2026 Snowflake Challenge #1
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spiraliciousChallenge #1
The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.
Hi! I'm Spiralicious, aka Kat. I recently turned 40. I've been on DW for 14 years. My life is a little all over the place at the minute. My main hobbies are knitting, being library furniture, and consuming fandom things, but I have many others. I'm in more fandoms than are reasonable, but my core forever fandoms are Stargate, Supernatural, Batman, InuYasha, Blue Exorcist, Samurai Champloo, Northern Exposure, and Avatar the Last Airbender. I've got loads of links on my links post to learn more about me. Them, and the bio and interests on my profile, were last updated for the 2024 Snowflake Challenge, so not too out of date.
Here are 6 facts about me you probably won't find in my "about me" pages:
1. My mother and I have developed a new dinner ritual. Dinner is served and I pop in a DVD of whatever we're watching at the moment. When I'm done eating, I then usually switch to knitting for the rest of the DVD time. I haven't done the math, but my guess is that 90% of what we watch are British detective series and Sci fi shows. Right now, we are cycling between Brokenwood Mysteries, Inspector George Gently, A Touch of Frost, Star Trek Strange New Worlds, and our big fat Stargate rewatch. We've also been going through the tedious process of getting very exact copies of Starship Troopers through the library consortium. One of them has to play all the way through. (Normally, when you put a title on hold, which ever library in the consortium that has a copy that sees the hold request first fills it. To get a specific copy from a specific library is a process.)
2. I love covers of songs that are covered in a different genre than they were originally recorded.
3. My love of liminal and abandoned spaces is well advertised, but I have a special love for gas stations, convenience stores, and campgrounds specifically. (Yes, I have heard about the abandoned grocery store fandom and I am intrigued.)
4. I have a friend with dementia I visit with and make cards with every week.
5. I feel like westerns are underutilized as a genre to mix with other genres. Especially, horror. There should be more horror westerns.
6. I consume so many hockey AUs (and hockey themed books lately) because it makes teenage me happy despite me not having followed hockey in any way shape or form in 25 years.
What I hope to get out of the Snowflake:
I've been doing the Snowflake quite a few years, I'm not sure how many, but I missed last year. Doing the Snowflake, even when I don't finish, just gives my year a start on a happy footing. And it's fun to see how everyone else responds to the challenges.
The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.
Hi! I'm Spiralicious, aka Kat. I recently turned 40. I've been on DW for 14 years. My life is a little all over the place at the minute. My main hobbies are knitting, being library furniture, and consuming fandom things, but I have many others. I'm in more fandoms than are reasonable, but my core forever fandoms are Stargate, Supernatural, Batman, InuYasha, Blue Exorcist, Samurai Champloo, Northern Exposure, and Avatar the Last Airbender. I've got loads of links on my links post to learn more about me. Them, and the bio and interests on my profile, were last updated for the 2024 Snowflake Challenge, so not too out of date.
Here are 6 facts about me you probably won't find in my "about me" pages:
1. My mother and I have developed a new dinner ritual. Dinner is served and I pop in a DVD of whatever we're watching at the moment. When I'm done eating, I then usually switch to knitting for the rest of the DVD time. I haven't done the math, but my guess is that 90% of what we watch are British detective series and Sci fi shows. Right now, we are cycling between Brokenwood Mysteries, Inspector George Gently, A Touch of Frost, Star Trek Strange New Worlds, and our big fat Stargate rewatch. We've also been going through the tedious process of getting very exact copies of Starship Troopers through the library consortium. One of them has to play all the way through. (Normally, when you put a title on hold, which ever library in the consortium that has a copy that sees the hold request first fills it. To get a specific copy from a specific library is a process.)
2. I love covers of songs that are covered in a different genre than they were originally recorded.
3. My love of liminal and abandoned spaces is well advertised, but I have a special love for gas stations, convenience stores, and campgrounds specifically. (Yes, I have heard about the abandoned grocery store fandom and I am intrigued.)
4. I have a friend with dementia I visit with and make cards with every week.
5. I feel like westerns are underutilized as a genre to mix with other genres. Especially, horror. There should be more horror westerns.
6. I consume so many hockey AUs (and hockey themed books lately) because it makes teenage me happy despite me not having followed hockey in any way shape or form in 25 years.
What I hope to get out of the Snowflake:
I've been doing the Snowflake quite a few years, I'm not sure how many, but I missed last year. Doing the Snowflake, even when I don't finish, just gives my year a start on a happy footing. And it's fun to see how everyone else responds to the challenges.
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Date: 2026-01-05 04:42 pm (UTC)Me too!! There's an acapella version of "Weird Fishes" by Radiohead I'm crazy about. As well as classical cover of "Avril 14" by Aphex Twin.
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Date: 2026-01-06 02:21 am (UTC)hope you enjoy the challenge this year as well!
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Date: 2026-01-06 07:08 pm (UTC)Thanks :)