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Snowflake Challenge: A close up shot of an owl ornament hanging amidst pine boughs..

Continuing to push these out...

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!

For this challenge, I'm just going to rec the last thing I read that I thought was really neat. It's a blog post that was linked to on a Discord I'm in, which I thought was a fascinating read: Idle Words: Scott and Scurvy -- it's a very readable account of one part in the history of scientific understanding of scurvy. Namely, it talks about how various occurrences and advancements in science led to people having a worse theory of the causes of scurvy in the early 1900s than they did in the mid 1700s. This continued until vitamin C was finally isolated and its effects understood. I think it's a fascinating study of how scientific progress is not linear and how smart people reasoning with the best facts, tests, and technology of their time can still mistake the nature of things. Of course, our own scientific understandings are the same way, even as they're the best guess we can currently make.

Challenge #5: Wishlist - In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

While I generally am like *gestures at all my exchange sign-ups* for this prompt, let me try to focus on a particular theme, namely -- AUs! AUs are something I'm always hungry for and I think it's unlikely I'll sign up for an AU exchange in the near future (as the only one currently running has a work minimum that's probably just a bit too high for me -- I don't know, I might sign up for it in the future but it would be a pretty difficult commitment for me to make, the stars would have to align, etc.). Okay, so let me highlight three particular things on my AU wishlist:

1) AU prompts: I'm still very much taking prompts for my

au_challenge bingo card over here. I really enjoy the activity of thinking about AUs and how I would translate canons into certain settings/setups, and so appreciate people giving me random prompts and shaking some ideas loose that way.

2) My old AU exchange sign-up: Here's the one time I signed up for an AU exchange -- I would still love mini-presents for the requests here. A drabble, a doodle, an icon, or just some off-the-cuff thoughts you have about a neat AU, etc. The fandoms being requested are:

- A Song of Ice and Fire (Sandor Clegane/Sansa Stark)
- Bravely Default (Alternis Dim/Edea Lee)
- Final Fantasy VI (any or ensemble focus with some suggestions of characters to include)
- Pinocchio (1940) (Lampwick/Pinocchio or Blue Fairy/Jiminy Cricket)
- Soulcalibur (any or ensemble focus with some suggestions of characters to include)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Odo/Quark)

But let me also add:
- Trials of Mana (any or ensemble focus)

3) Recursive fanworks for some of my specific AU ideas: These are both mentioned in the above AU exchange sign-up, but I thought I would highlight them: I've drawn art for two specific AU ideas I have, and I'd love recursive fanworks for them -- your take on the same idea, a drabble illustrating how you think it would work, or just tossing around some ideas or asking me some follow-up questions.

- Bravely Default, superhero AU with a two-person love triangle between Ringabel, Edea, and Alternis.
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Quodo angel/demon AU.

Current Mood: rushed

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pinchhitbingo is a meta event where you fill bingo squares by claiming and filling pinch hits for other fan events

fandomocweekly is a weekly prompt community for original characters based off existing fandoms

badthingshappenbingo is a bingo challenge where the prompts are based on bad things of all varieties that could happen to your characters/ship

allbingo is running a Valentine's Day Bingo Fest for the month of February. There are pre made cards or you can create your own based off the existing prompts.

threeisnotacrowd, a multifandom exchange for relationships between three people, is open for sign-ups until February 7th, 11:59PM GMT-3. Nominations are also still open and will close an hour before sign-ups do.

fourormore, a community for ships with at least four people, is running a Four Or More 2026 Valentine's Special, where you have until February 14th to complete the 3x3 bingo card created for the event.

smallfandomfest is running another round of Pimp Your Small Fandom.

likealighthouse is running fall out boy femslash febrary ficathon, an event for leaving and filling fall out boy lyric prompts for all your favorite femslash ships.

elasticella is running femslash salad bar, where you select two or more prompt tables and one prompt from each table will make up your final prompts for a fill

snowflake_challenge has a friending meme!

Snowflake Challenge Friending Meme promotional banner featuring a cup of frothy coffee or hot chocolate on a plate with a piece of greenery and a cozy comforter with a sprig of baby’s breath. Text: Snowflake Challenge Friending Meme.

fancake's theme of the month is: inept in love. Click on the banner below to find out more.

Photograph of two kingfishers perched on a branch. One is surrounded by a cloud of pink love hearts and the other has a single question mark over its head. Text: Inept in Love, at Fancake.

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My bingo card from the

buddie-bingo-events

chacusha

Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

Challenge #6 - Top 10 Challenge

Initially, I didn't have any ideas for this one, but then I happened to be looking at my old Quodo posts and found this post that opens with, "If someone makes a list of the top 10 most unhinged Quodo moments (which they should)..." and I was like, "Oh, I'm someone. I could make this list." So I decided to use this idea for the top 10 challenge.

( Top 10 most unhinged Quodo moments )

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Get something nice for doing things for various flavors of good causes.

