Your main fandom last year? Irish traditional music, which decidedly does not have a presence on Dreamwidth and which by far occupied the majority of my time (to the exclusion even of reading). I made a ton of progress on flute during the months when humidity levels made playing possible and started regularly playing in two sessions (one pub, one house). As of year's end I had 59 tunes I can play in my sleep, 119 I can play at standard (but not session warp) speed, and 75 that I am working on getting solidly under my fingers.
Your favorite movie watched last year? I watched only ten movies in 2025, one of which (Hundreds of Beavers) I watched twice, and only five of which (Bolt, Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, Evangelion 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, Hundreds of Beavers, and Thunderbolts*) I hadn't seen before. Of those, Hundreds of Beavers and Thunderbolts* were the clear favorites. Thunderbolts* was the only movie I saw in a theater.
Your favorite book read last year? In fiction, Disha Bose's
I Will Blossom Anyway, and in nonfiction, Ronald Hutton's
Pagan Britain. My full 2025 Reading Roundup is
here.
Your favorite TV show of the year? Dragon Prince: Book 7 - Dark was my favorite fictional show, and The American Revolution my favorite nonfiction show.
Your favorite video game of the year?Turns out 2025 was not a banner video game year for me, due to a combination of microsoft nuking my computer (and with it my progress on half a dozen games), work craziness that left me too tired for gaming, and the GC having primacy on the consoles. That said, I replayed Thank Goodness Your Here!, a game that just gets
better with each run through.
Your favorite song, album, or artist to listen to this year? Song: RTÉ's live recording of Cran playing Na Ceannabháin Bhána
Album: Hand of Kalliach's Corryvreckan.
This is a metal album.
Artist: Cran, who are pretty much what I want Irish traditional music to sound like.
Favorite podcast of the year? While not exactly a podcast, I watched the heck out of Ronald Hutton's Gresham College lectures on Youtube.
Your best new fandom discovery of the year? Learning that what I
thought was my copy of Cran's debut CD, The Crooked Stair, was actually an unauthorized compilation album released by an unscrupulous label that replaced multiple tracks from Crooked Stair with tunes by a completely different group. I then managed to finally get a copy of the actual Crooked Stair, finally listened to the whole, real, album, and discovered that the missing tunes from the compilation include banger versions of several of my favorites--among them The Hills of Coore, Fiollaigean, and Lexy McAskill. It's been on heavy rotation ever since.
Your biggest fandom disappointment? I'm so bummed Azhanharad didn't have more page time in Katherine Addison's
Tomb of Dragons. I just love this character, and he was criminally underused.
Your TV book boyfriend of the year?Sturmhond from Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series is a
delight.
Your TV girlfriend of the year?Harley Cameron's Mercedes Monae ventriloquist puppet promos on AEW were
fire.
Your biggest squee moment of the year? Having an email exchange with one of the
ITM players I absolutely idiolize, who improbably seemed as excited to be talking to me as I was to him.
Fandom resolutions for 2026? To write and post some fic. I lost several hundred thousand words of in-progress fanfic when microsoft nuked my computer last year, which pretty much destroyed my motivation to write over the following 12 months.
Your biggest fannish anticipations for the new year? I...don't really have any this year. Let's see what the next 12 months bring!
My complete(ish) 2025 Multimedia List is
here.
これで以上です。
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snowflake_challenge has posted prompt #3, asking us to talk about the things we love about the communities that we are part of, or about the properties we form our communities around.
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Tuesday: Hurt/Comfort
Jan. 5th, 2026 09:44 pmWe’re looking for guest hosts to help keep the community going on Tuesdays and Thursdays. You can sign up for any Tuesday and Thursday pairing that works for you, one week or multiple, totally up to you.
What you need to know:
* You must be able to post on LiveJournal and Dreamwidth
* If you don’t have an account on one of those platforms, just let me know which one and I’ll post on your behalf.
* Guest hosting is low-pressure. Just use the hosting template and insert your theme and three prompts to get us started.
* You don’t need prior hosting experience, just enthusiasm and reliability.
👉 Interested?
Sign up using the form and details in the sign-up post here: (link)
If you have questions or want to double-check expectations before signing up, feel free to reach out. I’d love to have you help keep
Now, for today's theme. Hurt/Comfort. When you hurt them, make sure to comfort them too.
Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Some examples to get the ball rolling...
NCIS, Tony DiNozzo (undercover during season 4 to catch "La Grenouille" ) + Team, bad news from home
CSI: Miami, Horatio Caine/Marisol Delko Caine, forgetting the pain
Teen Wolf, Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, shelter
We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].
While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.
As a friendly reminder about our schedule, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications!
If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word!
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