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Snowflake Challenge Friending Meme

The post-Snowflake Friending Meme has been such a rousing success that we’ve made it a permanent fixture here at the Fandom Snowflake Challenge, so come and make some new friends!

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Names I go by: ysabetwordsmith

Other Places I Can Be Found: (delete as necessary)
Livejournal: https://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.barrette
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Ysabetwordsmith
Other:
http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/
http://greenhaventradition.weebly.com/

The fannish platform(s) I am most active on is/are: Dreamwidth, AO3


My main contribution(s) to fandom is/are: (writing, reading, reccing, betaing, cheerleading/prereading, art, podficcing, mixing, modding, graphics, fanvids, commenting, meta, filk, picspams, etc…)
Writing, reading, commenting, meta.

I also put a lot of energy into communities. I make lists of active communities for

followfriday. I also run three communities:

allbingo hosts a new bingo fest each month. All formats and lengths, all fandoms and original works are welcome.

crowdfunding is mainly for original work, but some folks welcome fannish prompts because they can use those for freebies. It runs a Creative Jam on the third weekend of each month.

birdfeeding is all about birds, and new this year. If you're into feeding, watching, photographing, drawing, or talking about birds then drop by. Some of us are also into fictional birds ("Crebain, from out of Dunland!") so there's already a tag for that.


Link(s) to my Masterlist(s):
* https://archiveofourown.org/users/Ysabetwordsmith/works
* http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/books-written.html
* http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/serial-poetry.html
* http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/shared-worlds.html
* http://greenhaventradition.weebly.com/essays--articles.html

Fandom(s) I enjoy: The Avengers, Good Omens, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Lucifer, The Sentinel, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, Tolkien, X-Men.

My favorite people/characters in this/these fandom(s) are: I am pretty flexible about pairings and often like multiple characters per fandom.

Pairing(s)/grouping(s) I ship within this/these fandom(s) is/are: I particularly like teamfamily.


The type(s) of fanwork(s) I consume the most is/are: (fic/podfic/art/mixes/graphics/fanvids/meta/filk/picspams/etc…) Fiction, art, and meta.

Fanwork tropes/clichés I enjoy are: I listed a few favorite tropes here. I also enjoy afterlife, alien sex/gender dynamics, alpha / beta / omega, amnesia, anthropomorphic, asexuality / aromance, canon divergence / fork in the road, disabilities, enemies to friends/lovers, fixit, fluff, gen, hurt/comfort, genderbending, kink, mpreg, racebending, relationship repair, sex, skin hunger / touch aversion, soulmates / soulbonds, time travel, trauma and recovery, wingfic, and xenolinguistics.
Recs are welcome for any of these: canon, fanwork, original, yours or anyone else's.
If you are into these things, a lot of them appear in my fanwork and original work.

Non-fandom things I enjoy: (hobbies, interests, job, etc…)
I am a professional wordsmith with writing, reviewing, editing, and other activities.

I enjoy activism, birdwatching, cooking, crafts, ethnic studies, gardening, gender studies, history, intentional community / neighboring, linguistics, magic, Paganism, science, spirituality, thinking, tikkun olam, and worldbuilding.

I love talking about big-picture issues and deep topics. I care about S-risks and X-risks. I never stopped asking "Why?" and "How does that work?"


I post/want to post mostly about: My top tags are:
* Reading (21,260 posts)
* Writing (19,940)
* Cyberfunded creativity (17,747)
* Poetry (15,757)
* Networking (13,694)
* Fishbowl (12,353)
* Fantasy (10,564)
* News (7,318)
* Weblit (6,954)
* Poem (6,923)
* Science fiction (6,487)
* Personal (5,786)
* Nature (5,514)

One thing I am good at: Language. I have a linguistic coprocessor in my head. It takes up space normally devoted to other stuff like facial recognition. But I can learn new sounds, hack any language I can hear or read, pick up words without half trying, write poetry in languages I don't actually speak, and build model languages for fun. I am linguistic SillyPutty.

Other things I want to share about myself: I fly my freak flag proudly. The mainstream has never been a good fit for me and is rapidly moving farther away. If you are a fellow freak and/or the mundanes frequently say you are not human, my blog is probably a good match for you. If you like the direction the world is going at present, you probably won't like my blog.
I post daily, often multiple times. If you are frustrated by low activity on Dreamwidth, here is an area of high activity. If you are easily overwhelmed, this may not be the blog for you.