my posting about Supernatural all the freaking time, follow me there? I'm

kisahawklin (as I am everywhere that's not here). Feel free to friend me here, too, if you're stopping by from the Fandom Snowflake post! I post more broadly than Supernatural here, though.

2. I would love someone to cheerlead and/or beta my fic (again, mostly Supernatural). Betas really only for finished works, and I am looking for someone with a firm hand and strong opinions (but a willingness to allow variations for style). I haven't had a consistent beta in a while and I miss it - good betas are like writing school. For a cheerleader, I'd just love someone with whom I can share WIPs (including trading WIPs - I'm good at mutual cheerleading, just ask

wintercreek) and get a daily "yay!" about. It's so helpful to keep me going.

3. Tutorials on gif-making. I have a feeling, now that I'm on tumblr, that I'm going to have to figure this one out.

If you want to play along!

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THIS IS VERY EDUCATIONAL. O_____O

( Okay, so, for reasons, I needed to look up 'how to put on a condom.' )

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The Fandom Snowflake Challenge Day 4

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wish-list 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.

Oh boy. I love this one! I love wandering around and giving gifts, as well as getting awesome things.

Well, my first wish is for folks to stuff

fandom_stockings. I've written a few treats and I'll try for a few more over the next few days, and I would just like everyone's stockings stuffed full by the time they go live (around the evening of Sunday, January 5th). You can sign up here to help fill stockings that are in need of a little love or just check the tags for particular fandoms that you're feeling right now. If you want to look for a particular person's stocking, you can use the search function. One of my favorite things about fandom is the way we all give to each other all the time, we create things that make other people happy for no other reason than to make them happy. How great is that?

Secondly, I'd love to have people grant things on the wishlists of the Fandom Snowlake Challenge Day 4. Ditto all the reasons above. Fandom is my happy place, most of all when people share the love.

For myself, I'd really, really love advice on where to go as a 100% complete newbie vidder. I've got vid ideas bursting out my ears, and I want to get my feet wet. If you know of a newbie vidder comm or a resources post or just... anything that will help someone who has never touched vidding anything before, that would be super great.

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Deja vu and headaches.

marina is off to DC for the day, and she'll be sleeping at

synecdochic's tonight and tomorrow because of my brother, ARG. I mean, I love the boy so much, but seriously, his communication and sense of timing suck. He's taking his super duper comfortable bed back to Boston tomorrow, and sleeping on it tonight. With the new potential boyfriend material. I like the new potential boyfriend material, actually, he's sweet and funny and they seem to get on quite well. But still. I wish he could have pushed this back a weekend or two. He's also taking his computer chair back, which means we need to get something for

soleta to sit on.

I just had a massive deja vu; it was this SGA fall meme over on LJ. There's a bit of fic, and then a pic of action figures with a quote, and between that and the response to it, it was SO sharp. I remembered it exactly - so much so I checked to see if it was perhaps the old meme they were referencing, but no. And I remembered the John Hannah thing that was on the TV and the red blanket I'm sitting under (which we just pulled out for Marina last night, so it's not like the red blanket is something that's normally around for me to sit under). So clear, seriously, it was bizarre.

Also, I have a headache I can't get away from. I've tried Advil, stretching, lots of water, and it just won't budge. I don't have headaches like this; dehydration ones are taken care of with lots of water and any other ones I have (eyeball headaches, tension headaches, or slight caffeine withdrawal headaches) are all handled with an Advil or two (and sometimes stretching my neck). I've had four Advil and four glasses of water now, and my head's still pounding. :(

On the other hand, it is a glorious 50° outside. It can stay like this until next spring, please.

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Interesting and informative links.

lightgetsin illustrates what happens when asking for accommodation for a disability.

From somewhere on my flist (pre-Irene; I haven't had time to repost for a while, but this will be useful in future, I think): American Red Cross's Safe and Well list. To let people know you are okay, or to find people, perhaps. The wider this is spread the more useful it is.

xkcd's take on taking a sympathy sorry as an apology (I actually just respond to people with "SYMPATHY SORRY >:(")

I was out of contact when noms were going on, but you can still vote in

eruthros's Top one hundred speculative fiction works: long list poll. It's tough, dude, but awesome.

The AO3 is about to start hosting art! :D :D :D Before they do, though, they are looking for help with the T&C;

facetofcathy posted an excellent roundup here.

I don't do tumblr, but for those of you who do, here's cute boys with cats. You're welcome. (My favorite? That's ( here. ))

feedingflame is for SYTYCD caps, and you can request specific dances, OMG. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D Now, not to inundate with requests....

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Two things make a post?

Maybe three. Or four!

1. Today's

solstice_calendar is locked, so if you want to see the recipe, you will actually have to join the community (instead of just subscribing). No biggie if you don't want to, but no obligation if you do join - really, really. And you can always UN-join later.

2. I finally put Four Funerals and a Wedding up on the AO3. I hope the new formatting is helping SOMEBODY out, because it sure is a pain in my ass. Clearly my section markers are not good section markers, they screw things up every damn time.

3. Secret Santa started today at work. It's $1 gifts for four days, and then a $15 gift on Friday. These people do not understand the meaning of $1, let me tell you. It's pretty freaking annoying to those of us who actually stick to the monetary values we're supposed to. We look like massive cheapskates. (The gift I got was more like a $5 gift, so that's nice, but... but... (ugh, I'm so sorry to be a scrooge).)

4. Inlaw function yesterday was relatively painless (fun, actually) and got us home with several pounds of cheese, chorizo, wine, crackers, and other goodies, as well as a bit of cash tucked into some books. All that and a pleasant visit with the sister-in-law, which was quite nice.

Oooh, and 5. My brother is sick. I hate it when he's sick (almost as much as he does). Any good home remedies for colds besides chicken soup?

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Two polls, and my thoughts about writing your fic exchange prompts.

sga_santa is live! I'll be putting up my request soon, but I was planning to post this before they went live. Whoops. It's here now, though. Losers folk, take a look at the poll further down pretty please?

( My thoughts on writing prompts for SeSa, Yuletide, and other fic exchange letters/prompt/request posts. )