to unpathed waters, undreamed shores

Challenge #5: Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've briefly interacted with and friend/follow them.

This is a terrible challenge for someone with social anxiety. I've subscribed to and granted access to a couple of new people in the past week, though, so I'm calling this one done.

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I have two exchange fics due on the same day in February. Not surprising, as they're both Valentine's exchanges, but aieee.

Some of these just about write themselves.

Smashing the first two days of the Snowflake Challenge into one entry because I'm late getting started.

Challenge #1: In your own space, introduce yourself!
Challenge #2: In your own space, talk about your fannish history.

So - I'm Anna. I've been around fandom for about 2.5 decades and I don't intend to go anywhere anytime soon. No matter where you look for me - here on DW, on Tumblr, on Twitter, on Discord, on AO3, on the SWG - I'm always IdleLeaves. Hooray, consistency! Or maybe I'm just really terrible at coming up with usernames.

I started out in fandom lurking on alt.startrek.creative in the 90s; in the late 90s I got sucked into X-Files fandom and spent a truly astounding amount of hours reading at the Gossamer Archive. My first foray into fannish writing was terrible Final Fantasy VIII fic that I fortunately never posted. After that, I fell into a fandom I'd rather not mention anymore, and started actually posting fic to a mailing list in 2001. I don't necessarily write consistently - I'll go months without producing anything then write 10 ficlets in a month - but I'm always fannish, and always ready for the next idea.

My primary fandoms at the moment are Stand Still Stay Silent, Good Omens, and Tolkien. They're all long-term loves of mine and are unlikely to ever disappear from my radar entirely. I also dabble in the MCU, all flavours of Star Trek, Yuri!!! On Ice, and others, too, depending on whims.

I am absolutely someone who prefers to pay attention to what she likes and ignore the things she doesn't. I believe in don't-like-don't-read, kinktomato, and curating your own online fannish experience.

Offline, I'm a Canadian sewist, dancer, and photographer with a small herd o' cats. The cats have their own Instagram. I live alone with said cats, some plants, and far too much fabric and yarn. I post headless photos of the things I sew because I can't quite get around the aversion to having my face in a fandom space.