Snowflake Challenge

Challenge #4 from the Snowflake Challenge is an 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.

Challenge #5 from the Snowflake Challenge is a 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 (I will have these listed after my responses for Challenge #4).

Challenge #6 is In your own space, share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. . 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.

So let’s begin. I’m going to go through each challenge here starting with #4. After that, you will find #5 and #6. Enjoy!

I really don’t know what to say that many of my followers don’t already know about me, so I’m going to use the Random Question Generator the team over on Dreamwidth suggested.

• What do you think people pretend to like when they really don’t?

Other people’s cooking. Without a doubt. You don’t want to insult them, especially if you are a guest…. Unless it is something truly egregious that you can’t help but beg the chef to never let anyone else suffer what you just went through.

• What’s your favorite room in your house and why?

I live in a one bedroom apartment, but, it is spacious. It is really hard to choose for me as I spend most of my day during the week in the bedroom for work. If I had the furniture to have on the balcony, I think I’d be out there most of the time. When we moved in and saw how big it really was – I just wanted an outdoor lounge chair and roll our bedroom TV out there for movie night under the stars. One day…

• What’s your close call story?

Is this general in life or for writing? Um, close call in life is probably in the second grade when I fractured my collar bone. I was being a twat in the yard, climbing trees. I was trying to climb one that was mostly dead, and the little stub of a branch my foot was on broke. I twisted around like a full 360 degrees with one hand holding on above me and caused the fracture. If I didn’t manage to keep to hugging the trunk of the tree, then I would have surely died or been severely injured as there were dried roots sticking straight up from the ground where I was coming down. I sat on our table in the yard for a couple minutes in shock, then went up to my room. I tried several times to lift my arm and finally when I admitted defeat, did I go tell my family I done fucked up. Off to the ER we went!

• What’s the most difficult choice you were asked to make?

I wasn’t asked or forced, but I had to make the decision of whether to stay with my family and continue to suffer emotional, narcissistic abuse by my grandmother, or leave and start somewhere fresh and new with my husband (who my grandmother like until we told her we wanted to get married, then he was worthless and good for nothing). We now live in Texas and so far my health has improved tremendously and have needed less medication than I was on back in New Jersey.

• What is the most recent life lesson you’ve learned?

That despite family and responsibilities, sometimes you need to take care of yourself first before all else. I grew up under my grandmother’s thumb and it messed me up a lot. I always feel like I’m doing something wrong to disappoint people and it puts me in a position of trying to please others at my own expense. Standing up for myself is by far one of the hardest things I’ve ever learned to do over the last couple years, and I am still working on that every day.

Challenge #5 is the scavenger hunt. I have to find representations of the following topics: 

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

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7. 24/7 would be wrapped in my blanket.

8. I think this was one of those Scholastic book fair sales I got it, or maybe a summer reading list for school, but I do know I did enjoy it.

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For challenge #6…. In your own space, share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. . 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.

Initial reaction reading the prompt has me….sighing. Like a literal:

If anyone truly knows me and my writing, along with Buggy, is that they know we do not do canon. I despise TVD’s Damon/Elena. She was a whiny bitch who deserved to be cursed by Kai. I cheered when that happened. I guess, maybe the only one I might be able to go with the later series Tony/Ziva story development as they had such great chemistry together on NCIS and once both left the show, it was implied off screen and sometimes on screen that there was more there than they let on. For Tony who notoriously shared a lot of himself, he kept her close until he almost lost her. Then she returned as a guest appearance to all but confirm the relationship by ‘dying’ and their secret daughter was sent to live with him. I don’t know about that story arc, but it was a nice touch for his swan song in his role to leave the series and did display much of his growth as a character over 10+ years. I just wish that they were able to explore more of it before and at the same time, don’t because I don’t like that the can just as easily ruin 7 years of the sexual tension between the two.

Until next time…