Snowflake Challenge #15

[komadori]

Challenge #15
In your own space, Talk about Your Snowflake Experience. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable
doing so.

I'm glad that I participated in the challenge again because it helped give me inspiration to post regularly on DW after a long hiatus. I got to talk to new fannish people (I really put effort into it this time) and learned about others. Although I had many other things on my mind during January, I'm happy that I carved out enough time to do as many challenges as I did. My favorite challenge was reviving old memes. ^^; I can't remember when I last did snowflake_challenge, but I think it was back when challenges were every day? It is somewhere in my archives... Anyway, the pace of every other day kept me from feeling overwhelmed. When did the schedule change? I swear that there used to be challenges every day, but I can look it up later.

I really needed it this year. Not only did I want to post more, but I also have felt pretty lonely during the pandemic. Before the pandemic, I had grad classes to attend that gave me the chance to get out and be around people. I'm still finishing up my MA and taking Zoom classes, but it's not the same. Without them, the people I talk to on a regular basis are my older family members whose politics drive me up the wall. While I'm trying to get to know my classmates also, this gave me an opportunity for some much needed fannish interaction. I want to get back into fandom and start writing again, and this challenge offered a nice start to those goals. The world has felt increasingly scary and out of control over the past year, and I'm grateful that snowflake_challenge is still around to provide some feeling of normalcy.

I may go back and do some of the earlier challenges that I skipped, but we'll see.