Snowflake Challenge #1

[lunesque]

Where should I start? Last year, I had every intention of maintaining my dreamwidth and connecting with everyone I follow, and then I promptly fell off the face of the planet. Then I realized it was Snowflake Challenge Time, and I realized this was the perfect time to jump back into it.

So! The challenge for Day 1 is this: In your own space, introduce yourself! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Hi! I'm Rachel, and I'm known as lunesque or moriavis. I've been in fandom since 2001 as a creator, and even earlier as a consumer. I'm currently active in The Flash fandom (I'm still deep in coldflash, three years later.) I'm dipping my toe into Netflix's She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and freaking love Catra. I have a sticky fic index post that is several months out of date. /o\

In my personal life, I am a white, cis-gender ace lesbian woman. I've been diagnosed with anxiety and depression (as so many people have) and while I'm functional and medicated, my depression mostly causes intense periods of time fog. Time is fake! What do you mean it's been eight months since I last posted??

I live in Arkansas, and am lucky enough to have the best RL friends in saekhwa, scheherezhad, and dungeonmarm. I have two cats: a gray tabby named Alex, and a Siamese named Jill. I have a functional apartment and a mostly functional roommate in dungeonmarm. ;)

I love supernatural horror films, Broadway musicals, and Dungeons & Dragons.

I can't really think of anything else to add, but I'm always available for questions if you want to know something more about me.

It's nice to meet everyone, new and old! ♥

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Jul 1 What was the first concert you went to?
2 Have you ever gotten into a physical fight with someone?
3 What small courtesy did someone pay you today?
4 What’s your favorite musical?
5 How do you respond in a crisis?
6 Have you ever pretended to speak a foreign language you don't actually know?
7 Which art movement best describes you today (e.g. surrealism, dada, impressionism, etc.)?
8 How much do you “bring work home”? Do you work at home after work hours, or do you leave it at the office?
9 Is there anything you fear that most people don’t seem to be afraid of?
10 Would you rather be the funniest person in the room or the smartest?
11 What would be included in your ideal breakfast?
12 How do you decide about meals in your family? Who does the shopping?
13 What’s the notification tone on your phone for calls? Texts?
14 Would you rather know how you’re going to die or when you’re going to die?
15 How many cups of water have you drunk today?
16 When you were graduating from school, what did you think your life would look like at your age now? Does it match?
17 Do you prefer pie or cake?
18 When you eat out alone, where do you like to go?
19 Are you more of a “work hard” or “play hard” kind of person?
20 Do you think morality and ethics are absolute or situational?
21 Would you rather relax in a hot tub or a sauna?
22 Do you have a living will or other documentation of an end-of-life care plan?
23 When was the last time you went dancing?
24 Have you ever re-gifted a gift that was given to you?
25 What’s one thing you’ve been procrastinating on that you could take care of today?
26 Would you rather live in a house or an apartment?
27 Do you have a favorite mixed drink or cocktail?
28 What is your favorite word right this minute?
29 What clubs, groups, or teams were you in while in high school/upper grades?
30 What’s a good museum nearest to where you live?
31 If you had to choose one or the other, would you rather live where it’s hot all the time or cold all the time?

Aug 1 Do you have a favorite book series?
2 Was there a toy you really wanted as a child, but never got?
3 What hobby or activity would you do more if the internet and TV went down for a month?
4 Are you a Baby Boomer, Generation Jones, Gen X, Millennial, or younger? What’s a generalization people make about your generation cohort that’s all wrong?
5 Would you rather be the main character in a fantasy story, a sci-fi story, or a horror story?
6 Did you choose your current profession/job or somehow just end up in it?
7 Whether you grew up any sort of religious or not, do you, now on an adult level, still share the same faith or lack of one/attend the same church or denomination/practice the same spiritual system that you had growing up?
8 If money, time, and energy were no object, what university degree would you go back and get, just for fun?
9 What’s unique about you, that’s different from everyone else you know?
10 Would you rather get away with any lie you told or always know when someone else is lying?
11 Everyone always thinks they’d be royalty or a knight if they were born in Medieval times, but let’s be honest, you probably wouldn’t be. So, what kind of person do you think you’d be if you were born in medieval times?
12 If you could implant one false memory in the minds of everyone in your country, what would that memory be?
13 If you could bring back any canceled TV series, which TV show would you choose to bring back?
14 Are you usually early, late, or on time? Why?
15 If you were to open up any sort of shop or store, what type of shop would you open?
16 Have you ever gone to work in a mind-altered state from drugs or alcohol?
17 How well do you get along with your siblings?
18 What’s your zodiac sign? Do you think it fits you?
19 What was the first musical record/tape/CD you ever bought with your own money?
20 How well do you take criticism?
21 What lifts your spirits when you’re feeling down?
22 Do you think everything happens for a reason?
23 Would you rather be a famous actor or a famous director?
24 If you won a huge lottery, with more money than you could use, what charitable organization or civic donation would you fund?
25 What three fictional characters (from film, TV, or books) do you most strongly identify with?
26 What did you enjoy doing most today?
27 If you knew 100% that you wouldn't get caught, would you do anything illegal, immoral, or maybe just embarrassing? Tell us about it.
28 Do you write in cursive?
29 If you could witness any event of the past, present, or future, what would it be?
30 Do you have a favorite painting? (Post a picture?)
31 Do you swear a lot?

