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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-09-29 11:16 pm
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Taking a breath

I was incredibly overwhelmed especially with every online thing still fucking up and then I have three more responsibilities being heaped on me. But...I got the online stuff fixed. I got my story finished (thanks to [personal profile] evil_little_dog for a lightning fast beta read.


Tomorrow I need to see the surgeon. I'm vaguely worried.

I had such a terrible dreams over the last two days Let me tell you about them.

Dream One - I was at a either an all inclusive resort or on a cruise (it seemed to be both). It started with me leaning on a wall, looking out over the surf. It was time to get up to eat. Behind me where two of my flash drives and my inhaler (for reasons, god knows what). I couldn't grab them up so my parents left me there. My friends did too (I couldn't tell who it was).

And the anxiety began. It was all buffet but I couldn't find plates. I got distracted by two cousins of mine who kept talking to me even though it was obvious I wanted to go eat. By the way both of these women are dead (and have been for years) I manage to get away from them and head to the far wall because I see huge crabs and lobster symbols on the wall. But when I get there there is nothing left. It's all smoked fish. Ew.

Then I go into the next room and I see a huge deli case but in it was sausages and other meats but it was all horse meat. and the horse's head was in there, two of them. One was named Kevin with he/him after it (the horse had pronouns, thanks now I can eat them).

Since I didn't want to eat horse I go to the next room that nothing but desserts but before i can have dessert for dinner [personal profile] evil_little_dog and [personal profile] silvrethorn come racing in, in horse costumes and destroy the table in protest over the horse meat (like they couldn't have done that to the horse room!)

I run away and try to get a plate. I am going running from room to room but all the plates are dirty or broken. I even think to go to the gift shop to buy a damn plate but by the time I find a plate ALL the food places are closed up and I have no dinner. I break down crying in the middle of the dinning room (as if you can't get room service at these places) and that's when I wake up.

Dream two (this morning) I'm in a car with Mom and [personal profile] evil_little_dog and we see an open house on a house for sale. ELD insists we stop even though there's no one at this place and I don't like the location. We go in and it's a mid century split level (exactly what I don't want). The two owners give me the creeps. I don't like anything about this place but Mom and ELD do. They keep poking around upstairs but I tell the owners I'm going downstairs to see if it's haunted and you know, to see if there are sins and broken foundations down there.

I am going over and over in my head reasons to get the hell out. The creep factor in the basement is off the charts and then the lights go out. I panic. I'm running everywhere, slamming into walls because it's a maze. I'm screaming I'm downstairs and I need help to get out. I slowly realize no one is coming to help and the owners aren't letting any of us out. I manage to find a room with a window and I climb out. The owners know I've escaped so I race together people on the street (as if I can run) and I'm acting like a threatening maniac hoping they'll call the cops because they didn't believe me I was being kidnapped. I woke up just as the cops got there. Did Mom and ELD live? Who knows.

it's music monday and we're doing music that inspires you. For the next month or so, let's do one song that inspires us to draw or write. If you're not a creative, share one song that's making you happy right now. I offer this one from Three Days Grace. HOW many characters of mine would this fit? Connor telling off Angel. Angel Dust telling off Henroin and Arackniss. Edward Elric giving it to Hohenheim. ANd that's just a few
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FandomWeekly Mod ([personal profile] fanweeklymod) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-09-29 11:07 pm

[#275 | One More Try] Voting Post

Here are the entries for this challenge:

List of entries )

Please Note: Because we only have 3 entries this week, there is only a First Place and Runner Up to vote for!

In order to vote, please reply to this post using the form provided. All comments are screened, and entries are listed in the order they were submitted. For your vote to qualify, you must fill out your entire voting card (both spots) in order to be counted. Winner votes are worth 2 points, Runner Up votes are worth 1 point. Meeting the bonus goal on an entry gets an extra point for that submission.

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full_metal_ox ([personal profile] full_metal_ox) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-09-29 03:32 pm

Hilda the Plus-Size Pin-up: Hilda Shelters in Place, by ellen_fremedon for Topaz_Eyes.

Fandom: Hilda the Plus-Size Pin-up
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Hilda, Hilda’s animals, Hilda’s viewers, Hilda’s kindasorta personified sourdough strains.
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 2,947
Content Notes: Author Tract (COVID hygiene); canon-typical near-nudism; COVID-19 quarantine and the stresses thereof; Food Porn; music and instrument care nerdery; social media; some of Hilda’s chickens are for meat; sourdough nerdery; vintage textile nerdery.
Creator Tags: Epistolary, Pandemics, Recipes, Yuletide, Yuletide 2020
Creator Links: (AO3) [archiveofourown.org profile] ellen_fremedon, (Bluesky) [bsky.social profile] ellenfremedon, (Dreamwidth) [personal profile] ellen_fremedon, (Tumblr) [tumblr.com profile] fremedon

Theme: Food & Cooking, Epistolary, Gen, Modern AU, Old Fandoms, (Secret) Hobbies, Small Fandoms

Summary: Welcome to Off the Grid at Chez Hilda, updated every Friday or whenever I feel like it. My artwork is at the Patreon link, and I don't need to remind lovely folks like you to like and subscribe, now do I?

