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Day 15

Talk about why you participated in Snowflake &/or what you got out of it. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This has been my first time participating in Snowflake. I’d honestly never heard of it before last month, when I saw turps and green post about it. It sounded like it could be fun, so I decided to do it (especially since I decided I was gonna try and put myself out there more.

So before the challenge started I didn’t know what I was gonna get out or what to expect.

I didn’t expect it to be as big as it was, or so broad.

Anyway, like I said, I came into it with no real idea of what was going to happen over the last 15 days, but I told myself I was gonna try and do them all. I knew it would be pretty easy at first anyway (the first few days I was off from uni so had nothing set that I needed to do). I’ve ended up doing each day’s challenge, most of the time time incorporating them into regular posts (but sometimes like this one doing them on their own).

The challenges themselves have been fun and interesting. Some of them required a little thought, but most I could do as soon as I saw them. I’m not sure which one I liked the most, although Day 10’s post did result in me doing a bunch of Ray Toro fic, which is always good. Between snowflake and bandom holidays it feels like my creativity is back at a high, which is great.

Snowflake has also let me to interacting with other people. I’ve not commented on every participant (because, wow, so many), but there were a few days were I looked through the comments on the day’s posts and then replied to people’s posts. It’s been fun interacting with new people as a result and getting a few new followers on here. I know there’s a friending meme thing in the next few days so feel free anyone to add me.

One thing that has surprised me is that I’ve noticed a few people have Due South in their tags. I vaguely remember watching it forever ago, but never expected (or even thought) that there’d be any sort of fandom around it.

Anyway, the snowflake mods have been really great coming up with these challenges and keeping it together (and, managing to reply to everyone!)

I’ve said this before to a few people, but after being on tumblr for awhile (which was a hellsite, with its purity and call out culture and the general lack of friendliness and interaction) this whole thing has felt like a breath of fresh air. I hope people stick around here on dreamwidth and continue interacting and creating. That would be great.

2018 for me was an awful year, but I’m hoping that 2019 will be so much better. Snowflake has really helped with that.

Now this challenge is done I’m probably gonna continue making regularly posts more (probably not daily like I have for the challenge but still) and I’m gonna keep on writing. I’ve found my spark for it again and I’m hoping it doesn’t die again,

Ok that whole thing was probably pretty sappy (and I just woke up before I started writing it so hope it’s not riddled with mistakes or anything).

Once I’m a bit more awake I’m gonna do more uni stuff (which is continuing to look at the different types of rock) and then head out to get meds and such. (And, hopefully, not get too tired so I can fic some more.)

Hope everyone has a good day!

Edit: I’ve now been given an image of Ray in a mini skirt which means I won’t be able to concentrate all day.

Also I forgot to link to the challenge from Day 12 which is still going so feel free to leave bandom related prompts or fill the ones there!

So last night was pretty unproductive. I wrote a bit, but after eating and watching The Voice I essentially crashed. Peopleing is hard.

Anyway, snowflake got posted early this morning so I’m gonna post it now. I may fic more today hopefully (I was gonna do the second half of the fic round up at some point too but I may leave it a few days)

Day 13

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So I kinda did this when I set myself some goals for the year. The basic one being do at least one fic a month (which if January is anything to go by...)

2019 is a big year for fandom stuff so there’s a lot coming. For MCR 2019 is a big year because it’s the year Danger Days was set, so expect more fic in the series based on that. For Star Wars there is more of Resistance coming as well as Episode IX and more Clone Wars. Then there’s Star Trek Discovery (starting in a few days), Shadowhunters (the last series boo) and the Umbrella Academy series starting next month. Then there’s films, like Avengers Endgame, Captain Marvel, Detective Pikachu and The Lego Movie 2 (I am sure there’s more that have slipped my mind). Game wise there’s ooblets and a load of other indie games as well as Animal Crossing for the Switch.

