Snowflake Challenge #5: Scavenger Hunt
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ysabetwordsmithSnowflake Challenge #5: Scavenger Hunt
Search in your current space, whether brick-and-mortar or digital. Post a picture (a link to a picture will be fine!) or description of something that is or represents:
1. Something your favorite character would like
2. Something that makes you laugh
3. A fandom place you would like to visit
4. A fandom creator (pro or not) you'd like to meet
5. Something you find comforting
6. Something from a favorite TV series or movie from your childhood
7. A piece of clothing you love
8. A book or song with a color in the title
9. Something only someone in your fandom would understand
You don't have to do them all, do whatever you are comfortable with.
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.
1. Something your favorite character would like
I have many favorite characters, so I'm doing this backwards: looking around my space and thinking who would like what. I have a very bohemian wall hanging that is basically a braided rag rug with dangles. I think Bruce Banner/Hulk would love something soft and cheerful like that.
2. Something that makes you laugh
The meeping otters video.
3. A fandom place you would like to visit
The Superman attractions in Metropolis, Illinois.
4. A fandom creator (pro or not) you'd like to meet
Joss Whedon, but not at a big event. Somewhere that we could sit on the stairs and brainstorm crazy ideas until the sun came up.
5. Something you find comforting
In the last ten years or so, microfiber blankets have become popular, particularly those with very soft fur on one side and woolly sherpa fleece on the other. I discovered by accident that 1) they trap heat so well you can feel it within a few seconds of pressing your hand against one, and 2) when you're exhausted, cuddling under one will regenerate 1 spoon worth of energy, possibly a mammalian response to fuzzy things.
I haven't taken an overnight trip without one since I made that discovery.
Amusingly, I discovered local-Earth microfiber blankets after writing about Microfyne from Terramagne. The local version isn't quite as good -- it's not a "smart" fabric -- but I was amazed at how close it comes. The discovery of Microfyne appears in "A Combination of Brains and Materials," but its first appearance was several years earlier.
6. Something from a favorite TV series or movie from your childhood
My partner collects glasses printed with characters. So he's got some from Disney movie series, some from Star Wars, early cartoons, all kinds of stuff. The entire former pantry is the Glass Room (plus Pez dispensers) and it looks really neat.
7. A piece of clothing you love
I have a T-shirt that reads, "Frodo Lives." Because I liked Frodo before liking Frodo was "cool."
I should add something more recent, so here's a T-shirt from Rural King that I bought just for the quote: "No risk. No story." The perfect sentiment for any writer!
8. A book or song with a color in the title
The Color of Distance -- which is a reference to aerial perspective or atmospheric perspective, the tendency of colors to fade (usually toward blue) in the background.
9. Something only someone in your fandom would understand
"If this is GenCon, then where is SimeCon?"
A friend and I had buttons of that made. It's for the best science fiction series that almost nobody has read.
Search in your current space, whether brick-and-mortar or digital. Post a picture (a link to a picture will be fine!) or description of something that is or represents:
1. Something your favorite character would like
2. Something that makes you laugh
3. A fandom place you would like to visit
4. A fandom creator (pro or not) you'd like to meet
5. Something you find comforting
6. Something from a favorite TV series or movie from your childhood
7. A piece of clothing you love
8. A book or song with a color in the title
9. Something only someone in your fandom would understand
You don't have to do them all, do whatever you are comfortable with.
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.
1. Something your favorite character would like
I have many favorite characters, so I'm doing this backwards: looking around my space and thinking who would like what. I have a very bohemian wall hanging that is basically a braided rag rug with dangles. I think Bruce Banner/Hulk would love something soft and cheerful like that.
2. Something that makes you laugh
The meeping otters video.
3. A fandom place you would like to visit
The Superman attractions in Metropolis, Illinois.
4. A fandom creator (pro or not) you'd like to meet
Joss Whedon, but not at a big event. Somewhere that we could sit on the stairs and brainstorm crazy ideas until the sun came up.
5. Something you find comforting
In the last ten years or so, microfiber blankets have become popular, particularly those with very soft fur on one side and woolly sherpa fleece on the other. I discovered by accident that 1) they trap heat so well you can feel it within a few seconds of pressing your hand against one, and 2) when you're exhausted, cuddling under one will regenerate 1 spoon worth of energy, possibly a mammalian response to fuzzy things.
I haven't taken an overnight trip without one since I made that discovery.
Amusingly, I discovered local-Earth microfiber blankets after writing about Microfyne from Terramagne. The local version isn't quite as good -- it's not a "smart" fabric -- but I was amazed at how close it comes. The discovery of Microfyne appears in "A Combination of Brains and Materials," but its first appearance was several years earlier.
6. Something from a favorite TV series or movie from your childhood
My partner collects glasses printed with characters. So he's got some from Disney movie series, some from Star Wars, early cartoons, all kinds of stuff. The entire former pantry is the Glass Room (plus Pez dispensers) and it looks really neat.
7. A piece of clothing you love
I have a T-shirt that reads, "Frodo Lives." Because I liked Frodo before liking Frodo was "cool."
I should add something more recent, so here's a T-shirt from Rural King that I bought just for the quote: "No risk. No story." The perfect sentiment for any writer!
8. A book or song with a color in the title
The Color of Distance -- which is a reference to aerial perspective or atmospheric perspective, the tendency of colors to fade (usually toward blue) in the background.
9. Something only someone in your fandom would understand
"If this is GenCon, then where is SimeCon?"
A friend and I had buttons of that made. It's for the best science fiction series that almost nobody has read.
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Date: 2024-01-09 08:12 pm (UTC)And something that will generate spoons has to be worth its weight in gold! Great find.
Yeah, most folk would like a quiet meet up. Lunch, or dinner, maybe. We want to actually talk to these folk.
Lovely list! Thanks for joining in today!
Thoughts
Date: 2024-01-10 12:05 pm (UTC)Yep. :D
>> And something that will generate spoons has to be worth its weight in gold! Great find.<<
That was my impression. If other people want to call it childish, I do not care. I'll be over here regenerating a spoon while they whimper into their coffee.
>>Yeah, most folk would like a quiet meet up. Lunch, or dinner, maybe. We want to actually talk to these folk.<<
I figure, if they're writing stuff that great, they're going to say interesting things much of the time -- even if the conversation starts with the weather because I let them lead, and they're tired of talking about the latest or next book.
>>Lovely list! Thanks for joining in today!<<
You're welcome, and thanks for hosting a day.
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Date: 2024-01-09 08:16 pm (UTC)A long time ago liking LOTR was associated with hippies, not nerds.
Yes ...
Date: 2024-01-09 08:35 pm (UTC)There's actually one of those we have enough of to put on the supper table for feasts.
>> A long time ago liking LOTR was associated with hippies, not nerds.<<
That's how I got it -- my mother read me The Hobbit when I was four.
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Date: 2024-01-10 03:39 am (UTC)Yes ...
Date: 2024-01-10 04:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-01-10 09:19 pm (UTC)You're welcome!
Date: 2024-01-10 10:11 pm (UTC)