Snowflake Challenge 1: Update Your Fandom Information

[ysabetwordsmith]

Snowflake Challenge #1: Update Your Fandom Information

Update your fandom information. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.




Whee! I already did this back when Snowflake made its early announcements. This saves me a huge amount of time on one of my busiest days of the year. (I have a whole stack of year-beginning posts to make, plus some for the Rose and Bay Awards.)  Welcome, fellow snowflakes, come on in and make the place sparkle!

My Dreamwidth profile is here.

My transformative works policy is here.

My friending policy is here.

My online housekeeping post has links to masterlists and many other useful things.

You can also read my "Introduce Yourself" post from last year's Snowflake.

Watch for the January Poetry Fishbowl to open on Tuesday, January 2 with a theme of "Short Forms." Everyone is invited to come give me prompts, read the freebie, and enjoy the crosstalk among the audience.
 

Comments

[we_are_spc]

We're trying to decide on whether to go out on a limb this year or not.

...

Some of the fandoms now include mor 'out there' things...and I'm not quite sure how comfortable others would be if we put them out there.

It's nervewracking. *sighs*

-T~

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> We're trying to decide on whether to go out on a limb this year or not. <<

My sympathies.

>> Some of the fandoms now include mor 'out there' things...and I'm not quite sure how comfortable others would be if we put them out there.<<

Well, people can be shitty. Nowadays I often have at least one or two people screaming at me during Snowflake, because I'm ... not what they thought they wanted? *shrug* Whatever.


DW offers a variety of tools that people can use to manage their experiences.

* Some folks have a Friends Only blog.

* Some use the post-locking or filter features to determine who can see what content. This not only protects privacy, it also improves signal:noise ratio so readers don't get deluged with topics they don't care about.

* Some people maintain multiple blogs for different topics. A popular division is to put personal stuff on one and fannish stuff on another. People with a split between light/fluffy vs. dark/gory/smutty fandoms may have different blogs for those. I used to put fannish stuff on DW and professional stuff on LJ.

* You can ban anyone who really bothers you. That will stop them from replying to any post or comment you make. Trouble is, it won't stop them from seeing what you post or comment, or from trying to reply -- the window will open, but the reply won't post, which sucks enormously if you've wasted half an hour writing a detailed reply. :/ So it's better to use other tools, and leave banning for things like spam accounts.

* Regarding ooky fandoms / topics: You have a right to like what you like and read what interests you. People who don't like that are free to go elsewhere, but they should not be mean to you just because you like something they don't. No matter how far-out your tastes, they are unlikely to be unique on a planet covered in 8+ billion homs, and enough of those are on the internet that there are websites for almost everything and fanfic/pr0n for most of that. It's all fine. You are probably not the only person for wondering "Am I weird for liking Fandom X? Will people pick on me if I mention that I enjoy poking at roadkill?" If people pick on you, that makes them assholes, it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with your tastes. But it's also fine if you just don't want to deal with that shit and prefer to keep your tastes private.

* It helps a lot if you let people know what to expect in your blog. Some want to read personal stuff, or nature stuff, and others are only into fannish content. Some don't want anything "adult" and others don't want anyone who isn't adult. Mine says bluntly, and I am not kidding, WARNING: This blog may do permanent damage to narrow minds. I also have sections on friending policies, what I write about, and how I expect people to be generally civil.

* Remember, you don't have to post a thing to participate in an event. You can just lurk and enjoy the content. You could also read other people's posts and consider whether you might like to subscribe to your blog. If you're feeling slightly more adventurous, you can comment on friends' posts in blogs where you feel reasonably safe. I'm doing Snowflake, and if all you want is to comment on my posts, that is totally fine.


>> It's nervewracking. *sighs* <<

*hugs offered* *or a pillowfort if that's better*

You may find this helpful:
How to Do Online Profiles or Introductions with Less Stress

Re: Thoughts

[we_are_spc]

DW offers a variety of tools that people can use to manage their experiences.

* Some folks have a Friends Only blog.

* Some use the post-locking or filter features to determine who can see what content. This not only protects privacy, it also improves signal:noise ratio so readers don't get deluged with topics they don't care about.

* Some people maintain multiple blogs for different topics. A popular division is to put personal stuff on one and fannish stuff on another. People with a split between light/fluffy vs. dark/gory/smutty fandoms may have different blogs for those. I used to put fannish stuff on DW and professional stuff on LJ.

* You can ban anyone who really bothers you. That will stop them from replying to any post or comment you make. Trouble is, it won't stop them from seeing what you post or comment, or from trying to reply -- the window will open, but the reply won't post, which sucks enormously if you've wasted half an hour writing a detailed reply. :/ So it's better to use other tools, and leave banning for things like spam accounts.

* Regarding ooky fandoms / topics: You have a right to like what you like and read what interests you. People who don't like that are free to go elsewhere, but they should not be mean to you just because you like something they don't. No matter how far-out your tastes, they are unlikely to be unique on a planet covered in 8+ billion homs, and enough of those are on the internet that there are websites for almost everything and fanfic/pr0n for most of that. It's all fine. You are probably not the only person for wondering "Am I weird for liking Fandom X? Will people pick on me if I mention that I enjoy poking at roadkill?" If people pick on you, that makes them assholes, it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with your tastes. But it's also fine if you just don't want to deal with that shit and prefer to keep your tastes private.

* It helps a lot if you let people know what to expect in your blog. Some want to read personal stuff, or nature stuff, and others are only into fannish content. Some don't want anything "adult" and others don't want anyone who isn't adult. Mine says bluntly, and I am not kidding, WARNING: This blog may do permanent damage to narrow minds. I also have sections on friending policies, what I write about, and how I expect people to be generally civil.

* Remember, you don't have to post a thing to participate in an event. You can just lurk and enjoy the content. You could also read other people's posts and consider whether you might like to subscribe to your blog. If you're feeling slightly more adventurous, you can comment on friends' posts in blogs where you feel reasonably safe. I'm doing Snowflake, and if all you want is to comment on my posts, that is totally fine.

*curls up in pillow fortwith fuzy blankets* *also hugs*

I'll have to poke at the link when I'm not busy trying to poke at a seller about the newest spirit I'm b ringing home.

This year is for show work. So Arawn says. Wish me luck. This shit is going to suck. Because it's not just the shel's shadows we're digging at. It's my elven past's ones too, and that...Yeahk, well, I think I've mentioned a few of my elven childhood traumas. *sighs*

-T~