snowflake challenge, day 4: fandom wishes

[ruico]

Hello! I'm early today, after fighting with myself on whether or not I wanted to attempt challenge 3.
 

Challenge #4 - In your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, and/or that you'd like someone to create or do for you. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

 

I'm gonna settle on three things, as mentioned in the challenge post as a possibility, because that's much easier.

1. friends who are into this otome game I've recently gotten into. I miss fandoms for this, I feel like people in the circles I see tend to shame them a bit, and I am all for 100% self indulgent shit.

2. accountability/general fic discussion friends/chats. I used to be in a group chat with some friends where we would do word wars and talk about our fics when needed, but decided to leave it after I went through some stuff and no longer enjoyed it.

3. book clubs and/or new writing challenges!

Maybe the loneliest-sounding list ever, lol! Thing is, recently I haven't been trying to find specific fancontent as much as I have been wishing for -- not quite seeking yet -- communities to share my love with.
For a while I've been mainly in isolation mode, trying to just focus on what I like for myself, but I've definitely started missing talking about stuff with people, even if we necessarily aren't into the exact same stuff. Maybe that actually makes it easier, because then there's no weirdness about maybe disagreeing over stuff, just people doing their own things, but together.

I'm definitely taking it slow with fandom friends, because right now my main focus is to just enjoy fandom, which is also why a goal of mine is looking more into developing friendships in general that I can do fandom with, not looking for specific fandom friends that I only talk to about a current interest.

I don't even have any fan content wishes per se at the moment, since I barely read as is, and I have no particular wishes about fan art or other things either.

Really excited to look into other people's posts, I think that's still my favourite part of the snowflake challenge! Even though I probably will not be of much help with getting any wishes fulfilled.