Snowflake Challenge #5: Scavenger Hunt

[randomling]

Snowflake Challenge #5

Search in your current space, whether brick-and-mortar or digital. Post a picture (a link to a picture will be fine!) or description of something that is or represents: 1. Something your favorite character would like 2. Something that makes you laugh 3. A fandom place you would like to visit 4. A fandom creator (pro or not) you'd like to meet 5. Something you find comforting 6. Something from a favorite TV series or movie from your childhood 7. A piece of clothing you love 8. A book or song with a color in the title 9. Something only someone in your fandom would understand

Hmmm. Okay. This is faintly tricky. I don't have a lot of energy for scavenger hunt. This will probably be a lot of links to things.

1 Something your favorite character would like

A YouTube video for this one! My favourite character, in this context, is one of my OCs. His name is Nat Haining. I'm still trying to find a stable canon for him, but at his core, he's an overworked and traumatised Protector of the People who desperately needs a holiday. The below is one of his favourite songs.

Trash, by Suede

2 Something that makes you laugh

YouTube vid the second! There is a specific bit of this trailer for the upcoming FFXIV exapansion that made me laugh my head off the first time I saw it, and it's delightful.

Dawntrail Trailer

3 A fandom place you would like to visit

Gotta be the TARDIS. Go anywhere, or just chill in one of its infinite rooms? Yeah, that sounds pretty cool.

(I do have TARDIS salt and pepper shakers somewhere.)

4 A fandom creator (pro or not) you'd like to meet

It would be cool to meet Martha Wells. Murderbot is very high quality.

5 Something you find comforting

The new Doctor Who specials are currently on repeat whenever I feel a bit sad/stressed/under the weather. I am so happy RTD is back! So, that.

6 Something from a favorite TV series or movie from your childhood

More YouTube for this one! This time it's one of my favourite clips from Doctor Who: "pull the trigger, end a life" from the Happiness Patrol.

7 A piece of clothing you love

My Sanctuary Moon T-shirt! It's (obviously) a fan-designed logo that I got on Redbubble but it's wonderful and I am happy every time I wear it.

8 A book or song with a color in the title

Well, obviously it's gotta be All Systems Red by Martha Wells, the first Murderbot novella. I only have it as an ebook but I do love it so.

9 Something only someone in your fandom would understand

My favourite AO3 tag: no beta we die like y'shtola doesn't.

ETAL Sorry about the numbering, now fixed

Comments

[althea_valara]

Am curious what part of the Dawntrail trailer gave you the giggles? It IS a delightful trailer, and I rewatch it frequently.

I would also like to visit the TARDIS! I haven't really watched Doctor Who since Matt Smith left. I did watch a bit of Peter C's time as the Doctor but it failed to really capture me, and I haven't seen any since mid his first season. I'd like to go back to watching it... somehow... (I don't watch TV usually so I'm unsure if we can get it on cable) but I'm not sure if I should borrow the series I missed from the library and catch up, or just jump right back in. Any thoughts on that?

LOLing forever at that AO3 tag!

[randomling]

The bit where Thancred gets the map knocked out of his hand by the adorable big-eyed rat thing. I was CACKLING.

Doctor Who is absolutely designed so you can jump in anytime you wish and understand what's going on - it's a kids' show after all! There are some ongoing plotlines from the last series that are getting referenced in the new specials, but the writers are clearly planning to Do Stuff With It Later, and the episodes don't spend a lot of time lingering on cryptic/unexplained stuff, or expect you to know past plots to follow the new story. I think the new specials are on Disney+ in the US? Not sure if they're also airing anywhere.

Isn't it the BEST AO3 tag?

(I watched the trailer again while composing this comment. I love Krile so much.)

[goddess47]

It would be fun to go into the Tardis! That would be an adventure all by itself!

And Murderbot for the win. I have a friend who actually met Martha Wells a few years ago and said she is lovely in person. So you have a great choice there.

A lovely list! Thanks for participating in Snowflake today!

[randomling]

Ah I would love to see some of the rooms in the Tardis. Such a majestic ship. I love when a spaceship is an actual character in the show! (See also: Moya, in Farscape.)

I too have heard Martha Wells is lovely! Maybe one day I'll get to meet her.

[scintilla10]

A Sanctuary Moon T-shirt! That sounds delightful, and very happy-making. :D

[luthien]

The TARDIS would be the ultimate fandom place to visit! (And yes, you're not the only one who is VERY glad to have RTD back. I have the occasional quibble with some aspects of his writing, but his ability to tell a coherent story is definitely not one of them.)