Snowflake Challenge Day 1

[tielan]

Feel free to prod me when I drop the ball!



I'm Tielan/Sel, I've been in online fandom since 2000, and started on LJ in 2001, moving to DW from 2009-2012, before pretty much moving long-term to DW from then on.

I feel like there's not much to say that I haven't already said in previous years.

Forty-something, cishet, non-white, been fannish a long time (since Return of the Jedi came out) but didn't have a name for it until the later 90s. Got into online fandom ~ 2001 and boom.

I'm in Sydney, Australia, garden, cook, quilt, sew, keep chooks, and somehow find the time to write in amidst all that and a forty-hour work week. Jack of all trades, master of none, etc. There are tags for these in my journal if you're interested in following it - chooks tends to fall under 'garden', and cooking is mostly under 'recipes'.

I've been in a number of megafandoms, most recently MCU, but previously Stargate Atlantis, Merlin, and Stargate SG1. I tend towards western fantasy/sci-fi fandoms: BSG, Firefly, Buffy & Angel, Merlin, Harry Potter, Sanctuary (TV).

Presently trying to write an urban fantasy novel, am facing major rewrites. Ugh.

Posts are mostly about RL and things going on - politics, my personal life, health, things I'm thinking about ('thinky thoughts') etc.

It's always friending/unfriending season, but I'm looking more for RL posts than fannish ones, particularly if we don't share the same fandoms.

Comments

[goddess47]

Another of my friends agreed that it's hard to talk about yourself... ;-)

Urban fantasy novel in re-writes! Yeah, you're at a hard place but once you're through this hopefully it gets better! Good luck with that!

I knew the Stargate fandoms, but you are/have been involved in a lot of fandoms! Quite the list you have there!

Glad you participated in the first day of Snowflake... hope to see you again during the month!

[tielan]

I feel like it's not 'hard' so much as a case of 'exactly which part did you want to hear about? What's relevant to fannish interaction? And when is it oversharing?'

I am dreading the rewrites. I'm not much of a rewriter, tbh.

[aome]

You SO do not look 40-something.

Return of the Jedi remains one of my most favourite movies, hands down. <3

[tielan]

Good genes, Asian blood, and a good life all help a lot!

So many things to love about RotJ. So many.

[skytintedwater]

*Waves from Adelaide*

[tielan]

Hello! I was in Adelaide earlier this year (mid February) to catch the Ghan to Darwin. How's things going down your way?

[paulamcg]

So glad to see you at Snowflake again! We must have met a year ago. I'm just not very good at commenting on people's journals. And I'm afraid I'm one of those with just fannish posts and not a fandom in common with you, as I'm still only in HP. But rewrites of an urban fantasy novel! I'd love to see any posts about writing process if you do those!

[tielan]

Hey there! Snowflake is always good entertainment and value - I think it's gotten better as the DW community has gotten smaller. More people participate and are willing to wander about and try new people.

I don't do a lot of posting about my writing process here. There's some over at a writing journal (I'll PM you the journal name) but I keep forgetting to post there, too. Basically, my writing process is kind of "plot out a story, try to write it, take forever" which is standard for me.

[paulamcg]

I'd like to follow your writing journal in any case if you don't mind. Standard for me nowadays is perhaps kind of "start writing without plotting, try to keep it short, finish in a couple of weeks". But it's just little stories in my single, consistent HP ficverse.

[spikedluv]

Hi! Dropping in from Snowflake. I discovered online fandom in 2001, too! Before that I had no idea that fandom was a 'thing'. It was a very exciting discovery. *g*

[tielan]

Hi! I knew that fandoms were a thing - I was on yahoogroup email lists with Terry Pratchett fans and Melanie Rawn fans back around 1997-1998, but what I think of as the more modern online fandom? That came in 2001 when I started chatting with people on AOL.