Snowflake Challenge 2026 #5: wishes~!

Jan. 10th, 2026 12:31 pm
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Didn't get to do this one earlier thanks to working late yesterday 😒 but hey, I have a few minutes to scribble this out now

Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

Challenge #5

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.


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This week: Minami joins the Zeztz team and Kosei says thank you to Sorato

I wasn't going to use an Ultraman Omega quote today because next week is the final episode, but this one was just so good, I had to!

Spoilers, as always, below. And one image in the Zeztz review!

Kamen Rider Zeztz (episode 16)

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Ultraman Omega (episode 24)

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snowflake 2k26: #2 + #4

Jan. 10th, 2026 11:50 am
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Snowflake Challenge: A close up shot of an owl ornament hanging amidst pine boughs..

 
 
I haven't had a lot of time for the Snowflake Challenge (or little else) since the year begun, but I wanted to dedicate a moment to it this weekend, at least. Skipping over #3 for now...

Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom.
Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!


I've had too many pets growing up to post them here without forgetting some, likely. Mainly dogs, and ferrets, but also birds, wild rabbits rescued and released back, cats we took care of due to various circumstances but couldn't keep because my father is allergic... Some wounded birds we also kept until they healed. A few days ago while I was at my parents' I thought I might end up adding another one to the list LOL, but after a couple hours the little thing managed to fly again (it had crashed against my window LOL).

Dogs have always been my favourite pet to have thoughThe fun you can have with them is unparalleled. And my two favourite fictional pets are dogs, as well: Ace in Batman Beyond, and Bear in Person of Interest. And I suppose they have quite a bit in common: older dogs with a harsh past taken in by a gruff man LOL. If you haven't watched it, I especially recommend the episode "Ace in the Hole" from Batman Beyond, if you want to get some of those Dog Film Feelings in under 30 minutes. 

Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page
Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!


I am going to be lazy, and link back to all I recommended for rec-cember last month :P

I posted four master lists (+ a bonus mini-list on the last day of December). Each included fanfiction, fanart, and meta analysis, with one fandom being the focus but with plenty of random recs of each category for other fandoms. I truly recommend checking them out!
  • Recs for The Murderbot Diaries. The bonus include a Barbie/Dracula crossover you won't regret taking a look at. Crack taken seriously at its finest. 
  • Recs for The Locked Tomb. Speaking as someone who's really not into modern AUs, please do check out the abortion story.
  • Recs for Black Sails. It was great to have an excuse revisit this fandom and catch up on my to-read list for it :P. Make sure to check the fanart!
  • Recs for the DCU. It's a huge fandom, which means so times you have to really dig to find some gems, so I saved you the trouble :P. The extras include one of my favourite fics read last year, a sickening post-Endgame one-shot focused on Steve and Peggy.
The last mini-list was basically focused on fanvids (half of them from Black Sails), with a few extra recs (one Murderbot fanart, a couple Yuletide fics from Carmilla and Hitchcock's Rope) that didn't make it to the other lists due to timing. 

I think between the fic/art/meta etc. and the variety of fandoms there'll be something for everyone in them.

Snowflake Challenge '26, 5

Jan. 9th, 2026 12:37 pm
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Hello snowflake challenge participants and readers! Snowflake is quickly becoming one of my favorite parts of Dreamwidth. This challenge...

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it and include a link to your wishlist if you feel comfortable doing so.

1) I loveeeeee user icons omg. I love them, collect em, and would love some of any of my fav things, which for reference are (some links to screencap sites included, ones I could find them for anyway)
  • The Orville (Charly, Alara, Solana, Kaylon Primary/Secondary/Tertiary/all 3, post-transition Topa, Claire, Kelly, Teleya; Kelly/&Teleya, Kelly&/Topa, Alara/&Solana),
  • Doom Patrol (if you can make me Negative Spirit icons, I would love ya forever, I've tried and I suck at it; also Valentina, Jane/underground alters (any), Isabel Feathers, sisterhood of dada girlies),
  • Palia (Elouisa, Caleri, Tish, Subira),
  • Star Trek Online (Zarva, T'Vrell, Elisa, Tovan, Rinna, Veril, Satra),
  • Pluribus (Zosia, Carol/Zosia),
  • Extraordinary (Jen),
  • Babylon 5 (Morden, Anna, Talia, Lyta, Neeoma, Kosh, Dureena; Kosh/Lyta, Dureena/Sarah)
  • Charmed 2018 (Macy, Maggie, Fiona, Charity)
  • Charmed 1998 (Prue, Prue/Cole)
  • Star Trek: LWD (Tendi, D'Erika, Beckett, Badgey; D'ERika&/D'Vana, Beckett/&Carol, Beckett & Tendi)
2) I'd love some more friends who are into the Orville stuff I mentioned, or any Orville femslash, female characters, or any Orville "dead dove"/darkfic enjoyers! I have very few people to talk about this with.

3) Comments on my fanfic--I write largely for the aforementioned things, and some other stuff too. I'm very rarepair centric, female character centric, femslash centric, minor character centric, and therefore I don't get a lot of comments :p

4) More personal sites to check out! Do you have a website or read the personal website of anyone cool? Drop it here below! And I have one too, let me know if you'd like to exchange buttons.

Thanks for readinggg!! :)

Books | Reading & Just Finished

Jan. 8th, 2026 12:52 am
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Crossposting my comment from [community profile] booknook. If I can remember to keep this up for every "Wednesday Reading Progress" that would be great or maybe every other week. I don't normally post comments on Goodreads just ratings so this might be a good way to remember my feelings about a particular book/author. Please note that I mainly read Romance books, other genres are usually secondary.

In this case, some of my thoughts were already posted in a previous post.


Currently Reading:
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Just Finished:
just finished (today)... )

Finished within the last week:
finished within the last week... )
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Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!


Gonna give y'all a mix of fannish and non-fannish stuff.

Firstly, my non-fandom interest the past few years has been North Carolina folklore. And several months ago, I stumbled across The Broadside podcast from WUNC (which is one of NPR's local affiliates in North Carolina). The podcast isn't folklore-specific, but it shares a variety of interesting stories about North Carolina, ranging from venus flytrap preservation efforts to exploration of Black banjo players and everything weird and wonderful in between. (Sometimes it does touch on folklore too). Episodes are usually around 20-25 minutes long. (I like to listen while I'm cooking!)

Secondly, I looked through my open tabs and here are a bunch of exchange collections on ao3 that I'm still in the slow process of reading through. It's really never too late to read a fic (or appreciate fan art or listen to a podfic, etc). I'm sure the authors would appreciate more people enjoying their work!

Exchanges:
☆ Whump Exchange 2025
☆ Casefic Exchange 2025
☆ Fic in a Box 2025
☆ Crossworks 2025
☆ Trick or Treat 2025
☆ Star Trek Holidays 2025
☆ Yuletide 2025

Happy reading and/or listening!

Snowflake challenge '26, 4

Jan. 7th, 2026 06:29 pm
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Alright so I lied I am not doing challenge 3 because I have written love letters to fandom many times before, so onto no 3:

Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

OKAY, Linkspam time!!
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