Snowflake Challenge #9

[elennalore]

This was the newest fandom snowflake challenge: In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, time you spent in the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well.

I had a fulfilling year in the fandom even though I sometimes struggled with my fics. I dared to post more of my fan art, which is a personal win. But the thing I really want to celebrate from the past year is that I organized a small tumblr event for the Silmarillion fandom: the Silvergifting Week, in August 2022.

I had never organized a fandom event before. I had not even thought of organizing a fandom event. But the idea came to me suddenly as I noticed that there was going to be Angbang (Melkor/Mairon) week on tumblr earlier last year. I find myself wishing that someone would organize a similar week for my OTP Silvergifting (which is Mairon|Annatar|Sauron/Celebrimbor). Then I looked at the mirror. Perhaps that someone could be me?

I needed some encouragement to do this; I got it from my online fandom friends who were very helpful and believed in me. I was a bit worried because (some say) silvergifting is a controversial pairing and I had no modding experience – I didn't want participants to get negative comments. But I think it went very well! It was a small event, and thus manageable; the posts and comments were (as far as I know) positive.

I'm not sure yet, but I think I might organize it again this year. Perhaps with new prompts. If I do, you'll hear it in the event blog first.

Comments

[elennalore]

Thank you people! <3