Snowflake Challenge #1
Jan. 2nd, 2026 06:13 pmFandom Snowflake Challenge — January 1st
❄ Challenge #1 onIcebreaker Challenge: Introductions!
Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge and what you hope to gain from it.
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Happy New Year! It is I, Axael! A.k.a. Desiderii everywhere else on the internet except for dreamwidth, lol. I'm in my early 40s, and I only discovered fandom as the internet knows it a decade or so ago, though I've been poking around fandom in offline and non-mainstream in many different forms since I was bitty. I did a write-up last year that went in depth into where I cam from, fandom-wise. The only place I am currently online at the moment is here on dreamwidth and on ao3 as
Offline, I've started a bunch of new knitting projects and I'm resolved to read a book a week this year that's not fanfiction, just so I don't only read fanfic for another year in a row. Cozy cooperative games with friends has also been something that I've been enjoying, namely Stardew Valley and Voyagers of Nera. I'm also, unfortunately, having to adjust to no longer having a cat at my side, as mine passed just in December.
As for why the challenge? Well, mostly I enjoyed it so much last year. :) It's something nice to kick off the year with, even if I can only manage half the challenges. Also, I am hoping to poke around more fandom on dreamwidth to see what can be seen in a way that I just wasn't up for last year. I've stopped looping back around to tumblr whenever I needed those dopamine micro-hits, but I do miss fandom people-interactions. I definitely don't want to go back to passively scrolling, though. So! Interaction! Older-style fandom! Saying hello!
So: hello! :) :)
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