Icebreaker Challenge

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

So... I'm a filthy cheater because I'm not a fandom person, or at least not a capital-F Fandom person. I respect fandom, fanworks are real art and all that, but it's not my space in the end. I've tried to be a fandom person but it's a real square peg situation.

So why do this? Well I explained in a locked entry already but because I wanted to talk about my own experiences and history with internet creativity and general nerdery. There'll probably be some fandom adjacent stuff in here too, but don't expect anything about ships or FFN/AO3 or stuff like that. I'm talking creature design, worldbuilding, maybe a bit of virtual life and that sort of thing.

The point? I guess twofold, one, to see if there's anyone else out there with that same history. And two, to try to preserve a bit of the worlds I remember, because too often the history of internet creatives gets flattened to the history of fandom, and media fandom in particular. And there is, or at least was, so much more out there than that. Maybe it's not exactly what the prompts were made in mind for, but there's no law saying I can't, right?

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