#snowflake challenge 2024

[autisticwriterblog]

Snowflake Challenge 11

Challenge #11

In your own space, create a fanwork.

I've been writing fills for the 3 Sentence Ficathon, so I thought I'd write another one of those tiny fics for today's Snowflake Challenge. The original fill is posted here, and I also posted it on ao3 here. 

Title: Only One Bed

Fandom: Alan Wake 2

Summary: To Casey’s eternal frustration, he and Anderson find themselves forced to share a bed.

Prompt: any, any, platonic bed sharing

-

“I still can’t believe this bullshit,” Casey mumbles as he climbs into bed, continuing to be mad about the hotel only having one free bedroom and that room turning out to have only a double bed, forcing them to share.

“Oh really,” Saga says, smirking, “you literally haven’t mentioned.”

Saga joins him in their shared bed, a barrier of pillows down the middle of the bed to give them both their own separate zones, watching Casey sulk as he rolls onto his side, facing away from her—and although he’s clearly in a bad mood, her little sarcastic quip makes Casey snort, and soon they’re both laughing about the ridiculous situation they’ve found themselves in.

#snowflake challenge 2024 #snowflake challenge #alan wake 2 #saga anderson #alex casey #my fic

[world-of-wales]

WILLIAM × SNOWFLAKE ❄️

The Prince of Wales cares for "Snowflake", the guinea pig during a visit to Woodgate Valley Urban Farm, a city farm dedicated to supporting children and young people struggling to access education and those experiencing mental health challenges || 25 APRIL 2024

#british royal family #british royals #royalty #royals #brf #royal #british royalty #william wales. #the prince of wales #prince of wales #prince william #william prince of wales #25042024 #royaltyedit #royalty edit #royaltygifs #royalty gifs #WestMidlands24 #WestMidlands24.2 #my gifs

[salmonight]

Fentonic 2024 - A February Danny Phantom, Art/Writing Monthly Prompt

Heya fellas! As I seen February did not have a monthly prompt yet for DP so I created one just for the kick of it! I made on for MLB with a very specific theme last October and I enjoyed it a lot so i thought i'd create another one, this time for DP as am mainly drawing for this fandom these days.

This challenge/prompt can be taken as a pure DP or a DC x DP (Batpham) one. If u wanna spice it up? You can even mix in other fandoms too! Go wild!

This challenge/prompt can be taken as both an art or a writing one, whichever you'd prefer. I tried to make it so all days can be both drawn and written with the given prompts (at least one of the two). Hope i managed it well enough.

As February is mainly know for Valentine's it will contain a few romatic prompts but most can be taken as platonic. For those not comfortable with writing or drawing romance: feel free to leave out that half of the prompt or even skip that day, no pressure.

Also let's not forget about the other half of it: winter. So stuff associated with it like cold, hot drinks, winter sports and more-

Prompts:

Day 1: Hibernation / Curse

Day 2: Locked out / Childhood friends AU

Day 3: A deadly accident / Snowboard

Day 4: Morning routine / Claws

Day 5: Soulmates AU / Torn paper

Day 6: Smug / Cupid's bow

Day 7: Cooking together / Roses

Day 8: Flirting / Viral

Day 9: Cuddling / Cape

Day 10: Holding hands / Love letter

Day 11: Chaos / Plushy

Day 12: Enemies to lovers / Love song

Day 13: Magical girl transformation / Hair dryer

Day 14: Snow storm / Dry

Day 15: Fur & fluff / Fireplace

Day 16: Failed confession / Ink blots

Day 17: Melting / Shackles

Day 18: Injury / Hot chocolate

Day 19: Mourning / Hug

Day 20: Stardust / Candies

Day 21: Timeloop / Scalpel

Day 22: Symbiosis / Cabin in the woods

Day 23: Love at first sight / Scarves

Day 24: Sleepy / Pink ribbon

Day 25: Skiing / Snowflakes

Day 26: Solitude / Mask

Day 27: Clothing swap / Clone

Day 28: Unexpected / Snack

Day 29: Sunset / Ice sculpture

Ao3 page: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/fentonic_2024

Hope you guys will enjoy this little challenge I made! Cheers!

#fentonic2024 #fentonic #dc prompt #dc challenge #dc x dp prompt #dc x dp challenge #batpham prompt #batpham challenge #danny phantom #dc x dp #batpham #art challenge #monthly art challenge #monthly prompts #monthly challenge #february art challenge #february writing challenge #february art prompts #february writing prompts #writing prompts #writing challenge #prompts #february prompts

[snowflakechallenge]

Introducing the 2024 Fandom Snowflake Challenge!

I'm Turps, and it's my pleasure to welcome everyone to the Snowflake Challenge 2024!

Many of you will have done Snowflake before, if you have, welcome back, it's lovely to see you. If you haven't, again, welcome. It's always fantastic to see new people, and we hope you have fun.

So, what is the Snowflake Challenge? Well, to go back to the very beginning and the inspiration for this challenge, Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance, sang the song 'Every Snowflake's Different Just Like You' and some lyrics from that song are Big fangs. Small chin. There are so many special things about you.

And that's what Snowflake is about. That every snowflake is different, that every person is special in their own unique way, and the challenge is here to embrace those differences and hold them up to the light.

January can be too cold, too dark, too hot, too everything and we want Snowflake to spread a little joy in what can be a bleak time. Each little glimmering snowflake joining together to create a blanket of positivity and happiness as we're reminded of the things that we love.

Fandom can be a wonderful place, and we want people to embrace that, to talk about their passions -- and it has to be noted here, those passions don't have to be narrow and based on TV/film/book/music fandoms; everything counts. If you love weaving with yak hair, tell us. If your thing is creating suspension bridges out of spaghetti, well let us know, don't hide those skills and those loves, we want to know all about them.

From the 1st, we'll be posting challenges every second day throughout January. Some challenges will have been used before, some will be new, but all can be answered in any way that you want and to your own interpretation. There are no wrong answers.

Also, please know that no one is taking note of what challenges you take part in. You can do every one. You can do one or none. You can do a challenge and not link at the comm, that's perfectly fine. But, if you do link at the community, we do encourage other Snowflakes to check out the links, because there is a whole wide world of loves out there waiting to be encountered and read about. You can also respond to the challenge at any time, on the day that it's issued or a year later, it all counts.

