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svgurl ([personal profile] svgurl) wrote2022-01-28 10:55 pm
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snowflake challenge #15

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Challenge 15:

In your own space, create your own challenge.


First of all, I can't believe this is the last challenge! It really flew by. I managed to complete all 15, which feels like succeeding at a personal challenge that I didn't know I had. A quick thank you to all the mods who put in so much hard work in running this! Also to all the people who have commented here at any point- I enjoyed and appreciated seeing all your responses and interacting with you and I hope to come across you sometime in the near future.

This Snowflake Challenge really gave me a chance to interact with those that I normally would not have come across and I appreciate that. Not just that but the interaction in general. So that leads me to two personal challenge, which you are welcome to take on yourselves.

1. This year, step out of your comfort zone.

Interpret that however you would like. I know I am a perfectionist- it is not a brag; it's actually really inconvenient and frustrating because I'm often scared to try new things or get mad when something doesn't come out right the first time. My family has commented on it too.

This year, I want to be less afraid and try new things, in and out of fandom. Take a step I wouldn't have taken. As long as I'm not hurting anyone, I shouldn't be afraid to fail.

2. Participate.

From what I have realized from reading the responses to these challenges, people miss the older fandom days with more interaction and I think this is a 'be the change' situation. Whether that involves commenting, recc'ing, creating and/or all of the above, it can be done! We may not be able to go back to when forums were popular and you couldn't keep up with your LJ flist, but surely there are ways to bring that kind of activity to what we have now. I'm even figuring out Discord!

I was lucky enough to find two co-mods so that I could help run my first AO3 challenge. This year, maybe I will run my own community or lead something else. Someone suggested a more general comment_bingo (I have to find out who did that to credit them too), with permission from the people over at the Steve/Tony one who run a ship specific one, and even though it might be work, it hasn't left my head and I might try that. We'll see.

After all, like I said, it's worth a shot. :D
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[personal profile] siberian_skys 2022-01-30 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
I love your Eyore icon. He's so cute.

I left LJ with the whole exodus when the servers got moved to Russia. That was jut creepy, IMO.

I hate all this moving stuff. I really hope this is the last time I'm going to have to do it.
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[personal profile] silveradept 2022-01-30 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
An excellent pair of goals, and I wish you much success on them. I have been able to do many things outside my comfort zone in the last little while because I had to do a thing and have the results of it just be, rather than it being to be something specific or up to an impossible standard. It's been very different, doing things that I wouldn't have considered beforehand.
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[personal profile] vriddy 2022-01-30 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I wish you all of the best with your goals!! I'm super excited to see how many of these challenges seem to follow directly from the general feelings we saw in the "I wish..." snowflake. It seems like there are so many people who are keen to make Dreamwidth into a fun, active place for fandom (I'm one of them, too!). I hope we can try and be that change we want to see this year, and talk about our successes and lessons learnt during the next [community profile] snowflake_challenge!!
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[personal profile] corvidology 2022-01-30 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I work in academia, so I have to attend a lot of 'touchy feely' type of things only some of which are really useful.

In one of the sessions I had to attend, the leader of the session asked "How many of you can sing, dance, draw, write?" and in a room with about 50 people in it, 4 raised their hands. Then she said, if this were a room full of 10 year olds, you would have all raised your hands. I always think about that when I decide I'm not going to post something... and then I post it! :D
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[personal profile] spikedluv 2022-01-30 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't find offhand the one I used in the past (probably lost in my bookmarks), but I googled and there are several free bingo card generators, like this one: https://myfreebingocards.com/bingo-card-generator

You can maybe check them out and find one you like best?
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[personal profile] seal_girl 2022-01-31 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
Well done for completing all 15 Snowflake challenges.

I like both of these challenges, I'm going to try and get more involved and not stay hiding under my stone for so long. I felt that this year there was a real sense of having lost the community-ness of fandom and that people were aware of it.

"surely there are ways to bring that kind of activity to what we have now"
I like the way you put that. There are, and hopefully this year we can all add a little bit :)
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[personal profile] spikedluv 2022-01-31 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
They'd probably be happy to tell you which card generator they use.
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[personal profile] siberian_skys 2022-01-31 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much for the icon link. I bookmarked it. I need to do something about my icons and I have been dragging my feet. I even had very kind people answer my wish of Hawkeye icons and I still havan't upgraded my icon page.

I don't know wy I can't get my act together. Maybe I just need a vacation. I't ridiculous that I let these things go lately.
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[personal profile] spikedluv 2022-01-31 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
That's fabulous!
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[personal profile] siberian_skys 2022-02-01 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Awww. Thor when he still had hair. :-)

I typed this once and managed to delete it. My bad. To paraphrase what I'd typed the first time around. I think, was that I'd frozen a lot recently and was planning to start over tomorrow. I also said, that a vacation was not in the cards until everything I needed to get done was done and COVID was under control. When these things happen, I'd like to knock one of the 50 states that's on my bucket list of. I'm about 1/2 finished so it would be nice to knock another state off. I'd also like to go back to Key West and I really want to go to Disney and see the new Star Wars attractions during Food and Wine. Food and Wine is awesome.
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[personal profile] seal_girl 2022-02-01 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
And you have some really interesting comments on this post, I think your challenges have resonated with a lot of people :)

spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)

[personal profile] spikedluv 2022-02-01 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
*fingers crossed*
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[personal profile] siberian_skys 2022-02-01 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm old, so I enjoy long hair. :-) come from the days of head-banging music. I'm always surprised when I see an old band and they've cut their hair. *sniff*

I miss the world. Every-time I think we're getting better we revert right back.

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