How Did the Fandom Snowflake Challenge Go?



It went well. I had to stretch my moodboard muscles. I reached out to (new to me) snowflakers and some of them reached back. Very CooL.

I'm glad I took part, and I'm looking forward to next year.

In your own space, create a promo and/or rec list for someone new to a fandom

I've been in the Stargate Atlantis fandom since the beginning. I can't think of or come up with a better promo for my favorite OTP than the one done by Aja many moons ago

1. and then, randomly, there was a McShep Primer on your list

(LJ link https://bookshop.livejournal.com/958654.html)


Continuing on that theme...

2. Objectifying Rodney McKay (/David Hewlett): A Picspam

3. Objectifying John Sheppard (/Joe Flanigan): A Picspam

And if that's not enough. This pairing lends itself to crack AU's that leave me with a smile on my face.

4. The Epic Tale of Rodney & John, Two Girl Scout Cookies in Love

Oh noes! I thought that I did a Fannish Fifty 2025 post about stargore's SNFU Fanworks Challenge, but I haven't been able to find that post and now I'm wondering if what I'm recalling is that I intended to post about it...but got sidetracked somewhere along the way and didn't post. So now it's 2026 and here I am to pimp the SNFU Fanworks Challenge from 2025...but no worries that we're into the next year now...it's an open-ended challenge with no deadline.

The inspo for this challenge comes from Hard Core Logo and from the C6D (Canadian Six Degrees) fandoms, but there are no restrictions on what fandom you can choose for the challenge. See details on stargore's Dreamwidth and stargore's neocities website.

If you want to thank someone in Emor for your inn's lavatory, this is the place to do so. Emor's engineers are the best in the world and are admirably eager to spread their wonderful inventions outside of Emor. If you wish, you may make arrangements here to have your own tribe's housing improved; some engineers are willing to travel as far as the mainland, if the job is interesting enough.

As you may have guessed by now, "Engineering Academy" means that engineering students are trained here. While the Law Academy and Medical Academy train only peninsulareans, the Engineering Academy opens its doors to mainlanders as well. You may apply for entrance into the Academy while you are here.

[Translator's note: The Emorian engineers are so discreet in their work that they aren't often seen. However, their Marcadian colleagues are the ones to blame for the terrifying catapult used in Empty Dagger Hand.]

Talk about a community space you like

Well, there's more than one of those.

First to mind is SGA_Saturday A lot of Stargate Atlantis communities have fallen by the wayside as the years have passed. This community, with its monthly prompts has kept the light burning.

Whatif_au This is a fun, mulitfandom community. I suspect it's light touch and dash of charm has a lot to do with it's mod and creator brumeier. *Great work, hon*

This site Unconventionalcourtship is an annual, multifandom challenge that was made for my heart.

What I knew before going in: this is serial-numbers-very-very-very-slightly-filed-off Sidney Crosby/Alexander Ovechkin RPF. There's a lot of sex scenes. There is a cup kiss on ice.

( Then I watched it )

Menachos! Basically Zevachim except with flour offerings... FOR NOW.

My notes on perek 1:

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Challenge #12

Make an appreciation post to those who enhance your fandom life.

Fandom has taken me from lurking to full-on participating. It's given me life-time friends, a place to express my ideas, and comfort reads when I needed them.

I've traveled places I never would have otherwise. It's broadened my perspective, kept me informed, and made me laugh.

Here's to you, Fandom

Couldn't they possibly have, perhaps and please, cast actors who don't look so goddamn alike for Steve & Bucky, I'm sorry, I mean Scott & Kip?

If they shave or the other one of them gets slightly more facial hair, I've not even the slightest hope here. In the sex scenes, it's like whatever, if you wanted me to know who is who, you'd light it better.

Put a shirt on. Why do you have identical torsos, one of you is a professional athlete and the other one works two jobs.

I'm putting together a program at the public library where I work as an Acquisitions and Collection Management Librarian. It's a program about books that have been challenged or banned in the recent onslaught against the freedom to read in the U.S. Some of the reasons...I can't even! I don't know whether to engage in bitter laughter or to just plain cry...or both...yeah, both.

Just a few moments ago I encountered this one about a book I read recently: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States  by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been banned in some parts of the U.S. because Dunbar-Ortiz puts Indigenous Native Americans at the center of her telling of U.S. history "causing the book to gain detractors who prefer that history be told from the colonizer perspective". To paraphrase Shakespeare in Hamlet: "If all history books were to be judged on preferred perspective 'who should scape whipping'."

Gandalf was a chickenshit with no self-control who could have prevented the massive death toll at Pelennor Fields. Take the ring, kill the baddie, jump into Mount Doom before it has a chance to corrupt you. But nooooo, it's way more fun to have a grey-Maia/fire-Maia punch-up in a bottomless pit in order to emerge in a gleam of backlighting and inspirational music riding a glowing horsey like a tween girl's puberty dreams, than it is to take the ring, zap in, punch the eyeball Maia in his dumb eyeball, and then jump into the lava.

Challenge #11

In your own space, grant someone's wish from Challenge #5.


Requests I've filled:

Comments and hits on fanfic, some icons, and a request for a picture of a deer.

Just want to add a thank you to everyone who filled a request on my wishlist. ;;;;flailyhands;;;;