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Challenge #1
The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.
I need to get posting back on here again. It's been a rough year, a lot more intense with work, a lot more emotional energy required to navigate the world than before, and fewer people interacting over here.
So I'm looking to expand my horizons this year. Maybe that involves new people, maybe that involves new fandoms, maybe that involves things I haven't yet conceptualised yet. We'll work it out as it comes.
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My profile on other social media reads "modern quilter, permaculture gardener, unrepentant foodie, cat servant, Jesus freak". I would add to that "hockey player (field, not fishbowl)".
Mostly, those are the labels I give out to non-fannish people.
Fannishly, I haven't really been fannish in a number of years. it's slowly been draining out of me as I stopped watching shows or franchises, and switched over to writing more original fiction instead of fanfiction.
However, fannishly, I tend to like the "second string" female character - the one that gets the "oh, and I like her, too" response by the kinds of fans who actually like female characters in male-dominated megafandoms. I write fanfic (but these days mostly exchanges), and a lot of it's romance or 'contains romantic themes'. I used to do meta, but I don't really have the energy or space for it anymore.
I think quite a bit about politics, which includes religion, race, sexuality, gender, history, culture, and all the other things that are human and therefore are political by virtue of how we think of them and regulate them.
Right now, I'm editing the first book of a series, and trying to write the second book. I was hoping to write the 2nd book last year, but hoo boy did my creativity drain away in 2025! It took me five years to get the first book done, hopefully it doesn't take another five to write the second! Although at that rate, I'll still probably be going faster than GRRM...
The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.
I need to get posting back on here again. It's been a rough year, a lot more intense with work, a lot more emotional energy required to navigate the world than before, and fewer people interacting over here.
So I'm looking to expand my horizons this year. Maybe that involves new people, maybe that involves new fandoms, maybe that involves things I haven't yet conceptualised yet. We'll work it out as it comes.
--
My profile on other social media reads "modern quilter, permaculture gardener, unrepentant foodie, cat servant, Jesus freak". I would add to that "hockey player (field, not fishbowl)".
Mostly, those are the labels I give out to non-fannish people.
Fannishly, I haven't really been fannish in a number of years. it's slowly been draining out of me as I stopped watching shows or franchises, and switched over to writing more original fiction instead of fanfiction.
However, fannishly, I tend to like the "second string" female character - the one that gets the "oh, and I like her, too" response by the kinds of fans who actually like female characters in male-dominated megafandoms. I write fanfic (but these days mostly exchanges), and a lot of it's romance or 'contains romantic themes'. I used to do meta, but I don't really have the energy or space for it anymore.
I think quite a bit about politics, which includes religion, race, sexuality, gender, history, culture, and all the other things that are human and therefore are political by virtue of how we think of them and regulate them.
Right now, I'm editing the first book of a series, and trying to write the second book. I was hoping to write the 2nd book last year, but hoo boy did my creativity drain away in 2025! It took me five years to get the first book done, hopefully it doesn't take another five to write the second! Although at that rate, I'll still probably be going faster than GRRM...
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