bikes and stuff

Sep. 13th, 2025 01:17 am
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(So much for that daily posting thing - I've already skipped a few without meaning to. /o\)

Today I rode an e-bike for the first time. Useful for the hills, for sure, but it wasn't as much fun as a regular bike, so I don't see myself doing that often.

Last spring I signed up for a local rent-a-bike service, and ever since then I've been riding bikes a lot again, after a break of something like 15 years. (That was about when my bike got stolen, and I didn't buy a new one because I didn't and still don't have a good place to put it.) I still like biking a lot, though I'm glad I no longer have to in the winter, the way I used to when I was still biking to uni. *g*

I've also been walking a lot again this summer, so overall I've been getting a lot more exercise than I used to! Which, alas, did not turn out to be an unmitigated good. (Turns out that more physical activity makes me hungrier - shock, horror! - but not exactly in proportion. I'd really rather keep fitting into my clothes, and also I don't want not be constantly hungry. So less activity might actually be better. Since we're heading into winter and I don't like going out very much when it's wet and/or cold, I guess I'll see!)
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So last week I wrote about how I was trying to decide between running a game of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and between running an OSR-derived game called Tales of Argosa. And I have to come to a conclusion, which is of course to do neither of those. To explain, a while back I heard about something called Dolmenwood, an OSR setting based on the fee, though not necessary the exact stories from, old British myths and legends. It's a giant forest, once ruled by an ancient faerie called the Cold Prince, now ruled by humans--or at least, humans claim dominion over the wood. There are still parts of it that have never felt the tramp of mortal feet, and parts of it where faerie lords still claim demesne and do not suffer humans to enter. It has a monotheistic human church that replaced the older religion that worshipped the wood gods, except among those of the peasants that still leave out offerings at the bases of oak trees at Midsummer and Midwinter. It has a corrupted unicorn called the Nag-lord that rules a portion of the wood, and is an obvious reference to the Black Goat of the Woods to the point that the peasants straight-up call it "Ol' Shub." It has playable fae elves (immortal, innately magical, capricious), talking magical fae cats called grimalkin, strange forest natives called mosslings, talking goat-people called breggles (from their own name for themselves, hregl) who are basically equal to humans and hold some noble titles under the Duke of Brackenwold, fae goblins who don't live in squalor and murder travelers, they just lie and cheat and set up markets and can turn invisible, but they can't use their powers on you or cheat you if you invite them into your house and they accept your invitation...I love it.

There's even a dungeon synth album, and I sure love dungeon synth so I've already bought that too.

I don't love using OSR D&D to run it, though. This kind of setting seems tailor-made for me to use WFRP, so my current project is converting over the mechanics to WFRP. Fortunately, since it's standard OSR and based on the Old-School Essentials ruleset, there's really no complicated mechanics at all. It's your standard 3d6 in order, pick your class, gain one power per level kind of deal, so all of that slots pretty well into the WFRP paradigm. Dolmenwood doesn't have dangerous magic but I think it would be better with dangerous magic so that doesn't bother me either.

The one thing I need to change is advancement. WFRP famously has the career system, where you start as a rag-picker or a roadwarden or a bravo or a fisherman or a rat-catcher (with a small but vicious dog) and then advance through into cat burglers, engineers, duelists, scholars, and wizard lords. This is both great for verisimilitude (it grounds all characters in the world) and awful for verisimilitude (a classic complaint was how many wandering vagabonds decided to become assassins purely to pick that sweet +2 Attacks). It's the most recognizable part of the system and I have a bit of a problem in that I have never really liked it, to the point that when I ran it I replaced the system with the more free-form one based on Aptitudes from the Warhammer 40K game Only War, though even there, there was some friction ([facebook.com profile] aaron.hosek picked Aptitudes that he was later pretty annoyed about picking when he saw the experience costs for the talents he wanted).

When I was younger I really didn't like class/level systems because they were unrealistic and they constrained player choice and all the usual reasons, but now that I'm older I recognize that analysis paralysis is a thing and class systems provide an easy way to distill a series of options down into limited set of choice--it's easier to pick Fighter and have all the stuff that makes you good at combat happen automatically than having to scan a list of 3000 Feats and pick ones that help while avoiding traps like Toughness. That's usually seen as one of the pros of the OSR, the lack of fiddly bits and endless "build options" and "character optimization." But while I'm not a fan of character optimization, I really like build options a lot.

However, the Warhammer 40K game Dark Heresy had a different system that I'm planning on stealing. Dark Heresy had a class/level system, but it was one with a lot of choice involved. You'd pick a class like Assassin or Guardsman or Imperial Psyker and as you gain experience you advance up in levels, but the difference is that what you gain isn't fixed. Each level has a list of possible advancements you can buy, as you gain more levels (and thus more experience with your character), the range of advancements expands but at a rate that increasing system mastery allows you to handle, or at least that's the hope. I'll just need to use the Dark Heresy careers as a guideline when I make fantasy versions like Magician and Warrior and Thief. Some of these are easy--Dark Heresy's Scum converts to Thief nearly 1 to 1--and some are a bit harder, like converting the Imperial Psyker over to the Magician, but I think the general framework splits the difference nicely. And Dark Heresy enemies aren't so mechanically complicated that it would be hard to convert OSR monsters over either.

I think this has potential.
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Friday sundries:

= Wow, have I really not posted since Sunday? This week was pretty busy at work and I guess my Elementary rewatch, plus reading a very very long Batfamily time travel story (still in progress *sobs*), and also watching the Mets' downward spiral, left me uninspired.