Listen, the world sucks right now. It sucks a lot! But there's also a lot of good and people doing good. If you are out there doing good, I would like to do something for you. It's apparently been like six years since I've managed to put one of these together but here we go:

If you have made a financial contribution to a good cause* between the beginning of 2026 and now, the moment you are reading this, or any point during 2026 thereafter**, I'd like to do something for you.

However, I am fully aware that not everyone can do financial contributions. So if you have volunteered, signed petitions, contacted your representatives***, protested, trained, networked, etc., I would also like to do something for you.

I might do something like this as well, though I'll probably only do it for original fic right now. I'm still trying to sort through fandom stuff. But it would be nice to give people things to give them a smile, and I already do this kind of thing on Bluesky most months, so why not here too?

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I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I got a couple of things published last year. I thought I'd link them here on the off chance you're curious.

Linger Just A Little - 100-Foot Crow
Thisis a drabble I wrote in October for the theme of haunt'. It felt really good to have this one be in the world because I had a bit of a hard go this last quarter of the year, and this was a little boost when I needed it.

This is also free to read.

Ripped At The Seams - meat4meat
This was a story I wrote in January and had initially gotten rejected, but when the anthology went better than expected, they reached out to me and bought the story. This is an angry little story about being forced to be in a body that shouldn't be lived in, and the things we do to fight against those who make us exist that way.

The overall theme of the anthology was body horror written by trans and disabled authors, so you can kinda get the idea of what you'll find here. You can't read this one for free, but the anthology is linked, and if you're really curious, I'll send you a file of just my story.

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So, one of the things I really, really like hearing about is how people keep track of things/how they organize themselves. (Hearing people talk about how they use spreadsheets gives me the good brain tingles. XD) The other day, I asked

jennet about the things she tracks in regards to her writing/reading, and then

wearing_tearing asked me about mine.

I was going to answer them in a comment, but I thought it might be fun to talk about the whole mess of it.

So, I'm going to start with reading because that's much shorter than writing.

This feels brief and yet somehow overly complicated.

Basically, I primarily read short stories. Like, to the point where I read a single digit amount of anything longer than 10k. Part of this is because it's the length I write in but part of it is that I just really enjoy reading shorter things. I also pivoted a lot when as my vision got worse and worse. Even when I started doing primarily audio reading, I read much more short fiction than long.

Anyway, so what I wind up doing with this is that I have a tab stack where I pull up things and store them. I do a new stack each month. Literally anything fictional I want to read goes in that stack. As I read them, I save them to a bookmarks folder that's labeled with the year and the month that's then filed under 'Monthly Read Archive'. I'll do the same thing with the stories I don't get to either and put them into 'Monthly Unread Archive'. I like having them saved so I can go back through the year and pick stuff out when nothing I have pulled up is grabbing my attention.

When it comes to stories I really enjoy and might want to read again, I have a file where I save the story title, author, where I read it, and a link to the story. I then also write a little off-the-cuff review for it and save all that. Not only do I do this for my own reference, but I use all this for when I'm writing the newsletter I mentioned a few posts back.

I want to find a way to do some better archiving for stories I maybe read and liked, but don't feel like I want to shout about. With the bookmarks folder, I save *everything* I want to read, but it'd be cool to have a way to glance through just the things I really liked, but maybe didn't love or have things to say about it.

My writing stuff is a little more involved.

God, this is so much longer.

Things to know:
- I (at this point) exclusively write original fiction. I cut my teeth in fanfic and love it, but I fell out of writing it years ago. (I do, however, have the 3SF pulled up, so who knows what might happen. >.>)
- I write short fiction for submission (most of the time).
- I use multiple spreadsheets but you could probably knock these down to a single one if you're building your own. I, however, am not that talented.
- You can also probably use spreadsheets for *everything* I track, but I don't quite get there.

So, okay, with all that in mind, here we go.

I'll start with the part that's not in a spreadsheet. What that winds up being is maintaining a list of submission calls that are coming up through the year. This is a living document so I'm updating it when I run into interesting things, and clearing out things if I miss the deadline, decide I'm not going to actually submit, or did manage to get a story in.

I have a section for each month of the year, as well as a section for things that are opening for multiple months. If a venue opens multiple times a year, each opening gets its own entry.

In every entry I include:
- Opening and closing dates.
- A link to the submission itself with a title that mentions the venue itself
- The general theme/vibe that they're looking for
- Wordcount.
- Sometimes I include payrate but I don't do this all the time because it's not always important to me.
If something has multiple categories, I'll make a new entry for each one. So, one for fiction, one for poetry for example.

If I have an idea for a story that might work, or one I want to try and get into shape, I note down that story in a bullet point. If there are multiple possibilities, I put them all down.

So, that's part of it.

Everything else lives in spreadsheets.

Speaking of, I have:
- The new draft wordcount spreadsheet is what it says on the tin.
- The edited draft wordcount spreadsheet is also what it says on the tin. I like having these two counts separate because they're different kinds of mindsets, and 100 fresh words is very different feeling than 100 edited words.
- My GYWO habit tracker.

