The Joy Who Lived
10 Mar 2026 19:59![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
delphiIf anyone's interested in checking out some queer comedy theatre with a slate of great trans and gnc performers:
The Joy Who Lived: March 31st to April 12th
You can find a list of shows by date or you can browse by category. Shows are running both in person in Los Angeles and as live streaming events that are also available to view up to two weeks afterwards. I tuned in a while back for their fundraising show, a chaotic live runthrough of the Ocean's 11 script called Gender Heist, and it was a heck of a good time.
The Joy Who Lived: March 31st to April 12th
You can find a list of shows by date or you can browse by category. Shows are running both in person in Los Angeles and as live streaming events that are also available to view up to two weeks afterwards. I tuned in a while back for their fundraising show, a chaotic live runthrough of the Ocean's 11 script called Gender Heist, and it was a heck of a good time.
3/9/2026 Tilden Nature Area
9 Mar 2026 20:58mrkinchWe all started out this morning, but Chris had to leave early, so I met only U at Jewel Lake. She got there first, which I don't recall happenning before, but Lower Packrat was wonderfully active and I stopped to listen and look many times. The California Towhees were "singing", which I love though it's not melodic. I heard several Allen's Hummingbirds' diving wing whirr and watched one flying their display pattern, so that was a treat. The Wilson's Warblers have arrived! One was reported yesterday so we were expecting them, but it still took me a moment to recognize their song after so long. ( The list: )
Biggest surprise of the morning: when I got to the Lake U told me there was a Common Goldeneye! We used to get several species besides Mallard on the Lake in Winter, but now it's unusual and exciting.
Biggest surprise of the morning: when I got to the Lake U told me there was a Common Goldeneye! We used to get several species besides Mallard on the Lake in Winter, but now it's unusual and exciting.
Dept. of Memes
10 Mar 2026 22:33kaffy_rMusic Meme, Day 22
A song with a long title
It's late, and I'm tired, but I couldn't resist the hunt for a song that had a long title (and Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious doesn't count). My brain is better wired for short titles, although I've more than occasionally indulged in long titles for my stories, so figuring out music that met this requirement took a bit of thought.
The first one I settled on, REM's "How The West Was Won and Where It Got Us" didn't feel right to me, although I love the album it's on, "New Adventures In HI-Fi"
Richard Thompson's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" was nowhere near as long, but I think it fits my particular bill.
Then again, I feel rather odd this evening - must be the extreme weather outside earlier this evening, so I just wanted to share this. It isn't a song, nor does it have a lengthy title, or at least not as lengthy as other classical symphonies have, but in my tired mind, it fits the bill again. I have no idea why.
Perhaps I can say that, while the title of this isn't long, the piece itself is satisfactorily un-short. I used to love putting this on on Sunday mornings back when I was younger, and listening to it again might be in my future as well.
Earlier entries can be found in yesterday's post. I'd include a link, but either my laptop or Dreamwidth isn't allowing me to do so.
A song with a long title
It's late, and I'm tired, but I couldn't resist the hunt for a song that had a long title (and Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious doesn't count). My brain is better wired for short titles, although I've more than occasionally indulged in long titles for my stories, so figuring out music that met this requirement took a bit of thought.
The first one I settled on, REM's "How The West Was Won and Where It Got Us" didn't feel right to me, although I love the album it's on, "New Adventures In HI-Fi"
Richard Thompson's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" was nowhere near as long, but I think it fits my particular bill.
Then again, I feel rather odd this evening - must be the extreme weather outside earlier this evening, so I just wanted to share this. It isn't a song, nor does it have a lengthy title, or at least not as lengthy as other classical symphonies have, but in my tired mind, it fits the bill again. I have no idea why.
Perhaps I can say that, while the title of this isn't long, the piece itself is satisfactorily un-short. I used to love putting this on on Sunday mornings back when I was younger, and listening to it again might be in my future as well.
Earlier entries can be found in yesterday's post. I'd include a link, but either my laptop or Dreamwidth isn't allowing me to do so.
