Jan. 2nd, 2018

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Why am I doing Snowflake?

Every year Yuletide reminds me that I like having an online presence in fandom, and every year I try to Snowflake a little to get to know more people. I'm going to try to be really committed to some fandom/writing NYR goals this year, so it dovetails nicely. /waves to everyone new

In your own space, share a favorite memory about fandom

Everything that's ever ended in a collaboration. One of my longest, most important, and most creative friendships came from randomly joining an RP when I was fifteen (?!) I was humbled and elated to co-write with people like Nyx not much later than that - long, long streams of back-and-forth across multiple media types. I've been incredibly lucky to have had work that I've done be transformed into art (D, pere, and of course Crim, who made a whole! doujin! for Executive Reform) and into podfic (Rhea). Fandom has been a consistently generous - if erratic - source of creativity and productivity in my life, and I'd be a much duller "real life" person without it, methinks.

 

A universe of unmapped grief and love
And new master light is beyond
The pleiades and plow and southern stars.

O soaring
Icarus of outworld, burn bright
The traceries of known skymarks,
Slide the highway planets behind
Your clear waxed wings.

Go conquer the everywhere left
Beyond your sad confinement
In a predicted bonehouse,
Witch thrown riddle of flesh
And water.

O soar until nothing
remains but great glittering holes
In the black godspun shirt over your head.

- John Fairfax