Snowflake Challenge, days 7-13 + things learned in December

[hamsterwoman]

Catching up on Snowflake Challenge, days 7-13:

Day 7: In your own space, create a fanwork. Make a drabble, a ficlet, a podfic, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. Arts and crafts. Draft a critical essay about a particular media. Put together a picspam or a fanmix. Write a review of a Broadway show, a movie, a concert, a poetry reading, a

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[ani_mama]

I always wondered if passion fruit seeds were edible, now I know!

I miss being active in fandoms. It is hard to find the time and enthusiasm these days. I used to be pretty active in the FFVII fandom years ago, and LOTR also when the movies came out. Maybe it is time to pick up a new fandom or two.

[hamsterwoman]

They are edible, but, NGL, it feels really weird to spoon up this gelatinous mass. I forget if it was me or L who compared it to a slush of boiled eyeballs, but it's a little bit like that XD

It's been a long time (Harry Potter, really, although the Star Trek reboot timing worked out, too, though I wasn't nearly as fannish about it) since I've been in an active, large fandom. I've come upon several active fandom kind of late (Sherlock, e.g., just in time for the long hiatus). But nothing that had the same feeling of far-reaching community as the glory days of HP...

[a_phoenixdragon]

I'm so enjoying everyone's answers to these!! This was a marvelous post!

*HUGS*

[hamsterwoman]

Snowflake Challenge time is one of my favorite times on LJ. I love reading about people's fannish history especially, and nothing brings it out en masse like this challenge :)

[tinnny]

That social graph article is amazing! Also, I didn't know about the term "semantic satiation". Interesting stuff, as always!

[hamsterwoman]

I was familiar with the concept of "semantic satiation", but didn't realize there was a special term for it!

And the social graph article was such a fascinating read! I'd never really thought about it in those terms. but it makes a lot of sense that it would be a lot more complicated than seems on the surface.

[blakmagjick]

I've actually never read LotR...it's been on my list forever, but haven't yet. I even own the set...maybe I should finally read those this year!

Oh hey! I made the Things Learned list! Tho my username isn't spelled right ;)

[hamsterwoman]

Oh, oops, I went to fix your username and then it took me three tries to get it actually right XD I'm afraid it's likely to happen again, LOL, until I learn which parts to pay attention to rather than just letting my fingers type automatically XD

LotR is... I love it, obviously, but there are people who just don't click with it, and I don't really believe in forcing yourself through books. I mean, you might love it if you try it? But the beginning is very slow. In my experience it's a book people either fall in love with, or find really, really boring. :P (I've learned not to hold the latter against them, by now :)

[blakmagjick]

I've heard mixed things about LotR...which might be one of the reasons I haven't jumped onto reading it.

It's like the Song of Ice and Fire books...I read Game of Thrones, and kept going with it...but I wasn't super invested until like 3/4 of the way thru...which annoyed me, but I knew it *had* to get better so I kept going, slowly mind you...took me forever to get thru the first 3/4 of the book and then FLEW thru the last 1/4.
Haven't picked up any books in the rest of the series tho.

[hamsterwoman]

I read the first ASOIAF book so long ago, I don't really remember what I thought, but the series as a whole really took off for me with book 3. I feel like the books get better until that point, and then they start getting worse again, but possibly the effect is different if one just reads them straight through. For me, there was a wait of several years until book 5, and I found that book disappointing -- but maybe if I hadn't been reading awesome fic and meta all of that time, it would've felt more fresh...

[aome]

I had no idea about the battery testing - that's neat! (And easy!)

Never knew about the Lisbon quake, either. Yikes, that sounded nasty.

I saw mention of a periodic table on your list there. Here's a neat one for you: where the elements came from. Well, I thought it was neat. :)

[hamsterwoman]

I haven't tried out the battery thing myself -- so many things are just charged up from USB these days, I don't even remember what in my house even HAS batteries... remote controls, maybe? But it's definitely a neat trick if it works!

Thank you for the periodic table link! I hadn't seen it before, and I do find it very interesting as well! :D