Streets are filled with --

Dear Chocolatier,

( FFVII, Historical RPF (Go palyers), Culture/Machineries Crossover, Prince of Tennis, Original Work )

I... am broken, because I plugged myself in and didn't come out for these. Never code on holiday, people. Never.

There's the traditional Yuletide-app style Chocolate Box 2019 app, which gives you the tagset and all prompts; updated every 15 minutes as long as my computer is turned on.

There's also the new, experimental, Elasticsearch powered Chocolate Box Thing Searcher, which lets you do full text search of either fandom name/relationship OR (!!!) the whole text of people's prompts. Never fail to find your spanking-loving fellow participants again.

I have no energy to even think of my own signup, so falling over now.

Life update:

* Life-crushing news from yesterday, after medical evaluation, nowhere near as crushing as feared. Sigh of relief here
* Last big travel ticket for the next little while settled with bosses at work. Cue second sigh of relief
* Learnt how to start knitting socks. I am to knitting as most emperors are to farming. This is not a natural activity for me, but there is something deeply satisfying about watching something form (become deformed?) beneath my hands
* Signed up for Chocolate Box, but I'm pretty much overwhelmed by the sheer breadth and volume of options. My signup is skeletal; I'm waiting till the weekend to try and... make sense of it.


Snowflake 4: In your own space, create a fannish wishlist.

* Something The Culture. Anything The Culture. Meta, fic, someone reading it for the first time... COME TO LIFE, LITTLE FANDOM O' MINE.
* Fic recs in fandoms I don't know - preferably fic that are dense enough in themselves to get me into a fandom
* Fandom recs: I find it enormously hard to get into anything anymore without people getting on my back about it
* More people talking in general, whether about fandom or not :)

I was trying for a longer journal entry, but I am just spent today, apparently. Huge thanks to everyone who dropped in yesterday to distract me - so, so appreciated.