Snowflake Day 9: brag about yourself

[deird1]

(Skipping days 7 and 8 because I'm thoroughly stumped, and don't want it to stop me from doing the rest of the challenge.)

So this challenge is for me to talk about how awesome I am! Which… I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, but then I am totally about to brag…


I taught myself a bunch of stuff!

I taught myself Latin. And how to crochet. And how to make really nice loaves of bread. And how to play accordion.

Teaching myself new skills is really fun! I should totally do it more often.


I write cool BtVS fanfic!

So I suck at plot. And I'm pretty crap at romance. But I am good at short, character-heavy gen fic featuring lots of sneaky references to canon. And I'm also good at fun and silly fics in unusual formats.

These are some of my best fics.


I'm a great GM!

I am very good at running RPGs that are not Dungeons and Dragons. (I do play D&D, because it's hard not to in this hobby. But I'm not very good at the rules.) I come up with really fun NPCs, lots of interesting situations, and cool twists and turns.

It takes a lot of effort, but so do most worthwhile things.


I'm a great mum!

I love my kids. And I try to introduce them to fun stuff that they'll enjoy, and to listen to them and consider their feelings, and teach them skills they need to know, and spend time with them, and apologise to them (which… I need to do a lot).

I suck at imaginative play, but I'm pretty good at the other stuff.



There you go. I am thoroughly awesome. And so are you guys! Please, tell me the things that make you awesome, as I am very interested in you all.

Comments

[luthien]

That's a great collection of achievements! Teaching yourself stuff is an excellent skill to have - and one I need to get back to. Thanks for the reminder!

[hnpcc]

Now I'm very curious about challenges 7 and 8.

[sjh2009]

You really are awesome! What a wonderful list of things, that's so cool you've been teaching yourself all those things, I tried to crochet again last year but still can't, Despite watching videos, lol. Oh well at least I can knit!

I've bookmarked your page so I can explore your stories once Snowflake is over.

Thank you for sharing.

[tsuki_no_bara]

you do indeed sound pretty awesome. :D i have so much respect for people who can teach themselves languages. also, do you have any tips for making bread? it's on my list of things i want to do but which kind of intimidate me.

[analise010]

Being a great parent is truly amazing and one of the best accomplishments in the world.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Yay! All great things to brag about! :)

[vass]

A thing that's awesome about me: I've started learning to persist at learning things that I'm bad at. The results aren't necessarily impressive to people who don't know that's what I'm learning, but it's very important to me to learn that particular meta-skill.

And some questions about your answers:

Accordion: how did you get into it? Are they expensive to buy/hard to find? What sorts of music do you play? (Asking because that's yet another instrument, of many, that I've had a sneaking suspicion might be cool to learn myself one day.)

GM: what systems do you like to use?

Parenting: you said you suck at imaginative play, kind of right after you said you're a great GM! I know imaginative play with children isn't exactly the same thing, but it was still striking. When they're old enough, have you thought of running an RPG game (modified to be simpler/child-suitable) for your kids?

[lirazel]

Yay! You are awesome!