Patron Saint of Falling Over Things

Some links for self-care and distraction:

From jenett: Self-Care in Difficult Times.

Snapshots at Sea - a marine classification project, where they show you a photo and you tell them if there's an animal in it. This is great if you want to see lots of photos of otters and whales. And it's easier than Snapshot Serengeti, you don't have to classify animals.

hedgehog_azuki Basically an instagram about a hedgehog doing things like eating jellies and snuggling in blankets.

Oh, and look: a love meme. I don't put my name in these things but I'm going to go love on you guys there.

One positive thing that has happened in the last twenty four hours is that people are posting here - it's really lovely to see our community come together when we're all unhappy and needing comfort. So I'm going to try to post more and comment more and generally keep things ticking along. I need youse guys.


Something that I've been thinking about for a while is how to revamp comicstore_news - fandom newsletters have been on wane since the AO3 came out. I love the AO3, don't get me wrong there, but since we've had one place to post fic, there's been less and less fic posted to comms. Again, that's not a bad thing, but it was the reason we had newsletters - to round up posts from disparate comms and make all that fic accessible. And now, I'm not sure what the position is for a fandom newsletter.

comicstore_news is getting pretty small - enough that we're running the thing with only four editors and maybe 2-3 editions per week. I'd like to see it feel more vibrant than it does now - I'd say there's maybe three or four comms that are really busy posting mixed bag fandom stuff, and then the bulk of what goes into the newsletter is challenges (so, like, fic exchanges, icon competitions, big bangs, prompt fests, that sort of thing.) So that's a thing we could focus on - there's lots of exchanges out there.

I know we're only seeing a tiny corner of fandom. We watch Livejournal and Dreamwidth only. When Tumblr was small, we tried linking posts from there (that's how small tumblr was back then, that such a thing was imaginable) but now the breadth of tumblr and the nature of posts there mean that it's not workable. I know there are tumblr-based challenges because I come across them randomly sometimes, but I know, like the deep blue sea, that there are hidden and unexplored depths that I am not crossing.

The way I envision a newsletter that handles fandom these days is one that picks ups things from the many platforms that we live on. I'd love to link rec posts and graphics posts and group reading challenges and re-watches, and somehow be able to unite the creativity of comics fandom into one easily accessible source. I just don't know how to make it happen.

I tried a multi-platform calendar comm on Imzy which I could then use to feed into the newsletter. It works to some extent, but I don't think Imzy has the numbers for it to be sustainable. Tumblr is the obvious place to start, but to me, tumblr is like holding a big tangled ball of yarn with many ends poking out, and I just don't know where to start. Would a comm like fandomcalendar work on Tumblr? Are there tumblrs that lots of people can post to? How does it work?

Any ideas? Any suggestions? I'm honestly open to anything.

Title: Sleepless
Fandom: Person of Interest
Rating: G
Words: 100
Characters/Pairings: Root/Shaw
Warnings/Content: None
Notes: Written for Challenge #3 at 100words on Imzy

Summary: Samaritan took so much, but this small thing hurts Root most.

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( Root wakes to the sound of the refrigerator opening )