Snowflake Challenge 2026-1

Well, would you look at that...a journal meme that gives me an excuse to blog. Okay, I'm game.

And it looks like today's prompt is:

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

Right...so, uh. I've gone by lots of aliases in my way-too-long time on the Internet, but on here, I'm Waltzoid. This is the first time I've done this challenge, and I tend to blog only when inspiration strikes, which has not been very often lately. Truth is, I'm doing it because a few of my friends are doing it and it looks like fun.

As for my interests...

I've been a video game junkie since I learned to walk, so I've absorbed lots of useless trivia and become a fan of countless fandoms. It's only been 17 hours (local time) since the year started, so I haven't settled on anything yet. I'm planning to buy a Nintendo Switch 2 this month in anticipation of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. Three Houses is my favorite game in the series, and I'm cautiously optimistic that this one will be worth the wait, even though I've only seen the trailer from the September 2025 Nintendo Direct.

Right now, I'm focused on reading Delicious in Dungeon and a bunch of random isekai and litRPG novels with long-winded subtitles that I'm borrowing from Amazon Kindle Unlimited. Case in point for the latter: the first book I read this year is called Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything By Using Low-Level Spells. The first volume sets the plot up as a darker, edgier, and less self-aware copy of Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest, and after reading half of Volume 1 of Failure Frame, I feel like I should have started with Arifureta instead.

My main goal this year is to take notes more often so I can better understand what I've been playing/reading/watching/etc. and maybe post about them if I feel strongly about them when I'm finished.