Snowflake challenge 8-12
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miss_grimwood I am SO far behind with this challenge
ok, here we go ...
Challenge #8
Talk about a current fannish project (fic, art, vid, crochet, funko pop village) (that you are creating or enjoying)
Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I'm working on a collaborative fic in the Marauders Mayhem discord server! I can't share too much about it because it's a murder mystery, but I'm writing Bellatrix's chapter. We're in the planning stage right now which is arguably my favourite phase so I'm having great fun coming up with ideas
Challenge #9
Rec Us Your Newest Thing. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
It's been ages since I got into a new fandom, I tend to stick to my old reliables, so I'm going to take this opportunity to try and turn my love for Katherine Mansfield into a fandom. Right now it's just me and a handful of literature academics, but I feel like her works deserve so much love and attention.
Ok here is my KM propaganda: (tw for death and miscarriage and abortion and mental health struggles)
-first of all, just as a person she's so interesting. She was born in New Zealand, her parents reluctantly let her study in London where she had an affair with the son of her music teacher, split up with him, realised she was pregnant, and in a panicked attempt to legitimise her pregnancy (this was 1909, and she was 19), married another friend, leaving him the very same day. She's then taken to a pension in Bavaria by her mother and effectively disowned. She miscarries the baby at around 5-6 months and at the same time writes her first collection (and one of my favourites) 'In a German Pension'. The stories deal with marriage and families and babies and are really quite scathing towards men, Germans, women also tbh, basically everyone. She then meets her future husband (JMM). They're together for several years before they get married (because she's still married to the one day husband) but she leaves JMM several times during these years. Their relationship is bizarre and weird and toxic and everything I've learned about it has been against my will (affectionate). She gave him the same nickname that she used for her brother in childhood, she referred to herself as his child, him as her child, both of them as children, she wrote that she hated him, they spent a lot of time apart - her living in various European countries, him working in England. She had several affairs with men and women, especially her bestie Ida (they were roommates). Ida took care of her through her illnesses, KM often referred to her casually as her wife. Virginia Woolf admired her, DH Lawrence gave her the tuberculosis that ended up killing her at 34, but she was still considered an outsider to the Bloomsbury set. Some of her letters and journal entries read like the ramblings of the average tumblr user spilling every thought into the void. I love her.
Challenge #10
Five Things! The five things are totally up to you. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
To make up for how behind I am, and also because I love lists, here are five fives.
Top five HBC films
1. Dark Shadows
2. Frankenstein
3.The Wings of the Dove
4. Conversations with Other Women
5. Ocean's 8
Last five books I read (excluding reference/academic books)
1. Poems of a Nottingham Lace Runner - Mary Bailey
2. Passing - Nella Larsen
3. In the Cage - Henry James
4. Love, Nina - Nina Stibbe
5. This Much is True - Miriam Margolyes
Five most recent fanfic related google searches
1. 'what is the noise called when you purse your lips and blow'
2. 'star names'
3. 'posh people cat names'
4. 'how to help a pregnant cat'
5. 'how long are cats pregnant for'
(pretty sure I have given up on the cat fic)
Five fic tropes I love
1. First times
2. Unplanned pregnancy
3. Sickfic
4. Secret relationship
5. Arranged marriage
Five Sylvanian families I love
1. Persian cat family
2. Buckley red deer family
3. Puddleton duck family
4. Bramble hedgehog family
5. Wildwood rabbit family
Challenge #11
In your own space, create a fanwork.
Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I'm going to cheat just a little. This is my most recent work, and my goal for the rest of the challenge is to work through the handy list of wishes I could fulfil. I'll update this post when I do
Challenge #12
Tell Us about a Personal Win.
This one links to challenge 11. That fic got me out of a slump, and I've been back in the writing spirit once I managed to write that one.
On a non-fandom note, for the first time in my whole life, I managed to get through a whole term without my name being spelled wrong a single time on an email. It's not even an uncommon name, it's just the less common spelling (and no, its not worthy of 'that name is a tragedeigh', it's just the Welsh spelling), but since I started nursery my name has been spelled wrong by everyone, so it was really nice to not have that
ok, here we go ...
