2025 Snowflake Challenge #12

Challenge #12 Create a Rec Countdown. 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.

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Books Everyone Should Read
Songs Everyone Should Hear
Movies/TV shows Everyone Should Watch
Games/Video Games Everyone Should Play
Fanworks Everyone Should Read/Look at/Listen to/Consume (and of course there are lots of subcategories of this as well!)
Creators Everyone Should Check Out
Communities Everyone Should Join
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5 Things I watched in 2024 that I recommend.
1. Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
Not just for Frieren being an immortal elf who slowly grows to understand how different she is to humans and dwarves in her perception of time. It is also about those around her. Both those in her former hero party and her current quest party. Also her complicated relationships with Fern and her former master's master. Not to mention how magic is portrayed.

2. Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon
Especially for the neurodivergence representation as exemplified by the Touden siblings.

3. Inside Out 2
Especially how Anxiety is portrayed. (And how she takes over Riley's imagination, and how the panic attack is portrayed.) But also how Riley grows through the film.

4. Poldark (2015)
Following the life of a young nobleman who returns from fighting in the American Revolution to Cornwall and struggles with his finances and to make a difference.

5. The Secret Garden (1993)
I hadn't seen it since it came out. It's a very good adaptation of the novel. Mary Lennox's growth as she tends to the garden, befriends Dickon and helps Colin is very well portrayed.

Mysteries of Aurora - Friday, September 6th, 2024 - Afternoon

After having lunch at the coffee house cafeteria, Olivia headed back to the Library. She found a nook with several reading desks next to the Main Western Entrance. She looked over her neat notes from the morning. She was thankful that she could usually read her own notes. ‘There is not much there. This will probably take years.’ That was probably why it wasn’t widely known. Aurora’s history was so vast that the occasional lost record wouldn’t be noticed. ‘But, still, I want to know more.’ She then continued going through her notes.


Freya and Alexia entered the sports center. “It doesn’t surprise me that much,” Alexia said.

“Sometimes I need a way to burn off my excess energy,” Freya said. “It was athletics at first.”

“And then team sports?”

“Yes, particularly football, especially when I get to be a midfielder.”

“Sometimes I play tennis, but that is just socially,” Alexia said.

“That’s cool.”


Freya looked at the available teams. It did include football. “Nearly every sport,” she said, as she grabbed several sign up sheets.

“All sports, including winter sports,” Alexia said as she looked at the list.

“There may be some obscure ones not listed.”

“Probably.”


They then went out to one of the fields, where one of the tracks was. “You want to join me as I run?” Freya asked.

“I’ll watch,” Alexia said.

“Sure.”


Alexia watched as Freya ran a 400 meter lap of the track. ‘She’s quite quick.’


Olivia spent the afternoon looking at various overviews of the Nordic Era. She found that most of the historians had recognised that many original records of the early 9th Century had been lost. ‘I would have been surprised if they didn’t.’ But she also found that the theories about why those records were lost varied wildly. Most agreed that the chaos of the Viking conquest in most of the northern regions was responsible, including in the Capture of Urbs Aeterna. ‘But that’s obvious.’


Freya left the athletics track satisfied with a good afternoon of jogging.

“You look relaxed despite having jogged most of the afternoon,” Alexia commented.

“Burning off excess energy, you know.”

Alexia nodded with a smile.


Freya returned to Sigrun Sigurdottir Hall as the sun set. It had been a very good day. ‘It’s good that I’m able to get that support when I need it.’


Dana saw Freya enter the Dining Hall. She wondered how her day had gone and waved. Freya waved back as she headed to the servery.


“…And so Alexia and I then went to the sports center,” Freya concluded.

“Sounds productive.”

“Absolutely. I learned a little more about things.”

“I wouldn’t have expected otherwise,” Dana said. “Apparently, there are many well known athletes with ADHD.”

“Yes, they have been inspirations.”

“That’s great!”

“And so, Alexia will also investigate the missing art at times,” Freya added.

“That’s good. I wouldn’t know where to start.”

Freya shrugged. “Maybe I’ll find a mystery that involves insects.”

“Maybe,” Dana responded with a slight giggle.


Janara saw Olivia come into the room. “You look like you had a good day,” she said. “Other than that you look exhausted.”

“Not exhausted, just tired,” Olivia responded. “After class, I swam, and then spent the afternoon researching.”

“What did you find?”

Olivia then related what she had found from the Nordic Era.

“That is something,” Janara considered. “You know it’s not my area, but I’ll help in some way.”

“Thanks.”