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fullupwithfire) wrote2019-01-09 02:28 am
fullupwithfire) wrote2019-01-09 02:28 am
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Snowflake Challenge: Days 3 + 5
I don't want to shove them all in one post, because I'm going to wander off halfway through and never finish, so I'm sorry if this is a little spammy on your reading lists. There's only two more besides this for posting, though, so. Onward!
Day 3: In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.
I did two, becauseI'm an over-achiever who likes to babble they both occurred to me before getting back to my computer to write things up, and I couldn't decide. But they're both free to experience online and fairly short, so!
People Watching #2: "Why Non-Religious Confessionals Should Be A Thing"
So if you followed the Cracked youtube channel before it imploded, you may have run into this already. It's a small animated show following a bunch of 20-somethings who live in the same city and are semi-connected to each other, and while I won't claim it says anything groundbreaking or anything like that, it taps into a lot of emotions in a very cathartic way -- at least to me. It deals a lot with loneliness, and trying to find yourself, and even at points outright with mental illness issues, and I'm not describing things well, but it makes me cry in that very good, cleansing kind of way.
I considered going with the first episode, because I do love it, and even if the subject (speed dating) is one with little relevancy to my life, it has one of my altogether favorite lines in the show ("But even if honesty doesn't work, it's about the journey, you know.... you also learn a lot about yourself just saying stuff out loud and hearing how it sounds and realizing that you agree with yourself, you weren't just thinking it."). But this one is shorter, and a little more general, and honestly just punches a lot of really great points, including the central message being basically why I find this show really helpful for dark brain days.
If you're interested, follow the link -- it's just shy of 6 minutes, not counting credits. (I will warn that a lot of the impact of the climax of this one requires reading onscreen, so if you have visual difficulties, it may be difficult to follow in full; I apologize for that.)
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The Ignominious Demise of Dr. Pilchard - The Mechanisms
The Mechanisms are an utterly fantastic band with some of the most fantastic stories and gorgeous ways of telling them. They take existing stories and retell them in space via music, with a framing device of the band themselves being immortal, chaotic space pirates who witnessed these adventures and are retelling them now. I super highly recommend any of their four full albums, which respectively deal with fairy tales, Greek mythology, Arthurian mythology, and Norse mythology (...plus some extras). There is lots of queer characters, lots of heartbreak, and always a fantastic story being told.
But I wanted to talk about a particular track, not an entire album; and while there are tracks I absolutely adore and in each one I have favorites, I really feel like most of their music works best, at least the first couple times, in context of the story being told. I couldn't find anything that would pack the same punch without context, so instead I'm going to go with a short piece about the band's adventures from one of their albums with bits and pieces that aren't part of full stories. The Ignominious Demise of Dr. Pilchard is a ridiculous and catchy little 3-minute excursion with the band; it's fun, it's incredibly funny, and it's where my name field actually comes from, so why not go for it. It's good for a laugh when you need it badly.
(Sneaks in an extra pitch: If they sound interesting but you want to hear something more serious before committing to a full album, they have a 10-minute story of Frankenstein as a discussion/argument between an AI and its creator. Put the two together and you get a pretty good idea what you're in for with the full albums.)
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Day 5: In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.
This is always one of the hardest ones for me, so have a couple blogs in brief:
If you want tiny pieces of sweet drawings and happiness, Sheldon, the tiny dinosaur who thinks he's a turtle has been my go-to happy-thing recently.
If you prefer to have your heart carved out by lovely things, and you don't mind that it's no longer updating, try I Wrote This For You -- it's old, but there's a lot of gorgeous backlog to get through.
And a challenge:![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
getyourwordsout still has sign-ups for a few days. They offer both word count based goals, and days-worked-on-writing based goals, and if you're somebody for whom having a community and discussions and a goal to hold yourself accountable with is useful, I've found them in the past to be a great community.
Day 3: In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.
I did two, because
People Watching #2: "Why Non-Religious Confessionals Should Be A Thing"
So if you followed the Cracked youtube channel before it imploded, you may have run into this already. It's a small animated show following a bunch of 20-somethings who live in the same city and are semi-connected to each other, and while I won't claim it says anything groundbreaking or anything like that, it taps into a lot of emotions in a very cathartic way -- at least to me. It deals a lot with loneliness, and trying to find yourself, and even at points outright with mental illness issues, and I'm not describing things well, but it makes me cry in that very good, cleansing kind of way.
I considered going with the first episode, because I do love it, and even if the subject (speed dating) is one with little relevancy to my life, it has one of my altogether favorite lines in the show ("But even if honesty doesn't work, it's about the journey, you know.... you also learn a lot about yourself just saying stuff out loud and hearing how it sounds and realizing that you agree with yourself, you weren't just thinking it."). But this one is shorter, and a little more general, and honestly just punches a lot of really great points, including the central message being basically why I find this show really helpful for dark brain days.
If you're interested, follow the link -- it's just shy of 6 minutes, not counting credits. (I will warn that a lot of the impact of the climax of this one requires reading onscreen, so if you have visual difficulties, it may be difficult to follow in full; I apologize for that.)
*
The Ignominious Demise of Dr. Pilchard - The Mechanisms
The Mechanisms are an utterly fantastic band with some of the most fantastic stories and gorgeous ways of telling them. They take existing stories and retell them in space via music, with a framing device of the band themselves being immortal, chaotic space pirates who witnessed these adventures and are retelling them now. I super highly recommend any of their four full albums, which respectively deal with fairy tales, Greek mythology, Arthurian mythology, and Norse mythology (...plus some extras). There is lots of queer characters, lots of heartbreak, and always a fantastic story being told.
But I wanted to talk about a particular track, not an entire album; and while there are tracks I absolutely adore and in each one I have favorites, I really feel like most of their music works best, at least the first couple times, in context of the story being told. I couldn't find anything that would pack the same punch without context, so instead I'm going to go with a short piece about the band's adventures from one of their albums with bits and pieces that aren't part of full stories. The Ignominious Demise of Dr. Pilchard is a ridiculous and catchy little 3-minute excursion with the band; it's fun, it's incredibly funny, and it's where my name field actually comes from, so why not go for it. It's good for a laugh when you need it badly.
(Sneaks in an extra pitch: If they sound interesting but you want to hear something more serious before committing to a full album, they have a 10-minute story of Frankenstein as a discussion/argument between an AI and its creator. Put the two together and you get a pretty good idea what you're in for with the full albums.)
---
Day 5: In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.
This is always one of the hardest ones for me, so have a couple blogs in brief:
If you want tiny pieces of sweet drawings and happiness, Sheldon, the tiny dinosaur who thinks he's a turtle has been my go-to happy-thing recently.
If you prefer to have your heart carved out by lovely things, and you don't mind that it's no longer updating, try I Wrote This For You -- it's old, but there's a lot of gorgeous backlog to get through.
And a challenge:
getyourwordsout still has sign-ups for a few days. They offer both word count based goals, and days-worked-on-writing based goals, and if you're somebody for whom having a community and discussions and a goal to hold yourself accountable with is useful, I've found them in the past to be a great community.
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