January Snowflake Challenge (and other fannish things)

I participate some years, and not others. We'll see how this one goes, but if you're interested in a bit of fannish interaction, this is fun!



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Traditionally halfamoon is more my thing, and I've actually nominated for candyheartsex so I have to remember to sign up this week!

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My yuletide recipient commented, and it is all good!

I did have a fic written for me that ended up corralled due to not being finished, although it's apparently going to be revealed on the 1st January anyway? I don't know how that works. I hope whoever created it (and presumably hasn't been able to come back to it) is doing okay, though.

things of life

Spent NYE at the house of friends. I realised just before I fell asleep that I was the first to arrive and the last to leave (with a group of others) but now I feel weirdly awkward.

There was a BBQ, alcohol, chatter, karaoke, The People Game, and cake.

I made the cake. Multi-layer chocolate, with Italian buttercream filling and raspberries.

I brought some of my fruit liquors. Nobody drank them. (Too much other alcohol.)

I sang "Trustfall" by P!nk. And forgot how far those vocal leaps go!

My team lost The People Game. We'd been leading by 12 points in the second round and they still beat us by 6!

And I got to have a good solid chat with someone I don't often get to talk to, but whose work I really respect! (And also with her husband who I'd heard about because she's a 'public figure' and so he comes up on her feed as part of her life.)

It was a good New Year's Eve.

( chocolate cake )

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Today, we're going to lunch with Uncle H & Aunty SH, Dad's older brother and SIL. I know I've spoken of them before - quietly faithful, ordinary people showing love in their community.

Then the beach.

Tomorrow is a friend's birthday memorial at the local club.

Friday is a friend's funeral - he was both a friend, and the father of a friend: my bible study leader for a good few years before he and his wife moved out of the area. It's going to be a huge funeral, he was very well known throughout the Sydney diocese - a literal pillar of the community.

Anyway, to put it bluntly, FUCK CANCER.

Day 1 Snowflake: update your bio

Updated my profile/bio in DW. Probably should do so on other platforms. I've stopped using X at all. Insta/FB are my RL/"public profile" although technically it's a hop, skip and jump over to my fannish life. My personal life is now over on Threads, I do have BlueSky and Mastodon, but I hardly go on those. Mastodon seems the least likely to get taken over by techbros, which has to be a major consideration in these times, but I just don't have the networks right now.

I haven't really gotten fannish about anything this year. Too much other stuff taking my energy - job changes, the biology stuff (mirena, then hysterectomy), the state of the world - but also there's been no new material about the properties and characters that I'm fannish about. And even if new material is released, I'm not into it...

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In real life news: today, I got kinda sunburned at the beach. So did the sistren, so it wasn't just me.