Monday Update 1-24-22

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These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Poem: "Where the Grass Is Greener"
Poem: "Our Power to Change"
Birdfeeding
Recipe: "Blood Orange Shortbread Cookies"
Poem: "A Bit of Comfort and Kindness"
Poem: "The Ironmonger"
Poetry Fishbowl Themes for Early 2022
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Fate
New Year's Resolutions Check In
Exoplanets
Birdfeeding
Flour Sack Symbolism (28 comments)
Prehistoric Inventions
Finding People on Dreamwidth
Birdfeeding
Coping Skills: Food


The half-price sale in Polychrome Heroics was last week. I still have a couple of sponsored poems to post, so keep an eye out for those. Everything from the Holiday Poetry Sale is done. Posted poems are linked from their titles on those sale pages.

The January crowdfunding Creative Jam ran this weekend with a theme of "opportunity."


I am participating in the snowflake_challenge again. Come talk about your fannish passions and make new friends. There's no actual time limit on posting and we've only done two posts so far, so it's easy to catch up.
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 1 Introduce Yourself
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 2 Set Goals
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 3 AU/Fusion
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 4 Wishlist
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 5 Idea
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 6 Create Something "The Body Farm"
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 7 Resources
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 8 Celebrate Yourself
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 9 Fandom Wrap
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 10 Rec a Fanwork
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 11 Interact
Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 12 Recasting




Nominations are still open for the 2022 Rose and Bay Awards. If you have not already done so, please visit crowdfunding to nominate your favorite projects and patrons from 2021. We need at least 2 nominations per category in order to have a proper contest, and only Webcomic is that far. This is the last week of the nomination period; February will open the voting period.

Art: fuzzyred Nominate art! Vote for art! (0 nominations)
Fiction: fuzzyred Nominate fiction! Vote for fiction! (0 nominations)
Poetry: nsfwords Nominate poetry! Vote for poetry! (0 nominations)
Webcomic: scrubjayspeaks Nominate webcomics! Vote for webcomics! (2 nominations)
Other Project: ng_moonmoth Nominate other projects! Vote for other projects! (1 nomination)
Patron: scrubjayspeaks Nominate patrons! Vote for patrons! (0 nominations)

New Year's Resolution Status

How are you doing on your New Year's resolutions? I have completed 8 of my goals for 2022, and begun 15 (some of which can't be completed until the end of the year).


Poetry in Microfunding:

There is one open epic at present.

"Rainshadow Road" belongs the Daughters of the Apocalypse series. By the next morning, Maggot is doing slightly better, but his friends are worrying.


The weather has been cold here.  Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large flock of sparrows, a flock of mourning doves, several pairs of cardinals, and a squirrel.