= I didn't watch them blow a lead last night and lose, because it's so disheartening - there is like no sense that they can hold a lead or come back if they are losing. I'm only planning to watch tonight to see if they get no-hit by Jacob deGrom on his first return to Citi Field as a Texas Ranger. #the existential futility of being a mets fan <- my tag is too long for DW but it is accurate

= I did make it through week one of our family survivor football league - my niece decided on doing a survivor league this year since it is much less work for everyone than a fantasy league. In it, each week, everyone picks one team to win, and either you win and move on, or you lose and are out, though we are doing it with 2 strikes, so you can lose twice before you are out. And you can only pick each team once, so you can't, like, ride the Packers or whoever to victory every week. My strategy is basically to pick whoever is playing the New Orleans Saints, since they are predicted to be the worst team in the league this year. I made it through last week, anyway. *g*

= Usually I have my groceries delivered on Friday afternoon but somehow in my infinite wisdom last night while I was updating the order, I rescheduled it for Sunday afternoon. And then I was in a meeting from 8:30 am - 11 am this morning, so it was too late to move it back to today when I discovered what I'd done. So I left it where it was and will just order pizza for dinner tonight and then have it breakfast and lunch tomorrow as well!

= Anyway, the world is a vampire. Uh, trash fire. But there will be pizza and baseball and probably sleeping in tomorrow. Hopefully it is cool enough to leave the AC off tonight - it was for most of the week, but then last night was not. And since I had to be up an hour earlier than usual (see above re: 8:30 am meeting), I didn't want to spend precious time tossing and turning because I was too hot to sleep.

*
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Erin in the Morning has a great article calling out leftists whose response to Charlie Kirk's murder is to lionize him. Kirk was a hateful person who dehumanized and derided anyone who was not exactly like him. His legacy is one of loathing and bile, and that should not be erased no matter how eager prominent leftists are to decry yet more political violence in the US.

Tl;dr violence bad; hatred bad; stop the timeline, I want to get off.

Vaccinated? Get a drabble or a poem!

Sep. 12th, 2025 04:03 pm
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If you are as up-to-date as it is possible to be on COVID and/or influenza vaccinations for your country, I will write for you. Southern Hemisphere people: as up to date as possible means for your flu season, not the Northern Hemisphere's. Prompt away.

My fandoms.

Recently experienced:

K-Pop Demon Hunters - OT3!

Thursday Murder Club (movie) - ALL THE SMOOSH HANDS.

Slow Horses - I'm caught up on the TV show, have listened to all the books shy of Clown Town, and have a massive soft spot for Shirley and Louisa especially. Ho needs to never, ever get laid ever, but I adore him too. I want to introduce him to Jason Mendoza (The Good Place) so they can have a low wis/high int vs. low int/high wis trolley problem.

The Expanse - I'm halfway through Nemesis Games book-wise, and am slowly making my way through the show. I love everyone in this galaxy, and if anyone prompts me for Avasarala/Bobbie I will have feelings all over the place.

Please format your requests: Drabble or Poetry (you're likely to get a limerick), Fandom(s), character/pair/group (crossover pairings are fair game), any other prompt material (which I may ignore).

If you prompt me with something I can't write, I will ask you for something else.

On a personal note: if I don't get back to you rapidly this weekend, it's because I've been knocked out by my own one-in-each-arm strategy of vaccination. Go go gadget immune system!

Reading > cleaning

Sep. 12th, 2025 07:59 pm
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Posted by thebloggess

I decided to clean up the house and a frame I was polishing broke and the glass went through my finger and now I can only type with one hand because it keeps opening up and this feels like a sign that cleaning is dangerous and that instead I should be reading. And that isContinue reading "Reading > cleaning"
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Okay, my dearios, I am sure all dear rdrs are with me that tradwives are not trad, they are deploying an aesthetic loosely based on vague memories of the 1950s - and meedja representations at that - and some very creepy cultish behaviour - they are not returning to some lovely Nachral State -

And that as I bang on about a lot, women have been engaged in all kinds of economic activity THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE OF HISTORY since economic activity became A Thing.

Why tradwives aren’t trad: The housewife is a Victorian invention. History shows us women’s true economic power

I have a spot of nitpickery to apply - it rather skips over and elides the move from the household economy into factories e.g., leading to 'separate spheres' with wife stuck at home (and even that was a very blurry distinction, I mutter); and also the amount of exploitative homeworking undertaken by women of the lower classes (often to the detriment of any kind of 'good housekeeping').(Not saying middle-class women didn't also find ways of making a spot of moolah to eke out household budget.)

And of course a lot of tradwives are actually performing as economically productive influencers: TikTok tradwives: femininity, reproduction, and social media - in a tradition of women who made a very nice living out of telling other women how to be domestic goddesses, ahem ahem.

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ChrisCalledMeSweetie at Tumblr proposed a Cabin Pressure limerick challenge of a poem every day based on Cabin Pressure's episodes, in alphabetical order as per the canon.

The example provided was gen, so I wrote a set of gen limericks.

Then I reflected that gen limericks are not really in the spirit of limericks, so I also wrote a set of dirty limericks.

And then I got too down to post poems for a while, so today I spammed everyone subscribed to me with Fitton through Limerick's limericks.

Here's a new one

Sep. 12th, 2025 02:18 pm
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Inspired by talking with a newly-hatched Jewish trans woman.

Tikkun



Each of these pains
Is the jagged edge
Of a cracked
Vessel

You are not separate
From a wounded
Creation
The light you find
In your own curves
Is also divine

To become holy
Is
To become whole.

Check-In Post - Sept 12th 2025

Sep. 12th, 2025 07:12 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.

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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.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



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Quote of the Day:

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."

--Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)


Today's Writing:

Uh, I left writing until too late and, uh, fell asleep. With my laptop open. *facepalm* So, just a few sentences, written before I fell asleep. Also, I'm behind on replies to comments. Sorry! Sheesh.


Tally

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Let me know if I missed you, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet. And remember, you can join in at any time!

the friday five

Sep. 12th, 2025 01:23 pm
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1. What is your favourite fruit? Kiwi, but it has to be perfectly ripe and juicy. Not under-ripe and crunchy, ick.

2. What is the last book you read? Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer and it was a doozy. A follow up to a beloved sci fi series ten years after it ended. I still don't know what to think about it and was just discussing it with a new friend. I don't know if it was needed but I'm glad it exists anyway. 