Anyway, though, back to goals. I’m gonna make a bullet point list of goals. Some have been done before, some haven’t.
*Continue writing at least one thing a month, unless something super major happens
*Try and get to more gigs. I only went to one last year and the gig itch is strong. Annoyingly so many seem to be not coming to Birmingham or are too much, though you know if Adam Lambert does a tour I’m gonna be all over that
*Watch all of the above things, which will be easy
*In March do the thing that raveninthewind recced in their snowflake post yesterday, 31 days of fic recs
*Write in at least one new to me fandom. I dunno if writing something for the tv Umbrella Academy series counts (cause you know I’m gonna do something for it, come on). I’m thinking’s of writing a thing with Palaye Royale though I’m unsure what yet (because hot brothers in a band= yes!)
*Do a complete Clone Wars rewatch before the new eps come out
*Finish at least season 2 of the Torchwood rewatch. It will depend if I have the strength to watch Children Of Earth
*Do my Bleach rewatch
*Finish games, at least one a month. (Also do more on the switch when I find the other games)
*Do a post each week with thoughts on Discovery (And Umbrella Academy and maybe Shadowhunters too)
*Read more of the Star Wars novels from my pile of doom and finish the graphic novels I have (and try and get more)
*Get the Coheed DVD’s
*Finally rewatch the MCR DVD’s. And the other band DVD’s (The Used, Tokio Hotel, the last Bullet For My Valentine and Black Veil Brides blu rays)
*Watch more stuff on Shudder
*Try and sort icons out so I have at least one more Star Wars one

I think that’s all, though I’m sure I’m missing a thing or two.

I did have a general one which is to put myself out there more and I think snowflake has done that because of all the new people (hi new people!) and I’ve started posting on ao3 again. And speaking of ao3, I’m going to continue to comment on everything I read (so since I’m going through a few people’s fic expect loads of comment emails, sorry!)

I’m also gonna try and go more to the Saturday Nintendo events. There’s one a week arranged by the cute boy, but I know I can’t manage going to Birmingham that much. If I go once a month that should be good. Other than that, non-Fannish wise just keep up with uni stuff.

(And related to the list, would anyone be interested in Palaye fic? I’m not sure what it would be yet so...)

Today’s plan is gonna be to write more, continue the Enterprise run and basically watch more stuff. I’m hoping to do the Resident Evil 2 demo tonight too (cause Leon) and either game something else or watch more Black Lake (depending on tiredness levels cause subtitles)

Also feel free to take a look at yesterday’s bandom prompt thing for snowflake. There’s 3 prompts so far.

After I did yesterday’s snowflake post I did a few things. I started working on a fic based on a prompt from akamine_chan’s Ray fic a thon which I stumbled on the other day and it got stuck in my head. I switched from it once I started getting prompts to yesterday’s post. Feel free to leave more Ray centric posts on it (or any MCR ones). Even if you’ve already left one feel free to leave another. I’ve already finished one and I’m working on another (well, I was until I had a nap). Even if you’re new feel free to request one! The post is Here

I’m tempted to do a Ray fic based on this due to an offhand comment on turps awesome fic Show And Then Tell

The bandom_holidays fics were revealed yesterday, so I was finally able to post them here. I had the immense honour of writing the one for turps. I was super glad to get her, because she’s been so good to me. I was really pleased with the result, which like I mentioned in the notes came to me right away. I was even pleased with the pinch hit that I did over the course of an afternoon. It’s a challenge I’ll definitely do again and all the fics were great.

Last night I ended up watching Death In Paradise, though I didn’t pay much attention since I was reposting the bandom holidays fic. I then went on Ac doing some of the olympics based quests and watched an ep of a Lucifer while ficcing some more.

I watched the last Torchwood ep of disc one which was To The Last Man, which is so sad. Tommy saved the world and what did he get for his trouble? Shot for being shell shocked. Torchwood of the past surely could have stepped in to stop it, yet they did nothing. Ugh.

Today I listened to Sappenin podcast, which I was looking forward to since it had Moose from Bullet in so I hoped we might get info on what went on and Jay. However ‘legal stuff’ prevented all that (no doubt Tuck’s doing) so it was a little disappointing. It was still fun though and they said they’ll get him back when it’s sorted. It makes me worry if they ever do get Jay on that we’ll know nothing.

