Snowflake Challenge Day 2

Day 2: In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them.


Oh, this is *much* easier.

1. maryrenaultfics: comm. of my heart. ♥ I joined this within a few months of joining lj, and it has shaped my experience to a very large extent. It's centred on the works of Mary Renault, and conducts semi-regular book discussions (some books get discussed more than others) and hosts a vast array of fic and some art. It's currently f-locked, but honetly if you have even a passing interest in the author it is completely worth it to join the comm, since it's warm and friendly and just extremely mellow, and run by two of the nicest people, my_cnnr and trueriver, who go out of their way to facilitate members.

2. lgbtfest is no longer active, but it's where I got to first read and eventually write what might be called queer-gen, and it was very precious to me at the time. queer_fest has taken over from it, but I've never really kept up with that, which I regret at times.

3. yuletide is I think my favourite challenge of the year, and it's something that I'm in awe of for its sheer existence. I'm aware that there are several problems with it, which cause heartache and unease, but in a rather blinkered and possibly childish way it's one of the bright spots of my fannish year and I love it dearly.