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2026 Snowflake Challenge # 7
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fardell24While we’re busy celebrating fandom, it’s good to remember to celebrate ourselves, too. Fandom is all of us! I know it’s often easier to talk about what we like about other people than it is to talk nicely about ourselves, but challenge yourself here --
Challenge #7
LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.
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. Also, feel free to entice engagement by giving us a preview of what your post covers.
And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.
And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.
I'm Kind.
I'm Creative (kind of obvious if one is involved in fandom and writing original fiction, as well as creating alternate history maps.)
I'm Resilient. Being neurodivergent has never been easy, but others, especially my family, have been supportive. (And my faith has been a big part of that.)
Challenge #7
LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.
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. Also, feel free to entice engagement by giving us a preview of what your post covers.
And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.
And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.
I'm Kind.
I'm Creative (kind of obvious if one is involved in fandom and writing original fiction, as well as creating alternate history maps.)
I'm Resilient. Being neurodivergent has never been easy, but others, especially my family, have been supportive. (And my faith has been a big part of that.)
Mysteries of Aurora - The Manuscript Part 13
Jan. 13th, 2026 07:45 pmfardell24That Freya had remembered what they had looked at while in the Information Science Section the previous week didn’t surprise Alexia. Once Freya had lead them to the area, she found a shelf of the University blueprints that had been published over the last century. “I hope you’re right,” Alexia said, otherwise we still won’t know where we’re going.”
“That may be the case anyway,” Janara said.
“Surely you don’t go blindly into areas in your games?” Alexia asked.
“More times than you’d expect,” Janara said. “Sometimes that’s the point, especially in early stages of Real Time Strategy and Four X games.”
“I’m not familiar with that latter term,” Alexia said.
“Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate,” Freya explained. “The acronym only makes sense in English of course.”
“But it makes for a good mnemonic,” Janara said.
“Of course,” Freya said.
It didn’t take Alexia long to find a promising book. “Here we are,” she said.
“It’s from the turn of the millennium,” Janara commented.
“Not too recent, but also not too old,” Alexia said. “We want to be certain that it contains the information we’re after.”
( Read More )
“That may be the case anyway,” Janara said.
“Surely you don’t go blindly into areas in your games?” Alexia asked.
“More times than you’d expect,” Janara said. “Sometimes that’s the point, especially in early stages of Real Time Strategy and Four X games.”
“I’m not familiar with that latter term,” Alexia said.
“Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate,” Freya explained. “The acronym only makes sense in English of course.”
“But it makes for a good mnemonic,” Janara said.
“Of course,” Freya said.
It didn’t take Alexia long to find a promising book. “Here we are,” she said.
“It’s from the turn of the millennium,” Janara commented.
“Not too recent, but also not too old,” Alexia said. “We want to be certain that it contains the information we’re after.”
( Read More )
AO3 Site Skin Dreamy
Jan. 13th, 2026 12:30 amintothisshadowPlayed around with AO3 site skin css and ended up creating my first site skin ✨ You can find ithe css and instructions on how to use custom site skins on this page.
Also created a Github, I'll be adding my AO3 skins and FocusWriter themes there too.
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Jan. 12th, 2026 01:29 pmneekabeAnnoying side effect of eye goo: I have to maintain a 'correct' sleep hygiene and it's improving my life XD
I'm staying up a little later but I'm falling asleep sooner after I go to bed because distractions are physically less possible.
Last week I was in the middle of reading a fic and just had a little more to go and decided to read in bed, so I put in the goo and then blinked enough to be able to mostly see and read. And I woke up in the early hours with eye pain, and it's the kind of pain that is a significant deterrent, but just an annoyance. I repeated the experiment later and ended up with the same thing. So I can't just 'rub the cream in' and have it work. I can listen to all the podfics podcasts and such, but I will fall asleep to those, where I can stay up reading.
I'm staying up a little later but I'm falling asleep sooner after I go to bed because distractions are physically less possible.
Last week I was in the middle of reading a fic and just had a little more to go and decided to read in bed, so I put in the goo and then blinked enough to be able to mostly see and read. And I woke up in the early hours with eye pain, and it's the kind of pain that is a significant deterrent, but just an annoyance. I repeated the experiment later and ended up with the same thing. So I can't just 'rub the cream in' and have it work. I can listen to all the podfics podcasts and such, but I will fall asleep to those, where I can stay up reading.
2026 Snowflake Challenge #6
Jan. 12th, 2026 06:41 pmfardell24Challenge # 6
Top 10 Challenge. 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. Also, feel free to entice engagement by giving us a preview of what your post covers.
The category(ies) you choose are up to you. You can give top 10 Fics you read last year, the top 10 songs to create to, the to 10 guest stars on your favorite show, top 10 characters in your favorite book series, top 10... well, you get the idea.
Can't think of 10 of anything? That's okay, 10 is just an abstract. It's totally up to you.
And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.
And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.
Top 10 novels on my shelves I recommend in no particular order.
The Lord of the Rings (The trilogy as an omnibus) JRR Tolkien at his best.
The Hunt for Red October. Tom Clancy hitting the ground running.
Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen holds up.
Great Expectations
Little Dorrit. Both are Charles Dickens near his best.
Ringworld. Larry Niven introducing the concept very successfully.
Master and Commander. Patrick O'Brien started the Aubrey and Maturin series very well.
Treasure Island. Robert Lewis Stevenson. A classic for a reason.
Rebecca. Daphne de Maurier. An excellent example of gothic fiction.
Bridge to Terebithia. Katherine Patterson.
Top 10 Challenge. 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. Also, feel free to entice engagement by giving us a preview of what your post covers.
The category(ies) you choose are up to you. You can give top 10 Fics you read last year, the top 10 songs to create to, the to 10 guest stars on your favorite show, top 10 characters in your favorite book series, top 10... well, you get the idea.
Can't think of 10 of anything? That's okay, 10 is just an abstract. It's totally up to you.
And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.
And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.
Top 10 novels on my shelves I recommend in no particular order.
The Lord of the Rings (The trilogy as an omnibus) JRR Tolkien at his best.
The Hunt for Red October. Tom Clancy hitting the ground running.
Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen holds up.
Great Expectations
Little Dorrit. Both are Charles Dickens near his best.
Ringworld. Larry Niven introducing the concept very successfully.
Master and Commander. Patrick O'Brien started the Aubrey and Maturin series very well.
Treasure Island. Robert Lewis Stevenson. A classic for a reason.
Rebecca. Daphne de Maurier. An excellent example of gothic fiction.
Bridge to Terebithia. Katherine Patterson.