pensnest | Snowflake Challenge, Days 5, 6, 7, 8

I have been spending a lot of my time working on the imminent concert, and getting rather behind on this challenge. Never mind, here goes with a catch-up post.

Day 4
Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them
Have surely done this since the beginning of the year. Many new people!

Day 5
Promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them
Can't really promote comms, challenges etc because the ones that I loved most dearly are either part of our fannish lives (eg AO3) and don't need promotion, or are defunct, like

fic_requests or MTYG.

Day 6

Create a fannish wish list
I just want a new fandom of my heart, and I suspect that's going to be difficult because I already have one. Nominations will be received with pleasure, but… after the joys of popslash, I don't know if any subsequent fandom is going to compare.

Day 7
Stretch yourself a little and try something new. Go play in a new fandom or with a new pairing. Try working in a new medium. Or check out some fanworks that are new to you. (The recs from Day 2 might be a good place to start.) Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I have a *lot* of open tabs, some for fandoms I know, some for fic with canon that I know, a few for unfamiliar things that sound as though they could be interesting—and I'll be picking up more from the self-recs on Day 8, I'm sure. I'm going to count this day as Done, because I'll be reading all kinds of stuff.

Day 8
In your own space, post self-recs for at least three fanworks that you created. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Well, I can always do this! I went back through the self-recs I've done for Snowflake before so as not to repeat, and these are the recs this time round:

The Things that Juliana Didn't Say - my origins story for Data, an attempt to reconcile various bit of ST:TNG canon that did not, in my opinion, fit together very convincingly. If you assume that Juliana was not entirely truthful, it works surprisingly well. This was the first story for which I felt the need of a *good* beta, and I found the awesome Berkeley Hunt to do the job. Of course, when I first got her comments back I was filled with despair, but after a day's whimpering I settled down to make the story better, and better it got.

can't see the wood for the 42Ds - the pop music reality distortion effect coming into play. Popslash had a lot of genderswap at one stage (it died out after a few years, but then, so did a lot of popslash); I played a slightly different game with this one, and enjoyed myself very much. Not played *entirely* for laughs, but not altogether serious, either. Features Adam Lambert, Lance Bass, Kris Allen and Katy Allen.

No Man's Fort This was one of the four (four!) stories I wrote for the final popslash Make The Yuletide Gay exchange in 2017, and as it is an AU, it's probably more accessible to anyone wanting to give it a try without knowing much of the canon. It was a pinch-hit, which is why I grabbed a bit of plot from my favourite Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing), an awesome venue, and lots of tasty food. The guys are chefs catering a wedding.

and a wild card: I think this was a response to a challenge somewhere in the dim and distant past to do something nice for somebody. So I found Pleasures Real and Imagined and produced a podfic of it. (Podfic index here) Summary: Top Gear: someone has designed a fucking machine.