Continuing to push these out...

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!

For this challenge, I'm just going to rec the last thing I read that I thought was really neat. It's a blog post that was linked to on a Discord I'm in, which I thought was a fascinating read: Idle Words: Scott and Scurvy -- it's a very readable account of one part in the history of scientific understanding of scurvy. Namely, it talks about how various occurrences and advancements in science led to people having a worse theory of the causes of scurvy in the early 1900s than they did in the mid 1700s. This continued until vitamin C was finally isolated and its effects understood. I think it's a fascinating study of how scientific progress is not linear and how smart people reasoning with the best facts, tests, and technology of their time can still mistake the nature of things. Of course, our own scientific understandings are the same way, even as they're the best guess we can currently make.


Challenge #5: Wishlist - In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

While I generally am like *gestures at all my exchange sign-ups* for this prompt, let me try to focus on a particular theme, namely -- AUs! AUs are something I'm always hungry for and I think it's unlikely I'll sign up for an AU exchange in the near future (as the only one currently running has a work minimum that's probably just a bit too high for me -- I don't know, I might sign up for it in the future but it would be a pretty difficult commitment for me to make, the stars would have to align, etc.). Okay, so let me highlight three particular things on my AU wishlist:

1) AU prompts: I'm still very much taking prompts for my au_challenge bingo card over here. I really enjoy the activity of thinking about AUs and how I would translate canons into certain settings/setups, and so appreciate people giving me random prompts and shaking some ideas loose that way.

2) My old AU exchange sign-up: Here's the one time I signed up for an AU exchange -- I would still love mini-presents for the requests here. A drabble, a doodle, an icon, or just some off-the-cuff thoughts you have about a neat AU, etc. The fandoms being requested are:

- A Song of Ice and Fire (Sandor Clegane/Sansa Stark)
- Bravely Default (Alternis Dim/Edea Lee)
- Final Fantasy VI (any or ensemble focus with some suggestions of characters to include)
- Pinocchio (1940) (Lampwick/Pinocchio or Blue Fairy/Jiminy Cricket)
- Soulcalibur (any or ensemble focus with some suggestions of characters to include)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Odo/Quark)

But let me also add:
- Trials of Mana (any or ensemble focus)

3) Recursive fanworks for some of my specific AU ideas: These are both mentioned in the above AU exchange sign-up, but I thought I would highlight them: I've drawn art for two specific AU ideas I have, and I'd love recursive fanworks for them -- your take on the same idea, a drabble illustrating how you think it would work, or just tossing around some ideas or asking me some follow-up questions.

- Bravely Default, superhero AU with a two-person love triangle between Ringabel, Edea, and Alternis.
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Quodo angel/demon AU.

I meant to post this earlier, but here are 19 recs for art drawn for doodle4doodle this year (a doodle/art exchange) -- mostly fanart but with some original work as well. There were a HUGE number of both sign-ups and works for this event (at least using the similar event multifandomdoodle as a rough comparison), and lots of gems in the collection. I don't have time to rec everything I enjoyed, but here's my shortlist of recs!

( 19 art recs from 11 fandoms + original work )

Challenge #12: Create a Rec Countdown.

I've decided to rec: 5 icon communities, 4 media featuring women on a ruthless revenge quest, 3 direct-to-DVD Disney movie sequels I think are actually good, 2 communities for finding fannish events, and 1 movie I'd rec to everyone (which is extremely uncommon).

( Rec countdown )


Challenge #13: Interact with someone in fandom you haven't talked with before.

(Skipping this one.)


Challenge #15: Talk about an unexpected joyous moment you experienced last year.

Well, I was really delighted to get a late treat for my Quodo-as-exes prompt in Quodo Mini-fest! And a vid too! I don't think I really realized this about latetreatbonanza until after I'd run it the first time, but nothing much matches the surprised delight of getting a late present out of left field (I mainly made the community from the creator's perspective of just wanting motivation to finish up my own late projects). But I've noticed it in the way the recipients react to their gifts -- it is definitely SUCH a joyous experience getting a surprise gift! So yes, that was an unexpected joyous moment for me last year.


And I'm done with snowflake_challenge, reasonably on time this year!