#The Snowflake Challenge

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

while im still thibking about him this part of tge dlc is so cute its fucked up

[maluron]

Julian Bashir likes Women and Yet is Not Straight; a manifesto.

aka: queerphobes fuck off.

gasp oh no not me vagueblogging about someone who pissed me off like a tired old petty fangull

but @snowflake_challenge suggested we wrote a manifesto; In your own space, write a promo, manifesto or primer for a beloved character, relationship or fandom.

so.

In the aftermath of December 12th. Reveling in canon Garashir. Making a couple celebrating shitposts that gain traction. And I get one stupid comment

"i wish bashir still liked women [sadface emoji]" 1) wow rude—ever heard of the fandom rule «don’t harsh my squee»? make your own post if you want to complain don’t spam mine; 2) bitch he does what are you yapping about??

So yeah here’s my manifesto. Julian Bashir Does indeed like Women (among other) and Yet is Not Straight.

His hologram ending married to a man does not invalidate that the template was a huge bisexual xenophile slut (affectionate) who liked women and at least one man and possibly others and fondling their feet (entirely canon) and possibly getting his ass smacked (personal fanon) (note: having a kink has not influence whatsoever on sexual orientation but pointing this out is likely to piss off heterosexist bigots, so)

I posit that Bashir’s attraction to Jadzia while very real was stemming out of Doylist comp-het [insert siddig "spark" interview https://www.tumblr.com/beechicory/772072920481742848] and was also in the Watsonian way not very gender-traditional. She’s a beautiful statuesque young woman who exsudes Gender Energy, she’s got several lifetimes of experience as both men and women, she can bodily pick him up and toss him and that’s what attracts him: no despite, because. If they’d been to fuck she would peg him and smack his bottom. [insert "not straight" siddig interview https://www.tumblr.com/nimue44/773490608390176768]

[insert robinson "i want to fuck him" interview https://www.tumblr.com/pajamasecrets/718997301079719936] The actors themselves have said time and again that Garak and Bashir had so much more chemistry together than any other pairing involving either. I’m not going to epilogue on that: there must be already so many garashir manifestos out there. It’s fact.

I’m personnally not a fan of Bashir’s relationship with Leeta; I’ll file it under comp-het again but I admit his feelings were real and won’t invalidate them.

(I can’t argue about Ezri and how it’s unhealthy because at this point I only have second-hand knowledge.)

What I’m saying is

this twink Cannot Sit Straight and exsudes Disaster Bi vibes; also neurodivergent vibes and that’s canon too but subject of another manifesto. (I’m not saying that looking like a twink makes you gay—but acting a certain way gives you higher odds of being Not Straight)

Also Star Trek is in The Future where people should be so very chill about identity and orientation—fuck Berman forever (I still need a link to that «in the 90ties everyone had to be straight» post please, can someone point me to it?) and every character should be assumed bi until proven otherwise. And Bashir has proven to love at least several women and one man! (again I’m not saying either Everyone Is Bi, period; lots of characters can still be attracted to only one gender and/or sex but a lack of shown attraction to the other is not the same as proof of absence—unless they explicitely state one strong preference)

Now the LWD Bashir married to Garak is a hologram. They could have forfeit programming any attraction in it and made him aro-ace but they didn’t. It’s only logical to assume they made him as bi/pan as his template. The hologram marrying One (1) Cardassian man does not make Bashir Just Gay And Not Attracted To Any Woman. It makes him attracted to at least one man and Prophets know how many other people or any and every and no gender before and/or on the side.

Regarding how the LWD alternates make Garashir canon I’m choosing the "soulmates" for lack of a better word, interpretation—it’s not that they were fated to be together but that in the Prime universe they could have been, they would have been, they shoud have been but circumstances conspired against them, and in another universe given the chance they totally do. [insert perfect choice post here https://www.tumblr.com/believethestars/770420215813177344] [insert Mac interview https://www.tumblr.com/wanderingwriter87/771121857095172096]

And now if you’re really a homophobic shit or if you just happen to have a different ship ie Bashir joins the O’Brien Polycule while Garak marries Parmak or whatever yes there are alternate universe versions yes one is a hologram so maybe not a perfect copy so you can still interpret original Prime Bashir however you want and blame the hologram’s actions on a fancy grown-beyond-their-programming accident.

