304. SNOWFLAKE_CHALLENGE #6.

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snowflake_challenge #6: In your own space, post the results of your fandom scavenger hunt.

The list:
1. A favorite character
2. Something that makes you laugh
3. A bookshelf
4. A game or hobby you enjoy
5. Something you find comforting
6. A TV show or movie you hope more people will watch
7. A piece of clothing you love
8. A thing from an old fandom
9. A thing from a new fandom

I gave myself a mini challenge: All of these had to be photos of things I physically owned except for one. (It's crazy how I have nothing offline of one of my oldest and most favourite fandoms, ha.)

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1. A favorite character



Characters: Taz as the Flash (Taz is my ultimate favourite character; I'm Lucille Bluth and play favourites); Wanda Maximoff as The Scarlet Witch, WandaVision flavour and signed by Elizabeth Olsen; Barry Allen aka The Flash from the CW Show… and someone else, maybe? Hm…

I cheated and chose my scarlet faves.

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2. Something that makes you laugh

Abbott Elementary. This is the only submission for this scavenger hunt that won't be of a photo I've taken myself. I love this show. I laugh every episode, which is very unusual for me. The scripted comedy and physical comedy are just hilarious.

Watch on YouTube

A video of Abbott Elementary's season one moments but out of context.

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3. A bookshelf

YOU CAN'T JUDGE ME FOR HOW MESSY THIS IS.



I need to clean my bookshelf again. Oi. /o\

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4. A game or hobby you enjoy

Marvel Snap has been my latest obsession! I never thought I'd be playing this game daily (or after a few days), but here I am three seasons in and still enjoying it.



Agatha is one of the cards I really enjoy from Marvel Snap and I was so excited to open her up.



She-Hulk was my first Token Shop purchase. She's one of my favourite cards to play.

I've been playing Marvel Snap for months now. While I still suck at maths, it's been a lot of fun outwitting opponents and being outwitted myself. It also doesn't hurt that the cards are pretty, too. (If you play, we have to be friends so we can play each other once the battle mode drops on 31 January!) This is me!

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5. Something you find comforting

Of course, my cats. And to bring this back to fandom: Iris was my first cat, who I named "Iris" after Iris West on The Flash. I often call Scarlet "Scarlet Witch" and most commonly "Scarface". Ruby remains unburdened by fandom.



Scarlet often joins me when I play Marvel Snap and watch YouTube. Sometimes she's very involved and tries to eat my iPad and rests her paw on my phone to say "Enough".




Iris amongst her boxes. She very much likes getting inside of that wardrobe. To keep it with The Flash theme, she's with her speed mirage.




This is Ruby, who likes to investigate and climb into our environmental bags after shopping. Sometimes her investigations are so exhausting.

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6. A TV show or movie you hope more people will watch



EVERYONE NEEDS TO WATCH SHADOW AND BONE SO SIX OF CROWS AND CROOKED KINGDOM CAN BE ADAPTED AND I CAN DIE HAPPILY!

Bonus: Ginny & Georgia. Season two was perfect and we have to hide it from Cancelflix!

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7. A piece of clothing you love

I'm crazy about The Flash.



And then this happened:



Ruby chose to sit and groom herself on my jumper, as is her rights. Iris decided to sit on the edge of the bed. Not pictured: Scarlet on the floor below Iris.

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8. A thing from an old fandom



I have so many Charmed novels it's not funny. This was one of my first fandoms. I used to go nuts collecting magazines that featured Holly in them. I have a lot of the Charmed books that I still need to read. (They're all on my bookshelf beneath the dressy bear on the right, third shelf from the top; you just can't see them lmfao.)

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9. A thing from a new fandom



I've loved Batman and DC since the 90s films, but it was only in 2022 that I started to face my fear and stop being intimidated by the comics. So, I'm kind of cheating here as DC is a very old fandom for me (I sat on the outskirts for a very long time but enjoyed the films and most of the television shows), but I've only just started getting into its fandom and its origin stories.

The Long Halloween and The Dark Victory were the first two comic books of Batman I read. (I'd read Flashpoint and some of The Flash: New 52 when season three of The Flash was about to air.) I found Batman to be incredibly intimidating because of how much content there was about him. These two books confirmed that I loved comics, I loved Batman, and Batman's Rogues were the absolute best. (Plus Catwoman? Obsessed.)

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Comments

[misbegotten]

Wonderful cat pictures! Of course they had to come sit on your jumper. :D

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Thank you! And, I mean, what's mine is theirs and what's theirs is theirs, right?

[sodium_amytal]

1: OMG Taz!!! *O* Also you have a signed Scarlet Witch pop???? I'M JELLY.

2: This show looks hilarious! Is it on streaming?

4: Oooh this looks cool! I'm not really good at card games or math.... Will I be endlessly frustrated trying to play? LOL

5: KITTIES!!!!!!!

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I was so very lucky to see some people tweeting about a convention where Elizabeth was going to sign things. Since I'm pretty much never going to go to a con like SDCC (😞), I thought I'd try this one out and order a signed POP for my birthday. It was super cool! I still can't believe I got it!

