Veni Vidi Vivi

This week of sucky home repairs threw me off my writing practice. I even had to borrow a friend's mom just to cry to, because I needed a mom! When your home doesn't feel comfortable or safe, it really makes it hard to relax there. My bedroom, at least, is a place that I feel pretty safe in - there have been no leaks there. I needed to get out today, so I spent most of today watching Abbott Elementary at friends' house, and that was healing.

So I'm catching up with the Snowflake Challenge and this is the longest I've made it through any of these for the last several years! Yay!

Challenge #8: Talk about a current fannish project (fic, art, vid, crochet, funko pop village) (that you are creating or enjoying)
I'm low on fannish endeavors right now. With sorting and packing, I've actually been deciding on letting a lot of fannish things go. Nothing that I still love or have a long connection with, but there are many things that someone else might enjoy more than me, and I'm good with letting them go. I did sign up for a Wangxian exchange based on a song prompt that the receiver sends out. I haven't written for The Untamed... and I haven't written anything but work and letters and journal entries for... years. So that's terrifying.

Challenge #9: Rec Us Your Newest Thing.
It's not super fannish, but I adore The Quiz Lady on Hulu. It stars Awkafina and Sandra Oh (in a VERY different kind of role), and it's funny and endearing while being extremely quirky. The supporting cast is impeccable. I've watched it twice because it makes me happy.

Challenge #10: Five Things! The five things are totally up to you.
Five Fannish Things from the Past Year (or so) That Make Me Happy (in no particular order)
1. Renfield (gross and dumb, but joyfully fun - plus pretty pretty Nicholas Hoult)
2. Awkafina's Nora from Queens
3. School Spirits (Season 1 on... Peacock? Or Paramount?)
4. Picard season 2
5. Grady Hendrix books - I've read his first four and latest, and I really like them.

I will admit that I start this every year and never get past the first week, but who knows? Maybe this year is the year I actually do more of the Snowflake Challenge! It will be a way to ease some of the January blues - I always have a harder time with the cold, holiday bereft month of January than the darkness at Winter Solstice.

Challenge #1

Update your fandom information

I updated my profile.

Fandom likes: The Untamed wins right now, as it has since 2020 (I think it was 2020?). I'm currently into Akwafina and pretty much anything she does. Will always stan Neil Gaiman (Good Omens, Sandman, Neverwhere). Tom Riddle does not belong to She Who Must Not Be Named - he will always be mine. I eschew the rest of that universe, though.

Challenge #2

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year.
I'm going to try my best to not give up hope, no matter what happens. In less serious goals, I want to see an alligator in the wild, embroider my own wheel of the year decoration throughout the seasons, and dance. I'd also like to RP again. I've had the desire of late, which makes me happy.

Challenge #3
Create a wish list of fandom things (podfic, graphics, playlists, canon recs translations, research help, vids, sky's the limit!) that you'd like to receive.

• Please please please, excellent writers, keep writing new luscious and long Wanxian fics.
• Fan art from all the MZDS versions are welcome. I need to read The Heaven Official's Blessing and finish SVSSS. My brain has not been great for reading, but it's been a little better lately.
• I want more of the varying celebrities I love to show up on each other's podcasts, like Katya and Trixie on a very special My Favorite Murder!
• I want playlists that are like ye old cd mixes and have nothing to do with Spotify. I hate Spotify.
• I want the DVD of Good Omens season two on my shelf where Amazon can't take it away from me.