The Snowflake Challenge, Day 1 & 2

Day 1

In your own space, talk about why you're participating in Snowflake and, if you’ve participated in the past, how the challenge has affected you. What drew you to it? What did you take away from it? What do you hope to accomplish this year? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This is my fourth Snowflake! The first year I participated I had been absent from fandom for several years, and the Snowflake Challenge was the perfect way to get back to it. I’ve always had a lot of fun, and always end up with a few new friends and tons of new fanfic to read.



Day 2

In your own space, share a favorite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, crazy times with fellow fans (whether on-line or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I got into fandom quite by chance. I was home with my newborn son in 1999 and needed a distraction on sleepless nights. We had only had Internet for a few weeks and I had no idea what to do with it. But when googling an author I liked I found myself joining a mail group. For a few years that was all I did, participating in discussion there, and having lots of fun. I’m still friends with people I got to know there. And through it I also learned about the concept of fanfic. Up until 2004 I only read it sporadically, but then I saw a promo picture for the movie Peter Pan which for some reason triggered a writing impulse. And fell down the slippery slope… No regrets though!

Books of 2017

Here are the last books I read in 2017:

The Lost Plot by Genevieve Cogman. The fourth part of The Invisible Library-series, and the wakest yet, IMO. probably because this one focus more on the dragons than the fairies, and I find the high and mighty dragons rather boring. And Vale is delegated to a cameo by the end, and one of the things I enjoy is the dynamics between Irene, Kai and Vale. There is also the question of Irene’s parents and how they relationship between Irene Kai and Vale will pan out which felt rather like it was put on hold this book. I’d like the next part to be a bit more decisive about this.

A Tangled Web by L. M. Montgomery. This is one of Montgomery's few books for adults, and one I have never read before. I liked the concept; the head of the family does after declaring her large family will have to wait a year before they learn who will inherited a jug which is the family heirloom. Then we follow various members of the family as they try to behave so they will be eligible to inherit. But the book is rather short and the cast so large you never really get to know the characters properly. I enjoyed reading it, but in the end it felt a bit shallow.

Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery. This is probably my least favourite Anne-book and I didn’t care much for it on this re-read either. There are a few amusing chapters, of course, and I rather like Davy Keith and his “I want to know”, but on the whole it very much feel like an “in-between-book”.

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser. I can never resist a biography over Laura Ingalls Wilder. This one was interesting as Fraser writes a lot about the history of the time, which, of course, affected Wilder even if she didn’t explicitly mention it in her books. However, i feel it should have mention Rose Wilder Lane in the title, because it was really as much a biography over her as about her mother. Not that it wasn’t interesting, but one would think a biography, perhaps, would mention Almanzo Wilder more than a handful of time after he and Laura got married.

All in all I read 63 books; 51 novels and 6 novellas and 6 non-fiction. 13 of these were re-reads. Less books than in 2016, but then I read a lot when I commute, and the first six month my train line was closed due to repairs, and I can’t read on the bus.

The rest of the books are listed under the cut.

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Remembrance, part 1

Title: Remembrance
Fandom: Versailles
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 880
Characters Sophie de Clermont, Fabien Marchal, Claudine Masson, Duc de Cassel
Pairings: Fabien Marchal/Sophie de Clermont, Fabien Marchal/Claudine Masson
Warnings: Non-con and abuse, which reference events in the show.
Summary: Sophie de Clermont has fled Versailles, with nowhere to go and only her memories for company.

On AO3

Prologue

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