snowflake Challenge #4

[cal1pso]

IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Hi. I think I already shared a bit in my introduction post, but I'll see what else I can say about myself

• I go by Kain in social media, I'm in my late 20s, and I don't really have preferred pronouns. Just, use the pronouns you use for yourself with me :3c
• I like purple and turtles, I have a dog and his name is filomeno
• I started to read fics and getting into fandom when I was 8, so I remember stuff I should have been too young for.
• I played all the Pokemon games up until sun & moon, since then I have been disillusioned with the franchise and haven't really interacted with it much
• I stay in dead fandoms on purpose because witnessed a lot of abuse and harassment in big fandoms and I got a bit traumatized. I also like fandoms with big latino/asian population and almost not English fandom because they're more peaceful
• I kind of hate discord
• I love to participate in zines and collaborative fanish projects because i work better with a deadline
• I was a lurker in fandom for a long time because I took the "stranger danger" instructions seriously (8 years old)
• I only started participating in fandom in 2019, before that I had never done any fanart or fanfic. My first ever fanart and fanfic were of Naruto

feel like I just rambled instead of saying anything insteresting, Soo, dear reader, what is your favorite color? Do you have a pet? If yes, what's their name?

Comments

[tjs_whatnot]

My favorite color is also purple and we have a massive Leonberger dog named Kenobi in my house. ❤️

And this was a great get- to- know you! So, hello, Kain! Nice up meet you. ❤️

[cal1pso]

aah thaank you!~

Kenobi is a great name, he seems like a good boy <3

[himeprincessa]

I totally agree with you on the dead or small fandom aspect! Dead fandoms are especially fascinating because you can find really well done fanfiction and art that is like nearly as old as I am lol

[cal1pso]

Yessss, I have been searching all over livejournal and finding so many forgotten gems!
The bad part is when a beloved work disappears from internet and the only thing you found is people in 2009 talking about how good that fic was :')

[himeprincessa]

When fics get deleted it's so sad :((( I remember this one amazing fic I read in highschool and one day it was just suddenly gone. I think the author had pretty much wiped themselves off the internet.

[cal1pso]

Yeah... I am pretty sure that my favorite fic from 2006 got nuked in the fanfiction.net purge :c it was never finished but I still loved to reread it from time to time until one day it was gone
This is why I am saving fics I found in livejournal now :')

[myulalie]

I played all the Pokemon games up until sun & moon, since then I have been disillusioned with the franchise and haven't really interacted with it much
mood! watched some walkthrough to see what I was missing on and decided it wasn't much!

Would you be okay to explain why you don't like Discord? I was reluctantly converted to the platform and can barely remember why I was against it in the first place so I'm curious about your reasons!

Love your post, it's easy to read ♥

[cal1pso]

Yeah, I am a bit sad about not playing new pokemon games, but I found fangames much more satisfying, so it is what it is

Oh, I don't like it because I get overwhelmed easily, and I like to talk with long sentences. So the fast pace of discord makes it so by the time I finished my idea everyone already moved on, and I get exhausted very fast while trying to keep up with the conversation (add to that that english is not my first language). Add this to the fact that I always feel like I'm intruding on other people's conversation, making it very awkward to me to even try to contribute to the combo.

So, discord is not great for me.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> I like purple and turtles <<

A nearby nature reserve has a pond with a ginormous snapping turtle in it.

>> I stay in dead fandoms on purpose because witnessed a lot of abuse and harassment in big fandoms and I got a bit traumatized. <<

Good plan. You can also watch for places that are saner. allbingo and followfriday are both congenial.

>>I love to participate in zines and collaborative fanish projects because i work better with a deadline <<

See whenisitdue for a guide to deadlines all over DW.

Re: Thoughts

[cal1pso]

Oh, thanks for the comm recomendations! I will check them out
Also that guide for deadlines are very handy, thank you so much!

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>Oh, thanks for the comm recomendations! I will check them out <<

I'm happy I could help.

>> Also that guide for deadlines are very handy, thank you so much! <<

Yeah, I've been reccing that one all over the place to anyone who says they're into timed events.