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Snowflake Challenge 2025 #14
Challenge #14
In your own space, create your own fandom challenge.
This is a really fun one!! After a bit of consideration, I decided to, once again, use a challenge to try to push my own, personal agenda. This time, turning more people to the indie web! So, my self-imposed challenge was to create a reclist of modern indie web fansites! Going in no particular order...
- It's Not Stupid, It's Advanced! - an Invader Zim fansite featuring episode transcripts, the history of the show, adoptables and more
- Monkie Business - a LEGO Monkie Kid fansite featuring fan analysis, a gallery of crew art, a fanlisting and more
- CANDYPOP GARDEN - a Pikmin fansite featuring merch, fanart, downloads and more
- Moonlight Promise - a Sailor Moon fansite featuring a fortune-telling page, fandom resources, a webring and more
- Klance is Canon King - a Klance (Voltron) fansite featuring all K/L crew art, fandom history, an essay on the subject of the show's queerbaiting, and more
- Inkposting - a Splatoon fansite featuring pixel adoptables, the webmaster's Inkopolis Square art, a "which idol are you" quiz, and more
- Soulsilvers - a Pokemon fansite (mostly focused on the Kantrio characters - Red, Green and Blue) featuring a fanart gallery and lots of information on their portrayals in various Pokemon media
- Dan and Phil GAMES Fansite - a Dan and Phil fansite (mostly focused on their joint gaming channel) featuring calendar and card scans, the chronology and characters of their Sims 4 series, the channel's yearly traditions, and more
- GEKIYAKU - a Hatoful Boyfriend fansite featuring theories, a timeline of all events, a guide to all supplemental media, and more
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OOOOH NICE!! This rules, thank you! I'll be sure to look through these later!
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Oh yea, since some of the search terms might not be familiar:
Archive: Short for "hex archive." In petz fan culture, a person's "archive" is like an art portfolio of hexed (modded) petz they've modded into the game themselves, and then adopted out to other players as little pieces of interactive artwork.
Crew: one's collection of pets. A site specifically for displaying one's petz is a "crew site." originates from the 90's slang "crew" for a group of buddies.
Shows: Petz shows aren't really about conformation to a breed standard (for a large variety of reasons), but about how well a Petz can do a specific kind of pose for the in-game "camera" screenshot function. Some people are very into training petz to pose for the camera, collecting show points on forums, and displaying a petz' show points and awards on its section of their crew site. This page describes the process of taking a photo of a "show pose."
PKC: Petz Kennel Club, a petz show website that was extremely popular during the 00's and '10's, which did have conformation to irl breed standards as a priority. The website itself closed very recently, but many realistic-looking fanmade petz breeds were specifically created for PKC shows.
Cliques: I don't remember if this word was popular outside of the PC in the 90's, but this is the word petz fans use for miscellaneous small collectible graphics you display on your website.
Stamps: A specific type of collectible graphic that was invented in 2017 on Whiskerwick forums, resembling a postage stamp. Similar in dimension to a Dreamwidth icon. This icon is a petz stamp! Unlike cliques, stamps are sometimes only available from their source sites for a limited time.
Find-It: A scavenger hunt for a specified image on a person's petz website, usually with a roleplay-esque prompt like "can you find Rover's missing blue ball for him?" The image usually has a link to some kind of reward, such as a collectible award graphic for displaying on the visitor's own website, a modded (pet/breed/toy/clothing/playscene/etc) file to install into the visitor's own petz game, etc. These are really fun and I wish "old web" sites outside of the Petz Community did these more! 90's cyberpet sites (of the pre-neopets "just a handmade gif you can put on your website" type) often distributed "rare" or "special" pet types with this method.
Adoptions, Auctions, Raffles, Sales: these are all largely just different methods of giving out individual .pet files to people. Attractively hexed petz, and attractively bred petz (using the in-game breeding functions) with no hexed ancestry, are both considered valuable within the petz "economy" so to speak.
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Oooh gotcha gotcha! Ty!