Snowflake Challenge #6

Challenge #6

In your own space, share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. . Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This took me ages because it's so hard to choose! I didn't want to pick something I've already talked about at length like LOTR, Word of Honor, Heaven Official's Blessing or one of many other well-known stories.

So I'm going to talk about Velvet Goldmine! This movie was incredibly influential to me as I was figuring my sexuality out, circa late 90s/early 2000s.

Velvet Goldmine is a dazzling, glittery creation, a fantasy rooted in gritty reality, a picture of the 1970s glam rock scene in the UK, fictionalised. The music is unbelievably good, so incredible that I still listen to the songs today. The movie is part Citizen Kane, part 1984, part Oscar Wilde, part bildungsroman, part fanfiction, part music video, part Ewan McGregor showing his dick off, and completely bonkers. It has layers upon layers of meaning, symbolism, and queer beauty. Every time I watch it, I get something new out of it.

One of my favourite scenes (they're all my favourite scenes) has two little girls acting out part of the story with their dolls, dressed up as Brian Slade and Curt Wild. Here's a YouTube link to the scene in question.

Velvet Goldmine stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ewan McGregor, Christian Bale, Eddie Izzard, and Toni Collette. It won a BAFTA for costume design (so well-deserved!)

Recommended viewing for queer folks, fandom folks, lovers of glitter, great music, and gorgeous people.

I turn 44!

My beloved wibbble has booked me a trip to Madrid for early March as a birthday present. It's the first holiday I'll have been on since January 2020 (when he took me to Aberdeen to play Skeeball in an arcades hall -- I love Skeeball and hadn't played it for years), and the first time I've been out of the country since our tenth anniversary trip to Amsterdam.

I also have another holiday coming up in February: a two-night trip away with some friends to a place near Loch Lomond. We're planning to spend a lot of time in the hot tub or roasting marshmallows over a fire, should be lovely.

So I'm feeling very spoiled and have lots of exciting things to look forward to, which actually seems to do wonders for staving off the winter SAD.

After a break for a while, I'm restarting my weightlifting in February. Quite eager to get back to it. I'm really hoping this is going to be the year I do better at fixing the various physical things that are going on, and doing some exercise is going to help with that.

Uni is going fairly well; I fell behind a bit due to being sick in November/December, but I'm catching back up. We are now working on the English Lit section of the course, reading Jane Eyre and Twelfth Night. I love both of those so I'm very happy with it. Next is the Creative Writing section, so it's a good time from here on out in this module.

Here's hoping my 44th year is a good one! I think it will be.