Snowflake Challenge #13 & #14

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Challenge #13

In your own space, rec three fanworks that you did not create.

3 vids, 1 fic, all from the last year-ish. Last year's festivids had quite a glut of great Bablyon 5 content, the first two linked made a huge impression on me. vexercises got me to start watching My Country: The New Age (although I still need to finish it, I have a hard time keeping up with the subtitles), and finally a oneshot for Andor that I really liked.

• VID: Runs in the Family by sandalwoodbox -- Babylon 5, Lyta & Telepath-centric.
• [Vid] Start a War by runawaynun -- Babylon 5, gen/ensemble vid commenting on the series arc as a whole.
• Iscariot [Fanvid] by Rhea -- My Country: The New Age, Nam Seon Ho/Seo Hwi
• to be lifted by owlinaminor -- Andor oneshot, 977 words from the POV of a member of the Ferrix marching band in the last episode.

Challenge #14

In your own space, do the Fandom Wrap Challenge.

What were your top 5 fandoms for 2022 based on the amount of time you interacted with them?

This question is fun because my memory is terrible and it always leads to me going through my Ao3 history for the past year and reminding myself of all the small fandoms I visited briefly, or an old fandom I had a two-week nostalgia binge on. These are all estimates based on said Ao3 history.

1.) Star Wars-- a variety of eras, I could probably list Andor, the saga films, and The High Republic as separate categories on here, but it's all Star Wars so I'm not going to.
2.) Assorted fantasy literature. I apparently kept circling back to Temeraire, Tortall, Books of the Raksura, and Chalion Saga
3.) My Country: The New Age
4.) Sense and Sensibility & related Jane Austen works. I saw a theater adaptation of S&S back in September and apparently went on a lengthy fic binge afterwards. I never managed to finish the book itself.
5.) Stargate (!? according to my Ao3 history I went back and read a lot of Stargate fic, mostly crossovers. I know for a fact that I have not watched any episodes of any Stargate series in multiple years, lol).

What were your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) you experienced fandom in terms of time spent?
1.) My own bookshelf
2.) Ao3
3.) Dreamwidth
4.) Youtube

What are the top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom in terms of time? Did you write? Comment? Send positive energy into the universe? Create art?
1.) Vidding
2.) I tried to comment on vids, not sure I did it all that regularly
3.) I posted book review type things here on Dreamwidth?

What were your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions? (i.e. in terms of likes, kudos, reblogs, comments, etc.)

1.) Perspective (Encanto, drabble)
2.) [vid] if I ever do see you again (Lord of the Rings, Aragorn/Arwen vid)
3.) [vid] Sound the Bells (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Order 66 mini-vid for vexercises)
4.) [vids] Little Dark Age / This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race (Star Wars:  Revenge of the Sith, 2 mini-vids for vexercises. Ignore the fact that it has no kudos, I posted it to Ao3 several weeks after I posted the individual vids in the vexercises comm, where they got more comments)
5.) [vid] I swore I'd never let her go (Star Wars:  Revenge of the Sith mini-vid again for vexercises)

Have a Top 5 List you'd like to share?? By all means!

Between going back to school and trying to understand world events better, I spent a lot more time engaging with nonfiction content this year than in previous years, so here's my top 5 4 things of that nature:

1.) Revolutions Podcast by Mike Duncan -- (website, but listen to it wherever you get your podcasts) I saw this rec'd for trying to understand modern Russia by getting a history of the Russian Revolution and its background, and while I tried starting with the season on the Russian Revolution he kept referring to people as "our old friend from the French revolution," or "who you'll remember from the French revolution," so I decided to start the series from the beginning. I really like it, I'm currently on episode 3.37, which is smack in the middle of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
2.) Don't Make Me Think Revisited: A Common-Sense Approach to Web and Mobile Usability by Steve Krug. This was an assigned textbook for a class I took on user interfaces and I  strongly recommend it for anyone who does anything with front-end computer stuff.
3.) Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About The World by Tim Marshall. A very interesting book about how geography shapes international relations.
4.) Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom -- a documentary about Ukraine's 2014 Revolution of Dignity, last I checked it was available on Netflix but don't quote me on it.

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