Challenge 509: Plant
11 Mar 2026 16:44china_shop posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
fan_flashworksOur new challenge is:
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PLANT
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11 Mar 2026 16:39china_shop posting in fan_flashworksThe Anticipation challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:
The Professionals: Fanfiction: Sexy Sunday bylucy_roman
FAKE: Fanfic: The Big Jump bybadly_knitted
Doctor Who: Fanfiction: Cloudbound Dreaming byinfinitum_noctem
Culture Club: Fanfic: Six Hats and a Suitcase bymidnight_heavenly_bodies
The Double: fanfic: some fences will forever stay unmended byteaotter
Viola come il mare: Fanfic: First Date byveronyxk84
Spooks (MI5): Fanfic: An Unexpected Situation bysmallhobbit
Torchwood: Fanfic: Desperate times bym_findlow
9-1-1: Fan Fiction: Worth It bydarkjediqueen
Crash Fever: Fanart: in the digital rain byx95
Ponies (TV 2026): Fanfic: waiting for someone else byalasse_irena
Marvel 1610 (comics): icons: Step into my Parlor byhighlander_ii
Fanservice Paradox: Fanfic: the rise of the wall (in the future, things will happen) bybluedreaming
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The Professionals: Fanfiction: Sexy Sunday by
lucy_romanFAKE: Fanfic: The Big Jump by
badly_knittedDoctor Who: Fanfiction: Cloudbound Dreaming by
infinitum_noctemCulture Club: Fanfic: Six Hats and a Suitcase by
midnight_heavenly_bodiesThe Double: fanfic: some fences will forever stay unmended by
teaotterViola come il mare: Fanfic: First Date by
veronyxk84Spooks (MI5): Fanfic: An Unexpected Situation by
smallhobbitTorchwood: Fanfic: Desperate times by
m_findlow9-1-1: Fan Fiction: Worth It by
darkjediqueenCrash Fever: Fanart: in the digital rain by
x95Ponies (TV 2026): Fanfic: waiting for someone else by
alasse_irenaMarvel 1610 (comics): icons: Step into my Parlor by
highlander_iiFanservice Paradox: Fanfic: the rise of the wall (in the future, things will happen) by
bluedreaming\o/ \o/ \o/
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Tuesday Top Five: "Ladies all across the world..."
10 Mar 2026 22:33nevannaHere five of my favorite maligned or frequently bashed female characters in media, based on my own memories and a brief review of fandom wiki pages.
1. Ginny Weasley (Harry Potter)
Even when I (and most of us) still liked the HP books, I had mixed feelings about how Ginny was developed as a love interest for our hero, but that had more to do with Rowling’s frequent inability to write a convincing romance than anything objectionable about Ginny herself. (We all remember Harry’s chest monster, don’t we?) I admired her bravery and how readily she shot down her brothers’ attempts at slut-shaming, and I also liked thinking about her backstory with Tom Riddle and how it might have informed the young woman she became. I did not appreciate it when other readers insulted her or mischaracterized her in fanfic because they wanted Harry to end up with somebody else.
2. Dawn Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
I wrote about Dawn for a Fandom Throwback Thursday post last year (after the actress who once played her, Michelle Trachtenberg, unexpectedly passed away). Although I didn’t start watching BTVS until after the show ended, I was aware that making fun of Dawn – particularly at screenings of the musical – was a fandom tradition, and one that made me very uncomfortable. I found Dawn, in all her emotional messiness, to be a compelling character, and I never thought that she, or Michelle, deserved the vehement hatred that the fandom directed at her.
3. Jean Grey (X-Men: Evolution)
In his recap of an early episode of XME, Jay Edidin (then writing under his old name) noted “a running theme with Jean: the subtle disharmony between the perfect façade people see and the fact that she’s really only got about as much of her shit worked out as the next scared teenager.” I think that this is a brilliant take on her character, but it also serves as a reminder that many viewers in the fandom of the early 2000s – including myself, sometimes – only saw Jean’s model-student persona and judged the hell out of her for it, dismissing her as a shallow and fickle Mean Girl with no substantive inner life or real problems (never mind that her powers could be incredibly destructive to herself and others if left unchecked).
