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muccamukk

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There's another really cool tarot meme here:

The Mystical Dream Tarot & Citadel Oracle
Prompt Meme
Open to all fanworks. Come play with us!

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Posted by siria

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83358671

Robby’s on day five of a seven-day stretch, and he can already feel the exhaustion collecting in his clenched jaw, his tight lower back, the thin skin just over his temples.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83358671

flamingstumpy

Reply to this post saying 'icon', and I will tell you my favorite icon of yours. Then post this to your own journal using your own favorite icon.

My Everchanging Moods cold

rachelmanija

This is the first book I've read by Tim Pratt. I had somehow gotten the impression that they wrote very highbrow, abstract sf that I probably wouldn't enjoy. I have no idea where that came from because this novel, which I tried because of the delightful premise, is completely not that and I enjoyed it very much.

Zax Delatree, a social worker/mediator from a utopian post-scarcity world, develops a condition where he travels to a random other world every time he sleeps. Through a lot of trial and error, he also discovers that he can take with him items on his person, and also other people if he's touching them when he falls asleep. If they're asleep too, they will arrive fine. If they're not, they arrive insane. ("The Jaunt" is one of many spottable influences.) Here's Zax and his companion, Minna, explaining their situation:

"Do you know the word 'multiverse?' [...] We're travelers, sort of. Sort of explorers. And sort of refugees."

"If this is true, the implications are immense."

"The implications are also very small and also personal," said Minna.

This is the most charming and heartfelt novel I've read in a while. It's mostly a picaresque, with Zax and Minna (and assorted friends and pursuing enemies) visiting all sorts of colorful other worlds, exploring and surviving and trying to be of use. The many worlds are great, I loved Zax and Minna and the friends they meet, and it's full of sense of wonder and hopefulness and people being kind under extremely difficult circumstances. I also liked that Zax and Minna are friends who are explicitly not romantically or sexually involved with each other.

There is a sequel, Prison of Sleep, which I have ordered.

goodbyebird

Miss Congeniality, where May 25th is the perfect date because all you need is a light jacket yay

(it was fucking snowing today, big fat snowflakes if you can believe it)

That's right, iiiiit's

3weeks4dreamwidth time, and despite it starting on a Saturday it's still starting off strong. I'm very banged up from work so I won't be doing much this weekend. I did however offer tarot readings at

tarot, for anybody who wants to stop by and offer/request a reading. (let me play with my pretty pretty cards 🙏)

My Everchanging Moods if "bruised" was an option.
Cool Places couch, soon to be bed
Now That's What I Call... Highasakite - Atomic Sparks

leanwellback

wound tightly around itself
in knots or simply hanging
loose, unspooling
waiting for a finer point
to guide and strengthen
to make a whole

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Theme Prompt: #298 – Disappearance
Title: Baited Trap
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 1000
Summary: When Scott vanishes in the funhouse, the rest of the travellers split up to search for him.

( Baited Trap... )

My Everchanging Moods tired
Cool Places my desk

alethia

I did a big bang,y'all! Of course my story ended up being twice as long as I thought, for no discernible reason. Ain't that just the way of it...

Good Effect on Target (41079 words) by Alethia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Characters: Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, Jack Abbot (The Pitt), Parker Ellis, Lena (The Pitt), Dana Evans
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 01, Caretaking, Roommates, Sharing Clothes, Shooting Range, Target Practice, Idiots in Love, First Kiss, First Time, Porn
Summary:

As Jack prepped the sutures, he nodded. "You'll stay with me, then," he said, like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "For as long as the repairs take."

Something clenched in Robby's chest, a pained sort of longing at war with sober caution. "It's an imposition," he said, voice creaking on it. He swallowed, trying to lighten things. "Besides, you'd get sick of me."

"I got news, friend," Jack said, dry. He favored Robby with a soft look, a tender sort of reminder there: "And family can't impose."

An instinct within Robby viscerally rejected that.

My Everchanging Moods tired

settiai

I've been trying to get my mother to watch The Mighty Nein for a while, and I finally got her to start this morning by volunteering to stay on the phone with her while she watched the first episode. She's one of those people who likes to talk constantly throughout when watching something new, asking questions and the like, so I sucked it up and stayed on the phone with her even though I'm the opposite and hate talking while watching something.

Then she decided to watch just one more episode. And then one more after that. And, well, you get the picture.

... yeah, she's five episodes in now, and the only reason she's not further along is because my father came in for lunch so she had to take a break for a bit. The rate she's going, she'll be finished with the whole season by later today.

My Everchanging Moods amused

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Posted by siria

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83317016

Robby has Chronic Displacement Disorder, to Jack he's always been there.

(This is a The Time Traveler’s Wife AU in the loosest sense. You don’t need to be familiar with it to understand the story I’ve written.)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83317016

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little_details

Sadly, my experience with libraries at that time was just wandering the stacks and taking out interesting books. I vaguely remember using a microfiche once, for example, and all I remember is you have to turn the knob the opposite direction of what you're viewing. Research is a foreign land to me.

The googling I've done tells me that this year was smack dab in the middle of converting to computer use from old style card catalogues, etc. but no information on how a person goes about doing research. I would love to have a helpful librarian character too.

This is for an exchange fic so I'm putting the rest under a cut. Please don't click if you requested a canon set in the 80s in a current exchange. Thank you. ( Read more... )

Any help in how this would work or a website that has this research finding information would be very appreciated.

