Happy National Puzzle Day!

Happy National Puzzle Day!

For the day, I've been working on the hardest puzzle of my puzzling career, Murder on the Nile: a Mystery Jigsaw Puzzle from Bepuzzled Classics, story by Bruce Whitehill. The challenge was no guide or picture to tell me what it was supposed to look like. But I finished puzzle and I solved the mystery!



If you want to a synopsis, I used it as the basis of an ACD ficlet (even though the original mystery is a Hercule Poirot one. I also had Lestrade get some puzzle help from Mycroft's tentacles in a 500-word, explicit ficlet, Moonlight & Roses.

Courtesy of firecat, I can recommend Baron Logic's online logic puzzles. Enjoy the day and keep puzzling!

The Reigate Puzzle ( words) by okapi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Additional Tags: Jigsaw Puzzles, Alternate Universe - Vampire, Alternate Universe - Werewolf, Vampire Sherlock, Werewolf John Watson, Story: The Adventure of the Reigate Squire, Colonel Hayter is a Necromancer, Case Fic
Series: Part 4 of The Were & the Nightwalker
Summary:

Holmes gets a belated birthday gift from Colonel Hayter: a jigsaw puzzle.

For National Puzzle Day!

Based on Murder on the Nile: a Mystery Jigsaw Puzzle by Bepuzzled Classics

Snowflake 11 & 12: Fic & Meme

Snowflake Challenge #11

In your own space, create a fanwork. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I mentioned this in my puzzle post, but I did a puzzle fic of ACD Holmes and Watson doing Necromancer Colonel Hayter's belated birthday gift to Holmes.

( AO3 summary )

Snowflake Challenge #12

In your own space, resurrect an old meme. Have fun with it! Which is the goofiest meme you can think of? Put on your party hat and be silly!! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I did one of the quizzes suggested, The Shoe Personality Test. Note: you have to click on the sentence under each heading that suits you. The sentence turns bold when you select it.

Here are my results!

You are clogs.

You are a solid and down to earth person.
You seek – and almost always achieve – a really sound balance in your life.

You are stylish yet comfortable. Mellow but driven. Excited yet calm.
You are the perfect mesh of contradictions.

No matter what happens, you have the ability to stay well grounded in your life.
People know that they can truly depend on you.

You should live: In Europe

You should work: At a company dedicated to helping the world

Snowflake Challenge #13: Resources

In your own space, tell us about 3 fandom resources you use or enjoy. (One or two is fine, especially if you're in a smaller fandom!) Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I don't have a lot new to offer in terms of fandom, but I saw in the details of KJ Charles fic exchange resources for writing fanworks with BlPOC characters or characters outside your experience. You have to scroll down to the bottom of the page, but there are a lot of sites listed there and I thought it might be worth checking out, especially for me writing Joe from The Old Guard. Here it is.

In terms of cross stitch, I do use this page a lot in trying to figure out what colour of floss called for by a pattern is closest to the ones I have. It's a colour converter chart.

And one site that someone recommended earlier in the month was How to Create Custom Cross stitch Designs. And I think I would like to try it sometime this year (if I ever have a good idea for a cross stitch pattern). Fannish crosstitcher might like it.

( Past year's responses to resources: smut, Victorian Holmes, poetry. )

Art: Joseph Cornell

In reading Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Curry, I discovered Joseph Cornell, an artist who made shadowboxes out of found objects. I find his work interesting. It appeals to the miniaturist as well as the poet. Wikipedia includes this quote about him. And links to haptic poetry from his page, which I like.

Somewhere in the city of New York there are four or five still-unknown objects that belong together. Once together they'll make a work of art. That's Cornell's premise, his metaphysics, and his religion...

If I ever go back to museums, I shall seek him out.