Snowflake 1!
Jan. 1st, 2026 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flamingsword
Challenge #1
The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.
Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.
My introduction is my sticky post for new folks, and what I hope to gain from Snowflake is to be reminded, as I am every year, that people are Good Actually, that we’re all trying so so hard to entertain and be good to one another, even when we’re bad at it.
That’s basically what fandom is, isn’t it? People telling each other stories and someone saying, “I wonder what would have happened if …”, and someone else taking that energy and running with it towards the next leg of this relay race of ideas and enthusiasm. And because excitement tends to build and feed off of other’s excitement, we all wind up with this frisson of joy when we get to read that The Witcher/Star Wars crossover, or the one where Deadpool is an Addams on his mother’s side, or the Leverage OT3 Of Great Justice adopts a kitten, or or or, ad infinitum.
We all wind up having richer lives more full of fun and play, together. I think it’s beautiful. It has changed how I see the world and what people are capable of, and I’m so grateful.
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Jan. 1st, 2026 04:50 amfeotakahariWhen a shoujo manga refers to a character as having large breasts, and she has smaller breasts than a “flat-chested” woman in a shonen manga, I’m reminded that some artists go outside and look at people.
Y’all ready for Snowflake?
Dec. 31st, 2025 09:43 pmflamingswordBc I’m ready.
If you want to try the Snowflake Challenge, don’t forget to subscribe to the community! It’s every odd-numbered day in January, and if you want to not forget, you can hit the “Track” link to get emails and notifications when the mods put up a post. Just … maybe don’t subscribe to track the comments? That would be like trying to drink from the email firehose, lol.
If you want to try the Snowflake Challenge, don’t forget to subscribe to the community! It’s every odd-numbered day in January, and if you want to not forget, you can hit the “Track” link to get emails and notifications when the mods put up a post. Just … maybe don’t subscribe to track the comments? That would be like trying to drink from the email firehose, lol.
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Dec. 31st, 2025 01:36 pmfeotakahariI never really got “fear of the unknown,” but Runes of Pandemonium is making me appreciate. By removing it. The thing with all the hands could easily have been terrifying, but the game hands me enough information that I can call it Nemesis and sum it up as “basically just Satan.” It’s kinda boring now.
I’m playing Runes of Pandemonium
Dec. 30th, 2025 05:49 pmfeotakahariThe bees are portrayed as not that bad despite using mind control, and the alraunes are portrayed as not that bad despite using mind control, and the werecats kinda are that bad but have the potential to be better, and meanwhile the angels are horrible bastards who use mind control. Between this and Witch Hunter Izana, it’s kind of embarrassing how much this dev hates (pseudo) Christianity.
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Dec. 30th, 2025 01:52 pmflamingswordFinally having a chance to sit down, and may actually need a nap if I’m going to be around people later. I’ve been fairly busy for 5 hours and have given myself a headache by unconsciously sitting and standing and working on things all hunched over.
I think I’m going to crochet a couple rows on this rug to calm my brain down and then lay down for an hour.
Merry Crisis to all who celebrate!
[Edit: “Family Christmas™️” has gone off fairly well. I still have a headache, but at least I’m having it in a dim, quiet environment? Food was delicious, at any rate.]
I think I’m going to crochet a couple rows on this rug to calm my brain down and then lay down for an hour.
Merry Crisis to all who celebrate!
[Edit: “Family Christmas™️” has gone off fairly well. I still have a headache, but at least I’m having it in a dim, quiet environment? Food was delicious, at any rate.]
Notifications
Dec. 30th, 2025 06:49 amflamingswordIs anybody else missing some comment notifications from around the 25th? Or am I just special?
Amazon pickup in Japan
Dec. 30th, 2025 04:31 pmmindstalkSay you order Amazon to a nearby pickup location, because of theft, or Airbnb, or whatever. ( Read more... )
Contagion, cleaning for holidays, and crochet
Dec. 29th, 2025 08:32 pmflamingswordSince Mom is pretty much over her cold now, tomorrow we will have family over for the celebration of Christmas, since most of her family are Catholic. (At least we’re not still doing midnight mass, though, bc yikes. My sleep schedule currently could not accommodate that.)
