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

[kore]

Eternals is indeed a bloated awful mess, and I wanted to drown Ikaris in a bucket, but IDK, I still kind of loved it. I am also the kind of sucker who would buy supermarket plants wilting outside the front doors in the cold because even tho I have a black thumb, I wanted to try to rescue them.

(T: "This Bollywood number looks bad."
Me: "Yes."
T: "I don't mean like, bad taste bad. I mean it looks badly done compared to all the Bollywood videos you have made me watch."
Me: "Yes.")

I am really sorry I couldn't see it on the big screen, along with Dune and Matrix Resurrections. sigh

[dolorosa_12]

Awww, you have a softer heart than I do! I think there were bones of a good film buried somewhere below whatever the hell we got, but it was ruined by too many characters, various actors who seemed to be acting in completely different films, and just a plot where the stakes were simultaneously too high, and too impersonal.

I agree that at least it would have been pretty on the big screen.

[kore]

"Too high and too impersonal," now THAT'S it. And it was kind of trying to be Endgame, except with Endgame we'd known those characters through ten years and so many movies! People keep saying it should have been a miniseries, and, well, yeah. At least then we could have seen more of everyone.

I am not usually that soft-hearted re media, lol, I think it's my contrarian side.

(Sersei: //turns bus into a giant shower of rose petals
T: What happened to all the people on the bus? Are they rose petals now too?
Me: There was nobody in the bus! Okay maybe the driver.
Bus driver: //staggers off dazed
Me: See, he was the only one on the bus, he's fine.
T: He could have suffocated in all those rose petals.)