[community profile] sunshine_revival Challenge #6

Jul. 20th, 2025 12:27 pm
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Challenge #6

Journaling prompt: What games do you play, if any? Are you a solo-gamer or do you view games as a social activity?
Creative prompt: Write a story/fic around the theme "game night".


I'm not a video gamer at all, and while board games can be fun I never went out of my way to play them. My nephew, on the other hand, is really into games of all kinds, so every time he and my family visit we've always played board games. Apples to Apples is a fun game and probably my favorite. Uno is fun, too, but depending on who you're playing with, it can be frustrating, lol (my father's wife once played with us and she was the most annoying person ever to play the game with - she was a generally a terrible person and there are worse, more serious examples than Uno, but I digress, lol). I also enjoy crossword puzzles and quizzes, which tend to be a solo gaming thing.

Sporcle has some fun quizzes, so I try those out sometimes. I like the enormous crosswords best, but there are all types of quizzes there.

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Sunshine Revival Challenge #6

Jul. 20th, 2025 10:55 am
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Challenge #6

Journaling prompt: What games do you play, if any? Are you a solo-gamer or do you view games as a social activity?

I don't really consider myself a "gamer".  I used to play some video games occasionally, but I haven't really lately, I haven't even been playing games on my phone lately, which is something I used to enjoy, but its kind of fell to the wayside.  The most recent game I played was "The Beekeeper's Picnic" which is a cozy Sherlock Holmes game.  I'm ashamed to say I finished the first level and didn't continue, but I do hope to get back to it at some point because I've heard that it is really sweet and enjoyable.  

I used to enjoy board games, but I currently don't have anyone to play them with.  I wish I knew some people locally that I could play board games with, because there seems to be a way larger selection of games for adults now then there was years ago.

Anyways, I hope this answer wasn't too much of a downer.

[community profile] sunshine_revival Challenge #5

Jul. 18th, 2025 02:38 am
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Challenge #5

Journaling prompt: Be a carnival barker for your favorite movie, book, or show (or any other of your choice - game, comic, anything else)! Write a post that showcases the best your chosen title has to offer and entices passersby to check it out.
Creative prompt: Write a fic or original story about a character reluctantly doing something they are hesitant about.


Have you all seen this year's Oscar-winning film for best animated feature Flow? Because you really should if you haven't.

The film won the Oscar for best animated feature, but it was also nominated for best international film (Latvia). It's an absolutely beautiful movie about a cat trying to survive alongside other animals in a post-apocalyptic world where the water level keeps rising, and finding unlikely friendships with the other animals in the process (found family!). The visual storytelling is excellent. There is no dialogue, just the animal sounds and music. The animals are not anthropomorphized; they act and react as the animals they are. The film really does a good job making each of the animals a character and highlights their emotions, yet their basic natures remain. There is suspense and sadness, but also humor (and even in a post-apocalyptic world a cat will still want to knock things off a shelf). And the resolution, though sad in some ways, is also really lovely and hopeful.

There is a ton of terrific gif sets, fan art, and meta for the film on Tumblr, but [tumblr.com profile] terapsina summed it up perfectly in this gif set.

I love this movie so much.

Also:
Black Cat Adoptions Are Up. An Oscar-Winning Animated Movie May Have Helped
The Global Success of Academy Award-Winning Animation Flow Has Helped to Increase The Adoption Rate of Black Cats (no links, just a captioned pic set with a very cute black cat alongside the cat from the film).

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Sunshine Revival Challenge #5

Jul. 17th, 2025 03:51 pm
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Challenge #5

Journaling prompt: Be a carnival barker for your favorite movie, book, or show! Write a post that showcases the best your chosen title has to offer and entices passersby to check it out.

This one isn't a favourite per se, but I did recently watch and enjoy it, it's Sherlock & Daughter.



