Snowflake Challenge, Day 3

[idleleaves]

Challenge #3 - Promote Your Favourite Communities, Fests, or Challenges

I'm not someone who tends to be part of a million fannish communities, but the ones I do love, I love like burning.

First, there's Still SynS, a flashfic-and-chat based community I started almost three years ago that used to be called Synchronised Screaming. It's less about the flashfic than it used to be, but it's still a wonderful place with wonderful people who enjoy screaming about fic-writing and other assorted things. I heart everyone on its Discord server so much. The best part is that while we do have a scheduled Saturday chat, anyone who's available tends to gather if someone flings up an "I'm around" note on their Tumblr.

Second, there's Ineffable Kink, a Discord server that was made for the Good Omens Kink Meme and has turned into a supportive community of excellent people. It's an easy server to sink into and get comfortable - even to the point of sharing works-in-progress, which is something I've never had the guts to do before save with a couple of very specific people. There's a looot of Good Omens talk, naturally, but also a few channels for other things.

As far as challenges/exchanges, there's always the 'slashy' swaps - My Slashy Valentine, Ardour in August, Sultry in September, etc. MSV was one of the first exchanges I ever did, and almost all of them have been excellent experiences in the end. They're hard exchanges in some ways - you never really know what you'll get assigned and it's hand-matching without people being able to choose what to offer (although you can specify some things you like to write and things you can't write), but I've never gotten an assignment I didn't like.

Comments

[fadedwings]

I've never been able to get the feel for Discord. Not sure why, maybe I'm too old :D

[idleleaves]

Ehehehe. I'm in my 40s! It took me a while, though - I only switched to it because it was literally the only way a friend and I could communicate any longer. Now I'm pretty far into it.

[fadedwings]

I'm in my 40s too :) Though I'm getting painfully close to 50, as I turn 49 this summer! I could probably have my 16 year old show me how to use Discord, she uses it all the time.

[idleleaves]

There are certainly some lovely communities on there. I get more of a sense of community there than I've had since LJ was active.

(Another excellent icon!)

[idleleaves]

Also, fabulous icon. :D

[fadedwings]

:D Thanks! I have collected so many Good Omens icons!!! The show totally took over my life this past summer :)

[idleleaves]

Mine, too. I expected to really like it (I loved the book; read it multiple times), but I didn't expect it to entirely eat my brain like it did.