The mods who post the challenges are located throughout the world, so while the challenges will be posted on specific dates, due to time zones they will be posted at different times during the day, so don't worry if a challenge is posted at 9am your own time one day and 9pm the next.

Finally, Snowflake Challenge takes part on other platforms too, specifically:

Tumblr: https://snowflakechallenge.tumblr.com/

Pillowfort: https://www.pillowfort.social/community/Snowflake%20Challenge

Mastodon: https://fandom.ink/@SnowflakeChallenge

And if you want to check out past creative responses, we have an A03 collection here: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/fandom_snowflake_challenge/profile

And that's it, all that's left to say is, welcome again, have fun, and we look forward to meeting you all.

#introduction post #snowflakechallenge2024 #modpost

[chitsuu]

OC Kiss Week 2024: Lost

Doing this little challenge this week, with my FFXIV character and his husband (@kitshunette's son)!

I actually forgot that the paper of this watercolors sketchbook is not really forgiving when it comes to multiple layers, so that should help me not overthink the sketches

Also, I'm not much of a writer, but I decided to write a little something for each drawing, little windows in their story (which is also why I'm using the @ockissweek prompt list but not in order)

Jisul was walking fast, almost slightly running, as he did not want to be late to his meeting with the Viscount Jannequinard de Durendaire. Getting accepted in the Athenaeum Astrologicum had not been the easiest task, considering he was not from Ishgard in the first place, and Ishardians were still a bit wary of foreigners. But Jisul was highly motivated, and he really wanted to make sure they would not regret their choice. So getting to the school late was simply not an option.

In insight, what happened was totally predictable. Just as he was about to reach the entrance, there was a loud thump, a collision, and astrology cards went flying everywhere amidst the falling snow as both the Au Ra and an Elezen lost their balance.

“Are you alright?”

Hearing the voice, Jisul’s heart went strangely still and the world tilted.

***

The city was burning. Smoke rose everywhere, the sky was red, intermittently illuminated by flashes of light, and ashes were slowly falling like snowflakes. Jisul somehow remembered how the city looked before - large paved streets, city lights, the muted noises of long robes fluttering around. Now the only sounds left were the fires raging all around, and soft cries.

He felt an infinite amount of grief piercing his heart. Grief for what had been, what was happening and what was going to happen next.

Yet, in the midst of all the chaos, the only thing that felt right was the man standing in his arms. Jisul reached up to cup his lover’s face in his hands, and the grief he felt suddenly seemed tiny and laughable when faced with the clear eyes looking straight at him. The sense of loss brought by looking into those eyes was being deeply engraved into his very soul, as if willed into existence by creation magic itself, while the world crumbled around them.

“Let’s make a promise. No matter what, we will find each other again. In every live.”

His lover spoke in a low voice, unfaltering in his conviction, and yet the pain was lurking just below the surface, a pain mirroring Jisul’s.

“We will. I promise you. We will find each other again, no matter how long it takes. I will stand by your side again.”

“So will I.”

They both smiled, but the sadness contained within was overflowing. That vow was made on burning, empty grounds.

His smile is so beautiful, even now.

Jisul was unable to stop the thought from forming.

Without thinking, without a word, their lips found each other, as if to seal the promise. The kiss tasted like ashes. The feeling of losing a part of himself was overwhelming. The world was lit ablaze.

***

“Are you alright?”, the man repeated, a touch of worry in his voice.

As Jisul drew his gaze to the clear eyes looking straight at him, the world tilted back in place, and his heart started beating again, albeit a little faster than usual. The eyes belonged to an Elezen with tan skin and darker hair. The very image of the already disappearing memory he just experienced, except for the pointed ears. Then again, in that particular vision, Jisul had neither scales nor horns.

“Ah, uh, yes, I’m very sorry about this, I hope I didn’t hurt you…”

Jisul offered his hand to help the man stand, suddenly feeling shy.

What was that memory?

As they got back on their feet, the Elezen smiled, saying there was no harm done, but maybe they ought to pick up the cards before they could get damaged by the snow? Flustered, Jisul agreed and started collecting the stray cards, pondering on the already fading vision, just like a dream leaving in the morning.

Jisul would have doubted his brain entirely, if it was not for that quiet sense of a promise fulfilled swelling in his heart, filling the hole of having lost something he did not even realize he had before, along with a part of his soul contentedly humming, deep down.

Found you.

#ockiss24 #oc kiss week #oc kiss week 2024 #Elidivien Greystone #Jisul Neuntsa #Elijisul #FFXIV #my art #sketch #my oc #fanart #WOL #watercolors #EliJisul

[hprarepairshorts]

Winter Prompt Extravaganza - January

Happy New Year, everyone! We wish you the best 2024. Below are the daily prompts for January.

As a reminder, you may use the prompts however you choose. If you want to challenge yourself, write a few words a day for the daily prompt. But if you want to opt for a more lax approach, the prompts don’t need to be posted in order or even posted on the assigned day. You can combine them into one creation for a rare pair, or post separate prompts for separate pairings. 

Like always, the rules are to keep your creations under 2000 words and avoid using the banned pairings. 

Please post your creations to the AO3 collection. Posting to Dreamwidth is optional. 

The prompts:

1. Midnight Kiss

2. Champagne

3. Fireworks

4. New Beginnings

5. One Night Stand (or Only One Night Together)

6. Snowy Sunrise

7. Toast

8. Cosy Jumpers

9. Happy Birthday

10. Frosted Herbology

11. Hangover

12. Second Chances

13. Whiteout

14. Peppermint 

15. Ear Muffs

16. Black Ice

17. Chosen Family

18. Ice Skating

19. Cold Snap

20. Hibernation

21. Sunday Night Dinner

22. Flurries

23. Reading by the fire

24. Slippery

25. Hot bowl of soup

26. Outdoor Brunch

27. Cold Walk

28. Journalling

29. Snowflake Martini

30. White Lily

31. Dinner Party

#hp fests #hp rare pair shorts #hp rare pair

[mercurygray]

❄️❄️Fandom Snowflake Challenge Day 2 ❄️❄️

Every year, the good folks at @snowflakechallenge encourage fandom folks to introduce themselves a little more and reflect on what fandom is for them. They have a series of challenges throughout the month of January to prompt sharing more about yourself!

