The Tribble of Tarth

About Me
Here is a post I made for the Snowflake Challenge (January 2025) that gives a bit of information about myself and my current fandoms.

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I'm a pretty sporadic poster, but when I do blog it's mostly vid recs (for the Fannish Fifty Challenge) with an occasional post about my real life. Most fandom related posts are unlocked, while real life updates and more personal fandom posts are friend-locked. Please note, I am very much a "ship and let ship," "don't like, don't read," and kinktomato (YKINMKATOK - Your Kink Is Not My Kink (And That's OK)) sort of person and do not think that fictional preferences are indicative of real life morals, values, and behaviors.

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In honor of New Year’s Eve, here are two vids of Star Trek characters partying a little too hard!


Last Friday Night by MsSjeki
Star Trek: DS9 | Gen | 3:49 | PG
Music: Last Friday Night by Katy Perry

This is a super fun feel-good vid showcasing some of the wilder moments in DS9. I love the vidder’s choice to use screenshots as “pictures” over the lyrics Pictures of last night ended up online, I'm screwed, as well as Sisko’s little head shrug over “oh well,” lol. There are so many cute moments with all the characters in this vid that it makes me smile every time I watch it.


Tik Tok by MissSheenie
Star Trek: TOS | Gen | 2:30 | PG
Music: Tik Tok by Ke$ha

This is a classic with enough pop culture clout Ke$ha referenced it on Twitter/X. I love the vidder’s choice of clips and the use of splitscreen to add to the chaos and create the effect of a lot of drinking. I love this vid and still think about it after all these years!

Woohoo! I did it! I reached ten Fannish Fifty posts by the end of 2024! The goal is to do ten to twelve in 2025 (or more, but let’s be reasonable lol). At this rate it’ll take me six to ten years to finish fifty posts, but oh well lol. Progress is progress!

I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe New Year!

Note: Video contains spoilers through the final episode of season 2.

Ma Meilleure Ennemie by zeruliaeps
Arcane: League of Legends | Jinx & Vi | 0:29 | PG
Music: Ma Meilleure Ennemie by Stromae and Pomme

I've been crying over this vid for 48 hours. 😭😭😭 I believe the song is meant for Ekko and Jinx, but it fits so well for Vi and Jinx as well. One particular section of the lyrics I love for them:

(Translated into English)
Why does hearing your name hurt me
When it hides right there in the vicinity?
What kind of emotion, is it hatred
Or pure sweetness when I hear your name?
(Full English translation of lyrics can be found here.)

The relationship between Vi and Jinx is one of my favorite parts of Arcane, and I love how this vid leans heavily into the angsty aspects of it. They may have difficulty understanding each other and their actions, but they will always still be sisters! (*blows nose*)

(Apologies for the gap between the video and the text. I messed around with the HTML for the better part of the afternoon and cannot for the life of me figure out why it's there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Unfortunately, it is extremely common for packages to be stolen in my neighborhood. It happens often and quickly, with one instance of a package being stolen in the minute or less that elapsed between the delivery driver ringing the doorbell and me coming down the stairs from the third story to answer the door. (This was a wild incident, since I saw the man walking away with the package when I came to the door, and my knee-jerk reaction was to call out, "Hey! Did you get that box from over here?", but in the nicest, most customer service oriented voice I have. He turned around and looked so guilty and said no, but he very much had the air of a child caught with his hand in the cookie jar. A neighbor saw the whole incident and said the man had taken the package off my doorstep, so he dropped the package and walked off, and I was able to retrieve it.)

Most of the time the entire box is taken (which seems to me to be easiest and makes the most sense), but sometimes they open the box on the doorstep in order to decide if the contents are worth stealing, then either leave the empty box or dismantled box with the item still inside based on the decision they make.

This morning, I found an opened package scattered across my doorstep. It had obviously been looked through and found wanting by a porch thief, and I was quite curious to find out what my partner had ordered that the thieves decided was not worth their time.

It was a 20th Anniversary Salad Fingers plush. 😆

I didn't take a picture of it on the porch, but I tried to re-create it inside to show my partner:

Image Below (CW: Salad Fingers' creepy (cute?) face lol)

I am so amused by the thought of someone opening the package, seeing Salad Fingers' face, being like, "Oh, hell no!", then dropping the package and fleeing. I got a good laugh out of it, and it was a great way to start the day.

Dear Creator,

First and foremost, thank you so much for creating for me! Please know that I am excited to receive whatever you create, and that everything written below is meant as supplemental information if you find it helpful. Please do not feel boxed in by any of the prompts or listed preferences, and feel free to create something that is completely unrelated to anything written below. Above all, please have fun! I look forward to seeing what you create!

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Created for lands_of_magic challenge "We Are the Music Makers."



My Dilemma - A Quark/Odo Fanmix
it's a love/hate relationship
I didn't set out to create an entirely pop playlist, but once I saw the form taking shape I definitely leaned into it. So, here you go: a pop Quodo playlist about how they hate love hate (I meant every word!) each other. Titles of songs are YouTube links.
( Playlist under the cut... )

Lavender Haze by Little Dark Olive
Interview with the Vampire (2022) | Louis/Lestat | 3:21 | PG13
Music: Lavender Haze by Taylor Swift

This is a beautifully edited vid that I absolutely adore. This ship has a ton of angst and dysfunction (to put it mildly), but this vid focuses on the beauty and happiness in Louis and Lestat's relationship, as well as touching on happy family moments with Claudia. I'm quite partial to this particular song by Taylor Swift, and it creates a dreamy atmosphere for the vid. The vid is sweet, gives me warm fuzzy feelings, and I have watched it many times.

