Snowflake Challenge #1

[axael]

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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Comments

[sugareey]

Ahh, yes...more book reading! I hear ya on that one!

I am very much the same way with crocheting as you are with knitting...my hopes is to actually finish the WIPs that are still outstanding (since I very much hate sewing pieces together)!

Stardew is so fun and relaxing (and if I'm not careful, very addicting :P). This is my reminder to get back into playing again since it has been quite some time since I've last played!

[axael]

I have three knitting WIPs in clear view of me while I sit on my laptop. Hrm. One must be frogged and restarted, though, so I don't know if it that counts, lol. Sympathies on sewing things together, tho!! I'm really haphazard at it. If it's together it's together, ahaha.

XD I lose *so* much time to Stardew, when I play, because that adjusted day-night cycle is very easy to just...slip time. Wow. I'm as far as I've ever gotten in it now (year three winter!!) and I'm just starting to get to Ginger Island and I still can't believe how much game there is left, even playing cooperative. o_O