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china_shop linked to Gardening in the Rubble by Lisa Dickson, which contains the following:

"The news tells us that the world is inherently dangerous, but our daily existence tells us that we are overwhelmingly peaceful and decent."

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lb_lee

Rogan: I made Bob a shirt. (I drew this a while ago, but then January happened.)

( I think this is the only T-shirt Bob owns now. )

Current Mood: artistic
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setsuntamew

You know what a foot of snow needs? Photoshoot in your backyard featuring a skirt you made in 2017 and then promptly forgot about!!! Pat very kindly braved the cold to bring my ~vision~ to life.

the skirt is so warm and the shirt was a poor life choice XD

I like to think I'm cute and funny, and I'm right~
At least now I know what I'm wearing to the ren faire this year ;D I made this skirt to wear to a vampire ball that Liz and I went to as part of our anniversary trip, and then just...never wore it again???? idk man, it looks good actually so I have no idea why I never found another use for it. Definitely wearing it in like, 9 months, when it's ren faire season. I've also just been wearing the skirt around the house because it's floor length, so it's keeping the warmth in. So yes, I'm wandering around with a black lace train like I'm living in the Addams Family, I guess XD

ANYWAY.

I did manage to make a few icons, so that's cool. I don't necessarily love them, but part of that is just...getting back into it...thankfully it's only been like 6 months so I'm not as rusty as I could be, but I still wish I could stay more on top of things and/or skip this stage.

And then the enstars event announcement is tonight and I'm sooooooo fucking anxious, since it's either gonna be MaM or ALKALOID, so my money is gone either way. If it's MaM, no one's gonna hear from me for a week while I grind out 22 mil points. sobs. It's just like.....some of my fave units have ended up last in the rotation and also why couldn't Madara have his event while I had a job and therefore more money to blow on a phone game? Like of course he waited until I had less disposable income. Bitch.

idk I don't have anything else to say, since I've been in the house all weekend. At least the snow is really pretty and we've had a fairly chill time just vibing. Trying to focus on the positives, you know?

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Garwyn Oaks, MD
Current Music: Great Day ♪ The Lonely Island
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loganberrybunny

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360/365: Fibre cabinet
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Yes, folks, it's a fibre cabinet! That really is about all there is to say about it. I shall therefore continue by saying that I hope to be able to write tomorrow about something rather more interesting I've done. Something quite important to me, too. You'll find out! But today was definitely a dull day, and as I type it's chucking it down outside.

Current Mood: bored

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Name:

cornerofmadness
Card Theme: Public Domain fest
Prompts: Love for Sale, Sing You Sinners, Madam Satan, The Sound of Love, You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel
My Card: My Card

( my fills under here )

Current Mood: accomplished

rionaleonhart

Here's another Goes Wrong fic that grew out of a fill for the

threesentenceficathon! All the fanfiction I've been writing has pushed Robert Grove from the fifth-most-tagged Goes Wrong Show character on AO3 up to third place, and I am drunk with power.

I think I might have accidentally written something cute. I promise this wasn't my intention.

Title: Gone Astray
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Robert/Chris
Wordcount: 3,000
Summary: After The Spirit of Christmas, someone has to get Robert home safely, and the role falls to an unwilling Chris.

( Gone Astray )

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silveradept

snowflake_challenge wants us to think about the places where we have come together in shared pursuit of our fandoms, or the same fandom, or many other ways of joining us together and showing us that we are not alone in our pursuits.

Challenge #13

TALK ABOUT A COMMUNITY SPACE YOU LIKE. It doesn’t need to be your favorite, or the one where you spend the most time (although it certainly can be). Maybe it’s even one that you’ve barely visited. But talk about that space and how it helps support fannish community.

( In community, we join, and nowhere else is that more evident than at convention. )

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Jamiroquai - Soul Education

starandrea

I have a lot of plants. That's what I thought when I woke up this morning and stared at my very out-of-focus wall of greenery. (I never have to turn on lights anymore. All of the plant lights are on timers this year, and they start coming on down the hall around 6:30, a kind of artifical rolling dawn as one timer after another ticks over.)

I spent all of last year journaling daily in Chinese to hit my

inkingitout goal, and it may have worked: it now feels so much easier to write 500 words in Chinese that apparently I have energy left over to journal in English as well. So far I haven't written about the same thing in both journals once, not by design but just out of sheer verbosity.

( journaling and ADHD )

( speaking practice, and LLM-as-AI chatbots, including Duolingo )

In conclusion, the

snowflake_challenge. Dreamwidth, I appreciate you tremendously, as I hope I indicated above somewhere in my ramble about journaling. And also youtube, which I was going to use as a lead-in to the speaking challenge, but since it's now at the end, here are three insights that youtube has (usually accidentally) given me about language learning.

( youtube and language learning )

Which brings me to my favorite part which is, I watch the occasional vlog in English, just for variety, and do you know how smart these kids are? It really bolsters my faith in humanity to see people being thoughtful and competent and insightful on youtube. And everywhere. So thanks, internet communities. You make my life so much better.

loganberrybunny

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359/365: Horn and Trumpet pub sign, Bewdley
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This isn't the Horn and Trumpet in Worcester; it's the pub of the same name in Bewdley. I only realised as I was walking home from Sainsbury's this afternoon that I'd forgotten to take a 365 photo today, so this is all you're getting!

