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sunshine_challenge 2019: Prompts 5 & 6
May. 10th, 2020 05:23 pmPrompt 5: Fulfill A Wishlist Item for Someone Else — we invite everyone to embark on something of a fannish scavenger hunt!
I commented on some fic, said hello to someone new, and followed some new journals. :) I also tried writing my own wishlist, and now I understand why I had trouble finding them on other journals; they're so hard to write! This prompt also got me thinking, though, that I'd like to set up a requests post of some sort — I would like to grant some wishes outside this challenge, too. So look out for that coming soon. ^_^
Prompt 6: Share Fannish Collections — we invite everyone to share fun fannish things they have collected over the years, be they physical items, stories, photos, or links.
Until two or three years ago, I had a rule for myself that I was quite strict with that I wouldn't buy any at all. A mix of lack of money, lack of space, worry for my own hoarding tendencies, and an innate comfort within a more minimalist living space led to me concluding that I just shouldn't let myself start buying things, because if I started I'd never stop. (In hindsight, I think part of this was to make myself feel better about being unable to really buy any of the stuff I wanted haha.)
I've since laxed on that rule — although I'm still careful about what I buy and how much I want it, my slowly growing collection of nerdy memorabilia brings me lots of happiness (and my 'Darth Vader daddy shrine' has become somewhat of favourite amongst my friends). Right now, I'm actually in the middle of redecorating! Now that I have all these prints and posters and keyrings (so many keyrings, what did I think I was going to do with them all?...), I want to put them somewhere I can see them.
So, as everything is very messy right now, and I don't know where anything is, my answer for this prompt shall honour my old rule. Rather than sharing various gadgets and gizmos aplenty, I'd like to share some the story of my first fandom friend group. ♥ When I think about what I've collected in fandom that brings me the most joy, it's always the friendships I come to first, and my first experience with this was on FFn.net with a group I now refer to as 'the tumbleweeds'.
( a sappy anecdote + a funky decepticon d6 )
I commented on some fic, said hello to someone new, and followed some new journals. :) I also tried writing my own wishlist, and now I understand why I had trouble finding them on other journals; they're so hard to write! This prompt also got me thinking, though, that I'd like to set up a requests post of some sort — I would like to grant some wishes outside this challenge, too. So look out for that coming soon. ^_^
Prompt 6: Share Fannish Collections — we invite everyone to share fun fannish things they have collected over the years, be they physical items, stories, photos, or links.
Until two or three years ago, I had a rule for myself that I was quite strict with that I wouldn't buy any at all. A mix of lack of money, lack of space, worry for my own hoarding tendencies, and an innate comfort within a more minimalist living space led to me concluding that I just shouldn't let myself start buying things, because if I started I'd never stop. (In hindsight, I think part of this was to make myself feel better about being unable to really buy any of the stuff I wanted haha.)
I've since laxed on that rule — although I'm still careful about what I buy and how much I want it, my slowly growing collection of nerdy memorabilia brings me lots of happiness (and my 'Darth Vader daddy shrine' has become somewhat of favourite amongst my friends). Right now, I'm actually in the middle of redecorating! Now that I have all these prints and posters and keyrings (so many keyrings, what did I think I was going to do with them all?...), I want to put them somewhere I can see them.
So, as everything is very messy right now, and I don't know where anything is, my answer for this prompt shall honour my old rule. Rather than sharing various gadgets and gizmos aplenty, I'd like to share some the story of my first fandom friend group. ♥ When I think about what I've collected in fandom that brings me the most joy, it's always the friendships I come to first, and my first experience with this was on FFn.net with a group I now refer to as 'the tumbleweeds'.
( a sappy anecdote + a funky decepticon d6 )
