Searching and finding

[dolorosa_12]

We're coming to the tail end of this year's snowflake_challenge. Today's prompt warms my librarian heart, because it involves peak librarian skills: searching and finding.



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

My results can be found in this Instagram photoset. See the description below for details of which photo fulfills which item.

Look around your current space, whether digital or brick-n-mortar. Post a pic or description of:

1. a fannish item: A photo of some fanart of characters Aliette de Bodard's Dominion of the Fallen series. The art is by likhainstudio. Likhain also designed my wedding invitations, and I love to be able to say that my invitations were created by a Hugo Award-winning fanartist!

2. something round: An orange studded with cloves, which smells amazing, lasts forever (I have another one of these which was made by my mother in the 1960s, although this one I made myself about ten years ago), and which decorates the living room bookshelf.

3. something that is your favorite colour: Houseplants in the kitchen.

4. the last game you played (video, phone, table top, etc.): I almost never play games of any kind (I basically find every single type of game stressful; they've never been a fun leisure activity for me), so I cheated here and put a picture of my favourite local swimming pool. Swimming is my kind of 'game'.

5. a book you are currently reading: Accidental Gods by Anna Della Subin.

6. album art of the first song that comes up on shuffle: 'Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book', from the Dead Can Dance album Aion.

7. the last movie you watched: The Eternals (a bloated, tedious mess, much as I love Gemma Chan).

8. TV show you're currently watching: The second season of Cheer on Netflix.

9. the homescreen, lockscreen, or desktop wallpaper from your device: I have 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch as my desktop wallpaper, and I think it's basically been my wallpaper — with some brief exceptions — for close to fifteen years. Amusingly, the album art for question 6 is also taken from Bosch's artwork — a weird coincidence.

Comments

[spikedluv]

I can't see your photos 'cause I'm not on Instagram. :(

Very cool about your wedding invitations!

I did not know that an orange studded with cloves would last forever?!!

[dolorosa_12]

I'm sorry about that — it used to be the case that people could view Instagram photos without an account, but I think they've turned off that functionality recently. I find embedding images in Dreamwidth close to impossible, unless I have the html code pre-generated to copy-paste, hence using Instagram as a workaround.

It depends how you make the clove-studded oranges. You have to stick enough into the orange that the entire surface is covered with cloves, with no orange skin visible, not even a tiny sliver. Then the orange dries slowly inside the cloves, the whole thing shrinks until it's smaller than a tennis ball, and it then lasts forever.

[used_songs]

That settles it; I'm making a clove orange!