Snowflake Challenge #4

Jan. 8th, 2026 10:56 am
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Challenge #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!

We all know about Connections and Wordle, but here are some browser games that last longer and are great for keeping from going insane during Zoom meetings:

2048 Cupcakes. I still play 2048 in times of need, but it's so much more fun with colorful cupcakes.

Squares. If you like word games, here you go. Find all the words in the four by four grid. The dictionary this game uses is highly idiosyncratic, which can be frustrating; how is THIS a word that counts but THAT is only a bonus word?? But it does add to the challenge!

2025 in Review: Media!

Jan. 8th, 2026 10:25 am
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Time to reflect a little on the media I read and watched in 2025. My reading goal for 2025 was “Reading Joyfully”. I think this worked out ok – I started out putting a lot of pressure on myself about it and stressing out, but then I backed off and used it as an excuse to think about how reading fits into my life these days.

I was somewhat hoping I could get back to really engaging with new to me SFF, and for the most part that didn’t happen. There were a couple of weeks in there where I was sleeping way better than I generally manage these days and I read several new to me books! It was great! So I think part of my problem is that I’m just not well rested enough to engage with new to me stuff very much. Which is sad, but pushing isn’t going to make me happy either.

Then after the thing with the flood damage, when the whole house was a mess, I was struggling to focus on much of anything. I ended up just reading a ton of fic, so much fic.* Which has been delightful. The comfort of the same thing again but different this time is really not appreciated enough by critics. This reading phase has been very joyful!

In 2025 I read even fewer books than I read the last several years (57) but unlike the last couple of years I don’t feel bad about it. Which was the real point of my reading joyfully goal. I’m more at peace with who I am as a reader these days and that’s really nice, even if I might never be the same kind of reader I was before the pandemic happened.

Another trend that defined my 2025 media was crossdressing girls. I love, love, love the trope of girls who disguise themselves and boys to go out into the world and do things that they wouldn’t be allowed to do. This is a trope that English language media hasn’t really been doing much with recently, but luckily for me it's popular in Asian dramas. It’s such a comfort trope for me, and I decided to really dive into this trope and watched many dramas featuring it. (And read a couple of books too)

I also continue to watch many silly Chinese reality shows, another thing that I find relaxing. Media has really was a source of comfort for me in 2025.

In terms of goals for 2026, I’m going to continue to not have a numerical goal for total books. I find those more stressful than fun. Having a theme for my media last year worked out really well though so for the first quarter of 2026 my media theme is going to be “comfort” . Then I can see I want to keep that theme or change at the end of the quarter. I also want to push myself a bit harder on reading Mandarin so I’m going to make it a goal to read six graded readers this year, which feels very doable.


*Me, very stressed out: I’ll just read this cute sounding fic in a fandom I’m not in. It will be relaxing. Me, several days, and I don’t know how many fics in that fandom latter: I guess I have a new fandom now, opps?
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Title: Towards The Rising Sun
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author: 
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Characters: Varian, Fred, Scott, Liana, Jonathan Willaway, Sil-El.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: After the series.
Summary: It’s a long journey, but the band of travellers finally reach their destination.
Word Count: 1928
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Weekend Challenge Big Break at 
[community profile] 1_million_words, using The Long Way Home & Stuck at the Gates.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
 


 
Towards The Rising Sun... )
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Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov in Heated Rivalry (s1, e1-6)

  

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CANON: Heated Rivalry
CHARACTERS: Ilya Rozanov
ADDITIONAL INFO: Episodes 1 - 6
CREDIT TO: [personal profile] sweeticedtea

  