Title: Sherlock & Daughter 

Media: Television series

Approx length: 8 episodes, approx 8 hours

Where to find it: CW/HBO Max

What is it, in summary?: A young woman from the US named Amelia arrives at 221B claiming to be Sherlock Holmes' daughter.  Holmes doubts this claim.  At the same time Holmes is in a terrible bind, his dear friends Doctor Watson and Mrs Hudson have been kidnapped, and if he wants them to remain alive the kidnappers have said he is not to investigate any crimes.  He takes Amelia on as his maid/assistant and she goes out into the world collecting clues and information so Holmes can make deductions and appear uninvolved.      

What do you love about it?: First off I wanted to say if you are looking for a book accurate Sherlock Holmes adaptation this is not the show for you, I would instead suggest the Granada series which I talk about here.  This show runs more on Holmes style vibes than anything else, plus this is supposed take place several years after the events of the books.  It is also a very "CW" version of Sherlock Holmes, by which I mean there was a lot of focus on the young characters, in this case Amelia, who I did like, lots of drama and action.  I'm probably not explaining it well, but if you've watched CW shows from the past you get their style and vibe. 

Anyways, with all the caveats aside, I did enjoy this for what it was, and I found the overarching mystery interesting enough as they tried to figure out how Watson and Mrs Hudson's kidnapping was connected to other crimes.  Also, the characters were likeable, I did like the actor who played Holmes, he's not my fave by any means, no one will probably ever top Brett for me, but I still enjoyed his take on Holmes.

As of right now, the CW has not renewed the show, however, I will say the main overarching storyline of the season is wrapped up by the end.  There were a couple of minor plotlines left open for the possibility of a second season, but you can enjoy the one season as a complete story.

Content warnings: There is murder and violence, I say fairly typical of murder mysteries.  There is a scene where a very minor character commits suicide.  

Who do I ship?: Holmes/Watson. Watson is barely in the season and I still ship them!  There are a few small moments throughout the season where you can tell that Holmes is thinking about Watson and they just tug at my heart.  There is a scene at the end of the first episode where Holmes says to himself "My dear Watson, where are you?"  then looks longingly at Watson's medical bag on his desk.  Like come on!  I tried to find a gif of it, but tumblr for once has failed me :( (if I find a gif after I will place it here).

There is also some fun tension between Holmes and a certain villain character that piqued my interest.
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Five years ago today Representative John Lewis -- an icon of civil rights -- died, but his message lives on and we declare it today all across America with this Good Trouble Lives On National Day of Action. As Representative John Lewis said: "Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America".

Click here to find today's event details including a map that shows where a "Good Trouble" event is taking place near you today.

Superman (2025)

Jul. 16th, 2025 07:01 pm
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My brother and I went to see the Superman movie yesterday, and I enjoyed it.  It wasn't a prefect movie, there where a few small things I would have changed, but overall it was entertaining.  The movie doesn't start out with his whole backstory like most Superman films, you start in the middle of the story as it were, and some background information is sprinkled throughout.  They also have "meta-humans" (DC's version of mutants) already a part of the story which was also a nice change, usually in most Superman movies he's the only one with powers.  Lex Luther is very hateable in this one, he is the tech billionaire type who thinks he is smarter than everyone else and willing to do terrible shit to get his way.  I don't think he's my favourite Lex, but I think they did a good job modernizing him. Anyways, overall a fun movie.

On another note, my brother and I usually go to weekday matinees, usually it's just us and some elderly couples in the audience. Well, I kind of forgot the kids were on summer holidays, plus it was "cheap Tuesdays" so the place was pretty full, the most full I've seen a matinee in years, but surprisingly all the kids were well behaved, the movie must have really captured their attention. 

Sunshine Revival Challenge #4

Jul. 13th, 2025 12:51 pm
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Challenge #4

Fun House
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.
Creative: Write from the perspective of a house or other location.

