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A four day weekend means I lost track of time! I owe comments to responses and posts and will get to them this week. :)

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snowflake_challenge #14: In your own space, do the Fandom Wrap Challenge.

What were your top 5 fandoms for 2022 based on the amount of time you interacted with them?
1. WandaVision
2. Six of Crows
3. The Vampire Diaries
4. Marvel Comics (The Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye)
5. DC Comics (Batman: The Long Halloween, The Dark Victory, Hush, and Nightwing)

The first three are my top fandoms from AO3 and the last two are from my Goodreads.

What were your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) you experienced fandom in terms of time spent?
1. AO3
2. Dreamwidth
3. Tumblr
4. Discord
5. Twitter

What are the top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom in terms of time? Did you write? Comment? Send positive energy into the universe? Create art?
1. Participated in exchanges, filled a lot of pinch hits, and wrote a lot of treats.
2. Commented on a lot of fanfic and art, especially as part of the exchange scene.
3. Participated in comment_bingo.
4. Made icons @ shithouse.
5. Participated in snowflake_challenge for the first time.

What were your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions? (i.e. in terms of likes, kudos, reblogs, comments, etc.)

My top five fics via kudos.

1. bite
bridgerton | kate/anthony; explicit; 4.6k words; written for dick_or_treat
When Kate purposefully wears lily-scented perfume to drive Anthony crazy, it ends with him on his knees.

2. incorrigible
bridgerton | kate/anthony; teen; 417 words; written for battleshipex
Kate wishes Anthony would stop touching her pregnant belly for just one moment.

3. you came back as the underdog
wandavision/the falcon and the winter soldier | wanda/bucky; mature; 120k words
After the events of Westview, Wanda’s content to isolate herself away from the rest of the world in Sokovia. Unfortunately for her, Bucky has other plans.

Started in 2021; finished in 2022.

4. geomancy
bridgerton | kate/anthony; explicit; 10.5k words; written for dick_or_treat
In preparation for their wedding, a nervous Anthony asks Kate to show him how the Haldi ceremony is performed so he can practice. Naturally, things escalate.

5. i am right here
bridgerton | kate/anthony; teen; 21.6k words; written for fandom5k
When Kate finds solace in Edmund Bridgerton’s library, she doesn’t expect to find it with Anthony.
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Or: Kate and Anthony actually talk while at Aubrey Hall. [ Library scene extended. ]

This makes my top 5 fandoms look like a LIE.

Have a Top 5 List you'd like to share?? By all means!

Top 5 icon posts @ shithouse, in no particular order. (I didn't make a lot of icons last year for personal reasons, but I like what I made!)

1. Jennifer Walters in She-Hulk 1x01



2. Max Mayfield in Stranger Things Season 4



3. Jesper Fahey in Shadow and Bone Season 1



4. Halloween Stock



5. Sam Wilson in the Falcon and the Winter Soldier 1x06



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snowflake_challenge #15: In your own space, opine on the future of fandom.

I'll keep this really short, but I really think fandom is what you make of it these days.

It's never going to be what it was back during LiveJournal's prime. While there's definitely new blood in fandoms these days, the majority of us who were active (as participants and lurkers) in fandom are older now. We no longer have the same amount of time as we did back when we were teenagers or young adults, and I think that's okay. I think those of us who want fandom are subconsciously drawn to likeminded individuals, who tend to be the ones who experienced the change in fandom over the last ten years and are older and (supposedly) wiser now.

Over the last year since I last participated in Snowflake, I've found my Dreamwidth circle grow and become fannish because people found me via interests or we did an exchange where they either gifted a work to me or they were cursed with a gift (or few) from me. Last year's first Snowflake post encouraged me to put together an "info post" that had a friending policy, and I think that friending policy of "If you want to friend me, do it, idc if you say nothing and just press the button!" has helped a lot because, otherwise, no one would've known I was keen for new friends just clicking a button and saying "Hi, I'm here now; letmein.gif". I think putting yourself out there and not being afraid to ask someone to be friends is an effective way to really develop a fannish space around you.