Challenge #2: Set some goals for 2024.

Finish writing The Darkening Sky. The fic turns FOUR in May. It must be finished by then or so help me, God.

Continue to keep up with the friends and neighbors I've acquired while writing TDS. I know this sounds silly, but it takes a village and I think one of the things that scares me the most about finishing the fic is that when it's done, I will lose that village. (There. I said it out loud.)

Successfully lead Blind Dates again! My goal this year is to have 15 authors and I'm pretty confident we can do it! (Last year we had 12 participants.)

Contribute, in some positive way, to the Masters of the Air milieu. This is the first time I get to be on the ground floor of an HBO war fandom and I'm really, really excited about it.

Keep whatever writing I do for MOTA at a manageable length. No more four year projects, please.

-This is pure vanity, but I really want TDS to reach 100 bookmarks and 20,000 views. There. I said it in a public forum. Judge me all you want. This is the first time in fifteen years of doing this that more than five people have liked something I've written and I want to savor it, damn it.

#snowflakechallenge2024

[pkmntrainersquid]

Waltz of the Snowflakes

[a video, titled "Dekilou gym battle: Challenger Nika "Squid" vs Leader Augie - Jan 26, 2024. Winter field, 4v4"]

After a brief league intro card, the video begins. Some info pops up in the video layout, including current temperature and weather, just above freezing but raining. The camera is focused on a small frozen pond. On either end of the pond is a pontoon platform, frozen in place. Sparsely populated spectator stands can be seen, many people not wanting to be outside in the poor weather.

Squid is on one platform, wearing her cowboy hat and a light winter coat. He's bouncing one leg slightly as a sign of nerves, or if you know them well enough, to focus through the pain of her bad ankle.

The other platform holds Augie, the Dekilou Gym Leader. He looks to be in his early thirties, sporting a dark beard under a cap. He's wearing cargo shorts and a light rain jacket with league branding on it. A fishing rod is mounted to the platform, line dangling into a hole in the ice.

A drone camera flits past, gathering aerial shots and zooming in on Augie. "So you're the one Zephyr was talkin' aboot, eh? Now, I knows it's your first gym battle, but given your experience we'll give 'er a bit more challenge." He smiles.

"Wouldn't have it any other way." Squid replies. Hovering a hand over their first pokéball, the battle begins.

Given analysis of past battles against challengers going for a second or third badge, Squid was betting on his first opponent being Abomasnow. Thus, Shortgrass hit the field, the small fire rodent using its claws for traction on the wet ice.

The temperature dipped as Abomasnow appeared. Rain shifted to sleet and then to snow, giving the ice-type a boost to its defenses and moves.

Squid's strategy is to have the Embrush get in close, hit it with Incinerate, and slide out of its range. This works once, dealing massive damage as an Ice Punch misses Shortgrass, sending out energy that freezes the slush on the court.

Augie laughs, a mischievous glint in his eye. "You're fighting a gym leader here, y' should figure I got something to deal with fire-types." Squid registered this a bit late, yelling for Shortgrass to get farther away as the leader gave his next command. "Channel that failure into a Stomping Tantrum!"

The Abomasnow roars, slamming its arms down on the ice as Shortgrass scampers away. A wave of energy pulses out through the ice sheet, causing water to spray upwards as it cracked. The little fire-type squeaks as she gets hit by the move and sent flying. "Shortgrass!" Squid cries, as the Embrush lands unconscious nearby.

They recall her to her pokéball. "You did good, bud. Take a rest."

Taking a moment to think of a new plan and regain her balance on the now floating platform, Squid sends out Humus. The Skiddo hops across the ice flows, able to deftly pick safe landings. "Humus, Take Down!"

Leaping across the battle court, the grass-type cloaked itself in energy before hitting Abomasnow. The large pokémon was pushed backwards, tipping the iceberg up out of the water. Humus managed to get a foothold, but fell over when the ice hit the water again. A Powder Snow struck while he was getting back to his hooves.

Humus stood, shaking from the ice attack and cold water soaking his fur. One more Take Down finishes off the Abomasnow, but Squid is getting worried. It took almost two of her pokémon to remove the first opponent.

Augie sent out Avalugg next, the large pokémon shoving ice out of the way to land in the water. "Alrighty then! Charge ahead and use Ice Fang!" Barreling forward, the Avalugg readies its jaws to clamp down on the goat pokémon.

"Jump onto its back with Bulldoze!" Humus leaps up as the ice turtle snaps at where he was. Dropping back down, energy pulses out from his hooves, directly into the icy shell. Cracks spread out across its back and Humus hops to a nearby ice flow, wincing as the Frostbite continues to damage him.

The Avalugg swings around roaring, readying another Ice Fang. "Give it your all! Take Down!"

Humus' horns met Avalugg's jaws, both imparting their energy on the other. When the mist settles, both pokémon are completely worn out. Their trainers recall them. At this point the weather returns to rain.

"Uffda, that was powerful! Let's see how you deal with this though." He sends out his third pokémon, a Quagsire. It lands in the water, swimming through the path Avalugg made.

"Orpheus! Your turn!" The Procezant takes to the sky, circling the pond.

"That's the pokémon Zephyr told me aboot then? Good. Quagsire, use Chilling Water!" The salamander ducked underwater, drawing in frigid pond water and spitting it up at Orpheus.

"Ominous Wind, build up your squad!" Ghostly winds whip across the water, kicking up the waves and making Squid take a wider stance for balance. Several Spirit Doves form, flying around their leader.

The Quagsire began launching an Avalanche attack up at Orpheus. The chunks of ice fly wildly, aiming for quantity over quality. Two Doves take hits in place of the flock leader, but one does strike true. As they splash back into the water, the surface refreezes from the excess ice energy.

"Air Slash! Take 'em out!" Orpheus swooped low, gathering his troops to launch the attack. This proves enough to take Quagsire out of the fight.

Augie laughs again, grabbing the fishing rod. "Got me down to my ace, eh? But this battle isn't over yet!" He casts it into the pond, the pokéball at the end sending out a rocky fish pokémon. The Sturgeode slid forward into an open section of water, the gems along its stomach scraping the ice.