BONUS:



Call Me Maybe by OlicityFan1
Star Trek: DS9 | Quark/Odo | 1:00 | G
Music: Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepson

Since I posted a week ago, I have fallen head over heels for Quark/Odo. I did not expect this to happen, but here we are. As such, several Quark/Odo vids have been added to the Fannish Fifty pipeline. What did I say last week about loving vids with catchy poppy tunes? Well, here's another example. It's short, it's silly, but it's super cute and I love it.

It's here! My first Fannish Fifty post! And, I have decided on a theme: Fifty Fanvid Recs! I intended to make a graphic to help visually tie the posts together, but that has not happened. Perhaps in the future.

And the first rec is:



Done by ImaginarySanity
Star Trek: TOS/Movies | Kirk/Spock | 3:21 | PG
Music: I'm Done by The Pussycat Dolls

For my first rec I wanted to start with one of the first fanvids I fell in love with. Backstory: In December 2009, I was wrapping up a college quarter and needed to write a term paper I had procrastinated on starting that was now due the next day. Somehow, and I genuinely do not remember how, I discovered the existence of Kirk/Spock and, instead of writing the term paper, spent the night reading Kirk/Spock fanfic. I was obsessed. This was especially unusual as at this time I had never seen a TOS episode or film. It seems my forever OTP was calling out to me before I even knew to think of it! In the end, I spent the night reading fanfiction and had to write the term paper in an anxious rush between my statistics final at 8 AM and when the paper was due at 1 PM. Then I went home after my last final of the quarter and blissfully spent the entire night absorbed in Kirk/Spock media. And then another wonderful thing happened: I discovered fanvids! I had been reading fanfic off and on since I was in middle school, but fanvids were brand new to me, and I was absolutely beside myself. I spent the night in a rabbit hole on YouTube and went to bed at 7 AM the next day. (Thirteen years later, I realize this story reeks of undiagnosed ADHD. I laugh to myself about it, but that's not what this post is about.)

This is one of the fanvids I found that night, and it remains one of my favorite Kirk/Spock fanvids. The music is beautiful and the lyrics fit Spock so perfectly. I also love the manip at the end! (The YouTube information credits erikos for this.) I am also so pleased that the image quality holds up after fourteen years. Fourteen years! This vid is fourteen years old! It's amazing, and I love it, and I am so excited to show off one of the videos that got me into watching fanvids all those years ago.



My goal is to try to post a rec once a week and throw in two random posts somewhere throughout the year to complete the Fannish Fifty challenge. I even have a posting schedule drafted! I'm trying to mix it up a bit so there is a greater mix of fandoms and characters than the three to four ships most of my vid watching falls under, but honestly, there will probably be a lot from the same fandoms/ships. (Sorry, not sorry.) I am super excited for this though! Fingers crossed I manage to stay consistent, lol.

Prompt: In your own space, update your fandom information!

I am going to copy my introductory post from Snowflake Challenge 2021 and update as needed.

Call me...

Neptune or Tribble. Neptune is the name I have adopted to use online at this time, but seeing as my user name begins with Tribble, it is completely understandable and acceptable to call me that as well.

A bit about my non-fannish life...

I am in my mid 30s, non-binary, and use they/them pronouns. (I secretly want to try xe/xem/xyr pronouns, but I don't have the confidence to ask others to use neo-pronouns, at least not in real life.) My partner and I have been together for eight years, and we moved halfway across the country (USA) together in 2018. Outside of my 9 to 5, I spend the majority of my time watching television and wandering about the internet. I majored in Digital Filmmaking in college a little over ten years ago, though I did not complete my degree. My heart still belongs to film and television and storytelling, and I dream occasionally that perhaps one day I will find my way back to creative filmmaking. I hope to be more active in 2023 and get back into old hobbies I have abandoned such as yoga, dance, and rollerblading.

A bit about my fannish life...

I have been involved in fandom in some shape or form for over 20 years. Harry Potter was my gateway fandom when I was around 11 or 12. (As well as NSYNC and Hanson, shhh.) I began reading fanfic and using roleplaying message boards (Do those still exist?) and was hooked. In college I got really, really into Star Trek (TOS and AOS) and Sherlock (BBC), which I consider to be my forever fandoms. Game of Thrones is another forever favorite, though I generally like to pretend the last season never happened. My profile contains a comprehensive list of fandoms and favorites, past and present. I am a professional fandom lurker (especially on Tumblr, though I got much better about reblogging posts in 2022). I love, love, love conventions. I try to go to as many as possible.

Things I'm super enthusiastic about...

I started watching Dragula several weeks ago and I am hooked! This may even lead to me attempting drag, but this remains to be seen. Our Flag Means Death and What We Do in the Shadows are my current favorite television shows, and have been for some time. (WWDITS especially, I love the show sooooooo much.) Kirk/Spock and Sherlock/John, are my longstanding OTPs. Stede/Ed is my current obsessive 'ship.