There are so many platforms out there now, which means fandom is stretched thin. I'm honestly not interested in following the latest platform trend. I'm on Dreamwidth, as I know many others are, and I intend to develop my fannish circle here where I interact with people about fandom and share my thoughts and fanworks via here. I host my fanworks on AO3, Spotify and Dreamwidth, and that's enough for me. (I use Twitter as a separate fandom space where I live tweet my reaction to shows and reality tv shows, but I have no intention whatsoever to share my complete fandom self there; it's just a space I use to connect with people who like the shows I like and who don't participate in fandom in the same way I do on Dreamwidth and AO3—Tumblr is my fannish space to share that fandom side of myself. I like this distinction.)

I suppose I decided to take this prompt and answer "What does the future of fandom look like for me?" and my short answer is that it's going to be one where I finally put myself out there and trust that there is a welcoming space for me to do so, and whoever wants to be involved in it can be. So far this year, I've enjoyed getting involved in other's prompts, asking people for help to brainstorm a bingo, and encouraging people to write things for me (without realising I was doing it!) and looking out for ways that I can gift things to friends outside of exchanges. (The year is young; all I want to do this year is check off the bingo of 'I have this pairing in common with someone I like and so I wrote them a story and gave it to them because I wanted to' because that's something in the LJ era of fandom that I do miss).

I was never an active participant during LJ because I was shy and lurked, but I'm confident now, and anyone who wants to be in my fandom space and wants me in theirs, well… get in loser, we're going shopping.

snowflake_challenge #4: In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon.

Let's go with Six of Crows since I'm currently in the middle of re-reading Crooked Kingdom and this canon is fresh in my mind. Be mindful of spoilers. (I haven't read anything outside of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom, and am aware that there's a book set post-Crooked Kingdom. In this house, we ignore what we want to ignore!)

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When everything's done and dusted and the band of crows seemingly has parted ways:

• Inej sends Kaz letters from The Wraith detailing secrets she's discovered. This is her way of sharing her adventures on the seas with him while pretending that her reasoning for sending letters is all business. Eventually, she removes her own armour and sends him letters because she wants to, not because it's business.

• Kaz writes to Inej detailing the day-to-day of Ketterdam. She's his spider; she needs to know what's happening so she can stay informed. It's not because he misses her or anything. But the letters stop being business-oriented and including only details about the comings and goings of certain people in Ketterdam, and become a little more heartfelt as Inej transforms from his spider to the person he chooses to be emotionally vulnerable with.

• Inej continues to return to Ketterdam to see Kaz—and, sometimes, she brings those she's rescued who have no home to Ketterdam to start anew. Kaz helps them settle—it's the least he could do; he was once them, after all, and history will never repeat itself ever again.

• Kaz helps settle Inej's parents in Ketterdam. While they do want to return to Ravka, they want to see the home that Inej has created for herself here—and they learn very quickly that Inej will always come back to Ketterdam. The heart is an arrow and Inej's arrow always leads back to here.

• Matthias never dies. He and Nina travel to Ravka, where he's continuously exposed to the Grisha culture and sees similarities and differences between his culture and Nina's. He helps train Grisha in how to protect themselves in physical combat in the instance their powers are inaccessible. Nina learns how to use her new power and harness it.

• Because I am a fucking sap, Matthias and Nina travel to Fjerda and find Trassel. TRASSEL LIVES HAPPILY EVER AFTER. HE IS A GOOD DOGGO.

• Jesper learns how to use his Fabrikator powers to make weapons that complement Wylan's bombs. He also learns how to use his powers to guide his bullets and teaches that to other Fabrikators to give them an edge with their abilities, since they're not seen as an offensive type of Grisha. He and Wylan may travel to Ravka and Novyi Zem to learn, but he always comes back to Ketterdam. That's home.

• The Dregs become a safe haven for everyone without a family. Kaz never lets anyone ever starve or be sick or die without dignity again.

• Of course, there's another heist.

• And when they hear a version of jurda parem is being created under a different name, they, of course, go to destroy it. No Grisha will ever fall prey to its consequences again.