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One of my favourite prompts for the

snowflake_challenge is always setting fandom (and fandom-adjacent) goals for the year ahead: it feels like a really nice way to set out what I'd like my year to consist of. Since fandom has positive connotations for me, it's essentially a list of "some cool things I want to do in 202X!"

(They're also the only new year's resolutions I bother to set, these days xD)

Since last year I've also taken to reviewing my goals for the previous year before I set new ones, just to see how I did. It doesn't matter if I missed any (I never make all of them) - often thinking about how my year was different to what I anticipated is just as interesting.

In 2024 I was really ambitious and set eight(!) goals, so I'm going to split this into two parts, otherwise it would be like... 3,000 words long xD You can check out my goals for 2024 here if you're curious.

1) Make a fanvid (not for a challenge/event)

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Current Mood: introspective

I know I wasn't the only person who was a little sad that the

sunshine_challenge didn't run again this year! I hope that the organiser is doing okay.

However, for anyone who is yearning for some prompts to inspire them, the mod of Pillowfort's Snowflake Challenge community is revisiting Snowflake's challenges during the summer so that people can have a second go, revisit their thoughts, or do challenges they didn't get to in January.

This is just happening on Pillowfort, but for anyone who doesn't feel like signing up there, there's no reason you can't answer the challenges over on your DW! (But also, if you'd like to join Pillowfort to take part, don't let me stop you :D I even have invite codes!) They're being posted at a rate of three per day, and challenges 7-9 just went up.

So far, I've done Day 1 (updating my Pillowfort blog description, which was a touch outdated now that I've been there a while) and Day 4 ("Tell us about yourself"), for which I created a Fort Brochure - a Pillowfort post that describes your blog policies on things like commenting, following, blocking, etc.

I'm looking at doing Day 9, "Recommend a new thing", next and posting one of the fandom manifestos I've been meaning to get to.
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In honour of Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I wanted to share some blogging prompts I came up with over on Pillowfort, where they're called "blanket boxes" (a play on furnishing/building a pillow fort with blankets). They usually have a theme tying them together - previously I shared a nostalgia-themed set, and this set is themed around webcomics!

I'd love to encourage more discussion of webcomics, so hopefully these reach some interested people. Fancomics count for this prompt set! Daily gag strips, Webtoons, long-running slice of life comics; it's all included.

It's traditional to have a set of opening guidelines, so first:

The first rule of Blanket Box is that there are no rules :D
Feel free to interpret the prompts however you see fit. Any kind of comic that's posted online counts for this Box, including fancomics and doujinshi if you'd like to count those!
Take as many "blankets" from the box as you need - it doesn't have to be all of them. Or in other words, skip any of the prompts you don't fancy answering!
If you use these prompts, it would be lovely if you could link back to this post. 💜

( Webcomic Blanket Box prompts )

Do I have any fellow webcomic fans in the house? Even if you don't fancy doing the prompts, I'd love to know!

One Pillowfort creation that I really like is called a 'Blanket Box', which is a play on the site's name being Pillowfort (many PF terms are plays on 'Pillowfort' xD). You use blankets to build (or furnish; some people say furnish) your fort, and so a box of blankets allows people to build up their Pillowfort blog! In other words, it's a set of blogging prompts (usually geared around a certain theme, like music, a fandom, or just what you're doing that moment).

I've been thinking of sharing some over here on DW, as they're very versatile prompts, and Three Weeks for Dreamwidth (which starts today and runs for the next 3 weeks) is a great time to share prompts that people might like to use! I wouldn't want to share any written by other people without permission, but I've created two blanket boxes myself that I can share: one themed around nostalgia/childhood, and one themed around webcomics. I'm sharing the nostalgia one first, as it was my first blanket box!

Blanket boxes are traditionally accompanied by a set of guidelines, which are along the lines of:

The first rule is that there are no rules :D
Feel free to interpret the prompts however you like. For the nostalgia prompts, I'd add: You can interpret "childhood" however it makes sense to you to interpret. It's not a fixed or static thing (and I won't pin anyone down to a particular age, that would be very unfair), so go with what you instinctively think of as your childhood/younger years. Also, everyone's past/childhood is different, and not everyone had the same people, places and things when they were younger! So, please amend or skip prompts if you don't feel that they fit.
Feel free to link this elsewhere so other people can use it! It's also usually encouraged to use a set tag, such as "Nostalgia Blanket Box", to help people find the fills. I'd love to know if anyone uses these!

And now for the prompts...

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So, things are looking a bit dire over at Tumblr dot com. (Again). I planned to post something about this during the last Demise of Tumblr episode, back when they announced that Tumblr's dedicated staff was being downsized to a skeleton crew, but I didn't get around to it.

This time, I want to throw some thoughts out there, but I don't want to write a properly fleshed-out essay, so for the details on what sparked this off, check Tumblr itself and look for summaries/round-ups (there are several). From here on in I'll assume you either have context or are content with knowing that "shit's going down" without further detail xD

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Looking back at my fannish goals for 2024: Part 1

1) Make a fanvid (not for a challenge/event)

No sunshine, but how about some snowflakes?

Webcomic blogging prompts / Blanket Box

Nostalgia blogging prompts (A Pillowfort blanket box)

Thoughts on fandom social media (about Tumblr, but also not about Tumblr)

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