Snowflake #7

Challenge #7

Make a list of fannish and/or creative resources.


Daily

1. Not ficcing or fannish (necessarily) but I am working on 365 questions for 2024 if you need a prompt for a journal post. I've just got January thru March at the moment, but I am planning to finish the entire year by the end of January.

2. get_knitted is a crafting comm which has a daily check-in.

Weekly prompts (drabbles, multifandom)

1. 100words - just drabble, new prompt on Tuesday, amnesty weeks for past prompts
2. drabble_zone - drabble or double drabble, new prompt on Saturday, amnesty weeks for past prompts
3. vocab_drabbles - 50-1000 words, new prompt on Fridays, prompts never expire (meaning you can always submit for past prompts)

Monthy (multifandom)

1. emotion100 - word count must be a multiple of 100, prompts never expire
2. if you are a member of GetYourWordsOut comm (getyourwordsout), there is a Twitter/Tumbler summary on DW at the end of each month, prompts and writer/writing resources) and I have found a lot of inspiration in that, I always bookmark it.
3. sweetandshort - up to 500 words. several month-long prompts: a set of 20 words, a four-square bingo, one-sentence prompts, comment prompts. For icons/images as well as fic.
4. trope_of_the_month, a monthly theme

Monthly (Sherlock Holmes fandom)

1. holmes_minor up to 500 words, ACD Sherlock Holmes only, also a poetry page with a theme prompt, past prompts never expire

Seasonal (multifandom)

1. seasonofkink - a bingo during regular season (Mar - Sept)
2. adventdrabbles - daily prompts 1 Dec thru 1 Jan
3. spook_me - Hallowe'en/horror challenge where you select a monster and receive two picture prompts.

Some answers to this question from prior years that I think still might be helpful.

I went through everything on Muslims and Middle Eastern/North African people at Writing With Color when I was writing Joe from The Old Guard. I am not writing any more The Old Guard fic at the moment, and it's been a long while since I read any TOG fic, so I think I've moved on from that fandom. But a great resource for writing characters of color. It is one of several resources on this list of resources for writing people of color [which I recced last year]. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the list. It includes descriptions of racist tropes and stereotypes and constructs that I want to avoid putting into fic.

I used this page a lot in trying to figure out what colour of floss called for by a pattern is closest to the ones I have. It's a colour converter chart. I haven't done any cross stitch in a long, long while.

These are ones I always rec.

Writing Smut

Gay Sex Positions. [NSFW!] Useful if you want to know if the position you're imagining for your Person with Penis/Person with Penis/Possibly More Persons with Penises is going to work at all without resorting to pipe-cleaner figures.

The Season of Kink comm List of Prompts [just words with links to NSFW stuff] has a lot of easy-to-understand definitions as well as links to videos and other resources related to 100 different kinks.

Writing Poetry

The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry (yes, Jeeves!) Starts at the very basic and has a lot of exercises that build on one another.

The Rules of the Dance by Mary Oliver if you like writing metrical verse.

The Book of Forms by Lewis Turco if you like writing different forms and precise definitions of things.

Writing Victorian Holmes

The Sherlock60 comm Index of Victorian topics Arranged alphabetically.

Victorian 221B. A comm dedicated to nothing but Victorian topics.

What I consider the definitive floorplan of canon 221B.

The Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway.

Views & News: Snow edition

1. We got 4 inches last night! School was cancelled for the boys today and tomorrow! They had a lot of fun.
I've nowhere to go and nothing to do so I enjoyed it (and cracked open a jigsaw puzzle because snow is definitely puzzling weather). I REALLY hate ice and it won't get above freezing all week so I will probably be inside. I did a 17 year old aerobics video with Denise Austin for cardio today. She actually said 'jazz hands' unironically.



2. I watched Cape Fear with Robert de Niro for the first time. It was too violent and sexually violent and protracted for me, but my sister lives in that area and belongs to the Cape Fear Orchid Society and I thought it might be a good prompt for a fic. Maybe even a Nero Wolf one?

3. It's been an up and down couple of weeks. I have done Yoga with Adriene every other day so far this month. Yay. I just did a really unnecessary impulse buy of collage materials. Boo. I accidentally shredded my checkbook and didn't realize it until rent was due. Boo. I went into the bank (I haven't been inside a bank in YEARS and got a cashier's check and saved the day before I got penalized). I've already finished one book for the Bingo. Yay. Working on a cross stitch too.

4. My sister cleaned out her shoe closet and sent me a giant box of shoes and I'd say 80% of them fit. I don't have or need a lot of shoes but it will be interesting to see if I use them. She also sent about half a dozen used pairs of very woolly socks (which she bought when she lived in Colorado) and the entire family was wearing them last night.