I am the Kat that Walks By Itself

Day 8

In your own space, talk about setting yourself a fannish goal. Big or small, it doesn't matter. Some examples: complete a bingo, sign up for a Big Bang, write that fic you've been thinking about for years, podfic that story that you love, make a fanmix for your fandom, post that bit of meta or reclist you keep putting off. Maybe resolve to be better at leaving feedback or answering comments. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

Hmmmmm.
I think I will have a few fannish goals for this coming year. Not too many, not too unrealistic, or I will just be discouraged.

1. Uploads: to go through last year's tthdrabbles drabbles and actually upload them to all my archives.

2. Revision: to revise "Memoria Veritas" and upload it to all my archives.

3. Rewrite: to actually sit down and do the rewrite of "By Any Other Name" that I've been putting off for years.

4. Semi-fannish goal: make more jewellery that is symbolic rather than just pretty. This is semi-fannish because some pieces will be more fannish than others.

All of those (apart from #4) are a sort of clearing-the-decks exercise, but it will be a weight off my mind when they're done.

( what to do with my jewellery? )

Day 4

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts.

Here is last year's wishlist post. I could repeat them here, because most of them are still open, but I will just point you in their direction, and put new wishes here.

1) Someone with vid-fu: I feel that Bird on a Wire is a very fitting song for Severus Snape. Someone make a vid based on this, please?

2) If nobody can bear the idea of making podfic of my work, then perhaps podficcers might like to make podfic of my favourite stories by other people.

3) Fic for me! See my Generic Ficathon Elaboration post (on DW) (on LJ) for my preferences. Surprise me!

4) Recs! Particularly for (a) Sunshine fic (I've read everything I could find on AO3); (b) Harry Potter: Snape + Harry gen fics, particularly featuring reconciliation, friendship, mentorship; (c) Labyrinth fic which isn't just schmoopy romance; (d) Tin Man fic which isn't just schmoopy romance; (d) crossovers in fandoms I know.

If you want to know if I've already read something, you can check out my net-fic reviews site and/or my pinboard (these overlap but aren't exactly the same).

Day 3

Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them. Afterwards, leave a comment in this post with the equivalent of "I did it!"

Some of you have been checking out other participant's recs and self-recs from the Day 1 and Day 2 posts. If you've interacted with anyone new, you can absolutely count that for Day 3!

And indeed, I have interacted with folks Day 1 and Day 2 posts, as I went through discovering some cool recs.

http://baranduin.dreamwidth.org/1156308.html (Tolkien fan)
http://green.dreamwidth.org/185932.html (Labyrinth fan)

I'm pondering whether to friend anyone, but inclined not to, since I've added a bunch of new peeps in the last year due to the sshg_exchange and sshg_newbies (waves to my SSHG friends).

(In other news, I'm awaiting the repairman to fix my one-room air conditioner... on a day which has a predicted top of 41C! I booked the repairman last week, today was the soonest one could come. And not a moment too soon!)

Day 1

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

Remember that we're using the term fanwork in the broadest sense of the word here - things like episode guides, meta, canon timelines, thematic lists, recs, fandom overviews, picspams, discussion posts, etc totally count.

I don't want to do the same recs as I did last year, so I won't.

I would like to put "the work I did for the 2012 SSHG Exchange" in this list, but since the reveals haven't happened yet, I can't. Suffice to say, it was a creative challenge, and I'm very pleased with the result, even though I can't yet point to it and say "I made this!"

So, on to the recs I can actually make.
( cut for space )