4. Gwen Cooper (Torchwood)
As a spinoff from Doctor Who, Torchwood struggled at first to find its own narrative identity. The early episodes positioned Gwen the Nice Girl Swept Up In Alien Adventures – the equivalent of a companion for the Doctor – as well as a source of morality and human empathy for her colleagues, who’d lived behind the curtain of “normal” life much longer than she had. For this reason, especially in earlier episodes, she came across as sanctimonious at times – much like Jean in XME – and I admit to having been one of the viewers who was dismissive or and even hostile toward Gwen, especially when I thought that the show was trying too hard to make me like her. (A lot of audience hostility, which I find a lot harder to understand or forgive, was also probably due to shipping preferences and Gwen’s own sexual and romantic choices.) Once she was given storylines that leaned into her flaws and messiness, I started to enjoy her character a lot more.
5. Joan Watson (Elementary)
I was lucky to have missed a lot of this drama while it was happening, but according to Fanlore and other sources, much of the negativity toward Joan and toward Lucy Liu (including some inexcusable sexism and racism) was generated before the show even aired, primarily from fans of BBC Sherlock. Thankfully, once Elementary was underway, both the show and its Watson deservedly gained their share of fans.
1. Ginny Weasley (Harry Potter)
Even when I (and most of us) still liked the HP books, I had mixed feelings about how Ginny was developed as a love interest for our hero, but that had more to do with Rowling’s frequent inability to write a convincing romance than anything objectionable about Ginny herself. (We all remember Harry’s chest monster, don’t we?) I admired her bravery and how readily she shot down her brothers’ attempts at slut-shaming, and I also liked thinking about her backstory with Tom Riddle and how it might have informed the young woman she became. I did not appreciate it when other readers insulted her or mischaracterized her in fanfic because they wanted Harry to end up with somebody else.
2. Dawn Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
I wrote about Dawn for a Fandom Throwback Thursday post last year (after the actress who once played her, Michelle Trachtenberg, unexpectedly passed away). Although I didn’t start watching BTVS until after the show ended, I was aware that making fun of Dawn – particularly at screenings of the musical – was a fandom tradition, and one that made me very uncomfortable. I found Dawn, in all her emotional messiness, to be a compelling character, and I never thought that she, or Michelle, deserved the vehement hatred that the fandom directed at her.
3. Jean Grey (X-Men: Evolution)
In his recap of an early episode of XME, Jay Edidin (then writing under his old name) noted “a running theme with Jean: the subtle disharmony between the perfect façade people see and the fact that she’s really only got about as much of her shit worked out as the next scared teenager.” I think that this is a brilliant take on her character, but it also serves as a reminder that many viewers in the fandom of the early 2000s – including myself, sometimes – only saw Jean’s model-student persona and judged the hell out of her for it, dismissing her as a shallow and fickle Mean Girl with no substantive inner life or real problems (never mind that her powers could be incredibly destructive to herself and others if left unchecked).
4. Gwen Cooper (Torchwood)
As a spinoff from Doctor Who, Torchwood struggled at first to find its own narrative identity. The early episodes positioned Gwen the Nice Girl Swept Up In Alien Adventures – the equivalent of a companion for the Doctor – as well as a source of morality and human empathy for her colleagues, who’d lived behind the curtain of “normal” life much longer than she had. For this reason, especially in earlier episodes, she came across as sanctimonious at times – much like Jean in XME – and I admit to having been one of the viewers who was dismissive or and even hostile toward Gwen, especially when I thought that the show was trying too hard to make me like her. (A lot of audience hostility, which I find a lot harder to understand or forgive, was also probably due to shipping preferences and Gwen’s own sexual and romantic choices.) Once she was given storylines that leaned into her flaws and messiness, I started to enjoy her character a lot more.
5. Joan Watson (Elementary)
I was lucky to have missed a lot of this drama while it was happening, but according to Fanlore and other sources, much of the negativity toward Joan and toward Lucy Liu (including some inexcusable sexism and racism) was generated before the show even aired, primarily from fans of BBC Sherlock. Thankfully, once Elementary was underway, both the show and its Watson deservedly gained their share of fans.
I did a thing
10 Mar 2026 22:49cornerofmadnessI sent in my two panel ideas to the Gettysburg Steampunk Festival. I wasn't going to go but when it didn't pan out with the Louisville panels. Trying for a little fun in a world on fire.
Today mom and I went out to meet my younger cousin for her birthday and went off to Trader Joe's. I wish I had one closer to me. Mine is 90 miles off in Columbus. Even here the closet one is about 35 minutes away. Picked up some cool things.
