Snowflake Challenge #2

Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

There's too many photos I wanted to share, so I made the quickest collages in the west using CollaGen, Background Tiles (first thing my browser gave me when I typed in "tile background"), and a dream.

Content warning for animal/pet death

This is my dog, Dogie. Pronounced DOUGH-gee. My family could never agree on how to spell his name, and no conceivable spelling is perfect in my opinion, but I settled on Dogie.

Dougie is a dance move. Stop spelling his name as Dougie. He is not Dug-ee. @/my sister



No clue what breed he is. Someone came to our door asking if we wanted a dog, and we did want a dog, so we gave the guy (he looked ~17) money and he gave us a dog and we never met again.

Had Dogie for almost 9 years, the longest I've ever had a pet, before he died 2.5 years ago in circumstances I still haven't explained online yet. (That's for another post.) He lowkey had no redeeming qualities besides "would sit in your lap as soon as it forms" and "didn't attack toddlers on sight," but I wuv him anyways! And he's still my dog. When I'm asked if I have pets I include him. Yes, I have a dog 🙄 Yes, he is bones 🙄 God forbid a dog be dead!! Actual menace; pour one out for him tonight.

Kimmy, short for Chimera, was never actually "my" pet. She was my roommate's pet, and she let me watch her when she didn't feel like it -- which was basically all the time. Functionally my pet. Kimmy's not even her "real" name, I think my roommate called her Leo, but I didn't really care 😭

She was so cute!! I took no less than 20 pictures of her a day, I'm sure. She loved to sleep on/near me and knead my tummy, which was awesome, but she also loved to jump on my desk and knock the fandom keychains off my corkboard, which wasn't so awesome. But it's okay, she's cute so we forgive her even if she never asked for forgiveness and definitely feels no remorse.

Long story short, my roommate dumped my clean laundry on the porch and I left that apartment, so no more Kimmy. I hope she kept her, but I have little faith in that woman. So Kimmy kind of isn't currently my pet and shouldn't be included in this post. But I like her. More people should know about her. Look at her.

As for an actual living creature that lives with me as we speak--


This is Luna (despite clearly looking more like a Sol). This is who kept my mom company before I moved in with her. She's a funny-looking Cocker Spaniel, but the sweetest thing around. I've been feeling like a liar for never writing about walking her, like "how will future beings know about the daily life of some random person they found on a hard drive somewhere if I don't include the dog-walking??" so here's me finally saying this -- I walk her every afternoon/evening, unless it's below freezing or I'm sick.

She's not allowed in the bedrooms, so right now as I type this she's laying at the entrance to my room staring at me. Do you think she knows I'm talking about her?

Decemberererererer

Typing this while wearing one of those coats that make me look like the Michelin Man. I'm gonna make a different post for all of 2025 and my plans for 2026. As you can see, I'm running out of entry title ideas.

What I Did

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What I'm Doing

• The Snowflake Challenge :P


• Nailing A1 Spanish and N5 (pretty much the same as A1) Japanese. Just making sure I have everything down, you know? For the record, going by the practice exams on the JLPT site, I could pass the N3 one with ease and the N2 one with a struggle. (In non-JLPT terms, I'm approaching C1 steadily. In non-overly-concerned-with-language-rubrics terms, I'm approaching an advanced level of Japanese.) My Spanish, however, is stuck in B2/"usually knows what someone is talking about, at least"-level right now.


• I'm probably going to spend all month trying to finish Kamisama Kiss. God I wish I read Japanese as fast as I read English.


• I'm playing Sakura Taisen, which I am really enjoying so far.


• Last month I listened to songs popular in Japan, China, and Mexico. So, I know what people there generally like. This month is dedicated to listening to Japanese, Chinese (any kind), and Spanish music specifically from genres I know I like. If you have Chinese music reccs please let me know -- I'm looking for songs, albums, or an artist who isn't always making slow acoustic songs. China (and other places in the Sinosphere; I can't hear the language differences) has so much slow acoustic music. An artist will look so edgy but the song will still be slow acoustic music. Somebody please save me. (For your reference.)

What I Will Do

• The movies for this month are: Swing Girls, Soy Cuba, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. I'm going to watch Swing Girls right after I post this entry, actually.


• I need to continue my fan translation, but the storage in my laptop is so low that Photoshop has been rendered nonfunctional. So. Uh. I'll at least try to translate more chapters even if I can't edit them onto the pages this month...


• Not giving details, but if I don't drop a game this month or the next please PLEASE jump me.


• I'm supposed to start dancing and voice training this month, so we'll see how that goes.


• If I beat Sakura Taisen this month, next in line is Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate, and then Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. Usually I play one PC game and one handheld game at the same time, but right now my before-sleep activity is reading Kamisama Kiss, so no bedtime handheld gaming for me. (<- person who brings laptop to bed to play more Sakura Taisen)