But bemoaning that Woke made your fav character Not Het is not a good look. Queerphobia is never a good look. Doing so in an untrue fashion looks stupid and this one was stupidly biphobic. You’re allowed to not like a canon development but think long and hard about why exactly you don’t like it before you come spouting bigoted shit especially on someone else’s post.

Ok that manifesto was mainly just an excuse to collect Doctor Twink pictures because I love him. And his stupid lizard husband (affectionate). https://www.tumblr.com/see: smileyobrien/769842115232563200 https://www.tumblr.com/dreamerdrop/773084827961491456 They’re in love and I love them, Your Honor. Thank you for your attention.

(and queerphobia on my posts will still get you blocked)

[tempural]

Changed fannish opinion. Mine? Appreciating the term "yaoi".

This 3am ramble will discuss "problematic" themes in art, sexism and racism/xenophobia. Crossposted from my mastodon/fediverse account.

I used to be one of those annoying "my glorious gay porn, their bad yaoi for GIRLS" people when I was an underage tf2channer. So I know exactly how those people think, and hope they grow out of it by the time they're 17.

It comes from:

Trying to impress your peers by rejecting nerdy weebery, like saying that western cartoons are better than anime (spoilers: its all cartoons).

Trying to present more masculine (regardless of transness or gender identity) by rejecting femininity as a safety mechanism. (We live in a Joker society)

Trying to make fun of other people's interests before they can make fun of your "cringe" interests. Spoilers, it's all gay cartoon porn and anyone who's not a internet addled nerd thinks its weird.

The funniest thing about the modern iteration of 'yaoi is bad gay porn', is that in Ye Olde Days, yaoi was the "bad gay porn" because it wasn't problematic enough to be cool! While now it's 'real m/m is good representation, yaoi is problematic"

The stereotype used to be that yaoi was too girly and full of flowery nonsense and melodramatic emotions and kissing. While the REAL GAY PORN FOR REAL GAY MEN full of snuff and age gap daddy kink and wolf rape. Gengoroh Tagame comics were popular "shock art" amongst the internet crowd back then ya see.

In [current year] it's more obviously xenophobic. Japanese terms like BL and yaoi are the "bad terms" used by "bad people". Meanwhile English language queer shows and books are localized as BL in Japan lololol.

It's never too late to embrace that everything and nothing is dank yaoi! I embrace the word "yaoi" now rather than any other label, because:

I like that it makes ignorant people mad.

It is nostalgic and reminds me of my youth reading final fantasy doujin scanlations.

I like the history of the term being applied to "comics with no point or plot" (from the perspective of professional editors) speaks to me. Lowbrow comics about dudes kissin'. I don't care if you can't find a deep message or world building. I have fun thinkin it up and making it.

I like this history of the term being used for "self-indulgent doujinshi" from the 70's-80's. Doesn't necessarily only apply to pornographic comics. And I like those decades in art 😼

I like to be oppositionally defiant and challenge people who have preconceived notions that all Asian artists draw in a certain art style, by using an Asian term. I know my art doesn't scream ORIENTAL to most people lmao, I got old teachers that told me that I should draw more "ethnically" to appeal to illustration/animation standards for non white artists. But the truth is I am very inspired by azn comics like Old Master Q and Dragon Ball and all those doujinshi I read as a kid, even if other people can't see it. #snowflakeChallenge2025

[aromanticasterisms]

aromanticism in the air this windblume i see

[chaosfairy18]

Soooo @clevereverest requested a little Race drawing and helped me pick out the colour palette for him! He's just enjoying a peaceful snow day and probably just looking at snowflakes or Spot

Hope you'll like it 🩵

[therentyoupay]

for the jelsa pet name prompt: darling

(i THINK its a bit of a toughie not sure though YOU GOT THIS!!!)

Chapter 6: darling

Elsa, Guardian-in-training, comes to the realization that names are important to the Guardians: the names of their previous selves in their former lives; the namesake titles of their storybook tales; and—especially—the names they give each other. She just can’t understand how Jack can come up with so many nicknames within a single Christmas season. — In which Jack Frost really really really wants his new co-worker to warm up to him, one (revelation) (Memory) (incident) nickname at a time. Prompt: Written entirely according to and for the petname-requests submitted to my tumblr askbox. See details inside for this utter chaos.

