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Sunny, warm(ish) and lovely the past several days. Rain predicted for late Friday into Saturday; my garden will be happy!

What I Just Finished Reading

Fourth Wing was, uh, everything I expected. I am SO not the audience for romantasy, but, as we used to say about our kids devouring Babysitter's Club or Goosebumps, "At least they are reading!" For a Goodreads Community Challenge.

Black Woods Blue Sky, by Eowyn Ivey. Ivey is a hometown girl, from the same town in Alaska where we lived, so of course I'll read everything she writes. The descriptive prose here was so evocative, and made me so homesick, while the plot, with its impending sense of dread, kept me glued to my couch. [personal profile] rachelmanija, take a look at this and let me know what you think of it. For A to Z Authors.

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, by Hannah Ritchie. "Don't believe gloomy headlines!" is the message here - yes, things are bad, but not quite as bad as they could be. Well written and interesting but oh, so many graphs. SO MANY. A to Z Authors.

What I Am Currently Reading/What I Am Reading Next

The Briar Club, by Kate Quinn, and Encounters at the Heart of the World, by Elizabeth A. Fenn.

Question of the Day: Out of Character Meme, from [personal profile] minoanmiss. Suppose you were on the phone with someone who knows you and you wanted to alert them that you were in a Bad Situation. What's the most out of character thing you could say? My reply was, "The Star Wars movies are the most asinine things ever produced."
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I love an ekphrastic and this is proof that poetic forms we might think of as nothing but wordplay or for children (e.g., abecedarians or acrostics) can be very sophisticated and serious.

Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic by Grisel Y. Acosta

after Remedios Varo’s Mujer saliendo del psicoanalista

another face has sprouted in my chest
beastly, that’s me, a super freak
cavorting with your skull in my grasp
displaced personalities cannot be cloaked
ever, they will grow like a haunted
fever of wispy hair
gathered in a basket, along with time, a
half-filled vial of poison &
illusions of tick-tock-clocking syringe
just let me explain:
killing myself is not an option
let me try to live with my
multiple personas and their infinite masks, why
not weave them into a poncho
of chartreuse green, grow them,
pouch them, wear them like horns
question my memories, befriend
radical thoughts and nightmares
solemn my specters behind
tenuous doors with intimidating bells
understand the unexplainable, develop
venom as Tilda Swinton couture
when dreams become a snail shell planted
X, marks the spot of this treasure I shall reveal,
yell on a mountain, YES, this is mine, I will
zap my fears—I can face all the faces, darling, of course I can

--

This is the work of art which inspired the piece:

varo painting

Daily Check In

Apr. 22nd, 2025 08:52 pm
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*\o/* Word Count Step Count Headache?
Daily 254 8,303 no
Monthly 9,554 217,636 5 days

2025 Yahtzee Roll #3: Fill #5

Apr. 22nd, 2025 04:52 pm
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Title: Pernickety Poisoner
Fandom: Original
Poetic form: Abecedarian
Rating: Gen
No. of lines: 28
Prompt: Persnickety
Summary: An abecedarian about how nothing in the persnickety's poisoner's cabinet is of any use! So vexing!

Read more... )

2025 Yahtzee Roll #3: Fill #4

Apr. 22nd, 2025 03:42 pm
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[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
Title: Gandhi
Fandom: Original
Poetic form: kyrielle (a variation on)
No. of Lines: 28
Prompt: Ambitious
Rating: Gen
Summary: a variation on a kyrielle about the life of Gandhi

Read more... )

We’re going on an egg hunt

Apr. 22nd, 2025 08:05 pm
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So the last few days have been eventful so it’s time, again, for a general post.

So on Sunday I started watching The Residence. I saw a trailer for it on twitter about a month or so ago and I was instantly intrigued. It’s a murder mystery and someone has gotten killed at a large house while a party is going on downstairs. Which yeah, sounds like dozens of other murder mysteries, except this is no ordinary large house: it’s the white house.

I watched the first two episodes and, so far, it’s really great so far! I love the detective as she’s so quirky and has absolutely no respect for any of the guys trying to tell her what to do (or what not to do). The cast is also wild as there’s been a lot of people I’ve recognised (The FBI agent from Ant Man and Wandavision, Tilly from Star Trek Discovery, Jane Curtain from 3rd Rock from the sun, one of the guys from OG Charmed, hughJackman and Kylie Minogue! Oh and the guy that plays Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian is in it too.) I really love it and wanna watch more cause I wanna know what happened!

The rest of Sunday was kinda low energy but I did end up starting a game pass game, Planet Of Lana. It came to gamepass last year and I wanted to play it cause it looks so pretty but alas I got sidetracked. It really is so pretty though and there’s a cute lil guy called Mui who is like a lil black cat thing. It’s pretty good so far, though some parts are tricky.