The writing zoom went well tonight too.
So for fannish 50 I have something fromkitarella_imagines
i. Look at your last 10** fics.
ii. Make a list of their first lines of dialogue, with any necessary description. No cheating, I mean don't go through your fics looking for the best line of dialogue.
iii. Post them and we'll see if we can guess what the story will be about from the dialogue.
Kitarella also mentioned it's okay to go back further than the last 10 if the opening dialogue isn't that interesting.
Feel free to play along
( here's mine )
Today mom and I went out to meet my younger cousin for her birthday and went off to Trader Joe's. I wish I had one closer to me. Mine is 90 miles off in Columbus. Even here the closet one is about 35 minutes away. Picked up some cool things.
The writing zoom went well tonight too.
So for fannish 50 I have something from
kitarella_imaginesi. Look at your last 10** fics.
ii. Make a list of their first lines of dialogue, with any necessary description. No cheating, I mean don't go through your fics looking for the best line of dialogue.
iii. Post them and we'll see if we can guess what the story will be about from the dialogue.
Kitarella also mentioned it's okay to go back further than the last 10 if the opening dialogue isn't that interesting.
Feel free to play along
( here's mine )
2026 due South/Canadian Six Degrees Big Bang Sign-Ups Open!
10 Mar 2026 21:16thisaintbc posting in ds_noticeboardWoohoo, big bang sign ups are here!
For primary sign-ups, you can make 20,000-word fics or podfics or equivalent art/vids/craft of any sort, for due South or any other Canadian Six Degrees fandom. There is no cutoff date for signing up - sign-ups stay open until the August deadline.
Check out the sign-up post for this year's schedule - and to sign up!
For primary sign-ups, you can make 20,000-word fics or podfics or equivalent art/vids/craft of any sort, for due South or any other Canadian Six Degrees fandom. There is no cutoff date for signing up - sign-ups stay open until the August deadline.
Check out the sign-up post for this year's schedule - and to sign up!
another big swing from a young hitter
10 Mar 2026 22:08musesfoolI don't love that Nolan McLean gave up 2 home runs in the same inning in this game, but I do love that Team Italia celebrates with an Armani blazer and an espresso (they literally have an espresso machine in the dugout and if someone hits a homer, he gets a shot) and then the team captain kisses the guy while everyone else does this: 🤌
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Work is currently bananas. Listen, I have a whole document I wrote on how to change/streamline board stuff to foster discussion and engagement, but we were supposed to do it methodically and not implement it until the June meeting, except now we are doing it NOW, and everything got upended in the stupidest way possible. I maybe kind of couldn't control how irritated I am about it because it is basically making me do double the amount of work and is seems to me like it is just going to achieve the exact opposite of what we want it to, but apparently this is coming directly from the new board chair. I told my boss that if I am right, and that this doesn't do what they think it is going to, I might not say it, but I will be thinking the world's biggest "I told you so." And she was like, that's fair. Sigh.
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Work is currently bananas. Listen, I have a whole document I wrote on how to change/streamline board stuff to foster discussion and engagement, but we were supposed to do it methodically and not implement it until the June meeting, except now we are doing it NOW, and everything got upended in the stupidest way possible. I maybe kind of couldn't control how irritated I am about it because it is basically making me do double the amount of work and is seems to me like it is just going to achieve the exact opposite of what we want it to, but apparently this is coming directly from the new board chair. I told my boss that if I am right, and that this doesn't do what they think it is going to, I might not say it, but I will be thinking the world's biggest "I told you so." And she was like, that's fair. Sigh.
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Query Post #3
10 Mar 2026 21:49mimihylea posting in worldbuildexThanks everyone for your nominations and clarifications so far! We’re still working through final approvals and replying to responses on previous query posts.
Nominations have closed, but mods will manually update/add tags based on query post replies made before March 12 at 7pm EDT (UTC-4). Signups will then open March 12 at 9pm EDT. In the meantime, we’ll be working on approving final nominations, checking the tagset, and making sure the Original Characters and Any or No Characters tags are available for each fandom. We’ll also be removing any fandoms without worldbuilding tags. If you spot any errors or tags that have wandered out of their intended fandom, have rejected tags that you think shouldn’t have been, or have pending tags that haven’t been queried, please let us know!