Now under the ice, it silently repositioned itself as the Procezant tried to pinpoint it from above. "Orpheus, send the spirits in for an Aerial Ace!"

The Spirit Doves dive, phasing through solid ice to try finding their target. Augie nodded to himself. "Interesting... The two of you fight well together. And with the little ghosts too. But let's reel in this battle here. Sturgeode! Rock Blast!"

Crash! Crash! Crash!

Large rocks smash through the ice, seemingly from all around the arena as the Sturgeode kept in motion while attacking. The first dissipates the flock of ghosts and the other two strike Orpheus, who drops from the sky. Calling the bird back to his pokéball, Squid sends out his final pokémon, Remmi. The remoraid dives into one of the holes in the ice, beginning an underwater battle.

The camera switches to a submerged view, dim light filtering through the ice sheet onto the plants and driftwood at the bottom. Sturgeode and Remmi are face to face, circling each other in the water column, listening for their trainers commands.

The battle resumes as Sturgeode uses Psychic to slam Remmi into the ice. A Bullet Seed breaks the bigger fish's concentration, freeing the remoraid who takes to the weeds to hide.

Sturgeode starts glowing as it builds up more psychic energy in its crystals, prepping for a powerful attack when Remmi reappears.

Thunk thunk from Squid's platform.

The aboveground camera catches the flash of orange from Remmi's Fire Blast before it blows apart the ice with steam. The Sturgeode was also thrown into the air, flipping tail over tip.

"Remmi! End this with Aqua Jet!" The remoraid burst from the pond cloaked in water, flying straight up to collide with her opponent.

Both splash back down into the water, but the armored fish is too tired to continue fighting.

"YEAH! Remmi we did it! That was so cool!" Squid celebrates, her pokémon leaping out of the water and into their arms as the video ends.

#trainer squid #long post #ziibi region travels #//name reveal? #rotomblr #pokemon irl #pokeblogging #pkmn irl

[sidleyparkhermit]

Snowflake Challenge #13 (crosspost from DW)

Snowflake Challenge #13: Make a rec list of fanworks.

I almost invariably rec only completed fics, so this time I thought I'd do a rec list of just WIPs. I'm telling you right now, none of these works have been updated more recently than March 2023. I invite you to enjoy them as they are and to leave feedback that is encouraging but not bullying. ;)

1) If Tomorrow Never Comes by @eau1636. Endeavour Morse/Peter Jakes (Endeavour). A time loop story with wonderful characterization in one of my most favorite rare pairs.

He already knew what the paper’s headlines would be, what the answers to the crossword puzzle were, what date would be printed across the top. He unrolled the paper and there it was, irrefutable in black and white. Monday, February 2, 1967. Morse called the station to say he was ill and wouldn’t be in today. Then he walked over, took the bottle down from the shelf, and set to work. At least the scotch had refilled itself overnight. Small mercies. Once darkness fell that evening, Morse walked to the park. He sat on a bench in the freezing night air, looking up at the stars. He would stay awake all night. He wouldn’t go home, he’d stay right here under the open sky. Whatever it was that was happening, it couldn’t get him here.

2) fidelity, undying by @joycecarolnotes Loki/Mobius (Loki TV series). The deeply evocative scene-setting first chapter of an arranged marriage canon-divergence. 

Frigga sighs and strokes his raven hair, perched beside him on the edge of his bed. "While you may not wish to hear it, I believe that your marriage to this Midgardian prince is for the best." Loki scoffs. "Oh do you?" Her own marriage, Frigga says, had been arranged by her father. She did not wish to leave her home, to travel to Asgard and marry the gruff, imposing, one-eyed man who called himself the All-Father. But she peered into her future and saw that she would have two sons, and raise them beside Odin, and that she would love them very much. And so she went. "What of my future," Loki asks, "have you had a look?" Frigga shakes her head. "And would you tell me if you had?" Frigga shakes her head again.

3) i thought you should know, by @odekirk. Howard Hamlin/Chuck McGill (Better Call Saul). The tragedy of Howard and Chuck, of the Hamlins and the McGills, over the decades. Fun fact: odekirk is straight-up the only fic writer who understands these two characters at all.

In the dream, Howard stands on Chuck’s porch and knocks three times on the front door, and tries to call out Chuck’s name. He’s holding something in his arm—one of the lights from the HHM conference room, glowing softly in the dark of night. “Maybe he’s at the grocery store,” Julie says. Yes, of course she’s right. Howard turns around and panics—where is his car? He just parked it right there in front of Chuck’s house. “I don’t have a car,” he laments to Julie. “I don’t know where my car is.” “Maybe it’s inside.” Yes, of course the car is inside. Howard turns around again and the front door is open. He walks in and sees the state of the house. Walls are torn up. Books are scattered all over. Appliances are strewn across the floor, the windows are boarded up, space blankets are hung everywhere. “Where’s your car?” Jimmy asks him. “What did you do?” Howard is frightened. If he can’t find his car, he’ll never be able to drive to the grocery store to get Chuck. He has to talk to Chuck.

originally posted on dreamwidth for the 2024 snowflake challenge prompts. (no, I still don't like dreamwidth, but it's... there.)

#fic recs #loki (series) #better call saul #itv endeavour #el jay xpost #(not lj but for organizational purposes) #jarse #choward #time husbands #accidental timeloopposting *on* groundhog day

[ladyosen]

2024 Snowflake Challenge #3: Wishlist

Honestly, I feel embarrassed asking for things, but I'd really love just more fic for my current fave rare pairs:

1. Jade/Deuce and Floyd/Deuce in particular. I've written so much for both of them, but I'd love to see more works from other people.

2. Any other pairings featuring Deuce, even more classic ones like Adeuce (especially bottom Deuce, okay?)

Also on a non-fic side:

1. fanart is always appreciated

2. Icons for my rp journals? Some of them I'm satisfied with, but I'm also not very confident in my skills.

3. Make a playlist for any of my rare pairs or fics maybe? on a self-indulgent level? Which is fic-related, but I feel like I don't actually have a wide range of music I listen to, so I like getting to listen to new things.

xposted to my dreamwidth

#snowflakechallenge2024 #challenge03 #wishlist #twst #twisted wonderland

[autisticwriterblog]

Snowflake Challenge 13

 Challenge #13

Make a rec list of fanworks! Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Here is a list of fics I've read (or reread) recently!