Edited to Add: Thanks for the suggestions so far but I actually need to have my character do some research beyond phone books for the story to work. What I'm getting is libraries might still? be using card catalogues rather than early computers but how would magazines and trade journals be listed in the card catalogue so that a specific company could be researched? Thank you for any suggestions. They do spark my imagination for adding to the scene.

ETA2: Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I have what I need now. This community is a great resource.

goodbyebird

I absolutely love tarot for the rich visuals and just how many different readings/thoughts it can prompt. And many people use tarot for creative work, storytelling, roleplaying... and so here it is, the prompt meme! Featuring The Mystical Dream Tarot & The Citadel: A Fantasy Oracle.

mystical dream tarot prompt meme

The Mystical Dream Tarot & Citadel Oracle
Prompt Meme
(no pic of Citadel Oracle as I'm reusing the old banner)

+ Post your creations either in the comments, or your own journal.
+ If you want it added to the masterlist, also link your creation in the Prompt Fills thread.
+ All works should be new for this meme, and not something you’ve already created/posted elsewhere.
+ Any and all works welcome. Poetry, meta, stories, memories, art, whatever comes to mind. Wanna crochet? That's fucking amazing. You do you.
+ Please use NSFW/trigger warnings in the comment title/masterlist comment if they apply.
+ I'll reply with the cards drawn to your comment. Feel free to ask for a new prompt if the first one falls flat (new comment). Do give the prompt a day to linger though, an idea might just jump out at you throughout the day. The cards tend to do that ;)
+ Taking prompt requests until Thursday, May 30th.

Right click + show image in new tab = full size image of your pull

Handy Dandy Request Format

Handy Dandy Promo Code

Remember, this event is specifically for #ThreeWeeksForDreamwidth, so keeping your creation exclusive to Dreamwidth for the next week is highly appreciated ♥

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Hello, everyone; happy Dreamwidth Anniversary!

Today I come bearing some simple colored Dreamsheep icons, for your color-themed blogs. These are just some basic web-safe colors I grabbed, so it's not everything on the spectrum or color wheel, but I aimed for a decent variety. Also, if there's a color or color combination that you really want, I'm willing to take requests! It may take me a couple of days to get to them, though, just a heads up.

Anyway, ( Colorful Dreamsheep )

If you decide to use one, please credit soc_puppet or Socchan somewhere; other than that, no restrictions apply 👍

I hope you find one you like!

umadoshi

This year's Hugo nominees were announced early this week. In an unexpected development, I've read four of the Best Novel candidates (having finished the fourth the night before the announcement) and three (!) of the Best Novella candidates, which is more unusual, given how few novellas I read. I'm delighted that

renay got nominated for Intergalactic Mixtape for Best Fanzine (all the more impressive for how new it still is!), as well as for The Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom for Best Related Work. ^_^

But the thing that hit me hardest is that A Girl and Her Fed is up for Best Graphic Story or Comic, having wrapped up its third (and for now, final) act last year. (On Bluesky, K.B. Spangler notes "The work *as a whole* is eligible as it concluded in 2025, but since that is 2000+ strips, we are including the 50+ strips from 2025 in the packet, with a cover page with links to Parts 1 and 2 for reader convenience." She and Ale Presser (who took over the actual art from Spangler a while back) will be attaching this cover to their Hugos submissions packet.

I love AGAHF (and especially the connected Rachel Peng novels, as I've said many times) so much, so this is a real joy.

Reading: I finished Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shroud (the aforementioned Hugo nominee that I finished the night before the announcement), and while I enjoyed the back half of it more than the beginning, it still never really got emotional hooks into me, which is required for me to particularly bond with any story. Fascinating worldbuilding, though, and a grimly plausible look at a future society where humanity lives to serve capitalism.

I've also finished reading the Hikaru no Go manga! According to Goodreads, I'd read as far as vol. 19 before (a loooooong time ago). (It's now been long enough since

scruloose and I watched the c-drama that I mostly only remember my feelings about it, so I have no real sense of how faithful its plot wound up being by the end.)

Currently reading The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan.

Watching: As I mentioned last weekend, I asked

scruloose if they'd be up for giving Justice in the Dark a shot, if only to give me the excuse to rewatch the first eight episodes before finally moving on to the ones that eventually got released in Japan after not being cleared to air in China. They agreed, and we're now four or five episodes in!

I haven't read any of the new release of Mo Du/Silent Reading yet (partly because I don't read nearly as much as I'd like, but also because I'm getting this series in hard copy, which makes it take even longer for me to get around to reading something >.<), so my memory of the novel from reading the fan translation several years ago is fairly fuzzy, but (as expected) I really, really like the main actors.

The tacked-on sci-fi framing is both bizarre and aggressively pushed, and since Mo Du, unlike Guardian, is a modern setting with no fantasy elements that needed to be given a sci-fit polish to make it passable, I can only assume its main purpose is to put extra distance between the genuinely horrific crimes and reality. (At the very least, I don't remember reading about any other explanation/theory, but it's been ages since I saw much talk about the drama that wasn't largely focused on the relationships/character dynamics--which is not a complaint, since that's totally what I'm here for.)

Working: This weekend I'm starting my adaptation of the penultimate volume of Yona of the Dawn. I read the translation a couple days ago and am having a lot (A LOT) of feelings. Send strength.

My Everchanging Moods busy

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Theme Prompt: #298 – Disappearance
Title: She Bit Me and It Felt Like a Kiss
Fandom: Generation X, X-Men (Comicverse)
Rating/Warnings: T
Bonus: No
Word Count: 477
Notes: Kinda loose interpretation of the prompt--hope it's okay! Set after Generation X: Volume 2.