Sep 1 What Hogwarts house would you be sorted into?
2 What is the first historical event you clearly remember?
3 What part of elementary/primary school would you like to incorporate into your adult life?
4 If you could eliminate one thing that you did every day, what would it be?
5 Your rescue team in the coming zombie apocalypse is the cast of the last tv show you watched. How screwed are you?
6 What is something you do to indulge yourself?
7 Have you ever called in sick to work when you weren't actually ill but didn't want to give the real reason?
8 Have you ever talked to yourself out loud in public?
9 Are you a worrier? What’s something you’re worried about right now. Can you do something constructive about the situation?
10 Would you sign up to be a colonist on another planet if it meant you would never be able to return to earth?
11 Do you like having your picture taken? Why or why not?
12 Do you experiment with your hairstyle often, or do you have a classic style you stick with?
13 What’s your favorite childhood story or fairy tale?
14 What are your Top Ten favorite books?
15 Do you plan, or are you flying by the seat of your pants?
16 How did you make a difference for someone else today?
17 If you were given $1M, with the stipulation that you must spend it on yourself within one year, how would you spend it?
18 What do you daydream about?
19 What was the first song you ever memorized?
20 What’s your favorite kind of bread?
21 What’s a big pet peeve you have?
22 Do you have an inanimate object that you have given a name?
23 What’s your favorite Elton John song, and why?
24 If you could choose any animal as a pet (all problems aside), which one would you have and why?
25 What’s something “everyone” knows how to do that you’ve never actually done?
26 What’s one small thing you’ve accomplished today that wasn’t even on your to-do list?
27 If you could eliminate one thing from your daily schedule, what would it be?
28 Is there a book or TV series that you enjoy, but acknowledge that it's not actually very good? What makes you love it enough to keep reading/watching?
29 If you were your own best friend, what piece of unsolicited advice would you give yourself?
30 What television sitcom is your real life most like?

Oct 1 What was the #1 song the year you graduated from high school? Did you like the song? Do you still like it?
2 What do you like most about fall?
3 What do you think people’s first impression of you is when they meet you?
4 What’s something a lot of people seem to fear that doesn’t frighten you?
5 What are you a geek about?
6 What was your favorite thing to make-believe when you were a child?
7 Have you ever survived a natural disaster?
8 What’s the most unusual or random item in your purse, bag, or wallet?
9 Are you musically inclined? Do you sing or play an instrument?
10 Have you ever called someone the wrong name during sex or been called the wrong name by your partner?
11 What’s a form of entertainment that everyone seems to enjoy, but that you do not?
12 What three things are you most thankful for?
13 What is something you've never done but would like to try to do? Why don't you?
14 What is something you've tried but would never do again?
15 If, without being detected, you could spy electronically for the next month and watch anyone, anywhere, anytime like a fly on a wall, would you? If so, who would you watch and how closely? If not, why not?
16 If it were the only way you could remain with the love of your life, would you be willing for both of you to wake up tomorrow as native speakers of an unfamiliar language, knowing that within a week, you'd permanently forget the language(s) you now speak and largely be cut off from your friends and culture? If so, what new language would you want to speak and why?
17 If a movie were being made of your life, which actor would play the starring role?
18 Write the words that you need to hear today.
19 If you had to be obsessed with money, sex, sports, religion or food, which one would you choose?
20 What do you love most about yourself?
21 Ignoring all financial considerations, would you rather spend the next 5 years confined to an urban mecca (e.g. New York City, London, etc) or a beautiful, isolated coastal town somewhere?
22 How would you react if you learned that a sad and beautiful poem that touched you deeply had been written by a computer?
23 What is a character trait you despise in others, but you know you also have that same trait?
24 What is the most serious law you've broken doing something you thought was morally right, wouldn't hurt anyone, or was no one's business but yours? How bad would the punishment have been if you'd been caught and given the maximum sentence?
25 If you were on a jury, would you be willing to convict a person for something you didn't think should be considered a crime?
26 If your heart were damaged beyond repair, but you could regain your health for a few more years by getting a heart transplant from a genetically engineered pig, would you?
27 What is your favorite question to ask people?
28 What stage play is your favorite?
29 For $100,000 (or equivalent in your currency) would you put on 40 pounds/18 kg and keep it on for 3 years? How much money, if any, would induce you to put on 100 pounds/45 kg for at least a year?
30 If you were president/prime minister/supreme leader etc. of your country, what is the first thing you would do?
31 What’s the scariest movie you’ve ever seen?

