snowflake days 13-15: community, fandom promo, and reflection on the challenge

Jan. 30th, 2026 10:37 am
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Snowflake Challenge: A flatlay of a snowflake shaped shortbread cake, a mug with coffee, and a string of holiday lights on top of a rustic napkin.

Challenge 13: Talk about a community space you like.

My main fannish space right now is the Ad Astra Discord community. It's a good group of people, and great for talking all things Star Trek, with occasional digressions into other things. It's an OC-friendly community, almost everyone who posts there has a collection of OC characters and at least one OC-heavy series, and everyone is super supportive of other people blathering about their OCs and favs. Nicely inclusive of all of the Trek eras too.

Challenge 14: Create a promo and/or rec list for someone new to a fandom.

Can I interest you in Murder She Wrote? I don't know what I was expecting when I started watching it, but what I got is an intelligent, competent, woman-of-a-certain-age who is allowed to have a full and exciting life. And (with the exception of the pilot) she never gets romantically entangled. Men go after her, but she's clearly uninterested. The combination of being desired and deciding 'nah, I'm good' hits my id in just the right way. (It's not about turning the men down to be clear. There are actually two separate things going on. I love seeing an older woman being treating as an object of desire, and I love seeing any sort of woman being able to have a complete life absent romance. Either would be good. Both together is amazing.) Honestly, Jessica is pure wish-fulfillment fantasy with her cozy Maine home and her exciting trips and her best-selling writing career and her fancy outfits. I am here for it.

Oh, also there are murder mysteries and they're generally pretty good.

Challenge 15: How did the Snowflake Challenge go?

I sort of ran out of steam toward the end, but with everything that's going on both in my personal life and the world at large, it's hard to focus right now. I finished it, and interacted with people, and I had a good time. That's a win, especially right now.
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Attn: Thor!

Jan. 30th, 2026 07:32 am
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(Everyone else can just ignore this; this is specifically for the one who emailed me using the name Thor.)

Hey, sorry to be a bother, just responded to your email about a week ago and heard nothing back, and I’m just making sure my new email worked for you and things didn’t disappoint into the void! Let me know!
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fic rec Friday

Jan. 30th, 2026 08:43 am
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One for the Road, by PastyPirate

“Now, everyone get comfortable, you’ll see the roster for rooms in your emails. You might notice that instead of your usual roommate assignments we’ll be doing a rotational. Who has been on a team that has done rotationals before?”

(aka: post-The Long Game, Centaurs road trip)
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Every autumn rain

Jan. 30th, 2026 02:14 pm
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Posted by Phantomxlegend

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78588901

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Another small mewl came from its feet, and SecUnit looked down to see a small, young creature huddled underneath the bench it currently sat on.

This creature was shockingly tiny, with beady black eyes that stared plaintively up at SecUnit. It had sharp but unthreatening teeth that ringed an equally small mouth as it opened it wide and made another sad little mewling sound.

SecUnit only recognized it as a “cat” because it bore such a resemblance to the type of fauna that hung around Mensah’s farm, but it had only seen the relatively larger animals in person before.

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Murderbot picks up a stray kitten out of the rain

Words: 4023, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78588901

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A Reckoning of Swords 25-29

Jan. 29th, 2026 08:25 am
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Whew, that's a lot of swords though it doesn't feel like I've done much? Basically the cold is destroying my energy levels. So what I've been doing is going through old notes. I told myself I was 'sorting' them but there has been no actual sorting. Shortly, I'm just going to have to find a box to toss them all in because they're literally taking up the whole sofa. I can't even explain what I'm looking for, aside from one particular list I've mostly found but I just... IDEK how I'd sort them. I should probably give up on organization and just pick things up and work on them, lol. My plans for a drabble six years ago are not terribly important at this point; if the idea or the drabble come back around independently and I do something different that's fine. (It's not like I've never written different things for the same idea anyway. Whatever!)

I did get a tiny bit more done with the Best Moves/NaNo 2003 re-write. At the moment I'm trying to deal with a patch of exposition to make it feel a little more natural. (And then overall figure out how to balance out the plot and subplot and just make everyone feel a little more rounded.)

I've also figured out what to do with friend's cameo character. He can basically be slid entirely out of the narrative and replaced with a character who can impact things a bit more. I feel pretty good about this.
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Schneewind

Jan. 30th, 2026 01:00 pm
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Posted by Victor Mair

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72727&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=schneewind

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72727

As editor of Journal of Chinese History, Sarah Schneewind asked me if I would do a review of this book:  Documents géographiques de Dunhuang.  Having done over three hundred reviews during my career, I try to decline them as much as possible at this stage.  However, I succumbed to her offer because it was about Dunhuang and was by a French author, for both of which I have soft spots in my heart..

Jokingly, I wrote back:  "In honor of your surname in these arctic times, Sarah, I will do the review."

