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Snowflake Challenge: day 5
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dancesontrains
Challenge #5
In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.
1) Comments on AO3! I also enjoy remixes and fanart based on stuff I've written - https://archiveofourown.org/users/dancesontrains/works (note tags and warnings, some are archive-locked due to content).
2) Or if you have moneys, Steam wishlist with video games here - https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561198204034817/ Mostly smaller ones.
3) This is more serious, but please don't buy Harry Potter branded anything. I don't personally care if you pirate the works or make fannish stuff, but JKR doesn't deserve another penny for her anti-trans activities. Save your money.
Also there are many trans people in the UK and elsewhere, please don't try to get some sort of verbal ~absolution for interacting with HP from any of us. It's annoying to say the least.
Lint rollers - White Collar + Psychic Wolves
Jan. 25th, 2026 09:49 pmpetraLint rollers (200 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: White Collar (TV 2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
Characters: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, Satchmo (White Collar)
Additional Tags: Double Drabble, Psychic Wolves
Summary:
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: White Collar (TV 2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
Characters: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, Satchmo (White Collar)
Additional Tags: Double Drabble, Psychic Wolves
Summary:
Peter and Satchmo make an arrest -- and a friend.
petraLetters from Luigi: Responses to Alleged Fan Mail (981 words) by Petra, Teland, the_Jack
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Political RPF - US 21st c.
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Luigi Mangione
Additional Tags: American Politics, Delay Deny Defend, Epistolary, fan mail, Humor, Political Prisoners, the lost art of the thank-you note, United States, Unrequited Crush
Summary:
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Political RPF - US 21st c.
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Luigi Mangione
Additional Tags: American Politics, Delay Deny Defend, Epistolary, fan mail, Humor, Political Prisoners, the lost art of the thank-you note, United States, Unrequited Crush
Summary:
Teland said, of a photograph of Luigi Mangione reacting to some evidence against him being thrown out:
"There's still a certain 'Je ne sais why a 67-year-old woman who calls herself PresidentMILF keeps trying to convince me to send nudes' about the eyes.
"'Please stop perceiving me kthxbye —LM'"
Nineteen more letters follow that Luigi might, semi-plausibly, have written back... to a wide variety of admirers.
US Politics: Reminder: Stand with Minnesota donation? Ask me to write for you!
Jan. 25th, 2026 01:43 pmpetraWe'd be protesting if it wasn't so goddamn cold and snowy. We'd be, quite probably, rioting, except goddamn it is miserable outside, and unlike the good people of Minneapolis, we are intimidated by Lots of Snow and Ice.
So instead we are sending funds to Minnesota because what the actual fuck.
If you are also sending funds to Stand With Minnesota, and we share a fandom or you like original poetry, I would be happy to write for you!
So instead we are sending funds to Minnesota because what the actual fuck.
If you are also sending funds to Stand With Minnesota, and we share a fandom or you like original poetry, I would be happy to write for you!
Lead Paint on Vintage Corelle Dishes - edited after posting
Jan. 23rd, 2026 04:58 pmpetraMSN report here, from last year. I just learned this today. If I can stop anyone else from being exposed, it's worth a reblog.
The dishes in question are basically ubiquitous in kitchens I have known and loved, so that's not great.
ETA:
Okay, now I'm just confused. The lead levels are both a) high and b) technically legal, and it may not be leaching in any case due to the processes used. I hate living in an era where I don't know which of the seven million articles titled essentially the same thing are bullshit, and which are trustworthy. I figured MSN might fact-check, but apparently Corelle has never issued a recall per se, just a "Okay, we guess you might as well buy new stuff, because it's true there's lead in the old stuff." This info from this article.
The dishes in question are basically ubiquitous in kitchens I have known and loved, so that's not great.
ETA:
Okay, now I'm just confused. The lead levels are both a) high and b) technically legal, and it may not be leaching in any case due to the processes used. I hate living in an era where I don't know which of the seven million articles titled essentially the same thing are bullshit, and which are trustworthy. I figured MSN might fact-check, but apparently Corelle has never issued a recall per se, just a "Okay, we guess you might as well buy new stuff, because it's true there's lead in the old stuff." This info from this article.
Fandom Snowflake, Challenge #8
Jan. 23rd, 2026 10:18 amthe_wanlornChallenge #8
Talk about your creative process.
I... actually do have a creative process? Weird. I've never really thought too hard about it, but here it is:
And then, of course, my actual writing process is um. Literally turn off thinking/editing brain, sit down for a writing session on my "work" laptop for an hour or so, pound out somewhere between 500 and 3,000 words, walk away for a while. Rinse, repeat. I am not very complicated.
Talk about your creative process.
I... actually do have a creative process? Weird. I've never really thought too hard about it, but here it is:
- Have an idea. Where do ideas come from? I do not know. The aether. Wherever. Mostly I think of a situation and go lmao it would be so funny if that happened. "Funny" stands in for many, many different emotions, though. Not necessarily funny things.
