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neonspider ([personal profile] neonspider) wrote in [community profile] neonspiderwebs on May 4th, 2020 at 06:15 pm
Thanks a lot for the lovely comment!

Ok, so here's my totally random project, it's a bit complicated but I hope it makes sense. It's a character focused rewatch/iconing project. Basically I have a list of 100 characters and ships (which don't have to be romantic, just any interesting relationship) that I like the most out of any shows. I then use some sort of method to pick one or multiple of these subjects at a time (usually one, but for a fixed-size set I like to pick them all at once). This selection method could be a random number generator, a game (I developed a board game that I sometimes play with [livejournal.com profile] thyla87 to determine our subject picks for a challenge set), or a semirandom method (my most used one is a simple algorithm of dividing my subjects into two random stacks, turning the two topmost cards and eliminating one of the stacks based on the subject at the top - I keep doing this halving of the stack until there's only one subject left).

Anyway, now that I have my subject, I need to rewatch the first episode (or movie) that has this character in it and that I haven't yet rewatched for this project. If it's a ship, I rewatch the first episode that has them both. I write a review of this episode (mostly to keep track of which episodes I've rewatched, but it's also fun to score the episodes and keep a running list of episodes I've liked the most, I also give plus and minus points to characters I enjoyed or disliked in that episode to keep track of the best characters :D), and after that I icon my subject from that episode. That's pretty much it, there's no schedule and I'm definitely not hoarding all these icons to post at once cause idek when this will end, I've been posting them all along since November when I started this.

So far I've iconned and rewatched 96 episodes/movies. Of course at some point I'll have rewatched all episodes that have a character, that's when the character is removed from the list and replaced with someone new. It's a really fun way to both rewatch my favorite shows and select subjects for challenges, which has always been difficult for me, but it also means that most of the icons I make are not for challenges cause it's a bit difficult sometimes to pair random subjects with challenges that have any subject-specific themes. I still want to keep doing it this way, because tbh I'm at a point where I'm more interested in the rewatching part, and the iconing part is kind of just a fun extra. Anyway that's it, sorry for the long ramble but I don't know how to explain this mess more briefly xD tl;dr I'm a giant nerd.
 
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