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Ficlet: The Duel

Jan. 8th, 2026 06:01 pm
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Title: The Duel
Author: 
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Characters: Tosh, OCs, Team, Owen.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 730
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Having offended visiting aliens, the team find themselves challenged to a duel. Who will be their champion and fight for their honour?
Written For: The prompt ‘any, any, choose your weapon: foil, epee, sabre’, at 
[community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
 



round 34: picnicnic - crop battle

Jan. 8th, 2026 02:50 pm
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1: center crop / rogue / ace attorney / https://images2.imgbox.com/9b/fd/aVtSyv2s_o.png
2: far crop / hero / arcane / https://images2.imgbox.com/a5/a7/BjQlvMku_o.png
3: close crop / rogue / the legend of vox machina / https://images2.imgbox.com/54/a9/w7aWIXPo_o.png
4: odd crop / hero / kpop demon hunters / https://images2.imgbox.com/6d/c9/JejADXxG_o.png
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Title: Looking Forward To Most
Rating: R
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Donny gets poisoned.
Word Count: 2,873

Looking Forward To Most )

Snowflake Challenge #4

Jan. 8th, 2026 06:48 pm
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two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

Challenge #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 just gonna throw out this tab I have currently open in my browser as a rec:
Beef Bourguignon for the French Peasants from 1885 by Tasting History with Max Miller.


The tasting history channel is one of my favourite things to have on in the background when I crochet. So relaxing, and educational!

Venezuela

Jan. 8th, 2026 12:16 pm
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It looks like there were two bills regarding Venezuela introduced yesterday:

H.Con.Res.68 - To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/68

and

S.3595 - A bill to prohibit the use of funds for the deployment of United States military or intelligence personnel in Venezuela for certain purposes.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3595


(I saw the AP mention that a war powers resolution to limit further attacks on Venezuela advanced in the Senate, but I'm unclear if that referred to either of these)

ETA (1/9/2026): I think this is the resolution mentioned by the AP:

S.J.Res.98 - A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/98/

January: This and That

Jan. 8th, 2026 06:26 pm
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Welcome to our challenge This and That.

In January, the main theme is Books or Movies. Create something for a book-fandom or a movie-fandom of your choice.

Allowed are fics up to 500 words, small poems such as haiku or tanka, icons (100 x 100px), and graphics (maximum 500 x 500px).

All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome. Original works and real-person works are fine, too.

Please tag your work with all relevant tags.

This challenge runs until January 31, midnight in your timezone.

:::

Challenge Reminder:
10 out of 20
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Drabbles and limericks for people who requested them:
Chrestomanci
due South + Murderbot
due South + Venom
Interview with the Vampire (TV)
KPop Demon Hunters
Pride and Prejudice
Singin' in the Rain
Slough House
Star Wars

Prompt me if you would you like something in one or more of my fandoms. I may not get to you today, but we can have Even More Joy Day tomorrow!

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Jan. 8th, 2026 04:53 pm
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Today I reread all 4 graphic novels of 7 Soldiers of Victory.
Ambitious project. Lots of different styles. Some of it worked better for me than other parts.
Mister Miracle's story is really wild. Good stuff.
Frankenstein I couldn't click with, the art or the messy violence.
I reread it for Zatanna. Good stuff but it reminded me how comics take months to cover what a single episode of TV would have time for. I feel like I've read the pilot of a spin off show I'd really like to watch. But also that I want to see her age and step outside the past's long shadow.

I do not know if I want that enough to try reading more comics. They're such a grab bag.

I mostly feel like I've been reading the wrong genres offering the wrong solutions. The violence is the problem and the stories keep offering it up as the solution. Magic battles where you realise your own power and interconnectedness and freedom and possibility are a definite improvement, but then what?

I feel like I might be able to actually write a story if I could come up with a decent answer to that.

So I'm glad I reread it but I feel a bunch of stuff, and like the pondering space between issues on a regular publishing schedule could really be filled by thinking on a lot of parts of these comics.

Thursday: First Kiss

Jan. 8th, 2026 08:41 am
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Hello, everyone. I’m [personal profile] simplyn2deep and your host for the week. Today's theme is First Kiss.

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...
Teen Wolf, Sheriff Stilinski/Melissa McCall, the first kiss since Claudia died
Teen Wolf, Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, a little wild and crazy
Any, Any Male/Any Female, took his first kiss…and then his second kiss too

We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].

While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

As a friendly reminder about our schedule, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications!

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word! [community profile] comment_fic


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