Snowflake Challenge #12 & #13
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snowynightChallenge #13: Interact with someone in fandom you haven't talked with before.
I have gone back to the Yuletide 2024 collection and kudoed on the works I haven't read before. There're so many lovely fics!
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bestof_icons has started the Best of '24: Icon Voting from the 26th until 5 days after the final poll is posted. You may vote for 1 to 10 icons for each icon maker in each poll. Let's enjoy the pretty icons and vote the your favourite! It's difficult for me to choose because they're gorgeous.
Challenge #12 Create a Rec Countdown.
5 books
4 Paintings
3 Free, no ads, no iap Android games:
2 Solo Tabletop RPG
1 self-rec
Books:
Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir by Shoji Morimoto: After quitting his job, Shoji Morimoto decided to rent out himself on Twitter free of charge to do nothing. It's a short read, but a fascinating reflection of social expectation, relationship and how to judge our value.
Ghost Music by An Yu : Song Yan has given up her pianist career for years. Her husband resists having kids, but his mother wants grandchildren and now lives with them. Things get surreal when she receives a wrongly delivered parcel of mushrooms. The language is gorgeous. The way Song Yan fought with social expectation and her complex feeling with music is very insightful. It's a novella, so it's a quick good read.
Masculinity, Class and Same-Sex Desire in Industrial England, 1895-1957 by Helen Smith: A very solid academic study that explores the experiences of working class men who desired other men outside of London. It's very fascinating and shows the wide spectrum of queer experience and changing definition of masculinity
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner: I have never read this book before, but I'm sure my child self would also like how the siblings try to build a physical home for themselves. It's a delightful read. It's interesting how frank the book is about the reason the children are afraid and run away.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke: I love how the narrator explores the infinite labyrinth: whimsical, dream-like, but never harmless. I can't have enough of exploring and making sense of a surroundings with so much unknown.
4 Paintings
Oedipus and the Sphinx by Gustave Moreau: Look at this adorable confused murder kitty! I really love Gustave Moreau's style, and get a lovely gift for this painting.
Immortal Empress by James Ng: I really like James Ng's Imperial Steamworks Series series of art that depicts steampunk reimagination of Qing Dynasty China. There's something haunting to look at the half human half metal eternal empress. There are 2 works for this series on AO3.
I Saw Three Cities by Kay Sage: I found it through Yuletide 2024 nomination. This surrealistic painting is uncanny, at once realistic and mysterious. Very understandable how it inspired 4 fanworks on AO3
Hope by George Frederic Watts: Hope: a lone blindfolded female figure sitting on a globe, playing a lyre that has only a single string remaining. It allows many interpretations.
3 Free, no ads, no iap Android games:
Water Sorting Puzzle: It's very soothing to sort the colored water in the glasses until all colors are in the same glass.
Frozen Bubble: Android port of the Frozen Bubble game. Knock the bubbles down by forming clusters of three or more bubbles.
Simon Tatham's Puzzles: An open-source collection of 40 single-player logic puzzle games, ported to Android.
2 Solo Tabletop RPG:
Thousand Year Old Vampire: You play a vampire who will lose memory over time and history. There's a series of prompts and mechanics for you to shape the character's undead life journey: lost love, forgotten rivalry and always rebuilding. It's an emotional experience. You can get a free full copy to try whether you like it.
Iron Valley: Do you like cozy games like: Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon? Iron Valley is a free 250 page solo tabletop rpg that let you build your cozy life in a cozy town you design.
Self Rec:
Stupidly Reckless [Periodic Table of Elements (Anthropomorphic)] : Chlorine and Fluorine are both reactive. When they work together, it gets explosive. G-rating Gen
I have gone back to the Yuletide 2024 collection and kudoed on the works I haven't read before. There're so many lovely fics!
Semi-related:
bestof_icons has started the Best of '24: Icon Voting from the 26th until 5 days after the final poll is posted. You may vote for 1 to 10 icons for each icon maker in each poll. Let's enjoy the pretty icons and vote the your favourite! It's difficult for me to choose because they're gorgeous.Challenge #12 Create a Rec Countdown.
5 books
4 Paintings
3 Free, no ads, no iap Android games:
2 Solo Tabletop RPG
1 self-rec
Books:
Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir by Shoji Morimoto: After quitting his job, Shoji Morimoto decided to rent out himself on Twitter free of charge to do nothing. It's a short read, but a fascinating reflection of social expectation, relationship and how to judge our value.
Ghost Music by An Yu : Song Yan has given up her pianist career for years. Her husband resists having kids, but his mother wants grandchildren and now lives with them. Things get surreal when she receives a wrongly delivered parcel of mushrooms. The language is gorgeous. The way Song Yan fought with social expectation and her complex feeling with music is very insightful. It's a novella, so it's a quick good read.
Masculinity, Class and Same-Sex Desire in Industrial England, 1895-1957 by Helen Smith: A very solid academic study that explores the experiences of working class men who desired other men outside of London. It's very fascinating and shows the wide spectrum of queer experience and changing definition of masculinity
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner: I have never read this book before, but I'm sure my child self would also like how the siblings try to build a physical home for themselves. It's a delightful read. It's interesting how frank the book is about the reason the children are afraid and run away.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke: I love how the narrator explores the infinite labyrinth: whimsical, dream-like, but never harmless. I can't have enough of exploring and making sense of a surroundings with so much unknown.
4 Paintings
Oedipus and the Sphinx by Gustave Moreau: Look at this adorable confused murder kitty! I really love Gustave Moreau's style, and get a lovely gift for this painting.
Immortal Empress by James Ng: I really like James Ng's Imperial Steamworks Series series of art that depicts steampunk reimagination of Qing Dynasty China. There's something haunting to look at the half human half metal eternal empress. There are 2 works for this series on AO3.
I Saw Three Cities by Kay Sage: I found it through Yuletide 2024 nomination. This surrealistic painting is uncanny, at once realistic and mysterious. Very understandable how it inspired 4 fanworks on AO3
Hope by George Frederic Watts: Hope: a lone blindfolded female figure sitting on a globe, playing a lyre that has only a single string remaining. It allows many interpretations.
3 Free, no ads, no iap Android games:
Water Sorting Puzzle: It's very soothing to sort the colored water in the glasses until all colors are in the same glass.
Frozen Bubble: Android port of the Frozen Bubble game. Knock the bubbles down by forming clusters of three or more bubbles.
Simon Tatham's Puzzles: An open-source collection of 40 single-player logic puzzle games, ported to Android.
2 Solo Tabletop RPG:
Thousand Year Old Vampire: You play a vampire who will lose memory over time and history. There's a series of prompts and mechanics for you to shape the character's undead life journey: lost love, forgotten rivalry and always rebuilding. It's an emotional experience. You can get a free full copy to try whether you like it.
Iron Valley: Do you like cozy games like: Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon? Iron Valley is a free 250 page solo tabletop rpg that let you build your cozy life in a cozy town you design.
Self Rec:
Stupidly Reckless [Periodic Table of Elements (Anthropomorphic)] : Chlorine and Fluorine are both reactive. When they work together, it gets explosive. G-rating Gen