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the_shoshanna

Someone may be selling exactly the backpack I want (they're checking if it's a women's style, and whether it's regular or long torso but frankly I'm on the edge of them, I can take either), at a very reasonable price!

But they're in Vancouver, and saying local pickup only. (Also this is on Facebook Marketplace, and I hate Facebook but oh well.)

rydra_wong

Via https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mkboea2zgs2k

Clinician Guide: Constellation of Chronic Medical Conditions Commonly Seen in Autistic & ADHD Adults

https://allbrainsbelong.org/all-the-things/

In May 2022, we formed a Task Force of clinicians, patients, and community members to discuss what works (and does not work) to manage these medical conditions or symptoms. We also gathered information from more than 100 autistic adults. These individuals gave feedback based on their personal experiences. The content we share on this website combines evidence-based medicine, lived experience, and our clinical experiences treating patients with these conditions.

oursin

Janet Fordham died in crash after travelling to see man who claimed he would help to recover money from earlier scams.

Woman in question was clearly the despair of her family and the local police who failed to discourage her from sending £££ to a series of romance scammers.

The family even spoke to her doctor, who said she was of sound mind, merely 'brainwashed'.

Eventually she

was contacted by a man in Ghana known as Kofi. He claimed he was a doctor and had found out she was being scammed when he came across her details while working part-time in a phone shop. Kofi told her he would help her get her money back and she flew to Accra in October 2022.... The relationship with the man appeared to develop into a romance and Fordham agreed to marry him, the inquest heard.

I am now wondering if there is a whole further layer of scams which are 'HAVE YOU BEEN SCAMMED? I/WE WILL HELP YOU GET YOUR MONEY BACK'. Meta-scamming?

This also makes me think of a possible historical sort of parallel, whereby in the days of belief in witchcraft if you got cursed, there was also - well, perhaps not quite a profession - a class of individuals whose job it was to lift curses, cunningfolk. (Am not going to rush off and delve into the fairly numerous works on the subject around here.)

And more generally on the topic of spam, that conference in Kyoto is still anxiously asking for my response on whether I will be joining them.

heresluck

I am now in the stage of watching my own vid draft export over and over like I can make the necessary changes through sheer force of will. (I have been testing this theory off and on for more than two decades. It does not work.)

Speaking of which, I realized yesterday that sometime this month is the 24th anniversary of finishing my first vid. This is not the sort of thing I generally keep track of, so it was a startling realization. My current students, even the oldest of them, were very much not born yet when I started vidding. Time: just keeps happening!

Anyhow -- I made

sdwolfpup give me a virtual high-five for finishing the draft even though she does not care about Heated Rivalry AT ALL (the truest friends love you even when, etc.), and I've gotten suggestions from

sisabet and am waiting for

kouredios to watch on a larger screen this morning, and there is definitely still some work to do (dear showrunners: I know you want to make your shows ~aesthetic~ or whatever, and I appreciate the commitment, I do, but all this color grading makes life difficult for vidders). But I am going to spend as much of the day as possible in the garden, because spring weather waits for no one, and vidding does, especially when the vid in question has already been seen by a third of its expected audience. Heh.

conuly

Don't get me wrong, I love doing them - five hours of reading, three hours of work, what's not to love? - but talking about them? Don't get me started. Every single time it's a back and forth to confirm the actual day the shift starts.

I got a shift through the staffing agency, and I say "So, to confirm, I go to work at midnight Monday?" and he goes "No, Sunday". "So, I leave my house at 11:30 today...?"

No, he meant midnight Monday to 8am Monday.

Every time I look at the schedule at the usual place I find myself momentarily baffled by the fact that the overnight shift is at the top, as the first shift of the day.

Also, literally as I typed that last sentence a spam text came in with the word "lpuuuu", which seems low effort even for a spam text. I get that their business model depends on weeding out everybody smart enough to say "Seems fake!", but seriously?

siriareads_feed

Posted by siria

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82451186

It’s four weeks since Pittfest, and Robby’s living in the past as much as the present. He takes Jack up on the offer of a therapist’s number, and maps his way toward something like recovery, traveling through room after room in the architecture of his body and mind.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82451186

fred_mouse

last update was a week ago. At some point I'll have the energy to get back to the posting frequency I was happy with. Probably not until the con is over though.

healing: I thought the peeling was done - nope, skin on nipple is not shedding correctly and builds up. Fine if I notice before it itches, but has to be manually removed. However, nipple and general breast soreness is enough better that I'm wearing a regular rather than surgical recovery bra without the protective ring, so I'm calling that a win. Fatigue continues to hit sooner and harder than I expect.

medication: I have now been on the hormone suppressant for a week and a bit. I'm not noticing mood effects, but it is mucking with my sleep to the point that I'm back trying melatonin so that I can fall asleep before 2am. As side effects go, this is manageable, especially if the melatonin works to get me back into a sensible cycle, because if it works as previous I can get the sleep pattern back on track in a couple of weeks.

Beyond that, I have achieved bugger all today, and I'm so tired, but not in a 'could fall asleep' so not attempting other updates.

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Four books new to me. Three fantasy, one horror (maybe?) and at least one is part of a series.

Books Received, April 18 — April 24

Poll #34517 Books Received, April 18 — April 24

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 19

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Which of these look interesting?

