snowflake challenge: day 5

In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them. 

My first thought was oh no, I don't know that many, but now that I've thought about it, I'm really really excited to read other people's recommendations and learn about more communities, challenges, and such!

Get your words out -- getyourwordsout 
gywo is a community/challenge that I've already written about in another post, but this is the one that made me focus more on dreamwidth as a platform, so I felt it was necessary to add it to the list. It's a yearlong writing challenge where you can sign up and choose your own pledge (from a number of already made ones), and then you check in every month with the community to track your progress. The community also offers a lot more, such as a spreadsheet for organization, a chat for writing sprints, and many smaller challenges. The signup deadline for 2019 is Jan 15th, so there's still time!

Elsewhere University -- tumblr
While Elsewhere University is technically based on an original comic by one person, it created a whole sort of... community or fandom, I'm not really sure what to call it. I decided to add it because I find it fascinating how it continues to grow with the help of so many different people, for example just from people sending in asks about details that could be happening there, it's super cool how people build onto it!

Archive of our own / OTW
I'm sorry, I know everyone in fandom probably already knows this one. But as a person who's quite interested in the relationship between fanworks and intellectual property rights, I'm a huge fan of OTW's works, and more so now than ever I think their work is relevant with the Tumblr issues. I feel like a lot of dreamwidth people who migrated from LJ also know about the story of ao3's creation, and I think it's important to have a site with the interests of its users in mind. Also, I just love going there and seeing all the work put in by random people simply because they love something. ♡

It might be the 6th, but I still haven't slept yet, so I'm gonna count this one as posted on time! (•̀ᴗ-)✧

snowflake challenge: day 6

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts.

See, the "afraid to ask for" part gets me, because I am by nature very, very afraid, and I don't know how to turn that fear off or make it go away, not even for this challenge. ლ(´﹏`ლ) I'm really, really bad at asking things of people, not in the cutesy way but a way that holds me back in a lot of situations AND annoys a lot of people I talk to, since its not rare that it's clear I want something but have trouble articulating what it is.
Still! It's 2019, some people are going to dislike me no matter what I do, so I'll try my best!

A collaboration
This is a small dream of mine because despite my usual dislike of school group work I do like working and collaborating with others! I once had someone offer to write a fic with me when we were younger, but it was mostly (only) her ideas and nothing really came out of it in the end. I don't even have any specific needs for a collab, I just like the idea of doing a project with someone, whether that's just discussing the idea closely with a friend/beta-kind-of-person, or it's a fanartist, another writer, I'm not really sure. I think different mediums is really cool as well.

Cross-fandom fans of my works
Since it's not long ago that I started writing in English and my only posted works are for a microfandom and an animanga fandom (only one ship too), this has not happened and probably will not happen anytime soon, if ever. Still, I like the idea of someone reading my works for another fandom even though they aren't a fan of that thing just because it's me, or someone reading something and recognising my writing from something they've read (by me) in another fandom. (´꒳`)

For ao3 to include main and secondary pairings
I'm sorry, I know this is probably cheating, haha, but this one I've wanted for so long (along with many others). I do like the ao3 tagging system, but I really want this to be added as well. Also, for people using ao3 to know the difference between & and / when tagging pairings and follow it, hehe.

I saw others mention a transformative works statement and I really like that idea! I'll definitely make sure to post one before I post any fanworks myself on here in the future. ^^'
I had more ideas for things but those were more general than specific for me. But tomorrow is exam time, so no time o write down any more. Don't ask me why I decided on writing this instead of studying for the exam in the first place, because there is no good answer.