Snowflake Challenge #13

Challenge #13

TALK ABOUT A COMMUNITY SPACE YOU LIKE. It doesn’t need to be your favorite, or the one where you spend the most time (although it certainly can be). Maybe it’s even one that you’ve barely visited. But talk about that space and how it helps support fannish community.

I like the DW community fandomweekly because it celebrates writing and fandom - it has a weekly challenge that you write fan fiction / original fiction for. There's no pressure and at the end of each one you get to vote on your favourite story. If you like, you can post it on A03 in the community set up for it.

https://fandomweekly.dreamwidth.org/

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/FandomWeekly2023_2025

Snowflake Challenge #14

Challenge #14

In your own space, create a promo and/or rec list for someone new to a fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it and include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

The Saga of the Exiles by Julian May is a SFF book series about life in the 22nd century. Aliens contacted us and we're now part of their galactic alliance. Everything is fairly stable, but for those who don't fit in, there's a one-way time gate in France that takes you back six million years to prehistoric France.

This attracts misfits, petty criminals and others who don't fit in modern life, who want something simpler. The only thing is... no one knows exactly what they'll find when they go back to the past.

The books follow a group of eight people who are going through the time gate because they're running towards or away from something.

Disclaimer: This series was written in the '80's, so some things have dated badly. But some of the characters might stay rent-free in your heads for quite a while!

The series was almost made into a movie or TV series and there was an animated promotional trailer made (spoilers if you haven't read the books).

https://nickdudman.co.uk/saga-of-the-exiles-2024-mov/