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The Drakon King by Terry J. Benton-Walker (November 2026)
0 (0.0%)

They Cry by Glen Cook (November 2026)
5 (26.3%)

The Raven at the Ash Door by K. A. Linde (June 2026)
4 (21.1%)

Monsters of Ohio by John Scalzi (November 2026)
13 (68.4%)

Some other option (see comments)
1 (5.3%)

Cats!
17 (89.5%)

omens

A meme borrowed from

3weeks4dreamwidth (this post) - Put your mp3 player/phone/streaming collection on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results.

This sounded fun to me and also like it would probably be crap but also make me lol - I'm not a poetry fan but ngl, I think it turned out coherent!! I cheated minimally 😇 I skipped a song I hated and also one that started with like, onomatopoeia :P

poetry (& english translation) inside

Me desperté pensando en to' lo que me hacía'
patrzę jak zegar odmierza mi czas
przebudź się - jesteś wolny, jesteś wolny, jesteś wolny
Got a secret, can you keep it?
nie umiem śnić

Ja idę ciągle swoją drogą
Je viens d'une ville où il n'y a plus de loi
I never thought I would put my freedom in your hands
nie mów że mnie znasz
otwieram jedną z ksiażek
I can feel it in my bones
Nie znam słowa
Skasowałam Poloneza obok kina w mur
Hej, ja przed Tobą się rozbieram
Jestem dziewczyną lat 47

And just like that it's over
Trochę deszczu
Powiedz mi, czy wszystko okey?
I just wanna go back, back to 1999
Tak niewiele sam o sobie wiem

& in English (this is just google translating for the most part, so buyer beware)--

I woke up thinking about everything you did to me
I watch the clock tick away
wake up - you are free, you are free, you are free
Got a secret, can you keep it?
I can't dream

I keep going my own way
I come from a city where there are no more laws
I never thought I would put my freedom in your hands
don't say you know me
I open one of the books
I can feel it in my bones
I don't know the word
I crashed a Polonez into a wall next to the cinema
Hey, I'm in front of you, undressing -
I'm a 47 year old girl.

And just like that it's over.
A little rain..
Tell me, is everything okay?
I just wanna go back, back to 1999 -
I know so little about myself.

It's not bad, right?? Nostalgic and a little self-destructive and with too many I's, but plausible! A little Gender, too?? (The narration switches gender & idk, I think it works.) Anyway, you can tell my Tidal account is heavily weighted to Polish music, lol. I've only had it 5 years or so.

ursula

Porting a pair of book reviews over from Bluesky:

Fonda Lee's Last Contract of Isako is terraforming cyberpunk. It's also a samurai movie in book form--directly, rather than in the secondhand way you'd get by riffing on cyberpunk without knowing the sources. Last Contract of Isako is thinking through what it means to have a moral code--an unrelenting and in some ways horrifying code--in service to someone who has no ethics at all. It comes down more or less on the side that some ethics are better than none, which is refreshing when you're used to grimdark, or real-world nihilism. It's also tremendously tightly plotted, in that way where as a reader you know one thing will happen but aren't ready for the sudden unfurling of ramifications!

Last Contract pairs well with Ann Leckie's Radiant Star, in the sense that both are portraits of people who are fucking things up for deeply embedded cultural reasons. Though the book I think you should read Radiant Star against is Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Leckie loves point of view experiments, and Radiant Star is experimenting with an opinionated nineteenth-century style narrator who can dip in and out of other points of view.

Like Jonathan Strange, Radiant Star is particularly interested in the ways that social stratification of various kinds leads people to ignore the knowledge of those they think are inferior, at great peril. When the narrator of Radiant Star comments that a decision is really very understandable, it is about to become a giant clusterfuck, and this becomes funnier and funnier (and scarier and scarier) as the book goes on. You can read most of Radiant Star with general awareness of Ancillary Justice, but the end will be most satisfying if you remember the events of Ancillary Mercy (it's close in time to that book, though places & characters don't repeat).

I requested both of these books from Netgalley, and I'm very glad I did.

althea_valara

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Friending Meme! Come make new friends!

OKAY FOLKS it is time for another round of Althea's List of Interesting Dreamwidth Communities! I last posted this during

snowflake_challenge this year, so just a few months ago, but I've stealth added some more since then.

Rules:
1. Share freely! This post is public for that reason.
2. If you know of a good comm and want to see it featured, comment and I'll very likely add it.
3. I refuse to add comms that full of bigotry and hate. That seems to not be a Dreamwidth thing, but I am sure they are out there. I'm here for supportive / fun places!

And now, here's the list! ~~They are roughly in reverse chronological order to when they've been added, so newer ones are at the top.~~ EDIT @ 12:22pm: I've redone the list to be broken down roughly alphabetical by category, which should make it easier to manage!

Dreamwidth

Non-official communities to help make your time on Dreamwidth more rich.

3weeks4dreamwidth is a thing in which people post/interact more on Dreamwidth, to show love for the platform. ♥

addme_fandom A friend finding community, but with a specific fandom focus! Interested in a particular fandom right now and want more people to talk about it with? Here’s a good place to find fellow fans!

addme_fandom is a place to find friends who share your fannish obsessions.

findingfriends : Similar to the addme communities but with a more in-depth approach, including things like posting style and what sort of interactions you’re looking for. Takes more brain power than the addme comms, but I imagine that the connections result in a higher level of compatibility.

followfriday recommends people/communities to follow each Friday.

getting_started is a community with resources for those new to Dreamwidth.

moodthemeinayear is what it says on the tin: the folks there are working on creating custom Dreamwidth mood themes over the course of a year.

reddit_refugees offers resources for newcomers to Dreamwidth.

snowflake_challenge runs in January, and is a way to celebrate fandom and meet interesting people on Dreamwidth.

sunshine_challenge Like snowflake_challenge but runs in the summer months (northern hemisphere, but our Southern Friends experiencing winter are welcome too!)

twitter_refugees is for folks migrating to Dreamwidth from Twitter.

