Poem: "Battle Rap"

This poem came out of the January 4, 2022 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by ng_moonmoth. It also fills the "Attack / Defense" square in my 12-23-21 card for the Story Sparks Bingo Fest. This poem belongs to the Polychrome Heroics series.

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Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 4 Wishlist

Challenge #4

In your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, and/or that you'd like someone to create or do for you. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

A general guideline might be a list of three things, or one to ten things, but it can really be any number or length you want.

Your wish list items can be anything: a request for fanworks (art of your original character, podfic of your favourite story, a mood board of your AU idea, fic based on your art, someone to adopt that darn plotbunny), or for a some help with a project (cheerleader, beta reader, accountability buddy, someone to co-mod a challenge), or maybe you want recs for new canons or fic with just the right trope, or specific information about that one area you're having trouble researching.



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Birdfeeding

Today is cloudy and frigid. It got down to 8F last night. O_O

I fed the birds. I've seen a flock of sparrows and several cardinals. Earlier my_partner_doug saw 2 ring-necked pheasants in the front yard.

New Year's Resolutions Check In

We made it through the first work week of January. This is enough to get an early glimpse of progress with New Year's resolutions. It's also malleable enough to make changes.


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How to Deal with Imposter Syndrome

Someone wished for a cure for imposter syndrome. While I don't know of a cure, there are plenty of ways to work on it, whether it's a problem you have or other people have or one you'd like to prevent.

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Fire the bully!

Today's Smoothie

Today we made a smoothie with:

1 cup mango juice
1 cup vanilla yogurt
1 banana
1/2 cup frozen mango chunks
1/8 cup sweetened shredded coconut
1/2 cup ice

It came out nicely thick and a pale yellow color.  It still tastes mostly like mango, but with a touch of coconut.  The Vitamix reduced the coconut shreds mostly to liquid, with very little grit.  \o/