For the following fandoms: we have questions about one or more tags. If you’re the nominator, please include a link to your nominations page in your response.
Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies) - For WB: Elizabeth's Similarities to Calypso (Pirates of the Caribbean), this seems more like a character study or meta-analysis prompt than worldbuilding; could you clarify?
Pluto (Manga) - For WB: Atom grieving post-canon (Pluto), this seems more like a character study or plot prompt than worldbuilding; could you clarify?
Spider-Man: Spider-Verse (Sony Animated Movies) - For WB: What Are The Different Canon Events of Spider-Man's Life, could you clarify what you’re looking for here?
Spider-Punk (2022 Marvel Comics) - For WB: How do Earth-138's Deaf Daredevil Power work? Is she mutant or is there a version of the HAND in the Spider-Punk Universe?, we’d like to simplify this to WB: How do Earth-138's Deaf Daredevil Power work?; does this work for you? For WB: Norman Osborne as President of Earth-138 and how it affected Kingpin and Daredevil's relationship, we’d like to simplify this to WB: Effects of Norman Osborne’s Presidency; does that work for you?
The Old Guard (Movies 2020 2025) - For Any Immortal Character (The Old Guard), we are not accepting “Any” descriptor character nominations. Would you like to specify specific immortal characters or a worldbuilding aspect relating to immortals?
The Trials Series - Quinn Audio - For WB: Theo and Jane's first meeting in college (TT), this seems more like a relationship or plot prompt than worldbuilding; could you clarify?
Hallo itt Mátyás király! - Bogáti Péter - For WB: Modern archaeologists discovering Károly's copper cylinder, this seems like a specific plot prompt and we're having trouble finding canon context; would something along the lines of WB: Archaeology or WB: Archaeology of the Canon Time Period fit what you're looking for?
NoPixel (Web Series) - For WB: The Nerds Prior to Los Santos, WB: Yeager Demonblood's Childhood, and WB: Yuno Sykk's Childhood, these seem more like character study prompts than worldbuilding; could you clarify?
When the Angels Left the Old Country - Sacha Lamb - For WB: Religious Experiences as a Metaphor for Queerness, is this something that is understood/discussed as a metaphor in universe? If so, we’ll approve it, if not, this seems like meta-analysis outside the scope of this exchange.
ここは今から倫理です。| Koko wa Ima Kara Rinri Desu | From Now On We Begin Ethics (Manga) - For WB: Takayanagi's Childhood, WB: Takayanagi's Home Life, and WB: Tokigawa's Home Life, these seem more like character study prompts than worldbuilding; could you clarify?
仙王的日常生活 | The Daily Life of the Immortal King (Cartoon) - For WB: Froggy's Daily Life, this seems more like a character study prompt than worldbuilding; could you clarify?
Couldn't've liked it more.
10 Mar 2026 21:24hannahI got invited to my dad's book group meeting tonight in the capacity of caterer. I brought the cake and I helped the host's wife in the kitchen, where she and I ate while the book group sat around the larger table in the dining room. There's no hard feelings - they're friends that wanted to see each other, and I liked catching up with her. We talked about daytime talk shows, MASH and its laugh track, women by themselves, bad books recently read, and a little bit of poetry. She said that the skin on my chest - the dress I wore was modestly low cut and still well below my neck - was an amazing white, pale, smooth, like something in an old poem about describing beautiful women.
She also suggested I'd be good as a special education teacher, and when I said I didn't have the patience for more than one kid, she said I could do one-on-one. I know how hard that work is, and found it deeply touching she thinks so highly of me. It's not something I think I'll actively pursue, and it's still quite touching.
Everyone loved the cake I brought. Two people asked for slices to take home and share, one person asked for a second slice to eat right there, and two more asked for slices for their breakfasts. I was told it was sublime and that I outdid myself; I replied that next time I'd simply have to do myself, which got a chuckle. One of the other members drove there instead of walking or using public transit, so my dad and I got a lift back to our place. A gentle end to a nice night.
She also suggested I'd be good as a special education teacher, and when I said I didn't have the patience for more than one kid, she said I could do one-on-one. I know how hard that work is, and found it deeply touching she thinks so highly of me. It's not something I think I'll actively pursue, and it's still quite touching.
