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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.

Three fics in three days. Who the hell am I, again?

Second Verse, GOmens, A&C, Aziraphale rescues Crowley after a summoning.

I am running out of WIPs. I cannot believe I just had to say that.

✿ I fell down the stairs at work and sprained my hip. Am off for a couple of weeks, until the end of December, while it heals. I live in a walk-up apartment building and can't get anywhere without crutches, so... that's going to be interesting. I had a friend pick up my prescriptions today, but I don't like to depend on people for too much so I'm trying to figure out ways to do errands and such myself. Here at home I'm mostly nesting in the blanket fort I've made out of the sofa.

✿ I wrote two Reynir/Onni ficlets - Every Beautiful Thing and Here, Alone - to add to my ongoing SSSS ficlet collection. I also started Faith Like Wings, a Good Omens ficlet collection. I have one collection for each fandom, just for those little snippets that are too short to really be posted on their own. The Ineffable Kink Discord server (for people who lurk around the kink meme) denizens are wonderfully encouraging, so there'll be more added to the GO one sooner rather than later.

✿ Last year, in April, I stopped one of my psych drugs (with the agreement of my doc) because I didn't feel it was doing much for me. Coincidentally, that month I also posted the last ficlet I'd written until November of this year. I've had a few medication changes since then and on the whole I'm doing much better, but I'm wondering, really, if it was a coincidence after all, because in October we added that same drug back into the mix again. And now I'm able to write again. Hmm.