Alan Wake

In Your Place Summary: Washed up on the shore of Cauldron Lake, Alan tries to recover some semblance of sanity. Or at least get his memories back. These two strangely familiar FBI Agents need answers and so does Alan himself. Unfortunately, any answer lies with Scratch. And they cut far closer to home than Alan can handle. ((A semi-canon compliant short that takes place after Saga and Casey rescue Alan from the lake at the beginning of the game but before the interrogation.)) Notes: A fascinating look at Alan early in Alan Wake 2. Very angsty!

Ahma Beer! Summary: Jaakko gives Ilmo a little present once the beer deal is sealed. Notes: A very cute fic set pre-Alan Wake 2 about Jaakko and Ilmo. 

Kuroko no Basuke

Come Morning Light Summary: Something is wrong with Kuroko. After months of friendship and partnership, Kagami's starting to lose track of him again. When Kagami realizes that Kuroko is deliberately reducing his presence, he makes it his mission to find out why and to make it stop. Even if Kuroko has no intentions of helping. Notes: This fic is an AU where Kagami discovers that Kuroko's dad is abusing him, and ends up dragging Kuroko back to his place to stay with him. It's very heavy in places, but it is also full of hurt/comfort and fluff as they become a family. 

The Owl House

Of Astral Oaths and Sprinkles of Magic

Summary: With Darius in tow, Camila takes the kids to their first pop culture convention to trot out their cosplay and in general just geek out. Hunter couldn’t be more excited if he tried and Darius’s sublime horror at it all is just the hot fudge sauce on the sundae. Notes: I received this fic as part of the 2023 Fandomtrees event. It's an adorable fic about Hunter and Gus (and co) going to a human convention. 

Control 

AI93-PE: The Fanzine

Summary: An Altered Item document for an anthology featuring writing and art about a fictional video game. Notes: This fic is written as an in-universe document, and pulls off the tone of the FBC's documents perfectly. The whole idea of a fanzine becoming an Altered Items is also a hilarious concept. 

#alan wake 2 #the owl house #kuroko no basuke #control #snowflake challenge 2024 #snowflake challenge #alan wake #kuroko's basketball #control game

[xtruss]

“Fascist Pro-Isra-helli Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗 Advocates” Are Weaponizing “Safety” On College Campuses

Some Schools are Acting on the Misbegotten Notion that Palestinian Freedom is a Threat to Jewish Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗 Safety.

— Natasha Lennard | March 28, 2024 | The Intercept

People gather to protest the banning of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace chapters at Columbia University on Nov. 20, 2023, in New York City. Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Two Weeks Ago, the Columbia chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine publicized an email leaked by an anonymous student at the university’s social work school. In the email, a professor, who was also not named in the screenshot, raised the issue of a Palestinian flag emoji that the student had placed next to her name during Zoom meetings.

“On an unrelated matter,” the professor wrote, “it has recently been brought to my attention that geopolitical emojis” — the Palestinian flag — “used at the end of name info has caused trauma reactions, making it difficult for some to remain present and not dissociate during class session.”

The professor asked for the student’s “continued partnership in ensuring our class space remains a safe one for all.” In an excruciatingly polite response, the student asked for permission to discuss the issue collectively, with the class.

It’s the stuff of far-right parody: an absurd example of “woke” culture. An Ivy League professor, invoking the language of “trauma response” and safety, in an email that refers to class members as “folx,” suggesting the removal of an emoji.

Yet the professor’s email speaks to a broader problem of student safety being flattened into a question of whether students feel safe. And these aren’t the reactionary tropes of left-wing “snowflakes”: “Safety” is being invoked by pro-Israel students, many conservative and center-right, who believe that protests targeting the nation state constitute inherent attacks on them as Jews.

The same dynamic played out in the fall at the same university. Last November, Columbia banned its chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, as The Intercept reported, because an “unauthorized event” put on by the groups “included threatening rhetoric and intimidation.” When challenged to name the threat, Columbia Senior Executive Vice President Gerald Rosberg said only, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of the student groups, that “accusations that Israel was ‘a racist state committing genocide’ and ‘is an apartheid state’ could upset some people and ‘seem … like an incitement of violence.’”

New York City’s Upper West Side isn’t the only setting for such thin complaints. A staggeringly imbalanced feature in The Atlantic this week, written by Stanford sophomore Theo Baker, offered up a supposedly neutral narrative that treats the “conflict” on his college campus as a battle between imperiled Jewish students and unreasoned pro-Palestine zealots.

Right-wing GOP culture warriors and conservative Zionist groups are using similar claims about campus incidents nationwide. “Safety” is the latest weapon in the culture war, being deployed now to deal a blow to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, known as DEI, and to silence criticism of Israel.

“People Are Taking Their Feelings of Being Uncomfortable With Information As The Same As Physically Being Unsafe.”

The result has brought us to our intolerable status quo, with students and faculty risking grave consequences for protesting a war in which Israeli forces have slaughtered over 31,000 people. Israel’s U.S.-backed assault has razed to rubble every single university in Gaza, but the concern as relates to intellectual life in this country focuses instead on the inoculation of Israel’s young supporters from bad feeling.

“People are taking their feelings of being uncomfortable with information as the same as physically being unsafe,” said Layla, a Palestinian American graduate student at Columbia’s School of Social Work, who asked to withhold her last name for fear of harassment. “As a Palestinian student, I’ve lost family in Gaza. Frankly, I get uncomfortable when Zionist students are chanting ‘no ceasefire’ on campus. That makes me feel uncomfortable. That makes me feel unsafe. But I know that it is not a physical threat to my safety. That is free speech.”

Feeling Safe Vs. Being Safe

The need to distinguish between feeling safe and being safe is both urgent and undeniably fraught. Antisemitism is rising. There have been instances, including on campuses, of Jewish students harassed and targeted solely for wearing a kippah or being otherwise identified as Jewish. Islamophobic, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian violence is surging. And a American-supported genocide is being carried out halfway around the world in the purported name of Jewish safety. Yet this is no time for cowardice.

Writing as a professor and a Jew, with a profound commitment to my students’ safety and well-being, I see an imperative for them to learn to distinguish between genuine threat and paranoia — that their judgments of the world be grounded and attentive to the workings of power, propaganda, and ideology.

