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(Final) July AMA: The Vampire Diaries

2026-08-01T05:16:33Z

Asked by kissapentu: What's an unpopular opinion you have about The Vampire Diaries?

I don't care for Damon Salvatore, nor do I care about Damon/Elena as a pairing.

I stopped watching the show pretty early on and only got little bits here and there for what was happening as it continued, so I don't have any strong unpopular opinions aside from that, plus I don't know what would be considered an unpopular opinion at this point. Like, me saying Katherine deserved better and the double standard the show had with the male characters versus female characters isn't a hot take or unpopular, based on the things I've read.

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July AMA: Money Money Money

2026-07-29T03:12:11Z

Asked by spaciireth: If you came into a large sum of money, say, ten million dollars, what would spend it on (after the obvious things like taking care of any debts, etc.)

First and foremost, travel and experience the many cultures and wonders of the world.

Secondly, I would renovate the house, just little additions that I think would be nice to have, like a room that would operate as a personal library with built-in shelves, perhaps a secret passageway of sorts to a little nook with a comfortable window seat for my own peace and quiet. Just those kinds of personal little additions that are frivolous yet enjoyable for me to appease my kid self.

Being able to get the supplies of whatever hobby that I've always wanted to try, this includes taking classes of an activity.

Honestly, it's endless, it would be pure personal indulgence. As Veronica Mars once said, I would be a perfect blend of "frivolous and sensible".

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July AMA: Music

2026-07-26T07:10:44Z

Asked by merricatb: What song/album can you listen to over and over?

I mean, pretty much anything and everything that I like, to be honest. I'm someone who will listen to a song or album nonstop before I move onto the next one and repeat the process. I'm the same way with any kind of media.

For a specific example, I'm going to say score soundtracks. I think soundtracks for any medium is underrated because they often feature some of the best elements of complementing the story with the music, elevating the scenes and moments. By listening to a soundtrack all the way through, beginning to end, you are reliving the story in a different way and it's such an amazing experience. Bear McCreary, for instance, has composed for a wide variety of things, but the one I've listened to the most is his work on Battlestar Galactica. Each season he outdid himself. Even if a single track comes on at random, I have to replay it again and again, and then I just get the urge to listen to the rest of the soundtracks anyway. It never fails, every single time, and I'm not complaining at all.

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July AMA: Poetry

2026-07-23T13:30:46Z

Asked by eglantiere: your favorite poems, your relationship with poetry, your own poetic aspirations if you'd like, whatever fits.

Truthfully, I'm not really huge on poems. I appreciate the craft of poetry, the different ways poems can be constructed and I have come across several I've seen posted online that I like the flow of, but it's not something that I know too much about or a deeper relationship with.

With that being said, I do have a few favorites. "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost, "The Box" by Kendrew Lascelles (a poem I memorized and recited with some of my classmates in elementary school in a performance, it's one that I often thing about and can still recite by memory to this day), and "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll from Through the Looking Glass.

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July AMA: Horror Movies

2026-07-18T13:21:08Z

Asked by merricatb: What're your top 5 fave horror movies?

Now, since horror is among my favorite genres, I had to think really long about this because as someone who has watched plenty of horror movies that I love and consider my favorite it's extremely difficult to choose only five. So, I kinda sorta modified my answer where I give categories.

( My favorite scary movies. )

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July AMA: Road Trips

2026-07-16T01:54:47Z

Asked by author_by_night: Have you ever been on a summer road trip? If not, would you ever want to go on a road trip?

I've definitely been on summer road trips, mainly when I was younger. One big one that I remember (that we have home video of) is traveling across the country to visit my aunts and uncles. It took quite a long time to get there, perhaps a week? Aside from that, I've gone on some road trips since then that aren't as long, not always during the summer. I think the last one was to Los Angeles, which took roughly the whole day to get there.

Road trips are interesting because it really depends on who you're traveling with and how things are planned out, and how one can handle sitting in a moving vehicle for hours at a time if you didn't bring something with you to keep you entertained. It can be merely exhausting just sitting for hours at a time, and, because I live in America, while there are some interesting sights to see especially once you get to places you're unfamiliar with there are also prolonged periods of time where it's just a long stretch of road with nothing to see, that you'll be relieved once you see something like a rural area or a field and other pieces of nature and not just road and other vehicles. Plus there is also something really special about rest stops, those areas in the middle of nowhere.

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July AMA: Whedonverse Women

2026-07-13T23:05:21Z

Asked by kissapentu: Top 5 female whedon-verse TV characters.

