Fandom Snowflake Challenge Day Two

[tjs_whatnot]

Day 2

In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them.

I think because this challenge happens so close to the end of the year where I get super reflective--and this year more than most--it was really hard to stop being distracted by all the fun things I used to enjoy that are gone now.

Like hp_drunkenff, remember that shenanigany good-time comm? Remember hp_yule_balls?

Not too long ago, I used to get great enjoyment from White Collar shenanigans like Text From Last Night-White Collar Edition and the very NSFW Fuck Yeah Tim DeKay

And now even crack_van is calling it quits after TEN YEARS. :(

But.

BUT.

Fandom is not dead! It's just moved around a bit. I don't know where hardly anything is anymore. So, while I give you a list of a handful of things (some not necessarily fandom related per se) you can also use this opportunity to tell me where the cool kids are hanging out in your pockets of fandom.

So... on to the list:

Harry Potter Fun to Follow:

♥ crack_broom-- The Van might be coming to an end, but the Broom seems to be alive and kicking. And seriously, Their Memories are a thing of beauty!

♥ Twitters to follow-- Two of my favorite fictional characters (that weren't created by Aaron Sorkin that is) are from Harry Potter. @_snape_ and @Lord_Voldemort7 are the best of the MANY Snapes and Voldemorts there are.

White Collar Fun to Follow:

♥ wcwu White Collar Writers Union--besides being a great place for people who write White Collar fics to hang out and lament, get ideas, ask questions, they also have a really great chat room where they get together to word war, brainstorm and rewatch the show together. I haven't done too much with them, watched a few episodes and word warred a time or two... but when I get back to writing White Collar, I will be on them LIKE WHOA!

♥ And speaking of watching the show with people-- caffrey_burke has a Live Reaction Post each night it airs. I used to participate every week and it was great fun, but this season I decided to focus on my reactions to each ep before hearing other's thoughts and thereby skewing my own. It's been good for me, but others might do fandom different, so putting that out there. And while I'm on show reactions, another user I used to enjoy getting commentary from is china_shop! They use lots of pretty pictures and lots of sarcasm--and a bit of keysmash. They also have an amazing rec list!

♥ Tumblr: There are a lot of good White Collar tumblrs (most of them having names like heckyeahnealcaffrey and such... I'll give you a list if you want. But for me, the one that is most consistantly updated and is so very pretty is Archivists Rock (warning, the gifset you might see when you click on that is sort of NSFW. ;)

Sherlock Fun to Follow:

♥ Three Patch Podcast ♥♥ This is a great podcast filled with the craziest fangirls who ever fangirled. I few of them where the brainchildren of Snapecast and it has a very similar feel to it. Like that one, it is a great mix of ridiculous and also really in depth and detailed analysis and commentary. They really delved into so very many POVs and I thoroughly enjoy it when I get time to listen.

Writerly Type Fun to Follow:

♥ Hey, Author to laugh at all the asinine and pretentious of our lot.

♥ Title To Come The trials and tribulations of the author... in gif form. I love this site and repeatedly revisit it no matter how many times I've seen each entry.

♥ Chuck Wendig's blog Terribleminds I rec this all the time, but seriously, he is my foul-mouthed writing guru.

Comments

[capitu]

I remember HP Yule. <333 One of the few fests I ever was part of. The place was awesome. The people moding and being part of it was amazing.