Snowflake Challenge 2022 #4

Challenge #4

In your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, and/or that you'd like someone to create or do for you.

I always struggle with this one, so it's not exactly on-topic, but if friends come across online sites to purchase interesting art/collage journalling items like stickers, washi tape, ephemera, ink stamps, etc., feel free to pass that info along. Of course, if generous friends want pass along some of their own supplies they don't want, I will happily provide a US-based address. I like art, vintage, solids and simple patterns.

Music Monday: Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 2 No. 1 by Scriabin

In Year of Wonder Clemency Burton-Hill describes this piece as 'music that feels like a large glass of red wine.' I am not a wine drinker, but I did enjoy it! Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 2, No. 1 by Alexander Scriabin, played by Vladimir Horowitz.

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Snowflake Challenge 2022 #5

Challenge #5

In your own space, talk about an idea you wish you had the time / talent / energy to do.

I used answering this challenge to spur me to watch a film I've wanted to watch for a long time. I just watched it. "The Cell," is a 2000 psychological horror film with Jennifer Lopez, where she's a counselor who goes inside the mind of a comatose serial killer to find where he's trapped his last victim. I've wanted to watch it because for many years I've wanted to write a fic that (I thought) would have some similar elements. I liked "The Cell" and I was right about it being something of what I'd like to do (even though it was probably not the best idea to watch it late at night when I'm on my own with the boys in the middle of storm :) ).

Given an alternate universe of time, energy, and Mary Poppins to handle my kids, I would like to write a feature-length fic in a series I've already established in the BBC Sherlock fandom. It's a Sherlock/John genderswapped Sentinel 'verse fic where Sherlock is Sentinel and John is Guide. I've written fic where John goes inside Sherlock's Mind Palace (it's an actual palace) and Sherlock goes inside John's shellshocked psyche, too. The fic would be John having to solve seven mysteries while inside Sherlock's Mind Palace in order to save her (Sherlock), maybe from a coma or maybe to find an antidote to whatever has put Sherlock in a coma. There would be many parts. Surreal parts. Clever parts. Twists. Locked room mysteries. Poisoned chocolates. Dream sequences. Body horror. John passes from one level to the next. I don't know if I will ever write it, but I'm glad I took a tiny step and watched the film.

TBR

On tumblr, Sans Patronymic tagged me in a 'books I'm looking forward to reading,' so I thought I'd do a quick list of books I'm reading and books in my TBR pile.

Book I'm Reading

A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear. This is in preparation for petra challenge related to this 'verse of wolves bonded with humans. Humans and wolves fight trolls. And sometimes the wolves make their bonded humans Do It. :) Very much reads like fic. M/m.

How to Write a Mystery A handbook from Mystery Writers of America, edited by Lee Child. A anthology of short essays on many, many topics from genre to research to publishing to plot and setting.


TBR

two I own

Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant

Save the Cat: the Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder [I'm not planning a screenplay, but I've been wanting to read this for a while and my library doesn't have it.]

from the library

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? and Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie. I am reading all of Christie in published order and these are the next two.

Network Effect by Martha Wells. Book #5 of the Murderbot series. I am tired of waiting for the audiobook version to become available at my library.

The end of overeating: taking control of the insatiable American appetite by David A. Kessler. Because sometimes I think I am a pawn in a larger game at the supermarket. And I'm definitely losing!

Mark Rothko, from the inside out by Christopher Rothko. A biography of the artist by his son.

francis bacon in your blood, a memoir by Michael Peppiatt. Another artist biography. I discovered Francis Bacon from a painting in the film Inception.

Moonlight Rests Lightly on My Left Palm, poems and essays by Yu Xiauhua, a Chinese author with cerebral palsy. In translation.

Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton. The Belgica's journey into the dark Antarctic night. A doomed sea journey in 1897 to the South Pole.

Will I get through them all? I hope so!

Music Monday: Look Here by BTS [RM's rap]

The fun part about being what they call a 'legend ARMY' [meaning I arrived very late to BTS fandom, when they were already legends] is that you discover little gems from their past that are so fun.

Here is a flirty, fun piece of "Look Here," RM's rap. 50 seconds that are very addictive.

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