Snowflake Challenges #4 & #5, and a meme

[flamingsword]

Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

Last Ravelry pattern I favorited: Tabi Socks by Kerstin Usher
Last fic I recced somebody: Recollect, re-collect by Ptelea (must be logged in to view) Jason Todd gets caught in a spell that erases him from other's memories, angst and healing ensue.
Last STEM thing I read: Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs
Last comic I read: XKCD: Superstition
Last therapy thing I tried: Neurodivergent Insights' Holiday Mindful Self-Care (can't link to it, it's a protected-entry PDF)
Last song I listened to: THE DAY THE NAZI DIED - CHUMBAWAMBA on youtube
Last new-to-me artist I found: Camille Przewodek - Plein Air painting in the American Impressionism tradition

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Challenge #5
In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it and include a link to your wishlist if you feel comfortable doing so.

I did the full 10 things Elf Meme over here, but the parts that I need most desperately that have not gotten much movement are:
1. I could use some books to help me think differently about other peoples headspaces. If there’s a book that explained a different type of person to you, I’d like to hear about it. Possibly also to borrow the book? I will, of course, send you a book of my own as collateral. Fair's fair.

4. I want to start getting rid of some of the Japanese EGL fashion dresses that I have, most of them are an Asian XL or XXL in size. I need an accountability buddy for listing them on LaceMarket or someone to give them to who will love them and take them out of my closet. If you can help with either thing, give me a DM. If you want me to lay out a sheet and post floordrobe pictures of outfits, I can do that, too, if you think it will help entice you or someone you know into the fashion.

7. I really need someone to talk to about doing Shadow work who knows their own emotional safety limits, prefereably someone who has been through some therapy or done a lot of therapy-adjacent self-help. I don’t know how to talk about the wack shit that happened to us when we were kids that made us think we were better off cutting off whole parts of ourselves, while also having to deal with looking for someone else’s distress and bc I will feel like I need to manage their feelings. The task switching is way harder for me in that state (autism!), and I want people to be safe, but I also need to stay on task with an accountability buddy or something. Idk. Something along those lines.

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New Years Book Meme Via nanila:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Turn to page 126
3. The 6th full sentence is your life in 2026

"There were guidelines to follow about food, but instead of a list of foods she could and couldn't eat, she was told to pay attention to how various foods felt in her body."

- Burnout: the secret to unlocking the stress cycle
by Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA.

Comments

[fairyniamh]

I did the meme and I have to laugh. Orca by Steven Brust

"What else do you need to know?"

Laughing, because I am constantly researching something.

[flamingsword]

Oh, absolutely same! I am forever putting up links posts of things that have wandered across my brain lately.

[visualjyushi]

I just sent you a DM about the dresses :)

[flamingsword]

Yay! I hope you vibe with some of the dresses, even though the pics are fairly terrible, lol.

[matsushima]

Have you read The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work? It came out in 2015 (i.e., five years before the pandemic) so there are parts of it that feel a little dated but it was really interesting (and, tbh, made me kind of wish I could just quit my job). It follows a handful of people who don't do paid work (or don't work full time in paid employment) for a variety of reasons, and how and why they do so.

[flamingsword]

I have not, no! Did it help you understand workaholics? Bosses? That might help me with a few folks.

[matsushima]

Kind of the opposite, really. For workaholics, maybe Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone or Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America? They at least explain how we got here, to hustle culture and all that.

[abyssal_sylph]

Very varied recs, thank you for them!

[flamingsword]

Welcome welcome!

[minoanmiss]

Look at all these riches!

[flamingsword]

😸😸😸

You are welcome to them!

[faitsu]

You should list those lolita dresses! I'd be interested if I were local, but I live in Canada and most of the people in this challenge are American so I'm going to do the next best thing: Telling you to sell those dresses.

[flamingsword]

I’ve found someone to take a couple of them off my hands, but I might be able to manage listing the LIEF Perfume Coffret JSK. But I will need to lay out a quilt and do a floordrobe post of it, probably, or a pic of it being worn with a petticoat. It doesn’t show off very well in photos on its own.

[flamingsword]

Also, I’m planning to box these up and ship them with the recipient paying the shipping charges, so it doesn’t really matter if people are local. I can DM you the pictures, if you want? I’m not sure how much shipping would be to Canada, though. I’d also have to have a bunch of your info to get them through customs, too. As I recall, the triplicate form for that is quite extensive. 🤔