[sisterdivinium]

It had all been forbidden (it still was), meant to keep her on the right route — undistracted, unsullied, unspoiled. Such was the road to God.

Mother Superion had resented it many times without refusing it.

Yet now, in her little indiscretions, all was likewise new after being so long denied. Jillian’s every glance, every touch (however fleeting), every kiss, every common, banal thing gained in grace. It branded her, damned her.

And, somehow, much more than in her decades of abstinence, the novelty of Jillian Salvius seemed to elevate her closer and closer to God with every caress, mounting ecstasy.

[jaded-of-mara]

snowflake challenge #9: make something

i am very inexperienced with manips but i wanted to do something funnnn. i also made a 100px version bc the great thing about working in dw icon size is it doesnt matter if it looks like shit bc its very tiny

[kluvick]

Pixel Artvent 2024 Day 5 - Snowflake The more I look at a snowflake, the more it seems to me that it doesn't look like a snowflake :(

[iffeelscouldkill]

Yeah, that's the catch-22 of activity, right - needing the fandom presence in order to be active, but also needing to be active in order to have the fandom presence. People might want to give DW a try, but their community isn't there, so they aren't really incentivised to stick around. And so on...

I've never really used Twitter for fandom, so for me Mastodon is something separate, although the UI familiarity was definitely a bonus. Actually, I guess you could say that the UI was what got me using Mastodon more than Dreamwidth during the Tumblr purge, when both were experiencing a surge of activity; I tried both, but stuck around on one and not the other. I think they both serve a similar purpose of "here's a place where you can post publicly but also semi-privately (to friends/followers only) about anything, including but not limited to fandom". (That last part is true for me at least on a fannish Mastodon instance - I realise it can vary as to what instance you're on).

Sure, absolutely! Snowflake Challenge, my beloved - this is a low-key, welcoming, fandom-oriented challenge that takes place every January, with challenges/prompts posted on odd-numbered days. I came across it first in 2022, but only managed to do Day 1, so I didn't have a good sense of the challenge until I took part this year. It's a really nice antidote to the year-beginning/post-holiday blues, and again, it's very chill; you can complete the challenges at any time, can do any number that you please, and it doesn't have to be in order. I like how specific the activities are, since it means that there'll definitely be something that grabs my interest and lights my fire enough that I have to do it right now - and it's fun seeing what other people did for each day (people often post their challenge completions as comments on the challenge post, and it's encouraged to cheer each other on!)

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth is a bit more nebulous in that there's no set way to take part, though there are various suggestions! The idea is mainly to post content that's dedicated to DW in order to add to the activity there and not just cross-post from elsewhere. Many people aim to post daily on a theme; I found that a bit too energy-intensive, but I managed a couple of posts, and people will check the challenge tag to see what's being posted and leave comments on each other's posts.

I also just learned about the Sunshine Challenge, which is ongoing at the moment - it was created to be an offshoot of the Snowflake Challenge, but held during the summer. It has a similar format, with slightly fewer prompts, and they're a bit broader - I really like the idea of having a summer equivalent of the Snowflake Challenge, but I'm finding it difficult to think of what to post...

every time tumblr pulls some bullshit I get closer to trying to remember how my brain worked well enough to use lj so I can get back on dreamwidth in a more functional way

part of my issue is that the dw interface makes me feel more pressured to have Something To Say as opposed to the occasional shitposting I normally do

also I love the ability to curate my blog by sharing posts from others as I do here & afaik you can't really do the elsewhere

I'm open to suggestions for either how to rewire my brain to work on dw or what other place to go to get what I get from here

I want another place I can refer to like I refer to this blue faesite :/

[ybkitten]

I'm surprised she didn't bite you on her way into this tiny tank - isn't she a moray?

[tempural]

SCUMSUCK's wishlist.

first posted on fedi for the snowflake challenge #7, then edited to my site...

Non-tangible items:

I am a hungry hungry buttslut for art, fic, and other creations with my characters. 🙏🥺 Here's a gallery with some stuff I've gotten.

I am a hungry hungry anal masochist for comments 😼 I think the sorta comment I'd like right now is a quote I can put in the work description, like "This shit made me watch wrestling and now I'm gay" - t. John Cena.

