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Sep. 15th, 2026 10:20 pm[personal profile] flemmings
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I was coming back from the laundromat and turning up my front path when northern next door's front door opens and two very self-possessed little girls marched out to announce,  "We're your new neighbours!"-- introducing themselves as Charley (not short for Charlotte: I asked) and Lennon (I assume John, not Vladimir.) Followed by their parents and grandmother,  all down-to-earth and friendly bodies, which I might not have expected given those names. But Dad immediately offered his phone number should I need it, which S&G never did in the six years they lived beside me, and I gave him both mine. Shall probably get a key for them as well. Like, I leave my door on the latch during the day and evening so the ambulance men, if needed, won't have to break in, but it will help to have a key next door. Tentatively I think I may have landed on my feet here.

Succeeded in filling another garden bag yesterday so that the back path is actually visible. It's currently sitting out under the cherry tree in the drizzle because I didn't feel like dragging it to the front. But those bags can withstand a little rain provided you don't leave them in puddles, as witness SND's pile of vags. Am still at 'one accomplishment a day and then flop', though maybe dishes counts as well? I have still to call the handyman about trimming my trees, and to ask at Nella Cucina, the kitchen store on Bathurst, if they sharpen knives, and to ask the Wiener's oyaji-tachi what one uses to delime an electric kettle, if anything, and to wash out the recycle bin that lives in the kitchen. But sufficient unto the day etc.

Least Hits/Kudos/Bookmarks Meme

Sep. 15th, 2026 10:40 pm[personal profile] petra
petra: Woman making quote-unquote marks in the air (Alex Drake - Sarcastiquotes)
Hey, people who did this meme: was this horribly depressing when you did it, or is it just me? Not because of the low interaction counts, but because of the nostalgia. And the dead friendships. And the dead people.

Hits: 6

There once was a snowman quite jaunty - Cabin Pressure, clean limerick for Xinzhou

Blazingfire.com - DCU, Green Arrow limerick about Beatriz da Costa's website

Hits: 7

Pete and Repeat - Cyteen drabble. I have so many feelings about that title. Mostly "Cheap joke, baby!Petra."

There once was a tan camel camel - Cabin Pressure, clean limerick for Timbuktu (Timbuktu)

Kudos: 0 - I skipped the just-a-drabble and just-one-limerick ones, which are legion. The remainder are

At her mercy - Ashes to Ashes (already not most popular fandom), Alex Drake/Jim Keats (...nobody ships this), Directedverse (yep.). I love that not even the person I gifted this to wanted to admit to reading it.

Preliminary Gaiety - very old Les Misérables, Combeferre/Grantaire, from the era when we gave everybody first names. Written for Catherine Lafontaine, whom I hope is doing well, wherever she is.

Losses, more Combeferre/Grantaire from the same series, I cannot IMAGINE why no one has kudosed my fic from 2003 (no, wait, I really can; I had a lot to learn).

There is another one in this series with 0 kudos but you get the picture.

There once was an old man named Luc - More Les Misérables, this a limerick cycle of M. Gillenormand/Original Female Character, with Pontmercy incursion. This one's got redeeming silliness on its side, and I think it's clever.

Doggerel, which is actually prose of the Bossuet/Jehan Prouvaire variety, Les Misérables again.

May - Les Misérables. I love this one, but it's Jehan Prouvaire/Luc-Ésprit Gillenormand. Yes, really. So. Um. Yeah. Somewhere there is someone who used to go by Echo who cowrote it with me, and I miss that lovely person very much.

Nor am I out of it - Promethan Age/Slings & Arrows, in which Darren Nichols meets Kit Marlowe. If you understand all of those words, you have probably now cancelled me for writing EBear fic. It was nice knowing you. Dedicated to giglet, but not gifted to her, because I posted it to AO3 after she passed. I miss her so often.

Bookmarks: 0 - I have so many; these 3 chosen because they were neither drabbles nor limericks and before I ran out of patience, so -- early in the alphabet, fandom-wise:

It is the time the I must start again - Doctor Who villanelle on regeneration, in which theme fits form very nicely.

Holiday makers - Ashes to Ashes/DCU, Barbara Gordon has just been shot and goes back in time because of course she does.

DVD commentary of Teland's Entelechy - DCU meta. This story hurt me so much I wrote about it. Long! Not just Te's part!
stonepicnicking_okapi: ChopSuey (chopsuey)
1. Life. Le sigh. I took Minor to PT on Monday evening only to find out that the insurance hasn't authorized it yet and the PT office had an incorrect telephone number for me so I didn't get the message. I want this kid fixed yesterday, and everything is taking so long! The girl said it would take a day and it's been four business day, and still waiting (on the insurance). I know many of you have much more serious problems with the US healthcare system. I try to avoid it for this reason. But Minor's coach is torturing him, and I just want him to be okay. He has exercises to do at home but he also seems to be really hurting, and he told me tonight he's taking massive amounts of ibuprofen on meet days. Like more than I took when I came home with him as a C-section. Mom-ing a teenager! Argh!

