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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![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
☆ 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.
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I almost died with how gorgeous and cute that Four Seasons journal is, no wonder you couldn't resist it 🥺 I shared it with some friends who are also weak to cute stationery so they can Suffer with me xD While I've never quite decided if bullet journalling is for me, I was reading about commonplace books and I think I'm going to start keeping one - I love the idea of a little verbal scrapbook. (It beats saving random things in Google Keep xD) Plus, I already have a mini notebook that I'm carrying around in my bag!
I just checked out your post about NeonMob and the art is so gorgeous! What a shame the new ownership didn't last. On the subject of online card games - are you familiar with Dixit? I bring it up because those card designs could make really fun Dixit cards xD I've been playing it a bit obsessively with a group of friends since last summer, via an app called Dixit World. Anyway, this won't mean much if you're unfamiliar, but I'm happy to explain xD
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Discovering Notebook Therapy was suuuch a mistake because I want everything on that site!! Having to cut stuff out of my cart was so rough... Learning about commonplace books is actually what got me on this journaling kick too! I'd been interested in bullet journaling a while ago and never actually got into it, which is probably good since I'd have given up after like a week, I'm sure. Then a few weeks ago I randomly stumbled upon a YouTube video about commonplace books?? And I thought it was such a cute idea, which led me down the rabbit hole of journaling YouTube lmao. So I think I'm going to use that hydrangea journal as a commonplace book of sorts mixed with some other stuff I've seen online (certain parts of reading journals, stuff like that). I hope you have good luck commonplacing if you decide to do it!
I've never heard of Dixit, googling it looks like it's a card game? I do enjoy card games lmao is it a deck-building kind of game?
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It seems like Notebook Therapy's reputation is well-known because my friends had already heard of it, haha xD I love reading tracking too, I have a dedicated notebook for that! My friend gifted it to me in 2007 and it's still going 😂 Though actually I haven't updated it in a while...
Ha, so, how to explain Dixit? It is a card game, though I think the physical version has a board as well. I've only ever played it on the app! The way you play it is like this: each person has a hand of artsy, conceptual cards (which is why the Neon Mob cards reminded me of it). The "storyteller" will play a card (not revealed to the other players) with a "prompt" that's meant to describe the card. Say, "happily ever after". Then each person in their hand picks the card they think best represents "happily ever after".
Everyone's cards are revealed at the same time and everyone has to vote on which one they think the storyteller played. So you get points for tricking people into voting for your card! The storyteller gets points if people get the right card, unless everyone gets it in which case, it's too easy and they don't get points (so this discourages people from prompts that spell out the right card). If it's too hard, you don't get any points either. So, you have to hope at least one other player has a good 'decoy' card, but not too good!
It's a lot of fun to play with friends because you can play in-jokes, and the app we play with also has another feature called "Worlds". These are sets of riddles that you can create with one correct card and specific decoys, like a round of Dixit but you get to pick all the cards. So those are a lot of fun because you can do themes, like books, films, song lyrics... and pick the cards that represent the book/film/lyric in question.
I hope that made sense! xD I'd never come across Dixit in the wild myself but now that I know what it is, I notice it for sale in a lot of bookshops and toy/game shops.
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oh that sounds fun, I may have to check out the app. and out of curiosity I checked my library and we actually own a copy that's currently checked out. so it must be fairly popular-ish!