Round #87 ≛ Results

Jul. 24th, 2025 11:23 pm
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Congratulations! 🎊✨🏆
Thank you to all participants & voters.
The points tally when needed is in a comment on the voting post.


≛ Round #87 Winners ≛

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1st Place
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[personal profile] wickedgame

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2nd Place
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[personal profile] tinny

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3rd Place
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[personal profile] magicrubbish

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Mod's Choice
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[personal profile] narnialover7

"Intrusive" [Encanto gen]

Jul. 25th, 2025 02:03 am
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Encanto gen:Intrusive”   [@ AO3]
RATING: PG-13.
SUMMARY: Bruno has a special relationship with Casita. That’s not always a good thing.
NOTES: It struck me that even before his ten years inside the walls, Bruno had probably spent more time alone with Casita than
anyone else in his family.
Thank you to [personal profile] akira17 for beta.

I did the ridiculous thing.

Jul. 24th, 2025 11:26 pm
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This should be everything unread on my fiction shelves plus everything unread on my Kindle. Items in bold are only on the Kindle. Several are on both, but I think I managed to remove all the duplicates. (Formatting it this way, it's kind of interesting to see where I started acquiring everything in ebook except for gifts and library discards.)

781 works of (mostly) fiction in a table )
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Jul. 24th, 2025 08:34 pm
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Name: Amber
Age group: 40's
Country: USA
Subscription/Access Policy: I'm fine with anyone one, just let me know before you add me. I'd prefer 18+ with same interests or a few.

Fannish Interests: Cosplay, conventions, charity work, fanfiction, drawing.
I like to post about: My health, photos I take, my daily life, fandoms, movie/show reviews, my church/God (I got back into religion not to long ago), my friends and what were up to, my fanclubs and what were up to.
About Me/Other Info: I'm a 8 open heart surgery patient and pacemaker surgery to my name along with other health issues. I'm introvert. I'm a Hufflepuff. Theme Park pass holder for Universal Hollywood and Disneyland. I collect popcorn buckets and fandom stuff. I love to cosplay and Disneybound. Also love doing Disney markets and game nights. I'm obsessed with reading/painting and doing movie/show binges. Love to attend conventions and sometimes work them. I also love being in my Star Trek clubs (2) and my Ghosbusters club. I'm a huge fan of Fall, Halloween. I hate the heat/summer.

Please no racism, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-science, fatphobia, Trump supports.

Other Fandoms: White Collar, Criminal Minds and NCIS.
OTPs and Ships: Way to many but to start: Kirk/Spock, Kirk/McCoy, Kirk/Uhura, Spock/Uhura, Number One/Pike, Picard/Q, Picard/Riker, Bashir/Garak, Janeway/Chakotay, Janeway/Paris, Paris/Torres, Chakotay/Paris, Paris/Kim, Archer/Tucker, Archer/T'Pol/Tucker, Archer/T'Pol, Archer/Shran, Trip/Reed, Ten/Donna, Ten/Rose, Amidala/Kenobi, Amidala/Skywalker, Kenobi/Skywalker, Kenobi/Sabé, Organa/Solo, Kent/Luthor, Kent/Lang, Queen/Kent, Barry/Queen, Barry/Snow, Snart/Barry, Barry/Oliver/Kara, Ramon/Lisa Snart, Eddie Thawne/Barry, Barry/Spivot, Queen/Merlyn, Harper/Thea Queen, Barry/Kara Danvers, Bonnie/Damon, Elena/Stefan, Elena/Damon, Klaus /Caroline, Elena /Elijah, Magnus/Alec, Simon/Raphael. SO many more.

Favorite Movies: Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Lord of The Rings/Superman, Batman, Deadpool, X-Men, Iron Man, Indiana Jones, Back to The Future, Fast and The Furious, Jurassic Park/World, Ghosbusters,
TV Shows: Star Trek, 9-1-1, 9-1-1 Lone Star, Shadowhunters, Teen Wolf, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Psych, Teen Wolf, Pokémon, Doctor Who, Arrow, The Flash, Superman & Lois, Angel, Buffy, Torchwood.
Books: Harry Potter, House of Night, The Vampire Diaries, Percy Jackson, The Mortal Instruments.
Music: Country, oldies, opera (some). Luke Bryan, Jelly Roll, Alan Jackson, George Straight, Garth Brooks, LeeAnn Rhimes, Shania Twain, Backstreet Boys, NSync, Linkin Park, Pentatoix, Evanescence, Josh Groban, Ed Sherran, P!nk, Eminem.
Games:
Comics/Anime/Misc: Pokemon, Digimon and Card Captor Sakura.
[personal profile] radiantfracture
Welcome to the asynchronous viewing party for the The Space all nonbinary/trans staged reading of Twelfth Night, introduced by Sir Ian McKellen! Yay!