I had a delivery this morning too, from my friend that went to Canada recently. She found the funko of Renji from Bleach and so got it for me as a present! She’s the best! He looks great and makes me wanna resume my Bleach rewatch (resume might be a bit much, I only watched the first ep after the awesome live action film).

While putting him on my shelf I spotted my Gerard one. It’s the TBP one with the skull face and it made me realise I never got a Revenge Gee. After doing a quick search the only place that seems to have him is the mcr store but I just know wit postage it’ll be close to £20. Has anyone seen it elsewhere? I still wish they put out ones with the rest of the members. Maybe this year.

Today hasn’t been eventful other than that. I worked on fic, had my doze and now I’m gonna do the day’s snowflake challenge. Mum did find my missing Switch game which I thought was long gone, yay!

I did, however, find some footage from the show Ray got topless. The quality is terrible, but it’s worth it to see Ray swing his shirt around his head. What the fuck happened to get him to do that? And why did it never happen at any other shows? (And how did anyone survive, since Frank was topless there too)

Tomorrow I won’t be around during the day, I’ll be in Birmingham going to the streetpass meet. I’m hoping to try a vegan sausage roll and to see if McDonald’s has any Pokemon toys. I’m not gonna go in too many places due to money so I should be back pretty early.

Day 11

In your own space, talk about your creative process(es) — anything from the initial inspiration to how you feel after something’s done. Do you struggle with motivation or is it a smooth process? Do you have any tricks up your sleeve to pull out when a fanwork isn’t cooperating? What is your level of planning to pantsing/winging it? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Ahh this is an interesting challenge. Well my creative thing is writing so that’s what I’ll talk about.

The first key thing is getting inspiration. This can come from several ways, either a prompt, a picture or a video. Other times I can just get random ideas, while lying in bed or even while watching something else. I find it easier if I’m working on something that’s either for a person or has been requested by them. That way I know that I have one person who will read the finished result.

Once I have the idea, I note it down. Sometimes the idea is a few words or a line, other times it’s a pairing. If it’s clear in my mind (and I know it won’t go away), I’ll open up a new file in Documents, which is what I use on my iPad to write. I write the header first, so at this point the fic is this.

Pairing:
Rating:
Warnings:
Notes:

I used to include POV too when I wrote in first person. After that I usually jot down the basis of the idea, unless I am able to get going right away. If that’s the case then I just start writing. I usually try and focus on one thing at a time, writing whatever I have to completion before switching. If I have any other ideas during this time I will note them down though.

I’m at a point now where motivation isn’t a problem. I’ll just keep going with the idea until I finish it up. This can take anything from an afternoon to a few days to do. (Although writing things in one day is rare unless it’s short.) Sometimes I’ll have links open to any specific pics that are relevant. Right now for instance I’m working on a Jet Star fic for turps, so I have a google image search of Jet Star for his outfit reference. Before I’ve had primers or picspams open, or even links to festive gear.

Since my fic isn’t usually terribly long I generally don’t plan things. That changes when I do a series (and when I did Kinkverse stuff there was a lot of interconnectedness and planning). I currently have a bit of planning with my Killjoys series. When I did my bandom holidays fic I did have some planning in place for it, because it was a challenge fic, so I noted a few things down.

Once I’ve done it, I usually give it a quick once over and then post it. Since Better Than Him, for bandom holidays, was different this last step was different. I ended up working on the end a bit longer. It originally ended with Ray and the Ways sleeping together, but then I got the idea of a final scene with Pete showing up. My first thought was that Ray would punch Pete in the face, knocking him out. But in the end it didn’t feel right to (because as Ray thinks in the fic, they’d be stuck with him unconscious outside). So instead Ray threatened him instead and it ended on a nice moment with him and his new lovers, which I thought felt better.

