snowflake challenge days 3, 5, 6 and 7
Apr. 23rd, 2013 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them. Afterwards, leave a comment in this post with the equivalent of "I did it!"
-done
day 5
Stretch yourself a little and try something new. Go play in a new fandom or with a new pairing. Try working in a new medium. Or consume different fanworks. Give that new fandom a go. Listen to a podfic or watch some vids if you haven’t before. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.
- done
day 6
In your own space, pimp three comms or challenges and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
oof, this is hard. So much of my fandom experience revolves around podfic and amplificathon, and I don't really participate in comms or challenges...
But I guess the question isn't about things I participate in, it's about things I love. So.
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podfic_bingo is fun because it helps me stretch myself - is this a story that it would make sense to read drunkenly? How could I incorporate mixed media? I usually avoid 2nd person pov, but it's on my card so maybe I should find some, and oh, hey, it's not as obnoxious as I imagined!
podficbigbang I just really love long podfics :D
snowflake_challenge okay so I'm passing the buck a bit, but I do really love this challenge. I did bits of it privately last year, and I'm still doing bits of it in April, because it makes me more conscious about why I like participating in fandom, about the bits I love and the bits that make me uncomfortable in a way that's good to examine, and I just really love that it's a personal challenge that is done on my schedule and in ways that work for me while still being challenging.
day 7
In your own space, share something non-fannish about yourself. A passion or a hobby or a talent, something that people might not know about you. We are more than just our fandoms. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Something non-fannish about myself? The amount of time I spend exercising probably qualifies :) I didn't really get into exercise until I joined a flat-water racing kayak team in 8th grade. The kayaking and racing didn't stick, but I discovered that regular exercise did wonders for my depression and I've stuck with it ever since. What I do varies: team sports frustrate me, one-on-one sports require someone to play with, running is terrible for my bum knee, so it's often some type of weightlifting in combination with some variety of aerobics. If I have access to a gym, that means weights and an elliptical or stairclimber; if I'm at my parents house, it's one of the (many) FIRM exercise videos they have (depression runs in my family, as does this way of dealing with it); most recently I've been borrowing my roommate's Just Dance wii games (with permission!).
No matter what I do, exercising lets me get out of my head for a bit - I'm not stressing about school or family or my depression or whatever, I'm just climbing. Or dancing. Or kayaking. It's also a routine - if I do get really stressed or upset about something, I work out. There's a series of steps involved in that: finding my sneakers, getting workout gear on, filling my water bottle, going to the gym/the basement/the living room. I know how to do those, I know exercise will make me feel better, I know I'll be better able to deal with everything afterwards. Even if I'm too upset to workout (if I'm still miserable after 10 minutes I give myself permission to stop), the process of getting everything together gives me something new to focus on, so even if working out didn't help, I've gotten enough momentum to try something else.
This can, occasionally, lead to over-exercise, especially as I'm not doing this under the eye of a professional. So I have a semi-arbitrary limit of an hour a day, six days a week, though I'm happy to say that I haven't gotten close to that limit in over a year (as the amount I exercise is directly proportional to the degree of my depression, that's really good news!). I'm beginning to hit the point where I'm exercising because it's fun, rather than as a release-valve, which is good in all ways :D
Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them. Afterwards, leave a comment in this post with the equivalent of "I did it!"
-done
day 5
Stretch yourself a little and try something new. Go play in a new fandom or with a new pairing. Try working in a new medium. Or consume different fanworks. Give that new fandom a go. Listen to a podfic or watch some vids if you haven’t before. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.
- done
day 6
In your own space, pimp three comms or challenges and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
oof, this is hard. So much of my fandom experience revolves around podfic and amplificathon, and I don't really participate in comms or challenges...
But I guess the question isn't about things I participate in, it's about things I love. So.
podfic_bingo is fun because it helps me stretch myself - is this a story that it would make sense to read drunkenly? How could I incorporate mixed media? I usually avoid 2nd person pov, but it's on my card so maybe I should find some, and oh, hey, it's not as obnoxious as I imagined!podficbigbang I just really love long podfics :Dsnowflake_challenge okay so I'm passing the buck a bit, but I do really love this challenge. I did bits of it privately last year, and I'm still doing bits of it in April, because it makes me more conscious about why I like participating in fandom, about the bits I love and the bits that make me uncomfortable in a way that's good to examine, and I just really love that it's a personal challenge that is done on my schedule and in ways that work for me while still being challenging.day 7
In your own space, share something non-fannish about yourself. A passion or a hobby or a talent, something that people might not know about you. We are more than just our fandoms. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Something non-fannish about myself? The amount of time I spend exercising probably qualifies :) I didn't really get into exercise until I joined a flat-water racing kayak team in 8th grade. The kayaking and racing didn't stick, but I discovered that regular exercise did wonders for my depression and I've stuck with it ever since. What I do varies: team sports frustrate me, one-on-one sports require someone to play with, running is terrible for my bum knee, so it's often some type of weightlifting in combination with some variety of aerobics. If I have access to a gym, that means weights and an elliptical or stairclimber; if I'm at my parents house, it's one of the (many) FIRM exercise videos they have (depression runs in my family, as does this way of dealing with it); most recently I've been borrowing my roommate's Just Dance wii games (with permission!).
No matter what I do, exercising lets me get out of my head for a bit - I'm not stressing about school or family or my depression or whatever, I'm just climbing. Or dancing. Or kayaking. It's also a routine - if I do get really stressed or upset about something, I work out. There's a series of steps involved in that: finding my sneakers, getting workout gear on, filling my water bottle, going to the gym/the basement/the living room. I know how to do those, I know exercise will make me feel better, I know I'll be better able to deal with everything afterwards. Even if I'm too upset to workout (if I'm still miserable after 10 minutes I give myself permission to stop), the process of getting everything together gives me something new to focus on, so even if working out didn't help, I've gotten enough momentum to try something else.
This can, occasionally, lead to over-exercise, especially as I'm not doing this under the eye of a professional. So I have a semi-arbitrary limit of an hour a day, six days a week, though I'm happy to say that I haven't gotten close to that limit in over a year (as the amount I exercise is directly proportional to the degree of my depression, that's really good news!). I'm beginning to hit the point where I'm exercising because it's fun, rather than as a release-valve, which is good in all ways :D