She replied, "Vielen Dank, Victor!  Ganz schön, dass meine Name etwas gilt!"  ("Thank you very much, Victor! It's really nice that my name means something!")

Ahh!  That gave me such a warm, bilingual feeling that I went upstairs and fell asleep without the customary shivers of the last couple of weeks. "Schneewind, wehe sanft."

 

Selected readings

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72727&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=schneewind

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72727

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(morning writing)

Jan. 30th, 2026 07:44 am
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And déjà vu: Sunday flight to Ohio has been moved to Monday. This time i really need to go (or give up). At least the forecast for Ohio temps next week isn't quite so arctic. Never above freezing, yes, but one can see the balmy temperature of the freezing point from the forecast.

Our north slope shaded house still has plenty of ice about. The clumping clay litter for traction ... well, better than breaking a neck. So glad i covered our steps last weekend. Expect this weekend will have Real Snow that can be shoveled instead of Sleet-crete, the accumulation of sleet welded together with freezing rain.

I had a meeting with my product people where i set Worry That We Are VERY AMBITIOUS at their feet to think about.

Christine is getting better but it's still soon after surgery.

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System Reset

Jan. 30th, 2026 12:08 pm
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Posted by aros_66

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78584086

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After another 10 minutes or so, I’m politely interrupted from my reading with a ping.

"Will you paint my nails?"

My stomach flips. It’s been a while since it needed this, but I’m glad it still feels safe enough to ask. I can’t exactly remember when this evolved from actually just painting SecUnit’s nails into…whatever it is now, but it’s become a type of code phrase between us. “Painting its nails” does still technically include that, but has also become so much more...

Words: 4360, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78584086

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Little Mushroom by Yi Shi Si Zhou, book 2

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Emailing my senators

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DUMP HIM

Jan. 30th, 2026 04:21 am
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Posted by moonymonster

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78569081

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Ratthi and Tarik are having an argument. Murderbot finds the perfect outfit to state its opinion on their relationship. (AKA, I found a couple funny sweaters irl and decided to draw Murderbot and Ratthi in them and then a comic happened)

Words: 0, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78569081

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Let My Walls Come Down

Jan. 30th, 2026 03:27 am
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Posted by IndulgentDiscourse

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78566766

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During PSUMNT spring break, ART is inspired by shitty rom coms to do something risky. Secunit, besides its better judgement, plays along. It goes as well as you'd expect.

We watched the character scramble around onscreen for a few more minutes before ART spoke again. "I know it is foolish of me, but sometimes I am almost… jealous, I suppose, of some of the experiences Iris was able to have while growing up."

Words: 4701, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78566766

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Then Comes...?

Jan. 30th, 2026 03:03 am
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Posted by Galaxy_sys (LilaRabbit)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78565716

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They are surrounded by love.

Or: Murderbot and Gurathin spend time with their family and life goes on, 100 words at a time.

Words: 500, Chapters: 5/5, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Union: Agreement Synthesis Coupling Harmony

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78565716

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All the ghosts, some old, some new

Jan. 30th, 2026 01:48 am
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History, what do you mean that Folkways Records was founded by the son of Sholem Asch who, as one last trick after the scandals of Jewish lesbians and Christian novels, wrote a version of the Nativity recorded for his son's record label by Pete Seeger? What kind of concatenation is that to drop on an unsuspecting person? And is there a reason no artist is credited with the pen-and-ink illustrations depicting the story in 1963 even as the prose sticks to its historical setting, which are maddening me with their sketch-expressive familiarity, although perhaps only because my grandmother had that kind of loose, scribbly, ink-washed line? Ben Shahn at least had the decency to sign his album art. The Claibornes' "Listen, Mr. Bilbo" could have had the luck to lose its relevance since 1946. History, the other kind of convergence was more fun. Listen while I tell you that the foreigners you hate are the very same people made America great.
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Girl Genius for Friday, January 30, 2026

Jan. 30th, 2026 05:00 am
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Follow Friday 1-30-26

Jan. 30th, 2026 01:13 am
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Got any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).

Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die".

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Flash Gordon for Fri, 30 Jan 2026

Jan. 30th, 2026 12:00 am
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he found him in Mombasa, in a barroom drinking gin

NSFW Jan. 29th, 2026 10:52 pm
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Snoflake Challenge 2026 #15: Five Stars

Jan. 29th, 2026 09:56 pm
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Last call for this year's [community profile] snowflake_challenge, and, it's a bit like all the things asking us to rate and review them with our time.
Challenge #15

How Did the Fandom Snowflake Challenge Go?


I intend to keep going back and checking out entries when I'm not doing something else, and leaving comments, and trying to build that community and see interesting things that people have posted. It probably won't go that quickly, and I may not make it all the way through in a timely manner. But I'll try.

( It was fine, which is not a complaint. )
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Jan. 30th, 2026 12:02 am
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