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In your own space, talk about why you're participating in Snowflake and, if you’ve participated in the past, how the challenge has affected you. What drew you to it? What did you take away from it? What do you hope to accomplish this year?

I've done this before, I think last year and I'm pretty sure the year before? My intention this year is the same, to get in the habit of posting more often. But I've never managed to make it all the way to the end the other times I've tried it. Hopefully this'll be the year, because it was a lot of fun at least for the little bit I managed to stick with it!

Got behind on this, so I'll be catching up over this week!

Day 7: In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.

Okay, doing Harry Potter for this since it's the fandom I'm most active in/have been involved in the longest and most consistently. I actually don't have a clear favorite scene or bit of canon, but the parts of the story I love best are the quiet moment between the action. The little day-to-day bits where Harry is just Harry in between being the Boy Who Lived. All the times they go to have tea with Hagrid. Doing homework in the Gryffindor common room. De-gnoming the Weasley's garden. Rushing to class or having breakfast, any of those little bits tucked away between the big, important scenes. And that's not to say that these scenes are not important or don't move the plot forward because a lot of the time they do (all hail JKR for being amazing like that) and they also serve the very important function as serving as lulls between the action, contrast points for all the big, extraordinary things Harry constantly does. But these little bits of ordinary-ness, with Harry and his friends hanging out and just being together warm me more than anything else because I firmly believe that those moments are worth more than gold to Harry. Knowing that he's got friends who love him for being himself.



Day 8: Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them.

Done! I sent messages to a couple of writers I admire from a fandom in which I am much less active/talkative. <3

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

Oh, this one was hard. Really really hard. But I went into this with the approach of, if I was talking to someone who'd never read anything by me and I wanted to give them a sampling of the sort of thing I do, what three stories would I pick?

So:

1. Matchmaker, Matchmaker I really like this one. It's short-ish and fun, and I personally feel that it's one of the most creative plots I've come up with? Basically, Harry lives in Grimmauld Place, which is semi-sentient and sort of mad that there's not a Black living there anymore, so it sends him visions of him and Draco in a relationship to try to get them together. There's sweetness and loads of domesticity, and a strong Harry & Hermione friendship, and smut, and marriage proposal(s). This is the sort of silly thing I have the most fun writing.

2. At the Crossroads There We'll Meet This one is a bit more serious and a little bit angsty. Harry keeps dying, and Draco, in possession of a time-turner, keeps interfering to save him. I think this one feels a bit more true to canon than some of the other (sillier) things I've written. The whole thing sort of calls back to how lucky Harry truly is, because there are a lot of times in canon that he really should have died and didn't, and I enjoyed playing around with that idea.

3. The Light More Beautiful This was a gift for the lovely LQ, whose list of content she'd like to receive lined up almost perfectly with the sort of fic I like. I had an absolute blast writing this thing, and I think it shows in reading it. This was also the first time I felt really comfortable writing a novel-length things, the pacing and plot etc etc. This is also my very favorite version of Harry I've ever written. Featuring a reimagining of the way 6th year might have gone, a very strong Harry & Pansy friendship, lots of Auror stuff, mystery, and nothing in Draco Malfoy's life going the way he wants it to.

(I was very torn about reccing Blue Sunny Day instead of Crossroads, and Twice as Much as an Earthquake instead of Matchmaker, but these I think are the three I'd pick.)

In your own space, talk about why you are doing the Fandom Snowflake Challenge? What drew you to it as a participant? What do you hope to accomplish by doing these challenges?

So, I'm going to do this thing this year, because a) it always looks fun when other people have done it in years past and b) one of my goals this year is to be more active in fandom and hopefully this'll get me in the habit of posting more often!