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Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

I skipped that last couple of years so maybe it's time to do this again. I've wanted to post more and so, why not?.

Icebreaker Challenge l l

I'm Melagan everywhere. This is my hangout place. You might see me pop up on Tumblr or Discord, or Livejournal, but blink and you'll miss it.

I'm doing Snowflake this year for a couple of reasons. I'd like to post more and & want to throw my support behind Snowflake and DW in general.

Most of the fandoms I read in are older fandoms. I like HA! Love certain slash pairings. McShep tops the list. Dresden Files is probably my most up to date fandom because the books are still being written. Yes, I am a Dresden/Marone girl.

Girl. That's hilarious. I turn 71 in April. How the hell did that happen?

Seems to me, the best way to "break the ice" is to answer questions, so ask away.

potentiality_26

Challenge #1

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

Hi, I'm

potentiality_26, and I do the Snowflake Challenge to get myself back into posting here on DW, which I often forget to do for weeks or months (or more!) at a time. Last year's challenge was quite interesting because it inspired me to return to an old fandom (Kingsman), though it also sent me back to Tumblr (oops).

Can't wait to see what this year brings!

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

liadt

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I bring fic:)

Title: The Hero Goes Back Into The Mountains (14,110 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: 雪之丞変化 | An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Rating: Teen
Categories: Gen
Characters: Nakamura Yukinojo, Nakamura Kikunojo, Yamitaro, Ohatsu, Various OCs.

Additional tags: can be read as pre-ship Yukinojo/Yamitaro, Ohatsu makes some phobic comments and so does a random monk, everything sorts itself out eventually, references to death and canon death, References to Child Prostitution, physical child abuse, Brief Ableism,
References to Suicide and Mental Illness, references to domestic abuse, Post-Canon

Summary: Yukinojo finds an out of the way monastery, but will becoming a monk free him from his life of pain?

Notes; Cheery summary and tags for a happy ending fic(!).

melagan

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Привет and welcome to our new Russian friends from LiveJournal! We are happy to offer you a new home. We will not require identification for you to post or comment. We also do not cooperate with Russian government requests for any information about your account unless they go through a United States court first. (And it hasn't happened in 16 years!)

Importing your journal from ЖЖ may be slow. There are a lot of you, with many posts and comments, and we have to limit how fast we download your information from ЖЖ so they don't block us. Please be patient! We have been watching and fixing errors, and we will go back to doing that after the holiday is over.

I am very sorry that we can't translate the site into Russian or offer support in Russian. We are a much, much smaller company than LiveJournal is, and my high school Russian classes were a very long time ago :) But at least we aren't owned by Sberbank!

С Новым Годом, and welcome home!

EDIT: Большое спасибо всем за помощь друг другу в комментариях! Я ценю каждого, кто предоставляет нашим новым соседям информацию, понятную им без необходимости искать её в Google. :) И спасибо вам за терпение к моему русскому переводу с помощью Google Translate! Прошло уже много-много лет со школьных времен!

Thank you also to everyone who's been giving our new neighbors a warm welcome. I love you all ❤️

melagan

December was a good writing month for me.

For SGA Saturday I wrote: The Further Exploits of Agent Lorne: Quantum Mirror Cop

My SGA Secret Santa stories this year were:

Regenisis Protocol and

Proculus Bound

Plus, I slipped a piece of Teyla/Elizabeth art as a surprise gift for kira_nerys_rocks when I heard their story might be late. Our Year in Atlantis

purplecat

Reading: Still the Doctor Who Reader, but supplementing with various Yuletide recs, and what I assume are Primeval Denial secret santa offerings. So far Dog Hamlets (Lord Peter Wimsey casefic. I had to think a bit to understand what the evidence was showing, but understood in the end - I think) and On Solstice Night (a spooky folklore take on the the "stuck in a bothy" trope, for a Primeval character and, because this is Primeval fandom, a shared OC).

Listening: Having exhausted all the podfic advent calendars, I'm listing to the Missing Episodes Podcast which I'd been hearing people mention for years but never really picked up. It is well done and if I catch up with them, I'll be interested in their take on the current nebulous swirling rumours.

Watching: When Marmalade Sparrow is here we end up watching a lot of Taskmaster, which she introduced us to. I think we're currently somewhere around 2018.

potentiality_26

I made some word count goals for coming into the new year, and I think I'll manage it!

purplecat

A LEGO Orrery - on top of a circular base containing cogs, sits a lego pillar with a large yellow ball. An arm extends out to one side ending in a circular platform with a smaller blue ball

You can't actually see it, I realise all of a sudden, but there is a tiny moon that circles around the Earth which is obscured, in this view, by the Earth itself.

potentiality_26

Snowflake Challenge: A flatlay of a snowflake shaped shortbread cake, a mug with coffee, and a string of holiday lights on top of a rustic napkin.

It should help get me back into the swing of posting here!

purplecat

Cover for teh novelisation of Scream of the Shalka by Paul Cornell. Images of the animated Richard E. Grant Doctor and Derek Jacobi Master flank the screaming head of the snake-like Shalka.

melagan

SGA Secret Santa Stories are up!

You can find them Here

I filled a pinch hit this year, as well as writing for my giftee. In return, I received two wonderful stories.

A Good Start and Real (with bonus art)

Lucky, lucky me!

purplecat

Sacsayhuamán, Peru

potentiality_26

Arcane
Critical Role (I've started campaign four but I'm already way behind)
Fallout (only S1 so far)
Frankenstein
Murderbot
The Pitt
Wake Up Dead Man
Wicked (only part 1 so far)
The Witcher

I also finally read the Scholomance book series.

Please poke me for opinions, or share your own!

potentiality_26

I got a weighted blanket this year! Very exciting.

melagan

aelfgyfu_mead

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

trepkos

Merry Christmas - whatever you're doing, don't work too hard. And join a union.

card stingy birthday.jpg

potentiality_26

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!

purplecat

Reading: Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader - I love the idea of this book - a collection of academic writing about Doctor Who that can stand as a starting point for scholars, but I knew when I bought it that I would find it quite hard going because I'm not a humanities scholar and I find their idiom somewhat hard-going.

Listening: The Radio Free Skaro and, this year, the Starship Alexandria Advent calendars. I am, as I always am, somewhat behind. But at least this year I'm up to day 18...

Watching: We watched The War Between the Land and the Sea and it was... fine? I don't quite feel it justified its existence. The ending was unsatisfactory - our heroes got to be in love, but everything else looks like a complete garbarge fire. It was very good in places, fine in others, kind of dull sometimes and events often felt like they were happening in order to get to the next plot beat rather than because they made internal sense. If it hadn't been Doctor Who adjacent, we wouldn't have watched.

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