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Okay, I'm going to spend all day tomorrow playing video games if it kills me. My plans to set aside time for gaming over the holiday break never actually happened, and with everything going on in the world right now it will do me good to just get offline for a day and spend it wandering Faerûn or Thedas or the Andromeda galaxy.

I'm not sure yet which game I'll focus on, but it's definitely going to be Baldur's Gate 3, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, or Mass Effect: Andromeda because I have ongoing playthroughs in all of them that have been gathering dust for too long.

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I'm not really taking part in Snowflake challenge this year, I don't have the bandwidth right now, but dolorosa_12 reposted it as her Friday open thread and I thought that tomorrow it's my birthday, maybe the universe is telling me I can ask for things?

Challenge #5

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

(dolorosa_12 wisely specified:"I assume the intent is to ask for things on a small-scale personal fannish or material level, not to express wishes relating to the myriad large, overwhelming global crises or things of that nature.")

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sixbeforelunch

Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

I'll go with the last fannish page I bookmarked: TNG-Picard.com, a beautifully organized collection of TNG and Picard costumes and props, including close-ups of details.

Challenge #5: Create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

This is surprisingly hard. Everything top of mind for me right now is something that no one reading this has any power over, and mostly involves the world being less of a horrible trash fire.

I guess to that end, if you have any money to spare, would you consider making a donation to an organization trying to do good in the world? Some that I support are Flatbush Cats, The Wildcat Sanctuary, Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health, and Feeding America.

If you're artistically minded, I would love mood boards, cover art, or fan art of any of my stories, but especially anything related to Pi'maat or Scenes From Will Riker's War.

This last one is a huge stretch, but if any vid makers out there want to make an Star Trek: The Next Generation ensemble fanvid to We Are Going to Be Friends by The White Stripes, that would be amazing.

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Introduction Post * Meet the Mods Post * Challenge #1 * Challenge #2 * Challenge #3 * Challenge #4 *

Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

( Fandom Snowflake Challenge #5 )

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.

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On Monday evening I had the BEST time being repeatedly summoned by someone who (it gradually became clear) was wildly lost in the Duke's Archives.

Context: in Dark Souls, you can put down a summon sign so that other players can* summon you into their game to help them out (at the risk of also opening themselves up to potential hostile invaders).

You can only be summoned by people in the same rough level range as you, so if I don't feel like moving on yet from an area after I’ve completed it, I often put down my summon sign and hang around for a bit before I level up out of the usual range for that area. It’s been a lot of fun.

VERY IMPORTANT CONTEXT: there is no channel for voice or text communication. There's a very limited menu of gestures, and a few signals (e.g. repeatedly tapping the block button to jiggle your shield or weapon, which generally seems to communicate "I'm here, let's go!") which the fandom has evolved by default.

This makes communication challenging. But it also means it makes zero demands on my capacity for verbal conversation or pretending to be a semi-normal human being.

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tielan

Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

Cat in my icon: Nyara. Dead since 2011, she was my first cat as an adult. I attribute the Death Of A Modem to her - the modem she's resting on in the icon, which she insisted on sleeping on because it was warm and I think it just got smothered in the end.

Named for the Changechild character in Mercedes Lackey's Winds series of Valdemar, she was stand-offish when it came to pats, but snuggly when it came to snoozing in bed next to me.

About a year after she died, I got Maladicta and Smokey.

( cats and chooks )

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( Daniel the lemming )

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lizbee

Thanks to my podcasting co-host's connections, we got screeners for the first six episodes, and here is my low-spoiler review as per the rules of the embargo.

TL;DR it has a huge heart, and a series about rebuilding democracy and the infrastructure of a functional society in the wake of imperial decay and environmental devastation is exactly what the world needs right now. It overtly follows in the footsteps of Prodigy, as a jumping in point for a young new fan, and the relationship between Holly Hunter as the Academy chancellor and Sandro Rosta as a new cadet who is skeptical of Starfleet and the Federation (and with good reason!) is a real gift.

I'm reluctant to commit to this, because recency bias is a thing, but it's absolutely my favourite live-action series of the streaming era (and you guys will recall that I loved Discovery and wrote a lot of fic for it!), and I think it's very possible I love it more than Voyager. Certainly it has the best opening six episodes of any Trek bar TOS.

sdwolfpup

Happy More Joy Day 2026!

Image is of the orange shrimp Muppet, Pepe the Prawn, in a tutu performing a classic looking ballerina move. Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Fozzie Bear are watching him. Text says "More Joy Day! (Why a prawn in a tutu for the mascot? Why not?) Wake Up Joy Man!"

Welcome to the 19th More Joy Day!

The goal for today is to seek out and give a little joy to others, in the hopes that it will expand outward into the world. As the TWOP recapper Jacob said:

...you continue to stand, and you continue to remember that you’re not alone, and with reverence for this fact, you can’t help but add to joy. Which is your entire job, from the day you’re born until the day you die: more joy.

This is our job more than ever. We can build a better world than this, and it starts with small acts of community and caring for each other.

Please post your little bits of joy, whether performed online or in physical space, on Tumblr (tagged with some version of More Joy Day), in the comments of this post, and/or on Bluesky or wherever you are, so that we can all enjoy them. :) I'll try to reblog when I see them pop up in the tags here!

Need more info or ideas? Read all about it here! The ultimate goal is to do just one joy-filled thing for someone(s) today; either something small, like paying someone an unexpected compliment or leaving a short comment on a fanwork; or something big, like writing a fic or making a vid or buying groceries for someone. The smallest amount of joy helps, and is a kindness that wasn't there when you started. Online OR offline counts! Whatever you can manage is wonderful - there is no joy-shaming on More Joy Day! Happy More Joy Day to you all!

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