Also I read the collection of Blacksad I got the other day and besides it moving at a breakneck pace (shit just happens), I really loved it and want to read more.

3. Do you like any of your school photos? I was absent a lot when I was in school, and I was homeschooled for most of my life. I remember taking like two school photos, maybe 3. I hate my kindergarten picture and my freshman picture is when I had at home highlights gone wrong. So no.

4. Do you ever blowdry your armpits to get the deodorant to dry quicker? I HATE wet deodorant so no. It's the powder fresh type with the aluminum because I'm a weakling. I tried natural deodorant before and the only thing that worked was expensive crystal spray. Honestly I miss the spray but I'm too poor for it.

5. What was the last film you watched? I think it was The Matrix Resurrections, for the first time, and I was sleepy during the second half so I honestly need to watch it again but I really enjoyed it. It was a bit cringe at times but its the Wachowski sisters, what can you expect? :D

Lost in FEELS

Sep. 12th, 2025 10:40 am
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 This time I disappeared because I have been having way too many feelings about KPop Demon Hunters. 

WAY. TOO. MANY.

I did not like the ending of this film. However, to say that I'm currently obsessed with it might be an understatement, so obviously I'm in. I bought all the way in, otherwise I wouldn't be left like this--feeling betrayed. I'm not going to go into all of my feelings because all of them would have to be under the cut thanks to the fact that they're all releated to the ending, so MAJOR SPOILERS. 

But, yeah, I've literally been doing that thing that I do, which is to google the crap out of things that were mentioned in the film, like saja (fascinating stuff there!) and Korean water demons (mul gwishin), etc. 

For those of you who saw it, what did you think of KPop Demon Hunters?

Friday

Sep. 12th, 2025 08:01 am
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The IRS is coming to get more taxes today. It's my estimated taxes for next year that I pay every quarter. They are all set up in a special account that I keep for that purpose. I fund it after I submit my tax return and then just tell the IRS to come get the money every quarter. Unlike paying me my refunds, the IRS is quite prompt when it's paying them. I still haven't seen the refund coming for 2022. I feel like I have spent way too much time and energy and money with the IRS over the past few years. One ugly year to go - mainly due to sale of condo - and then things should get batter. She says so hopefully.

Yesterday's Adventures With Bonny where fun. While waiting for her, I was in the elbow puzzling. Dick and Jan were there and we were all chatting and finding pieces. Then Bonny and I got into the car and headed first for Costco. Where I discovered that my phone was on the table next to the puzzle. We called Dick and Jan who had already found it and put it into my apartment. I had brought my wallet which was kind of rare since I rarely take it if I'm not driving. So I had cash and cards. But it was so weird to be without my phone. So weird.

We did Costco and Costco gas and car wash (which turned out to be the first time she had ever even been inside a car wash). And QFC and then home. Bonny's fairly good company. She's 85 and she has a bum hip which she kind of thinks getting replaced but maybe not. She's been a widow for a really long time. And has two kids. A daughter with no kids and a son with grown kid(s) and at least a couple of great grandchildren - all of whom live nearby. She's not particularly fascinated by the world around her (like Myrna was) but she does not fret or stew about much and is not at all needy. She moved in here about 6 months before me.

Tonight I'm having dinner with Dick and Jan.

Baseball is ramping up. The Phillies will absolutely be in the playoff's. They are only a few games away from clinching their spot. The Mariners may not be but their week has been a thrilla. Night before last, they won in the 13th with a home run from a rookie (I think it was his second major league home run ever.) Last night they won in the 12th with a fly ball hit buy a rookie who had only bat in the major leagues 3 times before! The guy last night is the backup to the backup catcher and was only even at bat because they had an empty spot and he was the last man on the bench. Pretty wild. Right now, the Mariners are tied for the top spot in their division which would absolutely put the into the playoffs.

We have been blessed with overcast skies every morning now and I love them. So I think I'm going to get ready for the day short of dressing and then slip down to the pool first.

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Teaching Tools

Sep. 12th, 2025 01:00 pm
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Posted by Jen

 An Educational Overview from Cake Wrecks
aka 
Grammar time! (Can't wreck this! Whoah-OH!)

Students, today we're going to look at how your lessons apply in the real world. Pay attention, because the pop quiz starts...now.

 

It's quite common for people to confuse "you're" and "your." Here's a simple way to remember which is witch:

 

 This is wrong:

...because it raises the question, "Your old WHAT?"

 

This is correct:

Although it should be noted that owning an old Kurt in this day and age will never be "right."

 

Here's another proper usage you high schoolers may find more relevant:

 

 Next, this rhyme can really come in handy for your spelling skills:

 "I before E except after C..."

 

 "but not in the words 'Tigers'...

 

"'their'...

 

 "Or 'anniversary!'"

 

Quotation marks are vital for indicating when you're quoting someone verbatim or just being really, really sarcastic:

*Asterisks often denote footnotes, albeit sometimes invisible ones. Invisible footnotes are the work of the Knights Templar, and should be reported to Dan Brown "immediately."

 

homonym (n) is each of two different words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, spellings, or both.

For example, "here" is where we are now:

 

 While "hear" is what we do with our ears:

Next time we'll also discuss properly distinguishing your cursive "w"s from your "m"s.

 

Luckily, putting the proper endings on number contractions like first, second and third is as easy as 1th, 2th, 3th!

 
 

Well, I'm sure this lesson has been super helpful, students, so for your homework I want you all to show your teacher what you've just learned with an informative drawing. Bonus points if you use sprinkles. Or bring cake to class. Or write a sonnet entitled, "Why Jen from Cake Wrecks Deserves an Honorary PhD and also a Working Proton Pack, If Possible."

Now, chop chop!

Oh, and next week: biology!

 

Thanks to Ruth, Shane S., Gal N., Beth N., Brandi H., Amy S., Carla D., Margaret J., Maria R., Sarah R., Christina M., Nicole S., Michele T., &amp; Jess for believing the children are our future. And for teaching them "well" and letting them lead the weigh.