Everyone loved the cake I brought. Two people asked for slices to take home and share, one person asked for a second slice to eat right there, and two more asked for slices for their breakfasts. I was told it was sublime and that I outdid myself; I replied that next time I'd simply have to do myself, which got a chuckle. One of the other members drove there instead of walking or using public transit, so my dad and I got a lift back to our place. A gentle end to a nice night.
Exchanges and Crafting and Recs and Whatnot, Take Two
10 Mar 2026 20:06donutsweeperAnother exchange, Battleship, announced it won't be running this year :( It's totally understandable since even before it had so many signups it was so intensive to run but with the #s it had and all the chaos from last year it makes sense they'd want a break but I'm still sad it's skipping this year, I really only do three exchanges a year (h/c ex, battleship and yuletide) with two not running it's such a change for me and leaving me frustrated and wrong footed.
Being totally out of touch with current popular fandoms and fannish trends doesn't really help either. I have tried more popular/commonly found in exchanges canons but either they are very much not my thing or something that I enjoyed enough but have no interest in delving into fanfic/fandom-wise (like Heated Rivalry, I enjoyed the show but was perfectly content with the story it told, I don't have the desire to fill any of the plot holes or explore any other aspects of the sandbox it exists in or AUs of it, etc). And I haven't had a fandom I truly wanted to dive into on my own in a while either, there's been a few where a story idea here or there called to me, but once I wrote it I was good and if there were requests I might treat them but if not I probably won't be engaging with it much outside of reblogging a gifset here or there if I happen to find one.
Oh well.
Crafting babble under the cut (nalbinding babble and a recently completed rug)
Here's a few weeks ofrecthething recs, all MDZS/Untamed fic recs:
A-Yuan Talks to the Police and Finds His Baba a Friend by fieldofvision (2.5k)
Summary Snippet: Police officer Lan Zhan helps A-Yuan find his Baba at the farmers market, and A-Yuan finds his Baba a friend (cute little ficlet)
Honey, ginger, and the warm flavor of care by by Anaxyat (2.3k)
Summary: Jiang Yanli used to be the first person Wei Wuxian would call whenever something was wrong. After her, it would be Wen Qing. However, she had not received a single call in the past few days that could explain what was now unfolding before her eyes. (cute JYL modern no-powers AU sickfic)
Frame the Halves, and Call Them Brothers by Bodldops (41k)
Summary: Lan Xichen meets the Jiang's new (and terribly young) head disciple. A relationship blooms from there, and though he doesn't mean anything by it in particular, it is the small stone that starts an avalanche involving three of the great sects. (wonderful WWX&LXC friendship no-war AU)
I'd known about The Bibliotheca Fictiva (the world’s largest collection of literary forgeries, maintained now by John Hopkins) for a while now thanks to an NPR article from 2014 but it was very interesting to see this more recent article discussing it and looking at it via an AI and updated lens. Very interesting.
Being totally out of touch with current popular fandoms and fannish trends doesn't really help either. I have tried more popular/commonly found in exchanges canons but either they are very much not my thing or something that I enjoyed enough but have no interest in delving into fanfic/fandom-wise (like Heated Rivalry, I enjoyed the show but was perfectly content with the story it told, I don't have the desire to fill any of the plot holes or explore any other aspects of the sandbox it exists in or AUs of it, etc). And I haven't had a fandom I truly wanted to dive into on my own in a while either, there's been a few where a story idea here or there called to me, but once I wrote it I was good and if there were requests I might treat them but if not I probably won't be engaging with it much outside of reblogging a gifset here or there if I happen to find one.
Oh well.
Crafting babble under the cut (nalbinding babble and a recently completed rug)
I did stick with the nalbinding long enough to figure out a lot of the stitches. It is an interesting craft but I mostly wanted to learn it for making socks and while I liked the coptic stitch (which was how Romans and Egyptians made their socks) I could *not* get the increases to lie flat (apparently this is common according to the vids I watched) and while I could get the york stitch ones to do so, in general working it (and all nalbinding actually) just took so much attention I couldn't really do anything else while crafting and there also was quite a bit of eyestrain. Glad I gave it a serious try, might pick it back up some day, but for the moment it's a done and dusted thing for me.