Bingos

Creative or commenting challenges based on a bingo card.

allbingo - They do all sorts of bingos, mostly writing-related but I think they've had some crafting ones as well. There's new challenges monthly!

comment_bingo is a bingo challenge community for commenting on all those fanfics you read.

genprompt_bingo - for the writers! They generate bingo cards of prompts, with all the prompts being gen. You can, of course, write a shippy fic from the prompt – it’s just the prompts themselves that are gen.

ladiesbingo is a bingo challenge to make works focused on the relationship between women, whether gen, femslash, or familial. I'm currently having great fun trying to fill my bingo board!

lyricaltitles is a bingo fest for fanfiction and original fiction centering around using songs for inspiration!

vid_bingo is a community for vidders to use bingo card prompts to inspire vids

Prompts

Writing or creative challenges that are prompt-based but not bingo cards:

100words is a drabble community for fiction of all kinds. They post weekly challenges there.

1character is a writing challenge where you choose a character and prompt set, then write one line sentences to fill each prompt.

25poemsamonth is a community where a 25 prompt table is posted at the beginning of every month and then, members have until the beginning of the next to fill as many prompts as possible.

fan_flashworks is a multifandom comm that posts one prompt for the week you use to write a short fanfic.

ffprompts posts monthly prompts for the Final Fantasy video game franchise. As a big fan of this series, I'd love to see more fills for the prompts happening!

fic_promptly is created for leaving prompts and answering prompts. All fandoms are allowed, as are original work and real-person work. Fills can be fics or poems. There is no minimum/maximum word count.

inspiredby posts writing prompts monthly.

kittens_and_spitefic 's goal is to prompt fan content by acting like a total troll and pretending to bash what you want to see up one side and down the other. Commenters then engage with the supposed "troll" by spamming them with cat (and other animal) macros and/or content that caters to everything the original poster professes to hate.

sweetandshort is a low-pressure community for creating small fanworks / original works each week.

threesentenceficathon People leave prompts, other write short fills of 3 sentences or longer.

Writing

Writing-related communities that aren't Bingos or Prompts.

10trueloves is a writing challenge where you pair a character with ten others (IIRC, they don't have to be romantic pairings, but I'm not sure – check the comm rules for more info!)

getyourwordsout is a writing challenge community where you can challenge yourself by wordcount of number of days written per month.

makezines is for folks doing just that!

Icons

Icon-creating challenges and other icon communities.

iconthat is another icon challenge community.

your_favourites is an icon making community that migrated over from LiveJournal. Looks like they have themes for members to create icons for, and then take a vote for best icon. I've joined it in hopes of finding more icons to add to my own journal.

Books

Read-alongs and other book communites:

booknook posts a weekly Read-in-Progress check-in posts on Wednesdays.

queerbookclub is a no pressure book club dedicated to fiction books of all genres that are queer in some way! each month we take suggestions on what the next month's book should be and we vote on it. if you're not interested in the book for the month, that's perfectly fine!

readingtogether - has seen some activity the past few months. It's not like a normal book club where everyone reads the same thing - instead everyone reads their own thing and posts their progress.

Crafts and General Creativity

everykindofcraft is what it says it is.

get_knitted posts daily check-ins. The folks there are GREAT about commenting on each other's comments. It's not just for knitting, either - there are people there who do scrapbooking and jigsaw puzzles.

justcreate - has weekly check in posts where you can update everyone on your creative progress. All kinds of creativity are celebrated there, including fiber arts, drawing, writing, and more.

nacramamo is National Craft-Making Month, and is gearing up now to kick off in October. The challenge is to work on some kind of craft every day for 31 days.

communal_creators is a community for creative types! A mini-round for time pledges will be happening this spring. ANY kind of creativity is welcome! We have people writing (both fic and original), knitting, crochet, vidding, storyboarding, baking, making websites... if it's creative, you're welcome here.

drawesome - has drawing challenges. I haven't taken part yet because I am a very sucky drawer, but I hope to start there in the future.

Culture

Communities focusing on a specific culture.

c_ent is for Chinese Entertainment, and comes highly recommended by a few people.

latam is a new community for people to come together to talk about latinamerican music, films, food, culture, fandom, and more! Everyone's welcome, no matter where you're posting from! And you can also post in your language (official languages of the community are Spanish, Portuguese and English!)

senzenwomen is a community regaling the histories of women in and around Japan, 1868-1945. Thanks to vriddy for signal boosting this fascinating community!

Nature

What it says on the tin.

birdfeeding covers everything to do with birdfeeding, gardening for wildlife, and related topics.

common_nature is a photo community to share nature pics from your area, and has been active recently.

Fandom & Gaming

Communities about fandom in general and in specific.

allkindsofdolls is what it says on the tin. If you love dolls, check it out.

anime_manga has seen some activity lately!

bnha_fans is for fans of Boku no Hero Academia

fandom_on_dw : Pretty much the same as above, honestly, but it’s good that there’s more than one place that hosts this kind of thing!

fandomcalendar : This is a community dedicated to announcing fandom events, which can include fandom-specific friending memes.

fictional_fans : A community for all fans and fandoms. If you’ve got a post you want to make about fandom in general, or a specific fandom that doesn’t have its own community, this might be a good place to check out.

finalfantasy - of course this would be here, if you know me. It's been very slow there lately, but I'd love to see more activity there.

indie_games sometimes sees activity, and in the past, we did a play-together of A Short Hike.