01. Faith Lehane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel)
02. River Tam (Firefly)
03. Priya Tsetsang/Sierra (Dollhouse)
04. Cordelia Chase (Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel)
05. Inara Serra (Firefly)

This was both hard and yet not that hard to choose, since obviously I have my top favorite characters from each show, as you can see, but I also have other female characters that I love so dearly and don't want to exclude. Gah! But anyway, yeah.

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July AMA: BTVS Unpopular Opinions

2026-07-11T06:50:21Z

Asked by author_by_night: Do you have any unpopular opinions or hot takes about Buffy?

*cracks knuckles*

( My unpopular opinions and hot takes on BTVS. )

That's all I can think of at the moment, but believe me, I have plenty of thoughts and opinions (unpopular or not) regarding Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I adore the show, and over the years have gathered a lot of feelings about certain things.

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July AMA: Another twofer.

2026-07-07T23:46:44Z

Asked by blackcatofmisery: If you could pitch your ideal series, what would it be about?

Again, this is something I'm not quite sure how to answer by not having specific details or even a fully formed idea of what my ideal series would be about. Sorry this was lackluster of a response to your question. :(

Asked by verdande_mi: What film/series reboot that didn't happen do you wish had gotten a proper chance?

Well, as I keep saying, I'm tired of reboots. We've been living in this age of rebooting/remaking everything underneath the sun that if there was something that I had initially wished had been rebooted, I'm glad that it wasn't because it most likely wouldn't live up to expectations or further expand upon the original and just be another disappointing cheap cash grab. Although I will say, while I was indifferent towards it, I'm bummed about the BTVS sequel reboot, New Sunnydale, if only because the circumstances of how it was axed before it even got the chance to air makes me incredibly bitter and upset on behalf of SMG and the rest of the new cast who were excited and hyped up for it. Would it have been good? Hard to say without having seen anything, but it deserved to at least have that chance.

In addition to this, I also think that the Tomb Raider 2018 movie with Alicia Vikander should have gotten its franchise, as it was based around the 2013 reboot games. It was already greenlit for a sequel and ready to go, but then the pandemic hit and whatever contract deadline that was supposed to be met was missed and so it was silently cancelled. I thought the movie was fantastic, and I was yearning for more, and we deserved more, dammit.

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July AMA: Two questions!

2026-07-06T01:53:06Z

Because I accidentally forgot to answer yesterday's question, here's a twofer for today.

Asked by reeby10: What's your favorite holiday and what do you like to do to celebrate?

My favorite holidays are Halloween and Christmas. The decorations and aesthetics of both and also just that time of year in general really get to me and I kinda treat October-December as a big celebration of those two holidays combined. However, I don't really do anything too bombastic for either. I'm the only one in the family that loves Halloween, so I tend to just celebrate on my own by watching horror movies (more than I already do yearly, that is) and just doing a casual dress up at home. Christmas is more celebrated with my family. I love to decorate the house, and we celebrate via dinner and opening presents on Christmas Eve.

Asked by verdande_mi: Who would write, direct and star in your dream-show/film and what would it be about?

Oh geez, I don't even know. All I know is that I would want Bear McCreary to be the composer. That's all I've got so far in my brain.

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July AMA: Independence Day

2026-07-04T03:15:09Z

Asked by blackcatofmisery: What are your feelings about celebrating Independence Day this year?

I have no strong feelings about the Fourth of July one way or another since it was never that deep for me to begin with. We don't really do anything in regards in celebration, not since when I was a kid but even that was just an excuse to visit with relatives, otherwise it's neither here nor there for me, personally. If this is about how this country is now politically, it's no different from last year or other years prior. People are going to celebrate, or not celebrate, for whatever reason. I'm mainly going to be concerned about the cats and the booms of the fireworks, that's about it.

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July AMA: Media Expectations

2026-07-03T06:58:01Z

Asked by author_by_night: What's a show (or other media) that wasn't what you thought it was going to be? Was it a huge disappointment or a pleasant surprise?

I initially thought that Once Upon A Time was going to primarily focus on fairytale characters, both known and obscure, though it quickly became evident after the first season that it was doing the versions of fairytales and stories previously adapted by Disney. Which is fine and all, it just wasn't exactly the direction I had hoped for when I first started watching the show, so it was a bit of a letdown based on my own expectations. Based on what I've learned since then, I wanted something more along the lines of the Fables comics than what the show actually was in the end.

