silveradept | Snowflake Challenge 2023 #6: Show and Tell (It's All Tell) (Reply)

Challenge #6 asks us to do some show and tell

In your own space, post the results of the following fandom scavenger hunt.

Search in your current space, whether brick-and-mortar or digital. Post a picture or description of something that is or represents:

A favorite character

Something that makes you laugh

A bookshelf

A game or hobby you enjoy

Something you find comforting

A TV show or movie you hope more people will watch

A piece of clothing you love

A thing from an old fandom

A thing from a new fandom

If you post pictures, please use descriptive text, either in the picture using the alt arrive or describing the thing that is being looked at in the text of the post.

A favorite character

Back in the era where I had time, money, and a local anime enthusiasts club, where most of my collections of things come from (except the wall art, most of the wall art is new because I had the space and time and budget to finally decorate my walls the way I wanted to), I have a pencil board (a really useful thing for working in a hard surface in a notebook and not having your pen or pencil marks bleed over to the next sheet) of the character Yui from Fushigi Yugi, one of the first series I watched all the way to the end. I think there's an intentional contract drawn between the mostly sweet, ditzy, and somewhat childlike Miaka and the cooler, more aloof, more mature-seeming Yui, her best friend and fellow trapped inhabitant. The costuming of them both reflects this; Miaka is usually fully covered in long sleeves and long pants or tights, Yui is given short sleeves (of any), form-fitting clothing, and usually has bare leg showing in one or another costume. In about case, the image on the pencil board is Yui in loose and casual clothing that suggests she's far more comfortable and confident with her body than Miaka is, without tripping over the line into suggesting she's trying to specifically dress sexy.

Yui's a favorite of mine because she spends so little time in the spotlight of the story (which is about Miaka and her group of boys) but there's clearly an entire adventure that's happened to her that we don't get to see anything but the effects of.

Something that makes you laugh

There are a couple of pieces of the Shitpost Calligrapher in the household. Only one of them is funny, and it is nothing more than an ornate illuminated "HONK." If course, if you hear the honk and you start running, them you know what the illuminations on the word are. It's art, but it's also really funny.

If not that, I have some prints, one of which is Stitch and Batman trying to figure out who each other is, in pictographs, and another is Harley Quinn, having very clearly just bashed the Joker on the head with a rolling pin, shouting "You're seeing another psychiatrist?"

A bookshelf

The media room has a bookcase of manga (from the aforementioned phase where I had the time and the money to build a collection), a bookcase of video games and CDs (same) and a bookcase of other optical discs of shows (still kind of being added to.) Those bookcases are also completely topped with paperback books, and there are books in front of many of the other media elements because the media from isn't actually big enough to hold everything, not until wall shelves get installed, which is likely not happening until there are windfalls of both money and time.

Oh, and that doesn't count the several boxes more of books that are my partner's that also need shelf space if they're ever going to get out of the boxes. There's a lot that could be displayed, if only for time and money.

A game or hobby you enjoy

My Steam library has more in it than I will ever play in my life, I'm sure. For the moment, though, I'm trying to finish Slay the Spire for all the achievements. That said, I do enjoy a board game here and there as well, and getting to play with friends over the table or over virtual sites, or to have a whole lot of silly fun playing Jackbox Games is great for maintaining social links in this world that increasingly wants us to suffer in sickness. There's also the occasional streamed sport event that draws family commentary crowds.

Something you find comforting

I have an email folder called "Good Things About Me." It's there for those kinds of good comments that you save for when you're not sure anything you're doing is received well, or the kudos count doesn't look great, or your exchange recipient didn't leave any kind of comment about the work. It's for when things are just not feeling great and you need a burst of positivity to remind yourself that not everything is terrible and sometimes you but sometimes that really resonates with someone else.

If you don't have a folder of this already, I highly recommend making one and filling it with whatever will go in there.

A TV show or movie you hope more people will watch

I dunno, I'm usually late to the party when it comes to fandom, and many of the things that I enjoy are things other people have enjoyed plenty more before me. But, if you like shows that are a wink and a nod at superhero shows and think about what happens afterwards, or what happens at the level that's just below all the endorsement deals, but still with the support and funding a superhero needs, watching The Middleman will tickle your funny bone.

A piece of clothing you love

Clothing is ephemeral, really. Shirts come and go. The thing that's been most solid for me, however, has been the tail that bladespark made for me well before I moved to my current location. The belt looks have been the only thing I've needed to have reinforced over the years, and it still gets plenty of time out in the sun at convention. The thing I have yet to figure out is the horns, because headbands pinch just wrong and my hair isn't thick enough to hold things in with clips. That makes wigs the right suggestion, but I'm not that far into cosplay yet that I want to take care of wigs.

A thing from an old fandom

I have the complete collections of Calvin and Hobbes and Ozy and Millie, before the Scholastic reprint that came with Phoebe and Her Unicorn

A thing from a new fandom

How new is new? I think the closest I'm getting to that are the delightful tea dragon pins from Kay O'Neil's The Tea Dragon Society.