Instead, a perfect political storm, driven in large part by sustained campaigning from pro-Israel groups, has produced structures of feeling — a map of collective emotions at historical junctures — that are resistant to challenge. The elements include the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism, pushed evermore fervently by Zionist groups in the last decade; the equation of feeling unsafe with being unsafe that has been normalized in the oversimplified liberal discourse; and the weight of intergenerational Jewish trauma combined with very real antisemitism in the present.

I have no doubt that the students’ feelings of fear are real, but educational institutions should not be validating a psychic block that precludes seeing support for Palestine as anything other than a threat.

One way universities are validating these feelings as proof of real danger may be out of their hands: through Title VI complaints and, in some cases, official investigations. Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. By statute, universities are duty-bound to take these complaints seriously, but that doesn’t mean they’re always serious.

In the post-October 7 campus battles, the complaints in question consistently center on claims of campus antisemitism — referring to Title VI’s protection from discrimination based on national origin.

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has 80 open Title VI investigations that have arisen since October 7 that fall under the category of “shared ancestry” discrimination, which also covers incidents of Islamophobia and other religious discrimination. And just one man, Zachary Marschall, the editor of the right-wing site Campus Reform, is responsible for 10 of them, according to a database of the complaints and investigations put together from public data by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

To file a complaint, a person need have no affiliation with the institution in question. Marschall, an outspoken critic of DEI, has no connection with any of the universities against which he is the Title VI complainant, but claims to be filing the complaints on behalf of campus figures who are often not publicly named.

While details of the federal investigations are not public, Campus Reform’s coverage of reported antisemitism on campus offers clues about Marschall’s approach. His posts on the site consist largely of alarmed responses to Palestinian solidarity slogans, calls for ceasefire, and vocal anti-Zionism on the part of left-wing Jewish student groups.

Consider, by way of example, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, against which Marschall filed a Title VI complaint. Campus Reform wrote about the school too. A November post cited as evidence of anti-Jewish animus the fact that a faculty open letter in support of a Gaza ceasefire was commended by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group that Campus Reform alleged is connected to Hamas — a common attack against CAIR that the group has denied as a “smear.”

Marschall may well think the discrimination he is alleging is very real, but it hangs on a thin reed. To have the desired impact, though, the Title VI complaints don’t necessarily need to be sustained. The Department of Education might rule that Marschall’s complaints fail to show civil rights violations, but the investigations themselves can still have a chilling effect, forcing universities to act out of fear of losing federal funding.

The investigations can and have drummed up publicity, putting other university funding in the crosshairs. The effects of similar pressure campaigns are already being felt: Elite universities have appeased wealthy pro-Israel donors, who have since October 7 threatened to withhold their money if anti-Israel speech is tolerated on campus.

Pro-Israel protesters argue with pro-Palestinian protesters during a demonstration near Columbia University on Feb. 2, 2024, in New York City. Getty Images

Antisemitism As Cudgel

Using antisemitism for political ends is not a new tack. Efforts like Marschall’s play into a pattern of reporting on antisemitism that obfuscates rather than clarifies material antisemitic threats. Frightening statistics, leading to sensationalized headlines, about soaring campus antisemitism are compiled by conservative, agenda-driven watchdogs that conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism as policy.

They assert without compunction that calls for Palestinian liberation are a threat to Jews. The statistics then take on the imprimatur of official narrative, stoke further fear, and resist dispute — any such challenge is open to charges of antisemitism denialism.

Meanwhile, three Palestinian students wearing Keffiyehs were shot last November in Vermont, leaving one paralyzed from the waist down. An Arab Muslim student at Stanford was hospitalized in a hit-and-run in November that authorities are investigating as a hate crime. (The latter incident went notably unmentioned in Baker’s viral Atlantic story detailing threats at Stanford.)

And there have been physical dangers at Columbia, too — for pro-Palestine students. Those attending an on-campus Palestine solidarity rally in January were sprayed with a noxious chemical by two veterans of the Israeli military, also Columbia students. Numerous students — including Layla, the Palestinian social work student — were hit with the foul-smelling spray, believed to be Israeli-developed chemical weapon known as “skunk.”

Fifteen students had to seek hospital care for nausea, burning eyes, and irritated skin. While the NYPD is investigating the incident and the assailants are currently banned from campus, the university’s initial response was to chide the injured students for holding the protest in the first place.

Palestinian and pro-Palestinian students at Columbia and elsewhere have seen their faces and names projected on “doxxing trucks” circling campus. A vocally pro-Zionist business school professor, Shai Davidai, has faced complaints that he used his X account to target individual Palestinian and pro-Palestinian students by linking them to Hamas. (Davidai has denied going after particular students, though in January he promoted a form letter that singled out a student by name and, in March, accused a student of being “pro-Hamas” while linking to a tweet that identified her.)

In response to dozens of student complaints, the university launched an investigation into Davidai’s behavior; he has decried the probe as “retaliation.” His outrage make sense, I suppose, in a universe that gives credence to a Palestinian flag emoji as a potential trigger for a “trauma response.”

“The Absence of Any Real Threat”

The disparity of the stakes — felt safety and its material counterpart — become ever starker when one’s gaze is turned to where it really belongs: Palestine itself. Students speaking out for Palestine are not doing so to shore up campus safety for Palestinian students — which the Palestinian students, of course, deserve — but because they are desperate to see an end to Israeli assault on Gaza.

“I question why our focus is on the elite college campuses and their use of language over the horrific injustices being committed against the Palestinian people,” wrote Maryam Iqbal, a freshman at Barnard College and among the students hospitalized after the Columbia chemical attack, in the college newspaper. “There is absolutely no reason to be centering the feelings of privileged college students over the victims of an actual genocide.”

Iqbal told me that she hoped that following the chemical attack, the university administration’s attitude towards what constitutes threat and safety, and where risks lie, would change. “Nothing has shifted,” she said.

Instead, attacks on expression continue. Last month, Barnard banned students from displaying any decorations on dorm room doors, to avoid “the unintended effect of isolating those who have different views and beliefs.”

There are, without question, students who feel hurt and unwelcome when faced with protests and speech condemning Israel as a genocidal apartheid state. Many Jewish people struggle to square such realities with the idealized notion of Israel we were raised with: that it is a noble and necessary state for Jewish safety.

