Snowflake Days #9 & #10
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singedsunDay Nine
In your own space, create a fanwork.
I have a fanmix for Marcus/Tomas from The Exorcist here (on YT - songs, not videos).
It's a lot of ballad-y alt rock for the most part.
Day Ten
In your own space, talk about one of your fandom firsts. This could be your first fandom, your first fandom friend, the first fanwork you created, the first fanwork you interacted with... The options are endless!
First fanwork - as I mentioned in Day 1, my first fanfic was for Firefly. It just felt like something I needed to write and I showed it to my boyfriend at the time and that was it. Sat in a notebook until I started writing other things.
I'm not sure it was my first fandom necessarily. If I had known about fandom as a teenager and had access to the internet, I probably would've been DEEP into Saved by the Bell fandom. It was hands-down my favorite show for most of my elementary and high school years.
My first fan community maybe oddly wasn't for any sort of media work, it was for a person - an artist. Somehow when I originally got on the internet, I found the artist Linda Bergkvist. She is a Swedish digital artist and at the time I was very very new to digital art and she was extremely talented at it. She went by 'enayla' online and had a forum of her own called Ebony Keep. (You can also still find some of her work here at DeviantArt.) I frequented and then eventually modded that forum for several years (pre-livejournal years) but it's where I met my very first online friends. Some of whom I still know and see in person from time to time.
Ebony Keep was an online home to me and when Linda was quite literally bullied offline for good the forum did eventually shut down. I will always always be mad at a part of the internet for that and these days, the sort of work she did is the type of work that wins awards. Truly ahead of her time. (If you like Linda's art style, you can look up Lauren K Cannon 'navate' who picked up her style and then took off with it.)
I don't know how many other people from Ebony Keep still write or do art, but occasionally I see one of them around online and it's a lovely bit of nostalgia. [Socar Myles, Laura Siadak, Levi Simpson, Darla Ecklund, Naomi Nowak, Julie Lichty]
In your own space, create a fanwork.
I have a fanmix for Marcus/Tomas from The Exorcist here (on YT - songs, not videos).
It's a lot of ballad-y alt rock for the most part.
Day Ten
In your own space, talk about one of your fandom firsts. This could be your first fandom, your first fandom friend, the first fanwork you created, the first fanwork you interacted with... The options are endless!
First fanwork - as I mentioned in Day 1, my first fanfic was for Firefly. It just felt like something I needed to write and I showed it to my boyfriend at the time and that was it. Sat in a notebook until I started writing other things.
I'm not sure it was my first fandom necessarily. If I had known about fandom as a teenager and had access to the internet, I probably would've been DEEP into Saved by the Bell fandom. It was hands-down my favorite show for most of my elementary and high school years.
My first fan community maybe oddly wasn't for any sort of media work, it was for a person - an artist. Somehow when I originally got on the internet, I found the artist Linda Bergkvist. She is a Swedish digital artist and at the time I was very very new to digital art and she was extremely talented at it. She went by 'enayla' online and had a forum of her own called Ebony Keep. (You can also still find some of her work here at DeviantArt.) I frequented and then eventually modded that forum for several years (pre-livejournal years) but it's where I met my very first online friends. Some of whom I still know and see in person from time to time.
Ebony Keep was an online home to me and when Linda was quite literally bullied offline for good the forum did eventually shut down. I will always always be mad at a part of the internet for that and these days, the sort of work she did is the type of work that wins awards. Truly ahead of her time. (If you like Linda's art style, you can look up Lauren K Cannon 'navate' who picked up her style and then took off with it.)
I don't know how many other people from Ebony Keep still write or do art, but occasionally I see one of them around online and it's a lovely bit of nostalgia. [Socar Myles, Laura Siadak, Levi Simpson, Darla Ecklund, Naomi Nowak, Julie Lichty]
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Date: 2025-02-18 11:28 am (UTC)I'll check out the fanmix :D I've got a list of songs for that pairing for a fanmix I didn't make for lands of magic so always on the lookout for more.