Social Justice

Because the world is a mess and we just need to fix it.

fandomtrumpshate raises money for charity by creating fanworks.

thissterlingcrew is the UK equivalent of the below.

thisfinecrew is a social justice community focused on the USA. It doesn't get as much action as i once did but there are still informative posts there once in a while.

womansplace is a community that holds dual purpose: 1) Celebrate characters who identify as women or who are aligned with womanhood in transformative fan works. Events include community recs, a prompt fest, and a vid exchange. 2) Raise funds via a vid auction

Other Communties

These didn't fit in the other categories but I feel are interesting enough to warrant being on this post!

queerly_beloved : An anti-exclusionist queer space to get together and talk about all things queer, including intersectional matters. Hosts a weekly recommendations thread, but more and other content is very welcome!

1word1day posts a vocabulary word a day!

agonyaunt - critiques letters to advice columnists and the answers the letter writers get. I love this community because it is filled with smart people that I am learning a lot from. I'm a person of a certain age, and I know because of the timeframe I grew up in I have a lot of inherit biases and whatnot. I try to be above those biases, but sometimes I don't recognize them. Reading the other commenters to agonyaunt helps me recognize those biases and better myself.

awesomeers - they make a post for each day of the week in which they challenge the members to comment with Just One Thing you did today that you're proud of accomplishing. Of course you are free to post more than one thing if you'd like! I love the idea of this community, though I haven't been very active in it lately. I hope to change that, if only to congratulate other people. Also: we celebrate all accomplishments there, so something as simple as "I got out of bed" would be acceptable!

bujo for bullet journalers.

crowdfunding connects creators, patrons, and fans of cyberfunded creativity. Watch for the mid-month Creative Jam with a new theme each time.

do_it - A community for posting to-do lists to make yourself accountable to others.

holiday_wishes - active in the last two months of the year. People post their holiday wish lists there, and others fill them! I really was blessed one year - I got a bunch of cards, some yarn, some chocolate, and some other sweet treats. &hearts

journalsandplanners - what it says on the tin: for those who use a journal or planner to organize their lives.

reference_library is a place to gather helpful links and share them, run by sharpest_asp

signalboost is for getting the word out to others about people needing help in some way.

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kaylarudbek

I still miss the gray and silver Cross pen with my name engraved on it that was an award for being a National Merit Scholar, and the blue rosary that I had as a kid with the smooth sky blue sort of oval beads. I lost both I think back in college and I suspect that they were stolen (I had a lot of things go missing freshman year). Also my Advent wreath/candle holder which I haven’t seen since I moved to Virginia over a decade ago, and my Electricity and Magnetism textbook which was lost in my move to Virginia.

I bought myself a very nice blue and silver rosary this last week, and it has smooth beads that look like silvery blue pearls, Oddly enough the Our Father beads are miniature Miraculous Medal style (missing the text on front) and the joining piece aka the Memorare piece is a Miraculous Medal with front text in Latin.

(and yes I have my great-grandmother’s rosary in its Notre Dame case, two olive wood ones my brother from a visit to Jerusalem, two gifted from my mother and one of those is dark blue spike crystals and one is green St. Patrick’s themed, one from Padua that my dad gave me, two plastic ones from my grandparents which I think we had up at the cabin, but I wanted to replace that lost blue one as I like different textures at different times)

I suspect that autistic people tend to gravitate towards having prayer beads as they are a great fidget and meditation tool. Bead textures and sizes and overall feel and sound are important (everyone likes looking at the flashy crystal beads but they aren’t always the most comfortable in actual use, although they are good for meditation before falling asleep as they are spiky enough to keep me awake for a while longer before falling asleep)

Also, apparently some people made/make rosaries with uranium glass beads which glow very nicely in the dark (but I would test them with a Geiger counter first and I probably wouldn’t give one to a kid or a cancer survivor).

yeah, reverting back to folk Catholicism in order to spite the MAGA heresy and make the chaplain blow a gasket (I’m halfway tempted to start a collection of challenge coins with saints and pagan deities and display it at work). I have also bought various saints’ medals and I need to put more charms and medals onto my silver bracelet..

(And why have I had mild to severe nausea for the last couple of months? If I was 5-10 years younger I’d be taking a pregnancy test)

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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

muladhara

You may or may not be interested, but I just bought a bundle of 511 (tt)rpgs in support of trans people in Idaho off itch.io for $5 (~£3.87 at the time of writing).

You may remember that I bought a bundle like this last year? It's the same person that has organised this one (I thought I recognised the username, and I was right!)

Anyway, there's six days or so left on it, and I only found it by chance this time - I've kept meaning to log back into itch for updates on games I already own, and I only just remembered today.

...I may need to buy more ink and paper for my printer, lol. [ETA: or actually buy an e-reader instead of whining to myself about not needing one /edit]

Now That's What I Call... Man on the Moon - REM

pattrose

I had to have an EkG today, before Thursday. That's the big day of my Broncoscopy. The girl that did my ekg said it was a little off. What a dumb thing to tell me. If no one calls me, I'll know its still on. I can't seem to focus right now. I hope to start posting soon. Take care of yourselves. Hugs.🌹🌹🌹🌹

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Cozy seat in beautiful backyard flower garden Welcome back! Here’s what we’re reading right now:

Carrie: I just finished the Trembling Hand, ( A | BN | K | AB ) a nonfiction that I read slowly, and am starting The Chamber, ( A | BN | K | AB ) a thriller which I hope to speed through since it’s all plot

Lara: I just started a cosy mystery by an author that (from what I can tell) started as an influencer. The Potting Shed Murder by Paula Sutton. ( A | BN | K | AB ) I’m only a couple pages in but I’m intrigued!

