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+The “Snowflake Challenge” is a celebratory Ⅎandom* event, hosted primarily on Dreamwidth (but also on other platforms). It’s about celebrating the uniqueness and diversity of fandom and its participants. The name is explained as follows :⁠—
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+« The band My Chemical Romance put in a guest appearance on the kids show Yo Gabba Gabba that December, singing about every snowflake being different, and that was what I wanted us to celebrate—how each one of us was unique and beautiful, broken and imperfect and intelligent and talented and lovable. »
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+(You can read <https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/69208.html>="their post introducing the 2024 challenge" for more on the challenge and what it is for.)
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+I normally keep a pretty low fandom profile so I thought it might be fun to spend a little time this January exploring it (in public) a bit more. I’ve never done one of these before, so we’ll see if I love or hate it by the end.
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+As with everything I post to status.ladys.computer, all of these posts will be crossposted to Mastodon, and you can also follow along via <https://status.ladys.computer/topics/SnowflakeChallenge.atom>="the SnowflakeChallenge Atom feed" once I make the first post.
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+* “Capital‐F Fandom” has already been taken to mean something somewhat different, so I’m using “Turned Capital‐F Fandom” for this iteration.
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