Abbott Elementary is on Disney+ for me, so I assume it's on D+ everywhere! It's so much fun. 100/10, cannot recommend enough.

And Marvel Snap is like any other game when it comes to being frustrating, I suppose. I'm only good at some card games (not virtual ones) and I am really, really bad at maths, but I've been playing for several months now and have had some great success. It's frustrating like all other games are, especially when going up against bots or players who have card decks I can't predict the order of play for, but I've been playing it every day and really enjoy it.

[pianogurl330]

Aww love the pictures of the cats! ♥

Abbott Elementary always cracks me up! It's my favorite show!

I love your bookcase! :)

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I'm so surprised Abbott Elementary gets laughs and gasps out of me, but the characters are so ridiculous (and grounded despite that ridiculousness) and the EXPRESSIONS WHEN THEY LOOK AT THE CAMERA. I aspire to have Gregory's facial expressions, Barbara's power, Melissa's confidence, and Ava's everything tbh.

[pianogurl330]

Haha I'm the same when I'm watching! I LOVE their expressions when they look at the camera, especially Gregory's his are the best and especially when Ava says something absurd or inappropriate to him LOL! Oh I wish I had all of theirs too! I also love Janine's optimism for everything haha!

[svgurl]

I love the funko pops, especially Taz as the Flash because that is funny. It is really cool you have a signed Wanda one.

Aww, cats! They are adorable delights.

I love the Flash hoodie. Clearly they do too. :D

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You know that when there's a Funko POP shortage of Wanda and Taz that it's me. If they ever come out with a Scarlet Witch Taz, you can see me at my funeral.

[senmut]

Awesome!

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Thanks!

[kingstoken]

What lovely kitties!

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Thank you! You can't see the little devil horns or the pitchfork tails, but know that they're there.

[tsuki_no_bara]

you have the fluffiest, softest-looking cats. so, so cute.

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Thank you! They are very, very fluffy and soft (and leave so much of that fur behind wherever they go... they're so generous 😐).

[rubick]

Ruby was named after me, so I don't see how she's escaped fandom????

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No, no, no. Remember? You were named after her!

[hamsterwoman]

Your cats are so pretty!!

Also, your bookshelf and mine look to be organized ("organized"? XD) along similar principles, which makes me feel better, because I definitely feel like I need to make a "there's a method to this madness, I swear!" (sometimes the method is, I really needed a place to put this thing, and it looked like it wouldn't fall from this spot)

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Thank you x2! I see all these organised bookshelves and I sit here and go "I want this!" but making it happen is so much work (and only lasts so long before it's a mess again). Maybe there's organisation to the madness after all???

(I subscribe to the same method as you do.)

[silveradept]

Very cute cats that are helping you with your scavenger hunt.

There was a lot of trying to make the 1998 Charmed actresses into glamorous people wearing sexy clothing, looking at that magazine cover and comparing it to what I remember from the series.

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Thank you!

I'm listening to the House of Halliwell podcast and it's really interesting every time HMC mentions wardrobe and how she was always "Nope" about it. I love that they wore such normal clothes on that show. (The first few seasons really showed it.)

[silveradept]

It was a nice contrast between what they wore at the house and while they were out dealing with malevolent forces and what they decided to get into for going to the club. (Rather than always looking slightly like they were going to the club when they were doing other things.)

[wearing_tearing]

I LOVE ABBOTT ELEMENTARY SO MUCH! I binged it at the end of last year and it was so so good (and 100% shows with accuracy what it's like to work in public education lol) <3

The Charmed novels are such a blast from the past! It must be super fun to revisit them :D

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I was so mad at myself for binging it because 1) not enough episodes and 2) it's so addictive in a really fun and unpredictable way. I love how short the episodes are but I'm also really mad that they're short???? Everyone is fabulous!

I'm hoping to pick up a Charmed book here and there since I haven't read them all, but they're so much fun to read. I was never big on novelisations of film/TV but they're a lot of harmless fun!

[vegetablearian]

I was staring at the pic of Iris in the mirror like, "How on earth does she tell them apart?" haha. They are all so cute :D

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HAHAHA. Ruby is the easiest one, but Scarlet and Iris (who are mother and daughter) are always so much fun to try and guess. I've got it down now to tails, ears, legs, and meows. (When they're in the dark being creepers staring at you, that's when I mess up 100%.)

[greghousesgf]

Glad to see She Hulk looking more buff. In the earlier comics she just looked like a green chick and not muscular at all which annoyed me.

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I've been reading She-Hulk's run from 1989 which has a really nice design for her.

[shipperslist]

Hooo boy, Charmed brought back some memories... :D

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I've been listening to the House of Halliwell podcast that has been stirring up so much nostalgia. It was such a great show (when it was good).

[scintilla10]

Abbott Elementary is SUCH a fun time! I've been loving it to pieces.

omg, ragdolls! Your cats are the cutest and fluffiest. <3

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I honestly can't believe how good it is! I thought it wouldn't be funny at all, but I'm always gasping and laughing every single episode.

Thank you! They are definitely cute and very, very evil. (They might try and suffocate me with their fluff from time to time. It's deserved.)

[dragonyphoenix]

Yay for kitties!

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You can never go wrong with cats!