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Snowflake Challenge Days 1 & 2
Jan. 2nd, 2019 02:04 pmI'm doign the snowflake challenge this year, to try and keep me posting and also 'cause I've enjoyed it in the past. Doing two days at once because if I get much further behind I'll forget!
Day 1 - In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane.
Hm, this is a tricky one. I guess the most obvious is curled up in bed, with the boyfriend, reading or chatficcing on my phone, or watching a movie. I like the feeling of being alone in a completely clean flat just after I finished cleaning it. I like libraries and bookstores and museums. I miss my old student's union, where I spent at least five days a week for four years. I miss the library where I wrote my dissertation, which was always warm and empty aside from me and bff, and had comfy chairs and power outlets. The debating chamber at the students union is one of my happy places - I rarely felt as at home or as at peace or as among friends as I have felt standing at the dispatch box, or sitting on the bench eating popcorn and heckling my friends. The sandwich resteraunt in Glasgow, now closed, which was me and boyfriends' favorite place to eat. The bedroom in boyfriend & I's old flat, where the bed was in a nook and felt safe and hidden. My current living room when it's full of friends and I'm sitting on the floor watching my friends talk, or shout at each other about the board games we're playing. My childhood bedroom, looking at the moon out the windows in the ceiling, listening to the snow fall off the roof. The top of the hill behind my parents house where they walked the dog, where it's always eerily whistling as the wind goes through the electricity cables, and you can see the cairngorms. My grandparents living room, looking at the birds in the bird feeder out the window. Victoria Park in the summer, when the grass is yellow. Skating when I've got all my gear on, when I feel invincible, even if I can't turn or score yet. Looking out the window of the train north from Glasgow, when you see the sea for the first time. The drive on the slug road from aberdeen, when you come over the hill and see stonehaven harbour for the first time.
an ever-fixed mark by AMarguerite (including all extras and alternate endings)
this is a pride & prejudice soulmark au and take my word for it when I say you HAVE to read this. it's satisfying and funny and smart, a well thought out au, an engaging period piece, and just an engaging, loving, beautiful piece of fiction. read it!!
out of the dead land by emilyenrose
i re-read this periodically, for being one of those Perfect Fics. Emotional, tightly plotted, rewarding, funny, devastating, and completely un-put-downable. it's captain america/mcu where the winter soldier has no more mission, and then decides the best way forward is to go to steve and pretend that he remembers being bucky/is recovered, and then the plot and story unfolds from there. killer.
when you lay me down you'll bury only bones podfic by growlery
this is such a lovely, perfect podfic that takes the emotions of the fic and dials it up to eleven with growlery's perfect delivery. it's welcome to night vale, and you should listen to it.
private show podfic by momo
i listen to this ALL THE TIME such that i now reread the text of private show in momo's vioce. the podfic makes the fic itself feel so real and immersive, momo's use of sound effects are really effective at creating the feeling that sid & geno have a complete and lively virtual life/digital relationship, by filling the fic with the sounds of life we're all familiar with being online. her delivery is killer and makes every scene of this fic that was already my favorite into even more my favorite!!
Day 1 - In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane.
Hm, this is a tricky one. I guess the most obvious is curled up in bed, with the boyfriend, reading or chatficcing on my phone, or watching a movie. I like the feeling of being alone in a completely clean flat just after I finished cleaning it. I like libraries and bookstores and museums. I miss my old student's union, where I spent at least five days a week for four years. I miss the library where I wrote my dissertation, which was always warm and empty aside from me and bff, and had comfy chairs and power outlets. The debating chamber at the students union is one of my happy places - I rarely felt as at home or as at peace or as among friends as I have felt standing at the dispatch box, or sitting on the bench eating popcorn and heckling my friends. The sandwich resteraunt in Glasgow, now closed, which was me and boyfriends' favorite place to eat. The bedroom in boyfriend & I's old flat, where the bed was in a nook and felt safe and hidden. My current living room when it's full of friends and I'm sitting on the floor watching my friends talk, or shout at each other about the board games we're playing. My childhood bedroom, looking at the moon out the windows in the ceiling, listening to the snow fall off the roof. The top of the hill behind my parents house where they walked the dog, where it's always eerily whistling as the wind goes through the electricity cables, and you can see the cairngorms. My grandparents living room, looking at the birds in the bird feeder out the window. Victoria Park in the summer, when the grass is yellow. Skating when I've got all my gear on, when I feel invincible, even if I can't turn or score yet. Looking out the window of the train north from Glasgow, when you see the sea for the first time. The drive on the slug road from aberdeen, when you come over the hill and see stonehaven harbour for the first time.
Day 2 - Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.
an ever-fixed mark by AMarguerite (including all extras and alternate endings)
this is a pride & prejudice soulmark au and take my word for it when I say you HAVE to read this. it's satisfying and funny and smart, a well thought out au, an engaging period piece, and just an engaging, loving, beautiful piece of fiction. read it!!
out of the dead land by emilyenrose
i re-read this periodically, for being one of those Perfect Fics. Emotional, tightly plotted, rewarding, funny, devastating, and completely un-put-downable. it's captain america/mcu where the winter soldier has no more mission, and then decides the best way forward is to go to steve and pretend that he remembers being bucky/is recovered, and then the plot and story unfolds from there. killer.
when you lay me down you'll bury only bones podfic by growlery
this is such a lovely, perfect podfic that takes the emotions of the fic and dials it up to eleven with growlery's perfect delivery. it's welcome to night vale, and you should listen to it.
private show podfic by momo
i listen to this ALL THE TIME such that i now reread the text of private show in momo's vioce. the podfic makes the fic itself feel so real and immersive, momo's use of sound effects are really effective at creating the feeling that sid & geno have a complete and lively virtual life/digital relationship, by filling the fic with the sounds of life we're all familiar with being online. her delivery is killer and makes every scene of this fic that was already my favorite into even more my favorite!!
