Fandom Snowflake Challenge #6

Challenge #6

In your own space, make a list — anything between one and ten things is a sweet spot, but don't feel constrained by that! - of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, or that you'd like someone to make for you. Are you dying for podfic of your writing? Do you need icons for a character that doesn't get much fanart? Is there a story you want to read? Are you looking for new canons to get into? Would you like a collaborator for a project?

Maybe you want more people to talk about a certain fandom with, or you'd love to trade ficlets with somebody over email. Maybe you're new to a fandom and would like some recs to start reading, or communities to join. This is the time to ask!

Oh no, asking for things...

I guess I've always wanted art for my fics. Or maybe some aesthetic type edits or cover art...? Any of my fics would be good but maybe I have particular softness for afraid of all that I've built or in and out of darkness and light, since those had a lot more headcanons that canons in them.

Now that I'm thinking about it, another thing I would really like is if people let me know somehow that they included me in a rec list? Not to say they need my permission or anything, but sometimes I get a flurry of kudos or maybe even a comment on some old fic, which makes me really happy, but my brain is also a nonsense creature wandering where they're coming from and then I go googling desperately... On one occassion I did actually find a tumblr post of fic recs with one of my fics in it! And that felt so good, because it wasn't someone just telling me how much they liked my writing, they were telling [gasp] other people! Admittedly, perhaps this is part of me thinking that someone liked my writing so much, maybe they'd like me too and maybe they'd want to be my friend or something...

Maybe also meta about narratives, and narrative design and how stories come together, and not whether stories -- in general or a certain particular -- or aspects of stories are good or bad, but why they might be and what we can learn from them. How people interact with stories and how stories interact with them. How stories work in video games, and how they're different to other kinds of stories. I think that might be pretty cool.

In a non-fannish sense... I guess I've already admitted I would like more friends... Anyone here like planners and planning? Anyone here have dreams they're trying to make reality? writing and selfpublishing? practising art? Anyone interested in the why and how of stories more than the right or wrong of stories? Anyone trying to heal from depression without any real friend or family support, or a therapist, or medication, because (oh, irony) you need those things to get those things in the first place? Anyone cripplingly lonely, socially anxious, but too intimidated to work on those things? Anyone else need gentle handling because they've maybe got RSD and can feel so massively hurt by the tiniest of things sometimes? Are there any kind of accountability groups on dreamwidth maybe?