Fandom Snowflake 2020 - Challenge #15

Challenge #15: In your own space, create your own challenge. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I may double back to some of the ones I skipped, but in the meantime, I did have an idea for this one. I tend to muck about in a bunch of different mediums, most of which I'm not particularly skilled at but enjoy for their own sake. So my challenge is:

Create something fannish in a medium/format other than your usual. As they say at Snowflake Challenge headquarters, leave a comment on this post saying you did it, with a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Writers can try a fandom-themed nail polish design. Artists can cook a dish that appears in their favorite canon. Knitters can write poetry. Do what doesn't come naturally, do what you've always wanted to try, do that thing you half remember enjoying from years ago. Let your fandom love infuse your efforts with familiarity and affection.

Maybe you will discover a new passion, or maybe you will feel like a huge doofus, or possibly both will happen more or less simultaneously. But you know, it's fun to just mess about with something you don't expect yourself to be good at, to stretch some creative muscles that usually go ignored. And what is fandom about if not having a bit of undignified fun? Injecting fannish glee into unusual areas of life makes everything better.

Lake Lewisia #496

“Yes, of course we sell mood-altering confections here,” Jamil said into the phone, by then slumped across the counter in sheer exhaustion from arguing with the caller, “but not like that.” It always got this way as they approached February and people started to look for easy ways out of their relationship troubles. “Has it occurred to you,” he interrupted before they could go into another round of cajoling, “that you might need to talk to the person you want to date, rather than just strategically deploying love potion-laced gummy hearts?”

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LL#496