Snowflake Challenge 4: IceBreaker
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ysabetwordsmithChallenge #4: IceBreaker
IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
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.
Does talking about yourself sound anti-fun? This may help:
How to Do Online Profiles or Introductions with Less Stress
Play with the new Random Question Generator!
* Would you consider yourself decisive or indecisive?
That depends on context. If I know what I want, I determine steps and head briskly in that direction. If I don't know what I want, however, then I tend to get stuck until I can figure out what I want or how to get out of that situation. If I'm pulled in two different directions, I also tend to get stuck. Most of the time, I'm a pretty proactive person.
* If you were to devote your life to art, what type of art would that be?
I have done that; see above regarding my writing.
If limiting the options to visual arts, I think I would choose the type of abstract and stylized art used for anchoring your palette in home decor. You pick some colors. Then you select a structure, like making a stylized cityscape with rectangles or putting tape on the canvas then painting sections. I'm also intrigued by acrylic pouring. These are all methods that rely entirely on eye for color and eye for composition; they require very little dexterity or hand-eye coordination. Color and composition are the two aspects of my artistic ability that are fully intact in this life; much of the rest is missing, but I can do quite striking things with those two.
The really cool thing about anchor art is its versatility. It's not just something you hang on the wall, although yes, when you do that it unifies your color set for a given room. Greens and browns for a foresty living room, earth tones for a bedroom, beach pastels for a bathroom, and so on. It's also something you can copy in portable form and use as a reference while shopping for curtains, furniture, whatever. You could put anchor art on a T-shirt and leave your hands free. Especially with contemporary tools, you could make a set of such things and load them into any site that will print your image on the customer's choice of 50 different products. And I think making palettes of colors is fun.
* Have you been given any good advice lately?
Fromkengr in response to me mentioning the Curse of Ashes in my Plotbunnies post:
The book burning one can be done in SF as well. Just have the books printed on something that is unreasonably difficult to destroy. Not impossible, just more trouble than it's worth. If destroying a book is on par with melting down a car and recovering the metals from it, that's going to make it a lot less common.
Well, now I'm trying to perm "make books too troublesome to burn" so that I will have that trick up my sleeve for future lives. I've seen lots of SF worlds with a printer that made crystals or something else extremely durable. I've long had a tendency to store libraries on those and cache them in an ocean or middens. But I never thought of them as a way to discourage book-burning, silly me. Must try that. :D
IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
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.
Does talking about yourself sound anti-fun? This may help:
How to Do Online Profiles or Introductions with Less Stress
- Transformative Works Policy: My transformative works policy is here. My friending policy is here.
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birdfeeding and share your own activities. I invent recipes; my latest big success was Crockpot African Black-eyed Peas. I make followfriday posts to help folks find active communities on Dreamwidth. I've also been active in reddit_refugees since June 2023, helping new folks get involved in Dreamwidth. I post New Year's resolution information and support. - Where to Find Me: Most of my activity is here on Dreamwidth. I'm also still on LiveJournal. My AO3 account is here.
- Master List: [for fic, for art, for recs, or anything else] * Books Written. *Crowdfunding tips. * Nonfiction Articles. Serial Poetry. Shared Worlds, of which Schrodinger's Heroes is designed for fanfic crossovers. My coven website is here. My most popular fannish series is Love Is For Children (The Avengers); NEW from this year's Snowflake: "Mudra Fruit."
- Anything Else: I live in central Illinois with my partner. I am a gender scholar. I'm Pagan.
NEW anchor posts from this year'ssnowflake_challenge include:
* How to Hack the Snowflake Challenge
* How to Run a Fandom Event Through Dreamwidth
* Icons on Dreamwidth
Fandoms of interest include the Avengers, Gargoyles, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Lucifer, The Magnificent 7, The Sandman, The Sentinel, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, Star Wars, Supernatural, Tolkien, Wednesday (The Addams Family), and the X-Men. Plus a ton of other stuff; we have pretty much wallpapered our house with books and videos. We are currently watching Face Off (a competition show for special effects makeup artists).
I am a wordsmith by talent, profession, and vocation. I write how to posts fairly often. I enjoy a wide variety of fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gaming, and other entertainment.
I did Lexember in 2021. You can see a display of my xenolinguistics there. It contains a small addition to my now-substantial (currently 125 pages) glossary for my superhero fantasy series Polychrome Heroics, including some original words and slang terms, mostly in English with a few other languages thrown in. I am currently working on A Poesy of Obscure Sorrows inspired by the book The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. That one doesn't have a landing page yet, but you can see a selection of 8 newly sponsored poems in the Holiday Poetry Sale.
I will be doing a live writing Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, February 6. (I haven't set themes for early 2024 yet; there will be a theme suggestion poll on Monday, January 8 and a voting poll on Wednesday, January 10.) Please drop by then and give me prompts or just watch the fun.
