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An old-fashioned ornament of two young girls bundled up in coats and walking side by side is nestled amidst pine boughs.

Snowflake Challenge, #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

YouTube recommended this to me last night and it was the last thing I watched before bed so I think this counts:

Watch on YouTube

I'm a little sad that a protest song from 1966 still feels so relevant. (YouTube recommended this just after I watched a modern protest song about ICE.)

Also, it's always weird to see John Denver without glasses. His glasses were so iconic, I think of them as a part of him.

Current Mood: accomplished

impala_chick

Title: First Snowfall of the Season
Fandom: Sense8
Pairing: Kala/Wolfgang/Rajan
Rated: Teen
Word Count: 636

Summary: Wolfgang wants to show Kala and Rajan the first snowfall of the season.

A/N: Written for Sense8 Holiday Exchange. My first Sense8 fic!

Fic on AO3

( Fic under here )

impala_chick

Title: New Plan
Fandom: Roswell New Mexico
Pairing: Pod Squad & Dallas Haines & Kyle Valenti
Rated: Gen
Word Count: 1,179

Summary: Max, Isobel, and Michael get worried when Dallas says he's too sick to come over.

A/N: Written for RNM Secret Santa.

Fic on AO3

( Fic under here )

cornerofmadness

So I mentioned the power was out sometime over the holiday and my freezer was full of frost. It must have been out longer than I thought because poking around I saw all the ice cream had melted everywhere but that's not the weird part.

No, apparently it was off so long that whatever blockage between the freezer and fridge melted (in spite of me having the fridge off all day once already) because the fridge is ICE cold (I had it on the highest setting just to get it to be slightly cool) I'm like what? What?!? How did you come back to life? It's still a mess but I'm going to let it limp along for now.

I found a manager special half off tray of devil's eggs (24 of them). I have never seen this before. NO ONE has seen this because all the cashiers and baggers were running over to see it. I wonder if this had been a special order that wasn't picked up. Either of way I'm gonna eat them all up.

I was halfway through making the new homework for the first week of the class but suddenly 50 questions into 90 of them (I pick and choose from the 90s to make the homework) the power fails. No reason. No high winds, no big storm. Just boom no power. Lose everything.

And I had just got the phone system working but then bang, the power goes out and the phone with it. Naturally the cell phone says 'no cellular connections.' ARGH

At least I got writing done but when the power went out at least I had handwritten back up for what hadn't autosaved

As horrible as the last week has been for America and the world in general I find myself in an awkward position of arranging the work conference and planning a vacation in spite of being afraid to literally go anywhere even within my own state let alone elsewhere. I can't be alone in this terrible feeling.

Have some links for Science Saturday

Lupus Linked To Virus That Over 95 Percent Of Us Carry – And Now We Finally Know How I remember in medical school when we were really starting to see EBV and thought it caused 'chronic fatigue syndrome' but weren't sure it did anything at all (and weren't sure chronic fatigue was real), now we know it causes multiple cancers and now this

Leonardo da Vinci's DNA may be embedded in his art — and scientists think they've managed to extract some speaking of weird

Rare 2,000-year-old war trumpet, possibly linked to Celtic queen Boudica, discovered in England lots of assumptions here but the trumpet itself is cool

Study Raises Serious Questions About The Benefits of Intermittent Fasting

Potential Anti-Cancer Fungal Compound Finally Synthesized After 55 Years

Unique 'Golden Shark' Caught Off Central America Diagnosed With Rare Condition

Silencing Bacterial 'Chatter' in Your Mouth May Help Prevent Tooth Decay Another one for my student

And here's the Fannish 50 Friday (one day late) Fic round up

Paint Me Golden Hazbin Hotel

Flight Time 9-1-1

Banded Dress and Black Coat Wheel of Time

make what you believe 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness Helluva Boss