Nov 1 Who is one of your “saints”—a person who was very influential in your faith, spirituality, or life philosophy?
2 Have you ever considered moving because of an election result?
3 Have you ever been disappointed by a screen adaptation of a favorite novel or story?
4 Have you ever seen a film that you thought was better than the book?
5 How do you keep up to date with the news?
6 If you could spend one year in perfect happiness but afterward remember nothing of the experience would you do so? Why? If not, why not?
7 Would you rather be a member of a world championship sports team or be the champion of an individual sport? Which sport would you choose?
8 Who are the three people you spend the most time with each week? How do these people affect you?
9 Would you accept $1,000,000 (or equivalent of your currency) to leave your country and never set foot in it again?
10 What was the last really bad movie you watched, and what was bad about it?
11 If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the body or the mind of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?
12 If you knew of a way to use your estate, following your death, to greatly benefit humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount to your family?
13 Do you prefer being around men or women? Do your closest friends tend to be men or women?
14 What’s something you’re really good at, but you don’t like to do?
15 If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do?
16 If you went to a dinner party and were offered a dish you had never tried, would you want to taste it even if it sounded strange and not very appealing?
17 What behavior in others do you have zero tolerance or patience for?
18 When did you last sing to yourself? to someone else?
19 If you could have free, unlimited service for five years from an extremely good cook, chauffeur, housekeeper, masseuse, or personal trainer, which would you choose?
20 Does the fact that you have never done something before increase or decrease its appeal to you?
21 Would it disturb you much if, upon your death, your body were simply thrown into the woods and left to rot? Why?
22 If you were to become famous, what would you be famous for?
23 Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say?
24 Do you establish routines in your life? For example, do you usually sleep in the same place in your bed? eat meals at the same time? regularly return to the same vacation spot?
25 Can you be counted on to do what you say you'll do?
26 Do you think there are benefits to feeling grateful?
27 In conversations, do you tend to listen or talk more?
28 Sum up your personality by choosing three fictional characters that you might combine to make YOU.
29 What’s your favorite color in the Crayola 64-crayon box? If you are super-fancy and sophisticated and use the 150-crayon size box, that’s fine, too. Ya diva.
30 What’s your favorite tree?

Dec 1 How do you feel about snow?
2 If you were a toy, what would you be?
3 What’s your current weather situation, and how is it affecting your day?
4 What was the last live performance or concert you attended?
5 What is the most offensive thing a person could say to you?
6 Do you take compliments or praise well?
7 Who was your first teeny-bopper celebrity crush? Did you have posters on your wall? Did you ever see them in concert or meet them in person? (Pictures, please! Gotta have that pin-up poster on the wall.)
8 What is your morning routine like?
9 What is your evening routine like?
10 Of the four personality temperaments based on the ancient Greek humors—sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, and melancholic, which one best describes you?
11 If you could live in any TV show, which one would you choose?
12 What’s your favorite holiday cookie? (Post the recipe?)
13 What is something you’ve done that no one would expect of you?
14 If 2021 could see you moving to another city, where would you go?
15 What’s the best thing to do on a snowy day?
16 Are there any foods you are allergic to?
17 What was the biggest change in your life in 2020?
18 What is your favorite local restaurant where you live? What type of food, atmosphere, and prices does this place have?
19 Have you ever been told you look like someone famous?
20 What TV game show would you be really good at?
21 At the solstice, as the light begins to return, what would you like to see increase in your life over the next few months?
22 Are you a “peeker” about gifts, or do you prefer to be surprised?
23 Do you think you will be making any New Year’s resolutions in January?
24 Do you prefer to receive money/gift cards or an actual gift?
25 If you could receive a $1000 gift card from any store, which would you choose?
26 It’s Thank You Note Day/Boxing Day. Do you write hand-written thank-you notes or do you thank people for gifts in some other way?
27 No matter what holidays you do (or do not) celebrate, do you have a good recipe for leftovers? Post it!
28 Do you usually make a special effort to thank someone who does you a favor? How do you react when you aren't thanked for going out of your way for someone?
29 Would you rather your life have a rewind button or a pause button?
30 If you could change one bad habit you have, what would it be?
31 Do you prefer beginnings or endings?