I know, too, that there are Jewish students who fear that antisemitic groups and individuals are simply using opposition to Israel as a guise for anti-Jewish hate — there’s certainly historic precedent. And there are, as I noted, examples of genuine heightened antisemitism on campus. When Jewish people are targeted for being Jewish, we need to act with severity. Fear, however, does not make a protest against Israel, even a protest against its maintenance as a Jewish ethnostate, a protest against Jews.

“Treating Feelings of Fear and Discomfort Seriously Does Not Mean Reifying Them.”

Institutions of higher education should be in the business of demystification, even when it involves challenging certain sensitive received wisdoms. We fail as educators if we permit the false lesson of all too many Zionist upbringings — that Palestinian freedom is a threat to Jewish safety — to persist for our students.

As Joseph Howley, a classics professor at Columbia who has been perturbed by the treatment of pro-Palestine protest on campus, told me, “Treating feelings of fear and discomfort seriously does not mean reifying them.”

Howley, who is also Jewish, noted that, by the same logic, we would not want to validate the fear felt by a white student, conditioned under racist assumptions, who called the police because they felt afraid in the presence of a Black student.

“Capitulation to this sort of language of fear and unsafety in the absence of any real threat,” he said, “is a real betrayal of our actual responsibilities as teachers to the social emotional development of our students.”

Students and activists protest Columbia University’s decision to suspend the student group chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace for holding pro-Palestine events on campus, in Manhattan, N.Y., on Nov. 15, 2023. NY Daily News via Getty Images

More Than a Feeling

We might be tempted to hand it to the anti-woke right, who warned against the proliferation of “safe space” language and “therapy speak” as organizing forces at American universities. Such criticisms, though, rely on bad faith framings of anti-racist and diversity work — only the worst liberal iterations, although too common, exemplify the right-wing caricature of colleges privileging “snowflake” student feelings.

It is a different, more rigorous exercise entirely when students and professors proffer materially grounded, historically informed opposition to oppressive speech and discriminatory treatment on campus.

When the Hillel student group at the New School in New York City, where I teach, invited a lieutenant from the Israeli military to come speak on campus in early March, I was among several colleagues who signed a letter to our administration, requesting the planned event be canceled.

Among the reasons listed was that many students, above all Palestinians, would feel “utterly unsafe” to have an active-duty Israeli soldier on campus. This, I thought, was true, but a weak argument; the students might feel unsafe, but they would not be unsafe.

The letter’s far stronger claim was that, as a university founded on antiwar ideals and a purported commitment to liberatory principles, the school should not offer “a platform for an army that continues to violate international law and is actively engaged in perpetrating human rights abuses and the murder of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank.” It is, I believe, valid to oppose a university hosting an active ranking officer of an army that has obliterated every single institution of higher education in Gaza.

Citing the importance of free speech, the university permitted the talk to proceed.

I’ve long argued against an absolutist approach to free speech on campuses and beyond; some oppressive speech, even if constitutionally protected, should not be platformed. Decisions about canceling speakers and banning certain speech, however, should not be a question of privileging certain peoples’ feelings and fears over others, however visceral the feelings might be.

Rather, we must — without presuming answers in advance — interrogate whether structures of oppression and violence are normalized and upheld in our educational institutions through these choices. The decisions will be imperfect and contested, but at least they will be based on more than feelings.

#The Intercept #Pro-Isra-helli ​🐖 🐷 🐗 Advocates #Weaponizing | Safety | Propaganda #College Campuses #Palestinian 🇵🇸 Vs Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗 #Antisemitism As Cudgel | Weapon of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗 #Absence of Real Threat

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Week 10: Digital Citizenship and Conflict: Social Media Governance

This week's discussion delved into a somber and challenging topic, addressing Digital Citizenship and Conflict: Social Media Governance. It shed light on the darker aspects of digital communities, revealing their potential for exclusion and problems. Regrettably, instances of online abuse are all too common in online groups.

The phrase "online harassment" encompasses a wide range of behaviors and has several meanings. Experiencing derogatory labels, public humiliation, online threats of physical harm, sexual harassment, sustained harassment, emotional distress from a romantic partner online, identity theft, propagation of harmful rumors online, inciting others to harass, and attempting offline harm following online harassment. Moreover, online harassment is more likely to target those who identify as feminine or transgender (Haslop, O’Rourke & Southern 2021).

This week's lecture included a discussion on ways to stop cyberbullying and harassment. In addition to the legal system, strategies include using comedy to raise awareness, getting advice and assistance from e-commissioners, holding platforms accountable, and engaging in corporate social responsibility. Additionally, the "snowflake generation"—a nickname coined to criticize their apparent intolerance and oversensitivity—was the main topic of this week's mandatory reading (Haslop, O’Rourke & Southern 2021). It basically refers to a "new breed of hyper-sensitive, censorious youth," a pejorative term used by people who think millennials are too socially concerned yet don't do anything about it (abbieapyne 2019).

In summary, this week's discussion on Digital Citizenship and Conflict: Social Media Governance revealed the dark side of online communities, where exclusion and adversity are prevalent. Despite challenges like cyberbullying, there are strategies such as legal action, humor-based awareness campaigns, and platform accountability to combat such issues. Addressing the concerns surrounding the "snowflake generation" emphasizes the need for proactive solutions to foster inclusive online spaces.

Reference:

abbieapyne 2019, ‘Generation Snowflake’, Language and the Media, viewed 25 March 2024, <https://abbieapyne.wordpress.com/2019/03/21/generation-snowflake/>.

Haslop, C, O’Rourke, F & Southern, R 2021, ‘#NoSnowflakes: The toleration of harassment and an emergent gender-related digital divide, in a UK student online culture’, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 1418–1438.

#mda20009 #week 10

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Snowflake Challenge #1

Introduction Post * Meet the Mods Post * Master Post on DW

Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

Happy New Year, fandom! As we look to the beginning of a new year (is it really 2024 already?!), it’s time to freshen up our online spaces. This is a good opportunity to create a new profile post or simply update the one you’ve already got. Your profile can be anything you want it to be: a list of the fandoms you participate in, your loves/hates in fandom, a tour of your fandom journey, or anything else you want people to know about you.