Alastor's Lament Hazbin Hotel

Settling Into Beacon Hills Teen Wolf

Feeding Time Stargate Atlantis

Caught Flat-Footed Torchwood

Wants and Fears FAKE

Cultural Exchange Stargate Atlantis

The Duel Torchwood

Favorite for a Reason Stargate Atlantis

Shark Dicks NSFW comic Hazbin Hotel

One Drink Lasts Too Long Hazbin Hotel

Fair Food Stargate Atlantis

In Which, We Are Chaos 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Adjacent Hazbin Hotel

Blizzard Conditions Torchwood

The New Wave. Hazbin Hotel

Fat And Thin Hazbin Hotel

Jin's Dad Jokes 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Plotting Revenge The Professionals (TV 1977)

Chip On My Shoulder UglyDolls (2019)

in the nest box Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena

Current Mood: discontent
Current Music: Svengoolie

oldtoadwoman

Snowflake Challenge: A close up shot of an owl ornament hanging amidst pine boughs..

Snowflake Challenge, #3: A Love Letter to Fandom
( Dear Fandom, We need to talk (this got much longer and weirder than intended) )

Current Mood: weird

oldtoadwoman

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

Snowflake Challenge, #2: Pets of Fandom

For a few delusional moments, I thought I'd handle all of these prompts with art and after one quick initial sketch decided that I don't have time or I'll still be finishing these prompts next year. (I literally have art prompts from two or three Octobers ago that I keep saying I'm going to do "some day".)

I think sometimes starting an elaborate project might be a subconscious way of avoiding the project because deep down I know I'm never actually going to do the cool idea in my head.

That said, I do have a very clear idea of what my entry on Pets of Fandom should be.

So, I loved, loved, loved the 2025 Superman movie. I don't know how it landed with the younglings who didn't grow up with Christopher Reeve's Superman as the iconic version, but all of my friends that I've talked to had that same delighted reaction to this movie. It's fully modern and never even does any overt callbacks to the 1978 movie. But it has that same idealistic spirit, leans into the corniness without ever going too far, and just made me very happy. When I first realized the superdog Krypto was going to be in it, I think I cringed just a tiny bit. A CGI superdog was obviously going to drag things down, I thought. But. Oh, it was perfect. The fact that Krypto was a badly-trained chaos vector worked on so many levels. (My sister once had a dog that she always said she was going to take to obedience class when she had time but she never did and the dog eventually treated the entire house like a chew toy. Imagine that dog with super powers.)

If you didn't see Superman and were feeling done with superhero movies after a glut of them in the theater, I urge you to make an exception for the 2025 Superman. It's just so sweet.

A key character moment is when Lois Lane responds in disbelieve that Superman is about to put himself in danger for the sake of a dog. To which, Superman replies, "Yeah, and he’s not even a very good one, but he’s out there alone. And he’s probably scared."

Current Mood: ditzy

autobotscoutriella

Snowflake Challenge: A mug of coffee or hot chocolate with a snowflake shaped gingerbread cookie perched on the rim sits nestled amidst a softly bunched blanket. A few dried orange slices sit next to it.

Challenge #5: In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

Every single year I get to the wishlist challenge and go "but that's HARD, why can't people just read my mind and know what I want". If nothing else, I am very consistent! :D But I went and filled some wishes, so I guess it's time for me to make my own list.

1) The Predictable Writer Request: comments and/or kudos on any of my fic would make my day. I write for Transformers and Ace Attorney mostly, but there's a few smaller fandoms in there (if you like Redwall, I've got Redwall!).

2) Klavier/Daryan, Klavier/Daryan/Apollo, or Ema/Franziska icons (both from Ace Attorney). I lack the photo editing skills to do more than crop existing images to the right size, and there's very little promo art featuring those characters together (the woes of rarepair shipping, LOL).

3) The real long shot: transformative works based on any of my fics, whether that's art, moodboards, covers, whatever. Especially for Sonata in F You, which is my favorite thing I've ever written.

Current Mood: embarrassed

autobotscoutriella

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!

