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Jul. 17th, 2025 09:43 am
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Happy birthday, [personal profile] flandevainilla and [personal profile] snippy!

Sunshine Revival Challenge #5

Jul. 17th, 2025 09:32 am
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Introduction Post * Meet the Mods Post * Friending Meme * Challenge #1 > * Challenge #2 * Challenge #3 * Challenge #4





Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

Sunshine Revival Challenge #5 )

Check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.

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Exiled for the second night running on account of the bustedassedness of our air conditioning, I have been self-medicating with college radio, old movies, and pulp novels. WUMB netted me Cordelia's Dad's "Granite Mills" (1998) and WHRB Thanks for Coming's "Friends Forever" (2020). Killer Shark (1950) is pretty much the other way round from its title with its setting of the mid-century shark fishery in the Gulf of California, but its call-it-courage adventure makes a cute B-showcase for Roddy McDowall just aged out of his child stardom, all his scene-stealer's tilts and flickers in place even if he was directed to give his best shot at sounding like an all-American teen. Night Nurse (1931) remains one of my favorite and endlessly watchable pre-Codes: steel-true Stanwyck, Blondell cracking gum and wise, and Ben Lyon as the sweetest bootlegger in the business, the kind of romantic hero who lets the heroine take the lead while he takes her at her word. Nancy Rutledge's Blood on the Cat (1945) does contain a most excellent black cat, tester of gravity, router of dogs, unendangered throughout the novel despite its human body count. The number of monarch caterpillars is now something like sixteen.

Community Thursday

Jul. 17th, 2025 08:18 am
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Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.


Over the last week...

Commented on [community profile] common_nature.

Posted and commented on [community profile] bnha_fans (final season later this year!)

Posting and commenting on [community profile] getyourwordsout.

Dr Stone chit-chat on [community profile] anime_manga.

Book chit-chat on [community profile] booknook.

Signal boost:

  • The [personal profile] sunflower_auction is returning. It's a online fanworks auction designed to raise money for nonprofit organisations that help the people of Ukraine fight back against Russia's invasion. Creator sign-ups will start next week. I expect I will participate again.

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Jul. 16th, 2025 10:30 pm
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- As mentioned, I signed up for [community profile] battleshipex. I guess this was a good decision(??), becuase I've now written 8400 words across six fics in the past six days. That plus an impulsive art piece meant I capped out for board 1, which feels like absolute crazypants. I hope I like the fics okay when I go back and edit them...

I might be a little burned out now. If my team reaches board 2 before I leave for my trip, then maybe I will feel like writing a couple more things, but if not, that's also fine. I've more than doubled my participation the other year I played, so!

- I continue to play Cult of the Lamb. It's so fricking cute. I've beat the main boss and am now indulging in the extras like sending my cute followers to the mating tent where they make eggs that hatch into more cute followers. My only complaint is that the music is extremely repetitive, just one samey jingle for the home base and another for combat.

- The Oasis tour has started, and I've been trying to avoid hearing too much about it, but I DID have friends sending me tons of photos and videos from the first couple of nights, and they hugged?? Noel CRIED????? They walked out together, and Liam took Noel's hand and lifted it like he was a prizefighter? Have I mentioned Noel CRIED.

The first gig was July 4, which meant I was getting all this at the same time I was trying to be social at a cookout.
Me on the outside: So you finished that degree? Congratulations!
Me on the inside: OH MY GODDDDDDD THEY HUGGGGGGED.

I peeked at the forum around that time, and everyone there was absolutely euphoric. Cannot WAIT to see it all for myself! SOON.
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[personal profile] bluerosekatie posting in [community profile] smallfandomfest
Title: one system at a time
Author: bluerosekatie
Fandom: Tron (Movies)
Pairing/Characters: Sam Flynn/Quorra
Rating/Category: Gen, Het
Prompt: Tron (Movies), Sam & or / Quorra, Repairing the Sea of Simulation together
Spoilers: Spoilers for like all of Tron: Legacy.
Summary: Sam and Quorra start to work towards healing the Grid -- one piece at a time.
Notes/Warnings: Archive-locked to avoid AI scraping.

Read it here on Ao3!

Daily Happiness

Jul. 16th, 2025 08:04 pm
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1. Well, the door repair guys did not come today, but they rescheduled for next Tuesday, which is at least not that far away. And I still took my day off, since I'd already said I was going to, so that was nice.

2. This morning I broke a glass bottle in the sink and got a couple small cuts on my hand and one bigger one on my finger, but thankfully it's not "going to the hospital" level. Rather than being a slice, it seems to have cut a little chunk out, so it was bleeding a lot and awkward to bandage. It's my right hand, but my second to last finger, so not a finger I use a whole lot.

3. Since the guys cancelled on us we were able to go to Disneyland earlier, which meant less traffic and less heat (though it was still warm and sunny). We had a really lovely lunch at a restaurant we haven't eaten at in ages.