A | BN

Amanda: I started The Fey Hotel, but my brain is all over the place and was having some issues latching onto the world building. I was not aware it took place in a fantasy Seattle based on the cover.

Sarah: I finished Fair Game by Patricia Briggs, ( A | BN | K | AB ) part of the Alpha & Omega series, and am debating whether to move to the next book or take a break. I love the relationship development and the exploration of ethics, justice, and acceptance, but woo damn are they violent AF. I mean, for me. There are probably more violent books out there.

A | BN | K | AB

Elyse: I just finished the entire ACOTAR series ( A | BN | K | G | AB ) and went from my cynical self to a die hard fan. I took off 10/27. There is something addicting in those pages…

Shana: I just started Key Lime Sky by Al Hess. So far there’s pie, queers, and alien invasions.

Susan: I’m reading Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, ( A | BN ) which is very dramatic and somehow is not m/m romance, despite reading exactly like Global Examination.

Whatcha reading? Let us know in the comments!

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I ended up going to see Hadestown with L while it was touring SF. I heard from her last year that she wanted to see it, so as soon as dates in SF popped up – I apparently get all these live performances ads now on Insta, after getting Ed Gamble tickets – I texted her, and she got two tickets, intending it to be for RH and herself. But I told her that if it did not work out for him to go (because at the time he lived in Napa, and it would’ve been a long drive on a weeknight), I was happy to be her plan B, and that’s what happened. ( The show and the experience, with marked spoilers )

So, I’m glad I ended up going to see it with L. I would not have bestirred myself on my own, but listening to / watching my favorite songs from the show on YouTube, I can tell I got stuff out of the live experience that I would not have gotten otherwise, and also, I’m glad I got to see this particular Hades. And L is the perfect musical theater buddy – she likes discussing stuff and knows more than me, and in this case there was also the shared interest in Greek myth (which is what we had with the Harry Potter play, too). B would’ve absolutely hated every aspect of it, from the crowd to the jazz to the singing, which all three of us agreed on, heh.

Oh, right, and when we came home, since we were talking about how much I like bass voices, I showed L some Tim Foust videos (which

aletheiafelinea introduced me to back in the day), like Champagne Taste (On a Beer Budget) and Long Black Train , and the Home Free sea shanties.

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Taskmaster s21e03 – I like Kumail’s shirt, with the white o white design. And Amy’s polka dot pinafore thing is very cute, too. ( Spoilers )

Joanna is the podcast guest, and she talks at the same density and speed as on the show, with Ed just sort of occasionally putting in a sentence or two XD ( Slight spoilers? ) Anyway, that was a ton of fun, and that was one I made a point of watching on YouTube rather than listening to, because I wanted to watch Joanna light up with laughter, and Ed’s expression as she just kept talking over him. What an absolute delight she is XD

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Hugo nominations are out! ( Category by category thoughts )

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And I should take this opportunity to finally write down my Cinder House thoughts. I read it, what, during my trip to Arizona, I think, and that’s been 6 weeks.

4. Freya Marske, Cinder House – I liked it a lot! I was not super swayed when I heard the premise – I have no particular devotion to Cinderella retellings, and ghost stories aren’t really my genre, and I wasn’t sure how this premise would play to what I’ve heretofore seen of Freya’s strengths as a writer in both pro and fanfic, but it’s just a really good book. ( More, with spoilers )

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At some point I should also catch up on another 6 months of Elis & John Radio X shows, and a ~2 months worth of current E&J and adjacent things like How Do You Cope (newly returned) and John making appearances on other podcasts to promote Thirst, but that'll need to wait. (I have preordered a signed copy of Thirst, but how I'm going to get to read it before I see

cafemassolit whose house it's being shipped to is still unclear...

jadelennox

I hope Nael, currently age 16-ish, is doing very well, and still writing delightful poems about tigers.

torachan

1. It's the weekend!

2. We ordered dinner from Coco Ichibanya tonight. Got the regular curry (we always get it with karaage and tonkatsu) but instead of just getting one to share, I got another order so we'd have some leftovers. For the second order I got their keema curry with cheese naan and it was also extremely delicious.

3. I got gas (and a much needed car wash) on the way to work this morning and it was down 40 cents from the last time we filled up before going to Japan. That's still about 30 cents higher than before our great leader decided attacking Iran was a smart idea, but I was really pleasantly surprised to see that not only had it not gone up, but had gone down so much.

4. Speaking of cars, we've been having so much trouble with the key fobs for the newer car that we finally took it in to the dealership. Of course they were trying to say at first that we should just replace the batteries in the fobs, but we've done that and it makes no difference. Plus it's both of them, so it's obviously something to do with the car itself. Anyway, they got that finished up today and apparently the battery in the car's sensor needed replacement, so hopefully that will have fixed it. We had also wanted them to fix the front windshield, which developed a crack the other day after the windshield wiper flew off and the metal part snapped back down and hit the glass. They didn't do anything and were saying it would be $2300 to replace it, but Carla spoke to a manager and showed him that it was not a chip or anything that caused it, but the malfunctioning wiper, so he agreed to replace it for free. They have to order the window, so we've got the car back for now and have to take it back in again next week, but I'm very glad we got these both fixed for no cost.

