badbastion

I've gotten so many kind responses to my first Snowflake Challenge post. Thank you all! It's so nice to meet/reconnect with you!!

Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

Though I had pets as a child, and allll I wanted for my whole youth was a horse, after my much-loved but extremely annoying Krazy Kat went to the great tuna buffet in the sky, I haven't had any more pets as an adult. We've discussed getting various farm animals, but it just doesn't sound appealing -- a lot of responsibility, poop, and fence repair. Plus I'm at least a little allergic to probably every animal with hair.

However, we do live in a pretty remote forested area, so we have a ball with sightings of the many kinds of animals we see on our property who consider it home, at least for a while: a lonely lady turkey, dozens of kinds of birds, a beautiful grey fox, many deer, a skunk who thinks it owns the place, plus a couple of stray cats whose eyes we saw glowing when we went out at night, and have only glimpsed in daylight when they thought no one was watching.

And of course, the giant slug who lives on one wall of our house! We call him Frisky.

Challenge #1

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.


I'm a writer mostly, who is FINALLY getting around to trying to market my existing work. I'm super into gardening and preserving food. I'm also really interested in trying to close the circle of production and consumption. Instead of paying a lot of money for stuff and creating a lot of trash, I love things like composting, which takes the trash and turns it into something useful, which makes rich soil that can be used to grow food and cut down on my grocery bill.

The dream before I got to actually put some of these theories into practice was total self-sufficiency, but it turns out that's MUCH harder than it sounds. Still, being able to close that circle to any degree is fun and satisfying, and that's what I'm really into exploring these days, as well as going back to basics wherever it's feasible. There are modern conveniences that make life sooo much easier, but there are others that just seem to complicate things. I'm interested in finding and utilizing the old-school methods that make sense and don't take up too much time and energy, because they also tend to be a lot cheaper and more friendly to the environment. I write about this kind of thing a lot! And I play with it in reality a lot, too.

I was so disappointed this year with anime specifically, and tv in general, that I felt like maybe I shouldn't even participate in Snowflake this year because I have so little good to say about fandom-related things! We've mostly resorted to rewatching old favorites since we could hardly find anything new to enjoy. Then I realized, maybe I can use Snowflake to solicit recommendations from other participants! So please, pleeeease, give me your recs!! If the show/movie is old, that's great, too. Tell me your all-time favorites!

But also, I want to get back into blogging more generally! I did some in the middle of last year, then life went completely off the rails. I've been dipping my toe here and there lately on DreamWidth, then I realized Snowflake was about to return, and I thought that would be the perfect opportunity to get back into it!