Snowflake Challenge Day 7

Day 7
Stretch yourself a little and try something new. Go play in a new fandom or with a new pairing. Try working in a new medium. Or check out some fanworks that are new to you. (The recs from Day 2 might be a good place to start.) Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So I actually spent yesterday doing something entirely new! Because I was dissatisfied by the quality of the Katara icons I could find I was like it can't be that hard to make them. Spoiler: it is and I have a new appreciation of the multi talented artists who create them.

But yesterday I taught myself how to make a gif, and then resize and edit it until it fit dreamwidths size requirements! I've only made 4 so far and they're not great but I want to keep making more.

Check them out-

Election Day

( The house I grew up in’s phone number was only one digit apart from the number of the local board of elections... )

read it the right way

When I was little my dad would read us stories, things that we were still too small to read by ourselves. He’d do the voices of characters, funny little impressions, and when the story was dragging he’d throw in bits like Bilbo Baggins slaying a goblin in the first two chapters of the hobbit or Harry actually dueling Malfoy instead of Malfoy setting Flich on them (which he had to hastily retcon when he figured out it was plot relevant), and when a chapter didn’t suit him he start it with, “It was a dark and stormy night.”

It took us (me, my brother, and sister), a bit to catch on but once we did, anytime we suspected he was doing this we’d chorus “Daaad, read it the right way!” and so Bilbo had a nice quiet life in the shire until those dwarves showed up, Harry, Ron and Hermione had to run from Flich straight into a three-headed dog and chapters never begun with “it was a dark and stormy night.”

Which was well and good until we started on A Wrinkle in Time. At this point when we'd hear "it was a dark and stormy night" the automatic reaction is, "Daaad read it the right way!", so he did. Or so we thought. I’m re-reading it now for the first time on my own and hey, guess what? It actually starts with, It was a dark and stormy night. I spent ten years thinking we’d pulled one over on my Dad and A Wrinkle in Time started on a sunny day.

Congrats Dad, ya did it.