toothpastepancake | Snowflake challenge '26, 1

I completely forgot

snowflake_challenge was going on! I am actually going to do every week this time trust meeeeeee <3 I'm only going to put the most recent one on reading, this is post 1 of 4

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

I'm Agnes! Or Agnes the Alien. Or Holiday. I'm a 24 year old writer and hobbyist artist and fannish coder! My main fannish projects are Sunset Archive (and my personal/friendslocked one, Symphony) , developing new features for the otwarchive code instances I run, fandom.cooking (which needs an update desperately I know, and static html shrines. I'm constantly deploying new things all the time, and most of my projects are fannish or writing based. I AM a professional writer too, but sshhh.

My fannish tastes include FEMSLASH!!!!

I am a huge femslash shipper and I run many events, like

100femslash and

b5femslash , as well as modding femcest exchange in 2025 and taking over Sapphic Summer last year. I also run the femslash archive, so, lol. Within femslash, I particularly love age gaps (typically either adult x mid teens teen, or much older adult/18-early 20s), sister/sister ships, general abusiveness and toxicity, transfem and nonbinary interpretations, alien/human and human/machine or robot, themes of disability, repression, psychic connections and body sharing, and pretty much anything weird and wild. I have too many fav ships to count here, but some current favs are Solana/Alara, Kelly/Teleya and Kelly/Topa from The Orville, Valentina/Her Spirit and Jane/Hammerhead from Doom Patrol TV, Caleri/Elouisa from Palia, and Susan/Talia/Control from Babylon 5.

I also enjoy F/M ships a lot, typically when they include a woman who is really mentally unhinged and a man who is just happy to be there (or who is suffering and forced to be there) (or a woman and a man who are equally unhinged in complementary ways!). I prefer my M/F to be lighter, or if applicable more simply toxic than the downright abusive and horrible dynamics I enjoy in F/F. i generally prefer the female character(s) in the ship as the focus when creating fanworks for M/F ships. Some big M/F ships for me are Morden/Anna from Babylon 5, Shawn/Yang from Psych, Prue/Cole from Charmed, Tish/Reth from Palia, and Maggie/Patrick from Going Dutch.

I do like some M/M too! It just takes something super special for me to get invested in M/M. Some big M/M for me are Larry/Keeg from Doom Patrol (and Larry/TNS if you count TNS as a man, which I don't personally), Parker/Hunter from Charmed 2018, and Morden/Lennier from Babylon 5.

I love female characters primarily. I don't discriminate against male characters or anything or whatever... I just don't tend to find them very interesting, probably because I'm a lesbian ahaha. My favorite male character of all time is Tovan Khev from Star Trek online, and I like to shake Mr. Morden around furiously in a jar, especially his pre-canon self.

I'm EXTREMELY into science fiction, specifically alien science fiction and the space opera. My favorites are The Orville, listed against my will; Babylon 5; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Star Trek Online; Pluribus; Second Best Hospital, Doom Patrol which is superhero fiction but counts because I say it does, and then I enjoy also Orphan Black, Doctor Who, Resident Alien, Severance, and Star Trek Prodigy but I haven't watched them all in their entirety yet.

So yeah, I tend to like pretty niche things in fandom. For example, my favorite character in the whole entire universe has maybe 16 lines and 28 minutes of screentime when being generous. I identify with background characters. I am in love with characters who have 2 or 3 lines total and no name spoken on screen. I am cursed.

Anyway, that's me. Why am I doing this challenge? Well, I love fannish spaces. It's why I started Sunset. I love the community that fandom brings. Fandom has brought me so so many good things in life---people I love, connections and opportunities, joy and a reason to wake up, new hobbies and skills etc. I try to give back when I can. Fandom is often toxic yes, dont get me wrong, but if you stick to your own group of people it can really be something special. And I have truly found my fannish home on DW. I don't post often lately, trying to more, but I check my reading and inbox like... an embarrassing amount of times each day ahaha. i love the community here, how it feels like one of the last places on the internet where the majority of the users want genuine connection rather than likes/reposts and the ability to "dunk" on others which seem to be the main focus on other sites. (Not to downplay the importance of reposts and likes in fandom! But you know what I mean---referring more to the people who only post for attention because they get paid per like/share and stuff like that.) Dreamwidth is not without its faults but is a seriously special place and exactly what I needed when I began deconstructing my "antiship" beliefs, a refuge, a reminder that oh, no, most people don't actually think me wanting to write Orville adult/teen fic means I'm going to go commit horrific crimes in real life! Relief! Some even might want to read it too! There are people with common sense!!!

Dreamwidth is really special to me. The way I navigate it is what I call "intentional social media use" for myself; social media used with /intention/, to connect with others, to form actual communities, to be *social*. And so I am always trying to post more and be on here more, because the more time I spend on Dreamwidth, the less time I spend scrolling through social media that hates me personally.