[community profile] sunshine_revival Challenge #7

Jul. 25th, 2025 02:42 pm
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Challenge #7

The Ferris Wheel
Journaling: Life in fandom goes through ups and downs. Reminisce about the "wild ride" of your time in fandom or in other online communities.
Creative: Create an image or a photo with the theme "let's go for a ride".


I never really had a "wild ride" during my time in fandom, not personally anyway, lol. There was and still is lots of drama in some of my fandoms, like AtLA, but I generally stayed on the perimeter.

But, to keep things interesting, please enjoy this still of Alicia (Ingrid Bergman) and Devlin (Cary Grant) going for a ride in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious.


Expandwanna go for a ride? )

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[community profile] sunshine_revival Challenge #6

Jul. 20th, 2025 12:27 pm
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Challenge #6

Journaling prompt: What games do you play, if any? Are you a solo-gamer or do you view games as a social activity?
Creative prompt: Write a story/fic around the theme "game night".


I'm not a video gamer at all, and while board games can be fun I never went out of my way to play them. My nephew, on the other hand, is really into games of all kinds, so every time he and my family visit we've always played board games. Apples to Apples is a fun game and probably my favorite. Uno is fun, too, but depending on who you're playing with, it can be frustrating, lol (my father's wife once played with us and she was the most annoying person ever to play the game with - she was a generally a terrible person and there are worse, more serious examples than Uno, but I digress, lol). I also enjoy crossword puzzles and quizzes, which tend to be a solo gaming thing.

Sporcle has some fun quizzes, so I try those out sometimes. I like the enormous crosswords best, but there are all types of quizzes there.

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[community profile] sunshine_revival Challenge #5

Jul. 18th, 2025 02:38 am
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Challenge #5

Journaling prompt: Be a carnival barker for your favorite movie, book, or show (or any other of your choice - game, comic, anything else)! Write a post that showcases the best your chosen title has to offer and entices passersby to check it out.
Creative prompt: Write a fic or original story about a character reluctantly doing something they are hesitant about.


Have you all seen this year's Oscar-winning film for best animated feature Flow? Because you really should if you haven't.

The film won the Oscar for best animated feature, but it was also nominated for best international film (Latvia). It's an absolutely beautiful movie about a cat trying to survive alongside other animals in a post-apocalyptic world where the water level keeps rising, and finding unlikely friendships with the other animals in the process (found family!). The visual storytelling is excellent. There is no dialogue, just the animal sounds and music. The animals are not anthropomorphized; they act and react as the animals they are. The film really does a good job making each of the animals a character and highlights their emotions, yet their basic natures remain. There is suspense and sadness, but also humor (and even in a post-apocalyptic world a cat will still want to knock things off a shelf). And the resolution, though sad in some ways, is also really lovely and hopeful.

There is a ton of terrific gif sets, fan art, and meta for the film on Tumblr, but [tumblr.com profile] terapsina summed it up perfectly in this gif set.

I love this movie so much.

Also:
Black Cat Adoptions Are Up. An Oscar-Winning Animated Movie May Have Helped
The Global Success of Academy Award-Winning Animation Flow Has Helped to Increase The Adoption Rate of Black Cats (no links, just a captioned pic set with a very cute black cat alongside the cat from the film).

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[community profile] sunshine_revival Challenge #4

Jul. 13th, 2025 11:41 am
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Challenge #4

Fun House
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.
Creative: Write from the perspective of a house or other location.


Finding new ways to be creative is definitely making smile these days. In addition to taking up needlepoint last month, which I love doing and talked about on Day 1 (and I have ordered additional canvases to work on!), I've also finally transplanted a terrarium I made last year and plan to create more of these.

I work in a law firm, and every year we have summer associates come in, of course. Law firms want to entice summer associates to come back once they graduate, so they're treated to a lot of nice stuff: dinner events, outings to baseball games, etc. My firm also does events during the workday, and one of last year's events was a "crafting terrariums" session. A woman came in with materials and there were trays set up at all the places for each person to work. You got to pick out a container, any succulents you wanted, and then she taught everyone the steps for planting and how to care for the plants, then we spent the rest of the time decorating the terrariums with moss, etc. It was a lot of fun and I created a nice terrarium of succulents that not only survived under my black thumb, but outgrew the container.

Expandlarge pics of terrariums under the cut )

I'm planning to get more succulents and create some more terrariums. Pretty soon I'll have a whole shelf of these.

I've also been trying to make my surroundings, both at home and at work, as beautiful and as comfortable as possible, and that's making me smile too.

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