5. Look at these boys!

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Today I made two short trips to a local stream and saw quite a few different kind of birds, partly with the help of binoculars:

Great blue heron wading in the stream
Hawk (red-tailed?)
Green-winged teals
Black-capped chickadees
American robins
A reddish finch (house finch?)
A hummingbird too far away to identify and too quick for me to binocular
A little yellow-and-black bird, probably a goldfinch but it was gone before I got a good look at it.
A tiny bird that I suspect was a golden-crowned kinglet because I think I saw a splash of yellow on its crown but again I didn't get a good look before it was gone.
Some brown sparrow-y birds that I couldn't identify
Plus the city birds I see all the time without going anywhere: pigeons, crows, starlings, gulls (glaucous-winged?)

I also saw some red admiral butterflies and I think I caught a glimpse of a scampering mouse-sized mammal but it got into cover too quickly for me to really see (probably just a mouse).

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The hunting knife is twice the size of the fruit in his hand, but Ronon handles it with ease.

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The wonderful poetryisnotaluxury posted a Joy Sullivan poem today ("On Days I Hate My Body, I Remember Redwoods") and I almost just copied them and posted the same one, because it's so fucking good. But here's a different one, instead.

( Instinct )

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A couple years ago, I did a daily tarot prompt (see this tag), which I'm thinking about doing again, but realising that consistency isn't going to be my best point, I'm not sure if it's a good idea. I guess I could draw a card when I remember to do it, and not commit to writing a drabble/ficlet every day? I really did have fun last time, but I also wasn't... fully burned out. so

Thoughts?

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torachan

Recently Finished
A Case of Mice and Murder
First in a new to me (and apparently fairly new in general, as there are only two books so far) murder mystery series. Set at the turn of the (20th) century, a middle aged barrister gets roped into investigating a murder. This was very slow at first, but I did end up enjoying it at lot and I think I'll continue the series. I liked how the two plots came together in the end.

The Final Chapter
Another book with a murder at a writers' retreat. This is a thriller rather than a murder mystery, though. I liked it, but didn't love it.

Different Kinds of Fruit
When the MC starts sixth grade, there's a new kid in class, who identifies as non-binary. When her parents get really weird about this new friend, she assumes at first that they are transphobic, only to eventually learn that her dad is a stealth trans man and in fact is the parent who gave birth to her, not her mother. I loved this so much. I have another book by this author on my to-read list and am looking forward to reading more from him.

Busu Nante Iwanaide vol. 1
This popped up in Amazon recommended and the first volume was free to read, so I decided to give it a go and ended up liking it a lot. The MC is a woman in her 30s who was bullied for her looks in school and now wears hat/glasses/facemask when out to try and hide as much of her face as possible. She has recently been feeling heartened by the fact that lookism is getting more attention in Japan, only to find that the author of the articles she has been reading is none other than the ringleader of her high school bullies, who, while traditionally beautiful herself, now preaches about how no one is ugly and tries to help women improve their self-confidence. Unable to stand the hypocrisy, the MC goes to this woman's office meaning to stab her to death, only to be mistaken for someone interviewing for a job, and despite waving her knife around, she gets the job lol. I'm curious to see where this goes, but I liked it a lot so far.

Kinki Chihou no Aru Basho ni Tsuite vol. 1-3
Manga adaptation of a popular web novel. The premise is that someone is contacting the reader with all these articles and videos about a certain area that seems to be source of many strange occurrences, in hopes of finding out what happened to the previous person who was researching it. I'm enjoying it so far, but it's not one of my top faves.

tcpip

As predicted, this entire week I've been buried in work and study, a stark contrast to the week prior, when I engaged in a myriad of artistic engagements. As part of my doctoral studies, I've powered my way through the University of Chicago's content on climate modelling. The professor, David Archer, understands the physics, the modelling, and even the trickier issues involved in translating one to the other, especially given the handful of uncertainties and modelling challenges at scales. His book, "Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast" is a worthwhile introduction to the subject. I have not yet decided what my major paper will be for this study; although I must mention that my paper "Energy Production Under The Paris Agreement: Options for Developing Pacific Island Countries" from the course "Global Energy and Climate Policy" has been accepted for The Intergovernmental Research and Policy Journal; I just have to clear up some formatting issues (one day, we'll all use Markdown).

One fortunate side of my work in supercomputing is the access to some particularly big iron, which might be useful in these situations. The University's own system, Spartan, has grown from being an innovative experimental system on a shoestring budget to become one of the world's top supercomputers. But another part of my role is working with the West Australian Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, home of Setonix, Australia's most powerful system (named after the quokka, you know). This week, we had a visitor from WA, from Pawsey, to discuss the system, and I was involved in wrangling a lecture theatre full of Spartan researchers to come along and hear about how to get access to this grander system. It was a bit of a highlight for the week, as I'm also organising a major project which includes a couple of major transitions which I strongly disagree with on a technical level, which I know will come back and bite us in the future. But I have long been an advocate of not letting work decisions upset me, and I am all too familiar with people acting as if technical limits are negotiable.

I rather suspect that next week is going to be a bit like the past week; the combination of full-time work and full-time study often means there are periods when my social life suffers quite a lot, and this is one of those times when the pointy end of multiple deadlines is looming. It is times like these that I feel a great deal of gratitude for the especially calm and studious Rookery I've built for myself, and for finding myself in a profession where extended periods of solitude are highly beneficial for output. I guess in the past people found themselves in a secluded hermitage; instead, I find myself in the midst of a vibrant city with the plentiful beauty of art and nature, and it takes some willpower to stay focused.