*****

P.S. Teachers, if your classrooms need any more fun artwork I've got just the set for you:

Sweetzer & Orange Set of 13 Posters for Middle and High School Classroom

I especially like how they're all spelled correctly. :D (I think my favorite is "May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." So many good ones, though.)

*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

Look.

Sep. 12th, 2025 09:14 am
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I have a whole lot of complex feelings about my alma mater re: my master's degree. I am proud of the work I did and adore some of my former instructors. HOWEVER, I was very poorly treated by the school from well before I even got accepted all the way passed my graduation.

Highlights:

Cut for bitching and light discussion of current events, so pass if you are In No Mood )

Anyway, I'm just going to sit over here and give a sensible chuckle.

Sleep

Sep. 12th, 2025 10:26 pm
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At my last psych appointment, I reported back that while getting my evening tasks done earlier was great, and for four nights I'd successfully gone to bed at a reasonable time, it hadn't lasted. I had continued to get the tasks done (most nights) but had lost the ability to then go to bed afterwards -- I'd adjusted to the new normal, and 'finish my list' was no longer 'and it's bed time' it was 'and it's time to read fic / flirt with tumblr / etc'.

(aside: the expression on the psych's face was priceless. They said approximately 'You did the homework?! only teachers do the homework!?'. And here was me feeling that I'd half arsed the homework. Which, yeah. )

Building on that success, I've moved my bedside lamp down from the top of the bedside shelf (say, 1.1m up) to the shelf that is the same height as the bed. This enables me to read in bed with just the lamp on, and not have a really bright room. And it will surprise no-one who knows about sleep and light and screens, putting the screen away and then reading in low light on paper? My insomnia is dramatically reduced.

I'm now waking up before the 7am alarm more days than not. But what I'm not feeling is rested. I'm obviously getting 'enough' sleep in some way, or I wouldn't be waking, but I'm not sure I'm getting enough sleep cycles. Or maybe it is that I've got a lot of stress happening, and I'm just burning through all the oomph I have.

Another year, another lovely day

Sep. 11th, 2025 06:18 pm
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Beautiful weather and all.

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Read more... )
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Kodansha is teaming up with Humble Bundle once again to bring you the Fall In Love With Shoujo collection!

This collection includes:

  • Shugo Chara!, volumes 1 thru 12
  • Shugo Chara Chan!, volumes 1 thru 4
  • Peach Girl, volumes 1 thru 18
  • Mars, volumes 1 thru 15
  • Say I Love You volumes 1 thru 18
  • A Condition Called Love, volumes 1 thru 16


  • You can get the entire bundle of manga for only $30 USD. That said, you can also get the first volume of each series for only $1 USD! All items are available as ePub and PDF.

    This bundle supports Book Industry Charitable Foundation, which has helped bookstore and comic book store employees and owners who encounter unexpected financial crises. The Binc Foundation works to keep book people in their homes, in their jobs, and with their families – stabilizing the brick and mortar bookstore community. With some bundles, you can pick which charity you want your donation to go to, but that doesn't seem to be the case with this one. If you scroll down on the right hand side of the Humble Bundle page, you can also find an area where you can adjust how much of your purchase goes to which organization (the charity, the publisher, and Humble Bundle, respectively), with a minimum mandatory amount to Humble Bundle as the host.

    With most manga ebook volumes costing around $7 USD (sometimes fifty cents less, sometimes a few dollars more), you only need to be interested in five of the volumes available in the complete bundle to justify the cost—and the total bundle has 83 volumes! That's just over thirty-six cents per tankoubon.

    You can find out more information about the various series at the Humble Bundle link. Definitely worth checking out if even one of the titles catches your interest, IMO.

    This bundle will close in about three weeks.

    Edit: Everything except "A Condition Called Love" is a complete series and is included in its entirety. "A Condition Called Love" is still ongoing, and, at this point in time, has another volume available from Kodansha.

    check in day 12

    Sep. 12th, 2025 03:15 pm
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    Discussion: what are you working on this weekend?
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    Ashford Traveller (single treadle although you can see that, Scotch tension). Spinning mulberry (bombyx) silk from combed top.
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    Posting on behalf of the author and artist!

    Project Title: A Royal Mess
    Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) RPF, Chinese Actor RPF  
    Link To Fic OverthinkingThis: AO3
    Link To Art By Minami: X | Bluesky
    Summary: Prince Tiantian is beautiful, kind, and set to ascend to the throne of the kingdom of Henan. Everyone thinks he could be the perfect match for Prince Xiao Zhan, but the sweet young prince might be too sweet for Xiao Zhan's taste. He's even more troubled because Prince Tiantian seems to be keeping a big secret from him. Does it have anything to do with the rude, domineering, and devilishly handsome Prince Bo? One seems to live only in the daytime, and the other, the night. Can Xiao Zhan unravel the mystery of the two princes before time runs out?
    Warnings: None
    Characters: Wang Yibo, Xiao Zhan, Lan Qiren, Nie Huaisang, Wen Ruohan, Qingheng-jun, Original Characters
    Pairings: Wang Yibo/Xiao Zhan
    When I Started: October 2020
    How I Lost My Shit: Life happened, other fics took over, couldn’t figure out the magic part
    How I Finished My Shit: I decided I wanted to read this story, Minami agreed to make art for it, and this event gave me much needed deadlines

    games games games

    Sep. 12th, 2025 02:12 pm
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    + No Man's Sky had an update adding customizable shared space ships, and now I'll have to jump back in. Anybody else here still play NMS from time to time? Farting around in a communal decorated base sounds like so much fun.

    (I saw one ship shaped like Clippy lol)

    + Or if you'd rather base build and hang in a desert planet, Dune Awakening has a free demo weekend. I honestly didn't expect to like it as much as I did, but the environment is lovingly crafted, and the story surprisingly robust.

