Signal Boost

This week, ysabetwordsmith is having a Half-price Sale in Polychrome Heroics. I will be focusing on the Trichromatic Attachments poems this time, starting with "Our Power to Change," which is $168 at quarter price. "Bad Turn to Good" ($36) will be the stretch goal. As always, joining the pool automatically gets you quarter price and if you are contributing money you have a say in the targets. This can be especially handy if you want a poem that is under $100 but still out of range at half-price; joining the pool cuts it in half again.

I will be closing the pool Saturday evening EST, in order to collect the funds and deliver them to Ysabet for Sunday. If anyone is interested, feel free to comment here or PM if you have questions or would like further details.

Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 7 Fandom Resources

Challenge #7

In your own space, tell us about 3 fandom resources, spaces, or communities you use or enjoy. (One or two is fine, especially if you're in a smaller fandom!) Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.



I don't have many fandom resources, because I mostly just read fanfic and use the filter feature on AO3. However, there are some related resources that I use frequently, so I'll share those here.

Reading Resources
First: "Love is for Children" by ysabetwordsmith. This is an Avengers fandom series that centers around non-sexual ageplay and team-family. It is a thoroughly enjoyable read, has a good mix of fluff and hurt/comfort, and has so many amazing resources linked, including many for trauma, PTSD, and other psychological problems.

Another excellent source of supplementary links is the Polychrome Heroics series, especially the Shiv thread, also by ysabetwordsmith. Be warned, this is an absolutely MASSIVE amount of content, and tends to be like flypaper for eyeballs. Some of it can also be quite intense, particularly in the Shiv thread, so be mindful of your headspace and preferences. It is excellent original fiction though, with superheroes and supervillains that are much more complex than just people who punch things, and there are so many resources for therapy exercises, making your town and the world a better place, and all kinds of inter/intrapersonal skills that you need to get through life.

Writing Resources
If anyone is into writing poetry, or just needs some inspiration for a new form of work, this list of short poetic forms is fantastic. There are familiar ones as well as ones I'd never heard of before, and perusing this list gave me a whole lot of ideas for writing short things early last year. Link found courtesy of ysabetwordsmith (are you noticing a theme yet)?

Another great resource for writing is the allbingo community. There are themes every month, it's a low pressure, high encouragement zone, and it's a great way to get prompts if you often find yourself stuck for ideas or just want some new ones. It works well for both fandoms and original works, and you can even host a bingo fest of your own if you want to see something in particular. Check out the <https://allbingo.dreamwidth.org/197786.html>event calendar for upcoming fests and to inquire about running a fest, if that interests you.

Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 8 Personal Win

Challenge #8

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.



At first I wasn't sure what to put for this one, and then I actually thought about 2021 and a few things came to me.

First (and this is one I almost forgot about), in January 2021, I participated in the Fresh Starts bingo fest on allbingo. Not only did I manage a blackout bingo on my first card, I started a second one and managed a decent amount of fills there too. All of what was written was original content, and I think they were all poems, but I think it's the most writing I've ever done and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I also used quite a variety of poetic forms, many I've never used before, so it was good to stretch my skills in that way too.

Second (this one I'm super proud of and was my first thought) I made a temperature blanket last summer. I crocheted one square for every day of June, July, and August, changing colours depending on how hot it was. I then stitched all the squares together and made a border using the last two days of August. I'm so happy with how it turned out! It was a lot of work, but I got it all done, and I did everything start to finish myself, with my sister consulting on colours to make sure everything played nice together. I have a fews posts with individual squares and patterns, but I am still aiming to make a giant post with the finished product, if anyone felt like seeing (or replicating) the whole process.

Third (on a personal front) I got a therapist this year after hemming and hawwing for quite awhile and it's helping. I managed to find a good one and she's given me some really good resources, so I'm glad I decided to take the step of seeking professional help to straighten out a few things in my head and gain some skills I've been missing.