After that I decided to try to replace the rug we'd had under the rocking chair that the moths got to. It was an old wool round one we'd inherited and while I've gotten pretty good at knotting rugs these past few years I tended to focus on oval ones since my first two attempts at round ones hadn't been great. But, I had a lot of premade strips that actually matched to use up (3 men's button down dress shirts (white, grey, and royal blue) and a bunch of random white strips left from two different sheets I'd previously made into rugs) which I quickly realized wasn't going to be enough so cut up two crappy pillowcases in the to-be-rugged drawer (green and a blue/grey) but then *that* wasn't enough so grabbed 3 more pillowcases (scratchy dark blue ones) and some more random stained white fabric and stripped all of that. (Strip prep actually takes a while, tshirts and sheet fabrics are different enough the method/result isn't all that similar, for sheets it involves cutting measured notches along one edge and then tearing down to the other end and then I roll the strips into discs to make sure they ripped evenly and also collect all the wispy flyaway schmutsy scraps so the strips will be cleaner to work with later - usually I gather it into a little bags and then use that for fillings when making amigurumi later). So it took a lot longer than planned but still, viola! Rug! 39"/100cm ish circle!
Very happy finally figured out how to make a circle rug; I don't think it'll be something I make often due to lack of place to put it and also the amount of space needed to make it but still. Yay, rug!After that I decided to try to replace the rug we'd had under the rocking chair that the moths got to. It was an old wool round one we'd inherited and while I've gotten pretty good at knotting rugs these past few years I tended to focus on oval ones since my first two attempts at round ones hadn't been great. But, I had a lot of premade strips that actually matched to use up (3 men's button down dress shirts (white, grey, and royal blue) and a bunch of random white strips left from two different sheets I'd previously made into rugs) which I quickly realized wasn't going to be enough so cut up two crappy pillowcases in the to-be-rugged drawer (green and a blue/grey) but then *that* wasn't enough so grabbed 3 more pillowcases (scratchy dark blue ones) and some more random stained white fabric and stripped all of that. (Strip prep actually takes a while, tshirts and sheet fabrics are different enough the method/result isn't all that similar, for sheets it involves cutting measured notches along one edge and then tearing down to the other end and then I roll the strips into discs to make sure they ripped evenly and also collect all the wispy flyaway schmutsy scraps so the strips will be cleaner to work with later - usually I gather it into a little bags and then use that for fillings when making amigurumi later). So it took a lot longer than planned but still, viola! Rug! 39"/100cm ish circle!
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recthething recs, all MDZS/Untamed fic recs: A-Yuan Talks to the Police and Finds His Baba a Friend by fieldofvision (2.5k)
Summary Snippet: Police officer Lan Zhan helps A-Yuan find his Baba at the farmers market, and A-Yuan finds his Baba a friend (cute little ficlet)
Honey, ginger, and the warm flavor of care by by Anaxyat (2.3k)
Summary: Jiang Yanli used to be the first person Wei Wuxian would call whenever something was wrong. After her, it would be Wen Qing. However, she had not received a single call in the past few days that could explain what was now unfolding before her eyes. (cute JYL modern no-powers AU sickfic)
Frame the Halves, and Call Them Brothers by Bodldops (41k)
Summary: Lan Xichen meets the Jiang's new (and terribly young) head disciple. A relationship blooms from there, and though he doesn't mean anything by it in particular, it is the small stone that starts an avalanche involving three of the great sects. (wonderful WWX&LXC friendship no-war AU)
I'd known about The Bibliotheca Fictiva (the world’s largest collection of literary forgeries, maintained now by John Hopkins) for a while now thanks to an NPR article from 2014 but it was very interesting to see this more recent article discussing it and looking at it via an AI and updated lens. Very interesting.
Question thread #149
11 Mar 2026 01:39pauamma posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
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Challenge 201 - Voting
10 Mar 2026 18:32luminousdaze posting in iconthatThere were sixty splendid icons entered! Thank you very much to all the participants!
