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FANDOM SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE #1

Self-introduction o’clock.

Eh. There’s my sticky entry, but I suppose time calls for an updated introduction.

Here’s my petite personne in bullet points:

- Home gymbro (Caroline Girvan, Chris & Edi and Jasper Macdermot ftw)
- Currently being busy transitioning from twink to twunk (well, I surprise myself with using gay slang. It’s the one that fits best. Thank you, gay terminology)
- I want a six pack of abs. I miss my shredded abs. I'm getting there!

- I spend a lot of time outside
- I like birds. I have a guide on birds of Québec and the Northeast that I consult (we do have strange visitors every now and then). I recently bought a book on trees and plants in Québec and the Maritimes because I wish to be able to identify more than the basics

- My English is wonky because I only get to use it online (minus the occasional opportunities irl)
- Yet I did my undergrad in this language
- English is a difficult language. Whoever believes otherwise is a moron (ok, maybe not, but I dare them to write an entire lay). Or masters it like Tolkien
- Tolkien made me love English. And Tolkien made me love Tolkien. I own about 12 books by him

- I casually play a rpg gacha game called Onmyoji
- I’m not a big gamer, but I do like videogame scores
- I listen to various stuff, from niche doomgaze to not-so-niche Stray Kids’ and Ateez’s hit songs

I want to do the snowflake challenge because I aim to be more active on Dreamwidth. I’m quite bad at logging in, blogging and keeping up with others’ journal entries. In fact, online, I’m bad with whatever isn’t my close friends reaching out to me or work emails... Perhaps increasing my DW activity will entice me to work on my unfinished fics. Who knows. Not me lol


FANDOM SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE #2 – PETS

You will be delighted to learn that ‘pet’ means ‘fart’ in French.

I’m not part of the Path of Exile fandom, but their pet kiwi is adorable. It’s available on PoE 2. It follows you everywhere you go. You can smash it by accident, and it won’t die. I don’t fail to mention the kiwi to my friend who’s a PoE player everytime I see him.


FANDOM SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE #3 – FANDOM LOVE

The Tolkien fandom is rather not one entity, but rather, connected or disconnected communities. Either way, people are knowledgeable and passionate. It makes for great conversations irl and online. I fulfill my duty by luring people into reading the Silm.

People say what they want about fanfiction, but I’ve read several Silmarillion fanfics which prose, plotline, character development and character arcs, and so forth, were greater than those of published fiction. Being published fiction doesn’t preclude quality (I can attest with all the wacko things I read at college and university), and fanfiction doesn’t preclude mediocrity. I can thank the transformative side of the Tolkien fandom for it.

Two of my all time favourite authors happen to be fanfic authors (Darth Fingon and c1are. C1are mainly writes Onmyoji fics, most of which are in Chinese, but they translate some of their works to English).