- Go for a long drive. No, longer than that. No, even longer. Minimum amount of drive time I need for an idea to percolate enough to write is around 2h. For a short idea/short portion of a longer idea. The longer the idea in general, the longer the drive needs to be. I just need something where I can turn off my brain, and just ruminate, yanno? Nothing else does that for me.
- (Optional) Talk out the idea with a friend. Sometimes if I can't go on a drive this works. Sometimes it doesn't. But this is sooooort of my version of creating an outline. Just a very wordy outline with input from another person. Otherwise, at this point in my life, I do no planning. Just vibes.
- Hope that the idea is sticky enough to still be around when I feel like writing again.
- Eventually my hobbyfocus (get it? get it??) circles back around to writing. So I sit down and write as fast as possible to get as much as possible out of my head before my focus shifts to, idk, knitting.
And then, of course, my actual writing process is um. Literally turn off thinking/editing brain, sit down for a writing session on my "work" laptop for an hour or so, pound out somewhere between 500 and 3,000 words, walk away for a while. Rinse, repeat. I am not very complicated.
Fandom Snowflake, Challenge #7
Jan. 22nd, 2026 11:18 amthe_wanlornChallenge #7
LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.
Thanks! I hate it!
Okay, if this were like five years ago I literally would not be able to do this. But you know what? I'm turning 40 this year and I am pretty fucking great. Other people might not see that, but who cares because I know it as a truth.
So. First thing: I am great at writing banter. I love that I am great at writing banter. Short, long, whatever. Look at this shit: [link to GYWO comment], [link to another GYWO comment] [realizing no one can see those links if they're not also doing GYWO]
( Okay fine, have two examples under here. )
Second thing I like about myself: I'm a fucking amazing knitter. You want it, I can knit it. Cables, lace, whatever.
( Have a selection of my projects over the years )
Third thing: my body is pretty great. It's doing it's best, and even though it's best is sometimes not great, I still love it. I'm reaching the point where I'm not healing from injuries as well, but that's okay too because again, it's doing its best. So, yeah. No pictures or anything for this one.
LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.
Thanks! I hate it!
Okay, if this were like five years ago I literally would not be able to do this. But you know what? I'm turning 40 this year and I am pretty fucking great. Other people might not see that, but who cares because I know it as a truth.
So. First thing: I am great at writing banter. I love that I am great at writing banter. Short, long, whatever. Look at this shit: [link to GYWO comment], [link to another GYWO comment] [realizing no one can see those links if they're not also doing GYWO]
( Okay fine, have two examples under here. )
Second thing I like about myself: I'm a fucking amazing knitter. You want it, I can knit it. Cables, lace, whatever.
( Have a selection of my projects over the years )
Third thing: my body is pretty great. It's doing it's best, and even though it's best is sometimes not great, I still love it. I'm reaching the point where I'm not healing from injuries as well, but that's okay too because again, it's doing its best. So, yeah. No pictures or anything for this one.
Fandom Snowflake, Challenge #6
Jan. 20th, 2026 02:30 pmthe_wanlornChallenge #6
Top 10 Challenge.
I can't even think of ten things that I eat regularly??? Never even mind fandom things??? Shit.
Top 10 Reasons to Watch Debris (and Write Me Fic)
- I love it, which, really, should be all you need to know because my taste is impeccable.
- It's bad scifi, but in the fun kind of way.
- There is so much chemistry between Bryan and Finola.
- There are so many secrets.
- Nothing is explained. Like ever. It is ripe for fic explaining things.
- The episodes are so totally out of order. I refuse to believe anything else. You, too, can join me in this conspiracy theory and try to sort out a reasonable order.
- I can watch it while I'm high. Most TV shows and movies and youtube and everything, when I'm high, I get intensely aware that everyone is acting. Like it ruins my suspension of disbelief so bad. There are two (2) shows I can rewatch when I'm high without my suspension of disbelief being ruined, and one of them is Debris.
- The ending is so open. So so so open. It is primed for another season or like. So much fic speculating where they were going.
- Multiverse shenanigans. Just, I can not describe them without major spoilers, but you will know it when you see it and you, too, will be like muchsthescream.jpg.
- The story of the penguin and the soldier. It will make you insane. You will listen to it and it will forever change your brain pathways. It will live rent-free in your head for all time.
Okay uh that was easier than I thought.
Aubrey-Maturin and The Dark is Rising donation thank-yous; Another soulmate drabble
Jan. 19th, 2026 01:24 pmpetraThe great imponderable of toasted cheese (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Aubrey & Stephen Maturin
Characters: Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin
Additional Tags: Drabble, Natural Philosophy, Baffle them with bullshit
Summary:
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A cuppa (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jane Drew & The Lady (Dark is Rising)
Characters: Jane Drew (Dark is Rising), The Lady (Dark Is Rising)
Additional Tags: Drabble, Hope
Summary:
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How to apply torture (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Leia Organa & Darth Vader
Characters: Leia Organa, Darth Vader
Additional Tags: Drabble, Alternate Universe - Soulmates
Series: Part 3 of The Shoop Shoop Soulmate Song
Summary:
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Aubrey & Stephen Maturin
Characters: Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin
Additional Tags: Drabble, Natural Philosophy, Baffle them with bullshit
Summary:
Jack engages in natural philosophy.
