Snowflake Challenge - Day #1

[savageseraph]

Challenge #1

In your own space, update your fandom information! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

My primary fandom for most of my fannish life has been The Lord of the Rings, but with the movies 20 years in the past, the fandom has grown quiet. At least the part I was involved with. I guess you could say I don’t really have a home-base fandom now. I’m more lone-wolfing about, writing some fics, and posting to the Ao3 and the Comment Fic Community on Livejoural. I’m Savageseraph on the Ao3 and Livejournal. Sadly, I feel kind of disconnected from fandom/online life overall. It’s not just fandom growing quiet, but people I enjoyed talking to moving on, moving to new platforms, or passing away.

The sense of disconnection and things fading away seem to have taken root in the COVID times. My comic-book store I enjoyed hanging out at closed. The new store I went to then stopped selling comics to focus only on games. At work, we’ve been remote since March of 2020, and the company decided to close our office this summer, so we’re all-remote all-the-time now.

I’m really missing the sense of community there used to be in fandom and the fannish places I used to visit. Maybe the Snowflake Challenge will help me reconnect. If we share interests, feel free to friend me. Because I don’t have my reading from 2021 collected yet, I didn’t post that, but I’ve mostly been reading fantasy, urban fantasy, YA (of the fantastical bent), reverse harem (also of the fantastical bent), paranormal romance, Regency romance, and horror/dark fantasy. I generally post about what’s going on in my life, what I’m reading/watching/playing, though I haven’t been posting much at all the last few years.

Fandoms I’ve Been Writing In Lately:
Dragon Age 2
Dragon Age: Inquisition
The Old Guard
The Old Guard RPF
LA by Night
Lucifer
Bridgerton
Broadway RPF / The Phantom of the Opera RPF
Critical Role
The Boys
The Wheel of Time

2021 Movies:
Spiderman: No Way Home
Justice League – The Snyder Cut
Matrix: Resurrections
Eternals
Dune
Last Night in Soho
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
The Suicide Squad
Jungle Cruise
Black Widow
The Fellowship of the Ring (rewatch)
Encanto
Godzilla vs. Kong
Mortal Combat
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
Onward
Soul

2021 Other Media:
Les Miserables – 25th Anniversary Production
The Phantom of the Opera – 25th Anniversary Production
Critical Role (Webseries)
LA by Night (Webseries)
The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

2021 TV Series:
Bridgerton (rewatch)
WandaVision
The Witcher – Season 2
Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Loki
Hawkeye
The Wheel of Time
The Book of Boba Fett (started)
Sweet Tooth

2021 Reality/Competition Shows:
Great British Baking Show – New Netflix 2021 Season
Great British Baking Show – Holidays
Bake Squad
School of Chocolate
Blown Away- Season 2
Blown Away - Holidays

Other Interests:
Planners and planning
Office supplies
Crystals and stones
Tarot cards/reading
Gaming




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Comments

[seleneheart]

I love that you listed office supplies. They're my fav too! And planners, as discussed over thataway.

I can't tell you how glad I am to see you around here! And to your feelings of disconnect, I understand that. I've found the Snowflake Challenge really helps to get me back involved in things. I hope it's the same for you.

I quit teaching due to the pandemic and I miss that sense of camaraderie (although I really like the people at my office now). While I appreciate that I'm privileged to work from home, I sometimes don't feel part of things.

Anyway, very glad to see you!

[savageseraph]

It's SOOOOOOOOO good to hear from you too!

My sis is in a PhD program at Florida State, and while she's teaching her undergrads online, her grad classes are all in person. It's a bit more safe since the group size is small, but it's not without risk. She comes to class with her KN-95 masks and sanitizer and basically cleans her whole area.

I remembered your love of office supplies, but I didn't remember the planning. I'm trying Hobonichi planners this year for the first time, so I'm curious to see how that will go. And I've started "arting" up my writing journal and quotes journal, and I'm looking forward to more of that in the new year.

And yay for the Snowflake Challenge time!

[tjs_whatnot]

I feel you SO HARD! For the last two years, I feel like the only fandoms I followed were Snowflake and nostalgia (and I shipped TF out of them) but I want the rest back, I just need to sort what that means in the future. ❤❤

[savageseraph]

I know what you mean! Writing for Yuletide and starting 2021 doing some prompts at Comment Fic were about the only things I was doing.

Well, I did get current on replying to comments at the Ao3 (which I need to do again).

I remember when there were so many people posting so many interesting things here and on Livejournal. So many good discussions and friendships formed. It doesn't seem like some of the other platforms facilitate people just chatting about stuff (whether fandom or otherwise).