One of the hardest parts often ends up being coming up with a title. Sometimes I have one in mind, but other times it can be hard. Then I usually look to songs or lyrics for inspiration.

Anyway, yeah, that’s my basic process. I hope you found it interesting.

First I’m gonna share this pic.


So why am I sharing this pic? Because Ray. He looks like he’s just had the fuck of his life. *eyes the ways* and the funny thing was when I was writing last night I had his hair just like that. Holy fuck.

Of course I had to icon it so now I have more Ray icons than anyone else. Oops.

I have to do another search for Ray porn because of that because holy shit,

I have just submitted my latest uni assessment thank fuck, so the rest of the day can be resting.

And yay, mum came home with some of the nice chilli cheese bread yes!

Day 9

Commit an Act of Kindness. In your own space, share what you’ve done, talk about what you’ve done, or simply leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I think I covered this yesterday. One of the things turps requested in their day 6 post is for comments on fic, so yesterday I read their fic and commented on it. I read a few of them, including It Came From Within and it’s sequel which is awesome, as well as a few shorter ones, which were ngh. Which I’ll probably link to soon (since I’m about to head out with the pup).

I have a few other tabs full of recs and stuff to read and comment on, which I may take a look through too.

I also helped mcfobr to set up their dreamwidth account, yay more people!

Day 7

Stretch yourself a little and try something new. Go play in a new fandom or with a new pairing. Try working in a new medium. Or check out some fanworks that are new to you. (The recs from Day 2 might be a good place to start.) Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Funnily, I’ve already done this. As I mentioned in my post early, reading bandom_holidays led to me reading different genres than I usually would. You can find them all here and they are all awesome.

At about midnight I also read this a fic by lexicalcrow who is one of the new people I’ve met during the challenge. It’s a Taskmaster fic based on season 7 and it’s the first Taskmaster fic I’ve ever read.

Tonight I’m going to start watching Legends Of Tomorrow since it starts on tv tonight. I’ve always been curious about it so I’m looking forward to finally seeing it.

If anyone has a fic they’d like to rec, let me know and I’ll try and give it a read!

I’ve also edited my last entry in the challenge a little bit too.

So for the first few days I’ve done a regular post along with my answer to the day’s snowflake challenge, but because today’s has been posted early I’m just going to do that it seperate and maybe do a regular post sometime later. (I am hoping to get the fic done today though!)

Day 5

In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Well first off aim going to start by promoting bandom_holidays even though the challenge is ended at the moment (and it’s just gonna be the reveal post in five days). I signed up for the challenge in November for the first time and, well, I was a little unsure how it would go. There was a time back on lj that I’d do a post offering to do Christmas fic for people, because that’s what I do. I love writing stuff for people. (And it means if it’s a gift there’s one guaranteed reader). However over the years people went their seperate ways and I was only left with one person that I wrote for. I’d write her something, she’d write me something. Last year though, she ditched me and I had no one to write for. I knew that I would get antsy if I had nothing to do, so when I heard about it, I signed right up. I was really looking forward to it to, having someone do me a fic in return even though it would (likely) be a stranger.

I got the prompt for me to fill in December and I was instantly inspired. I won’t say more about it until the reveal, but I had an idea for what I wanted right away and just had to get it out. I had it done and posted weeks before the deadline and I was so eager to see if the person liked it. The collection went live on the 1st and it’s here there are 18 fan works in total and I did two (the one I was assigned and a pinch hit). I’ve spent the week reading them and they’ve all been great so far (there’s three left to read which I’ll do this weekend).

I loved doing it and I hope that to enter the next one too. If anyone knows similar things that run through the year, let me know.

My reason for creating this dreamwidth was to join kink_bingo and, until I properly moved everything over here in 2017 it was the only thing I’d got here. Alas the year I did it was the last one, so I’m not going to rec it (and looking at it recently, it’s sad because a lot of the links to stuff are dead). Instead I’ll link to a new think that I found out about a few days ago, called seasonofkink. The main challenge operates in a similar manner from the looks of it so I’ll definitely join it. There’s a smaller challenge going on right now, to create a fic with at least three kinks in it. The fic I’m working on now is gonna be posted there as part of that challenge.

