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About My Icons

so I'm participating an icon challenge that [personal profile] colls made for [community profile] snowflake_challenge

1. Comment to this entry saying 'SPACE!' and I will pick 3 of your icons/userpics.
2. Make an entry in your own journal (or just reply if you prefer) and talk about the icons I picked!

Icon challenge! Okay so here are the three icons that they asked for!

Santa Irs

This first icon is the Christmas icon that I've used for the past two or three years. Iris West-Allen is one of my favorite characters in anything, ever, and this picture of her from season one of the flash in that santa hat is just adorable. I can never resist combining Christmas and Iris, my two favorite things :)

Cute Ahsoka

This second icon is my current default icon. It's a picture of the character Ahsoka Tano from Star Wars the Clone Wars! She's another absolute favorite of mine (she's Anakin Skywalker's padawan and has a fantastic arc in the series) and I love her to death. This adorable picture is a drawing of her from a webcomic based on the series called "Contrasts" about her another character, Barriss. http://contrasts-comic.tumblr.com/chapters

Cranky Kamilah

This last icon is a picture of another favorite character of mine, Kamilah Khan, from the comic series Ms. Marvel (which is the first comic I ever read btw)! I absolutely love her unimpressed expression. It's the perfect icon to use when I'm irritated with something and I love getting to see her beautiful face and adorable little hat. Kamilah Khan deserves all my love.

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: New Year's Day by Taylor Swift

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The Snowflake Challenge: Day 15

Talk about why you participated in Snowflake &/or what you got out of it. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I participated in the Snowflake Challenge both because I like doing this and because a few friends of mine from DW were doing it and i REALLY like doing things with friends. so. i thought it would be fun, and it was!

I interacted with some cool new people and added them to my circle, saw some great new fan content, and heard some really awesome stories about what fandom means to other people. I think that this was a great way to start my fannish new year and get into the swing of being a DW user :)

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the Snowflake Challenge: Day 14

Day 14

In your own space, talk about what you think the future holds for fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

What are your hopes and dreams for fandom? Do you have any predictions about what the next five years holds for fandom? Where do you think fandom will end up congregating? Feel free to answer this question with a sentence or a couple paragraphs, express your feelings with a good old fashioned meta or through words, music, graphics, dance, recipes, etc. Whatever works for you. *g*

So I have zero idea where fandom will be migrating in the next few years. I know that some people (like me) have just dipped a toe into DW and are enjoying it. I know that some people have been trying out Pillowfort? Most of my tumblr friends are determined to stay there until either the site implodes or they die. Who knows where fandom will live in the future, but I want to be right there in the thick of things.

I do have some hopes for fandom, though! I hope that we bring back a more interactive culture. So many of us (at least in the tumblr crowd and... the ao3 crowd honestly) like people's work but don't do anything about it. They hit the like button, or maybe the kudos button, and then they call it a day. I hope that in the future we get back into more of a feeling where we scream at each other about what we like? That art's pretty? Tell them! That line in a fic made you laugh? Tell them! We call them fan communities, so we should try our hardest to treat them like communities.

I also hope that ao3 continues to be the main site for fic, but also that people start utilizing some of the site's other capabilities like for fan art, vids, and meta. It would be nice to be able to find those things along with the fic that I'm reading.

Current Mood: optimistic

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the Snowflake Challenge: Day 13

Day 13

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

1. My first fannish goal for this next year is to comment on every fic that I read and like. I write extensive comments on fics a lot of the time, but a lot of the rest of the time I'll just... neglect to leave a comment because I don't have the energy to devote to writing the essays I like to leave people and I just don't have the energy. Even if I just leave :) or <3 or a keysmash I want to leave them SOMETHING. they deserve it even if i don't have the energy to write them an essay
2. Be easier on myself and more positive about my output. Writing things is good, even if they're not perfect!
3. Make sure to post here. I haven't totally given up my tumblr, but I really like this platform and I want to build myself up here and get to know my new friends and make it a viable blogging experience. I want to make sure to reach out to people and talk to my budding friends and just make this place mine.

