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Challenge #11
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.

I like mpreg and omegaverse but I RARELY talk about it (do not worry, my friends ROAST me about it everyday) because it’s so benign but people hate you for liking it.

Like, I have had fandom friends tell me to my face that “LOL you like mpreg that’s so benign but I fucking hate mpreg so don’t talk about it.”

And then I don’t and it’s like, “you don’t talk about mpreg at all.”

My guy, I get that you hate it.... So I don’t talk about it with you. Like wtf do you want? It’s trashy, it’s like those pulp romance books you buy at Shoppers (Canadian topical). I'm not trying to force anyone to like it but if people keep asking me, I really don't have any other answer? Because I'd rather not receive images recommendation images or forwards or posts for a trope/kink I had to make up on the spot.

I also like the 2^nd male lead being in love with the main lead Persona 4 style. I love bumbling Yosuke-types, being out of sorts while being head over heels for the main lead.

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.

My recommendation countdown for food I think people should eat in Toronto:

1. Jamaican Patties

Everyone in Toronto eats Jamaican Patties. Everyone has a patty spot. Mine is in Scarborough (Allwyn’s Bakery), a lot of people like Patty Time. I started to make Jamaican Patties myself. But more than the hot dog, the patty is the quintessential Toronto food.

2. Poutine

A given, but it’s ALL OVER Canada and pretty much the national food. If you’ve never eaten Poutine with the curds and the brown gravy then???

3. Butter Tarts

We have WHOLE FESTIVALS dedicated to them here. There is also butter tart ice cream.

4. Ice Cream in general (in the summer)

We have a whole ice cream scene, I favourite being Whisky Matcha ice cream when you can get it at Kekou’s Gelato but there are also other flavours. Also, Bang Bang Ice Cream is good.

5. Canadian-Chinese Take-Out

I didn’t think to put it on the list but it’s COMPLETELY different compared to abroad, I think different than in the US at times. People kept pointing out our variation is different so it’s an affordable try.

Honourable mentions:
- Ketchup Chips

- Canadian Kit Kats

- Food hopping at St Lawrence Market or Pacific Mall

Challenge #13
Interact with someone in fandom you haven't talked with before. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Let us know what you did, if you feel comfortable doing so.

I feel like I comment on random fanfics and posts a lot so it’s just “a thing I do in general” rather than something I rarely do.

Challenge #14
In your own space, create your own fandom challenge.

My fandom challenge is to do one fandom related zine and post it on itch.io and link it here.

Challenge #15
Talk about an unexpected joyous moment you experienced last year.

I stopped dreading life and just slowly started to live?

I have changed for the better but people are arguing with me that I haven’t changed so I have changed the locks and put people into block.

It’s exhausting to deal with people who want you to be a 2D version of who you are because they want you in their lives and cutting these people out has been an ongoing process for me.

My bad mental health crash out started because I had a bad run in with a friend who started to project her daddy issues onto me—but that’s not the first time that has happened!!! In fact, it was like, “this is like the third time this has happened to me. I can’t keep going on” and it was like that for seven years and now I feel normal.

I feel like I can go around and LIVE and at the moment things are bad in Ontario.

My personal life was good but bad in ways that I needed to change. And yeah, I changed them. But atm things are bad in my Province so what a time to be healed myself.

It sucks that people have argued with me and it’s like, “you’re really committed to misunderstanding me as a version of me that only exists in your head, so maybe we should be together.”

Edit:

TLDR I've changed a lot but people are committed to treating me like my former self and that's an uphill battle in itself.