Snowflake Challenge - Five Fannish Guilty Pleasures

Brrr, it's cold this morning. Beautiful but cold. By beautiful - I mean the sun is out, the sky is blue, there's a touch of snow on the ground. Yet there's a crisp chill to the air, and a crisper chillier wind - taking the temperatures well below the twenties, and to about the sixties in my apartment. So I have a sweatshirt on, and sweats this morning, and debating if I really need a hot shower - not because I don't enjoy them, but they tend to dry the skin and hair out in the winter months. And I had one on Thursday. My skin tends to be oily as does my hair - so I often take them every other day or every two days. When I was younger? I took them every day, sometimes twice a day - (morning and at night), but that's because my skin was oilier than as was my hair (I didn't wash it twice a day).

My mother's skin has always been drier as has her hair, it's also straight.
Mine is both fine (mother) and wavy (father), and oily (father), with oilier skin (father).

Yesterday's fandom snowflake challenge - amused me:

"Five Things! The five things are totally up to you. 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.

With the description of the challenge being: ”Choose Your Challenge: we will give you the challenge of making a list (who doesn't love lists?!?) and then you get to choose what list to make” this was the challenge that almost half of you voted for. Fine. Whatever. Do what you want. Kidding, kidding. I am not even slightly bitter that my fave got crushed.

But seriously, maybe you want to list your favorite 5 Friends episodes, or your Top 5 fandom friends, maybe you want to list all the Broadway shows you've seen or the 5 Times K-Pop fought global hunger. Go for it. This challenge is the epitome of You Do You (in 5-ish easy steps)."

Hee.

Of course I do this "five thing bit" all the time. I don't need someone to challenge me to do it.

And I was going to do five guilty pleasures. Then halfway through writing them - thought, who would care? And it's not exactly new information. I tend to write about the guilty pleasures that I'm fannish about and comfort me all the time.

This week a friend posted on FB that whatever you don't mind failing at and will do anyway - is what you should do. Because clearly you enjoy the process and don't care that much about the end result or what anyone else thinks about it. I talked to her about it yesterday, because usually people post the opposite - that you should do what you are afraid of failing at.
Although I think it is a mixed bag? And in the Barbara Streisand audio book, she discusses how she loved the process often even more than the end result.

Anyhow, what are five things that I enjoy doing and don't care if I fail at - and will do anyway, because I love the process?

* Writing (it doesn't matter really what it is - I just love the process of writing and playing with the words)

* Story telling - whether aloud to myself, in my head, written on the page, I adore it. I just love stories.

* Painting and drawing....anything, but particularly people

* Walking or hiking

* Analyzing things - figuring them out, and breaking it apart, like a puzzle in a way. Discussing character arcs, etc.

The books I'd most love to see filmed...

I swiped this from someone else on the correspondence list, which books would I most like to see filmed?

There's all these book series that are filmed that I've no interest in or have film rights, that I've even less interest in. Or one's that have been done over and over again, *cough*Austen*cough* and sigh Turn of the Screw and Haunting of Hill House, although those may be due to either public domain or the apparently easy acquisition of secondary film rights.


Here's mine:

1. The Chronicles of Lymond by Dorothy Dunnett - this would make an excellent series. Following the exploits of a classical but deeply flawed hero, and his various family members during the 16th Century in Scotland.

2. The Sparrow and Children of God by Maria Doria Russell - another interesting mini-series could be done from these science fiction novels, with their layered characters and political themes.

3. The Vicky Bliss Mysteries by Elizabeth Peters - about an art historian and museum co-director in Germany, who solves mysteries with a Gentleman Art Thief, who she pursues as a thief but also falls for.

4. Anne McCaffrey's Dragon Rider's of Pern Series or her Crystal Singer Series

5. Agatha Christie's Curtain