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So I’m still behind on a few snowflake prompts so I might seem about doing the others in a group another time cause I’ve not had the energy lately alas. But anyway!

Challenge #15

Talk about an unexpected joyous moment you experienced last year.

Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So last year was pretty much a bunch of bad things with a few bright spots in between. Some of those were expected things, so I’m not gonna mention those, but two unexpected things do come to mind.

The first is a more minor one. I was in town with mum and went into CEX (for non uk people it’s a store that sells preowned games/dvds/blu rays etc), I only went in to have a look round not expecting to get anything and I saw the boxset for Ring. After some thought (and price checking when I had wi fi) I decided to pop back and pick it up.

Watching that sparked my interested in j-horror again (leading me to get the Ju-On boxset and J-Horror Rising one) but an unexpected thing (as well as finding it in the first place) was on one of the special features. There was one which mentioned adaptions of Ring and I knew the American one and the Korean one but I didn’t know that there was Uk one.

After doing some digging I found out that there was a bbc audio adaption with Eve Myles and Naoko Mori (both from Torchwood) and I tracked it down and gave it a listen (it seems to have been taken down but here is another upload though I’ve not heard it so can’t attest to quality). It does seem to more follow the book though I’m still so curious how it even happened.

The second unexpected thing was around the same sort of time.

I kept seeing people talking about a band called Sleep Token and their new album. I’d not heard of them before and, usually, I’m not one for just checking bands out randomly, but I decided to open up Spotify and gave them a listen.

I sat there and listened to Take Me Back To Eden in full. And since then I’ve listened to it pretty regularly (I even got it a few days later when I was in Birmingham). If you’ve not heard it, it’s kind of hard to describe. It’s one of those albums that kind of… defies description. Even individual songs can go through several styles from start to finish. But there’s something special about it, something magical. (I do recommend listening if you can at least once)

And then they had me hooked.

It was a little while late, when I saw they were on the cover of a magazine (I think it was this), that I found out that the singer wore a mask and no one knew who he, or the other members actually were. I just love the mask (and that he has his chest out) and it’s only recently I found out that there’s been other masks too.

When they announced a tour I had to get tickets, even though they ended up being more than I expected and stressful to get. (It really was a nightmare, I hate that tickets are like that now.) but it was so worth it.

I saw them back in November and I was a mass of anxiety, which happens at gigs lately (due to poor experiences and being in a new place and my general iffy health lately) but damn it was so worth it. I was in a seated spot and I was glad I was (though which I was a little bit closer) because the whole thing was just so…. Magical and empowering (in a way I did my best to describe here).

I hope to see them again and a recent Kerrang special made me curious about the bands lore (I have a few magazines I need to read but I’ve misplaced them and haven’t been able to look). And I’m so looking forward to when they do new stuff.

Now though I’m gonna snuggle Midna and start reading my Cult Of The Lamb graphic novel, which has been sitting around for a few weeks now.



Sleep token

Ring

Challenge #11

In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Challenge 11: kink version! As an advance warning, since it’s kink focussed, this is the nsfw addition.

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So I was gonna double up and do post 8 and 9 together, but a lack of focus and stress had meant I can’t think of anything for so I might do that for one of the other days.

Anyway.

Challenge #9

In your own space, create a fanwork. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So I was hoping to finish one of my fic to do lists and psot it for this (and I may add a link if I do) but alas, the aforementioned stress has got in the way.

However today I did do a lil doodle thing so I’m gonna post that.

But first some context. Lately I’ve been watching The Realm smp, which is a Minecraft smp with various creators that has a plug in that gives you levels for certain skills (ie woodcutting, alchemy, archery that kind of thing). When someone reaches a certain level (it was originally level 50 but that’s been lowered at least once) you get given a snail, that follows you around. It’s kinda like the qsmp eggs (if anyone watched that) but if they touch you they take levels. Most snails are pretty big, like the size of a Minecraft dog.

The main person I watch on it (purely cause I watch his streams a lot anyway) is Seapeekay. He recently got his snail, but instead of being a big snail like most of the others she is a tiny snail (like a few pixels, closer to the size of an irl snail size). She’s called Junimo and she is so baby and so cute. (here is a pic to show how baby she is)

One of the cutest things she does is that if he goes afk while she’s around (to pick up food or use the bathroom) she does lil patrols, by going left and right in front of him. It’s so adorable. (She also jumps up and down cutely to say yes, doesn’t like water and only grows big when she’s mad)

And that’s what inspired me to do a lil doodle thing. Note I am very much not an artist, I’ll be honest, but I couldn’t not do something plus I thought it’d be a nice thing for the challenge too.



