Snowflake Challenge: Day 1
Jan. 1st, 2019 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gracenmDay 1: In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane.
My happy place is between the pages of a book, or meandering amid the lines of fanfic. Pretty standard, really. But I have found that not reading — and specifically, not reading fiction — is associated with a decline in my mental health. It really works to get me away from the deeply rutted pathways of anxiety.
The other thing that I have found to be an especially happy place for me since coming to fandom is vidding. It's so absorbing. There's so much detail work with hitting the beats and hunting down the right clips. I like how it requires focus and creativity but is not as soul-chipping as writing can feel sometimes. Also, my standards for myself are much lower than with writing. :D
Happy New Year!
My happy place is between the pages of a book, or meandering amid the lines of fanfic. Pretty standard, really. But I have found that not reading — and specifically, not reading fiction — is associated with a decline in my mental health. It really works to get me away from the deeply rutted pathways of anxiety.
The other thing that I have found to be an especially happy place for me since coming to fandom is vidding. It's so absorbing. There's so much detail work with hitting the beats and hunting down the right clips. I like how it requires focus and creativity but is not as soul-chipping as writing can feel sometimes. Also, my standards for myself are much lower than with writing. :D
Happy New Year!
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Date: 2019-01-01 09:33 pm (UTC)"Also, my standards for myself are much lower than with writing."
Hee! This is exactly the reason why I find visual fanart relaxing. That and detail work, as you said.
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Date: 2019-01-02 03:30 am (UTC)