I thought I would do top ten Fanlore Featured Articles.  So, if you don't know, the Fanlore editors are constantly nominating and voting on the Featured Article, if it gets enough "yes" votes then it is featured on the Main Page of Fanlore (similar to Wikipedia).  This has been going on since 2017, so there been quite a lot of them.  This is very much biased and based on vibes and the ones I like best, but all featured articles are interesting to some degree.

1. Sherlock Holmes
2. Last Outpost Of All That Is
3. goodbye, my brothers...
4. Endverse
5. Tarsus IV
6. Sex Pollen
7. Star Trek: Tik Tok
8. Iolaus
9. Podfic Cover Art
10. Folgers "Home for the Holidays" Commercial

It was harder to choose than I thought!  There are so many good articles that have been featured over the years!

I won't be able to do the creative prompt today, my brain just won't let me write lately.  My poor Fandom Trumps Hate recipient is still waiting on their fic, although I have told them they probably won't get it till autumn now.  I'm like "Brain, please write!" and my brain is like "No! No write, only stress about buying a house and moving!"  Sigh.

[community profile] sunshine_revival Challenge #4

Jul. 13th, 2025 11:41 am
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Challenge #4

Fun House
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.
Creative: Write from the perspective of a house or other location.


Finding new ways to be creative is definitely making smile these days. In addition to taking up needlepoint last month, which I love doing and talked about on Day 1 (and I have ordered additional canvases to work on!), I've also finally transplanted a terrarium I made last year and plan to create more of these.

I work in a law firm, and every year we have summer associates come in, of course. Law firms want to entice summer associates to come back once they graduate, so they're treated to a lot of nice stuff: dinner events, outings to baseball games, etc. My firm also does events during the workday, and one of last year's events was a "crafting terrariums" session. A woman came in with materials and there were trays set up at all the places for each person to work. You got to pick out a container, any succulents you wanted, and then she taught everyone the steps for planting and how to care for the plants, then we spent the rest of the time decorating the terrariums with moss, etc. It was a lot of fun and I created a nice terrarium of succulents that not only survived under my black thumb, but outgrew the container.

large pics of terrariums under the cut )

I'm planning to get more succulents and create some more terrariums. Pretty soon I'll have a whole shelf of these.

I've also been trying to make my surroundings, both at home and at work, as beautiful and as comfortable as possible, and that's making me smile too.

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June postal mail from fen brought me a beautiful card from [personal profile] elayna. It's colored by hand and she indicated that it was done in pencil -- must be some very special kind of pencil -- there's a depth of color and a shine to it that doesn't look like other pencil-work I've seen. And she pointed out that with one of the images being a compass and one of the images being a wolf or wolf-dog it made her think of due South. Also, she put a wolf sticker on it and used a maple-leaf postage stamp. I <3 everything about this card very much!

Sunshine Revival Challenge #3

Jul. 10th, 2025 10:16 am
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Challenge #3

Journaling prompt: What are your favorite summer-associated foods?
Creative prompt: Draw art of or make graphics of summer foods, or post your favorite summer recipes.

I actually talked about my this last time and my love of summer fruits.  I also love corn on the cob when it is it in season.  I made this recipe for corn/chickpea salad the other day, at least I sort of did, I excluded the herbs, olives, and pickled onions, and added some soft cheese cubes.  I also added a tiny bit of maple syrup to the dressing to cut the vinegary/sourness, I saw that on a YouTube shorts vid.  It was very good, and I've been eating it for lunch for the last couple of days.

[community profile] sunshine_revival Challenge #3

Jul. 9th, 2025 09:09 pm
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Challenge #3

Journaling prompt: What are your favorite summer-associated foods?
Creative prompt: Draw art of or make graphics of summer foods, or post your favorite summer recipes. 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.


Ice cream!!!!

And: fresh berries, peaches, limeade (yum).

Also, did you know that there is a Museum of Ice Cream? They have locations in many cities, most in the U.S. but there is one in Singapore. You have to reserve tickets, but once you're in you can eat unlimited ice cream, among other fun things. I'm in New York City where you can slide down into a big pool of sprinkles.

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