    Sadly I don't have enough internet at sea to dl the update myself. I'm missing out on a stunning mural 😔

    I'm on Europe Lynx / Sietch Yaracuwan, it's been fairly free from bothersome trolls. They've added a bunch more events and story characters as well, so I'm diving back in when I get home. In case somebody wants to buddy up for base building? I'll have to start almost from scratch because I suuure didn't put anything in the bank like I ought to have.

    + And Marvel Rivals is adding Angela!! I don't want to be interested in a hero shooter but HOT DAMN

    Alien: Earth 1.06 und Foundation 3.10

    Sep. 12th, 2025 01:32 pm
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    Alien: Earth:

    The internet tells me Sigourney Weaver is watching Alien: Earth and is as enthralled as yours truly. Now if that isn't a compliment to Noah Hawley et al, I don't know what is.

    Spoilers are on a quest to use the creepiest Peter Pan quotes in every episode )


    Foundation

    Is the first season finale necessitating that the next season has to start without a century like time jump. Also, yowsers.

    ...while the worst are full of passionate intensity )

    (no subject)

    Sep. 12th, 2025 09:42 am
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    Happy birthday, [personal profile] davidgillon and [personal profile] surexit!
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    The RIB: Existentially Challenged by Yahtzee Croshaw

    Existentially Challenged is the sequel to last month’s book review, Differently Morphous by Yahtzee Croshaw. Once again, Croshaw has a refreshing take on urban fantasy by showing the impact of magic being revealed to the world.

     This book’s focus in on religion. Magic in this universe comes from bargains or possession by one of the Ancients, Cthulhu-esque entities that live outside of space and time. Like gods. And if you can prove that there are gods that are real and grant power, how does that affect people’s beliefs?  Crowshaw’s tackles this theme with his subversive sense of humour.

     A year after the events of Differently Morpheus, the Extradimensional Appropriation Act is passed that makes it illegal for people to claim to have magic. (Cue a nice gag scene where a group of stage magicians have to admit that they are cold reading people to stay ‘legal’ during performances). 

     The Department of Extradmensional Affairs (or DEDA) is empowered to investigate claims of magic. Their current case is where a young girl, Miracle Meg, can heal people through her connection with her Ancient, El-Yetch. Genuine faith healing! However, a few suspicious corpses of people horribly aged to death are found in the area, which suggests that this healing isn’t as genuine as it appears. 

    Alison Arkin and her over-the-top partner Doctor Diablerie (think of a dramatic 1930s villain in top hat and tails) investigate what’s really happening with Miracle Meg, and her family, Miracle Dad and Miracle Mum. The role of the internet is a big part in the Miracle Meg case, with her followers big on the forums, her father desperate for fame and television appearances, and a group of Youtubers in a van (with a dog) following the case and making things more complicated for Alison.

     Several subplots weave in the background for the other DEDA agents. Pyrokinetic Victor Casin tangles with a woman possessed by the same entity that empowers him. Is she his girlfriend or his archnemesis? Or is that one and the same? And Adam Hesketh struggles with his first proper investigation that isn’t a seek and destroy mission. And he’s terrible at it. Alison tries to piece together Diablerie’s real backstory and agenda; what’s he actually planning?

     Despite their powers, the DEDA agents aren’t the world’s sharpest lot. They blunder their way through events, making disastrous decisions, but get there in the end. The story’s told through a mix of regular third person narrative, internet forum chats and other extracts. The book skewers the religion and the media, particularly in a great scene where the Christian Church is accused of breaking the Extradimensional Appropriation Act, culminating in a late-night television debate between followers of El-Yetch and hardline pastors.

     I enjoyed the first book more (the mystery was tighter) but this is still an entertaining read. I liked how the characterisations of the DEDA were dug into a bit more. And I’m looking forward to the next one, and discovering Doctor Diablerie’s secret agenda…

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    [personal profile] birdylion posting in [community profile] fancake
    Fandom: Leverage
    Pairings/Characters: Maggie Collins, Eliot Spencer, Alec Hardison, Parker (Leverage), Amy Palavi
    Rating: General Audiences
    Length: 711 words
    Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] Hagar
    Theme: food & cooking, gen

    Summary: Her ex-husband's associates are occasionally useful. For example, when Maggie has a really bad feeling about her latest client.

    Reccer's Notes:
    Maggie visits the brewpub looking for help regarding a client of hers. It's lovely how the food she is served there acts as kind of character description for the relationship between her, Eliot, Hardison and Parker.

    Fanwork Links: What friends are for on ao3
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    Posted by David Gerard

    Apple is still trying to make its own chatbot for Siri, because Apple Intelligence sorta sucks.

    Chatbots give answers that are almost right — then they hallucinate some nonsense, Siri does something stupid, and the owner gets annoyed. But chatbot answers tend to be reality-but-wrong, not completely detached. Wikipedia gets a high weight in the training data, for instance. The bots don’t start at wild-arsed conspiracy theories.

    It can even be hard to force the bots. Elon Musk got annoyed at Grok not going along with conservative conspiracy theories. He did a whole “anti-woke” training run on Grok in February, but Grok still gave fact-based replies to the conspiracy theories. Eventually Musk forced a clumsy prompt into Grok promoting the neo-Nazi conspiracy theory of a white genocide in South Africa. Then there was the time he made Grok say it was “mecha-Hitler” for a day. [Business Insider, archive; Atlantic]

    The Trump administration also has strong ideas on chatbots. The executive order “Preventing Woke AI In The Federal Government” is not happy with the state of AI. [White House]

    “Woke” is originally an American black culture word meaning “aware of systemic racism.” It still means the same thing for the conspiracy theorists, but they think that’s bad. It’s one in a series of snarl words — “political correctness”, then  “SJW”, “cultural Marxism”, “woke”, and the latest is “DEI”. The conspiracy theorists keep changing the snarl word when it gets too obvious they’re just trying to make being against racism sound bad again.

    So “Woke” and “DEI” are both in the executive order as unacceptable. The AI’s gotta get more racist!

