Lords of Kobol, hear my prayer...

++ We had rainstorms from Christmas all through New Years, which was a great present for me because, yay rain and thunder! Unfortunately, our backyard did get a little flooded because of how intense the downpour was (it cleared up within hours, don't worry) and a lot of stuff did get blown around the backyard....one item actually flew out from our backyard and across the street. So, that was fun to retrieve. With that being said, it was a pretty chill Christmas and we welcomed 2026 with minimal fireworks due to the rain.

++ There is a New Years friending meme currently up and active.

++ I will be participating in this years snowflake_challenge, something I've enjoyed doing in previous years and last year was one that I was very active in commenting on other people's posts on various challenges which was fun. I'll be doing that again this year, I just need to find the right moment to do so because I've been kind of stressed this week alone with some personal things that I truly haven't had enough time to actually sit down and write something.

++ VERY IMPORTANT NEWS: I don't know how widespread this is at the moment, but it seems that LiveJournal is undergoing a recent change that will drastically affect all users, including Russian users. denise has already made a post welcoming Russian users who are importing their journals from LJ to DW due to this situation, but she has also appeared in various individual places in fandom communities imploring all people who still have access to their LJ accounts (personal journals or communities) to backup/import them to DW immediately. This is quite literally an LJ Exodus 2.0, but this does seem like this could really be final for many people, especially if they're attempting to gatekeep the website from anyone who isn't Russian or complies with Russian law, which isn't surprising considering the way things have been going since the ownership change years ago but it's still devastating to witness all the same. The fact that LJ used to be incredibly lively and has, gradually overtime, turned into a virtual graveyard of what once was a rich and thriving website featuring various communities (fandom, personal, other subcultures) is heartbreaking, and to lose all of that history would be even more so.

If you still have an LJ account please back it up, and if you know someone who does still have access to their account(s) also please notify them of this so they can also back up their information while they still can. Either importing to DW, saving and transporting fanfic to AO3, using the Wayback Machine, whatever possibility is available to preserve LJ/fandom history.

Happy belated Friday the 🎃 HALLOWEENTH 🎃 ! For those who celebrated, I hope you had a magnificent three-day Halloween weekend.

Since I'm a bit late, here is a little Halloween-centric meme taken from author_by_night:

( All these ghosts, ALL these ghosts! And I still can't find a boo! )

Taken from thefridayfive:

01. One place you volunteer (or would like to)? Why?
I would like to do some environmental volunteering, even if it's just helping picking up trash.

02. One book you'd like to see made into a movie? Why?
God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert. I'm mainly curious just want to see how this can be done, and if done right I want to see unsuspecting people's reactions to it.

03. One creature (living, extinct, or mythical) you'd like for a pet? Why?
A wolf.

04. One place on Earth you'd like to visit? Why?
I'm going to be very generic and say everywhere. I'm very curious about the world, and I just want to experience everything there is from different places and cultures to just marveling at the world around us.

05. One talent or skill you'd like to develop? Why?
There's honestly so much, but I've been wanting to have the skill to create fanworks like fanvids, icons, and fanart, all which require different skillsets but it's something that I've been incredibly impressed by as well as envious of whenever I encounter them. I have ideas of what I want to create, and knowing that there are tutorials and programs available it's just a matter of finding the time and knowing where to start.

Challenge #13: Interact with someone in fandom you haven't talked with before.

I've actually been doing that thanks to snowflake_challenge, going through the various submitted entries through all of the challenges this year and commenting on them. It's something I hadn't done before in previous Snowflake challenges, including linking my own answers to the prompts to allow people to see my posts and interact with me, as well. As someone who has talked constantly about missing the sense of community in fandom spaces, this was a great opportunity to actually do something about that this year and I'm glad that I have been and will be continuing to do so. I've had some great conversations with other fandom people who I haven't previously talked to, and it makes me yearn for more of that interaction that I hope to keep up from now on, now just with Snowflake but in other places too. :)

Speaking of, I'm also active in tv_talk, and I like getting able to participate in the weekly discussions and even have done some reccing of shows over there.