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July AMA: First Fandoms

2026-07-02T01:51:27Z

Asked by inchoatewords: What was your first fandom, and what drew you to it?

I'm approaching this with my first online fandoms because, while I had obsessions with various things before, I think being introduced to the online fandom community where I could openly express and share my love for things really took off with my fangirlishness and in a sense these were my first online fandom obsessions, if that makes sense. So going with that, there are several fandoms that, although they didn't all happen at the same time, I kinda lump them together because, in my mind, they kind of were a huge influential part of my first online fandom experiences.

( My first fandoms. )

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Did we not put the 'grrr' in girl?

2026-06-25T10:56:00Z

++ I still have days open for my July AMA, for anyone who has missed the post or even want to go back to ask something else for other days.

++ Olivia Rodrigo has announced Daisy Chain Fields, her own one-day music festival that is non-profit and all proceedings via ticket sales will go towards charities advocating towards women and young girls. Many have said that this is essentially Lilith Fair 2.0, and quite frankly that is not too far off. Olivia has proven herself to be quite an advocate on social issues and speaking out on what she believed to be important. I remember her being very outspoken when Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, specifically at Glastonbury Festival the day after the news broke where she directly called out the members of the U.S. Supreme Court who were responsible for the regressive decision. So this festival celebrating women artists and helping women charities and organizations makes sense. Anyway, I just think this is super cool and awesome of her to do. I'm hoping that this is successful enough that it can become an annual event.

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Ask Me Anything for July

2026-06-20T07:47:33Z

Seen this around, it's been a hot minute since I've done one of these monthly AMA memes. I've not only got some new people following me but I'm also been slightly quiet lately, which happens every so often mainly due to having kind of having a writers block of what to post. I figure that at least with this meme I can get back into active posting with prompts given by others for next month.

How does this work? It's very simple: just PICK A DAY for the month of July and ask me a question to answer on that day :D
You can also ask multiple questions/multiple days if you want to. I'm very open and will answer most anything :)

( List of days )

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My Dreamwidth history.

2026-05-18T11:29:06Z

Saw this meme via harlow_turner_chaotic_ace. I may have done this in the past, or at least a version of it, but since I recently gained new followers I figured why not just do it again.

( Dreamwidth History Meme )

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Yay, journaling sites.

2026-03-21T09:56:13Z

Taken from thefridayfive:

( LiveJournal and Dreamwidth )

Bonus Questions:

06. If you have a LiveJournal, are you currently able to access it?
Well, I obviously had one, but once transferring all my entries to DW I deleted my LJ account. This was thankfully before all the shit that recently went down over there.

07. Do you have any information about why one would be unable to access LiveJournal?
I talked about it some while ago along with links with further information, but to put it simply the current owners are trying to divide its userbase and gatekeep the site. Some might still have access to their journals while others not, I haven't seen anything more on what is going on since this came to light, regardless though it's been advised for anyone who still has access to their LJ accounts there to save/transfer their journals and communities as soon as possible.

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Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Reflecting

2026-02-28T23:43:13Z

Challenge #15: How Did the Fandom Snowflake Challenge Go? Did you get all you wanted to get from it? Are there things you're going to carry with you for as long as you can? Are you going to continue to challenge yourself? Continue to connect?

I think it went pretty well. I completed most of the challenges, and the ones that I didn't it was merely because I didn't know how to answer them. Honestly, although I know there is no deadline, I do sometimes feel like there is this pressure to be on time with everyone else answering them. That's more on me than anything though, internalizing a timetable that doesn't exist, and I know I need to let that go. So, I most likely will be returning to at least a couple of them in the near future once I figure out how to conduct my thoughts properly without stressing over it too much.

In the meantime, I'm still going through the various challenges to read and comment on the entries posted from others, something that I highly enjoy doing. This is why I love snowflake_challenge, as it not only encourages participation on their own time but it also allows people in the fandom community to interact and connect with each other, and even befriend one another. Plus, I get a lot of motivation and inspiration from others throughout the challenge, and it jump starts my own creativity.

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Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Community Space

2026-02-19T01:17:31Z

Challenge #13: TALK ABOUT A COMMUNITY SPACE YOU LIKE. It doesn’t need to be your favorite, or the one where you spend the most time (although it certainly can be). Maybe it’s even one that you’ve barely visited. But talk about that space and how it helps support fannish community.

I'm going to actually say Dreamwidth.

