A romp through the insanity patch!

Challenge #6

Top 10 Challenge. 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. Also, feel free to entice engagement by giving us a preview of what your post covers.

My top 10 film noirs!

(10) The Big Sleep (1946 original)

(9) The Maltese Falcon

(8) Diabolique (original 1955)

(7) M (original 1931)

(6) Key Largo

(5) Laura

(4) Shadow of a Doubt

(3) The Third Man

(2) Sunset Boulevard

(1) Double Indemnity

I was originally writing commentary for each, then I lost the post/it got overwritten and I couldn't piece it back together. So I just did the list, lol.

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Challenge #5

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it and include a link to your wishlist if you feel comfortable doing so.

1. If you read and like any of my fics, please leave kudos and/or comments! I love both!

2. I also welcome any art, podfics, etc. on any of my fics. If anything inspires you I love seeing how people interpret my stuff into new works. Please provide me with a link to the work so I can add it to the fic and boost it! My transformative works policy is on my profile page; if you're interested in podficcing, please see my additional notes re podfics.

3. And most importantly, I wish for more justice, kindness, and peace in the world.

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Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

I'm going to add my voice to the Tumblr discussion. I've been on there since like 2013 or 2014, and I'm still there. Yeah, sometimes it's a hot mess, but blocking is easy and I've learned to curate my experience there and avoid the drama. I follow a lot of photographers/curators of photographs there, and they share gorgeous works that they or other people have created. I also still love the fandom gif and photo sets people put together (in particular, there have been a lot of terrific Star Trek:TOS sets lately), I love the cat posts of course, and so much terrific fandom meta and analysis of literature and media comes across my dashboard all the time, especially Shakespeare - there are a bunch of Shakespeare nerds on the site, and a mutual there is the one who organized the Shakespeare summer read that I've been participating in for a few years now. I also love how every year everyone celebrates the Ides of March. Artwork of the stabbing scene from Julius Caesar starts circulating a few days before, as well as pictures of Miette the cat with a knife in her mouth.

And who could forget the April Fool's Day Boop Fest? The Boop Button was an opt-in feature, so if people didn't want to participate they didn't have to, and it was just there for the one day. If you opted in, people could boop you. There was a boop-o-meter that showed how many boops you'd received and how many people you'd booped (with a little design of a cat). Whenever you hit the boop button on someone else's page to boop them, you'd see a cat's paw reach out and boop the screen. You could receive badges once you hit different numbers of boops (the badges all had a cat's paw in them). It was hilarious and a lot of fun.

I'll probably be on the site until the day it goes down in flames, lol.

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Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

Shout-out to everyone engaging with and creating fanworks for the forgotten things.

To fans of under-represented characters and/or ships! Thank you for creating this content!

To fans in small fandoms and/or old fandoms!
Forever Knight! - brightknightie still runs the fkficfest every year, and she and other wonderful writers like senmut and greerwatson and so many others write new and wonderful stories for this 1990s fandom every year, and do it with the greatest love.
Hey Arnold! - some of us are still engaging with and creating fanworks for this great Nickelodeon cartoon from the 1990s. We're more scattered around social media, less of a cohesive fandom, but we are still here and enjoying ourselves.
AtLA! - this show is 20 years old and so many of us are still here rewatching it and creating transformative works! I love us!
Star Trek! - even the original show from the 1960s is still huge, and there are new generations discovering it and loving it, but many of the so-called "fandom olds" are still here too, and continuing to love and enjoy their fandom.

Thank you!

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