I might do something else with her cause she’s adorable and I do like arting sometimes but we’ll see.

Anyway now I’m gonna have noms, maybe fic and watch The Masked Singer.

So I missed doing this a few days back (thanks back pain!) so I’m doubling up on snowflake today

Challenge #5

Talk about what has improved in your life thanks to fandom. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I know it’s a basic answer but the friends I’ve met along the way. Sure I’ve met a lot of people who have been terrible or just… vanished into the ether but I’ve also met some nice people that have stuck around and been nice and kind.

(And I know I suck sometimes, especially last year with my depression making me distant and low energy, but hopefully this year will be better)

Also there’s fannish things in general, for providing escapes be it in shows or games to get lost in or gigs (despite being stressful too) and giving me things to look forward to, focus on or distract from the horrors.

Challenge #6

Share your favourite piece of original canon. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Well I’m not sure on my favourite piece of canon cause it’s constantly changing, so I’m gonna switch it up slightly and do my favourite pieces of canon from 2024.

First of is The Acolyte which is my fav Star Wars thing from last year (I’m so sad there’s been no Lego but it’s hard to see what they’d do). It’s really such a great show despite being uneven in some ways. However I’m narrowing it down to a specific episode, Night.

The episode is easily the best of the series and it’s honestly hard to describe what makes it so good without spoilers. Basically it’s an episode long fight between a team of Jedi and the villain of the show and it’s just so…. It had me riverted the whole time and it made me gasp in shock at some of the things that happened. (And yes someone is very very sexy during the whole thing.)

Second is Agatha All Along. I really loved Agatha in Wandavision and the trailer for the show looked really good so I was super excited for it and… damn, it might be my fav show of the year. I came to love all of the main characters so much and it really is at its best when they’re all together bouncing of each other. And, of course, there’s the song! The Ballad Of The Witches Road has been stuck in my head ever since I first heard it and I love it so much.

Lastly there’s Sonic 3 which was the film I was looking forward to most last year because Shadow! And ahh he was so cool, he kicked ass and was just so awesome. Plus Agent Stone got some awesome (and emotional) scenes too! I hope both of them are back in the sequel. One of my fav scenes was right at the start, where Shadow first breaks out and he’s just so… damn.

I’m curious what everyone else liked most from their fandoms last year!

Now I’m gonna bundle up, I might start reading the Agatha Christie January challenge book (Five Little Pigs) or I might fic or just flop. Tonight is the masked singer then I might watch a film (Tarot most likely) or game (Alan Wake II most likely, or Indiana Jones And The Great Circle)

Challenge #3

In your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I had meant to answer this yesterday but my focus has kinda been off yesterday and I couldn’t really think of anything.

One that has come to mind since is Doctor Who related, specifically classic Who.

I came into classic Who in a rather haphazard way, s I mentioned in one of the other days my first one was The Five Doctors and then I went from there. I ended up getting all the dvds but the trouble with them was that (bar a rare few boxsets with episodes following each other) they came out in a completely random order so that’s how I got them in a random order. That made for a strange watching experience, one time you’d get a third doctor ep with Jo the next could be a seventh doctor and Mel or a Fourth and Leela. Thankfully most stories are self contained (and ones that weren’t were released together in boxsets). And speaking of boxsets some of them made sense, being interconnected episodes or ones about specific things (the Silurian or sontaran boxsets) whereas others were completely random (I’m looking at you Earth Story).

Anyway! My point is that you’d be dropped in randomly and it wasn’t exactly the rest way to watch. It also meant I quickly came to dislike certain doctors and companions.

A few years ago Doctor Who decided that it was gonna release classic who as blu ray boxsets, so instead of being random releases these would be full seasons. Of course there’s still a random element to it, as the boxsets are released in random orders but at least you get full context on things. (And the boxsets are made with such love there’s so many amazing and fun special features as well as some truly touching documentaries about people involved in the show.)

But watching the show like this has made my opinions on certain doctors and companions change. I’ve found I like the ones I didn’t more and I do feel that some have been kinda… screwed over by their episodes or behind the scenes stuff (im looking at you Sixth Doctor).

Wow that ended up being a longer ramble than I expected I was gonna try and think of another thing but that kinda feels enough?

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Lil bit of non-snowflake stuff (cause I don’t feel like making a separate post).

