Snowflake Challenge 2026: Day 1
Jan. 4th, 2026 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brokenmnemonicAfter thinking about it over the weekend and reading a few posts about it, I've decided to see if I can manage to complete...
Challenge #1
The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.
I've noticed over the last few years that I've been slowly withdrawing from communities and fandoms I was active/interested in, and I've not really had the enthusiasm to do anything creative that I had even 2-3 years ago. I took part in the #MusicAdvent on Bluesky this year, and just about managed to post up each day of my Lego calendar, and that was quietly satisfying; I'm hoping that taking part in the Snowflake challenge as a month-long activity will help get me moving again.
The active fandoms I've been involved with the longest that are still active are BattleTech and vidding - I'm an admin on Sarna.net, the biggest BattleTech wiki out there, and I've been involved helping run the vidding convention VidUKon for every convention from 2011 onwards, although I only make perhaps one vid a year.
The tv shows I've been most interested in over the last few years have largely all been cancelled now; Ted Lasso, Lady Jame, Renegade Nell, Doctor Odyssey, the Wheel of Time, Dead Boy Detectives, The Residence... I'm starting to wonder if I'm the common denominator!
Challenge #1
The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.
I've noticed over the last few years that I've been slowly withdrawing from communities and fandoms I was active/interested in, and I've not really had the enthusiasm to do anything creative that I had even 2-3 years ago. I took part in the #MusicAdvent on Bluesky this year, and just about managed to post up each day of my Lego calendar, and that was quietly satisfying; I'm hoping that taking part in the Snowflake challenge as a month-long activity will help get me moving again.
The active fandoms I've been involved with the longest that are still active are BattleTech and vidding - I'm an admin on Sarna.net, the biggest BattleTech wiki out there, and I've been involved helping run the vidding convention VidUKon for every convention from 2011 onwards, although I only make perhaps one vid a year.
The tv shows I've been most interested in over the last few years have largely all been cancelled now; Ted Lasso, Lady Jame, Renegade Nell, Doctor Odyssey, the Wheel of Time, Dead Boy Detectives, The Residence... I'm starting to wonder if I'm the common denominator!
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Date: 2026-01-04 09:53 pm (UTC)Happy New Year!
It's good to see you posting for snowflake - I'm biased, but DW is still my fannish home and I'm always happy to see folks still here.
Sadly, so many shows seem to get too little time to find their footing.
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Date: 2026-01-05 10:02 pm (UTC)I'm very bad at renewing my paid DW membership for the year and then posting maybe twice in twelve months, but I'm hoping this challenge will push me to make at least half a dozen posts ;)
I think it doesn't help that it's easy to not even find out a show existed until after it's already been cancelled, but I've been really annoyed with shows like Willow that got cancelled before the fandom even had a chance to really get going, especially when they're locked into one particular streaming service.
I may have watched a lot of Star Wars shows since taking up a brief Disney+ membership, but it's also demonstrated another bad habit of mine - even though that Clone Wars is a show a fair number of people really like, I haven't managed to make myself watch it yet because watching an advanced democracy undergoing an implacable collapse into authoritarianism under the rule of a cult leader hits a little too close to current events.