Snowflake Challenge Postmortem

[got_quiet]

The Snowflake Challenge is over so my posts will probably drop off again. I am however in one of the rare lulls at work so I might still have time to keep posting about random stuff. We'll see. I always like the Challenge, because even though interactions can be brief and don't always lead to longer term associations, it's nice to have little chats that make this place feel a little bit more like a community, and to see what is going on outside my little bubble. A random and probably obvious observation - people have a lot of different fandoms out there! This is something I obviously know intellectually, but it's interesting to me that once I step out of the tag centered, algorithmic, build your dashboard world of tumblr and into spaces that are more for fandom at large, the stuff I'm interested in can disappear and be replaced by a bunch of stuff I've either never heard of or haven't thought of in over a decade. As someone who very rarely falls into fandoms with live actors, I forget how much of that space fandom occupies.

I picked up a couple of interesting recs from other people, so I'm putting them here to refer to later, and because maybe someone else would be interested too.

Madame Magenta (recced by shipperslist ) - A podcast that looks like it will be hilarious, if the web design is any indication. The premise also gives me Thrilling Adventure Hour vibes, which is a show I loved.

Dead Plate  (recced by bedes ) - A free VN with a cool art style and a weird premise that includes cannibalism? I am intrigued.

I'm also slowly going through the friending meme and checking out posts that others have made throughout the challenge. I figure if I would enjoy replies well after the fact, other people would too. 

Comments

[tinkaton]

DW and fic exchanges in particular are especially fascinating for seeing what obscure fandoms people are in... I'll look at the nominations for an exchange and be like wtf is this made-for-tv movie from 1956 doing here?? and then I'll see like 7 people have offered/requested it, like oh okay then! guess I'm just out of the loop!

[got_quiet]

Lol yes, I just look over from my little patch and am happy for them.