Snowflake Challenge 2026 Day 5
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tropicsbear
Challenge #5
In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.
Oh lawd. This one's going to be a struggle too. Most of the stuff I want are physical—physical volumes of manga, figures, etc.—and that'd be too much of a hassle for any of y'all reading this.
Comments on any of my fic (AO3 has the most complete list right now but a handful are also mirrored on SqWA and
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sigaw). Please don't feel obligated to comment if you honestly didn't enjoy it or are unfamiliar with any of the fandoms I've written for. That would just make me feel so awkward /o\More people (that aren't mods/admin) posting in communities. I know I can't bemoan this too much—I'm hardly as active in comms as I used to be when I was younger—but as someone modding a couple of comms, it does feel lonely sometimes 🥲 I do my best to post whenever I have something to share in the comms I'm part of, so I'll just keep doing my best and hope other people feel encouraged to do the same. I remember some newer DW users a while back sharing that they don't post in comms because they felt like that was a mod-only privilege. No disrespect to whoever told you that, but no. Comms are meant for all members to share their fandom squee! They're not meant to be a mod's personal soapbox. (Unless that's stated somewhere on the community profile, in which case that's a "personal" comm and a different conversation altogether.)
If you can afford it, premium paid time for anyone on DW. Support your friends and the site we're all on, win/win!
Snowflake Challenge 2026 Day 4
Jan. 10th, 2026 07:56 pmtropicsbearChallenge #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'm unfortunately drawing a blank for this one. Recommending stuff has always been a struggle, unless I'm given really specific criteria to stick with.
For now, I think I'll just recommend the HTML to Markdown website. These days I prefer coding my DW entries in Markdown which means if I want to use the AO3- or SqWA-generated fic blurbs when posting my fic on DW, I have to recode it from HTML to Markdown. And posting my fic to my fanworks community also means making a new version formatted using Markdown.
But using this site, I just copy-paste the HTML formatted stuff from AO3/SqWA and it generates a Markdown version that I can use on DW. (I know HTML still works perfectly fine on DW, it's just my brain being annoying for the sake of "You have to be consistent with the format you use on one site!" 😅)
Books | Reading & Just Finished
Jan. 8th, 2026 12:52 amflareonfuryCrossposting my comment from 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:
( currently reading... )
Just Finished:
( just finished (today)... )
Finished within the last week:
( finished within the last week... )
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:
( currently reading... )
Just Finished:
( just finished (today)... )
Finished within the last week:
( finished within the last week... )
Snowflake Challenge 2026 Day 3
Jan. 6th, 2026 09:13 pmtropicsbearChallenge #3
Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.
Today's prompt felt somewhat familiar, so I poked through my old entries and saw that I'd answered an iteration of it in 2018. The vibe of that 2018 entry is very "I didn't have the energy to write anything, but I still wanted to complete today's challenge so here's this half-baked response that's unintentionally prickly." I don't know whether to laugh or just ... sigh deeply.
That wasn't a great year for me, mentally.
I'm not really sure what I want to write for this prompt. Finding my 2018 post threw me into a melancholy mood and that's not really what I want to talk about right now. But at the same time, I couldn't really think of a topic/focus even before I started feeling down.
For now, I think I'll settle for a declaration of war of continuing devotion. (That's romantic a la love letters, right?)
At this point in time, I've spent more than half my life in fandom, being various levels of fannish through various mediums. I can't see myself ever stopping being in fandom, I can't see myself ever stopping being a fan of something. It's not an exaggeration that I can't imagine being a "normie." I want to one day be that old fandom lady that the Youths write about on whatever future version they have of a fandom platform, I want to be known as that one old lady who's keeping her ancient fandom alive by posting a fic every so often for it.
I entered fandom in the early 2000s because I wanted to and I'll exit it whenever I want to. And I don't want to exit fandom.
It's still Christmas-tide
Jan. 4th, 2026 09:25 pmkatarikAnd a belated present has arrived and is DELIGHTFUL. Ny particularly would enjoy this.
Annals of the Caliphs' kitchens: Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's tenth-century Baghdadi cookbook
I opened to a random page, which turned out to be the opening for:
Simulated Dishes (Ta'am Muzawwar) which Christians Eat during Lent (Siyam)
And this chard dish sounds GREAT.
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Annals of the Caliphs' kitchens: Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's tenth-century Baghdadi cookbook
I opened to a random page, which turned out to be the opening for:
Simulated Dishes (Ta'am Muzawwar) which Christians Eat during Lent (Siyam)
And this chard dish sounds GREAT.