Have you ever wished you could listen to the exact sounds of the scene you're trying to write? Add some appropriately themed ambiance to your D&D game or art project? Or just find some soothing rain noise or birdsong to listen to while you work, no, not that birdsong, a different bird, why doesn't this ONE BIRD exist on Youtube -

Anyway, try MyNoise! It's a collection of different soundscapes, from basic rain-and-thunder noises to settings like a medieval library, medieval village, or creepy dungeon. It's pretty much always open somewhere in my tab collection; I use it for writing, relaxing, blocking out annoying equipment noises at work, and when I feel like listening to something but not music per se.

No, I didn't wait until I could guarantee I had something cool in my tabs before I did this prompt, why do you ask?

Current Mood: accomplished

cornerofmadness

That meeting started too early and went way too long. That said it wasn't as awful as it could have been. We spent too much time on active shooter drills, not because it's not important but because we keep getting promised changes that never happen. This time I held up my work key chain that has over 30 keys. HOW am I going to find the right key fast enough to not get shot trying? I was told we can buy that bolt lock for the inside of the door if we want one...ME? Jesus.

There might be enough money to keep my building from falling in. That's good to know.

The new football coach seemed to be a cross between a tent revival preacher and someone honestly wanting to rehab our team (you know the one that's been here 1 year, lost half to expulsion for bad behavior and this is our third coach!)

The AI training went on too long. SO long. We're instructors. We KNOW the brain can't handle 2 hours of lecture.

Came home to no phone and no functioning cell phone (I have a land line because 90% of the time the cell doesn't work out here).

Then into the writer's zoom where I mostly did editing of the novel. Still hoping for beta readers for the Overlook short story.

And I'll do fannish fan recs tomorrow because then I had to fight with kickstarter about my pledge (still isn't done) and fight with United health care which still thinks I'm a member and well now I am again but it took forever to update everything.

Such a frustrating day.

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Music: Graham Norton Show

tellshannon815

On many of the fannish websites we use, our history is easily compileable into "pages". When we look back through those pages, sometimes we stumble upon things that we think are rather cool.

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!

Rather than actual last pages, since I feel like I've spent a lot of time the last couple of days tracking Storm Goretti (which oddly passed more or less right over me with very little impact in terms of snow), I'll just ramble that I've spent most time recently on my DW reading page, on Dark's fandom wiki to remind myself of Gretchen the dog's history for Challenge #2 as she was my chosen pet, and AO3.

tellshannon815

Today’s challenge is a chance to express your love to fandom, and what better way than a love letter? If you feel really creative, the letter doesn’t have to come from you. You could write as your favourite character, someone completely fictitious or your past or future self - or just as you in this moment.

Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

To Dark,

You're complicated as hell, and I'm not over the fates that the vast majority of the characters ended up with in the finale (even though the family tree makes it difficult to see how it could easily end any other way. Believe me, I've spent the last two years trying to work out a way that I can do it for one particular fic.) But you have great casting (seriously, just take a look at the Young/Middle aged/Old actors. At least one of the actors playing an 81 year old version of one character still surprises people to this day that he's not the 48 year old version in makeup and a wig.) and characters, and have provided me with so much writing inspiration.

To Lost,

My first fandom, and still my all time favourite, the one that first got me exploring the backstories of lesser ficced characters (and trust me, you have a lot) and playing with timelines, the one that first led me to start getting to know other fans, and the one that still has some influence over a lot of my more recent fandom choices. (Except you, Mr. Smoke Monster. Even 15 years on, you can jog on.)

To From,

The other one of my all time top three, that I wish was more appreciated and better known, but trust me, I'm trying to rectify that. Loving the characters, enjoying the mystery (we are starting to get answers at this point, so it doesn't seem to be a "making it up as they go along" thing) and you were the source of my favourite piece of fandom merch (Jade's cat shirt).

autobotscoutriella

Challenge #3: Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

I'm not good at love letters - or letters at all, really! Epistolary has never been my strong suit. (Which is why this is late, haha. Shh, it's only by a few days!)

