Snowflake Challenge #1 - Introduction

[darvyn]

Hello to whomever reads this!

You can call me Darvyn. I'm in my mid-twenties and I've been a fandom lurker for more than half of my life.

I'm multi-fandom, and I will never shame your ships, so please don't shame mine. I'm of the belief that you can dislike a ship, and still be friends with a person. I don't partake in fandom discourse, I just like to have fun and babble about things that elicit emotional responses from me. (oof, sorry for that, but i just saw something on twitter this morning that makes me feel as though this needs to be said lol)

I'm very all over the place with whatever grasps my interest, but my current hyperfixation is Teen Wolf. Which I am completely aware of how fricken late I am to the party, but alas, I am here. This started in July 2019, so it has dug its claws into me and has yet to let me go. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm also on a kick of costume/historical/period dramas which started in November 2019.
SO. MUCH. PINING.

Additionally, I quite literally just joined Dreamwidth the other day, so please bear with me as I figure out how things work.

Uh... I usually pride myself as an artist, but I've been dabbling in fic writing properly for the past couple years. I am under the same username on my Ao3. (can you tell that I don't know what else to say?)

Once I submit this, I'm certain I'll think of a million other things to say, but that's the gist of it.

Thank you for your time, I hope you have a wonderful day/evening!

Best.

Comments

[spikedluv]

Hi! Welcome to DW! I'm a fan of Teen Wolf, as well, though the fandom/fanon more than canon sometimes. I ship Derek/Stiles and Peter/Chris. Where does your interest lie?

[darvyn]

Thank you for the warm welcome! Oh, thank goodness. When I was perusing the DW interests, it seemed to me as though the number of Teen Wolf fans was rather low lol, but as you can see, that hasn't deterred me!

I absolutely love the fanon interpretations, that's really what appealed to me when I first got into it actually. I love mythology, monsters, and cryptids, and when I found out that they actually explore some of those rather than just going forth and killing everything willy nilly, Teen Wolf really appealed to me.

There is so much good potential with the TW universe that I think the fandom has had a lot of fun with exploring, and I have thoroughly enjoyed consuming.

I definitely also ship Sterek, and I've read a couple fics with background Peter/Chris that I enjoyed. Peter/Chris is a really compelling ship to me, especially with the history between them, but I haven't read anything with them as the focus yet. If you have any recommendations, I would love to hear them!

Hope you have a great day/evening!

[spikedluv]

NGL, when I first got into Teen Wolf, I had to join Tumblr to find any content for it because there wasn't much on my f-list. But there are still some of us here on DW!

I'm going to let you know about my own Peter/Chris fic, spikedluv. I'd also rec rhysiana. I hope you find something you enjoy!

[rhysiana]

I heard there was a call for Chris/Peter recs! Here's the last rec list I made, which links to the first list I made when I went through basically the whole tag on AO3, plus some newer ones. (That was before spikedluv posted the story she wrote me for FTH, which is *wonderful*, but obviously I think you should go through her entire archive anyway.)

[arias_hollow]

Hi there! I've also primarily been a fandom lurker, even though I have occasionally interacted or posted something. Also definitely relate to hyperfixations just kind of popping around as they please. And welcome to Dreamwidth! I haven't been here super long by any means, but I mostly know my way around the site, so feel free to ask if you have questions!

[darvyn]

Hello fellow lurker!

There's definitely a lot to take in on this site, so I'm a bit overwhelmed rn, so I might have to take you up on that later lol.

Good to know I'm not alone in being so fickle with whatever I'm currently into! Also, hello fellow asexual :D

Thank you for the warm welcome, I hope you have a great day/evening!

[8hyenas]

Hello, I came from addme. I'd like to add you if that's okay. I'll temporarily unlock my journal so you can browse. If you don't add me back that's fine!

I am also a lurker and work in a library. I read a LOT of fan fiction. I am thankful that A03 doesn't send a year end "words read" summary.

My journal is daily life and mostly interior drama. My last few entries have been related to : covid, tribal losses, basically an asmr about birds, blabbing about ppl at work.

[darvyn]

Hello! Sorry for the belated response, it's hard to break out of my lurking habits sometimes, but I sincerely want to change that.

Oh my goodness, I actually went through a bunch of fics in my Ao3 history once when I was hyperfixated on a specific fandom and totaled up everything that I read and was quite horrified/impressed to see that it was over a million words. My morbid curiosity would almost want to see that summary if it existed. Though I wouldn't be too eager to share it on my social media.

Is your library still operating? The transition was rather messy for us, and we're still getting patrons calling us hoping to physically come into the building to study.

Hope you're having a good spring so far! Best.