Monday Update 2-3-20

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Birdfeeding
Story: "Coming in from the Cold: Saturday: Revisiting the Past" Part 9
Community Building Tip: Art
Story: "Coming in from the Cold: Saturday: Revisiting the Past" Part 8
Valentines Bingo Card 2-1-20
Poem: "Because We Are All Unique"
Bingo
The Tyranny of Algorithms
Choose Not To Warn
Story: "Coming in from the Cold: Saturday: Revisiting the Past" Part 7
Poem: "All the Beautiful Lights"
Birdfeeding
Story: "Coming in from the Cold: Saturday: Revisiting the Past" Part 6
Self-Awareness Question: Childhood
Poem: "A Fine Sweater"
Poem: "Work Worth Doing"
Story: "Coming in from the Cold: Saturday: Revisiting the Past" Part 5
Good News


There will be a Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, February 4 with a theme of "If the devil is nicer than the church folks, then we've got a problem."

Voting is now open for the Rose and Bay Award in crowdfunding. You have until the end of February 29. This award recognizes exemplary projects and enthusiastic patrons. It currently features six categories: Art, Fiction, Poetry, Webcomic, Other Project, and Patron.

These are the handlers for the 2020 award season:

Art: ysabetwordsmith Nominate art! Vote for art! (2 votes)
Fiction: ysabetwordsmith Nominate fiction! Vote for fiction! (6 votes)
Poetry: readera Nominate poetry! Vote for poetry! (0 votes)
Webcomic: ysabetwordsmith Nominate webcomics! Vote for webcomics! (3 votes)
Other Project: ysabetwordsmith Nominate other projects! Vote for other projects! (1 vote)
Patron: ng_moonmoth Nominate patrons! Vote for patrons!

Please vote for your favorite crowdfunded projects and patrons from 2019.


snowflake_challenge has concluded. This year the challenges appeared every other day, so it spannedthe whole month of January. This has brought lots of new people to my blog. :D Welcome, friends! Feel free to ask me if you have questions.
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 1 Introduce Yourself
Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2: Fannish History
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 3 Communities
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 4 Goals
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 5 Friends
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 6 Wishlist
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 7 Promote Yourself
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 8 Rec Fanworks
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 9 Canons
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 10 Creator
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 11 Resources
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 12 Random Acts of Kindness
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 13 Create a Fanwork
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 14 Tropes
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 15 Make Your Own Challenge
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 16 Friending Meme

I am working on the year-end perks for my K-fans. Here are the poetry series currently available as collections. Arts and Crafts America, The Moon Door, Clay of Life, A Conflagration of Dragons, Hart's Farm, One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis and P.I.E. are new this year! I have finished collating the first half of the 2019 collection of fishbowl poems, and the second half is being compiled.


Poetry in Microfunding:

There are two open epics at present.  

"Celebrate and Cherish" belongs to Polychrome Heroics: Mallory. Mallory and family begin exploring the Circle School with a teacher.

"Into the Thousand-Eyed Present" belongs to Polychrome Heroics: Aquariana and Gentle Soul.  Aidan, Saraphina, Drew, and Zipper apply for Maldivian citizenship.


The weather has been mild here. There are still a few puddles and ice patches around. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large flock of sparrows, a flock of mourning doves, several cardinals, several dark-eyed juncos, a downy woodpecker, and a squirrel. I saw the great horned owl this week too.