shadowhive

Challenge #7

In your own space, create your own challenge. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Other times I’ve gotten to a challenge like this I’ve done fic related ones but with my creativeness still being a bit bleh I don’t think I will this time. The post on snowflake, did make me nostalgic for the old LJ days, specifically when things were so active. There were all kinds of communities, with people sharing pics and prompts and fics and people would comment and discuss things. I miss those days.

I’ve said it before but once there was the exodus from lj that sense of community was absolutely lost. Twitter things seem temporary and people are just looking to be toxic. Tumblr is not much better. AO3 is great in some ways as an archive, but the engagement isn’t there (in terms of comments) and small fandoms stay small. There’s no real sense of community of encouragement there. Discord’s are either closed off or too busy, with things being so fleeting and moving so fast (or slowing to a crawl).

Dreamwidth is my preferred platform causa lj and yet, bar when there’s a thing like snowflake going on it’s pretty quiet, a shadow of what lj was. In some ways that’s good cause it’s fairly drama free but in other ways... it’s just so quiet.

But I digress.

My thing for this challenge is simple. The next fanwork you read and enjoy, let the person know. Drop them a comment with how you feel, even if it’s just a simple ‘I loved this!’ I can guarantee it will make the person’s day.

And just... treat people with kindness. Make friends and value them. Stay away from the toxic parts of fandom and create positivity because that’s what the world needs.

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So the food shop came last night and I had to send a few subs back cause, no. But it also meant I could try the gas card and it worked! So we have the £30 on there we is good. Huzzah!

I ended up gaming a bit last night, flicking between a few Xbox games but none really took my interest. The reason I was flicking was there’s a gamerscore challenge going on and, as much as I love Valhalla, it takes ages to get achievements on it. Even so I ended up on Ikenfell, despite it being tricky achievement wise it’s still fun.I got a new person on it though and getting used to his attacks is tricky.

Yesterday there was a Mario trailer and I’ve gone from not being too interested (since I had the WiiU version) to wanting it because it looks cool and also cats! Cats everywhere! Today there was a Pokemon vid for the anniversary and it seems there’s gonna be a bunch of new Pokemon things so I’m curious and excite.

Also there was a trailer for the new Sims 4 Stuff pack and it’s Paranormal so it’s all about ghosts and such so I’m super interested. I really need to go on the game more. I wanna finish the Batuu stuff and give some of the other things a go. (university and Cats and Dogs) which i got during the sales.

Also in gaming there’s gonna be a new Star Wars game! It’s gonna be open world and done by Ubisoft so I’m super curious. (Bethesda are also doing an Indiana Jones game)

Today I’ve actsuslly read some of the certain point of view stories, so two more today. I hope to read more soon and hope to at least get the Hoth section done before the end of the month.

But other than that it’s been a grey day, it’s been wet and we only took a short walk with the pup. I’m gonna spend the night bundled and maybe gaming some more later.