Snowflake Challenge #1

Fandom Snowflake Challenge — January 1st

❄ Challenge #1 on snowflake_challenge.

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Icebreaker Challenge: Introductions!

Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge and what you hope to gain from it.

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 desiderii.

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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