Snowflake Challenge - Day 10

[crookedspoon]

Day 10 - Create a fanwork

Fanwork means anything you, a fan, creates. A new community, a rec list, a drabble or ficlet, a vid, a drawing, a meta, an icon, a critical essay, a podfic, a fanmix, a picspam, a review, a ship manifesto, a fannish cake or scarf . . . There is no limit to what the creative fannish mind can create because WE ARE SPARTA! Oh, wait. *g*

I didn't think I'd be doing this challenge this year, although my streak-obsessed brain has been nagging me about my negligence. But now here it is. My reason to throw my hat into the ring!

Usually, I'm boring and write a fic for this challenge, which is what I'm doing anyway so it's nothing special, but today I decided to do something super special I've been waiting to do for a long while.

Today, I started building the frontend to the secret project I've been dreaming of for years.

Okay, the framework I'm using did most of the work. All I had to do is say "build me this, minion!" and lo, it did, based on the database structure I've been tinkering with for the past few weeks. But. I've been putting off building the pages because I didn't think my db structure was ready. But today I decided to tarry no longer. This is one of the pages I told my framework to spit out:



It's just a little thing that's supposed to help me with fic organisation and statistics later on, so it's not something fandom at large can benefit from, but it's still a milestone from me and I'm super excited.

Comments

[mekare]

Congrats! Is it an external thing or for Dreamwidth or just your own harddrive?

[crookedspoon]

It's only on my local harddrive for now, but I do plan on making it available publicly once I figure out how best to host it. I mean, I don't think it's going to be very interesting to other people unless they specifically want to know what kind of fics I wrote, lol.

[spikedluv]

That's very cool!

[crookedspoon]

Thank you!

[summerstorm]

that's fantastic, dude. I'm not entirely *what* it is, but I can see how excited you are about it so I'm pumped for you. :)

[crookedspoon]

Thank you! You can tell I'm still being secretive about it, lol, but basically it's going to be a database for my fic, to make searching for it a little more customisable than AO3 allows for. So you can see, it's not actually of interest to anyone but me xD

[summerstorm]

And people who like your fic, if it's public!

(Not that I don't, we just have zero fandoms in common, lol.)

[isabellerecs]

This looks so cool! I'm always jazzed about organizational schemas. Good luck going forward. :D

[crookedspoon]

IKR! Thanks so much! I'm looking forward to this :D

[dragonyphoenix]

Yay! I'm work towards a database that will allow me to find my fanfic recs by categories. I was planning to work on it tonight but instead made a rec list.

[crookedspoon]

Ooh, that sounds neat! I'm sure a lot of people can profit from that. And yay for more rec lists :D

[tropicsbear]

That looks interesting *__* Meanwhile, my brain just went "... nope" when I saw Day 10's challenge. My creative energy has been zilch recently.

[crookedspoon]

Thank you! And you can still do it later if you want to. You can also have a look at what other people have done that's not fanfic or fanart. Like, if you like to cook, you could do fannish recipes. My friend did that once for the Sherlock fandom, with mustache-shaped cookies lol