community: snowflake_challenge Challenge #13, #14, & #15

[matsushima]

I know every post on snowflake_challenge says Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed. but I still wanted to catch up so I'm done by the end of January!

TALK ABOUT A COMMUNITY SPACE YOU LIKE. It doesn’t need to be your favorite, or the one where you spend the most time (although it certainly can be). Maybe it’s even one that you’ve barely visited. But talk about that space and how it helps support fannish community.

I gave a shoutout to many of my favorite Dreamwidth communities in Challenge #12 but I should also add agonyaunt.

I'm trying to get more into Discord, so shoutout to the Saiyuki Fans server and Disabled Academics Collective. Both servers are big enough to be active and small enough to not feel totally overwhelming.

(Writing this made me really nostalgic for 旧Twitter. It was a hellsite but it was our hellsite. Now it's a Nazi bar. I'm on Bluesky but it's not the same.)

[C]reate a promo and/or rec list for someone new to a fandom.

Do you want to get (back) into designing your own websites, off social media and away from the algorithm? It's fun! I like showing off my doll collection and paracosm without ads and without the (implied) pressure to do it with the vague hope of going viral. (Even with likes/shares turned off on Instagram(/Tumblr), it's part of how the platform(/s) is(/are) designed so there's no escaping it entirely.)

Check out this huge list of resources for the personal web to get started and pop over to smallweb for technical/emotional support.

How did the fandom Snowflake Challenge go?

… pretty good, I guess? I think this is my first time ever participating and definitely my first time finishing, i.e., completing all of the prompts. (I didn't post anything for Challenge #11 because I was too lazy to go back and find the links for the handful of wishes I granted.) I had fun filling the prompts even tho I'm not super active in fandom and I'm already looking forward to sunshine_revival this summer~

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[autobotscoutriella]

Oooh, thank you for the personal website resource list! I've really been wanting to get more into that, and I think that's going to be a great starting point. And smallweb, too!

See you in sunshine_revival! (And earlier, though I've been very bad at catching up on my reading page this month. /o\)