Come in. Get comfy (or pleasantly uncomfortable). Grab some snacks. Etc.

The purpose of this post is to act like an oddly static Discord, to wit: I'll live-comment here as I watch the reading, and you are invited to do the same, whenever you watch the stream, so that the end result is a braiding-together of our viewings, a co-viewing and conversation in slow time.

I'll see if I can timestamp. I might not be that together tomorrow morning.


§rf§

Notes

The show starts at 11 am July 25 my time (Pacific) / 7pm Greenwich.

(Book here if you haven't yet.)

July Challenge - Day 24

Jul. 24th, 2025 11:37 pm
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From Poem for an Intellectual on the Way Up to Submit to His Lady

Do not call me Dr.
If I get a Ph.D.
Just keep on calling me Sweetie
Cause that is good to me.

Getting Into The Zone

Jul. 24th, 2025 09:26 pm
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as we were discussing in this thread:

I feel like when I'm writing, there are two zones. The first is more plodding and difficult, where I'm using prompts of where I want to go in the story (such as an outline) and [I'm] sort of blind emotionally, if that makes sense, and it's very slow going. The writing really suffers as a result. The second is the true zone, where I've really percolated the story/universe in advance, and I'm so deep in the backstories, 'verse, and intent of the overarching plots that the writing kind of just rolls out of me, and individual threads I'm not even consciously aware of pop out and intertwine in a really kinetic way. That is the gold standard for me, but so much harder to achieve. I really wish I knew how to create that zone more readily, but it appears to be an almost accidental thing that occurs when I'm really into a story idea.

[personal profile] mific went on to say (paraphrasing, don't want to steal her words) that sometimes it's the story idea that gets her there, and sometimes it's the headspace she's in that makes the words really flow.

What gets you into the right headspace for a good zone? One where the words come easily and you feel you're doing the kind of writing where synergy really happens?

Pet Peeve

Jul. 24th, 2025 11:20 pm
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I just wish that Minesweeper would count it as a win if you correctly identify and flag all of the mines, even if you don't click on every other non-mine square. The same way it auto-flags all of the mines if you do click every non-mine square, but don't use any flags.
[personal profile] jadelennox

This essay was alluded to and quoted from in several of the essays I read about Edna St. Vincent Millay. I correctly suspected I could find the journal issue (The Outlook, vol. 147 no. 10, 1927) on the Internet Archive, and I'm very glad I looked for it. Here's a couple-few excerpts.

This is also in reference to Sacco and Vanzetti.

Read more... )

If I could meet one person from history I've always said it would be Millay, but right now I'm so enamored of her prose I can't even think what I'd say to her. To be able to write like that...!

[personal profile] dialecticdreamer
Threads Tangling Together
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1180
[Saturday, 5 August, 2017, 1 p.m.]


:: On the way back to her new home, LaQuinta gets an offer that seems too good to be true. She makes an unusual choice. Part of the Unfair Trades arc in Mercedes, within the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::




“Five o’clock!” the crew boss called, his voice carrying up and down the line. “Anyone wanting pay in cash, line up next to the scale.” He paused next to LaQuinta. “You, too.”

“I was basically just passing out water bottles,” she protested.

“You sorted my paperwork, kept the tally going when I got busy with that argument between Ava and her brother Eaton.” He snorted, throwing his shoulders into it like lifting a sack of grain. “I’ll double your pay tomorrow if you agree to run interference between two thirty-year-olds who argue like toddlers. For me?” He batted his eyes outrageously.
Read more... )

Thursday Recs

Jul. 24th, 2025 09:17 pm
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Thursday Recs are here again, yay!


Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!

Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!

bitrot

Jul. 24th, 2025 08:39 pm
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I read today that Google's old link shortener, using the goo.gl domain, would stop working on August 25th. I didn't find any of their links in my journal, but I did find a bunch in my Twitter archive, so I grabbed copies of those links while I could still resolve them. (Most of them were Mental Floss retweets.)

I need to get back to curating my old tweets and including them in my journal archives before that entire site collapses into a black hole.

I also downloaded my archive of Pocket links last month when that site announced its retirement, but I hadn't used it in several years and honestly it was just another bitbucket to toss stuff into and forget about. I hardly ever actually made time to go back and read or watch any of the links I "saved for later." (The deadline for that one is October 8th.)

Seems like lately, time is less of a river and more of an avalanche.
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Write Every Day: Day 24

Jul. 24th, 2025 06:42 pm
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Intro/FAQ
Days 1-15

My check-in: Words on one project, editing and beta conversations on another project.