    Apple was, of course, already complying in advance. Politico got leaked copies of Apple’s guidelines to annotators at their subcontractor Transperfect from late 2024 and March 2025. [Politico]

    The 2024 guidelines mentioned “intolerance” and “systemic racism” as bad things to flag The 2025 document removes both, instead marking “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” as a “controversial” topic

    Other “controversial” topics include “elections” and “vaccines”! As it happens, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy is a germ theory denialist. Instead, Kennedy believes the miasma theory of disease, and so he’s trying to shut down all the vaccines he can. [The Week]

    Apple changed its training a few months before the executive order on “woke” — but Tim Cook of Apple is effusively willing to bow to Trump, and this change by Apple did attempt to anticipate the administration’s ideas. [Wired]

    Transperfect, Apple’s subcontractor, told Politico “these claims are completely false, and we deny them in the strongest possible terms” — though they didn’t say which claims, and Politico has the documents. Apple told Politico, “Claims that we’ve shifted this approach or policy are completely false” — despite, again, the documents.

    Apple hopes it can release the new Siri chatbot in 2026. You can look forward to Siri telling you all about why you need a bit more racism in your life, and why your kids dying of measles is your proud and patriotic duty. It’s your own fault, you should have balanced their humours better.

    Purrcy in the bed

    Sep. 12th, 2025 12:35 am
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    The last week or so the weather has gotten cool at night, which means open windows and a cuddly Purrcy at my feet every time I lie down or wake up. It's a good life.

    Purrcy the tuxedo tabby is at the foot of the bed and has wiggled onto his back, exposing the soft, fluffy underbelly and dangling his white paws. He looks perfectly cute and loving and not at all like someone who would attack any hand that tried to pet the tummy (IT'S A TRAP)

    9/11 Anniversary

    Sep. 11th, 2025 10:09 pm
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    I’m thinking of staying out one more day; I’m still having dizzy spells. Yeah, I emailed in sick.

    I’ve been thinking about 9/11 for the past few days, probably because of the New York City trip that I had planned. Never forget. It was a very big deal when I lived in California because one of the flights was headed towards the Bay Area. There’s a memorial there that I never saw. I remember my mom leaving a message because I was still asleep: “You will find a lot has happened when you get up.” Hard to believe that it’s been 25 years.

    I’m reading Byron Katie’s book Loving What Is. The basic idea is that our thoughts about an event cause suffering, not the event itself. I think that it will help. She has worksheets on her Web site. I want to download them on my tablet and work with them.

    I think that Bella is a little annoyed with Gracie’s play fighting. She’s keeping her at bay.

    Napped. Woke up a little after 12 PM. Rescheduled my COVID and flu shots for Saturday after my singing lesson. Ate lunch.

    I want to lie back down, but the doggos are wrestling.

    I need to pick out a song to work on in my singing lesson.

    Napped. Threw myself together. Went and picked up my groceries. Made dinner.

    Now I need to post and feed the critters one more time. I'm really tired.

    Thursday Recs

    Sep. 11th, 2025 09:49 pm
    soc_puppet: Dreamsheep, its wool patterned after the Bi Pride flag, in horizontal stripes of hot pink, purple, and blue; the Dreamwidth logo echoes these colors. (Bi Pride)
    [personal profile] soc_puppet posting in [community profile] queerly_beloved
    Ack, almost missed it!


    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!
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    The wife of the hummus-seller at the market told us that Laila was so cute after Laila said "bye bye" to her yesterday, and as we walked away she said, "May G-d protect her from the evils of the world."

    You're right, madame. I pray for that too.

    Laila has been a bit of a terror lately. Bringing back behavior that's been totally gone for a while, like putting random things in her mouth, deliberately not listening, that kind of thing. On the one hand, it's a hopeful sign of her normal childhood development that she'll wait until I say "last warning, Laila" before she gets her feet off the dining room table or whatever I'm asking her to do, but on the other hand it's a lot. It's driving [instagram.com profile] sashagee kind of bananas lately, partially because she's also sick (again). Laila spent a big chunk of time yesterday in her room and got her new dolls taken away, because she would do the little kid thing of "Now that I am released from punishment, I'm going to immediately do the thing you told me not to do, because you're not the boss of me!" Except, of course, we are the boss of her and back to her room she would go. She's been better today but still pushing boundaries. The dolls she just got are put up until she stops putting things in her mouth after she put one of the definitely-small-enough-to-choke-on doll-sized cups in her mouth, and she's not getting them back today.

    Laila is enjoying school a lot, at least as far as we can tell. There's only been one day where she hasn't been happy to go to school, and it have just been because she didn't want to leave the house. Once we actually got the schoolbag on and got out and on the road, she wanted to run over the school just like she always does. We did have a brief chat with the teachers during the open-house they held recently, where her teachers said that Laila has a hard time answering the questions that they ask her. Emoji dejected She's more talkative, but still has some trouble.

    A few days ago I suddenly came down with some kind of stomach bug. It's mostly gone away now but I occasionally get stomach pangs out of nowhere, and when I asked [instagram.com profile] sashagee about it, her opinion was that maybe I shouldn't be eating so many uncooked vegetables. Since we get a CSA box, a lot of my lunches are just cheese, raw vegetables with hummus, and bread with labneh or something like that. I supposed I am getting old enough that my digestive system maybe can't handle literally everything I throw at it anymore. On the other hand, I had more raw vegetables for lunch today, so we'll see if it happens again. I'm not looking forward to the extra time I would need to cook all the vegetables I eat.

    SOTD: Twice, "Merry & Happy"

    Sep. 11th, 2025 08:39 pm
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    This morning the YouTube Music app decided I needed to hear "Merry & Happy" by Twice. Even though it's a Christmas song, I listened to it, because I love this song. It lifted my spirits, so I went back and listened to it again, which lifted my spirits some more. So now I'm sharing it with you.

    After this experience, my daily affirmation for today was "Take joy wherever you can find it. If that means listening to Christmas music out of season, so be it."

    (no subject)

    Sep. 11th, 2025 09:31 pm
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    Oh hey I just found this community. Slow on the uptake here.