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2025 Year in fandom meme
Jan. 4th, 2026 11:51 amflareonfurySnagged from starterpack
Your main fandom of the year? I would probably say MCU, but X-Men would definitely be in second place. Fallout, High Potential and Wednesday took over my brain for most of the year as well. ;) Heated Rivalry took up most of my brain power within the last half of December (and still has it, if this post is anything to go by). ;P
Your favourite film watched this year? Thunderbolts* with Superman (2025) a close second. Fantastic Four: First Steps would probably be third along with Jurassic World: Rebirth.
Your favourite book read this year? The Long Game by Rachel Reid, but before I read that one I'd probably have said Zomromcom by Olivia Dade and The Accidental Housemate by Sal Thomas.
Your favourite TV show of the year? Heated Rivalry along with Doc, SkyMed, Wednesday, High Potential, and Jurassic World: Chaos Theory. Ghosts (US) is also still really good. Maxton Hall was oddly addictive?
Your favourite online fandom community of the year? I think it would have to say probably100ships mainly because other than mcu100 & xmen100 I was inspired a lot by it. I'll also say seasons_of_fandom, ships20in20, lgbtrainbow - I made a lot of icons because of these communities. Seriously apparently, I made over 1k of icons last year???? I have them in a separate folder than my original icons so I could know what's new for my website. I knew I made a lot... but I did not expect that number (I haven't even officially "released" a lot of them other than on my website).
Your best new fandom discovery of the year? Heated Rivalry/Game Changers
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year? I can't really think of anything??? I mean last year was the series finale of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory which sucks. We have to wait x amount of years for new season of Wednesday and SkyMed.
Your biggest squee moment of the year? Heated Rivalry episodes 4-6 probably, especially the last one. Before that I would say Wednesday's last episode of Season 2 (Weyler fans know what I'm talking about).
The most missed of your old fandoms? I read a lot of MCU, X-Men and Harry Potter fic. I can't remember if I branched out to any other old fandoms of mine. Oh wait! There was a couple Ghost Whisperer fics I read...
The fandom you haven’t tried yet, but want to? I can't really think of any.
Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year? The rest of High Potential Season 2, Ghosts (US) Season 5, and any other returning shows that I like either coming back from break or a new season.
starterpackYour main fandom of the year? I would probably say MCU, but X-Men would definitely be in second place. Fallout, High Potential and Wednesday took over my brain for most of the year as well. ;) Heated Rivalry took up most of my brain power within the last half of December (and still has it, if this post is anything to go by). ;P
Your favourite film watched this year? Thunderbolts* with Superman (2025) a close second. Fantastic Four: First Steps would probably be third along with Jurassic World: Rebirth.
Your favourite book read this year? The Long Game by Rachel Reid, but before I read that one I'd probably have said Zomromcom by Olivia Dade and The Accidental Housemate by Sal Thomas.
Your favourite TV show of the year? Heated Rivalry along with Doc, SkyMed, Wednesday, High Potential, and Jurassic World: Chaos Theory. Ghosts (US) is also still really good. Maxton Hall was oddly addictive?
Your favourite online fandom community of the year? I think it would have to say probably
100ships mainly because other than mcu100 & xmen100 I was inspired a lot by it. I'll also say seasons_of_fandom, ships20in20, lgbtrainbow - I made a lot of icons because of these communities. Seriously apparently, I made over 1k of icons last year???? I have them in a separate folder than my original icons so I could know what's new for my website. I knew I made a lot... but I did not expect that number (I haven't even officially "released" a lot of them other than on my website).Your best new fandom discovery of the year? Heated Rivalry/Game Changers
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year? I can't really think of anything??? I mean last year was the series finale of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory which sucks. We have to wait x amount of years for new season of Wednesday and SkyMed.
Your biggest squee moment of the year? Heated Rivalry episodes 4-6 probably, especially the last one. Before that I would say Wednesday's last episode of Season 2 (Weyler fans know what I'm talking about).
The most missed of your old fandoms? I read a lot of MCU, X-Men and Harry Potter fic. I can't remember if I branched out to any other old fandoms of mine. Oh wait! There was a couple Ghost Whisperer fics I read...
The fandom you haven’t tried yet, but want to? I can't really think of any.
Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year? The rest of High Potential Season 2, Ghosts (US) Season 5, and any other returning shows that I like either coming back from break or a new season.
End of year Book Meme 2025
Jan. 4th, 2026 03:02 pmflareonfuryMeme by quillpunk at booknook (just updated for 2025-2026)
In 2025:
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There is a new book club communitybookclub_dw and for those that don't know about it there is thestoryinside which is buddy-system type bookclub.
quillpunk at booknook (just updated for 2025-2026)In 2025:
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In 2026:
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There is a new book club community
bookclub_dw and for those that don't know about it there is thestoryinside which is buddy-system type bookclub.