community: snowflake_challenge Challenge #1

[matsushima]

Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

Hi, I'm Meep (e/em (or she/her))! I'm 36 and I live in Tokyo, Japan. (You might also know me as pineisland_dolls or (formerly) meep_matsushima or meepalicious.) My dæmon would be a tanuki.

Here on pineisland, I post my fanfiction, community participation (like this post), reading/watching annotations, and sometimes doll photography. Over on my my main journal (matsushima), I write about my day job, hobbies, paracosm, health stuff, and whatever else is on my mind… (My journal is flocked but I'm always open to adding new friends!)

In 2026, I'm trying to get back my work-life balance, spend less time on short form algorithmic social media, and make more time for having fun. So I'm doing snowflake_challenge (and beagoldfish and #fannish 50 and modding fandomocweekly and fanmix_monthly) and making a point to be creative and participate in Dreamwidth community events. I'd like to make new friends and find communities to be part of throughout the year.

doll: 2026 goals and a hatsumode photo

[matsushima]

Lately I've had a hard time posing my dolls. I'm feeling uninspired. I've taken my dolls everywhere so the locations alone can't be the visual interest in my photos. I don't want to rely on buying new outfits and props to make my photos look/feel more interesting, either.

( thoughts )

I'd really like to get better at posing my dolls more dynamically. I've written about this before, too.

I really admire sfishfish's photos and it's possible that my dolls aren't even physically capable of holding some of those poses (my dolls are old, most of them are single jointed) but… it's something I want to work on this year!One thing I worked on last year was editing. It wasn't a goal I set, it just happened. I have an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription through work and I've been lightly editing my photos in Lightroom Mobile before uploading them. This is the edited photo; here is the unedited photo.

Oh, and Nene's amazing feather wig is from _karasuya!