Snowflake 1!

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Challenge #1

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

My introduction is my sticky post for new folks, and what I hope to gain from Snowflake is to be reminded, as I am every year, that people are Good Actually, that we’re all trying so so hard to entertain and be good to one another, even when we’re bad at it.

That’s basically what fandom is, isn’t it? People telling each other stories and someone saying, “I wonder what would have happened if …”, and someone else taking that energy and running with it towards the next leg of this relay race of ideas and enthusiasm. And because excitement tends to build and feed off of other’s excitement, we all wind up with this frisson of joy when we get to read that The Witcher/Star Wars crossover, or the one where Deadpool is an Addams on his mother’s side, or the Leverage OT3 Of Great Justice adopts a kitten, or or or, ad infinitum.

We all wind up having richer lives more full of fun and play, together. I think it’s beautiful. It has changed how I see the world and what people are capable of, and I’m so grateful.