Grumpy Beastie's Other Lair

ABOUT ME
About Me Fall Edition
About Me: Fall Edition: This or That coming soon
About Me: Crafting Edition coming soon

Transformative Works Policy

2023 Dear Yule Goat & Wishlists Links

For bribery and good feelings: Wishlist

If you find a broken image on one of my posts anywhere, let me know here.

What I am Working on (ficwise):

2024 Wrisolutions

What I Know: Anime and Manga Fandom List

What I am Reading:
Good Reads Link Comming
2017 Reading Challenge
2021 Reading Challenges
Kingstoken's 2024 Book Bingo

What I am Listening to: 1000 Recordings to Listen to Before You Die

Snowflake Challenge 2024 Masterpost
Snowflake Challenge 2023 Masterpost

WIP Bingo Cards:
Online1roomscholhouse's Pride Bingo 2024
allbingo 2024 Pride Fest Bingo
allbingo 2024 Super Hero Bingo
Stargate Anniversary Fest 2024

Stargate 25th Anniversary Watch List

25th Anniversary Table

Bang and Whimper Prompt Table Feel free to use.

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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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.

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

Challenge #7

Make a list of fannish and/or creative resources

First I want to point out my standard “My three most used resources are (aside from DW & AO3) are”:

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I may add to this later, but the computer’s little countdown clock on my allotted library computer session is yelling at me.

Challenge #15

Fandom Snowflake Challenge's 2023 Fandom Wrapped!

Your top 5 fandoms for 2023 were:
1. Batman
2. Stargate Atlantis/Stargate SG-1
3. TTRPGs/D&D
4. Our Flag Means Death
5. Avatar the Last Airbender
HM: Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)

Because this varied wildly depending on platform, I have included those too:

Your Instagram top 5 fandoms for 2023 were:
1. Batman
2. Our Flag Means Death
3. Good Omens
4. Supernatural
5. Avatar the Last Airbender

Your YouTube top 5 fandoms for 2023 were:
1. ASMR
2. Knitting
3. TTRPGs/D&D
4. Batman
5. Cult of the Lamb

Your AO3 top 5 fandoms for 2023 were:
1. Batman
2. Stargate Atlantis
3. Stargate SG-1
4. Merlin (BBC)/Violet Evergarden (anime)/Sherlock Holmes
5. Good Omens/Supernatural/The Witcher/Interview with the Vampire (TV)

Your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) in 2023 were:
1. AO3
2. Instagram
3. YouTube
4. Dreamwidth
5. Spotify

The top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom in 2023 were:
1. Reading fic
2. Reacting to fic
3. Watching fan vids
4. Watching gaming playthroughs
5. Creating fandom playlists/writing fanworks (even if only 3 got posted)

Your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions were:
(I really wasn’t sure how to answer this one)
1. Comments & kudos I received despite a definite lack of posting on my part
2. Having access to appreciate the works of others
3. The bounty of well written kinktober works on AO3 that kept me alive during October
4. Anytime anyone posted fan art that wasn’t AI generated
5. Finding thriving community for older fandoms on Instagram/all the Our Flag Means Death memes

Bonus questions:

Your fandom personality in 2023 was:
Panicked Gremlin

In 2023, you discovered:
Whole new genres of ASMR to explore, new genres of Batboys fanfic to explore, Jason Todd Hockey AUs, & the InuYasha side of Instagram

Your fandom home in 2023 was:
Snuggled in a pillow fort w/ my other phone & a pair of headphones

Challenge #6

In your own space, share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.

It was really hard to pick something, but I am going to go with a mystery from the 1950s live action Superman series, Adventures of Superman - Why can’t Jimmy stay home alone?

This is an issue that pops up repeatedly throughout the six seasons of the series. I know that the real reasons are “the plot necessitates it” and that, despite being an adult character, Jimmy Olsen was also a stand in for the children viewers, generally having the same problems and limitations they would have and they would never be allowed to stay home alone. But it’s still kind of fascinating.