    I'm Dino, DinoBetta on PoGo, and my favorite 'mon has always been Charizard :}, favorite types are fire and rock and ground. Been playing Pokemon Go for five years-ish now, I'm getting close to level 44, however as of Monday the 8th aka the latest update, my app is completely unusable. Long story short the Niantic email 'help' bot thinks I was/am banned (I'm not) and won't actually give me any useful help, so I guess I'm just going to have to sit around and wait for the next update to drop to see if that fixes the problem.

    Very annoyed that my lunch hour fun time and walks-in-the-park app is borked, especially right when an event happened.

    Anyway once I can hopefully access the app again, I'll be sure to add my trainer code and good grief if there's anyone local I have so many trading tasks I need to complete, pleeeease. (I will forever be salty they don't allow long-distance pokemon trading.)
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    These questions were originally suggested by [livejournal.com profile] wownelwow.

    1. What is your favourite fruit?

    2. What is the last book you read?

    3. Do you like any of your school photos?

    4. Do you ever blowdry your armpits to get the deodorant to dry quicker?

    5. What was the last film you watched?

    Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

    If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!
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    We are not responsible for your lost or stolen relatives.
    We cannot guarantee your safety if you disobey our instructions.
    We do not endorse the causes or claims of people begging for handouts.
    We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

    Your ticket does not guarantee that we will honor your reservations.
    In order to facilitate our procedures, please limit your carrying on.
    Before taking off, please extinguish all smoldering resentments.

    If you cannot understand English, you will be moved out of the way.
    In the event of a loss, you’d better look out for yourself.
    Your insurance was cancelled because we can no longer handle
    your frightful claims. Our handlers lost your luggage and we
    are unable to find the key to your legal case.

    You were detained for interrogation because you fit the profile.
    You are not presumed to be innocent if the police
    have reason to suspect you are carrying a concealed wallet.
    It’s not our fault you were born wearing a gang color.
    It is not our obligation to inform you of your rights.

    Step aside, please, while our officer inspects your bad attitude.
    You have no rights we are bound to respect.
    Please remain calm, or we can’t be held responsible
    for what happens to you.


    ***********


    Link

    September Stampede - Day 11

    Sep. 11th, 2025 11:01 pm
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    So sorry - I thought this month was going to be difficult, but I hadn't expected posts to be this far apart.

    If you've been using the table and tackling something each day, feel free to tell us all about it today. If not here's the table and pick up with today's (or any other day that suits) and tell us about it when you can - use this post until I manage to get up to speed enough to make another one.

    Wishing you well for the month and remember the aim of the month's challenges is that most can be adapted to fit what you need so if it says a 'flat surface', any type of flat surface will do - desks, worktops, floors, tables and so on. Similarly a vertical surface could be a window, a tiled wall, mirror or door.


    This is supposed to be a low-stress challenge - if you miss a day, it doesn't matter, if the day's challenge doesn't suit, repeat the day before or start on the next day's. With the exception of two days, the challenges should take about 10 minutes, if you want to spend longer that's great, judge by your personal available time and energy.

    To make it easier to take part and not be held up by time differences and days when I'm not able to post, all challenges will be posted in the table below the cut to aid both those taking part and the daily poster.

    My biggest request for the month is that, whenever you can, you join in the chat - even if you haven't done the day's challenge come and cheer for others. We're here for the ups and downs this month so you can tell us when you're struggling as well as celebrate your successes.

    Daily Challenge Table shown below the cut )

    And so today's challenge is to spend 10 minutes dealing with food.

    Good luck and have a great September.

    Let his own words be his epitaph

    Sep. 9th, 2025 05:25 pm
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    “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”

    Not many of us get to die for our beliefs.
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    Siderea's post on the subject, which points out that there are more "exceptions" that allow people to get the vaccine than there are people who are too healthy to qualify under the rules as written.

    Your doctor can write you a prescription for one even if you are perfectly healthy and your only issue is wanting to stay that way. Ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom.

    Don't let RFK Jr. win! Get your jab!
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    Just a friendly reminder to those posting on Tumblr that [personal profile] ing the blog is not enough unless you've added your bragging rights to the post. I will not reblog posts that don't have bragging rights attached! You can add them to a reblog and @ us again, or email the filled out bragging rights to the mod email and I can add them as a reblog to your original post. You can also submit your bragging rights to Tumblr with a link to your fic/art and a link to your Tumblr post!

    Also, re: posting late. If you are posting late within 24 hours of your posting date you're fine; life happens and we totally understand. If it's over 24 hours late, though, please request a new posting date. We have plenty of open slots!

    Thankful Thursday

    Sep. 11th, 2025 10:04 pm
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    [personal profile] mdlbear

    Today I am thankful for...

    • A very bad hiss on one channel of my recording rig turning out to be a bad cable, and not the (rather expensive) microphone. (If it had been the interface it would have been a good excuse to get a better one.)
    • Having extra mic cables sitting around for just such a situation.
    • Having made a psych appointment for next week, before N told me that I probably needed one. NO thanks for freaking out under stress.
    • Progress, specifically in breathing and singing exercises. Having m as a vocal coach.

    I do not know how to characterize the fact that the RØDE NT1 now comes in PURPLE. Gratitude doesn't seem quite appropriate.

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    Quote of the Day:

    I'm always alive to the possibility -- anytime there's a good poem there, I leave everything else and write the poem. Sometimes it comes thicker and faster than others, but there's never been a period in my life when I haven't had my antennae out ready to receive a poem.

    —Thomas Disch, interview in Strange Horizons (2001)



    Today's Writing:

    Not as many words as yesterday — not quite 250 — but good ones! \o/


    Tally

    Days 1-9 )

    Day 10: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora,[personal profile] yasaman, [personal profile] ysilme


    Let me know if I missed you, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet. And remember, you can join in at any time!

    Mingled yarn of life

    Sep. 11th, 2025 08:20 pm
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    Text today from my general practice to book Covid + flu jabs - actually in a months time, but I now have a slot booked.

