Snowflake Challenge 2024 #5: Trash Panda? No, treasure panda.

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It's scavenger hunt time at Challenge #5, which means now is a good time to remind everyone that Dreamwidth does have a limited amount of image hosting for paid accounts (and free ones?) for storing pictures related to this challenge, if you don't have anywhere else to put them. And also, there are some dandy image manipulation programs out there for free if you want to collage or otherwise turn your many pictures into one image before uploading.

Search in your current space, whether brick-and-mortar or digital. Post a picture (a link to a picture will be fine!) or description of something that is or represents:

1. Something your favorite character would like


2. Something that makes you laugh


3. A fandom place you would like to visit


4. A fandom creator (pro or not) you'd like to meet


5. Something you find comforting


6. Something from a favorite TV series or movie from your childhood


7. A piece of clothing you love


8. A book or song with a color in the title


9. Something only someone in your fandom would understand

Shall we see what turns up, then, when we go looking?

Something your favorite character would like

I don't have a single favorite character, but I think that a fair number of the characters that I do like would be very excited at the artwork available as illuminated, exquisitely calligraphed shitpost material, at least one of which is currently hanging on my wall. And if they weren't admiring and buying the stuff themselves, they'd probably be trying to learn how to set a calligraphic hand so they could graffiti with class themselves. (Millie and Calvin absolutely would.)

Something that makes you laugh

It only happened once, but it was a fantastic idea, and I get plenty of mileage out of it getting told I'm on the naughty list for liking it, but have you watched the show Rocket Around The Christmas Tree? They give engineers all kinds of holiday decorations, goals to achieve, and model rocket engines to propel those decorations to their goals. It is exactly as much fun as you might imagine.

A fandom place you would like to visit

Those kinds of questions almost always depend on what I'm going to be when I go there. Much like how entities like the Society for Creative Anachronism basically take as a given that all of the personas that exist in the Known World are people sufficiently noble as to have a life of ease and leisure, rather than being tied to the land without freedoms, going places like Remnant, Pern, or the Enterprise or the Bebop are going to hae very different experiences. If I'm a hero, things go better. If I'm a redshirt, things go less better. If I'm a nameless villager, then I probably get eaten by the world-spanning danger long before it gets fixed by the heroes. With the exception of some series like Avatar: the Last Airbender, there also aren't a whole lot of people with my professional training in fictional worlds. By the Enterprise era, supposedly the computer can handle most queries and provide factual information in response. It probably also does recommendations and other such things, so what need would you have for a librarian in a world with powerful computers such as these? In other worlds, I'd probably end up keeping my professional training, but I'd probably then start insisting upon actual good practice in those places. Imagine a Pern where the Records are arranged in such a way that makes things easy to find, so the authors can't do plots about lost or forgotten knowledge…

A fandom creator (pro or not) you'd like to meet

By "meet," I probably mean "let them talk to each other for a long time while I sit and silently squee", but I'd love to sit in on conversations between ND Stevenson and Molly Ostertag (the picture is the Princess Prom episode from She-Ra of the two of them, so it's probably a lot outdated to how they look today). (Possibly in the same way that Erika Moen (most famous for Oh Joy Sex Toy) and one of her friends did a "Boats and Boners" panel at a convention that was a conversation between friends and a campfire and just happened to have quite a few of us listening in.)

Something you find comforting

It's at least some of Lisa Frank's palette, in a good way, but the messages and the drawings are both good, and so I should probably see about getting some useful merchandise from The Latest Kate, which also is just a complete archive of positive, uplifting messages and cute drawings on the sites listed from there. I follow The Latest Kate in a few places because it's good to come across my timeline when I need it.

Something from a favorite TV series or movie from your childhood

Some Days, You Just Can't Get Rid Of A Bomb. Which was funny and loved long before it became a meme on the Internet. (Also, I very much appreciate the Batman '66 visual gags of meticulous signage on everything, even for extremely specific things that you wouldn't normally believe someone had crafted a sign for.)

A piece of clothing you love

Have I introduced you to The Communist Party yet? It's one of those shirts that manages to convey its message very well, and I agree with the artist statement—the red cups really sell the idea properly.

A book or song with a color in the title

This is unlikely to be a surprise to anyone who knows me, but I do appreciate the Orkestra Obsolete cover of Blue Monday, which gives it a completely different feel from using authentically pre-synthesizer era instruments.

Something only someone in your fandom would understand

Well, it probably makes just as much sense to everyone else, but even with a cute redhead as a mascot, sadly, the cereal isn't very good for you.

Comments

[yelp]

Oh I LOVE those illuminated shitposts. Even "shrimps is bugs" made an appearance! Thanks for introducing me to this shop (my wallet may not thank you XD)

> By the Enterprise era, supposedly the computer can handle most queries and provide factual information in response. It probably also does recommendations and other such things, so what need would you have for a librarian in a world with powerful computers such as these?

I mean, some might say that in our world, computers can handle most queries and provide factual information in response. Yet librarians are greatly needed! I'm willing bet that humans are still required in Star Trek to bridge that gap still. (Btw I would looove to see a series where a librarian gets isekai'd into various worlds and resolves the main conflict by the power of methodical organization alone.)

I had never seen "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb" before, I cracked up. Those women just calmly eating while everyone runs out screaming... the nuns why... the tuba comes back???

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The ones we have were given as gifts, but yes, the wallet looks at that and goes "oh, no."

I'm sure there is a ship's librarian there, but I'm not sure they would have much to do but perhaps take care of some of the requests and probably do some PADD troubleshooting.

I totally woulda love to see that isekai series as well. Librarian who brings peace and stability to the world by rigorous organization of things.

It's a great extended gag sequence, and very much in the spirit of what kind of ridiculousness Batman '66 would get up to. The nuns, the marching people, the baby strollers, the ducks! It's great.

[wendelah1]

I nearly wet my pants watching "some days you just can't get rid of bomb," and then he actually said it! I know I saw this gag when I was a kid but I'd forgotten about it.

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It's one of the better extended sequences of the movie. The television series itself is full of gems and worth watching, too.

[thewayne]

I loved that Batman Movie meme! And that Communist Party shirt is brilliant!

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It is a fun movie, the ham is plentiful and the scenery gets chewed quite a bit.

The Communist Party shirt also makes excellent choices about who is the one with the lampshade on their head.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'm 99.44% positive i've heard that cover of blue monday but whether i have or haven't it's still fabulous. i love how recognizable it is even tho it's played on obsolete instruments.

that communist party t-shirt, hee. especially marx with the lampshade on his head. you party animal, karl.

oh man, the shitpost calligrapher has a shop. daaaaangerous.

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Less obsolete instruments there than I originally thought. I think there's still a fair number of people who play theremin (or build their own), or do a novelty routine with the singing glasses, and there's a fair few hammered dulcimer players that I've known, so old instruments more than obsolete ones.

Marx is obviously the life of the party compared to the sour and serious Lenin, Stalin, and Mao.

And yes, that is a dangerous shop to link to, but I know people would appreciate it.