Challenge #8
Talk about a current fannish project (fic, art, vid, crochet, funko pop village) (that you are creating or enjoying)
Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I'm working on a collaborative fic in the Marauders Mayhem discord server! I can't share too much about it because it's a murder mystery, but I'm writing Bellatrix's chapter. We're in the planning stage right now which is arguably my favourite phase so I'm having great fun coming up with ideas
Challenge #9
Rec Us Your Newest Thing. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
It's been ages since I got into a new fandom, I tend to stick to my old reliables, so I'm going to take this opportunity to try and turn my love for Katherine Mansfield into a fandom. Right now it's just me and a handful of literature academics, but I feel like her works deserve so much love and attention.
Ok here is my KM propaganda: (tw for death and miscarriage and abortion and mental health struggles)
-first of all, just as a person she's so interesting. She was born in New Zealand, her parents reluctantly let her study in London where she had an affair with the son of her music teacher, split up with him, realised she was pregnant, and in a panicked attempt to legitimise her pregnancy (this was 1909, and she was 19), married another friend, leaving him the very same day. She's then taken to a pension in Bavaria by her mother and effectively disowned. She miscarries the baby at around 5-6 months and at the same time writes her first collection (and one of my favourites) 'In a German Pension'. The stories deal with marriage and families and babies and are really quite scathing towards men, Germans, women also tbh, basically everyone. She then meets her future husband (JMM). They're together for several years before they get married (because she's still married to the one day husband) but she leaves JMM several times during these years. Their relationship is bizarre and weird and toxic and everything I've learned about it has been against my will (affectionate). She gave him the same nickname that she used for her brother in childhood, she referred to herself as his child, him as her child, both of them as children, she wrote that she hated him, they spent a lot of time apart - her living in various European countries, him working in England. She had several affairs with men and women, especially her bestie Ida (they were roommates). Ida took care of her through her illnesses, KM often referred to her casually as her wife. Virginia Woolf admired her, DH Lawrence gave her the tuberculosis that ended up killing her at 34, but she was still considered an outsider to the Bloomsbury set. Some of her letters and journal entries read like the ramblings of the average tumblr user spilling every thought into the void. I love her.
But her works - OK, so I have favourites. And the favourites happen to also be some of the most well known ones. But they're well known for good reason. I tend to gravitate to her stories about womanhood, motherhood, queerness, women's sexuality, that sort of thing, so my recommendations are Bliss, At Lehmann's, Life of Ma Parker, Miss Brill, How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped, and The Garden Party.
If you love stories about women. If you love short stories (less commitment than a novel). You need to read these. Bliss especially.
I would love to give you my unsolicited opinions on the way she writes motherhood and mothers because it's what fascinates me the most, but it's the subject of my essay which hasn't been marked yet and I don't want to risk getting flagged up for plagiarising myself. Just know that its FASCINATING.
Challenge #10
Five Things! The five things are totally up to you. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
To make up for how behind I am, and also because I love lists, here are five fives.
Top five HBC films
1. Dark Shadows
2. Frankenstein
3.The Wings of the Dove
4. Conversations with Other Women
5. Ocean's 8
Last five books I read (excluding reference/academic books)
1. Poems of a Nottingham Lace Runner - Mary Bailey
2. Passing - Nella Larsen
3. In the Cage - Henry James
4. Love, Nina - Nina Stibbe
5. This Much is True - Miriam Margolyes
Five most recent fanfic related google searches
1. 'what is the noise called when you purse your lips and blow'
2. 'star names'
3. 'posh people cat names'
4. 'how to help a pregnant cat'
5. 'how long are cats pregnant for'
(pretty sure I have given up on the cat fic)
Five fic tropes I love
1. First times
2. Unplanned pregnancy
3. Sickfic
4. Secret relationship
5. Arranged marriage
Five Sylvanian families I love
1. Persian cat family
2. Buckley red deer family
3. Puddleton duck family
4. Bramble hedgehog family
5. Wildwood rabbit family
Challenge #11
In your own space, create a fanwork.
Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I'm going to cheat just a little. This is my most recent work, and my goal for the rest of the challenge is to work through the handy list of wishes I could fulfil. I'll update this post when I do
Challenge #12
Tell Us about a Personal Win.
This one links to challenge 11. That fic got me out of a slump, and I've been back in the writing spirit once I managed to write that one.
On a non-fandom note, for the first time in my whole life, I managed to get through a whole term without my name being spelled wrong a single time on an email. It's not even an uncommon name, it's just the less common spelling (and no, its not worthy of 'that name is a tragedeigh', it's just the Welsh spelling), but since I started nursery my name has been spelled wrong by everyone, so it was really nice to not have that
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Date: 2024-01-27 04:37 pm (UTC)