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(Giggling quietly because "trust the process" to me is a reference to the Philadelphia 76ers 🀭 this has nothing to do with the actual post. It was just amusing joke to myself. IYKYK)

Anyway...

Snowflake Challenge: A flatlay of a snowflake shaped shortbread cake, a mug with coffee, and a string of holiday lights on top of a rustic napkin.


Challenge #8

Talk about your creative process.


Oh this is gonna be a rambly answer... πŸ˜…

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Challenge #7

LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good.


There are a few things I can think of that I'm proud about πŸ₯°

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Two separate thoughts

Jan. 13th, 2026 09:12 pm
alchemicink: Yuma making a very worried face (Yuma face)
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1) I have been planning out things to write for tokushipping week... and I think I actually wanna do art for one of the prompts?? I am not an artist so idk how it will go. But now I'm seriously thinking I should make a Tumblr just so I'll have somewhere to post it... πŸ€” Is it a bad idea to join Tumblr in the year of our lord 2026? πŸ˜‚

2) Unrelatedly, I was listening through the Kamen Rider Zeztz soundtrack today and it's so good! I like that all the CODE-related tracks are jazzy πŸ˜‚ I love that there is even a track for the organ music from the wedding episode?? πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ I am mad, however, that Volume 1 of the soundtrack doesn't have Nox's transformation music from the most recent episode 😭 I need that!

πŸ“–πŸ’”πŸŸπŸ―

Jan. 12th, 2026 02:42 pm
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That feeling when you’re reading a cnovel that’s actively being translated and you’ve caught up to the most recent chapter and you almost can’t bear to read it

it’s so good! and we’re only about halfway! though maybe if there are lots of extras like the first novel we’re closer to the narrative climax of at least this arc? but who knows
alchemicink: (Takaki)
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Rec time! I stayed up way too late last night writing this, and then didn't even post it πŸ˜‚ here it is on my lunch break now!

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

Challenge #6

Top 10 Challenge.


I'm going to share 10 (actually just 8!) of my favorite music videos from Japanese artists/bands, in no particular order.

(These will all be links to YouTube. I'm sorry I cannot embed the videos. I write all my posts from my phone πŸ˜…)

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This past week was so busy πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’« I feel like I may just end up sleeping most of the day... even though that would be a bad idea πŸ˜…

Anyway, a few things to share this week:

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I forgot about the Snowflake Challenge and only remembered it today when I realized two weeks of January are almost up 😫

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

Let me come up with a list of wishes right now. I want:

  • You to do this poll I made on dreamwidth
  • Tips on how to rizz up boys and girls and non-binary pals (wrong answers only)
  • Funky phrases you've heard (see this tag for what I mean)
  • Weird or funny things your pets have done
  • Media recommendations, e.g. tv, articles, books, poetry, short stories, games, ttrpgs, fanfiction, songs, featuring any of the following:
    • role reversal
    • gender fuckiness
    • government conspiracies
    • contemporary cisheterosexual romance books so that I can broaden my worldview
    • traitors

Original [community profile] snowflake_challenge post here.

Snowflake Challenge 2026 #5: wishes~!

Jan. 10th, 2026 12:31 pm
alchemicink: Shu looking excited (Kopi Luwak Shu)
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Didn't get to do this one earlier thanks to working late yesterday πŸ˜’ but hey, I have a few minutes to scribble this out now

Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

Challenge #5

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.


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This week: Minami joins the Zeztz team and Kosei says thank you to Sorato

I wasn't going to use an Ultraman Omega quote today because next week is the final episode, but this one was just so good, I had to!

Spoilers, as always, below. And one image in the Zeztz review!

Kamen Rider Zeztz (episode 16)

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Ultraman Omega (episode 24)

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Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!


Gonna give y'all a mix of fannish and non-fannish stuff.

Firstly, my non-fandom interest the past few years has been North Carolina folklore. And several months ago, I stumbled across The Broadside podcast from WUNC (which is one of NPR's local affiliates in North Carolina). The podcast isn't folklore-specific, but it shares a variety of interesting stories about North Carolina, ranging from venus flytrap preservation efforts to exploration of Black banjo players and everything weird and wonderful in between. (Sometimes it does touch on folklore too). Episodes are usually around 20-25 minutes long. (I like to listen while I'm cooking!)

Secondly, I looked through my open tabs and here are a bunch of exchange collections on ao3 that I'm still in the slow process of reading through. It's really never too late to read a fic (or appreciate fan art or listen to a podfic, etc). I'm sure the authors would appreciate more people enjoying their work!

Exchanges:
β˜† Whump Exchange 2025
β˜† Casefic Exchange 2025
β˜† Fic in a Box 2025
β˜† Crossworks 2025
β˜† Trick or Treat 2025
β˜† Star Trek Holidays 2025
β˜† Yuletide 2025

Happy reading and/or listening!

I love basketball β™‘

Jan. 6th, 2026 10:23 pm
alchemicink: Shu looking excited (Kopi Luwak Shu)
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I'm listening to basketball on the radio again, and now I'm wondering which fandom should I write a basketball fic (AU or otherwise) for next πŸ€”

(I checked and I've tagged "basketball" in only 6 fics so far. That feels so low) (...4 of them were bnha πŸ˜‚)
alchemicink: (Takaki)
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Challenge #3

Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.


So this was a tough one to decide what to write. But I just finished Kamen Rider Amazon yesterday, and have been thinking about how he should be friends with Hoeru from No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger and Blazar from Ultraman Blazar because they actually share quite a few commonalities, despite being so different. (The biggest one is their tendency to howl πŸ˜‚ a good example of Blazar howling is here from 0:39 to 0:48)

This will probably make no sense to anyone who hasn't seen these shows, and it ended up incredibly cheesy and heartfelt when I originally just wanted to write something funny. But that's fine because I wanted to write more meta this year (this counts, right?) and I had fun writing it anyway!

Therefore, I present:

An ode to weird guys who howl (and also feel out of place)

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New year!! And it's starting off on a good note for me (so far). I have a lot of things for the summary this week actually, so this is gonna be a long one:

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Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

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


Well, I don't have any pets (and don't plan to have any in the future), so here's a bit of rambling about various fictional pets and some headcanons about characters who need an animal companion.

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Since Zeztz and Ultraman Omega are still on break this week (well Zeztz is back tonight, but I won't review it until next Saturday), I decided to post the reviews for the last two episodes of my season 1 rewatch of Miss Scarlet and the Duke. (Just in time, since season 6 starts on Jan 11)

I chose the title quote because it was funny to me. But what's funnier now is that I can't remember if it was Eliza or William who said it. Could equally be either πŸ˜‚ That's just the nature of their relationship.

Anyway, mild spoilers below (but nothing major)

Miss Scarlet and the Duke (season 1, episode 5)

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Miss Scarlet and the Duke (season 1, episode 6)

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