Checkpoint 2: Ambitions and challenges

[nepenthee]

The challenge has garnered a good amount of webmasters, from familiar to new faces, yay! To anyone reading this while still debating whether to sign up: Do consider joining us even if you might not finish your shrine by the deadline. You are invited to make use of this space if it motivates you and drives the completion of your shrine along!

My questions this week: Do you have any specific plans for your shrine aside from the challenge theme, e.g. is there anything specific you want to achieve, something new you want to try out, a skill you want to pick up? Where do you foresee your biggest challenges?

Again, feel free to chat about anything, no need to answer any of these questions. Also note that any previous checkpoint posts will stay open and you are more than welcome to reply and continue conversations there!

Comments

[velvetdusk]

Yes! That's exactly it—wikis have claimed the informational territory, which actually liberates shrines to be what they always wanted to be: devotional rather than encyclopedic. The personal lens, the careful curation of what resonates, the confession of why something matters to you specifically—that's what makes a shrine feel alive rather than archival.

And same here about fanlistings. I used to make them, or at least start them, with the intention that they'd eventually become shrines... but they never quite made that leap. In hindsight, I think fanlistings became a kind of creative crutch for me—a way to express fondness without confronting the deeper articulation of why. Which is why I'm steering clear of them this time. I want to build things that demand that sustained attention you described, where you have to sit with a character or work long enough to understand what it truly means to you, not just what it is 🖤