Introduction: lightbird

[lightbird]

Hi everyone. I discovered this community via my recent involvement in the snowflake_challenge and figured I should finally introduce myself.

I am lightbird here on DW, lightbird777 on LJ, snarky_panda on AO3 (I've been writing under the dramatic_owl pseud) and dramaticowl on tumblr.

I've mostly written fanfic but have recently been branching out into creating picspams and rec sets (I love reading and discovering new works and enjoy passing great stuff on to others). I read fic and enjoy other types of fanworks in many different fandoms but I've only created fanworks in 4 fandoms: Mulan, Hey Arnold!, Quantum Leap and Double Indemnity.

For the most part I've been using bingo cards as inspiration just to get writing, but they've also prompted me to work with new ideas and themes, and in different fandoms. I particularly enjoyed the most recent ladiesbingo challenge, which got me thinking and writing about women characters and relationships between women, something I don't think I did enough of before in my own creation (and it also got me writing in one of my very first fandoms again).

Recently I completed 3 bingos: (1) ladiesbingo here; (2) dark_bingo here; and (3) trope_bingo round 3 here, all on time, which I'm very proud of since on my first try I only managed to post 2 fics during amnesty (second time I got the full bingo but again during amnesty). There was a lot of cross-fulfillment between bingos but all the communities are cool with that so it was okay. I did single-line bingos for all 3, but since I have a few more months left until trope_bingo's round 3 deadline I'm going to try to fill some more squares (aiming for a blackout but we'll see). The fills for this bingo were all picspams and rec sets, so I'd like to add some fics into the mix if I can. My card is here in this post.

Comments

[vexed_wench]

Hi
I am new here as well.
I think I saw some of your Snowflake challenge posts.

The Hey Arnold! stuff is great.

Welcome!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Hi everyone. I discovered this community via my recent involvement in the snowflake_challenge and figured I should finally introduce myself. <<

It's good to see you here.

>> For the most part I've been using bingo cards as inspiration just to get writing, but they've also prompted me to work with new ideas and themes, and in different fandoms. <<

That's encouraging. Bingo seems to work very well for general motivation and diversification.

>> I particularly enjoyed the most recent ladiesbingo challenge, which got me thinking and writing about women characters and relationships between women, something I don't think I did enough of before in my own creation (and it also got me writing in one of my very first fandoms again). <<

I write a lot about women, and have several series with dual female leads, but this fest definitely made me write more F&F stuff -- and, yes, think about the relationships more.

Earlier this week I did a bonus Poetry Fishbowl in one of those series, Walking the Beat, which features a lesbian couple living in Jamaica Plain.

>> Recently I completed 3 bingos: <<

Congratulations!

>> all on time, which I'm very proud of since on my first try I only managed to post 2 fics during amnesty (second time I got the full bingo but again during amnesty). <<

It can take a while to figure out how to use bingo in a way that works for you. My first was cottoncandy_bingo which I loved, but I only got one card because I was trying for blackout. Later I learned that it's much easier to have several cards simultaneously from different fests, so now I usually get a new card once I've made my first bingo.