About Me

Real life in brief.
I'm a German physicist, living and working in Germany, female (but without paying attention to it), have a lot of strange house plants, and never enough time.

Fannish life.
I'm a writer, have done the occasional fanart in the past, and usually avoid large or raucious fandoms even if I love the source material (looking at you Star Trek), which is why I took so long to actually dare to begin with the snowflake_challenge. I'm used to be the oddball in the room and I don't like heated arguments. I'm a stickler for consistency within fics, but not necessarily pedantic regarding canon. Frankly, as long as the storyverse works, I'm all for it.

I'm AKK at the AO3 where all my fics are posted, including the current WIP, and there's also a guide to my fanfics on Dreamwidth in the information box on the sidebar.
My DW-posts consist of updates on the writing process of the current WIP and the occasional recommendation or rant, mostly - as this post proves.

The fandoms I participated in are in random order
With written stories and/or fanart:

• Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
• CLAMP's Tokyo Babylon / X/1999
• L. Buroker's The Emperor's Edge
• C.J. Cherryh's The Dreaming Tree
• L.K. Hamilton's A Kiss of Shadows.

With imagination flowing, but without created works ( (under cut because it's a long list) )

Snowflake Challenge #2: Fannish history

snowflake_challence no. 2: Talk about my fannish history

( the earliest, pre-internet years )

I got my first computer (Commodore C64 with a floppy and a color monitor) near the end of the 1980s, and actually programmed a monitor interface for writing textfiles that looked like a mix of the screens in the Comet (Captain Future) and StarTrek TOS.

( internet access and the Galaxy Rangers )

I happened about CLAMP'S Tokyo Babylon in 2002? 2003? And more or less started writing immediately, posting first to the sadly gone Clampesque forum and on LiveJournal. The Decagram cycle combines Tokyo Babylon, X/1999, several other of CLAMP's works with geometry, taoism, and my love for quirky plants (no, I don't have a carnivorous cherry tree, but you better don't trust my coffee arabica!).

( LiveJournal and manga/anime fandom )

Decagram is probably the most sophisticated work I've written (and am writing) so far, and even now that my fandom contact is more of less limited to DW, AO3 comments and a Discord server (invite only; not my server) still the world I enjoy playing with most, though I took a couple years break after finishing my PhD, during which I edited my biggest unfinished Galaxy Rangers fic (I hate leaving major plot archs unfinished!). By then most of my fandoms had moved away from LJ, DW, and therelike, with a lot of people gathering on Tumblr, a site that made my skin crawl, so I didn't follow. These days, fandom appears on Twitter, but that's also a site designed towards volatile quarrels rather than long texts and discussions.

( other fandoms )

Right now, I'm back at writing the Decagram and am enjoying every minute of it. Writing Sakurazuka Seishiro is a very relaxing activity. :)

Snowflake Challenge #3: Communities, Fests, and Challenges

Sadly, I can't really answer this one. Aside from the snowflake_challenge (and promoting itself kind of doesn't make sense, neh?) I didn't participate in any challenges or fan fests in recent years. My writing style and speed doesn't mix well with prompts and deadlines. I did a couple of them on LJ (comm's gone) and on the Emperor's Edge forum (also gone).

Regarding communities... ditto. I'm still searching for communities on DW that cover my fannish interests. Of all that list at least a few of them, fancake is the most active, but the overwhelming majority of posts is not about anything I care about. The most active fandoms in my friends' circle are currently Guardian and The Untamed, both of which don't really ring with me.

I don't know of any active CLAMP communities - aside from a certain Discord server.
Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers still has its mailing list Ranger-L (think two mails per year at most) and its nicely revived homepage www.betamountain.org, but it was never really a part of the blogosphere.

I'd love getting recommendations for comms, though. Maybe I'm just not good at searching for them. :)