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Snowflake Challenge #4 is to set some goals.

Well, I have some personal/private goals (that I have little control over, but they are goals), and some boring health goals, and some family goals, but I'll stick to fannish/crafty ones here.

For 2021:

1) Finish the WIP-o-Doom aka Principal Components. That is a lofty goal, I know. More immediate goal is to post the next section before the end of the month (hopefully long before). After so many years and a lot of fits, starts and stagnation, it's truly on the home stretch now. And that's even given that I know exactly what happens in the story and have for like 9.5 years. It still takes forever to tear words out of my head. At least for that story.

2) Rec more at [community profile] tardis_library. I've not been on much of a Who-reading spree in the last year plus, but lately I've been doing a little bit more reading and been finding some good stories. And reading more also makes me feel more connected to fandom and might spur me to more creativity. I'm not really enjoying Thirteen on screen but there are some brilliant writers out there that are doing her better justice. And I miss the older eras too.

3) Read some Actual Books. Even licensed fandom stuff can count, though I should probably read some more substantial stuff too. Last year I read a few books, mostly on my Kindle. Station Eleven, Radium Girls, 3 Twelve and Bill adventures, the first Dresden Files book (erm... someone says they get better), and I started a few others. It's tough when I have writing I want to get done though. Even when I'm not doing the writing, It's like, if I'm reading I'm explicitly NOT doing writing. Whereas if I'm goofing off on the computer, at least I've got the computer open and my file open and Ostensibly Could Be Writing.

4) Make a Princess Dress. For my niece. This has been on my to-do list for like, a year and a half. I have pattern, fabrics, hoopskirt, etc. I need to design the skirt--the hard part--and then construct the top from the existing pattern--the tedius but easy part. Except I will probably have to change a little bit of what niece designed for the top because she wants two fabrics diagonal (on the bias?? Does silk/taffeta have a bias?) and that's going to be a PITA.

5) Watch some more Blake's 7. I've seen the first 3 episodes and folks assure me it gets better ;)

6) Write a story that isn't the WIP-o-Doom. This one's a maybe. Maybe if I get the right motivation. I've got a few ideas. A few things started, even, that I could flesh out. But I'm not going to force it if it isn't in the cards. There's a LOT of non-fannish goals I have for the upcoming year anyhow.

7) Does it make any sense to try and learn tumblr or Discord? Ehhh, probably not. Get off my lawn. It's just I've been seeing some younger fen around lately who are writing amazing things and it reminds me of years ago when LJ and DW used to be hopping places and I interacted a lot more with people and we wrote things for each other and spurred each other on. Now all the fandom is on platforms I don't know how to use. Aaaand a lot of it is for shows/books/manga/movies etc. that I have no idea about. And I'm not in college/grad-school anymore so there are more immediate repercussions for doing things like spending the day reading an amazing fic story instead of working (Admittedly, that has not necessarily stopped me).

8) Get back into some Big Finish. The audio adventures were definitely something that helped me connect with fandom and kept my creativity going. And it's something to do for either a Fake Commute or during exercise or laundry folding, etc. (I used to listen to them on my hour-long commute to/from work)

Date: 2021-01-08 12:27 am (UTC)
dragonyphoenix: (buffy)
From: [personal profile] dragonyphoenix
Good luck witht he Princess Dress. That's so cool.

I've heard of Blake's 7 but have never actually seen it.

Date: 2021-02-07 03:27 am (UTC)
dragonyphoenix: (i must squee!)
From: [personal profile] dragonyphoenix
I was going to squee over the dress and how cute it is but then I looked at your niece's drawing. Ooooh, most adorable! The really big eyes. And sick arms. eeeeee! She gets the I Must Squee icon!

Date: 2021-01-09 04:04 am (UTC)
jedi_of_urth: (guy pretty)
From: [personal profile] jedi_of_urth
Does it make any sense to try and learn tumblr or Discord?

I know people on tumblr say it's dying, which of course makes it the time when I start actually thinking about setting one up. And I just laugh at fandom taking place on Discord, we've circled back to 90s fandom chatrooms. I haven't figured out how to use it for that very well though; it just amuses me.

I kind of like how Snowflake seems to have brought out the 'get off my lawn' feeling in all us fandom-agings.

That's basically the exact amount of Blake's 7 that I've seen; I didn't dislike it as recall, but it hadn't grabbed me and at the time I had other fandoms I could focus on, now not so much so maybe I should give it another go.

Date: 2021-01-21 01:46 am (UTC)
jedi_of_urth: (sg1 team)
From: [personal profile] jedi_of_urth
Actually, come to think of it, I'm not sure I still have B7 stored somewhere I have on hand. But if you ever want someone to get into the show with, we could join forces (once I find my files again).

Date: 2021-01-09 08:51 am (UTC)
thisbluespirit: (b7 - avon)
From: [personal profile] thisbluespirit
All excellent goals! I of course particularly approve of 2,5,6 and 8, but they are all good - good luck.

Date: 2021-01-15 08:12 am (UTC)
thisbluespirit: (dw - lucie)
From: [personal profile] thisbluespirit
If you're playing catch up (like me), a lot of the older ones are really cheap as downloads straight from the site. If you want to get up to date, it's def. v costly with all those boxsets!! But i've just filled in my gaps with the original Eight & Charley and Six & Evelyn runs quite nicely for £2.99 each, and I have a feeling that the US price is not whatever the equivalent should be, but $2.99, although I don't know if that's still true.

Date: 2021-01-18 09:32 am (UTC)
thisbluespirit: (dw - charley)
From: [personal profile] thisbluespirit
Oh, I was forgetting, because it's not much use to me, but Spotify apparently has heaps of Big Finish on it & you can listen to that free (with ads) or a paid account if you don't want ads.

You can also sometimes find the ones that have been broadcast on BBC Radio online, either through the BBC itself (Radio, unlike TV, isn't region-locked), and there is a sort of legal loophole for things that have been recorded off the radio being shared online, which means you can sometimes find the radio broadcast version on places like Internet Archive. I had to resort to this for finishing off Eight & Lucie, because all their ind. 45 min ones are just too expensive! See here for one such search: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Paul+McGann%22
Edited Date: 2021-01-18 09:33 am (UTC)

Date: 2021-01-09 10:10 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kat_lair
Goals 3 and 7 resonated with me. Getting back to book reading is also on my list, largely because fanfic is so easy and comforting and you know what you get 9 times out of 10... But also there are lots of awesome stories to be discovered...

I consume Tumblr passively (because of the pretty, the funny and the insightful) but have no energy left to engage with it actively. I got into in fandom (as a creator and active participator, I'd been reading fic since mid 90s) on LJ and DW is the natural successor for me.

Date: 2021-01-15 01:51 am (UTC)
why_me_why_not: (Default)
From: [personal profile] why_me_why_not
What did you think of Station Eleven? It was one of my favorite reads last year. And the Dresden books do get better! I'm very blah about the first one.

Date: 2021-01-31 01:29 pm (UTC)
a_phoenixdragon: (Misc - Harry Dresden)
From: [personal profile] a_phoenixdragon
Love your goals!! Whoot!

I swear Dresden does get better....Book Three is when he starts to get over himself...and the author acknowledges his problematic view. Doesn't excuse it, but if you can hand-wave with a few eye-rolls, Harry can be massively fun and he has a habit of getting his butt kicked without realizing quite how he got there.

Had Tumblr a few years ago and left when it got...weird. Also, Discord is just ICQ with pics, emoticons and shrill-fandom-screeches from the nether worlds. I'm sure there are good groups there, but I'm unwilling to wade through it all to search those out, alas.

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