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A cuppa (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jane Drew & The Lady (Dark is Rising)
Characters: Jane Drew (Dark is Rising), The Lady (Dark Is Rising)
Additional Tags: Drabble, Hope
Summary:
Jane has tea, not quite alone.
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How to apply torture (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Leia Organa & Darth Vader
Characters: Leia Organa, Darth Vader
Additional Tags: Drabble, Alternate Universe - Soulmates
Series: Part 3 of The Shoop Shoop Soulmate Song
Summary:
Common wisdom says everyone has one soulmate, but common wisdom has forgotten the Force.
Fandom Snowflake, Challenge #5
Jan. 19th, 2026 10:43 amthe_wanlornChallenge #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.
Oh boy oh boy, a wishlist! I am so good at those! My brain does not immediately go blank when asked to compose one!
Okay, a selfish thing I want: art for each chapter of my & my friend's Lucifer hitman!au. I'm slowly working on commissioning it, and I've got I think three? Four? Chapters done. But slowly is the key word here and man is it expensive to commission art and like. Actually pay the artist fairly!
A less selfish wish: More! Debris! Fic! Give me more Debris fic! Long fic! Plotty fic! I am d e s p e r a t e for more Debris fic, especially fic that continues the story. Give me all the post-canon fic in the world. I just. I loved that show so much. The story of the penguin and the soldier makes me insane. I forget about the back half of the season all the time because that two-parter felt like a finale. I am convinced the episodes are out of order and if I just watch it enough times I can put them in an order that makes the developing relationship between Bryan and Finola make sense. I start rewatching every time I get high because that is all my high brain thinks about. It aired in March 2021 and I am still obsessed, almost five years later. Please god someone write me fic.
A third thing. Hmmm. I would like fandom to go back to feeling more interactive. It feels like before AO3 kudos became a thing, and we didn't have hit counters, that more people commented on fic even if they were just tiny short comments. It feels like people replied to day-in-the-life posts/tweets/whatever more. It feels like there were more conversations and less shouting into the void, regardless of whether it was you as the OP or you replying to someone else.
And I'm using "feels" deliberately here because it probably isn't true!! It probably isn't true. Fandom is bigger than ever, so it really can't be true, I don't think. But it sure does feel true! And, in the end, that is what is important to me. Feelings may not be facts but I think in lowstakes situations like this it's okay if they are.
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.
Oh boy oh boy, a wishlist! I am so good at those! My brain does not immediately go blank when asked to compose one!
Okay, a selfish thing I want: art for each chapter of my & my friend's Lucifer hitman!au. I'm slowly working on commissioning it, and I've got I think three? Four? Chapters done. But slowly is the key word here and man is it expensive to commission art and like. Actually pay the artist fairly!
A less selfish wish: More! Debris! Fic! Give me more Debris fic! Long fic! Plotty fic! I am d e s p e r a t e for more Debris fic, especially fic that continues the story. Give me all the post-canon fic in the world. I just. I loved that show so much. The story of the penguin and the soldier makes me insane. I forget about the back half of the season all the time because that two-parter felt like a finale. I am convinced the episodes are out of order and if I just watch it enough times I can put them in an order that makes the developing relationship between Bryan and Finola make sense. I start rewatching every time I get high because that is all my high brain thinks about. It aired in March 2021 and I am still obsessed, almost five years later. Please god someone write me fic.
A third thing. Hmmm. I would like fandom to go back to feeling more interactive. It feels like before AO3 kudos became a thing, and we didn't have hit counters, that more people commented on fic even if they were just tiny short comments. It feels like people replied to day-in-the-life posts/tweets/whatever more. It feels like there were more conversations and less shouting into the void, regardless of whether it was you as the OP or you replying to someone else.
And I'm using "feels" deliberately here because it probably isn't true!! It probably isn't true. Fandom is bigger than ever, so it really can't be true, I don't think. But it sure does feel true! And, in the end, that is what is important to me. Feelings may not be facts but I think in lowstakes situations like this it's okay if they are.
That's where it is - Star Wars story, soulmate AU continued
Jan. 19th, 2026 12:20 ampetraThat's where it is (600 words) by Petra
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padmé Amidala
Additional Tags: Drabble and a Half, Drabble Sequence, Alternate Universe - Soulmates
Series: Part 2 of The Shoop Shoop Soulmate Song
Summary:
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People read and reviewed, so I wrote more.
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padmé Amidala
Additional Tags: Drabble and a Half, Drabble Sequence, Alternate Universe - Soulmates
Series: Part 2 of The Shoop Shoop Soulmate Song
Summary:
A variety of ways in which Anakin meets his soulmate.
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People read and reviewed, so I wrote more.