2024 Snowflake Challenge #10
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spiraliciousChallenge #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![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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.
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.
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Date: 2024-02-02 03:43 am (UTC)(Have you had homemade root beer? So good.)
The gatekeeping around what it means to be outdoorsy is so ableist! Sometimes you just wanna hang out with some trees, y'know?
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Date: 2024-02-07 12:30 am (UTC)(I have! It is indeed so good :D )
It is!! Sometimes you just wanna hang out with some trees, y'know? - Exactly!
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Date: 2024-02-02 05:37 am (UTC)Ahhhh. I remember the shame of not doing outdoors the *right* way when I lived in Washington. I was an asthmatic kid who loved being outdoors, but was convinced that what I thought of hiking--meandering among trees-- was drastically different than what every other Washingtonian thought it was--mountain climbing. 😭😭
It wasn't until moving across the country-- and having 30idh years in between to discover that other people also enjoyed my kind of hiking and the mountains were much, MUCH smaller. 🥾❤️🥾❤️
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Date: 2024-02-07 12:19 am (UTC)That is wonderful that you found your outdoor people!
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Date: 2024-02-03 06:21 pm (UTC)“what would a 14th century peasant dress look like if they had access to Lisa Frank fabric/aesthetic materials?”
...... oh my god, the peasant who owned that would be so happy. So so so happy. The COLORS. Like a stained glass window they could wear.
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Date: 2024-02-07 12:08 am (UTC)EXACTLY. They would be over the moon.