Snowflake challenge Day 5

[rthstewart]

 

Day 5

In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So this is super fun and my recs are all over the place.
First, though I've recc'd this on Day 2, if you're into terrific fic with many different takes on the Problem of Susan, the Narnia Fic Exchange is uniformly high quality, with lots of crosses, AUs, and many other fun things. The stories are often very fem-centric -- lots of ladies. The 2018 challenge was super fem-slashy, which was just delightful. it's supportive, people comment a lot and the stories are great. The comm is here and you can find the more recent years fics here. You'll find older stories on the Dreamwidth/LJ comm.

Because it's been around for so long and she is amazing and so is the group, you can't go wrong with Club Jade, the first fan comm I ever joined after AOL Star Ladies. Founded in 1995 around the Star Wars Legends/Expanded Universe and Mara Jade and the webmistress Dunc began blogging in 2004. Tumblr is here and Twitter is here and the webpage which will eventually take you back to our Club's roots in fanfic and filk. Note that it is clubjade.net -- that's because at the time we got the domain, .the club jade .com was an Asian porn site. So we had buttons for an early con saying "Club Jade -- not the Asian porn site you're looking for."  We're a lot quieter than we used to be..  Sometime I"ll tell you about the Con where Luke and Mara got married, Mike Stackpole, Aaron Allston, and Tim Zahn attended, I dressed up as a Mardi Gras float and people thought I was getting married to the Mary Franklin (she runs the Celebration Cons now) and Elvis officiated.  The Men in Black broke up the party.

And this one is kinda out there, but it's a great interection of food, politics, agriculture, food safety, tech, biology, and North Carolina. Dr. Sarah Taber on Twitter.  I'm in some of the same business she is and I learn a lot. In the same vein, I follow John Rogers, who may lean more libertarian than I am but he's smart, funny, political, and biting and again, I learn a lot (also the writer for Leverage).