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☆ Welcome new friends from the Snowflake Challenge friending meme! Which I still haven't actually done yet lmao, I have it bookmarked to do then keep forgetting... I've fallen behind on my reading page as well, this is not an auspicious start to going on a friending spree. My bad. Hopefully I'll be caught up in the next few days! I'm only finally writing up this post because I'm covering an evening shift for a coworker so I've got extra time just sitting on desk. (I work at a library.)

☆ I made a post a little bit ago about getting interested in (physical) journaling, and since then I have gone so far overboard with purchases!!! I ended up deciding on a Hobonichi Weeks for an actual planner, since it's smaller and I didn't really need the daily pages that that larger Hobonichis have. Then I temporarily lost my mind and also bought a journal from Notebook Therapy because it's sooo pretty, I adore the color and hydrangeas are my favorite flowers, it's just so cute. PLUS several orders of stickers and washi tape from multiple shops, a bunch of pens and highlighters, brush pens for calligraphy writing??? I haven't even written in cursive since like, middle school?? The journaling girlies on YouTube have completely gotten their claws into me; I see someone's gorgeous reading journal, I decide I need all the supplies they used, I make an order. Help me.

☆ Speaking of things I'll never actually get to, I grabbed a fic challenge table from elasticella's Femslash February salad bar challenge because it looks like a cute idea. Basically you mix and match different prompt types (the salad ingredients) to make 10 fanwork prompts, and you can mix them yourself or have them randomized for you if you request a table before the end of February. I'll probably not finish anything before the month's over, but I wanted to have a list on hand anyway to work on later. (Went with an AU prompt table for myself, I do love a good AU.)

☆ Ending with sad news--that online art TCG site I posted about before, NeonMob, is closing. :( Again, lol, they were going to shut down last year but got picked up by a new owner. So we got a little more time with the site, but nothing good can last, I suppose. I love the collecting and trading aspects of TCGs (versus deck building or battling), plus NM was really neat in that artists submitted their own art for the cards, so it's a bummer that they're closing for real. They gave everyone paid accounts for the last two weeks so we can try to finish up our collections, and the site will apparently stay up in read-only mode so people can still see their cards, so that's nice at least.