In the morning, I will be running around the house with sanitizing wipes, once the bread pudding is in the oven. All the surfaces people touch regularly are going to get gone over AND the air will be perfumed with a sweet blend of frankincense, myrrh, pine, and tea tree essential oils, AND I will be talking to step-dad about covering his mouth when he coughs, just to be as safe as possible. (Also it’s kinda gross that he doesn’t and he needs to be reminded like a toddler, I guess. *shrugs*)
In new news, I have been feeling kinda asocial since a lot of my emotional processing bandwidth is currently going to mental health works, which means that my brain is looking for non-social ways to get more dopamine, which has lead me to pick up a new fiber arts project. This time I will be crocheting a squishy rug for the floor of my eventual bedroom. I am planning on doing a few rows of that project every day while my wrists and thumbs get used to crochet again.
Pics of some recent knitting:
https://bsky.app/profile/flamingsword.bsky.social/post/3masufxak3c2c
https://bsky.app/profile/flamingsword.bsky.social/post/3mb6bnpagkk2w
In the morning, I will be running around the house with sanitizing wipes, once the bread pudding is in the oven. All the surfaces people touch regularly are going to get gone over AND the air will be perfumed with a sweet blend of frankincense, myrrh, pine, and tea tree essential oils, AND I will be talking to step-dad about covering his mouth when he coughs, just to be as safe as possible. (Also it’s kinda gross that he doesn’t and he needs to be reminded like a toddler, I guess. *shrugs*)
In new news, I have been feeling kinda asocial since a lot of my emotional processing bandwidth is currently going to mental health works, which means that my brain is looking for non-social ways to get more dopamine, which has lead me to pick up a new fiber arts project. This time I will be crocheting a squishy rug for the floor of my eventual bedroom. I am planning on doing a few rows of that project every day while my wrists and thumbs get used to crochet again.
Pics of some recent knitting:
https://bsky.app/profile/flamingsword.bsky.social/post/3masufxak3c2c
https://bsky.app/profile/flamingsword.bsky.social/post/3mb6bnpagkk2w
I’m playing Witch Hunter Izana
Dec. 29th, 2025 10:26 amfeotakahariThese devs seem kinda at odds with themselves. They’re deliberately avoiding “humans good, monsters evil,” but they also make no excuses for the main villain’s use of mind control. Most of the monsters on the island either joined her willingly, or got brainwashed so hard they can never be freed, so there’s one free survivor who has to bear the entire burden of showing that monsters aren’t all bad.
The rest of the gray comes from portraying the human church as equally terrible.
The rest of the gray comes from portraying the human church as equally terrible.
Snowflake
Dec. 28th, 2025 03:39 pmflamingsword
It’s almost January again, and time for
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snowflake_challenge to appear out of the time stream to bring joy to fandom, the fandom-adjacent, and everyone who wants to dip a toe into enthusiastically loving a piece of media. Not every challenge will appeal to every person, and not everyone wants to participate in the friending meme. But for some of us, the chance to say “I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS BAR” (where the bar is a fandom for a thing we love) is not to be passed up.If you’re a TSwift-streaming music dilettante or you own every Ella Fitzgerald album ever made, if you just discovered a show about gay hockey dudes, if you liked a movie back in the 80’s that you want more stories about: you are part of fandom, too. Welcome! Come hang out with us!
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Dec. 27th, 2025 03:33 pmfeotakahariTo be fair to the people who post about how you should commit political violence, maybe the reason they never post about actual violence they’ve committed is because that would be terrible opsec.
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Dec. 27th, 2025 10:44 amfeotakahariPerson A: “Transhumanism is fascist.”
Person B: “Fascists hate transhumanism because it undercuts them.”
I think they’re both wrong, but it’s fun to watch them fight.
(Evangelicals hate transhumanism because it undercuts them, but “fascist” shouldn’t just mean “terrible person.”)
Person B: “Fascists hate transhumanism because it undercuts them.”
I think they’re both wrong, but it’s fun to watch them fight.
(Evangelicals hate transhumanism because it undercuts them, but “fascist” shouldn’t just mean “terrible person.”)
Dec 25: Chigasaki, Ukiyoe board games, Christmas
Dec. 27th, 2025 03:09 pmmindstalkA while back I mentioned a nice park in Chigasaki. I went back to that today. ( Read more... )
Dec 19 -- Kamakura
Dec. 27th, 2025 02:52 pmmindstalkWelp, guess I'm way behind on updates. Fortunately several days were boring. But not this one. Kind of.
Kamakura, as in "Kamakura Shogunate", was accessible, so I went. Outbound was on the Enoden train, no changes but still slower, scenic, single-track, kind of hugging the coast. ( Read more... )
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Dec. 24th, 2025 06:20 pmfeotakahariFeeling an odd sense of mourning that a guy I thought was obnoxious hasn’t posted in five years. He wasn’t that bad in the grand scheme of things.