Current Mood: sleepy

muscle_wizard

Today we currently have 16 inches of snow and are expecting the snow to keep going until midnight (It's after 7pm here). Hooo, it's so pretty but sooo cold. We walked over to help my parents and shoveled out their driveway twice. My body feels so broken hhh, my rosacea is also really angry. Currently on the floor to rest my back after drinking plenty of water.

Work has kept me busy and the wind chill has been a lot, so I've gotten behind on Snowflake but have enjoyed reading the entries as they come up on my reading list. I'll catch up with some entries soon.

Lately I have been digging through the treasure troves of fanfic for Jack/Will from Pirates of the Caribbean after rewatching the original trilogy with my wife. Really loving it, already have my own canon au/canon divergence fic in the works.

We'll see if that or my Nem/Mel fic gets finished first.

Otherwise looking forward to this Saturday - our annual trip to H-Mart with our friend c:

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So, I made a DW a few years ago, but fell off posting on it pretty quickly. I’ve made this new account in hopes of being more active!

Name: Eclipse

Age: 31

I mostly post about: So far, I’ve mostly been posting my writing as well as fandom meta. I post a mix of fanfic and original writing. But I anticipate also making posts about the books I read and the movies I watch. We’ll have to see how things evolve!

My hobbies and interests are: Drawing, writing, houseplants, reptile care, and dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.

My fandoms are: I’m in the horror fandom at large. However, my two main niches are the Alien franchise and the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise (minus the shitty remake lol). I’m also in the following fandoms: Ghost the band, Beetlejuice, Phantom of the Opera, and the monster romance community.

Other fandoms I enjoy but that I’m not posting about a lot at the moment are: the Stargate franchise, Batman villains, and Once Upon a Time.

I'm looking to meet people who: Basically, I’m just looking for nice, chill people who share some of my interests!

My posting schedule tends to be: I only recently made this blog, so I don’t know what exactly my schedule will look like, but I anticipate it being fairly sporadic.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: People who are oddly aggressive and rude, conservatives/MAGA types, people who are anti-LGBT, people who are strongly pro-GenAI, and people who generally participate in fandom purity culture.

Before adding me, you should know: I am in my “cringe but free” era, and as a result, have been writing more OC/self-insert x Canon Character fic — specifically OC x horror villain stuff. If that’s not your thing, this probably isn’t the right blog for you. ^^’

Also, while I generally do not care what people ship, I am very uncomfortable with lolisho, so if you like that kind of thing, we won't mesh well.

setsuntamew

IT'S A WINTER WONDERLAND!!!!"
So it snowed basically all night and most of today before switching to freezing rain, which is decidedly less good but like. Whatever. It's still very wintery, and I like that...even if I'm not going out in it. It's way too damn cold!!!! Even after taping up a bunch of the windows in the house, we're all bundled up cuz the heat is only doing so well.

Other than that, I'm baking some cookies and debating trying to make icons again, since it's been...months.........all my photoshop skills have been going to

ensemblerefs because that's less creative, I guess? It takes less brain thinking skills, at least.

I also wanna try to write something for

threesentenceficathon cuz it's one of my favorite yearly events...I'm just still fighting Mental Illness, you know?

also trying to get back in the habit of updating this and I'm like "how the fuck did I write such long entries????" I think I spent a lot of time rambling about enstars, so I guess...that's it XD

I mean I am upset about Hiyori fucking me over in the gacha, since there's a 50/50 chance that the next jp event is gonna be MaM (though the other option is ALKALOID so I guess I'm kinda screwed either way) and I need the rate up if it's Mama. I'm not saving up another 120+ memorial coins like I had to for Halloween Madara last year :T I'm just gonna max him during the event!!!!

..........also also I've made a lot of nui outfits in the past 6 months, so when I'm up to it I kinda wanna post them here. Dreamwidth is just such a better way to organize and hold onto things than everywhere else ;w;

Current Mood: cold
Current Location: Garwyn Oaks, MD
Current Music: KEEP OUT ♪ Eden
Crossposts: https://kirrianu.insanejournal.com/48874.html

abyssal_sylph

So I've caught up with Runaway to the Stars, and while I have a lot of emotions about it, few of them are able to be worded in a way that makes sense. But yeah one thing I can say about the webcomic is that it's very human? Not applicable since a lot of characters are very much alien... Sophont? Sophont. About the ways they think & feel about their situations. Also the situations the characters have been in? Very plausible. It helps the comic stay slice-of-life even when it's currently about getting an illegal ship back in orbit.

Also read this post by

ysabetwordsmith which was about how agriculture tends to get misunderstood why white people in specific (in the sense of "monocropping isn't the only thing that count"). Which makes me happy that Jay has clearly put in a lot of thought in the diets of the non-human characters, even if Talita gets the short end of the stick :(

Also made me think again about sci-fi worldbuilding... that + my au Marstuck, which is spiritually inspired by the RttS comic. Specifically with me getting a bit into making trolls more plausible + figuering out how they'd be as 2 seperate cultures prior to the Mars rebellion. With specifically Alternia having been a colony of Beforus before it's countercultural revolution which- it was countering the culture of Beforus! Just, also dystopic.

Current Location: the void
Current Music: "Huntress" by Vylet Pony

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