I am very demure and modest when it comes to anon messages 💅 One of the things I miss most about the cesspool of tumblr, is getting enough questions about my silly scoutspy characterizations to create, well, my own characters out of them! Anons that stroke my shaft are a great way to get me to churn my brain and make something creative like the 300 scsp doodles or 500 headcanon posts of 2018, as opposed to sending me something blunt like "draw linguini's feet".

Forbidden fourth wish: I wish that one day someone could find scans of that YinYang monster x Vincent Valentine FF7 doujinshi that was my favorite as a wee lad! It was called "Meteo Daiou" by New Technical Punk-FF (Isuzu Suzuki). The last evidence of its existence is on this archived Sodasexy page. My life is a repeating circle. Even the scanner says this is GROSS and put it in their squick section. But Maggie age 8 liked it a little too much! Goth dude getting somno-bung by a hungry monster informed the rest of my yaoi career.

Physical items:

I like usable items that leave little waste.

Bar soap in natural, mild flavors. I got that dang eczema and anything that's too fragrant will turn me into the stay puft marshamallow man.

Books! I tend towards nonfiction, biographies, and art + photography books. Right now I'm looking at Devin Townsend's biographies...

Small pieces of usable art from indie artists, like paper stickers and washi tape! I like to put them on my sketchbooks to tell them apart.

A Brock Lesnar #69 football jersey.

Looseleaf tea! I like to try all sorts of new flavors. I can't do floral mixes, but I do like black, green, red, and white tea.

A good metal fountain pen! I've found a couple of brush pens I like. I guess it's time for me to get into stiffer tips.

Some drawing/writing ink! I like to try all sorts of new colors, especially for lineart and ink washes.

A shed or trailer to store our art.

A screen printing room and set-up that is safe from the weather and cats stepping everywhere.

A pigment printer so I can make even more vibrant stickers and art reproductions! I guess I've heard good things about Epson Ecotanks and the Canon Pixma Pro-200/300/400 lines.

An upgraded computer that can load 40 chunks in minecraft's view distance, and use big digital brushes without lagging.

I guess some big ol' terabytes of hard drives to archive my work.

More materials for our fence (wood pallets, metal fences...)

[bricksxbooks]

"Skullflake"

LEGO Ideas Challenge Entry: Jack Skellington's Swap-a-Roo: Transform the Holiday Worlds of Old! [take a traditional Christmas thing and make it spooky] November 2024 462 parts MOC

At the end of The Nightmare Before Christmas, the residents of Halloweentown are enchanted when they see snow for the first time, so of course they would create a spooky version for themselves! The "skullflake" is double-sided, so it could be modified as a hanging wreath, tree ornament, etc.

Follow me on LEGO Ideas: bricksxbooks

[rosemirmir]

You really are the daughter of a traitor.

[suckaysuamigos200]

para el día 5 de Chibijuly hoy le toca a nieve

para este día decidí dibujar a juanin en versión chibi jugando en la nieve y haciendo un enorme muñeco de nieve ☃️❄️🌨️. .

⋆꙳•̩̩͙❅*̩̩͙‧͙ ‧͙*̩̩͙❆ ͙͛ ˚₊⋆⋆꙳•̩̩͙❅*̩̩͙‧͙ ‧͙*̩̩͙❆ ͙͛ ˚₊⋆⋆꙳•̩̩͙❅*̩̩͙‧͙ ‧͙*̩̩͙❆ ͙͛ ˚₊⋆

for day 5 of Chibijuly today it's snow time

For this day I decided to draw Juanin in a chibi version playing in the snow and making a huge snowman ☃️❄️🌨️..

[therentyoupay]

For the pet names, terribly cliche, but 'snowflake' is one I'm kind of fond of for Jack calling Elsa.

I could maybe see Elsa calling Jack 'Jackie boy' just to pester him, in a good natured way. Or fully, 'Jackson' when annoyed with him, haha.

Chapter 5: snowflake

Elsa, Guardian-in-training, comes to the realization that names are important to the Guardians: the names of their previous selves in their former lives; the namesake titles of their storybook tales; and—especially—the names they give each other. She just can’t understand how Jack can come up with so many nicknames within a single Christmas season. — In which Jack Frost really really really wants his new co-worker to warm up to him, one (revelation) (Memory) (incident) nickname at a time. Prompt: Written entirely according to and for the petname-requests submitted to my tumblr askbox. See details inside for this utter chaos.