    ***

    Having been moaning on over at bluesky about scholars these days not acknowledging existing (older) historiography, Dept of Preening Gratification was coming across footnote cite to 30 year-old co-authored work as 'A key starting point' for certain 'productive considerations' within the field.

    ***

    On the other prickly paw, I am still failing to get up to a proper swing at the essay review - keep niggling and picking at the bit I've already done.

    Partly due to Interruptions happening.

    Also partly due to not sleeping terribly well this week for some reason.

    ***

    Discovered today that I had somehow acquired an ebook of recent work on subject I have had far too much to do with and had totally forgotten about it. Looking up an area of Mi Pertikler Xpertize, o dear, a number of niggling Errours.

    ***

    Attended a webinar the other day where someone claimed that a certain class of records did not survive in respect of the lower orders on account They Could Not Write, and I was more, no, it's an issue of preservation, what about those postcards that I spoke about on a TV programme once - but that is such an annoying story, what DID happen to the cards after the filming? - apart from the flaunting of Being Meedja Personality, so decided not to raise my virtual hand.

    full_metal_ox: Lan Wangji from Mo Dao Zu Shi, with his bunnies. (bunnies)
    [personal profile] full_metal_ox posting in [community profile] fancake
    Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
    Pairings/Characters: Gen; M/M; Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian; Lan Yuan, Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, OCs
    Rating: General Audiences
    Length: 2,442 words
    Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, anonymous author, autobiographical incident, Chinese diaspora feels, inappropriate choice of rabbit food, racist microaggression, secondhand embarrassment
    Creator Tags:
    Based on a True Story, yes my mom really couldn't find a basic cake and so we had to go with bread, Fluff, Family Feels, Family Fluff, Baking, Icing, Frosting, AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHH THOSE ARE TAGS, Michael's (the store) makes a big appearance, Father's Day, but idc if it's not father's day yet, I was inspired, Inspired by Real Events
    Creator Links: none
    Theme: Food & Cooking, Cultural Differences, Family, Fluff, Modern AU, Slice of Life

    Summary: In which Sizhui and his Baba ice a loaf of bread for Father's Day (plus some angst, but we don't really have to get into specifics do we?)

    Author’s Notes:

    something i wrote while having writers block

    enjoy

    (also stay safe and wash your hands and quit going outside if you are)

    this isn't really asian rep it just happened when i was 10 and i typed for two hours also its may and here we are with a fictionalized crackheaded version of what happened

    yes there were mean girls

    … lan zhan's the one getting the cake because his personality's the closest to my dad's but like my dad cut off the frosting and we ended up using the bread for other stuff


    Reccer’s Notes: The Chinese-American author posted this anonymously on 8 May 2020 for U.S. Asian and Pacific Islander Month, apologizing that “this isn’t really asian rep”; given that the canon creator is Asian, her target audience is Asian, the characters are Asian, and the OP is Asian fictionalizing their Asian family’s real-life experience, I personally don’t see how it can avoid being Asian Rep.

    The author’s self-consciousness—both at the time of writing and in retrospect—is flying from the ramparts, and arguably an integral part of the story. They never did emerge from anonymity, and they’ve since deleted the story—which is a shame, because this is a valid slice-of-life in the Lynda Barry vein, with the OP’s imaginary friends as proxies. Since there seems to be no identifying information that could be used to trace them, I don’t think posting a Wayback Machine capture will expose them to further embarrassment.

    And let’s not be like the Mean Girls at Michael’s, okay?

    Fanwork links: a loaf of bread is not a substitute for a blank cake

    Geese

    Sep. 11th, 2025 07:53 pm
    [personal profile] cosmolinguist

    I can hear lots of geese honking overhead. I'm so jealous of them getting to warmer and brighter places for the next six months.

    Forging Ghost is Moving to the AO3!

    Sep. 11th, 2025 06:06 pm
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    Posted by callmeri

    Forging Ghost, a Spike/Angel fanfiction archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).

    In this post:

    Background explanation

    Forging Ghost was a Yahoo! Group dedicated to fanfiction for Spike/Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel: the Series. Ghostsforge, the moderator, preserved Forging Ghost when Yahoo! Groups was shut down in 2019 and asked Open Doors for assistance in importing its works to AO3.

    The purpose of the Open Doors Committee’s Online Archive Rescue Project is to assist moderators of archives to incorporate the fanworks from those archives into the Archive of Our Own. Open Doors works with moderators to import their archives when the moderators lack the funds, time, or other resources to continue to maintain their archives independently. It is extremely important to Open Doors that we work in collaboration with moderators who want to import their archives and that we fully credit creators, giving them as much control as possible over their fanworks. Open Doors will be working with Ghostsforge to import Forging Ghost into a separate, searchable collection on the Archive of Our Own. As part of preserving the archive in its entirety, all fanart currently in Forging Ghost will be hosted on the OTW’s servers, and embedded in their own AO3 work pages.

    We will begin importing works from Forging Ghost to the AO3 after September. However, the import may not take place for several months or even years, depending on the size and complexity of the archive. Creators are always welcome to import their own works and add them to the collection in the meantime.

    What does this mean for creators who had work(s) on Forging Ghost?

    We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We’ll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will add it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

    All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors.

    Please contact Open Doors with your Forging Ghost pseud and email address(es), if:

    1. You’d like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.
    2. You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
    3. You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
    4. You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3, or would NOT like your works added to the archive collection.
    5. You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
    6. You have any other questions we can help you with.

    Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your Forging Ghost account, please contact Open Doors and we’ll help you out. (If you’ve posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they’re yours, that’s great; if not, we will work with the Forging Ghost mod to confirm your claims.)

    Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on

    If you still have questions…

    If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.

    We’d also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of Forging Ghost on Fanlore. If you’re new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

    We’re excited to be able to help preserve Forging Ghost!

    – The Open Doors team and Ghostsforge

    Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.

    Check-In Post - Sept 11th 2025

    Sep. 11th, 2025 07:14 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.


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    I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



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