The next blog I’m gonna promote here is completely different. It’s called gffa. I discovered them on tumblr, but due to tumblr’s fuckery they set up an account here which I find is easier to interact with them. Basically they post meta stuff and thoughts about Star Wars, with a focus on the comics. Star Wars is one of my biggest permenant loves, so I just adore it. Here means we can have a proper comment discussion about it which is easier than tumblr and I love. The latest post is about the recent Age Of Republic issues, which I’m going to reply to when I read them (which should be today if they arrive).

Now I know the challenge says three, but I’m gonna do at least a few other things too.

From twitter I’m gonna promote GWayFUN which is a twitter account about Gerard Way. They’re so nice and friendly and have managed to make a community together. The flailing when the Umbrella Academy trailer was finally released was glorious.

I’m also gonna share a link to Ezra Blake’s Twitter. I discovered them a few months back when I searched for my username (which I thought would be a big mistake). Instead I found his twitter and someone mentioned his upcoming novel reminded them of some stuff I did ages ago. Intruiged I reached out and we ended up having a few conversations. I have part of one saved, because it led me back into writing again at a time when I was sure that I wouldn’t. He’s posted a copy of his novel as a pdf, just be sure to heed the warnings. (I still need to read my copy but the darkening days of winter made reading a physical book difficult, sorry!)

I’m going to share a few podcasts too, since they count as platforms right?

First is Welcome to Night Vale which is the one I’m sure a load of people have heard of. I heard of it when it got hyped up on tumblr years back and decided to give it a listen. It’s helped me through a lot of stuff. It’s set in the fictional town of a Night Vale, which is an epicentre for every weird thing you could imagine (and a few you wouldn’t have even thought of). It’s narrated by Cecil, the community’s radio host and it’s just, amazing.

Second is a new podcast, called Dreamboy It’s produced by Night a Vale presents (set up by the guys that did Night Vale) and it is just so... weird, but in a completely different way. The main character is a gay guy and it’s unapologetically erotic as well as strange. They recently did a Christmas special, which will make you unable to hear come all ye faithful in the same way again.

Lastly is Sappenin podcast. It was started last month by Sean Smith, who was the joint lead singer of The Blackout. The guys from The Blackout were always awesome and friendly (and Welsh!) so I was so sad when they split several years ago (when it felt like every band was breaking up). The first two episodes are just about him and the band, but every other week since they have had a new guest on. The best one so far was Dougie from Mcfly last week. I’m hoping that they’ll get Jay from Bullet on, so I’ll finally know what happened to him. (They are going to get Moose from Bullet on soon, though when is unclear.) but yeah, it’s fun and funny and they make me smile (and nostalgic for the days I’d go to gigs a lot). I’ve not heard the latest cause YMAS.

Anyway, I’m gonna wait to see if my comics come, then take a Naryu for her walk and spend the day watching stuff, reading and ficcing.

Yesterday I ended up doing a Killjoys fic because I got inspired. I mentioned in the notes for it that I ideas for three (so far). Ironically the one that’s going to be done last was the idea I came up with first.

The fic I was meant to work on after it was going to be the follow up to it. However, akamine_chan left me a comment on the prompt post and my fic brain got inspired. So last night I started working on that. I suspect it might be done today or tomorrow but it depends on how things pan out.

Yesterday too, tv started to revert back to normal, with Stargate on at 6 and Supergirl on at 8. Supergirl ended up being a replay of the last one before Christmas, but it makes kinda sense since the one tonight will follow on for it so context will help. The series is almost over though and they’re gonna switch on Monday to Legends Of Tomorrow, which looks pretty good.

Last night, after doing some gaming on Assassins Creed, I decided to finally watch the Doctor Who eps I’ve meant to. I watched Utopia/The Sound Of The Drums/The Last Of The Time Lords on Netflix, because I was too lazy to grab the box set from upstairs. Annoyingly (and I didn’t realise till I was watching it) the Netflix version of Time Lords is a shorter version wtf? Ugh.

