Snowflake Challenge, Day 6

In your own space, pimp three comms or challenges and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This is really hard for me, because most of the communities I follow are pretty slow or dormant/defunct. I totally feel like I'm copping out, because I'm including my own communities.

1) poetry_fiction - This is an annual challenge I run where I give out poetry prompts every year, and we get at least 1,000 words. The poet changes every year, and I welcome both fan fiction and original fiction. Any tropes, pairing, gen, etc is accepted. We also have a daily prompt challenge in July. I built this community specifically to be open and welcoming to all writers, and there's also permanent amnesty on all challenges.

2) poet_inspired - I created this community after running poetry_fiction for two years, because I came to the horrible realization that I was completely ignoring a ton of creators. This is the community to go to if you like the idea of poetry_fiction, but you don't actually fic. poet_inspired is open to any art, fanart, photo manip, meta, fanmix, knitting patterns, podfic, and any other artistic endeavor that I'm not thinking of right now because it's two in the morning.

3) omnomnom - this community is just full of delicious recipes. I'm a little sad, because as a vegetarian, there's a lot of recipes I can't make, but it still all looks delicous and amazing.

Honorable mention

batwomen - This would have been my top one, because OMG A COMMUNITY FOR RENEE MONTOYA/KATE KANE!! But it's so dead. The last thing posted was in 1-11. This is really disappointing, as Kate has a series!!!! It's awesome!!! She's fighting monsters with freaking Wonder Woman! Even though Renee has only appeared once in the new 52 (as a picture on the wall) she's still a part of Kate's past and I'm just all dfs [iejw fkjeskfjd;ijsd;lkxjx flk over her series, although I feel like she's dating Maggie only because there's a whole two lesbians we know about in Gotham.

Snowflake Challenge, Day 7

In your own space, share something non-fannish about yourself. A passion or a hobby or a talent, something that people might not know about you. We are more than just our fandoms. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I've been sitting here for a while now wondering what to write. The thing is, I talk about everything that I do in this journal, regardless of if it's fandom or not.

Hm. I was a paid personal baker for a while? I love baking, and I love finding new recipes to try. One of my favorites is cherry almond biscotti, which was always so good. I think the most complicated thing I ever made was a German Chocolate Cake for work (which, ha, it's a hard cake! I apparently knew nothing about it before I started baking it.) Also, I cannot cut cakes in half well. It's always such a mess and layer cakes are horribly lopsided when I make them. It's embarrassing.

But I used to bake for the_gentlmans_revolt's family for a while. It was really fun and nifty.

Let's see what else. I know how to sew well enough to repair holes in my clothing, but I'm not good enough to sew actual clothes or use patterns. Also, I can only do it by hand. Sewing machines are the death of me.