2024 Snowflake Friending Meme

Link to Mine in Particular:
https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/74474.html?thread=14274538#cmt14274538

2024 Snowflake Challenge #9

Challenge #9

Rec Us Your Newest Thing.


So my newest things are Our Flag Means Death meme accounts on Instagram and Daylists on Spotify.

When I first got into Our Flag Means Death, with none of my friends being into it, I didn’t really feel like I had a space to play in, but I found community on Instagram, especially with meme accounts, that did more than just post fandom memes, but also dissected scenes and had discussions in the comments.

These are my favorite Our Flag Means Death meme accounts on Instagram:

our.memes.mean.death
our.flag.means.sass
ourflagmeansdeathbb

Honorable mention to ourflagmeetsgoodomens, as it is still a lot of fun, but it is primarily screencaps of tumblr asks with Neil Gaiman about Good Omens (TV series) – which again, a lot of fun, but off topic from Our Flag Means Death.

Daylists are a new thing on Spotify. I found out about them when a mutual I have on Instagram posted in his stories “screw your astrology sign, send me your Spotify daylist title,” with a screen cap of his current one. This peaked my interest as it fits in with my “send me your playlists, not your nudes,” philosophy, but also because I had no idea what he was talking about.

How you find them, is you search on Spotify for daylist or my daylist, and it will bring up for you a playlist titled daylist (which you will need to add to your library if you want quicker access too). Unlike the daily mixes it was already doing, The daylist changes multiple times a day. From my experimentation, there is a morning, afternoon, evening, and late night list. Under the title, it gives you a description of you playlist, including what genres it includes, (sometimes) what you listened to that made it pick these genres, how long the playlist is, and at what time your daylist will change to the next one. (You can also preview tracks like a regular playlist.)

My first Daylist I got was titled, “lip sync teen angst afternoon,” which made me feel seen and called out at the same time. It seems to be a common reaction, though I know a couple people that have gotten ones that seem to have nothing to do what they listen to, so sometimes it misses, but I am hooked.

It also gives you a bunch of other mixes it thinks you might like based on your listening and says they were created “for you,” but they seem to be premade mixes they push on everyone. So far, my suggested mixes have been, “Goblincore Mix,” “Anti Anxiety Mix,” “Pirate Metal Shanty Mix,” “Spooky Evil Gay Mix,” “Egg Punk Mix,” “Bubblegrunge Mix,” “Meme Mix,” “Tuesday Mix,” “Murder Ballad Mix,” “Purple Sound Mix,” “Horror Movie Synthwave Mix,” “Angry Whistling Mix,” and “Crying Birthday Mix,” at least those are the ones I took note of. It also sent me a bunch of kpop, which I have never listened to. (Nothing against it, just never have, but noted here to show that the other mixes don't necessarily have to do with what you listened to and are probably premade.)

My favorite Daylist title so far has been “dynamic religious music Thursday night,” which had zero religious music and was almost entirely goth bands and various flavors of horror and doom. It was a lot of fun.

My current daylist while I type this is “angst college rock Wednesday afternoon.” The titles are not always inventive.

2024 Snowflake Challenge #10

Challenge #10

Five Things! The five things are totally up to you.

Five Things I am Passionate About You Might Not Know From Just Reading My Journal

1. Cheese I am not sure I have ever really talked about cheese on DW, aside from an odd comment here and there about liking cheese boards and making it a favored food in a land at madrona_project, but am REALLY into cheese. I’m not sure why and I couldn’t really give you an “origin story” about it, but it is a weirdly big part of my IRL. I am constantly making cheese board (or planning them for funsies). I used to go to a lot of cheese tastings. I have a self-complied guide book to cheese – including ways to describe flavors, pairings, etc., that went to college with me. I think about half of my list of new foods I tried last year are cheeses. I genuinely get excited in the cheese section at the grocery store and one of my favorite things about the discount grocery we primarily shop at is that it has an imported cheese section. I am currently working my was through a wedge of mustard seed gouda from Holland. My favorite cheese is smoked gouda.

2. Historic Fashion (and subverting it) I absolutely love historic and vintage fashion. A huge part of my YouTube subscriptions are devoted to it, along with personal study of it. This is honestly an offshoot of my love of history in general and of period dramas. However, I am also not a purist. Sometimes, depending on what the end goal is, getting the silhouette or the idea down is more important than the details. I also see fashion as a kind of art, and sometimes bending the rules is necessary. Also, I love changing up details/reimagining things to fit fantasy and alternate universe settings, as well as things like, “what would a 14th century peasant dress look like if they had access to Lisa Frank fabric/aesthetic materials?” Of course, I will also talk your ear off about the proper way to wear a corset and why those buttons on that coat is wrong, so, *shrug*

3. Beverages This feels slightly cheaty, as it could probably been guessed by the amount I talk about tea and energy drinks, and the tea reviews I have been doing all month, but the truth is, I am passionate about beverages in general, not just tea and energy drinks. I have serious FOMO when new flavors of things come out. There are special seasonal flavors I MUST have during Halloween and Christmas. And I have yet to resist the siren’s call of something strange and interesting appearing in the beverage aisle at the discount grocery store, unless it has an ingredient I know my digestive issues will not play well with, but honestly, sometimes not even then. I have a thorough review of the limited edition AI generated coke flavor – I believe it was labeled as tasting of the future – that I never posted. (Yes, I have had most of the weird limited edition coke flavors, including Dreamworld and Starlight.) It’s also not something I am entirely proud of for a host of reasons, but here we are.

4. Outdoorsy-ish By PNW standards, I am not considered outdoorsy, but I do enjoy camping, hiking, campfires, and generally spending time outdoors. Nature fascinates me. The problem is that I want my hikes to be leisurely so, I can really look at things and take pictures or do sketches, not forced marches. I want to get up when I want to and sleep on something padded, not forced up at 5am and sleep directly on the ground. Basically, I get shamed a lot for not liking outside the "right" way. But I do like spending time outside. I'm just more of an indoor/outdoor gremlin.

5. Miniatures I have loved miniatures as long as I remember. The quickest way to get me to fall in love with something is to make it tiny. The only reason I don't have a hoard of meticulously decorated creepy dollhouses is lack of space (and money). I have the skills, I could make it happen. I do have a variety of other minis I am trying to build displays for, including a pill organizer full mini ducks & octopuses. Most of my fandom minis are on display, but I am not the biggest fan of their current set up. It looks like an army of Batmans were attacked by other fandoms and slugs. And there is of course my small collection of Funkos, which are not technically minis, but I sort of think of them in the same way. And the gaming miniatures I need to paint. And pieces of my Halloween village. And let's not forget the tiny pigs I have hidden among my mother's living room knickknacks. I think you get the point.

2024 Snowflake Challenge #12

Challenge #12
Tell Us about a Personal Win.

The day this challenge went up, I was going to make a silly post saying, "I made a pretty girl laugh," and leave it at that because, let's be honest, 2023 was not great for me, and I did make a pretty girl laugh that day and that is a win, but I owe it to myself to acknowledge I did have some wins in the last year.

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2024 Snowflake Challenge #11

Challenge #11

In your own space, create a fanwork.

I'm not sure if this is the final version of this and I've already shared a version of it at ushobwri, where I was given the suggestion of refering to the genre of the series as urban fantasy.

This is a short scene between Zuko and Jason in my Batman/Avatar the last Airbender crossover, urban fantasy AU. All you need to know for this is that Jason is a werewolf, Zuko is a magic user, and they are dating.

Warning for non-graphic conversation about hypothetical cannibalism.


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