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I'm back at commenting The Apothecary Diaries, season 2. This week we had the long-awaited episode 29, the Moon Fairy episode.

My non-spoiler comment:

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What about you? Have you been enjoying the season so far?

Responding to plenty of snowflake_challenge challenges all at once today! sparkles

The goal: be concise, to the point, and offer thoughts that can generate discussions.

Snowflake Challenge #3: In your own space, talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time.

Being a "fan" doesn't have a specific aesthetic or a specific way of doing things. ( Read more... )

Snowflake Challenge #5: Talk about what has improved in your life thanks to fandom.

Definitely my knowledge and mastery of language, as well as foreign languages, and of many other things (skills, crafts, and pure notion-based knowledge). ( Read more... )

Snowflake Challenge #6: Share your favourite piece of original canon.

I don't know if I interpreted this challenge right, but I won't talk about a canon in general but a piece of it. Still, I will twist this a bit: it's not so much what I like about a certain canon, but a certain aspect that makes me enjoy a canon a lot more.

I am a live-action role-player (larper). Since I've started with this activity, I've found that the thing I enjoy the most is the rendering of atmosphere, or rather: my style of play is "immersionist". I care about quests very little, and limitedly about story and character arcs, as long as I'm made to inhabit the very specific fictional time and place we get to play in. It can be the local pub of a small village in the 1980s, or an underground bunker 100+ years after nuclear collapse: if I can sit down in a corner, or navigate corridors, and think "Oh, I am actually here!" then... I won the LARP.

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Snowflake Challenge #7: In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a wishlist of sorts.

Not big on asking for things, but I'll try:

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Since this is the start of a new year, this challenge will be e to set your own goals! Of course we can all make large or ambitious goals, remember that small and/or short goals are also good! (snowflake_challenge #4)

The new year is having a quiet and slow start for me: while I want to do many things, I feel that my enthusiasm for creating stuff is a muffled voice in the background while my mind is occupied with other things--obligations and business that I need to tend to or will hang indefinitely over my head for the next months, a bit of uncertainty on what I am to expect out of this year. Going back to work certainly didn't help.

More than that, I've had a few months of writer's block, or rather, lack of motivation that turns into deep dissatisfaction (or open, desperate struggle) when I end up writing anyway. Since I've had one such moment yesterday, I do feel a bit blue.

It is okay--I don't have to do anything, and it's also okay not to have writing goals for now. Last year went well writing-wise, and I reached my goals of joining fic exchanges and fan events and participating in them, and there I discovered that ( Read more... )

And that's even better thinking that there are more things that I want to do this year: play more ttrpgs and other games (both digital and analogic), read more non-fiction and literary fiction, trying to crochet more garments and learning how to make them fit well, continuing to learn sashiko while also going back to embroidery (I miss it! I haven't managed last year, in the end), and, possibly, crafting at least one paper-or-paint-adjacent work.

Free time is, after all, limited, and I'd better use it to have fun.

(A bit of a downer of a post? I hope not to much. To you who read, best of luck with your 2025 goals, and with being well most of all!)

I have signed up for the Fannish 50 challenge at goals_on_dw!