They establish from the beginning that Jimmy is, in fact, an adult. His age is a bit in question as continuity was not something this show was particularly concerned with. Most of the time that his age comes into question, its simply left at under 21, (I tend to think of him as 19/20), but there is an episode in the last season that Clark confirms that Jimmy is 22, for at least that episode. He has a full-time job. He travels alone for both pleasure and work. He owns his own car. He goes places like baseball games, nice restaurants, and double features alone. The one time his mother is concerned he stayed out late, wasn’t because he was out late, but because he doesn’t normally stay out that late (after 1am) without checking in. There is even at least one episode (possibly two) where he briefly has his own apartment. Jimmy very much has the social markers and responsibilities of an adult, even with the child stand in coding.

All that being said, he does live with his mother the vast majority of the series, which isn’t unusual (they never establish what happened to Jimmy’s father), but every time his mother goes out of town, Jimmy has to stay with someone. Of the three times this is an important plot point, two of them he stays with Clark and the other, he housesits for an elderly friend of his mother’s who is also out of town at the same time.

These differences are kind of important. When he stays with Clark, he kind of becomes Clarks little temporary “wife” – he does all the cooking and they talk about him doing at least part of the cleaning, on top of just taking care of himself. Now, Jimmy’s cooking skills are pretty basic, but he has them and there are no mishaps regarding anything his domestic endeavors or taking care of himself. More importantly, when he is housesitting, he is completely alone in that apartment. He does not know the neighbors and no one is scheduled to check on him. The only reason anyone does is because Jimmy has been unwittingly placed in the middle of an art theft ring and the noises they make at night freak him out, so he calls Clark to come over.

So, he is in fact capable of taking care of himself, and unless his mother really hates her friend for some reason, trustworthy enough to live alone for at least short periods of time.

Which all begs the question, what exactly did he do? He had to have done something for his mother to not let him stay home alone and knowing Jimmy, it could have really been anything. I mean the man accidentally created an anti-gravity formula while trying to bake a chocolate cake.

It’s one of my favorite fandom mysteries to ponder.

Challenge #3

Create a wish list of fandom things (podfic, graphics, playlists, canon recs translations, research help, vids, sky's the limit!) that you'd like to receive.

1) I actually have a couple wishlists linked in my Important Links post, but the primarily fandom wishlist is here

2) Please leave some love (comment, kudos, etc) on a work you love. Especially, if it is a video, because they seem to get fewer comments and such than fics and art for some reason. It will make the creator's day. And by work, I mean anything - fics, art, videos, crafty projects, meta, cosplay, mood boards, icons, anything.

3) Let the mod of a comm or host of a fest that your appreciate them and the work they do.

Challenge #2

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year.

My goals for the year are still in the nebulous, "well, this is kinda what I'd like to do," stage and haven't been fleshed out into real, actionable goals yet.

I have been thinking about them a lot, it is the season, but also several comms I'm in have had their goals for the year check in posts, and I set up my new bullet journal pages and my planner for the year. Based on those things, my goals will look something like this:

I rambled a bit, so it's under a cut.

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Challenge #1

Update your fandom information.

• I updated my About Me page and my Ultimate Fandom List (linked in About Me page)



• Made sure my friending policy was visible and up-to-date



• Checked that all the links in my Important Links sticky work



• Updated the interests on my profile



• Made sure my transformative works policy was posted and up-to-date here on DW. I will need to update it elsewhere later



• And double checked that all 2023 journal entries have tags

I will update the 2023 Wrisolutions to the 2024 Wrisolutions once I write them, and I will add a 2024 Snowflake Master post link to my Important Links sticky after I am done posting this. I am also leaving the 2023 Snowflake Master post linked because I didn't finish it until like 3 days ago. I think my profile is probably okay.

Happy New Year, everyone :)