Snowflake Challenge #3

In your own space, tell us who, from one of your fandoms, would you most want to have dinner with (or tea, or a random afternoon visit), And why? This could be a creator, an actor, a costumer, a set designer, a director, a character, a composer, anybody! What would you talk about? What are you dying to know?

Whenever I get asked a question like this, I find it nearly impossible to answer. Mostly because of over-thinking all the ways every option could/would go horribly wrong. An example of the kind of places my brain goes would be the fic Excuse Me Waiter There's a Bullet in My Salad by Xanthos_Samurai; Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent are just trying to have a normal day out with a very young in training to be Robin Jason Todd and a sniper starts trying to take out Clark, all the while they are trying to make sure no one notices. It's a very cute and silly fic, but it sort of represents my fandoms as a whole. With nearly all of them, the mere presence of virtually any of the characters is a signal of the beginning of chaos and possible injury to my person (if I were there). It's fun for reading/watching and making and consuming fanworks for, but I don't need that kinda drama.

Add to that, thinking about talking in person to new people brings on bouts of nausea and the beginnings of a panic attack, let alone actually doing it. Which is why I don't ask questions at conventions, don't buy or enter contests for one on one zoom calls, etc and sometimes have to leave during the middle of just watching QnA convention panels on YouTube for a while.

That being said, having tea with Uncle Iroh (Avatar: the Last Airbender) and/or Alfred Pennyworth (Batman/DC Comics) could be worth it, even if I would have to endure thinly veiled, unsolicited life advice.

It would also be fun to watch Henry Cavill and David Hewlett just be colossal nerds together. It would probably result in the kind of lab accident that creates supervillians, but worth it.

And, assuming I didn't just short out and die at their very presence, it would be cool to get a lesson on makeup geared towards cosplaying male characters from Mx. Macabre.

Snowflake Challenge #4

In your own space, create some goals.

I am constantly making and adjusting goals. I have daily goals, weekly goals, monthly goals, spring goals, fall goals, October goals, and winter holiday goals. I even have a weekly goal check in post that I do, that hasn't been going up weekly lately. But I will confine this post to my 2021 goals, as they stand now, as I am not done figuring them out.

Bake something once a week until I run out of my stockpile of gifted mixes and supplies
Take time to take care of myself at least once a week, however that needs to look like at the time
Check in with at least one friend a week
Take care of my garden
Get the rules and FAQs done for madrona_project & madrona_info
Finish archiving my fics at the various places they should be archived
Finish my claims for inspiring_tables
At cookbook_challenge, I pledged to cook one or two new recipes a month.
Finish opening krazykattstableemporium
Whatever my pledge ends up being at plot_bunny_boot for the next round. (I won't know until March)
I have a word count related writing goal there is no way of not making sound petty.
Survive the planning and actual event of Nick's wedding (Human of Honor, here)
Good Reads 2021 Challenge
Still working on my goal of “more things off the todo list than on” that I started in July
Shimmering Words Reading Challenge
The Inauguration Reading List (though not in the first 100 days Biden is in office)
Catch up with my book clubs' reading lists
Get back to using trackers, they help
Journal
More movement (less sitting)
More honest self-expression
Get back to creating art
Set boundaries
Create a living environment that brings me joy, instead of, you know, what it does now

Those are my jumbled not super well defined goals for 2021, which can and will change at anytime.