So I'll just say: complications and all, I'm glad fandom's here. I got started when I was a sheltered teenager who had no idea what I was getting into, and while fandom probably wasn't the best way to learn how the world worked outside the local homeschool group, it was definitely one of the kinder options. I've made all of my best friends through fandom at this point - first through Transformers, and then in Ace Attorney (which I was so nervous to get into, because I'd been into exclusively Transformers for a decade, and how did fandoms about humans even work? And then everybody was so lovely and welcoming). I've lost touch with a few of them over the years, but I still remember all of them. (If we ever talked back on FFN and you've found this somehow, I still think about you!)

Admittedly, I haven't really caught up to fandom on most social media these days. I never made it over to Twitter or Tiktok before -gestures at everything-, or the newer sites people seem to have migrated to from there. But I've found people on all the sites I do hang out on, and that's been really nice. So...thanks, fandom! Here's to another few decades.

Current Mood: thoughtful

cornerofmadness

I started talking about all the anxiety at the state of the world but it nearly sent me into a spiral so let me say what I AM thankful for this thursday.

1. chocolate covered strawberry mochas are back at my coffee shop. They are my favorite and I look forward to their Valentine's presence.

2. My well stocked library for as small as we are (now I can do the prompt for a book about a popstar that I didn't give a damn with a graphic novel about queen)

Have some community recs

betaplease as it suggests, a beta community

goals_on_dw set goals and get support on keeping them

ushobwri writing centric. I belong to this one

12monthsofmurder If I wanted a new challenge community, why not one where I can kill a character over and over for a year?

picture_prompt_fun I don't need another challenge. i don't need another challenge. I would love this.

Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: Murder She Wrote

cornerofmadness

I had two things shipping to my parents house. One that was supposed to be shipped back on the 30th but was telling me it should have arrived monday and one that should have shipped by the 3rd that wasn't supposed to arrive until tomorrow. Both arrived today. Woot. I bought my coveted raven dress from Svaha when they had everything 40% off and I had preordered the husk and angel figures in Loser Baby blue in the summer. Wow, Bandai really hit it out of the park with these two (especially compared to the stuff I got from Youtooz). Now to find a place to put them.

Made it back to Ohio (nearly forgot my apartment key!) half the crap is in the house, half is still in the car. It was a good drive. Rocket is between my feet on the recliner, happy as hell I'm back (mad as hell that I forgot to leave behind 1 can of food for him and only have kibble, he's mad as hell and I hear about it every time I move)

Given how iced over my freezer is, my power must have been out for a long time. Probably throwing all of that stuff out. sigh.

What I Just Finished Reading:

Keeping the Secret - Mostly the tales of the WAVS in Dayton OH in the ladies' own words

Murder Made Her Wicked - loved this historical mystery set in Wellesley

What I am Currently Reading:

The Witching Hour - by Heather Graham. how is this series so successful? This is not my first in the series (which I forgot when I requested this arc) this is not good.

Murder in the Ranks - Set in WWII with the WAACs in North Africa. Really different. I've read other WWII mysteries but never one with the lady in the war zone. I'm very much enjoying this one

What I Plan to Read Next: La Grand Familia and Zombie Day Care

Current Mood: drained
Current Music: Evil Lives Here

cornerofmadness

Mom and I went to the casino to lose money and I did that well. Mom won. We also hit Primanti's and I got a second rubber ducky in my duck juice cocktail so yay for that.

I am not ready for work for reasons I don't want to get into publicly and has everything to do with the changes Ohio's Republicans have made with education.

So for my second fannish 50, have bunch of fandom related end of year memes

( they're long so they're under here )

Current Mood: aggravated
Current Music: Inspector George Gently

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Sunshine Moderators

Snowflake Challenge: #4 Rec

Fic: First Snowfall of the Season (Sense8, Kala/Wolfgang/Rajan)

Fic: New Plan (RNM, Pod Squad Gen)

The weird of the day

Snowflake Challenge: #3 Dear Fandom, We need to talk

Snowflake Challenge: #2 What the hey, dude?

Snowflake Challenge 2026: Prompt 5

Snowflake Challenge 2026: Prompt 4

Survived the day

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Getting caught up.

Snowflake Challenge 2026: Prompt 3

Last day off

A Belated Holiday Miracle

Last Day here

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