Snowflake challenge - Days 1 & 2

[jainas]

A bit randomly I decided to do the Snowflake challenge! And in english, too!

Day 1

Talk about why you're participating in Snowflake and, if you’ve participated in the past, how the challenge has affected you. What drew you to it? What did you take away from it? What do you hope to accomplish this year?

This is my first time doing it, but I have been aware of it existence for a few years and I often was interested reading what other people shared!
I saw  the challenge in a few friends feeds this morning and thought, why not? I should have time to do it and I'm vaguely depressed by the prospect of going back to work tomorrow, so it might cheer me up! I don't really expect anything, mainly I'm just curious I think...
We will see how it goes!


Day 2

Share a favorite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, crazy times with fellow fans (whether on-line or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone.

I got in fandom a long time ago (in a galaxy far far away)... I was mono-fandom for a long time (Star Wars, then Naruto...) and them very much multi-fandom ever since. A few of my more solid friends IRL are actually people I met through Star Wars (including my boyfriend of 12 years) or Naruto.

2017 had a few fannish good memories, most more linked to fanworks and people than actual fandoms:

- This year I got to meet malurette IRL as we watched an outdoor viewing of the show Lastman. It was great and it became one of my insta-fav fandoms this year! I got the boxed blue-ray for my boyfriend at Christmas and we are actually rewatching it. Good times!

- maldoror_chant  came back online, started writing again... and archiving all her fanfics on AO3, which made me very happy and relieved. I am having a blast reading all her old fics along as she archive them and discovering new stuff. (I also had a few flashback of being 20-something and staying up literally all night reading The Arrangement on the family computer... and maybe even skipping a class a few year latter (which I usually never did!) as I was caught in a reread... :D)

- Thanks to my amazing boyfriend I got to meet a favorite author of mine this year: Guy Gavriel Kay, who was in Paris for a book tour... On the day of his birthday. I'm not usually keen on meeting people whose work I enjoy a lot IRL, But somehow this was a bit special and I built it up more for myself by using one of my inktober days to do an illustration for one of his books... which I gave him in person when I met him! And after that we had the chance to join him and a few other lovely people for restaurant after the book signing was done and we got to talk more. It was altogether one of the loveliest evening I had all year. And we exchanged a few emails since then, so... Yeah. Good memory. :)

Comments

[avon7]

Oh wow, what a fabulous memory! Meeting GGK would be really cool and when you are lucky enough to meet someone you are a fan of it is so special when they are nice.

[jainas]

Thank you! I is indeed a very nice man. :)
I was smiling writing it and I am smiling thinking about now... So cheer-up goal achieved I think! :D

[pensnest]

One of the wonderful things about being a fan is those connections that we make - and connecting with a favourite author is another big bonus! That sounds awesome.

[spikedluv]

What she said. *points up* The sense of community is one of the best things about fandom. And it's lovely when you get the opportunity to meet online friends IRL and squee in person.

I hope participating in Snowflake cheers you up!

[mekare]

YAY you are doing snowflake! It is very cool that your favorite author turned out to be a nice person and you even got to spend some time with him!

[sunlit_stone]

Oh, hey, a fellow Kay fan! I've--okay, to be honest, I've only ever actually read Tigana, but I absolutely loved it and I've kept meaning to read more ever since. But I've finally got A Song for Arbonne out from the library, and I intend to read it now that I've got the chance...

Also:

Ah, j'étais curieuse quand j'ai vu que tu as dit 'en Anglais,' et j'ai regardais ton...comment on dit 'user profile' en Français? Et tu parlais Francais. Je m'excuse de mon Français; je suis une anglophone de Québec, ce n'est pas ma langue maternelle et il y a quelques ans depuis que j'ai eu la chance de vraiment pratiquer avec une francophone, mais récemment j'essaie de lire les fics en Français aussi, et je pensais que malgré mes erreurs inévitable ça serait bon de dire bonjour!

[jainas]

Tigana is indeed a very good book, it is actually my second-favorite from him, after The Lions of Al-Rassan... Though A Song for Arbonne is very good as well! I wish you a great read! :)

Bonjour aussi ! :)
On dit "profil utilisateur"... pour les sujets technologiques le vocabulaire est souvent calqué sur l'anglais... quand on n'utilise pas pas carrément les mots en anglais ^^.
Et bravo pour ton français ! C'est dur de garder une langue quand on ne la pratique pas ! Et c'est très vrai que lire des fics aide... C'est clairement grâce à mes lectures de fandom que je suis devenue très à l'aise en anglais. :)

[malurette]

Yay Lastman!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it too!

[jainas]

It holds really well on rewatch too, we are almost at the end. And Howard is such a backstabbing bastard!
... If they were to do a live version he should be played by Aidan Gillen. ^^

[sunlit_stone]

I want to read TLoAR too, a lot of people seem to really like it.

Okay, merci! (Et merci du compliment, mais je pratique le Français, juste seulement...je dirais 'conversational' en Anglais, pour parler. Et je pense aussi que c'est plus facile quand on l'apprend comme enfant!)

Juste une question, s'il te plaît, comme nous sommes maintenant subscribed l'un a l'autre: tu preferes parler en anglais ou en français? Je peux répondre en français sur tes posts ou comments en français, si tu le veux, et je suis assez confiant de comprendre touts comments en français sur mon journal, mais je comprends aussi si tu ne veux pas souffrir mon français mauvais, ou (par exemple) te fair comprendre par les autres lecteurs/trices de mon journal. À toi de décider!

[jainas]

Ce qu'on peut faire c'est que tu réponds en français à mes posts en français, et je réponds en anglais à tes posts en anglais !
C'est généralement ce que je fais avec mes amis qui bloggent principalement en anglais, ou au contraire avec les français qui postent parfois un peu en anglais...

Cela dit, si tu veux t'entraîner, on peut écrire en français tout le temps, ça ne me gène pas. ;)

[malurette]

I've lost count of how many times I rewatched my favourite episodes and the whole show while I was at it during the year, I'm that much obsessed.
Back, front and middle, he'll stab your everything! (Maybe I'm a Wren because here, he totally snatched my heart.)

[sunlit_stone]

Merci beaucoup! Mais je veux pas que tu te sens, ah, 'used', je pense que répondre en la même langue, ça marchera assez bien. Et si il y a quelque fois que j'ai vraiment envie de parler en Français, ben, ce n'est pas comme quelqu'un va m'arrêter, eh?