Pretty Cravings

To finish up the Snowflake Challenge:

Create your own challenge

Keeping this simple. Just once, if you like a story leave a kudos. If you normally leave kudos, leave a comment.

If you normally do both anyway - Go you! Positive feedback is the coin of the realm when it comes to fannish works.

create a fanwork

I opened up publisher and made fannish bookmarks.



To print: copy and paste into a word document.

Images are from various icons.

_{The seahorse is by leesa_perrie, the kiss by mific, John & Rodney from Aurora by smilebackwards.}

Recommend a fannish or creative resource

Cheating a little since I'm linking this to a previous post.

Resources

Oh, and this is cool - John's Medals

Promote at least one canon that you adore (old, new, forever fandom)

My forever fandom is Stargate Atlantis.

Since all my recs in the previous challenge were SGA I'm going to consider this done.

It includes story, art, and meta. Heavy on the John and Rodney.

link

And then there is always -

by fanarts_series

Promote/Rec sing the praises of yourself

I always find these sort of challenges the most difficult but I shall carry on.

I'm patient.

I have a very even temperament (shut up, em_kellesvig, they don't need to know everything).

I have a keen sense of the ridiculous.

As proof, allow me to link to a few of the stories that I had the most fun writing.

Wash n' Wear series

Oh dear, did I mention it was crack?

In your own space, Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've briefly interacted with and friend/follow them.

Yep, done this. Did this yesterday and today and... if I take into account the number of times I've left a comment to a story on A03, I've done this a lot. *g*


Anyone feeling a little shy about doing this is more than welcome to leave a comment here. *waves*

Pimp Your Favorite Communities, Fests or Challenges!

With no shame whatsoever I'm going to pimp story_works because it's a relaxed no pressure challenge community. The mods (of which I am one) try hard and balance a 'plan' with 'winging it' more often than not.

You do have to request to join, but that's mainly to keep bots at bay.


whatif_au is a great little challenge community that focuses on AUs. AUs=LOVE, baby.

I'd be remiss if I left out the Snowflake Challenge. It's been lovely to meet new people through the challenge.

And, finally, with no shame at all, romancingmcshep.

Back in the SGA heyday, it was easy to find all kinds of McShep challenges. Most have drifted away in the passing years. But for those of us that still want John and Rodney to have their happy ending... well, this is your chance. :)

Just click on the pic for more info.



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An Introduction to Me


Good gracious--I don't suppose staring at my keyboard, getting up and pouring another cup of coffee and going back to staring at my keyboard is the most auspicious place to start. And yet? Scarily accurate.

The big fannish things:

I make no bones about it. I love fandom. It's like this big balloon of love that just keeps getting bigger.(That's your first hint that I'm a big dork at heart.) I was watching from the sidelines and cheering on when Ao3 was born.

And where else can so many from such a variety of cultures and life experiences come together for at least a little while to share their joy and passion with other people that understand completely what that feels like?

I'm an Aries. Idealism is a thing.

I read muchly in fandom, mostly The Sentinel, Buffy (Spuffy and Spander). Various others but those were the big two for me at the time.* That was about it. I was busy raising my family and reading fanfic was my reward at the end of a long day. Seriously, I used to print out the stories and read them in bed at night.

Then Stargate Atlantis happened. I fell head over heels for McShep. For the first time, I'm actually active in fandom. Creating first an LJ then DW account. Running fests –and omg—writing.
(and instigating Blow Job Friday)

I do read in other fandoms. Things will catch my fancy. Star Trek Reboot, Venom, Sherlock (Mycroft/Lestrade) and I'll revisit older stories I have loved. Does anyone remember PC/Mac from the commercials?

The RL things.

For as old as I am, I came into fandom late. I've raised four college graduates (With plenty of hair swept under the rug to prove it). I have grandkids. I have…I have…I have to somehow balance the grandmother act with writing slashy porn. Some times it makes my brain hurt.

Oh, look! You made it this far. Thank you, and here's a timely treat for being so patient with me. Four New Year's Resolutions John Breaks, And One He Doesn't ras_elased.

*a little clarification. I've mentally separated Buffy/Spike from Spike/Xander even though they are the same fandom. Spike/Xander was my first forey into slash and it had quite an impact on me.