It’s been ages since I’ve seen any of 10’s episodes and it reminded me of how good he was, (and how the music was so awesome). I watched those eps since I was rewatching Torchwood and so it felt appropriate to watch them. Utopia is my favourite of the episodes, I just love Chantho (and feel bad she died still) and the slow build up to Yana’s reveal (and of course Jack being Jack). The other episodes are good too, though I still find the Year That Never Was jarring (though it makes sense the master would arm earth like that, giving what happened to earth a year later in Who). I do kinda wanna watch the next episode now, but I think I’ll just skip back to season two of Torchwood next.

After that I went to bed, fully intending to sleep. Instead I couldn’t, so I decided to read a fic I got recced on twitter last night, Set These Fires (Just For You) which is a nice in depth look into the relationship between Frank/Gerard/Mikey. The trouble is though, it is long and I didn’t realise that going into it. So I kept reading, expecting several times for the first chapter to end soon and yet it just.... kept going. As such I spent hours reading it over the middle of the night, only sleeping when my body crashed (and then resuming when I woke). I’m gonna save the second chapter to a later, better time and I’m going to work on finishing the rest of the bandom holidays fic before I read it.

I had meant, this morning, to put up the laptop and change around my icons. Basically to add ones of the rest of MCR (I have six of Ray, but only one each for Gerard, Mikey and Bob.) However, because of reading that I didn’t get chance to. Hopefully I will in the morning. I think clearing out those old icons will do me some good too.

Anyway, it’s day 3 of the snowflake challenge so...

Day 3

In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This is an interesting question. I’m gonna try and include a few.

First is the music video for Na Na Na. This should come as no surprise really. It’s my favourite MCR video because of the asethic and the awesome world building that goes upon in the brief span of it. Plus they all look so damn good. I’ve not watched it on YouTube for awhile (I recently watched when I was playing Guitar Hero Love before the servers died) and it’s just, amazing.

I really wish that they’d done more than two videos with the Killjoys though (really they could have done videos for the whole album, especially Save Yourselfs and Destroya), it always felt like a missed opportunity. I still dunno why they never made action figures of the boys either. Thankfully it inspired immense creativity in the mcr fandom, in a way I have never seen for a music video before or since. This year will no doubt lead to a resurgence of fic based on it and I say bring it on!

Another music video I like is Motionless In white’s Necessary Evil for no real reason other than Chris is maddeningly attractive and has a guy chained to his throne and makes him like his boots.

I am bad at saving interviews, which sucks because so many interviews are awesome. I did type up one interview from Kerrang years ago (holy fuck it’s 10 years old now) I wish I’d done scans at the time too but ah well. here’s the link to the perviest interview Bullet For My Valentine ever did.

Speaking of Bullet, here is another rec of them their last album Gravity it came out last year, right at the time when I was feeling low and somehow managed to encapsulate just how I felt. Songs like Breathe Underwater and The Very Last Time are especially poignant although most of them are. (The only trouble is it’s a little too on the nose, so can a little hard for me to hear at times.)

I’ll end with a book rec, which is Star Wars. The novel Bloodline is the best of the new novels so far (though I suspect it’ll be unseated soon by Queen’s Shadow). Bloodline tells the story of Princess Leia shortly before the sequel trilogy. At this point she’s a senator in the new republic and she’s considering retiring to join Han. But of course things start going a turn. She does a bit of investigating, with a fellow senator (who I first hated but came to like), ends up being nominated for a position that she doesn’t really want and there’s some other revelations too. If you like Leia and haven’t read this book, you really should.

I could rec a few tv episodes too, but I’m not actually sure where I’d start. Heh,

I must say, I love the snowflake challenge so far. I already have two people added because of it (one from a surprising fandom that I didn’t expect to see, Taskmaster!) and got one tv Show rec, which is awesome.

