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Day 5 - Recommend a fannish or creative resources.
I realized I have a resource to recommend!
Rise Up Singing and Rise Again are two really great folksong source books.  They are a great place to learn new folksongs. Each book contains the lyrics and chords for 1200 beloved songs, along with notes on sources for listening. They also have an online presence now.  Here is an example of the song Across the Universe by the Beatles.
https://www.riseupandsing.org/songs/across-universe

Day 6 - Leave feedback for a fanwork.
I make this a habit!  :)

Day 7 - Create a love meme for yourself.
Okay - if anyone would like to leave love for me, that would be very nice!  :D

Day 8 - Share a favorite piece of original canon.

 I really love that Leverage gave us a canon OT3.  When Eliot says "Till my dyin day," I don't really see how else you could possibly interpret it. Here is a favorite fanvid for the ot3 by thingswithwings, and it is so good! to the song Parachute by Ingrid Michaelson.

I also love that Jim and Blair on the Sentinel have canon spirit animals that merge onscreen.  In the 90s no less!!
The vid is a fun song vid with a lot of Blair dancing.  The vid ends with a lot of explosions which is true to the show! The spirit animals merge at minute 1:07 in the vid.  :D

One piece of canon that I think has been overlooked regarding Iron Fist season one, is that there are so many important women characters.  For every man (Ward and Harold Meachum) there is a woman of equal or greater importance (Joy and Madame Gao). Danny has not just Colleen, but also Claire and Jeri Hogarth as allies.  (He calls Hogarth J-Money!!)   When Danny needs help (which he needs a LOT), he turns to his most trusted advisors -- all women.  I also think it's really important to note that if you went to Iron Fist looking for an Asian martial arts master, you should not overlook Colleen Wing.  Also, Colleen puts Claire in training for self defense!!  So many great moments in the Iron Fist.  Also I think Madame Gao was much more interesting and nuanced in Iron Fist than in Daredevil (and I liked her a lot more than Sigourney Weaver's character in Defenders). I could talk all day about Iron Fist, but suffice it to say, I really liked the show and a lot of that was down to the amazing women characters.

EDIT: Post Golden Globes, I read an article about the lack of women writers and directors being recognized at the awards.  So I wanted to go back and check on that in the imdb credits for Iron Fist.  From Imdb, I find several directors and writers named for the series who are women, including directors Uta Briesewitz, Deborah Chow, and Jet Wilkinson, and writers including Tamara Becher and Cristine Chambers. For what it's worth.  :)