Current Mood: chipper

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The Snowflake Challenge: Day 12

Create your own challenge and then complete it!

My challenge is called "the kairotic moment challenge". Have you ever had a fic idea after watching a new episode of an airing TV show, or maybe after reading the latest chapter of a manga that's still frequently putting out chapters? And thought "wow. This is a really cool idea, but it's going to be jossed by next week so it's not worth writing"? This challenge is about taking the opportunity to write that fic before it's too late! Right now is the perfect, kairotic time to write a fic that will be non-canonical in a week. Your still active fandom is desperate for new content between episodes filling in those gaps. Fill those in gaps in get those kudos!

Here's my own example

Healing Violet
This is a young justice fic that will most definitely stop being canon by next week when we get new episodes, but I thought right now was the perfect time to write it then! Seize your chances. Take that kairotic moment. Get those kudos. That's my challenge to you :)

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: The Flash theme song

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The Snowflake Challenge: Day 3

Share a favorite piece of original canon

For this I decided to share descriptions of my two favorite episodes of TV! They're both for different DC TV shows and they both focus on The Flash (or... the flash's grandson) so I thought that they could provide an interesting contrast! These two reviews are littered with spoilers so. Proceed with caution

First we have The Flash Season One Episode Fifteen Out Of Time

This episode focuses on a traumatic worst case scenario for the gang. Joe is captured and his life is threatened by The Weather Wizard. Cisco discovers that Wells is Eobard Thawne and tries to comfort him, and tells him that he was like a son to him before proceeding to put his HAND THROUGH HIS CHEST and killing him. i still hold firm that cisco's acting in this scene is the best in the entire show. Barry reveals to Iris that he's the Flash, kisses her, and runs off to save the city from a crushing TSUNAMI. and then they proceed to run BACK INTO THE PAST accidentally save the day and keep it from repeating but realize exactly the consequences of accidental time travel. like. holy shit.

I didn't start watching the flash until all of season 2 had already aired so I knew that none of this stuff would be permanent, but as a first time viewer watching it live? this would have been a nail bitter. This is probably the episode of anything that I've rewatched the most simply because it's so good.

I actually did a rewrite of my two favorite scenes for this (Cisco dying and Barry revealing himself as the Flash to Iris) for a fic because I just find them both so compelling.

Second we have Young Justice Season Two Episode

So. Young Justice has a lot of my favorite episodes of TV because Young Justice is just an amazing show. It comes back tomorrow and I'm like. Almost not ready to have it wreck me again. Season one is fantastic and character driven, but season two comes with a driving plot that I simply adore and introduces two characters that I would. Die for.

This episode serves as the introduction to Young Justice's version of Bart Allen. He comes back in time from the future in a time machine that "breaks down". He lands in the cave and terrorizes the other members of the team in a hilarious and fast paced scene, then he comes to meet his family at a party they're having (barry allen, wally west, and the rest of the gang) and has an absolutely hilarious time greeting his family and accidentally dropping a few "spoilers". The celebration is cut short by a supervillain attack and bart is shown subtly trying to keep the flash from the fight, dropping hints that something about his story isn't right. the tiny hints that we get throughout the episode are delightful to watch on a second or third viewing when you know exactly what is not right about his story. OKAY NOW FULL BLOWN SPOILERS

near the end of the episode, we see a glimpse of bart's post apocalyptic future, ashes falling from the sky like snow, and him repairing the time machine with the help of the villain that he and the flash stopped earlier in the day. we find out that he has a mission to make sure that the future doesn't end up that way and then we have the hook for a driving plot involving this character that i, frankly, could never ever get enough of. i have written so much fic about this particular character and i've actually rewritten bloodlines twice i think? i keep trying to do a flash and young justice crossover so that i can properly place bart and his boyfriend into the flash timeline.