Reccer's Notes: 21st-century Hilda is a rural lifestyle vlogger, addressing her audience from COVID quarantine and coping with lockdown in her characteristic down-home resourceful fashion (chaining canon illustrations into a storyline.)

The modernized context turns her repurposable-as-clothing floursacks into a vintage estate artifact, rhyming two historical periods of struggle and make-do as she renders them into masks. In the course of her expositions on things like feral cat rescue and wafflemaking, she casually drops evidence of an impressive and wide-ranging education; this is a woman who, in her witty conversational folksiness, gladly learns and gladly teaches. (Wonder if she and Manly Wade Wellman’s John the Balladeer ever met?)

This Hilda lives in a community, though; as the quarantine grinds wearily on, she grows increasingly fretful in her seclusion, mounting the soapbox to rant about neighbors who refuse to mask or isolate (this is 2020, before vaccines became available), and the parasocial companionship of her audience becomes increasingly precious.

Oh, and Hilda shares a recipe for her hybrid sourdough/baking powder waffles, complete with considerate substitution suggestions for various dietary limitations. (“This batter keeps in the fridge for a couple days, allegedly. I’ve never managed to test it.”)

Fanwork Links: Hilda Shelters in Place, by [archiveofourown.org profile] ellen_fremedon for [archiveofourown.org profile] Topaz_Eyes, for Yuletide 2020.
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verushka70 ([personal profile] verushka70) wrote in [community profile] ds_noticeboard2025-09-29 06:11 pm

New due South game (quiz)

Regina Keim and Joanne Currie posted a new due South quiz on the Due South Duet Facebook F/K community. 

You can find the latest due South quiz here at duesouth.de! (It's quiz #25-09 in the series of quizzes and games, if you're keeping track.)
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melagan ([personal profile] melagan) wrote in [community profile] trope_of_the_month2025-09-29 07:06 pm

Taster's Choice (SGA) for the prompt Coffee Shops

Title:
Taster's Choice
Creator: [personal profile] melagan
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Teen (for swearing)
Word Count: ~2000
Prompt: Coffee Shops
Summary: AR-1 finds the Pegasus equivalent of a coffee house. Things go about as you'd expect
Warnings: NA
Link to work: Taster's Choice
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rocky41_7 ([personal profile] rocky41_7) wrote in [community profile] booknook2025-09-29 02:34 pm

Book review: A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel

Title: A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Artist: Fred Fordham
Genre: Fantasy, adventure, graphic novel

In case I haven't worn you all out nattering about Earthsea yet, here's some more. On Friday when I finished the Cycle I went online, as one does, and discovered that last year there was published a graphic novel edition of A Wizard of Earthsea, the first book in the series. So naturally this weekend I had to run out and buy it and read it all at once. The art was done by Fred Fordham and the project was overseen by Le Guin's son, Theo (she having passed away in 2018). 

Theo, like Le Guin herself, was trepidatious about any visual representation of Earthsea, after decades of white character designs; white, middle-aged actors; and general tom-fuckery when it comes to representing Le Guin's work. It wasn't until Theo saw Fordham's work in To Kill a Mockingbird that he first considered it might be worthwhile to consider a graphic novel adaptation of his mother's work, and so here we are.

Fordham appears to have been the right man for the job--this graphic novel edition of A Wizard of Earthsea captures the characters as Le Guin may have envisioned them when she wrote. Theo in his forward acknowledges that one of the beautiful things about how the characters are described in Le Guin's work--enough to give an idea of their appearance, but also vague enough that readers can all use their own imaginations to some degree--becomes limited when creating an "official" visual representation of those characters. So he considers Fordham's designs just one of many possible looks for these characters, but one that cleaves to his mother's original descriptions. 

His expressions neatly capture the shift in Ged's attitude over his schooling at Roke, from the proud, angry boy who first arrives to the sobered, haunted young man who departs.

Nearly all of the wording in the book is lifted directly from the original novel, which means Le Guin's original hard-hitting dialogue and beautiful descriptions of Earthsea survive to accompany Fordham's gorgeous scenic illustrations. He really captures the moody atmosphere of some of the book's darker moments, while also creating some truly stunning vistas of the ocean, which of course is a considerable part of the world for the characters of Earthsea (who live in an archipelago). I particularly enjoyed some of the rainy scenes--felt just like home here in the PNW!

