Snowflake #7, 8, 11, & 12

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Challenge #7: In your own space, tell us about 3 fandom resources, spaces, or communities you use or enjoy.

1) Nirvana in Fire fans may already be familiar with Merelhyn's spreadsheet - it's officially titled 'Nif/Lyb - EVERYTHING' but I've bookmarked it as 'Merelyn's insane master spreadsheet of all knowledge' so I can find it more easily. *laughs* It's honestly rather chaotic, but there's a character listing (names in Chinese and English, titles, episode appearances), a timeline (novel and show), Hai Yan's author's notes from the book, download links, and tons of other information.

2) the Online Etymology Dictionary: history and evolution of various words, including vulgar and slang usage. Pairs well with Google's ngram viewer.

3) Uhhh, why not, self-pimp time: I started a Pinboard (with archiving because I kept losing links to internet entropy) at metaspatz. It's still a bit empty, but I know that will change.


Challenge #8: In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well.

Well, this one turned out to be an actual challenge. My first response was so self-negative I had to complete re-write it. *sigh*

Professionally/personally, I managed to do regular massage trades with a former classmate and friend who lives nearby. We both know a specific modality that is done fully clothed, so we started off trading in her backyard before we were vaccinated, and kept it up after. It was one of my resolutions last New Year, and a much-needed relief for us both!

Fannishly, I didn't post much but my past work inspired SEVEN podfics by three different podficcers, which was amazing!!!
The complete list:
-two of Solar Wind Rising (NIF) by Thimblerig and lattice_frames
-two of Seed (NIF-Temeraire fusion) by marianas and Thimblerig
-tête-à-tête (Temeraire) by Thimblerig
-balm of hurt minds (Temeraire) by Thimblerig
-dreamed this would be held a crime (The Untamed) by Thimblerig

Also, I continued posting rec sets every month. I try not to devalue that: it takes hours to write up each set, since I start by archiving every single one on the Internet Archive because I'm sick of losing links, and especially since I switched to doing all the fics I saved each month rather than my top five.

Actually, I ought to revisit that since I have less time now than I did in 2020 when I took several long stretches off work. Do ya'll have a preference for a big post versus a smaller one? or individual recs at the time of reading? Or, wait, hah! I forgot I can do polls!

Poll #26592 Rec post lengths

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 2

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What size of fic reccing do you prefer?

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large: 10-20 recs
0 (0.0%)

mid-length: 5 recs
2 (100.0%)

small: individual or paired recs
0 (0.0%)

What style of fic reccing do you prefer?

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multifandom
1 (50.0%)

fandom specific
0 (0.0%)

with full summaries + commentary
2 (100.0%)

with brief elevator-pitch description
2 (100.0%)

link lists with no commentary
0 (0.0%)

I'm going to claim #11 Interact With Someone as done, since I've been commenting more, and #12 Fancast Someone as done with my imagining Element of Fire's Thomas Boniface as Diego Luna.