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A couple exchanges I'm excited for.

Saturday Morning Exchange- Animated media focus. Nominations close on April 18th at 1pm Eastern, I think. Cartoons are a bit less popular in exchanges, so I'm really excited for this one because of how important a few are to me! And the minimum is only 500 words which feels very manageable.

Seasons of Drabbles - Drabble exchange! Nominations are open and will continue throughout signups, which I think end on the 28th. I've been missing... I think it was called Multifandom Drabble? For a while, so it's always nice to see alternatives pop up. Drabble word count limits are always soooooo good for challenging my creativity. I may not sign up for this round because the narrow timeline during a very busy few weeks, even though drabbles are such a low commitment, but we'll see. I still hope to keep an eye on things.

Diegetic Exchange - Focused on in-universe RPF, social media, fanfiction, and other in-universe documents. Nominations close on the 26th and the minimum is only 500 words. I LOVED a similar exchange a while back, Unconventional Fanworks, so I'm really stoked for this. I have a few fandoms that work particularly well due to the characters being public figures, like in Hacks and Yellowjackets, it would be so fun to see stuff for.

Early Bird Gets the Word - Exchange for small and inactive fandoms. Noms open in a few days and close on the 30th. Another I'm not sure I can join because the deadline but I imagine there'll be quite a few PHs or treat opportunities, so I'll have to nominate some things just in case.

Honorary Mention - FemGiftboxes still has some participants who need gifts! Gifting closes on the 29th. Check out the spreadsheet here.

I'd love to hear what events other people are excited for in the comments! Especially if you're aware of any exchanges on the horizon that allow fanvids or fanart. I really love having multiple mediums to fall back on or potentially receive.

 Hi! I got really busy with this school semester and work and family stuff so I apologize for not getting back to quite a bit of things yet ;-; 

Just rly intrigued by the new Murderbot trailer and wanted to chat about it! I forgot/didn't know this was happening lol.

It has been a while since I read... part of the series (oops) so I don't have a ton of thoughts. Just that:

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Festivids reveals happened recently and I got SO many amazing gifts!! It also gave me an opportunity to actually finish a fanvid for the first time in ages and the whole experience made me get reflective about my experiences with vidding communities and my vidding history, etc. Sooooo first I'm gonna rec some vids and then at the bottom ramble for a million words or so.

Check out the full collection here!

I guess I'm going to format individual video recs as "Media that the vid is for | Song and artist | Vidder | Link"
Please heed the warnings in the tags and author's notes of each.

Things I Got
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Things I Also Enjoyed
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Thing I Made

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Things I'm Thinking
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ANYWAY I would love to hear if you had any favorite vids from the collection or favorite exchanges or other events you've participated in!!

(First, I should mention I know I am behind on getting back to a lot of people on here! I keep ending up unpredictably busy :') But I'm not intentionally ignoring anyone. I just want to keep up momentum with the Snowflake Challenge in particular because I know if I fall behind I probably won't follow through with the rest and I really want to complete it this year.)

Prompt #10: In your own space, talk about one of your fandom firsts.

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In your own space, write a promo, manifesto or primer for a beloved character, relationship or fandom.

I'm going to talk about the game 1000xRESIST!

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Share your favourite piece of original canon.  
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Onto the second one!

In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story. (Disclaimer: This ended up being a bit more like my fandom timeline than just my origin days, oops! Got too caught up in reminiscing.)

I'm really trying to get into some hobbies that don't require my computer since unfortunately... almost every part of my life is done through a screen and I think it is rotting my brain to never do anything tangible.

I got my stocking posted for Sapphic Stocking Stuffers! Thank you to peppermintpuppet for letting me know about the event. :D

If anyone else submits prompts for this or another gifting event I'd love to see!! <3 

Been getting into vidding again and I wanna ramble about it semi-aimlessly. No matter how many times I try to get used to Dreamwidth I always somehow manage to fuck up the post cut, so sorry if anyone saw the 10 versions before this of me trying to fix it lol.