§01. “Something your favorite character would like”

Do I have a favourite character? I don’t really participate in character‐driven fandom.

(Actually, most of my favourite characters are probably fandom O·C’s.)

The answer is probably tea, regardless.

§02. “Something that makes you laugh”

“GUM!!!”

§03. “A fandom place you would like to visit”

There are very few fictional settings I would prefer over our real‐life one, but the setting of ‘Questionable Content’ probably ranks up there.

§04. “A fandom creator (pro or not) you'd like to meet”

I first learned about a number of comix artists in like 2014–2016 because they would post fanart on twitter or tumblr. Now I have their art on my walls or comix on my shelves! They all seem like cool people and I’d be happy to meet any of them in person.

§05. “Something you find comforting”

We have lots of quilts that my mom made :) .

§06. “Something from a favorite TV series or movie from your childhood”

I have so much pokémon‐branded stuff, altho if anything I am ⁜more⁜ of a fan now than I was as a kid.

§07. “A piece of clothing you love”

Shirts that I stole (were given) from my girlfriend.

§08. “A book or song with a color in the title”

<https://janicekwan.bandcamp.com/track/azure-blue>="“Azure Blue” by Janice Kwan."

§09. “Something only someone in your fandom would understand”

<https://jellyfish-link.tumblr.com/post/651601268886880256/a-true-lesbian-classic>="I’ll just leave this here."

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I’m Lady; in fannish spaces I go by a couple of names, predominantly :⁠—

• J’Li, jellyfish_link: Most of my older fannish writing is under this name. It’s technically a pun on Marrus orthocanna, a species of pelagic siphonophore, which is to say a “jellyfish” made up of linked organisms. But it’s also a reference to Metriods and The Legend of Zelda.

• Autumn Leaf, Hojarasca, 红叶 Hongye: I use these aliases when I’m writing Pokémon fanfiction, and sometimes in other fannish spaces as well. They all ultimately derive from the default name for a girl player character in Pokémon FireRed Version (“Leaf”).

As the above description implies, I spend a lot of time in Nintendo fandoms. My first attempt at writing fanfic was in middle school with ‘The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess’ (dating myself here), and I’ve generally thought way too much about Zelda as a franchise. Lately however I haven’t done much which is fannish in an obvious and direct sense, because I’ve been spending all of my time working on technical/infrastructural things re: hosting fannish materials on the internet. I’m a strong believer in fannish decentralization and don’t like the impact that A·O·3 and social media have had on fandom. Professionally, I work in library technology, and I think there are a lot of tools and lessons from that space which fandom could adopt if people were willing to take the problems of digital fannish curation seriously.

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• Playlists of good songs from the 2000s. This isn’t obviously fannish at face value, but it would really help me in making fannish playlists keyed to that era to know about more artists beyond just the radio hits.

• Highly‐technicial fanworks. I want fanworks (with fictional authorship!) that read like an R·F·C from the Internet Engineering Task Force establishing the technical underpinnings of a new networked technology, or like an ethnography from a religious studies professor attempting to unwind how colonialism has impacted traditional practices and rituals, or like the doctoral thesis of a linguist attempting to capture a critically‐endangered language before it forever disappears. Do these exist? If you know of any, send me some!

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My goals for 2024 are split between the creative and the curatorial.

On the curatorial side, I want to build a better online home for my fannish presence—including a place (or two) to host my fanworks, but also including homes for other activities like webshrines, meta, ⁊·c. I’ve been steadily trying to build the technological infrastructure for this, with the most recent attempt being <https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe>="⛩️📰 书社".

It’s very easy to get bogged down with technological aspirations (federated tagging, update tracking, linked data), but there is also low‐hanging fruit, and I have been pretty good about making slow, steady progress in this area. It is difficult going alone! I wish I knew more technically‐minded fans with similar inclinations, but in fact it feels like most of both the tech world and the fannish world are trying to solve very different problems from me right now.

On the creative side, I really would like to write more. I hardly wrote at all in the past year, partially because I moved across the country to live with my girlfriend and partially because I spent so much time on the above technical work. I have so many wips that I haven’t been able to devote the time to finish and I feel like my writing craft has somewhat fallen by the wayside of late.

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The first Snowflake Challenge™ is always to update one’s fannish profile, which is awkward in my case as I don’t really have a fannish profile to speak of. My profiles on A·O·3 have gotten progressively more light over time as I have increasingly tried to divest myself from that platform, and I don’t spend much time frequenting fannish social media spaces or forums. This #SnowflakeChallenge feed might well be the only significant fannish online space I am currently actively putting energy into.

With that in mind, here ⁜is⁜ my current profile: My name is Lady, I have a bunch of other monikers I go by inside and out of fandom (too many to list here), my fannishness derives primarily from the fact that thinking about and creating stories is one of the ways that I process and engage with media, my first fandom was ‘The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess’, and I mostly spend time in that and other Nintendo (or Nintendo‐adjacent) fandoms, despite not being particularly satisfied with any of the scenes there.

I listen to a lot of music and making playlists is a part of my process when it comes to thinking about and writing fanfiction. I love listening to other people’s playlists as well!

<https://www.ladys.computer/about/#lady> has a more generic profile, including contact information, which is still current. The rest of my fannish online presence is still a work‐in‐progress for now.

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