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⌈ Secret Post #6933 ⌋
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Snowflake Challenge 2026!!!

Yuletide recs (part 2)
Possibly in Michigan
The Secret History
The Raven Tower
Impromptu/19th Century RPF
The Dispossessed
The Long Walk -Stephen King
Waking the Moon
Rope
Having To Do Anything At Gunpoint Is Stressful.
As with 2024, I'm going to take a quick look at the preexisting favourites who've particularly occupied my mind this year, and then I'm going to comb through my 'first impressions' tag and give my favourite character from each canon I first posted about in 2025. (If no favourite character comes to mind, I'll skip the canon.) I might also cover a couple of canons I've tried out this year but haven't yet posted about.
( My favourite characters of 2025. )
Dexter is a surprising omission here! I watched a lot of that show earlier in the year, but I just don't have an answer to the 'who's your favourite character?' question. I like Deb, but not passionately enough to say with confidence that she's my favourite; I find Dexter interesting, but I can't say for certain whether I like him. I tend to be a very character-focused fan, so it's always a little surprising to me when I get into something without latching strongly on to any of the characters.
8 recs in 7 fandoms
Puck of Pook's Hill/Callendar Series
Sussex Set
Swallows and Amazons (two stories)
Cadfael Chronicles
Chalet School
The Secret Garden
and Dragonriders of Pern
There may yet be more to come....
Snowflake Challenge

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The Fantastic Journey: Moving On [Challenge 482: On The Road Again]
Title: Moving On
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:
Characters: Jonathan, Varian, Travellers.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 482: On The Road Again.
Setting: Turnabout.
Summary: Leaving Coriel behind, Varian is deep in his own thoughts.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.
Moving On
Nvidia sold me a bomb so I threw a voodoo doll of a chinese middle-aged CEO into the fireplace
Hey there, it's been a while.
So... My graphics card kinda exploded and I had to buy new parts for my 'puter... and would you look at that! Christmas went by and new year rolling around! Crazy stuff indeed.
I've been living life I guess. I took time off to go sewing plushies again, then I went to this beautiful wedding and a kid seated in front of me was on his phone playing brainrot themed mobile games, I was kinda amazed too by the way he would hop from one game into another by watching an AD and immediately downloading the next game (he trully is the target audience). But yeah, wedding are kinda fire, except when the priest told the woman she must be submissive to her husbad which is laaame. I wish to get married to someone special too one day. Then there was the wedding party, I think I drank a bit too much (I kinda got pressured into it by my brother and my cousin's girlfriend), then I went to my hotel room and passed out for 5 hours, then I hitched a ride back home and didn't bother to go to the second day party.
I went two weeks with no computer so I had to rely on my other hobbies to pass the time. I do have a console with no games in it, so I bought 13 Sentinels (a game no one ever played) because I wanted to try it for a long time and holy fuck that is like a handcrafted masterpiece for my special interests. I get a time travel plot with alternate universes, giant robots, kaiju and it's published by atlus too so filled with lots of student drama. Yeah i played a bit, but I was more interested in reading and writing stuff. I think I rewatched a whole season of Naruto, then I reread the manga because honestly the pacing is a lot better. I also read some books that were collecting dust in my shelf, nothing crazy.
I was forced to leave my shell a bit so I went to the work get-together and it was fine, but I must confess I only went to meet my autistic co-worker, I'm pretty sure she's a lesbian too, I'll probably redact that part later but yeah she's fun to hang around and the only person in the place I work that I get along with. Then there I met a guy that works in another sector and he too played every smt-persona game so we chatted for a bit and he gave me recommendations on emulator (I'm on my emulator era). Then we played bingo and I won twice, so my luck was in check that day.
Christmas was fine, I couldn't wish a merry christmas to my online gaming friends but it was a bit unremarkable. I also went to a water park and it was fun, but the sun was so strong it fried my skin. I also saw my best friend when she came to town, she comes once a year and this time we only got to hang out once, but I'm always happy to see her. We watched the new avatar movie, I must say it's kinda mid, but it's a fun movie, very predictable plot too so meh.
I just got my computer back and I have a lot of catching up to do, I'm kinda tired today so I'll probably handle that some other time.
I wish to reminisce a bit about this year too, but probably will do that in another post.
For now I must say, I'm kinda more productive with my computer but it was a very chill two weeks that I had without it, I was planning on working on something so I think the universe forced me to change my pacing a little bit. Which is fine I guess, gotta live life too sometimes.
Streaming is kind of bad for fandom lifespans, maybe
Did you know there's currently no streaming service in the USA that offers Princess Tutu?
No streaming service in the USA offers Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), either.
Obviously, I know how to pirate. And I also own the old ADV dvd set for Tutu in particular. But I can't help but think how it's a lot easier for media to maintain steady cult followings if you can find it long after it's being sold... rentals and stores for VHS tapes and DVDs had an important niche in allowing box office bombs to become cult classics, in old shows being watched by new generations.
What do you do if something new is only on streaming, and then gets taken down? I know this happens. These shows and movies arent even given the chance to acquire reputations over time.
I've watched Wolfwalkers via... means. Good movie! Has very little chance of being the generation-defining hit with tweenage wolfaboos god clearly intended it to be, because it's exclusive to Apple TV on streaming, and the only physical edition is hundreds of dollars for a collector's blu-ray set.
Monday Word: Maquette
noun
a small model or study in three dimensions for either a sculptural or an architectural project.
examples
1. we make midnight a maquette of the year: "on new year's eve" by Evie Shockley
2. This hand-painted cold-cast porcelain maquette of Owlman is based on art from the highly anticipated Warner Home Video made-for-DVD animated original movie, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths! DC Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
origin
1900–05; < French < Italian macchietta, diminutive of macchia a sketch, complex of lines < Latin macula mesh, spot
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's maquette for the fountain he donated to Valenciennes
New Music Monday - 29 December 2025
Also - a reminder that our End of Year post is up!
Say My Name - UFO (ATTENT!ON)
Rolling Quartz - Masquerade
CNBLUE (pre-release)
New MVs are also added to an ongoing youtube playlist.
Last week's MVs: 22 December
Feel free to add new comments in the replies for songs/MVs we missed.
#176 - Verboten
Verboten
[fərˈbōtn, vəˈbəo͝ot(ə)n, feɐˈboːtn]
adjective
Forbidden, especially by an authority:
"There are indeed no words if the only appropriate ones are verboten."
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