Snowflake Challenge: Personal Win

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I started a drawing journal in April. Pretty early on I found Draw Everyday with JJK and was drawing along with him. He recommends kid's books and so I got some of them from the library and also copied images from those. I also started sketching along with Lore Olympus and have sketched images from The Untamed, Nirvana in Fire, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Carmilla. The link at the end, which I can't see as I'm editing, is a drawing I made for Nirvana in Fire. https://twitter.com/Judyth_Gibson/status/1483654410207117312?s=20

Snowflake Challenge: Rec Your Faves

Going with the cookie trees image because I've just started watching The Great British Bake Off which is so. Much. FUN!

In your own space, rec a fanwork (fic, art, vid, playlist, anything!) you did not create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I was thinking of reccing one story for each fandom I've bookmarked on AO3 but, whoa! I had no idea I'd bookmarked so many fandoms! I thought I'd just go with my fave from this year, which is awesome, but this day's post suggests we can rec old faves as well.

I have been waiting for this one! Most amazing fanfic I've read this year is Scarlett Storm's It Seems the Hills and Rivers Have Been Waiting (The Untamed). Trans pig farmer cultivates the Boar Path, basically being super toned and strong and bad-ass. Best part? Jiang Cheng has a thing for her. But he won't act on it because he doesn't want to be that Sect Leader (read: Jin Guangshan). They are an adorable couple. Fan Dingxian is just ... awesome. I highly, highly, highly recommend this. It's great.

we must unite inside her walls or we'll crumble from within (Harry Potter) is a look at the women of the Harry Potter world. Delightful and unexpected takes on each of them. Here's a bit from the story on Andromeda Tonks: 

"I want to be like you when I grow up."

Andromeda had suggested Hermione Granger, who had saved the world, or Auror Patil, or lovely Luna Lovegood. "I'm just an old woman poking her nose places it doesn't belong. I'm sneaky, and sometimes I'm mean. I'm no hero."

The girl had shaken her head. "But I want to be me, don't you get it? I'm a Slytherin. And you're the first person I've ever met who made it look like being me was an ok thing to be. I can't be anyone else. I've tried."

Seduction By Winglet pairs Tony Stark (Marvel Universe) with Martin Crief (Cabin Pressure). It looks like a crack pairing, but it's not. They are both such geeks that it works. Diversions, which is a spin-off by another author, is also excellent.

In the Morning of the Magicians (BtVS): I don't care what any canon authority says, this is definitely Ripper and Ethan's backstory.

And a video: Trisha Jain thought that My Tears Ricochet "perfectly encapsulates, line for line, the fractured sibling relationship between Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng." She's so right.