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.

Comments

[peaked]

Your list doesn't sound lonely at all! I think it's a good thing to prioritise enjoying yourself. I hope you find what you're looking for. c:

+1 getyourwordsout! I've been doing it for years and it's a great community. It's a yearly challenge where you go at your own pace (although you need to sign up soon before they close). There are community challenges and great posts, and I think it might fulfil your wish wrt some writing discussion. They do have an active Discord server, too, if that's your jam.

+1 fan_flashworks, too!

fandomweekly is—you guessed it—a weekly maximum 1000 word challenge where you're given a prompt and a few days to write, and everyone's encouraged to read, comment, and vote for the one that best suited the theme for that week. Even if you're not into the whole voting/ winning a challenge thing, I find it's a great little community and the challenges can be a lot of fun, too.

[ruico]

Thank you so much! I've been on gywo for years as well! I used to join the word wars chats sometimes, but I've been a bit too intimidated to join the Discord just yet.

Will check out the other two as well! Thank you! I really do want to get better at writing shorter stuff too. Sounds really interesting.