4. Ollie tongue!

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[personal profile] gaiages posting in [community profile] smallfandomfest
Title: regrets
Author: gaiages
Fandom: Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Pairing/Characters: Albus/Shanoa
Rating/Category: Gen
Prompt: we try so hard to mend what's bound to fall apart
Spoilers: Late game spoilers
Summary: Albus reflects on his decisions during (what he thinks are) his final moments.
Notes/Warnings: (if applicable)

Read on AO3

11 hours and counting

Jul. 16th, 2025 10:06 pm
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Ideally I would have been able to wait a week for the blood thinners to leave my system but with an active infection in the tooth, no one wanted to do that. So 11 hours later I'm still bleeding. The old tea bag trip has helped slow it but it's still going. Fun times.

The extraction went well. He was thrilled I wasn't afraid (but someone prior had ripped the arm rest in half.) The tooth came out with slight problems because it was rotted mush, like an old tree. Now the really painful thing isn't the tooth socket, it's the injections into the mouth, holy fuck. If you told me a mule had kicked this tooth out of my head I'd believe you.

To make up for yesterday's bummer of a fannish 50 have this The 12 Best Anime of 2025 (So Far) Not my list. I've seen none of these. One day...




What I Just Finished Reading:

Nothing! Fanfic and not even most of that.



What I am Currently Reading:

Pantomine - an LGBT (intersexed main character) fantasy, I like it but somehow I set it aside for a week. I wish more was happening.

Cinders of Yesterday - Buffy/Supernatural vibes, urban fantasy, lesbian partners (by a queer author) so far I like it a lot.

Zero at the Bone - an old true crime I found at the library sale and got because of the Z in the title (for my alphabet challenge)



What I Plan to Read Next: War Child - a Deep Space Nine Novel

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Jul. 16th, 2025 09:17 pm
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Ah well. I have a new toilet. Of course the old one was a proper disabled model and a 'right height' one is lower but still doable. But I hadn't registered that it was also elongated and this is a round front, hence shorter. Still doable but would be more so if I were 30 lb smaller. And this was the cheapest model in a ten inch setback but still, with Watermark's pricing and taxes, several hundred dollars more than I'd expected. I thought the booker was overly optimistic when she said it would only take 30 minutes so they wouldn't charge me the 'automatic 2 hours' service fee (they owe me an hour from last time because that literally was 30 minutes). Took the guy over an hour so I was dinged for 2 hours. Watermark is excellent in all ways but god do they cost.

However I did discover that the wobbliness of my upright walker is down to me not clicking something in place, so I might actually start to use it some time. It's maybe only an inch/ 2.5 cm wider than the other but that little makes it too wide for most places to handle easily, like my house. And of course there's still the lack of a proper basket.

However, found the solution to the too hot/ too cold dilemma at night is, oddly enough, to use the feather duvet, not the lightweight cotton one plus a blanket at the end of the bed to keep my feet warm. My feet are perfectly comfortable under the duvet and my shoulders don't feel the chill from the fan blowing on them, and last night I slept without the many wakings that the previous arrangement had involved.

I finished Stone and Sky, very happily, and JS&MN wishing there was more. Still delighted that Stephen, even when he becomes a king and puts his old life behind him, still chides his subjects as if they were unsatisfactory footmen. But still don't understand why the gentleman's darkness didn't end with all his other spells. Maybe so that the two magicians would go on inventing new magic, undisturbed by domestic cares?

Also read a Hilary McKay, The Time of Green Magic, on the recommendation of I forget who on the FFL. McKay is the only writer I know who does happy families. And I finished, finally, a reread of Broken Homes, and still couldn't put my finger on Lesley's turning point.

Nothing on the go but another Inspector Littlejohn for bike reading. It will be cooler by Friday and I may discover something to my taste.

[#267 | Poison] Challenge Post

Jul. 16th, 2025 09:05 pm
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Challenge 267:
POISON
It’s just an innocent little cup of coffee. Just a little extra sugar in your tea. Just a little brush across the back of the stamp, or something extra in the nail polish…

Some people say poison is a coward’s weapon. Other people just call it efficient. After all, why risk your life in a direct confrontation when you could sit back and let it happen at a safe distance? But poison’s hardly foolproof. Maybe someone saw it coming, and switched the cups. Maybe your target built up an unexpected resistance, or miraculously survived just long enough for an antidote. What’s a would-be poisoner to do? Try again? Escape the country while they still can?

Write a story about poison.

BONUS GOAL: “Isn’t that a little cliché?”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!


Challenge ends Monday, July 21 at 9:00PM EST.
• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 267 – poison
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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XANDER: Whoa, Giles has a TV. (moves stuff away from the TV.)
XANDER: Everybody, Giles has a TV! He's shallow like us. (gestures and moves stuff further away.)
OZ: I got to admit, I'm a little disappointed.
GILES: I, ah, uh, uh -
WILLOW: (walking in.) Well maybe it doesn't work. I-It's like art.
Xander turns the TV on and sits down to watch. Willow is open mouthed with shock.
GILES: (stammering at first) Public television.

~~Harsh Light of Day~~




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2025 Disneyland Trip #50 (7/16/25)

Jul. 16th, 2025 05:20 pm
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We ended up going down to the park earlier than planned since the door repair guys had to cancel on us. Bummed about them having to reschedule but I was very glad to get an earlier start.

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