As someone who joined online fandom via LiveJournal ages ago and have seen the shifts and changes of the online fandom community over the years, from the fandom migration to other platforms and how things have altered with the presence of social media, I think Dreamwidth has kept up what I once enjoyed about the LJ fandom community. I do use Tumblr for the pretty graphics and visit Reddit every now and then for updates on things, but ultimately when I think about fannish community I think of something that is more interactive, more personable, and less judgmental. And that's what Dreamwidth is for me. It reminds me of the times when online journaling offered something for everyone, fandom related or not, and was a place to express your thoughts and opinions clearly on your own journal and in community discussions, engage in conversations with others. I participate in fannish conversations and challenges, such as snowflake_challenge as an obvious example, even going onto different people's journals to talk and squee about fannish interests. It's something that I miss when it comes to the fandom community interaction as a whole, the engagement of just talking with people about things, having back and forth civil discussion in comment threads. Dreamwidth offers that to me in ways that other places cannot.

That's not to say that other fandom places online I visit don't have value and aspects that I enjoy, it's just that I think I feel more comfortable and safer in the controlled environment that Dreamwidth provides. It may be smaller in comparison to what LJ used to be, it's definitely not on the same wavelength as Tumblr and I do wish more people would join/return to DW, although I must admit to liking how quiet it is here compared to the social media reactionary drivel you often see. Plus, it's challenges like this that get me off my ass to actually write and participate, and I like that kind of push. I don't have to do it, but I want to. Because I miss this kind of thing in fandom, y'know?

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Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Top Ten

2026-02-12T12:30:26Z

Challenge #06: Top 10 Challenge. The category(ies) you choose are up to you.

( Top Ten OTPs. )

( Top Ten Favorite Pieces of Underrated/Less Talked About Media )

This got way longer than I had intended. I tried to be concise with the second category but, y'know, when you're a fan of something you want to be thorough.

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Fandom Snowflake Challenge: My Fannish Wishlist

2026-02-02T00:58:32Z

Challenge #05: In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

01. Icons Of: Huo Wensi and/or Huo Wensi/Luo Fei from the cdrama Detective L.

02. Recommendations of programs to create fanwork. This is quite a specific one because I've been itching for years to create something, from icons and graphics to fanvids because I have ideas. I used to have a program ages ago (Microsoft's Picture It!) which I created various things including graphics for the fanmixes I did way back when, but that was on an old computer and that program has long since been discontinued and defunct. I've been attempting to look for comparable programs, however my findings lead me to being confused and overwhelmed and a bit apprehensive on the legitimacy since some places are websites only instead of a program you download onto your computer, and even then I don't want to download anything that is going to take forever to load or cause problems, which I know is a risk for anything these days anyway.

So, my request is mainly for the graphic makers and vidders in fandom: what programs do you use, your pros and cons for them, how much of a learning curve there is and if there is good tutorial out there. Note that I mainly use my laptop, I don't do anything on mobile.

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Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Favorite Tropes

2026-01-29T12:41:30Z

Challenge #09: Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

I'm skipping around the challenge a bit since I'm still constructing my answers for the other ones as I'm way behind at the moment, but this one is one that I know I can answer easily since I definitely have a lot of favorite tropes. I answered last years trope challenge with only one specific trope which I still maintain is a top favorite in recent years, but this will be a more extensive list. Mind you, not all my favorites as that would take forever, just a handful.

( Tropes, tropes, glorious tropes.... )

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Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Fandom Love Letter

2026-01-24T14:18:30Z

Challenge #03: Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

( My love letter to fandom. )

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Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Animal Companions

2026-01-18T02:30:33Z

Challenge #02: Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

After thinking on this one, I decided to tweak this prompt a bit and focus on animal companions from fictional stories that I love.

( My favorite fictional animal companions. )

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Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Why I'm Participating

2026-01-12T09:06:13Z

Challenge #01: The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

I'm a fangirl who has been involved with fandom for a very long time, started my online fandom journey on LJ in 2003 and I haven't stopped since. As one can see on my profile just a taste of the various fandoms and interests that I'm into.

When it comes to snowflake_challenge, I have participated in the challenge itself for some years because, ultimately, it's just fun. I like being given prompts where I can give insightful answers to, I like the level of engagement it provides with interacting with others with fannish interests, from just those on your friendslist to others who participated in this challenge. Which is another thing, last year was the first time I actively participated in the challenge by linking my posts to the community and reading/commenting on others who also participated in the challenge, as well. I miss fandom engagement like that, and that's why I like doing this challenge every year.

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