snowflake_challenge 2020: Day 1

It's kicking off, wooh! Day 1: In your own space, introduce yourself!

I always find the snowflake_challenge to be a lovely way to start off the new year. Today's challenge is all about introducing oneself and making one's journal easy to navigate for newcomers. ^_^

I have a sticky welcome post that you've probably seen if you've visited my journal recently, with some general information and important stuff like my blanket permission statement and links. And I wrote this post going a bit more in-depth into my fannish interests last summer, and although it is a tiny bit out of date I think it still gives a fair overview of how I go about my geeky pursuits. (I'm behind on making archive/masterlist posts for my fic, but I believe everything is on my ao3 already. The navigational features there are pretty advanced so it's never felt urgent. I'd still like to get round to it though, for archival purposes, perhaps. I don't like starting something and not finishing it lmao.)

Anyway, I'll give a brief introduction here for the challenge! I don't know what's left to be said that hasn't already askdjfsl. I'm quite a private person so there's not a ton to say. I love writing and spend a lot of my time thinking about doing it (and comparatively little actually doing it). Right now I'm very deep in the Transformers barrel, having fallen down almost exactly this time last year. Regarding my writing, so far I'm a solid serial monogamist, but I read quite widely (at least in comparison) — I read a lot for TF (as expected), I like BNHA (mainly gen, although I'll indulge in TodoBaku without much encouragement), and I'm always looking for more Star Wars Darth-Vader (redemption) fic.

I like too much anime to count — some favourites being Ano Hana, Koe no Katachi, Death Parade, and One Punch Man — and sci-fi fiction like Doctor Who and Arrival. I watch a lot of movies; animated are my favourite, but I'm not picky at all. I listen to a looot of music, but never fannishly, actually! I could never get into Bandom (and not because it's RPF — see my everlasting love for gtop) because I don't listen to bands or albums as such, but just songs individually. Still, I write to them all the time, and music is utterly integral to my creative process. I discovered 'epic' music on youtube last year (same vein as Two Steps From Hell, but like... more. Way more.) which sent me down a deep rabbit hole of character-specific playlists.

Gosh, what else? Outside fandom, my life is taken up with cuddling my two cats (Blue and Luna! <3), travelling as much as I can afford to, playing Dungeons and Dragons (another nerdy interest I'm very passionate about), and work. .__. If only someone would pay me to have fun squeeing over robot aliens, but alas, real life is not so kind. I live in the UK right now and love history, so you might find the occasional (flocked) day trip post on here, too.

I'm happy to add people, though! I'll add back anyone who adds me so no worries about any of that. Yep, I can't think of much else to add to this right now. Yay, snowflake challenge! Happy 2020, everyone. \o/

I'm realising upon reviewing this for posting that I neglected to mention my name. Lmao. I generally go by my username or biv in fannish spaces. I'm not picky about which people call me and sign off posts with qm or biv as the mood strikes. :3