Snowflake Challenge #15

[kingstoken]

Challenge #15

Talk about an unexpected joyous moment you experienced last year.

I'm afraid I'm having a really hard time thinking of anything at the moment, I'm sure there was, but with all the bad stuff that has been happening in the world in the past couple of weeks it is hard to remember them right now.  Anyways, I thought I would mention a few goals I achieved in the past year instead. 

1. I created roughly 700 pages on Fanlore last year, documenting fandom history is a bit of a passion of mine, also, if you have never visited Fanlore you really should, it's fun to go down fandom history rabbit holes there. 
2. I finished my 2024 Book Bingo card!  This was the fourth year where I completed the cards I have created since the Livejournal Book Bingo kind of fizzled out.  It makes you feel so accomplished at the end of the year when you can see how many books you're read. 
3. I moderated fandomtrees for the fifth year running!
4. I moderated my first exchanges on AO3, the Doctor Who Femslash Drabble Exchange and the Dead Boy Detectives Fic Exchange. I always wanted to try my hand at moderating an exchange on AO3, but it was very intimidating, but with some help from the Exchanges After Dark discord and reading tutorials online, I was able to successfully complete two single fandom exchanges this year.  

That's about it, and that was actually pretty great when you look back on it.

One unrelated thing, I am giving away some Stranger Things stickers, so if you would like some, or know a teacher who might like them to give out to their class, please see this post.

Thanks to everyone for joining me in the Snowflake challenge this year!

Comments

[kiestan]

i felt similarly when writing up the snowflake challenge post - that it can be hard to recall the good given all the bad stuff happening in the world right now. but i think this makes it even more important to actively remember and celebrate the former 🥺

700 pages on Fanlore last year

SEVEN HUNDRED PAGES! that's incredible! oh my god! fanlore has been a constant during my decade of participating in fandom, so thank you for your hard work 🫡 did you link them anywhere in your journal where i can take a look at what you've written? if you're willing to share, that is!

It makes you feel so accomplished at the end of the year when you can see how many books you're read.

i completed a similar reading challenge (on goodreads) too. totally get you on this feeling of accomplishment; it's a banger way to end the year.

and congrats on modding all those exchanges/events :-) i've seen them around, esp. fandomtrees and the dead boy detectives fic exchange. i've always been impressed by how organised they are.

[kingstoken]

I'm afraid I don't have a place showing all of the recent Fanlore pages I've created, other than my contributions page, I just looked at my contributions and estimated roughly. I do have this page which is horribly out of date, I used to keep track of all the pages I created from the very beginning in 2017, but it got a bit overwhelming and I've let go to the wayside.

Thank you for all your kind words.

[barbaratp]

Deve ser legal ter uma conta na Fanlore e editar tantas coisas legais. Eu não sei se conseguiria fazer algo assim, as barreiras idiomáticas parecem um pequeno empecilho. Eu tenho uma modesta conta no Wikipedia que uso somente para favoritar artigos que gosto e às vezes editar bem simplesmente porque as regras da Wikipedia são bem rígidas sobre edições e o máximo que faço é remover algum hiper link errado. Não sei como funciona a Fanlore no entanto. Às vezes eu abro ela para olhar algumas coisas do tipo fics de determinado fandom ou tropo. Acho legal.

Seu cartão de bingo de livros eu cheguei a ver em outras entradas. Você lê bastante isso é legal demais u.u

Uma vez só na minha vida moderei um desafio e foi complicadíssimo. Teve desistências, atrasos e ficou como edição única. Experiência que não sei se repetiria algum dia. Chocada eu sempre fico quando vejo pessoas que comandam desafios há anos ou aquelas que como você fizeram um pela primeira vez. Parece interessante mas um pouco desgastante ou estressante não? Como você consegue conciliar?

[kingstoken]

Fanlore is edited by volunteer editors, anyone can join, but everything is in English I'm afraid. I edit Wikipedia too, but like you said they are very strict over there, so I don't contribute all that often either.

[barbaratp]

Os critérios do que é sólido para a Wikipédia geram muitas discussões nas páginas de edição (que eu raramente me envolvo). Ao menos ela possui versões em outros idiomas.

A fanlore parece legal mesmo estando totalmente em inglês, é um bom recurso para fãs obviamente, fuçando pelo site já descobri algumas coisas lá (incluindo páginas onde estou citada - não faço idéia de como seria eu, uma simples ninguém, relevante para algo digno de nota, mas se alguém me citou deve ter seu motivo.)

ETA: se não me engano um tempo atrás alguém me perguntou se importa de usar uma informação que eu sabia como parte de um post na net, eu nem lembro quem foi, mas acho que foi assim que eu devo ter parado lá *risos*

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Go you!!

[kingstoken]

Thank you!

[kitarella_imagines]

1. I created roughly 700 pages on Fanlore last year, documenting fandom history is a bit of a passion of mine, also, if you have never visited Fanlore you really should, it's fun to go down fandom history rabbit holes there.

That is amazing! Fanlore is a very interesting site, good work.

[kingstoken]

Thank you!

[trepkos]

Well done for documenting so much history!

[kingstoken]

Thank you!

[tinkaton]

I created roughly 700 pages on Fanlore last year

Wow that's amazing!! I love Fanlore for looking up old fandom drama/fandom terms I totally missed when it was happening lmao. Very useful site.

That's awesome you moderated those exchanges and fandomtrees too, that sounds like a lot of work.

[kingstoken]

Thank you!

[delphi]

Those are all fantastic achievements!

[kingstoken]

Thank you!

[tsuki_no_bara]

that's a lot of work on fanlore! way to go. :D finishing a book bingo is nothing to sneeze at either.

[kingstoken]

Thank you!