Snowflake days 12-13 (indluding a fannish meme)

[hamsterwoman]

Day 12: In your own space, create your own challenge.

I've tried this with year-round challenges before, and, except for the Community Souced Reading Bingo, which was a lot of fun, that seems too large scale. So I think this time around Iwant to try something immediate, like a meme. Through the confluence of talking about universe fursions with

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[re_vised]

I hate writing annual and mid-year reviews for myself. I cannot wait until they are a thing of my past!

[hamsterwoman]

Heh, I guess that's one benefit of being self-employed I'd never thought about -- your boss always knows what you've done for the year! :P

[re_vised]

Haha! Yep! I hope I don't reach the point where I am giving myself a review. I guess I would have bigger problems at that point, though.

[qwentoozla]

What's Miles Vorkosigan's daemon? Hexarchate factions for the main trio in Harry Potter?

[hamsterwoman]

Eee, these are great

[qwentoozla]

Totally agree with Hermione as a Liozh and Harry as a Kel (and Dumbledore is the Shuos behind him with the way he manipulates, perhaps?) and that's a good point that Ron probably wouldn't join a faction on his own. He'd have to be in the same one as Harry, I think.

I took the faction quiz at two different times and got Liozh once and Shuos once... I don't think I have quite the cleverness of the Shuos though!

I love the idea of a kestrel for Miles--small, fierce, maneuverable... it works! I can totally see him trying to get an intimidating daemon, too. :D And oh, interesting thought about Mark! It does seem like daemons aren't born to be a certain shape, they settle based on who their person turns out to be, which is of course affected by their life experiences. I would imagine forcing a daemon into a particular shape would be awful.

[hamsterwoman]

(and Dumbledore is the Shuos behind him with the way he manipulates, perhaps?)

Ooh, good call! -- Dumbledore would make a very good Shuos, working behind the scenes, looking out for the greater good, kind of like Zehun, and quietly pulling everybody's strings.

I think I got Shuos once and Nirai once on the factions quiz? Which is approximately what I was expecting, but I definitely don't have the constitution to be a Shuos! Waaay too nerve-wracking and I don't have the aptitude/patience for endless games either.

I would imagine forcing a daemon into a particular shape would be awful.

*nods* It seems like a kind of thing that could be possible in HDM-verse, but very, very traumatic. ...and now I kind of want full fledged Mark fic set in this fusion, as grim as it would be.

[firebluespinel]

Dresden files characters in Westeros, please and thank you! (Though I'd be interested to see them in Hogwarts as well, so if you feel like doing both...in your copious free time...)

Also, hi!

[hamsterwoman]

OK! Your sorting wait is over :) And it's only been 4 months this time :P

[firebluespinel]

Yay! Finally sorting has happened. :) And yes, I have thoughts

[hamsterwoman]

Yay, glad you had an answering sorting ramble of your own! :D

.I actually can imagine Margaret LeFay being a Martell herself, with Malcolm Dresden being a Tully and Ebenezer being a Stark (he who passes the sentence wields the black staff, etc.).

Ooh, yeah, I like the idea of Harry's Martell side coming from Margaret LeFay -- that seems really fitting! And his dad does seem like he would've made a good Tully. I do see the "he who passes the sentence" logic you reference with McCoy, but hmmm, I feel like he's a little too comfortable with black ops for me to buy him as a Stark. Maybe another Tully? Or, IDK, Mormont or something? That combination of down-home groundedness and being a badass and a certain pragmatism... I think he reminds me of Old Bear but also generally Mormont feels like a good fit.

Agreed that I could also see Murphy in Arryn.

I definitely feel like most White Court vamps are Lannisters; not sure about Red Court and Black Court are boring are pinging me more like Greyjoy? Targ as a general rule feels good for

[perpetual]

Daemons for ASOIAF characters?

[hamsterwoman]

Ooh, gladly! I'll also do my favorites / whatever comes to me vividly / first, but given that ASOIAF's got a cast of zillions, are there specific characters you'd like me to be sure to include? :)

[perpetual]

My favorites are Dany, Jon, Catelyn, and Varys, at least for today. Oh, and please include Hodor.

[hamsterwoman]

LOL, I'd completely forgotten you had this icon XD (I was going to talk about Tywin's daemon anyway, but now I HAVE TO. it's not a dung beetle

ASOIAF folks proved a bit different because there is already so much animal symbolism all over the place, it was hard not to trip over that. So I actually started with the Tyrells, who don't get animal sigils, but I'll get to them presently.

Meanwhile, let's start with Dany. Initially I tried to make salamander fit, because of the mythological fire connection, but that wasn't quite right -- I wanted something with metamorphosis but MORE metamorphosis than that. Even frogs didn't quite work for me, though some brightly colored, very poisonous, delicate-looking frog was tempting. Ultimately, I think I want a moth for Dany -- one of those massive fuzzy things that hatch out of equally fantastic-looking caterpillars. Acraga Coa, I think! Plus tell me that caterpillar is not secretly a dragon egg. :D

For Varys, my immediate thought (after dismissing spider) was satani leaf gecko. It can creep