Snowflake Challenge #1 - Introduce Yourself

[jedibuttercup]

Challenge #1 - The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

[Giving this a try again, though I can't promise I'll hit every challenge this year.]

Happy New Year, everyone. I'm known as jedibuttercup on several fanfic archives and Dreamwidth (and prior journaling sites) and have used a variation on that penname since 1996. (Though I am not known by that name on any other social media sites; it always amuses me to see the name come up elsewhere when I vanity Google.) I participated in the snowflake_challenge once several years ago; it helped remind me why I was in fandom in the first place and nudged me to post more often, and since I've had a couple of slower years lately I thought I might try it again.

I am single, childless, and over 40; I work full-time as a technology and media manager, which means database management, website coding, document design, and other marketing and software-support related activities. I've been working for the same HR consulting firm since 2006, where I am lucky enough to have excellent co-workers and decent benefits, though I did my time in the fast food and office temp trenches before that.

I graduated college in 2000; I found online fandom about a year later and have since published just shy of 2.7 million words of fanfic. I'm a fairly voracious reader and watcher (lists linked in my regular intro post); genre fiction is usually most represented there, but I sample pretty widely as the mood takes me. My workplace does a monthly bookclub and discussion group, which helps. I also take yearly roadtrips with my best friend (40 US states, 4 Canadian provinces and counting) and the occasional trip with my mom. I have roots in coastal Texas, but have spent most of my life in the Pacific Northwest.

I have three niblings, the oldest of whom is dangerously close to obtaining a driver's license, and a spoiled 4-year-old fluffy gray tabby cat named Parker. My equally nerdy BFF and her husband both went to college with me; we found out years after we all graduated that he's a distant cousin (ninth, according to the genealogical charts), through my mother's father's well-documented ancestry.

I've found that life is much crackier sometimes than any half-way believable fiction ever could be.

Comments

[senmut]

+waves at you cheerfully+ Good to see you!

[jedibuttercup]

Thanks! *waves back*

[desecrets]

Hello!
Giving this a try again, though I can't promise I'll hit every challenge this year. Huge mood! It's my first time doing it and I'm already predicting I'll fall off. But it looks fun!

Handshake on the genre lit. Also, I just gotta say, I peeked at your ao3 and when I saw "Sleepy Hollow (TV) - 27" it was second Christmas. :D

[jedibuttercup]

I was so all-in on that show until the end of season 3! Been periodically writing fix-its ever since. :) Hope you enjoy!

[desecrets]

God, for real. It's still one of those shows that I rant about to people because of how much potential it had and how badly it was handled. Thank you! I'm sure I will! :D

[mywitch]

You've got all the best things: happiness, travel, and a job where you are appreciated. That's wonderful, I hope that you find everything you want in 2026!

[jedibuttercup]

Thank you! I hope the same for you.

[jenab]

Hi. Good to see you and I've enjoyed your writing over the years.

[jedibuttercup]

Hi back! I do still vividly remember your username from Has Fallen fandom. :) Politics kind of punched me in the face after the last longfic I wrote for those movies, alas.

[unholyghost]

2.7 million words is amazing :0 ! please say hi to and give pets to Parker from this stranger, please and thank you! and I hope you get all that you want and more out of the challenge this year!

[jedibuttercup]

Thanks, and will do! I hope you get all you want and more out of the challenge as well! :)