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[127] RESIDENT EVIL (various)
10 Mar 2026 21:27zombieproof posting in fandom_icons---RESIDENT EVIL 4 (REMAKE)
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[x]55 leon scott kennedy
[x]3o luis serra
[x]o2 leon & luis
[x]o2 ingrid hunnigan
---RESIDENT EVIL: INFINITE DARKNESS
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Counts the waves that somehow didn't hit her
10 Mar 2026 20:55sovayNot only is 42 °N a lousy latitude for radio astronomy, it does jack most of the year for the photosynthesis of vitamin D, but I was inspired by the summerlike spike in temperatures to walk out for groceries in a T-shirt and whatever it may or may not have done for my metabolism, it was worth the pitching over onto the couch when I got home.
No introduction to an actor may be as misleading as discovering Peter Lorre with Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), but spending much of last night sacked out in front of my longtime comfort movie of Robert Aldrich's The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) reminded me that I should probably count Richard Attenborough in a similar vein, all those weak links and bad influences his panicking debut in In Which We Serve (1942) and his nihilistic breakout in Brighton Rock (1947) set him up for. Never mind that I saw him first as the briskly competent ringleader of The Great Escape (1963), he looks much more in his ambivalent element as Lew Moran, the middle-aged navigator who may have his moral compass screwed on straightest of the sun-blistered survivors of what will become the Phoenix but little authority between his uneasy position as peacemaker and his diffidence as a drying-out drunk, even if his stammer doesn't after all stop him from going off like a firecracker on some blatantly bullheaded display of stupidity on the part of one or more of his co-leads. It would have been the second way I saw him, after which the time-shock of Jurassic Park (1993), jovial and grandfatherly and scientifically short-sighted. I'd give a lot for a record of his Sergeant Trotter in the original run of The Mousetrap. The time machine bureau is going to cut me off.
No introduction to an actor may be as misleading as discovering Peter Lorre with Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), but spending much of last night sacked out in front of my longtime comfort movie of Robert Aldrich's The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) reminded me that I should probably count Richard Attenborough in a similar vein, all those weak links and bad influences his panicking debut in In Which We Serve (1942) and his nihilistic breakout in Brighton Rock (1947) set him up for. Never mind that I saw him first as the briskly competent ringleader of The Great Escape (1963), he looks much more in his ambivalent element as Lew Moran, the middle-aged navigator who may have his moral compass screwed on straightest of the sun-blistered survivors of what will become the Phoenix but little authority between his uneasy position as peacemaker and his diffidence as a drying-out drunk, even if his stammer doesn't after all stop him from going off like a firecracker on some blatantly bullheaded display of stupidity on the part of one or more of his co-leads. It would have been the second way I saw him, after which the time-shock of Jurassic Park (1993), jovial and grandfatherly and scientifically short-sighted. I'd give a lot for a record of his Sergeant Trotter in the original run of The Mousetrap. The time machine bureau is going to cut me off.
Book Review
10 Mar 2026 21:01kenjariAllegiance of Honor
by Nalini Singh
This 15th Psy-Changeling book is not really a romance like it's predecessors and successors. It functions more as an extended epilogue for the first 14 books and as a turning point for the meta-plot. We see how the trinity Accord, an alliance of humans, psy, and changelings, is shaping up, and we find out how all the couples whose stories we followed are doing. We get to see their happy, full lives and loving relationships, and how they fit into a web of community and family. Basically, all the happy endings are confirmed and intensified.
Despite the lack of a central romance, Allegiance of Honor still delivered on the emotions and love. A couple of meta-plot points are resolved in very touching ways. We get to see how important bonds of love are to creating a better world for humans, changelings, and psy. Best of all, we get to see what that better world will look like, and it's a very hopeful vision.
by Nalini Singh
This 15th Psy-Changeling book is not really a romance like it's predecessors and successors. It functions more as an extended epilogue for the first 14 books and as a turning point for the meta-plot. We see how the trinity Accord, an alliance of humans, psy, and changelings, is shaping up, and we find out how all the couples whose stories we followed are doing. We get to see their happy, full lives and loving relationships, and how they fit into a web of community and family. Basically, all the happy endings are confirmed and intensified.
Despite the lack of a central romance, Allegiance of Honor still delivered on the emotions and love. A couple of meta-plot points are resolved in very touching ways. We get to see how important bonds of love are to creating a better world for humans, changelings, and psy. Best of all, we get to see what that better world will look like, and it's a very hopeful vision.
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
10 Mar 2026 19:50renay posting in ladybusinessA collection of thoughts about Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman: ( Read more... )