I found out on insta that there’s gonna be an indie horror short film thing at a cinema in Birmingham (here’s the list) and I’m kinda tempted to check it out even though I dunno exactly where the cinema is and it’s on a library day. We’ll see if I do it (they’re also doing full showings of Twin Peaks which is kinda cool but they’re on Sundays)

There wasn’t gonna be any plans Monday, but then when I was looking at the tv guide I saw there was a film I’d wanted to see for awhile on. It was The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes and I’d heard of it cause there’s a section at Loch Ness (which resulted in a prop being lost to the loch only to be found again a few years back). And honestly? It was a wild ride. It had Christopher Lee as Mycroft an opening story mostly unconnected to the rest (with Sherlock implying to someone that he was gay and Watson was his lover), a finale at Loch Ness and a closing scene that was so sad. (It’s on Sky Arts again Saturday afternoon.j I’m so glad I spottted the listing, though also so sad when I looked up later that there was intended to be more scenes to it but they got cut.

Since money, finally, turned up I decided to go to sainsburys this morning to look for eggs. As I posted on insta I did find some, in sainsburys and Aldi, but there really weren’t many options and it was mainly more expensive eggs left. M and S’s food also didn’t have anything which was a shame as I wanted to try some of their hot cross buns. I did get a lil Lego Yoshi and the new radio times from sainsburys though.

(Also Pets at home had the cutest lil Guinea pigs they were so adorable😭)

I did manage to get a Lindt eggfor mum though as thanks for all the issues, though the box could easily have been half the size it was. We also had dominos, which was good though I’m sure the price has gone up since we last had some.

Also today Elder Scrolls Oblivion has been remastered and was out today! It’s on game pass too so I might try it sometime but it’s 120GB thst means I have to figure out a way to make space (damn xbox and memory card things being so small)

Also today the local cinema put up the Episode III showing times and it looks like it’s only from Friday-Sunday which is a bit annoying. It’s also annoying it’s only one showing, 3:45 which means I can get there on bus, but have to walk back if I go. I’ll see what the weather is like, but I know Saturday is out cause of Doctor Who.

Anyway! I think that’s everything but I’m probably missing something super obvious.

Check-In Post - April 22nd 2025

Apr. 22nd, 2025 08:21 pm
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: Do you change crafts with the season or stick to the same crafts year round?


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



Belly dance hero

Apr. 22nd, 2025 07:58 pm
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I've found a lady who has the same sort of shape as me, who dances the same kind of dance that I would love to dance. She has such precision and confidence-verging-on-arrogance and strength and lyricism and sweetness. I don't know that I can get my creaky old, arthritic person to do some of the things she does (that back bend!) but I love her sense of theatre. I love how she has combined bellydance with inspiration from sci-fi and theatre to make something that is very unique.

Much though I like dancing, I haven't been able to find any genuine love in my heart for the whole 'scantily clad get in touch with your inner goddess who is also a sexy flirt' malarky, chiefly because I don't think I have an inner goddess of any kind, let alone a sexy one. But as a writer I 100% have an inner Evil Galactic Emperor, or an inner hero or villain character of a sort that I can lean into.

So I the new dance I am now wrestling with is inspired by the plot in Stargate Universe in which Chloe - experimented on by aquatic aliens - fears she is losing her humanity, even while she grows stronger and more intelligent.

My question was, why the heck wouldn't you embrace that? Super strength? The ability to do maths? Sign me up.

I've just got to find a way of expressing this in dance.

FAKE Quadruple Drabble: One Shot

Apr. 22nd, 2025 05:36 pm
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[personal profile] badly_knitted
 


Title: One Shot
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee, OC.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Ryo waits for the order to fire.
Written For: Challenge 441: Amnesty 73 at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks , using Challenge 152: Shot. Also for the dw100 prompt ‘Fire’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.
 
 


Doctor Who Drabble: Desert Nights

Apr. 22nd, 2025 05:26 pm
badly_knitted: (Eleven & TARDIS)
[personal profile] badly_knitted
 


Title: Desert Nights
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Ninth Doctor, OCs.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 916: ‘Caravan’ at 
[community profile] dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Jack, Rose, and the Doctor spend some time on a desert planet.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
 


 

Double Drabble: Dwarfed

Apr. 22nd, 2025 05:17 pm
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[personal profile] badly_knitted
 


Title: Dwarfed
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 862: Small at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Large as the Happy Wanderer is, right now it seems tiny and fragile.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble. Set in my Ghost of a Chance ‘Verse.
 


 

Tuesday: After Big Events

Apr. 22nd, 2025 11:11 am
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Hi, everyone! I’m templefugate, and I'm your host this week. As a reminder, we are using a new posting schedule. Sundays are for Lonely Prompts and sharing the fills that you completed during the week, Tuesdays and Thursdays are for new themes and prompts, and Saturdays will remain a Free for All.

Today's theme is after big events - i.e., what happens following life-changing moments and experiences, both personal and societal. (Feel free to interpret that loosely, though.) Prompts should thus explore and focus on this idea.

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ The X-Files, Dana Scully, her life post-FBI
+ Any, any, buying a bunch of on-sale candy after a holiday
+ Any, any, life as a married couple post-wedding and honeymoon

We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community.

While the use of LJ's advanced search options is available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site, please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site but you are still more than welcome to participate.

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word! [community profile] comment_fic



tag=after big events

Daily Check In

Apr. 21st, 2025 09:30 pm
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*\o/* Word Count Step Count Headache?
Daily 383 8,148 no
Monthly 9,191 209,157 5 days

Check-In Post - April 21st 2025

Apr. 21st, 2025 07:35 pm
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: Do you change crafts with the season or stick to the same crafts year round?


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



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