Day 24: [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] glinda, [personal profile] sanguinity

Day 23: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] callmesandyk, [personal profile] chanter1944, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] trobadora

more days )

When you check in, please use the most recent post and say what day(s) you’re checking in for. Remember you can drop in or out at any time, and let me know if I missed anyone!
[personal profile] shadowkat
Sketched out my next watercolor of a woman that I keep seeing on the subway - who today wore a floral print tank and short short cut of jeans, and glitter thongs, with hair extensions, and bag with tassels. Read more... )

Finished watching White Lotus S3 over the weekend, and it haunts me.
It was much better than I expected. I'd fallen asleep during White Lotus S2, and couldn't get into White Lotus S1. The appeal of Jennifer Coolidge was lost on me, and I really didn't like the cast in the second season, they all grated on my nerves. I can't stand Michael Imperial. So I didn't expect to like S3, at all. But, it had a cast that intrigued me - Jason Issacs (Star Trek Discovery, among others), Walter Goggins (Fall Out, Justified), Carrie Coon (Gilded Age), Leslie Bibb, Natasha Rothwell, Scott Glenn (whose gotten old and looks skeletal), and Sam Rockwell. Plus numerous nominations.

I watched...and it was compelling. And haunting. Very dark comedy - I didn't find it funny. (I can't say I find any of the comedies nominated funny - maybe Hacks?) And it wasn't predictable - it actually surprised me.
I thought it would go darker than it did. And different people would die.

It does a good dissection of friendship and superficial relationships, or masking in relationships, where folks aren't authentic or genuine with each other, and lie with pasted on smiles, and grins that never quite leave their faces. The only ones who don't are in misery and wracked with pain.
And they all appear to be chasing pleasure, purpose and happiness which eludes them the more they try to chase it. There's an emptiness there, and a strong message about spirituality.

I was astonished how good Jason Isacs, Walter Goggins, and Carrie Coon were.

Started watching Great British Sewing Bee on Roku channel, which is kind of interesting? I'm not really a sewer, so some of it is lost on me. And it's more sewing focused than fashion focused?

July Question Memage

19. Do you like spicy foods such as chilli peppers?

Yes on spicy foods. No on chilli peppers. I have to be careful. I like them, my esophagus and gut are more particular. Or they don't always like me. I accidentally took a small bit of the hottest pepper on the planet once, aka the Carolina Reaper - my lips burned for days. I didn't get it past them.
Avoid at all costs. The heat is in the seeds and juice. I mistook it for a different pepper and cut it up in a salad.

I can do spicy more than most. I like wasabi, sirachi, and tabasco for example. And put pepper (black pepper and red pepper crushed) on a lot of things, more than salt.

20. Are there any artisan food markets or farmer’s markets held close to where you live? Do you visit often?

Yes. Farmer markets are plentiful - Across the street from my work place every Tuesday (not big, but there), and about a twenty-thirty minute walk every Sunday from my apartment. Also lots of indoor artisan food markets. It's NYC. It has everything.

21. Have you ever traced your family tree?

Yes, fell down the rabbit hole with it once and traced all the way back to the 1690s Scotland and Britain, also 1690s in the US. How accurate it is, don't know. It's hard to verify anything further back than the 1700s. (Because the records don't survive). Germany was mostly destroyed in WWII, and the Native Americans, along with the African-Americans destroyed a lot of theirs for well, obvious reasons. France also lost a lot records in WWII. As did Spain.

But Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, and Britain in general - not a problem, they did a better job of preserving records, apparently.

It does get confusing the further back you go, and I gave up. I have relatives who are into it - though.

22. Do you know how to play backgammon? How about chess?

Yes to both. But haven't played in years, so it's unlikely I remember the rules or how. Last time was about ten years ago. I prefer backgammon, it's quicker. Chess takes forever.

23. Do you own a coffee machine? What’s your favourite type of coffee?

No. I can't drink coffee - only decafe, on occasion. The acidity and caffeine concentration make me ill.

24. How are you feeling today?

Tired and kind of spacy, also irritable. Sleep deprived. Going to bed now, in the hopes of remedying it.
[personal profile] jadelennox

Conscientious Objector

I shall die, but
that is all that I shall do for Death.
I hear him leading his horse out of the stall;
I hear the clatter on the barn-floor.
He is in haste; he has business in Cuba,
business in the Balkans, many calls to make this morning.
But I will not hold the bridle
while he clinches the girth.
And he may mount by himself:
I will not give him a leg up.

Though he flick my shoulders with his whip,
I will not tell him which way the fox ran.
With his hoof on my breast, I will not tell him where
the black boy hides in the swamp.
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death;
I am not on his pay-roll.

I will not tell him the whereabout of my friends
nor of my enemies either.
Though he promise me much,
I will not map him the route to any man's door.
Am I a spy in the land of the living,
that I should deliver men to Death?
Brother, the password and the plans of our city
are safe with me; never through me
Shall you be overcome.

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