Challenge #9
Rec Us Your Newest Thing.

Usually around this time of year I end up sinking a lot of time into a city-builder or Civilization-type video game. I just get sucked in and spend hours upon hours, and I feel pretty bad about it, because I'm not really using my brain in any puzzling capacity (even though I think I am.) And there's no like, story or anything that makes me feel like I had a transformative experience.

This year though, I heard about a game called One Hour One Life, and that ended up being my Thing in January.

I clocked over 60 hours in three weeks, because I can never do portion control on basically anything, ever. It's a civilization/city builder game but with a big social element. You get born as a baby to another player, and only live for an hour. Each minute is a year, and you automatically die at 60 of old age. (You can also die before then of starvation, infections, etc.) So you have to work with other players to get the community up and running and keep it alive.

It's SO FUCKING FUN.

( me rambling about this game lol )

My favourite baby names to use:

GIRLS:
Saga, Sigyn, Apollonia, Delphina, Bronwyn (If there's already a Benton), Hope (when there's a population bottleneck), Evelyn (when there's a population bottleneck), Lillith (If there's already an Adam)
I tried to use Sif, but it also autocorrects it to Sifa, which I don't like as much.

BOYS:
Benton, Bronson (If there's already a Benton), Sagan (If there's already a Saga), Holden, Apollo, Adam (when there's a population bottleneck), Seth (If there's already an Adam)

MAN! I really love this game! It's starting to get to the point now where it's ONLY fun if there's people willing to commit to the role play, and it's tedious to try and hope for the best. I hope that when I revisit it months or years from now, there's still enough people on the server.

The game was entirely programmed and developed by ONE PERSON, so for his sake, too, I hope it keeps attracting new players. It only cost $20ish, there's no ongoing fees or anything, so he would need new players to keep joining to be able to keep running it.

Challenge #3

Create a wish list of fandom things (podfic, graphics, playlists, canon recs translations, research help, vids, sky's the limit!) that you'd like to receive.

I really miss kinkmemes! Last year I discovered the Due South / Canadian 6 Degrees Prompt Meme on AO3-- I didn't even know AO3 HAD prompt memes before that. So my wish list is any of the prompts I left there, which are the six most recent ones, and the only ones from this decade, lol. Some are silly so I'll put the two ones I want the most here:

( ballet dancer Kowalski AU )

( Kowalski ego/id split )

Challenge #4

IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself.

Hello, I'm VivaRocksteady! I have been in fandom for over twenty years, so we may have crossed paths in the LiveJournal days when I was under a different name (it was very close to my IRL name, because I was young and foolish!) My most active fandoms back then were Andromeda, various small film fandoms, and Star Trek 2009.

I write fanfic and consume fanfic and fanart. I'm on tumblr, discord, and pillowfort (although I've sort of abandoned pillowfort, it wasn't really delivering on what it promised.) I'm looking for communities with conversation!

If I'm "known" for anything in fandom, it's for these fics:
- The Truman Show AU in Ace Attorney (Edgeworth/Phoenix, depressed and gaslit Edgeworth)
- The Nurse!Phoenix AU in Ace Attorney (Edgeworth/Phoenix, suicidal Edgeworth)
- The foster kid!Holden AU in Mindhunter (gen, Bill & Holden father-son focus)
- The Jake was adopted by Holt and Kevin AU series in Brooklyn 99. (gen, Holt & Jake father-son focus)

Sensing any themes yet, lol?

Challenge #5

Search in your current space, whether brick-and-mortar or digital. Post a picture (a link to a picture will be fine!) or description of something that is or represents:
6. Something from a favorite TV series or movie from your childhood

I'm interpreting this kind of loosely and posting some moodboard-type images I made for Due South characters. And two OCs (in the Due South universe), it would be interesting to see if anyone picks up any impressions of them from the pics.
( Fraser, RayK and Ray V )
( OCs )