- The story notes tracking sheet is it's own thing.
In this one I have a few sections. First is the date, then the designation/title, the word count (and I mark if I did edits or new words), my overall mood as I was writing/how I felt when I finished, the things that went well/easily for me, the things that I struggled more with, and finally just a section for random notes. I use these for whatever I feel like. Being excited, talking about what I'm going to do next with it, random commentary about my characters being ridiculous. Anything goes for the notes section.

Each month gets a new page in the overall spreadsheet until I get through the whole year, then I make a whole new one.

And finally, I just have the "Full Story Tracking" collection. One day I'll name this something better or...something. It's not a great label for it, but I know what's in it, so I guess that's what matters most.

This one has a few separate sheets inside it.
- The stories themselves.:
This one holds all the stories I've written. WIPs, finished, published, or still submitting. On this sheet I have sections for story title, wordcount, whether it's finished or not, how many times it's been rejected, where it's been accepted, how much I got paid for it, and some kind of link to it. In the section where I mark down the number of rejections, I make a comment and list out exactly where those have come from so I'm sure I don't resubmit, or if I do, it's been several years and I know the story is significantly different than the last time they saw it.

- Yearly Submissions.
Each year I make a new sheet for noting down the actual story submissions. Here, I write down the story being submitted, the venue it's at, the day it got submitted, the day I heard back, and whether it was accepted or rejected. Something I keep meaning to add into this section is if the story can be submitted to multiple places at once (some venues want to be the only place looking at the story), but I keep forgetting to do that.

- And this last sheet is just my yearly stats
Each year has a row to itself and the columns are year, total submissions made, new submission stories written, new poems written (this is more hoping for the future than anything), new for-fun stories written (I try and have a healthy mix of Serious Writing and silly things that might involve characters in my RP or something), the total number of rejections, the total number of acceptances, the total number of hold notices, and finally, the total number of personal rejections.

So yeah, that's all of it I think. Are there more elegant ways of tracking all this? Oh, I have zero doubt. One day I might even let myself take out the two wordcount spreadsheets and just use my GYWO one and mark in there whether the words are new words or edited ones. Yet, this is how I've managed to scrape things together. It works well enough for me, and I guess that's what matters, right?

chacusha

Okay, of the four things tied for first place in the WIP meme poll, I felt this one was probably the easiest to quickly finish up in January.

Warning: Spoilers for various things including Braid, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Final Fantasy X.

( Eternal recurrence stories )

In my classic

snowflake_challenge fashion, I will count this as fulfilling Challenge #9 - Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works, even though I don't know if this would actually count as a favorite trope of mine!

Snowflake Challenge: A flatlay of a snowflake shaped shortbread cake, a mug with coffee, and a string of holiday lights on top of a rustic napkin.

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februaryficletchallenge is a prompt challenge where two prompts will be posted every day in February and the goal is to write at least 200 words using one of them.

kinkuary is a daily prompt challenge in Feburary based off various kinks. The prompt list is here.

febuwhump is a whump themed daily prompt challenge taking place in February.

noromofest is a creative event taking place on February 8-14th to celebrate aromanticism.

feveruary is a month long prompt challenge that focuses on sickfic and comfort

thestoryinside, a community where you sign up and pick three books for an assigned partner off their TBR based on voted for themes and vice versa, is open for February sign-ups until January 31st.

halfamoon, a 14 day fest to celebrate women, is running again during the first two weeks of February. This year's prompt list is here.

lul_soulmatesex, a soulmate themed exchange, is open for sign-ups until February 1st, 11:59am CST.

caseficexchange, a fanwork exchange focusing on investigations, is open for sign-ups until February 1st, 11:59PM EST.

space_swap, an exchange for all fandoms related to space, is accepting nominations until February 3rd, 5PM CET.

fandomtrumpshate is open for creator sign-ups until February 8th.

dcfemslashevents is running dcu femslash february comment fest.

threesentenceficathon has opened its third post for prompting and fills. Post 1 and 2 are still open for fills. There is also a Friending Meme!

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Today has been A Lot.

I had to both panic navigate insurance because my eye doctor isn't covered by the one I have and I need to see him relatively soon, and my cousin came over with a major mental health crisis. We've had people in and out of the house all day, and I'm not mad that people are here (my cousin deserves to feel like he's supported by his family) but we live in a two bedroom and there are already four people, four cats, and two decent sized dogs here by default.

Tomorrow I see my friend for pastries and boba. She's taking the first steps toward moving out of the area, so I'm eager to have as much time with her as I can. I'm happy she's going to be closer to her family, but not having her around is going to be hard.

I thought I had a third thing to say, but my brain is kind of splat right now and I need to make myself do other useful things anyway.

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Feral Unhinged Writing Month

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Snowflake Challenge #4 & #5

current fandom events

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Snowflake Challenge #6: Top 10 most unhinged Quodo moments

Some writing links, both other people's things and my own

This got so much longer than I thought it would.

Eternal recurrence stories

current fandom events

On my way I found a stone...

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