See my recurring posts for Good News, Hard Things, Cuddle Party (alternating Wednesdays), Hobbies (Thursdays), or Philosophical Questions (Saturdays). I also do Monday Updates.
Are you looking for fannish or original inspiration, networking, etc.? I run the communityallbingo for monthly and other fests, for which January is Public Domain Day Bingo. (February will have Valentines Bingo.) All fandoms welcome, and if yours is rare, by all means volunteer to host a fest. Our 2024 Community Calendar still has a few empty slots, and it's okay to double up. We'd love to get more specific-fandom themes, so if you want to feature your favorite fandom, please drop by! I also run crowdfunding which has a Creative Jam on the third weekend of every month. Next up is January 20-21 with a theme of "Jealousy." Throw your favorite characters into a gladiator pit with the green-eyed monster! The Rose & Bay Awards are currently running to recognize excellence in cyberfunded creativity. Come nominate your favorite crowdfunded Art, Fiction, Poetry, Webcomics, Other Projects, and Patrons!
If you scroll through the January 1 posts here in my blog, you will find a bunch of other stuff about me, like My Bingo Fests for 2024 and Goals for 2024.
I have updated the more detailed bio in my Dreamwidth profile.
Play with the new Random Question Generator!
* Would you consider yourself decisive or indecisive?
That depends on context. If I know what I want, I determine steps and head briskly in that direction. If I don't know what I want, however, then I tend to get stuck until I can figure out what I want or how to get out of that situation. If I'm pulled in two different directions, I also tend to get stuck. Most of the time, I'm a pretty proactive person.
* If you were to devote your life to art, what type of art would that be?
I have done that; see above regarding my writing.
If limiting the options to visual arts, I think I would choose the type of abstract and stylized art used for anchoring your palette in home decor. You pick some colors. Then you select a structure, like making a stylized cityscape with rectangles or putting tape on the canvas then painting sections. I'm also intrigued by acrylic pouring. These are all methods that rely entirely on eye for color and eye for composition; they require very little dexterity or hand-eye coordination. Color and composition are the two aspects of my artistic ability that are fully intact in this life; much of the rest is missing, but I can do quite striking things with those two.
The really cool thing about anchor art is its versatility. It's not just something you hang on the wall, although yes, when you do that it unifies your color set for a given room. Greens and browns for a foresty living room, earth tones for a bedroom, beach pastels for a bathroom, and so on. It's also something you can copy in portable form and use as a reference while shopping for curtains, furniture, whatever. You could put anchor art on a T-shirt and leave your hands free. Especially with contemporary tools, you could make a set of such things and load them into any site that will print your image on the customer's choice of 50 different products. And I think making palettes of colors is fun.
* Have you been given any good advice lately?
From
kengr in response to me mentioning the Curse of Ashes in my Plotbunnies post:The book burning one can be done in SF as well. Just have the books printed on something that is unreasonably difficult to destroy. Not impossible, just more trouble than it's worth. If destroying a book is on par with melting down a car and recovering the metals from it, that's going to make it a lot less common.
Well, now I'm trying to perm "make books too troublesome to burn" so that I will have that trick up my sleeve for future lives. I've seen lots of SF worlds with a printer that made crystals or something else extremely durable. I've long had a tendency to store libraries on those and cache them in an ocean or middens. But I never thought of them as a way to discourage book-burning, silly me. Must try that. :D
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Date: 2024-01-07 09:06 pm (UTC)Do remember to take care of yourself in all of that! :-)
Glad you joined into Snowflake today!
Thank you!
Date: 2024-01-07 10:50 pm (UTC):D
>> I've seen you on the Bingo but didn't realize you did all these other things! That is wonderful! <<
They've grown over the years. One thing I'm doing at this stage is considering what things I already do that might make good communities. Hence adding
>> Do remember to take care of yourself in all of that! :-)
As a matter of fact, I work from home partly so I can sit any way I want and get up whenever I need to move, without anyone complaining.
>> Glad you joined into Snowflake today! <<
I'm having fun, and thanks for helping host it.
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Date: 2024-01-07 09:46 pm (UTC)Thoughts
Date: 2024-01-08 12:11 am (UTC)That is by far my biggest fanseries. I oopsed some books again.
>> I saw a really long one and I'm going to tackle it tonight. Well, I'm going to try. <<
The series will make a lot more sense if you start with the first piece I wrote, "Love Is for Children." That sets the premise. If you understand the main characters already, then you can probably skip ahead to the longfic and do fine, although there's a good deal of continuity in this series.
Also be aware: people have lost whole weekends down this rabbit hole.
>> You're such an interesting person. <<
Yep. Life with me: Guaranteed not boring! :D
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2024-01-08 12:19 am (UTC)