Snowflake Challenge: Day Two
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Day 2: In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them.
Oy! This one is hard for me because part of why I'm doing the challenge is to look at others' responses and broaden my fandom horizons. Let's see though, I'll just be honest, if not that original:
The thing I use CONSTANTLY now is Archive of Our Own. I do almost all of my reading there, using the various filters to help me find what I want. My best experiences, especially in treading into new fandoms recently, is to go to the Ao3 page for the fandom, sort for the pairing/character I want, and then sort for kudos or bookmarks. This gets me going on the "classics," if you will, of the fandom. Then I can search from there and follow authors, etc, as I wish. I completely lost myself in Torchwood fandom with this method...
Back in LJ land, I have to promote my dear old Quibbler Report an HP rare-pair and gen recs letter that I was an editor on for years (though not any more). I love QR for bringing attention to unusual pairings, great art, and comms that might otherwise fly under the radar. It is a recs letter, so the editors actually read many, many things and then decide what to suggest in the newsletter, so you can expect what is linked there to be of good quality. It's a labor of love for those who do it, and I still use it all the time to try out new and different pairings and characters.
Last, I'll point anyone reading this to one of my favorite yearly events, lgbtq_recs! This is a comm where every June reccers sign up to recommend favorite LGBTQ-themed, well, anything. Here's the list from the comm information of what can be rec'ed: "books, movies, music, performances, websites, fiction, non-fiction, children's and young adult's books, academic articles, non-academic articles, television shows, you name it"! The yearly master lists are all very well organized and are a great resource at any time of year if you want to find a great movie, book, etc with a queer theme. I visit regularly to find a new text or film to experience. Check it out!
Day 2: In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them.
Oy! This one is hard for me because part of why I'm doing the challenge is to look at others' responses and broaden my fandom horizons. Let's see though, I'll just be honest, if not that original:
The thing I use CONSTANTLY now is Archive of Our Own. I do almost all of my reading there, using the various filters to help me find what I want. My best experiences, especially in treading into new fandoms recently, is to go to the Ao3 page for the fandom, sort for the pairing/character I want, and then sort for kudos or bookmarks. This gets me going on the "classics," if you will, of the fandom. Then I can search from there and follow authors, etc, as I wish. I completely lost myself in Torchwood fandom with this method...
Back in LJ land, I have to promote my dear old Quibbler Report an HP rare-pair and gen recs letter that I was an editor on for years (though not any more). I love QR for bringing attention to unusual pairings, great art, and comms that might otherwise fly under the radar. It is a recs letter, so the editors actually read many, many things and then decide what to suggest in the newsletter, so you can expect what is linked there to be of good quality. It's a labor of love for those who do it, and I still use it all the time to try out new and different pairings and characters.
Last, I'll point anyone reading this to one of my favorite yearly events, lgbtq_recs! This is a comm where every June reccers sign up to recommend favorite LGBTQ-themed, well, anything. Here's the list from the comm information of what can be rec'ed: "books, movies, music, performances, websites, fiction, non-fiction, children's and young adult's books, academic articles, non-academic articles, television shows, you name it"! The yearly master lists are all very well organized and are a great resource at any time of year if you want to find a great movie, book, etc with a queer theme. I visit regularly to find a new text or film to experience. Check it out!
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Date: 15 Jan 2014 08:42 pm (UTC)