The Wordsmith's Forge

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!

Names I go by:

ysabetwordsmith, Ysabet

Other Places I Can Be Found:
Livejournal: https://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/
My Websites: http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/
http://greenhaventradition.weebly.com/


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


The ways I find my Fandom Joy are: (writing, reading, reccing, betaing, cheerleading/prereading, art, podficcing, mixing, modding, graphics, fanvids, commenting, meta, filk, picspams, etc.)
writing, reading, reccing, reviewing, modding, commenting, meta

Link(s) to my Masterlist(s):
Articles and Essays
Books Written
Love Is For Children landing page
Serial Poetry page
Shared Worlds page

I also put a lot of energy into communities. I make lists of active communities for followfriday. I also run multiple communities:

allbingo hosts a new bingo fest each month. All formats and lengths, all fandoms and original works are welcome. Join us for the Valentines Bingo in February!

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.

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. The February theme will be "Communication."

goals_on_dw supports New Year's resolutions and other goals. Currently the most popular is Fannish 50 with 52 participants, so check there to find links to fannish content. The masterlist of signup posts has some for reading, writing, and art goals along with Community Thursdays and other stuff. Additional masterlists appear in the sidebar.

newcomers offers many resources on how to use Dreamwidth and where to find things here. It helps new people get the hang of this platform in hopes that they'll stick around. Established users are welcome to join for supporting newcomers, so if you like making new friends and helping folks, come check it out. Have you written materials that explain how to use DW? You can link or repost them in this community.


Fandom(s) I enjoy: The Avengers, Dragon Prince, Good Omens, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Lucifer, Magnificent 7, Nimona, The Sentinel, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, Star Wars, 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. I like poetry when I can get it, too.

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, sedoretu, sex, skin hunger / touch aversion, soulmates / soulbonds, time travel, trauma and recovery, troll romance / quadrants, 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:
* Reading (22,085 posts)
* Writing (20,651)
* Cyberfunded creativity (18,399)
* Poetry (16,323)
* Networking (14,119)
* Fishbowl (12,813)
* Fantasy (11,287)
* Weblit (7,679)
* News (7,665)
* Poem (7,195)
* Science fiction (6,494)
* Personal (6,858)
* Nature (6,603)

Other things I want to share about myself:
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.