tangeriner | Snowflake Challenge: Day Five

Day 5

Recommend a fannish or creative resource. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

As I get back into writing and fandom, I have two resources that have really helped me:

1. The books mentioned in this Tumblr post -- I actually bought the hard copies, because I like to flip through things, and I find them very useful for understanding people's motivations, traits and emotions (something I am not necessarily particularly good at IRL). Evidently, there is a web-page as well, by the same authors. Topics covered in these various thesauruses: positive traits, negative traits, urban settings, rural settings, and emotions. Also, the books are very large, physically, and as I am a librarian, I like that sort of thing. Speaking of libraries, my local one has several copies of each, so that is an option, too.

2. Marvel Database -- I stopped reading Marvel Comics a few years ago, when my fun money budget priorities shifted, but now my fun money has shifted back, and holy jeepers, am I constantly lost about plots, characters, series, etc. I've basically been living on this site, which provides enough information about the who, where and why of things (better than Wikipedia), and I'm slowly using it to get back into things. (As an aside, I was shocked to discover Jamie Madrox was killed off. He was the first comics death I ever cried ever, back when he died of the Legacy Virus.)