I ended up listening to some Magnus Protocol stuff the other morning and then it had the first episode of Selene on the playlist so now I’m intrigued by that. Ie died up listening to the second ep this morning and it’s all about the mystery of a black pond and a body that’s been found in it. Of course it’s being intentionally vague right now about the identity of said body. Is it from someone that fell in? A ladies missing peacock? Or has it been there for awhile? But I’m definitely intruiged and wanna know. It helps that the narrrator for it has a nice voice too.

Mum’s friend came Saturday and thankfully it wasn’t stressful. She did bring us belated presents and usually she’s not great at getting me stuff (tothe point she now gives mum money towards Lego) but this time, as well as some stuff that was eh, there was actually a nice thing! She went to Agatha Christie’s house and got me a book from there, a copy of Hallowe’en Party and the cover is so nice and pretty. Here’s a pic and the gold leaves are so shiny which isn’t picked up in it.

I found out there was an Agatha Christie reading challenge thing on her website cause it’s 100 years since her first story was published. There’s one book a month and the list is here. I’ve got three of the stories so I’m gonna try and read them and see if I can get the others as I go. Hopefully this encourages me to actually read at least one book a month!

Mum had got two new years things (I think on impulse and cause of the biopsy) and one of them was Sleep Token’s album Sundowning (yipee!) and the other was an Agatha Christie collection that has one of those three stories, which came today.

Biopsy is still a bit painful when I move, stretch or laugh. The dressing has been taken off now and the scar is about four inches which is bigger than I expected so not wonder it hurts.

I’ve been trying to finish some in game events to mixed success. Dead By Daylight has gone well (and given me an excuse to play as Steve some more) but Elder Scrolls Online has been annoying (cause some challenges are hard and the level one doesn’t work for those at max level) and Marvel Rivals seems odd (there doesn’t seem to be a mission with the last reward you need). I gave up on ESO which is annoying cause the final reward is cool but I hope to finish Dead By Daylight’s tonight.

This week I’m also hoping to get back to watching stuff. I wanna start the second seaon of The Rig (I’d have done it sooner but the events distracted me), start the third season of Stranger Things and watch Tarot at last. And get back to the DS9 run I was doing too, though I have to fully Netflix that now.

Will we be going to see Better Man this week like mum wanted? I dunno, mostly cause the weather has turned and we’ve had rain and snow so we’re a bit wary (and also mum seems to constantly going back and forth on it anyway) so I guess we’ll see.

Anyway I’m gonna bundle with Midna, have lunch, maybe Lego build and hopefully fic some.

It’s that time of the year again, not only is it New Year’s Day it’s also the first day of the snowflake challenge.

Challenge #1

Update your fandom information. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I’m Stuie, I’m from the uk and I’m usually a student with the Open University. However I’ve had to delay study a bit due to medical issues so won’t be back to it till late this year (unless things go worse). I also have mental health issues which aren’t fun to deal with.

But anyway. In terms of fandoms my big loves are The Legend Of Zelda and Star Wars (though I still need to get back to watching Bad Batch and finishing Echoes Of Wisdom). Another main one is Doctor Who and I make regular posts about it when I watch the series. I also make posts about it when I watch the zz collection blu ray boxsets, which I always love watching cause they’re always so well done.

I game a fair bit currently I’m working through Echoes Of Wisdom and Alan Wake II but I also recently started Indiana Jones And The Great Circle. (I also need to work through ElderScrolls Online and the Star Wars Outlaws dlc.) My main time sinks are other games though, Dreamlight Valley and Multiversus on Xbox, Fortnite, Fall Guys and Star Wars Hunters on switch, Magic Arena, Marvel Snap and Pokémon pocket on the pad. I’m also currently on a Dead By Daylight kick which I blame both on the current winter event and watching Stranger Things (I recently finished season 2)

I’ve also been on a J-horror kick recently, since I got the Arrow boxsets for Ring, Ju-On and J-Horror Rising all of which make me wanna watch more.

One of the main things I do though is watch a variety of streamers on twitch. My main ones are Seapeekay, Shoto, Tubbo and Foolish though I also watch Krowfang, Eret and some of the other Realm smp people. (I meant last snowflake to do a post about streamers so people knew what I’m talking about with them but I kinda failed at doing that)

I also love bands, currently my favs are Set It Off, Waterparks, Wuant and Sleep Token, the latter of which I saw recently and they were amazing. I hope they tour again, even though tours are so stressful.

So what do I post about? I mostly post random stuff about my day/week, but also post thoughts about films I watch, as well as Doctor Who posts. I do fic, but that’s kinda all over the place really.

As always I’m sure I’ve missed something that’s important or obvious.

I end like I did with the last intro post I did for snowflake 2024, with pics of my babygirls! (My cats and dog)

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