Happy new year everyone! I’m glad the beast of 2018 has at last been slain. My night last night wasn’t too exciting. It was spent mostly watching tv and having Buck’s Fizz. I ended up watching a Ghost Stories on Netflix too which wasn’t too great really.

During the day we went to sainsburys to get some bits and lj got the Lego fantastic beasts suitcase from Argos. The creatures are so pretty and it really holds up and is secure. We also got the guinea pig some food and mum’s meds (alas mine weren’t there ugh).

I had the gift from Lego come too, though it wasn’t exciting. A luggage tag, one of the collectible minifigs and a Finn key ring. Still it was nice of them.

On twitter I made new year’s resolutions to:
*Write more
*Read more
*Go to more gigs

The bandom_holidays fics are up! Go and give them a look! So far I’ve only read the one for me but I’m gonna read some of the others soon. It’s been ages since someone’s done me a fic so I was so glad to finally have one to read. I wasn’t sure what to expect since I’d given a few suggestions, but ahh!

I’ll post what I did once they’ve all been revealed, which I think is the 10th.

Other than fic today has gone well so far as I found a new band on twitter (or rather they found me) called Florence Black and they have curly haired Welshmen! Which has been my dream to find them.

Since it’s now 2019 I listened to Danger Days this morning and wore my Party Poison jacket (though it’s pretty worn now). I need to dye my hair again soon. I’ll likely do a Killjoys fic soon so if anyone has request...

The snowflake challenge has started up today, so I’m going to be doing a daily post for it for the next 15 days!

So to anyone coming from there, hi! I mostly write band fic and I’ve currently defaulted back to writing MCR mostly. I really hope, through this challenge to meet people interested in Welsh bands (especially Bullet For My Valentine), Motionless In White or just a few more MCR people! If you have any questions, let me know and there’s a fic request post pinned on my page (and a masterlist).

So let’s get onto the challenge!

Day 1

In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Well that is an interesting question for day one. Let’s see if I can answer it.

Do I have a physical happy place? No not really. I don’t think ugh I do like snuggling in bed (and getting cuddles from my cats and puppy).

I like to write. I stopped last year for reasons I won’t go over but when I finally wrote again... it felt good, I love writing, even though most stuff I write is just porn. I love writing for other people and getting my stuff read and commented on. Nothing makes me happier than getting a comment on a fic, no matter how old. It’s something that is... lacking on AO3, which is a shame. Comments make me happier than hit counts or kudos do.

Whenever I get sad, I often go back and read fics that people have done for me. Alas I wasn’t able to do that for some this year (for the same reason alluded to above) but I did reread ones done by aerogroupie (alas their stuff is friends-locked) and fastbetty on lj. Late in the year I did an mcr fic binge too, rereading random stuff back on lj when I could (and lamenting that so many people and fics has just been deleted).

I often do some gaming to help distract myself. Usually that involves going on the Xbox and finding a random game, usually an indie one, but also Elder Scrolls Online or Assassins Creed. If I’m in a writing mood (or two tired to game), I’ll go on Netflix and find some series to watch. Thankfully 2018 produced a lot of good shows for Netflix and they have a lot of older stuff too.

I usually try and read too, I’ve been working on the new canon Star Wars books, which I enjoy but with the night’s getting dark due to winter, it’s been hard to do so. I started a new book called Claustrphilia but failed at getting far due to the darks. I also read comics, again most Star Wars but also Umbrella Academy. I’m so excited for the tv series of it.

One thing that makes me happy is music (which I’ll get to later) and listening to Welcome To Night Vale on Spotify. Night Vale is so awesome and the new series, Good Morning Night Vale is fun too and has given me an excuse to resistencia (which has given me more appreciation to certain parts).

When I write it’s mostly done on my iPad now, which took some getting used to. I usually write while having something on tv in the background, though sometimes I have music on. I’ve been listening to Coheed And Cambria on Spotify a lot lately, because I just got into them recently. I’ve also been listening to The Blackout and MCR too.

...wow, that ended up being a ramble, much longer than I expected. Oops, hee