He also does a great job making Ged and the Lookfar feel small on some of Ged's journeys. Looking at it some of these full-page spreads, you really feel that Ged is just one young wizard on his own in a vast and unknowable world. 

If I had any issues, it's only that some of the palettes run quite dark, so that a few panels can be almost impossible to distinguish unless you're looking at the book directly under a light source, and that there is some occasional visual awkwardness (not sure how to describe this--maybe Fordham used a 3D rendering tool and it shows?)

Overall, I was delighted with this, and I really hope Fordham and Theo press on to do Tombs of Atuan as well--I would love to see Tenar and Atuan rendered as well!
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trobadora ([personal profile] trobadora) wrote in [community profile] c_ent2025-09-29 11:36 pm

One week till Guardian Wishlist reveals!!

A gifting fest for Guardian and related fandoms: guardian-wishlist.dreamwidth.org


[community profile] guardian_wishlist reveals are on 6 October, no earlier than 7am UTC. That's just one week away!

Help make sure everyone gets a gift!

If you're working on something, the sooner you post, the better idea we'll have where things stand, but gifting will continue right up to reveals.

Go forth and make stuff!

If you're willing to help out, please spread the word! You can reblog our Tumblr post, or use the promo graphics, text, and link to our Carrd we've assembled for your convenience - including a new reminder graphic with text, or feel free to write/make your own. Help us get the word out!

The spreadsheet tracks gift numbers, and all wishlists are tagged for fandoms and media.

Wishlist comments are screened. Gifts must fit the requests, but prompts are optional. There are no minimums. Gifts must be unique to the recipient. Mods aren't reviewing gifts, so please check before you post that you haven't included any DNWs.

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rocky41_7 ([personal profile] rocky41_7) wrote in [community profile] books2025-09-29 02:34 pm

Recent Reading: A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel

In case I haven't worn you all out nattering about Earthsea yet, here's some more. On Friday when I finished the Cycle I went online, as one does, and discovered that last year there was published a graphic novel edition of A Wizard of Earthsea, the first book in the series. So naturally this weekend I had to run out and buy it and read it all at once. The art was done by Fred Fordham and the project was overseen by Le Guin's son, Theo (she having passed away in 2018). 

Theo, like Le Guin herself, was trepidatious about any visual representation of Earthsea, after decades of white character designs; white, middle-aged actors; and general tom-fuckery when it comes to representing Le Guin's work. It wasn't until Theo saw Fordham's work in To Kill a Mockingbird that he first considered it might be worthwhile to consider a graphic novel adaptation of his mother's work, and so here we are.

Fordham appears to have been the right man for the job--this graphic novel edition of A Wizard of Earthsea captures the characters as Le Guin may have envisioned them when she wrote. Theo in his forward acknowledges that one of the beautiful things about how the characters are described in Le Guin's work--enough to give an idea of their appearance, but also vague enough that readers can all use their own imaginations to some degree--becomes limited when creating an "official" visual representation of those characters. So he considers Fordham's designs just one of many possible looks for these characters, but one that cleaves to his mother's original descriptions. 

His expressions neatly capture the shift in Ged's attitude over his schooling at Roke, from the proud, angry boy who first arrives to the sobered, haunted young man who departs.

Nearly all of the wording in the book is lifted directly from the original novel, which means Le Guin's original hard-hitting dialogue and beautiful descriptions of Earthsea survive to accompany Fordham's gorgeous scenic illustrations. He really captures the moody atmosphere of some of the book's darker moments, while also creating some truly stunning vistas of the ocean, which of course is a considerable part of the world for the characters of Earthsea (who live in an archipelago). I particularly enjoyed some of the rainy scenes--felt just like home here in the PNW!

He also does a great job making Ged and the Lookfar feel small on some of Ged's journeys. Looking at it some of these full-page spreads, you really feel that Ged is just one young wizard on his own in a vast and unknowable world. 

If I had any issues, it's only that some of the palettes run quite dark, so that a few panels can be almost impossible to distinguish unless you're looking at the book directly under a light source, and that there is some occasional visual awkwardness (not sure how to describe this--maybe Fordham used a 3D rendering tool and it shows?)

Overall, I was delighted with this, and I really hope Fordham and Theo press on to do Tombs of Atuan as well--I would love to see Tenar and Atuan rendered as well!
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Nonesensed ([personal profile] nonesensed) wrote2025-09-29 11:07 pm
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Quick update

Injured my shoulder, so my writing is going slowly right now. Have a good massage therapist though, so I'll be right as rain in no time. Just extra slow re: my sysiphean catch-up on posts and comments on here - thank you for your patience 💗

Btw, I've been listening to Florence + The Machine's new single on repeat since it came out about a month ago and I still enjoy it greatly:
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote in [community profile] books2025-09-29 03:33 pm

The Iron Marshal

The Iron Marshal by Louis L'Amour

An Irish boy grows up in New York -- and has just landed in Kansas.

