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Fandom Wrap In Which I Pronk And Stott:



Your top 5 fandoms for 2023:

1. Watching old films on Turner Classic Movies channel and afterwards consulting imdb
2. reading non-fiction in hardcover plus fic on fanfiction.net and AO3
3. writing Star Wars, Star Trek, Penguins of Madagsacar, and Hogan's Heroes fic mostly generated from theforce.net prompts
4. sewing in which I completed two outfits
5. RL in which I felt significantly better after June 13. :)

Your top 5 fandom spaces:

1. theforce.net with my book reviews and my movie reviews
2. fanfiction.net https://www.fanfiction.net/~pronker
3. X retweeting
4. tumblr reblogging
5. imdb reference only

The top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom:

1. Posting a challenge in Snowflake!!
2. Reviewing on fanfiction.net and on AO3
3. Um, getting Netflix and Disney Plus for awesome content such as Bad Batch, Rings of Power, Andor and Ahsoka?
4. I am happy with Barbie https://pronker.dreamwidth.org/196496.html
5. Enfilade https://pronker.dreamwidth.org/192070.html to the Hogan's Heroes fandom, onto which I grafted Captain America plus (comics) Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos. The research gratified. :)

Your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions were:

1. A search of mine sparked this post https://meta-warehouse.dreamwidth.org/25253.html of which the origin was https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_good_old_days_before_google_were_dark_and_involved_horses
2. Posting in Snowflake! (I said that already?)
3. Pretty sure the reviews were appreciated!

Bonus questions:

Your fandom personality in 2023 was: Pepé Le Pew. To pronk is to bound as many ungulates do, with all four legs together, especially in deep grass or snow. Or as mephitid Pepé Le Pew does in the above clip and as I enjoy doing to website after website in one sitting.

In 2023, you discovered: That after completing a loooooong fic such as Undertow https://archiveofourown.org/works/15355089/chapters/35630259 with 280k words, it's nice to get cozy again with shorter 10k word epics like Enfilade https://archiveofourown.org/works/47966557/chapters/120939247 or drabbles https://archiveofourown.org/works/42772173 or mediumish lengths https://archiveofourown.org/works/44462980

Your fandom home: theforce.net with its many prompts, longheld e-quaintances and active discursive threads: https://boards.theforce.net/members/pronker.1284263/ Next would be fanfiction.net with its forums such as https://www.fanfiction.net/topic/20365/2125824/32/#186412086

Ahah, I've been saving these for a month -
Good Omens

archiveofourown.org/works/21112031  Just now discovered a Desert Peach fic!!! Good Omens/Desert Peach, is anything more perfect?

Five favorite smutty fics I've written:

archiveofourown.org/works/30075987/chapters/74072805 Lay of the Land, Penguins of Madagascar

archiveofourown.org/works/35190616/chapters/87683737 Earn More Sessions By Sleeving, its sequel

archiveofourown.org/works/28136/chapters/37088  As Clear As Mud, Star Wars

archiveofourown.org/works/133100  Veterans Day, Star Wars

archiveofourown.org/works/479015  Upright Entasis, Star Wars

Currently, I'm fond of Barbie the doll and film, so there's a Barbie dream house "retired" from boisterous play for use as a squirrel feeder affixed to my backyard fence. I smear peanut butter on a pine cone wired inside and the bold critters nibble away.

Past projects include a Star Wars figure wind chime and a thrift store painting of a landscape "improved" by adding Penguins of Madagascar characters.🤗

I love canon voice acting in both the films and  Penguins of Madagascar TV series (and feature film!) by Tom McGrath. He's splendid in the role and if we ever meet, I'll tell him his speech patterns resemble Archie Bunker's. The cadence, the pronunciation of certain words, yeah. I believe it endears the role to him because Skipper and Archie share macho traits ... among other traits ... 😍 

From the Random Generator after 3 tries, for the right fit! here goes with 5 Icebreaker Questions:

Have you been given any good advice lately?

Yes, to relax a little about jittery nerves re posting a Snowflake challenge on the 27th.

What do you find attractive that others might find unusual?

The smell of durian, gads, I love that stuff. Spouse bought me some durian extract once. :)

What about you do you seem to get the most comments about?

I'm a good listener.

If you had to name one thing that makes you stand out from others, what would that be?

I'm very self-reliant.

Without saying the category, what are your top five?

• Saola
• Ivory-billed Woodpecker
• Thylacine
• Southern Rocky Mountain Wolf
• Jerusalem Cricket

• My fandom wishlist is for recs for either fanart or fics (WIPs okay) in these fandoms. Warnings for creakiness in some of these venerable fandoms! :)
• *deep breath, in through the right nostril, out through the left*
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea TV show, not film
• King Kong (1933), film or book (yes, there was a book in 1932 by Delos W. Lovelace)
• Hal and Roger Hunt in Willard Price's Adventure series of YA books
• Bulldog Drummond
• Robert Muldoon from Jurassic Park, film or book
• Bullshot Crummond (yes, it is a hilarious parody of Bulldog Drummond)
• Laredo western on TV

and a ridiculously explicit desire repeated for a rec (that was splendidly filled in 2022 by fellow Snowflake Rodo with the sublime Korean series Mr. Sunshine that enthralled me for weeks), so here I go again:

The setting and era are important, the fandom is not, so easy, right? Right?

• Setting to be someplace "exotic" to the United States, such as warlord-era China, Queensland, any banana republic, Albania ...
• Era is early 20th century, 1910-1939, or right before World War 2.
• Contains American servicemen in any branch. Could be main characters or minor, OCs okay.
• *signs off hopefully*

I've reupped for the challenge by modding, posting, and navel gazing: I played in a new fandom, Hogan's Heroes, and enjoyed it greatly in 2023. I'm currently perusing Montefiore's biography of Stalin, mostly from the years 1932 to his death; it's stunningly well researched and though I'm currently reading about 1938, the buildup to WW2 seeps into each chapter.

I'm on the front porch atm, enjoying a tiny bit of sunlight peeking between clouds, listening to neighbors' roosters, observing squirrels, and people watching. Several dog walkers strolled by.