Challenge #1

Update your fandom information. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

If you need ideas or inspiration, feel free to visit the links below for examples of how others have done it. There is no right or wrong way to do this, so write what makes sense to you.

Misbegotten misbegotten’s profile post

Dizzydrea: dizzydrea's profile post t (and a peek at dizzydrea’s sticky post)

Vriddy: vriddy's profile post

Spikedluv spikedlus’s profile post (and a peek at spikedluv’s sticky post)

Check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.

(If you want us to reblog your response here at our Tumblr, we’re tracking: snowflakechallenge2024.)

#dailychallenge #challenge01 #snowflakechallenge2024

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February 12, Day 43

Day 43 2015

Just doodling in my journal today.

#doodling #journal #doodles #journaling #create #creative #art #picoftheday #project365 #day43

Day 43 2016

Day 2 of 7 nature challenge, bush out on my walk with Elly today!

#bush #flora #outdoors #walk #nature #leaves #red #shadesoflove #february #picoftheday #project365 #day43

Day 43 2017

I thought sharing was caring! ahah

#girlscoutcookies #smores #cookie #chocolate #haha #february #picoftheday #project365 #day43

This is one of my favorite shots from this month. Makes me smile every time I see it.

Day 43 2018

Once a year when she needs her shots I am blessed to be able to see my baby, Josey!!!

#josey #forevermybaby #furkid #pup #dog #dogsofinstagram #love #lookslikeamugshot #atthevet #treats #pictureofapicture #instax #polaroid #snapshot #february #picoftheday #project365 #day43

Day 43 2019

Some days having a break in a library pays off.

#breaktime #read #books #hunt #find #plentytochoosefrom #ifallelsefailstheresalwaysabook #theresabookforthat #murdermystery #mystery #series #joannefluke #plumpuddingmurder #nationalplumpuddingday #february #feb12 #2019 #nationalday #nationaldaycalendar #picoftheday #project365 #day43

It hasn't gotten past me that I felt the need to excuse or defend my library posts. I always had to put it out there that I was on break. Strikes me as silly now.

Day 43 2020

They keep saying snow but I might as well be in Texas bc it’s only been rain and ice

#outdoors #missouri #winter #ice #rain #iwantsnow #nature #february #february12 #2020 #picoftheday #project365 #day43

Day 43 2021

Not bad for shooting through a windshield of a moving car!

#nature #outdoors #hawk #birdofprey #onthehunt #flyby #bird #sky #lessstressmorefun #whateverthehelliwant #february #february12 #2021 #picoftheday #project365 #day43

Day 43 2022

Finally feeling well enough to celebrate my birthday with the family. Root beer floats and birthday cake truffles!

#birthdaygirl #celebrate #family #smile #love #books #treats #february #february12 #2022 #picoftheday #project365 #day43

I sure miss my fam!

Day 43 2023

Stanley is so cool. Coworker found him attached to a piece of floating plastic, scooped him up and we kept him going until we could release him in an area with rocks to hold onto! Pick up your trash people! Do it for the Stanleys!!!

#anemone #seacreatures #rescue #justamermaidoutheresavinglives #february #february12 #2023 #picoftheday #project365 #day43

Day 43 2024

Watch out for the sharpness of pretty things.

#scissors #dailytheme #flower #create #art #color #february #february12 #2024 #picoftheday #project365 #day43

I was thinking of paper snowflakes when I created this scissor flower. So fun!

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Unit 05 - An Analysis of Winter's Beauty in Light of Climate Change

Hi everyone!

This year’s winter season conveys a different story than the world typically sees when everything is usually covered in a perfect layer of white snow. As a winter baby, I have always been delighted and captivated by the sight of everything covered in snow.

The pleasure of waking up to a snow-covered environment was combined with the happiness of celebrating a winter birthday. This tremendous joy is evidence of the interpretive power of nature, where our feelings become a filter through which we perceive and relate to our surroundings. The promise of snowflakes filled the crisp air, and each one added to the silent spectacle that elevated the ordinary into the spectacular. The quotation, "How much is missed if we only have the eyes for bright colors...the essence of the Earth's beauty lies in disorder", perfectly captures the serene yet chaotic beauty of snowy surroundings (Beck et al., 2018).

But this winter, the usual white brushstrokes from nature's canvas are absent. The snowfall that used to blanket the landscape has decreased in occurrence. This change in winter's attitude is noticed, and it makes me feel both wistful and concerned.

By delving into the scientific details, our course materials clarify the complex mechanisms influencing seasonal variations and weather patterns. The assumption that this course will only address "Nature Interpretation through Science" is refuted by the diverse lens that we use to examine nature, as stated in Unit 05 content (Hooykaas, 2024). The little snowfall this winter raises concerns about the fragile balance of our ecosystem.

There are two emotional effects of seeing fewer days covered in snow. A sincere worry for the ecological balance that this change is upsetting coexists with nostalgia for the winter wonderlands of the past. The love of snow transcends into a representation of larger environmental shifts rather than merely a sentimental attachment.

The textbook emphasizes how crucial it is to use strategic framing when communicating difficult scientific concepts like climate change (Beck et al., 2018). This fits in perfectly with being an interpreter because it makes it necessary to share these changes while inspiring hope. A silent call to action appears where the familiar snowy landscape once was, "Its singular purpose is to stimulate thinking about and around the theme" (Beck et al., 2018). The lack of snow during the winter inspires reflection on how intertwined we are with the natural world and how urgently we must work together to address climate challenges.

Even though there may not be as many snowflakes this winter, the allure of the season endures in the minds of those who value its beauty. This exemplifies that nature's gift of beauty goes beyond aesthetics; it is a call to action, a duty to protect the precarious balance (Beck et al., 2018). This viewpoint, which emphasizes how important it is for us to respond to climate change to preserve the beauty that surrounds us every winter, is consistent with the course's underlying topic of viewing nature through diverse lenses. I truly hope that snowy landscapes will once again become prominent in the future!

I always get excited when it snows and capture the moments on camera!

References:

Beck, L., Cable, T. T., & Knudson, D. M. (2018). Interpreting cultural and natural heritage: For A Better World. SAGAMORE Publishing

Hooykaas, A (2024) Unit 4: Nature Interpretation Through Art and Planning for "All" Scenarios. ENVS*3000. University of Guelph