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In your own space, create your own challenge. Whatever your challenge is, have fun with it!

My challenge was to keep my temper under control while dealing with three sites: Photobucket, LiveJournal, and theForceDOTnet. Photobucket no longer does 3rd party hosting, so numerous posts on the other two sites now show the gray Photobucket box saying "get a paid account." Grumpy, I used LiveJournal for image hosting and am pleased to switch out the links on theForceDOTnet's Fanart Forum.

Downshift from pleased to grumpier, when needing to change LiveJournal's "friends only" status to "public" after an "OOPSY" moment. I met the challenge, did the switching, and am glad it's over. Patience with the internet is not my strong point. If I put stuff on a site, it bloody well ought to stay there! The site better stay up, too! I went and made a batch of pancakes and felt better. Here, have some:



In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, or to your flist/circle/followers. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to.

Dear Small Fandom,

I love you. I treasure each review, like, kudos and lurking view! You are precious to me and your creativity astounds: the artwork in particular. Dang, imaginative drawings and shades of nuanced glimmerings abound, along with graphic ogling delights in other pieces. Keep it up! In part because work has been so crazy, I have less internetting playtime and so your small scope makes me happy in large doses. Also good is this tumblr, which introduced me to the concept of incorrect quotes in other fandoms.

Love,

pronker
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In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.

One simple goal is to learn more about wordpress; I think I can accomplish putting in chapter links for pronkerblog. Go me.

Another goal is nebulous: to continue writing my Long Story, on same blog. Go me again. I think continuing something with no obvious end in sight comprises a goal?
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Undertow, published on fanfictionDOTnet for the first time. It was originally on pronkerblog.

In your own space, create a fanwork. Make a podfic, an icon, a sketch, a meta, or a rec list. Arts and crafts. Cross stitch. Draft an essay about a particular medium. Put together a picspam or a fanmix. Write a review of book you love, a ship manifesto, a you-should-be-listening-to-this-band essay. Create something.
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In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most. Feel free to include recs and examples!

I love the IDIC from Star Trek: TOS in October 1968.  In 1968, the US staggered with the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., coupled with the Tet Offensive.  To me, a junior in high school, it seemed the worst year ever.  To teens, many things are 'worst ever' and of course we didn't really know what we were talking about, but yeah, the year sucked.

Personally, my solipsistic universe got immeasurably better with being sixteen years old, instead of the godawful thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen years of age, yuck.  But for the larger view, when Star Trek episode now termed 3x07, "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" aired late in the year, Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations spoke of tolerance in the philosophy of Vulcans and for this Earther.

That same year, I had a loved homeroom teacher who said, "Tolerance?  Piffle!   Well, if you only tolerate someone without love, tolerance is ... (and here she gestured dismissively).  Upon hearing that, I still loved her, but her statement about tolerance made me think.  Dang, I gotta love everybody?  What a burden to the lover and the lovee!  I must meet their standards and they must meet mine for love?  Thinking back, she likely meant agape and not individual love, but hey, I am not that nice.  It disses tolerance as a virtue, the ability to see flaws and say meh.
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Three cartoons, subtle as Bugs Bunny in drag.

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. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
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I've given this some thought -- this bit shows relationships change, and need to.  Skipper sees Private as son rather than brother-in-arms.  Private grumps about being patronized, but only in his expression.  He'll grow a pair later on in the movie, ha.  With birds, they aren't actually visible.



 
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