Read more... )
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beatrice_otter ([personal profile] beatrice_otter) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-09-29 01:08 pm

Marvel: To The Heart by kyburg

Fandom: Marvel Comics, MCU
Pairings/Characters: Kamala Khan, Tony Stark, Sam Wilson,
Rating: Not rated
Length: 5k
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] kyburg 
Theme: food, trauma, team, characters of color

Summary:

It's a service day at the Masjid. Lentils, rice and everything nice.

What isn't nice are some the memories.

Good people make you their friend. Good friends know how to get to the heart of the matter.

Reccer's Notes: This is about the Avengers meeting Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel. But it's also about friendship, and trauma, and memory, and moving on.

Fanwork Links: To The Heart
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quicksilverfox3 ([personal profile] quicksilverfox3) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-09-29 09:21 pm

[#275] running out of time (SVSSS)

Theme Prompt: 275 - One More Try
Title: running out of time
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self Saving System
Rating/Warnings: T - violence mention
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 916
Summary: Yue Qi keeps trying to escape the mountain to rescue his Xiao Jiu.

caught )
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prisca ([personal profile] prisca) wrote in [community profile] sweetandshort2025-09-29 07:07 pm
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Amnesty: September

And we have almost reached the end of September. During Amnesty Days you can (re)use every prompt of the year 2025 to create something for it.
All former rules are disabled; anything goes.
You can grab single prompts from the bingo cards.
Feel free to combine multiple prompts in one work.

Here you can find the Amnesty Prompts from January to June 2025.

Posting ends on October 1, midnight at your timezone.
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sisterdivinium ([personal profile] sisterdivinium) wrote2025-09-29 12:24 pm
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Where did all the cutlery go?

There are no spoons. No spoons, no knives or forks. Zilch, nada. There are hardly any clean, empty plates.

Probably because they've all been put towards the one same scrumptious dessert I've been working on lately, another fic of a longer persuasion that is nothing if not profoundly self-indulgent. That means that making or typing up other things, other texts, even responses to the kindliest comments one so thankfully receives, has been a little daunting in the past weeks. I even have something that's ready to go and requires only posting, as I have something that's equally ready to be posted and needs only be typed up but, oh, the spoons!

I'm sure they'll all be back in their proper places soon enough, ready to be utilised in other delicious dishes once the project is done (I'm at the beginning of the middle, at handwritten page forty-abouts). Until then... Patience! :)
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Larry Hammer ([personal profile] larryhammer) wrote2025-09-29 07:26 am
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“i will always think i’m right/ but i always regret the night/ i told you i’d hate you ’til forever”

For Poetry Monday:

Down, Wanton, Down!, Robert Graves

Down, wanton, down! Have you no shame
That at the whisper of Love’s name,
Or Beauty’s, presto! up you raise
Your angry head and stand at gaze?

Poor Bombard-captain, sworn to reach
The ravelin and effect a breach—
Indifferent what you storm or why,
So be that in the breach you die!

Love may be blind, but Love at least
Knows what is man and what mere beast;
Or Beauty wayward, but requires
More delicacy from her squires.

Tell me, my witless, whose one boast
Could be your staunchness at the post,
When were you made a man of parts
To think fine and profess the arts?

Will many-gifted Beauty come
Bowing to your bald rule of thumb,
Or Love swear loyalty to your crown?
Be gone, have done! Down, wanton, down!


Graves (1895-1985) was a poet, novelist, and eccentric mythographer. This is from his collection Poems 1930-1933.

---L.

Subject quote from Forever, CHVRCHES.
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Kalloway ([personal profile] kalloway) wrote in [community profile] inspiredby2025-09-29 10:09 am
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AuGhost 2025 for October 2025

AuGhost 2025 list, text under cut


2025's AuGhost, just in time for Halloween?

AuGhost 2025 for October 2025 )
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Linaewen ([personal profile] linaewen) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2025-09-29 08:23 am
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WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 29 -- Monday

Hello on Monday! How's the day going so far for fic? (If you haven't gotten started on your day as yet, how did yesterday go for writing fic?)

    - Excellent!
    - Terrible
    - Somewhere in between
    - Nothing doing

How much time have you spent on writing fic today, roughly?

    - None
    - 30 minutes or less
    - 30-60 minutes
    - 60-90 minutes
    - More than 90 minutes

In five words or less, how do you feel about that?
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mific ([personal profile] mific) wrote in [community profile] ds_noticeboard2025-09-30 01:03 am

Due South fic Rec


Another Fraser/Ray/Ray rec on fancake over here!