Pretty Cravings

Over the last few days, I had fangirls come to visit! wyndwalker stayed with me, and goddess47 popped over every day to encourage us to stay out of trouble or possibly to create trouble. I get those two confused.

Much popcorn was eaten and much figure skating was watched (along with other Olympic sports. Double Luge anyone?

We had some great fandom conversations over cake and coffee. These are the kind of conversations my family members couldn't care less about, but are bread and butter to me.

We held each other up over the shock of spikedluv's passing, along with other fandom peeps lost through the years.

We wrote, read fanfic, ate a lot and when asked what quirky thing I'd watched lately...(I'm always watching stuff off the beaten path) I could recommend Jules.

From Fanlore:

Fanon is any element that is widely accepted among fans, but has little or no basis in canon.

Sometimes it's a small event in canon that gets exaggerated; sometimes it's something in a fanfic story that gets picked up on and repeated by other writers until it's so common that newbies might think it's a canonical fact.

A variation of fanon is "personal canon" or "headcanon," which is a set of "fanon"-like facts that are accepted as canon by an individual fan or a smaller group of fans, sometimes in the making of a shared universe.

I would love to know your favorite piece of Fanon. Or many pieces of Fanon. There's no need to pick just one!

I signed up at 5soulmates for this:

Table #10 - Touch
01. first touch	02. touching your soulmate leaves fingerprints	03. touching your soulmate feels good	04. touching your soulmate lets them feel what you're feeling	05. you can only touch your soulmate

I've finished #3, and I'm working on #5. It just took an unexpected turn. It's an interesting turn. I fully intend to run with it, but I'm left with a feeling of - Now What?

romancingmcshep is looking for prompts. If you've got a little time and an John/Rodney prompt you'd like to share, the link is here:

Prompts!

And don't forget to check out the chocolate box entries. More coming daily. ❤️

How Did the Fandom Snowflake Challenge Go?



It went well. I had to stretch my moodboard muscles. I reached out to (new to me) snowflakers and some of them reached back. Very CooL.

I'm glad I took part, and I'm looking forward to next year.

Talk about a community space you like

Well, there's more than one of those.

First to mind is SGA_Saturday A lot of Stargate Atlantis communities have fallen by the wayside as the years have passed. This community, with its monthly prompts has kept the light burning.

Whatif_au This is a fun, mulitfandom community. I suspect it's light touch and dash of charm has a lot to do with it's mod and creator brumeier. *Great work, hon*

This site Unconventionalcourtship is an annual, multifandom challenge that was made for my heart.

Challenge #11

In your own space, grant someone's wish from Challenge #5.


Requests I've filled:

Comments and hits on fanfic, some icons, and a request for a picture of a deer.

Just want to add a thank you to everyone who filled a request on my wishlist. ;;;;flailyhands;;;;

Choose something you love and create a mini mood collection of three (or more) items that evoke your feelings about it.



McShep: A Theme of Two that will always have a special place in my heart.

And lastly, my love/hate relationship with Deadlines.

Challenge #8

Talk about your creative process.

Dear god, I wish had an actual process. Then maybe I wouldn't get 'stuck' so often. Better I talk about a common thread that gets the ball rolling.

It usually starts with a question. What if this instead of that? If that sparks an idea, I will sometimes jot it down on the wall. (Cling sheet). I really like doing this. I don't have to boot up my computer or hunt down a pen and paper.



Sometimes it's just random ideas that don't go anywhere, but often enough they do. That particular cling sheet turned into a story for Unconventional Courtship.

First draft is often on notepaper. It goes through a lot of changes and gets fleshed out on the first typed draft. I've found that taking the time to read the story out loud finds a lot of mistakes and plot holes.

Yep, gonna need a second draft.

And then there are the other kind of stories. Like the ones for written for the Fuck for Science! Challenge.
Those I'm just winging.

For Science II (NSFW)

So...eh. I had to reread the story and...what were we talking about?

Artwork! I dabble a little. It's a learning process. Boy, have I come to have an enormous respect for the work artists put into their art. It's hard.

I did like how this one came out though.

Tickets to Pegasus.