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aestivalis) wrote2021-01-11 10:19 am
aestivalis) wrote2021-01-11 10:19 am
snowflake challenge #3!
So, this month, I've decided to participate in the fandom ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
snowflake_challenge, something I've never done before! It's a community that posts a series of prompts throughout the month of January, some of which require talking about things in your own space while others require you to go out and interact with people within your fannish circles. There's no time limit on when you complete the prompts!
Which is good for me, because I've been a bit slow getting going on some of these, hahaha. But today! We are going to catch up! Starting right here with Challenge #3.
Challenge #3: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
In your own space, tell us who, from one of your fandoms, would you most want to have dinner with (or tea, or a random afternoon visit), And why? This could be a creator, an actor, a costumer, a set designer, a director, a character, a composer, anybody! What would you talk about? What are you dying to know? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
So, this prompt held me up for days, for a bunch of different reasons. I've always found it really difficult to mentally divorce characters from their contexts enough to imagine myself casually interacting with them—it's just a thought exercise that doesn't really click for me! I have a myriad of favourite characters who I'm certain deserve to have A Nice Day For Once, lmao, but I don't feel like interjecting myself is the way to go about it?! And then there's the more real world/celebrity culture side of it, but I've never been especially fussed about celebrities! So I really found myself lingering on this prompt for a while.
BUT THEN.
I realised that I've actually answered this question multiple times already in 2020. Every time I got an email from Formula 1 pressing me to enter one of their hopeless competitions to ~meet a favourite driver~, I always had the same answer. Doesn't matter that I actually have many MANY favourites on the F1 grid, I always knew who I actually wanted to talk to. And that was before the terrifying conclusion of what's almost certainly going to be his final season in F1.
Romain Grosjean seems like such a wonderful, kind-hearted human being. You never want to attribute too many characteristics onto someone you've only witnessed through the lens of media (social or otherwise), but the way he's always conducted himself and spoken to others has always left such a strong positive impression on me. I really like the person he presents himself as, and I'm sure he'd be delightful to spend time around.
But the reason I pick Grosjean for this challenge, and the reason I've always picked him as my first choice in all those silly competitions, is because of his tremendous courage and honesty when talking about mental health. Using his platform in motorsport to speak so openly about his own mental struggles, about things he's had to overcome, about use of a sports psychologist to help him move past mistakes? I would love to thank him for that. I would love to tell him how much that means, for myself and for so many others. I feel like his openness has paved a path that others in the sport are continuing to follow—it's a dialogue that's occurring more and more, and we should be so glad for that, but I really do feel like Grosjean did something a little special in his early frankness and sincerity about the subject.
Grosjean receives a lot of abuse online. Less so now since his tremendous crash in Bahrain, and I suppose we should be grateful that something so horrifying could at least have the effect of making people a little more aware of just how awful it would be to lose any one of these great sportsmen. But even so, Grosjean has always been the subject of relentless trolling online, and he has always kept himself above it. He remains friendly, he remains cheerful, he remains compassionate, and he remains honest through it all. If I really had to have someone come over for dinner, I'd be honoured to host Romain. I really would.
And hey, when he isn't driving fast, the man's a great chef! So who knows, maybe I'll learn some tricks of the trade for my trouble!
snowflake_challenge, something I've never done before! It's a community that posts a series of prompts throughout the month of January, some of which require talking about things in your own space while others require you to go out and interact with people within your fannish circles. There's no time limit on when you complete the prompts!Which is good for me, because I've been a bit slow getting going on some of these, hahaha. But today! We are going to catch up! Starting right here with Challenge #3.
Challenge #3: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
In your own space, tell us who, from one of your fandoms, would you most want to have dinner with (or tea, or a random afternoon visit), And why? This could be a creator, an actor, a costumer, a set designer, a director, a character, a composer, anybody! What would you talk about? What are you dying to know? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
So, this prompt held me up for days, for a bunch of different reasons. I've always found it really difficult to mentally divorce characters from their contexts enough to imagine myself casually interacting with them—it's just a thought exercise that doesn't really click for me! I have a myriad of favourite characters who I'm certain deserve to have A Nice Day For Once, lmao, but I don't feel like interjecting myself is the way to go about it?! And then there's the more real world/celebrity culture side of it, but I've never been especially fussed about celebrities! So I really found myself lingering on this prompt for a while.
BUT THEN.
I realised that I've actually answered this question multiple times already in 2020. Every time I got an email from Formula 1 pressing me to enter one of their hopeless competitions to ~meet a favourite driver~, I always had the same answer. Doesn't matter that I actually have many MANY favourites on the F1 grid, I always knew who I actually wanted to talk to. And that was before the terrifying conclusion of what's almost certainly going to be his final season in F1.
Romain Grosjean seems like such a wonderful, kind-hearted human being. You never want to attribute too many characteristics onto someone you've only witnessed through the lens of media (social or otherwise), but the way he's always conducted himself and spoken to others has always left such a strong positive impression on me. I really like the person he presents himself as, and I'm sure he'd be delightful to spend time around.
But the reason I pick Grosjean for this challenge, and the reason I've always picked him as my first choice in all those silly competitions, is because of his tremendous courage and honesty when talking about mental health. Using his platform in motorsport to speak so openly about his own mental struggles, about things he's had to overcome, about use of a sports psychologist to help him move past mistakes? I would love to thank him for that. I would love to tell him how much that means, for myself and for so many others. I feel like his openness has paved a path that others in the sport are continuing to follow—it's a dialogue that's occurring more and more, and we should be so glad for that, but I really do feel like Grosjean did something a little special in his early frankness and sincerity about the subject.
Grosjean receives a lot of abuse online. Less so now since his tremendous crash in Bahrain, and I suppose we should be grateful that something so horrifying could at least have the effect of making people a little more aware of just how awful it would be to lose any one of these great sportsmen. But even so, Grosjean has always been the subject of relentless trolling online, and he has always kept himself above it. He remains friendly, he remains cheerful, he remains compassionate, and he remains honest through it all. If I really had to have someone come over for dinner, I'd be honoured to host Romain. I really would.
And hey, when he isn't driving fast, the man's a great chef! So who knows, maybe I'll learn some tricks of the trade for my trouble!