2. I thought about my Halloween prompts this weekend, and I think I am settling on the theme of: ordinary & extraordinary. Thanks to your suggestions I have been collecting prompts, images, music, etc. I am going to go back through the Spook Me inspo posts from the past two years, too.

3. Today I refused 2 extra shifts so I could work on Halloween cards. I really tried to focus and enjoy and be present in the creating and not worry about...*the dumpster fire of life*

4. I watched a horror film on Sunday night and enjoyed it (I am not going to say which because I am going to post it in October) and the best thing was that I sat through 80% of the film, which is a big improvement for me. I normally nope out at about the 5-minute mark. So in some ways my attention seem to be improving, though there are plenty of examples to the contrary, of course.

5. I even missed Music Monday yesterday but today was Cannonball Adderly's birthday so have Work Song.

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For dinner this evening, I took [personal profile] executrix's advice and made an Asian-inflected Italian wedding soup. I shaped the leftover potsticker filling into tiny meatballs (I did add some panko so they would hold their shape a little better), fried them for a few minutes in some olive oil, then sauteed some ginger and garlic with them before adding chicken broth. I let it all simmer for about 15 minutes, then added some orzo and cooked it for another 12 minutes or so (on higher heat so the orzo would cook), and then stirred in an egg and 1/2 tsp of toasted sesame oil to finish it off. It was good! Not something I would have thought of myself, and I probably wouldn't go out of my way to make it again unless I had the chicken filling left over again, but it made for a good dinner.

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6才! 6 years old!

Sep. 15th, 2026 11:00 pm[syndicated profile] maru_feed

Posted by mugumogu

みりの6才にちなんで、今日は6才のまるさん特集! In honor of Miri’s 6 year old, today’s feature is 6 year old Maru! まる:「どう […]
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I didn't bother blogging about last month's release of The Fall of Kylo Ren issue #1 because it was kind of just fine? There was some entertaining anti-Hux pettiness from Kylo and some ground-laying for his growth as a leader going into TROS but mostly it felt like filler before the real action started.

AND NOW THE REAL ACTION HAS STARTED AKSJFHKLAJGSA. So, Kylo is working out while deep in a daydream about Rey - dwelling on their fight against Snoke together, copying her movements beat for beat - when his new situationship Tava Ren arrives to take another stab at winning him over. The Knights of Ren have blundered into an unwinnable conflict with some sort of army of terrifying assassin droids and getting Kylo to help is their only possible chance of survival, so they show up on his flagship with a "gift" of the stolen dark side artifact that kicked off the droid conflict in the first place. Kylo is delighted with this gift, and promptly and predictably activates its power, thus summoning the assassin droids. Throughout the whole thing Tava is snarky and flirty and funny and irresistibly charismatic while Kylo has to double down HARD on all the worst of his stilted, inauthentic Supreme Leader persona to resist her charms, and aaauuugh he is such an embarrassing prick and the sexual tension is off the charts and (unfortunately for Tava, who deserves better) they are SO going to fuck. In my fic if not in canon, though given how brazenly Charles Soule has catered to every other part of my id, at this point it would not surprise me if Kylo actually gets laid on-page by the end of this run.

Anyway to give you guys a little taste, here is the face Tava is making at Kylo:


And here is the face he makes back:


It's not quiiite as bad as the dinner date but it is still PRETTY DAMN BAD. KYLO YOU WRETCHED THING WHAT ARE YOU DOING.

[Chat] It's Almost Time!

Sep. 15th, 2026 05:15 pm[personal profile] quillpunk posting in [community profile] booknook
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Soon, it's time for the 2026 October Review-A-Thon (sign-ups still ongoing!).

How are we feeling? Have you decided what book(s) you're reviewing? (I have not, orz.) Do you have your review ready or will you be pantsing it on the spot? Any other thoughts? 👀

Ladies Bingo 2026-2027

Sep. 15th, 2026 07:54 pm[personal profile] purplecat posting in [site community profile] dw_community_promo
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An Image of Yoko Tsuno and Khani hugging from the Yoko Tsuno albums.  It has the words Ladiesbingo, for Any Kind of Relationship between Women and the url ladiesbingo.dreamwidth.org superimposed over it


Ladies' Bingo Round 2026-2027 (Round 14) Sign-ups

Event Description: [community profile] ladiesbingo is a bingo challenge for creative works about the relationships between women. It runs for seven months (from September until March).

The motivation behind the community is to encourage people to make creative works focused on female characters and their relationships.

Round 14 (2026-2027) is now open.

Quick post

Sep. 15th, 2026 07:41 pm[personal profile] thisbluespirit
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If you haven't already seen it, the Ghosts film has a proper trailer now, and lololol, brilliant. I hope it doesn't take too long to turn up on the BBC after its release:


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This second of five September-releasing Hellraiser one-shots isn't as good as the first. It's not bad, but in some places trhe art did require me to look a few times to realise exactly what was going on in-panel, and the story doesn't break any new ground.

Besides making everyone go to look up what 'onanistic' means, it does build on something mentioned in the first issue, which does make me wonder.

Trigger warning for incel bullshit.

Read more... )

TV Tuesday: Always With You

Sep. 15th, 2026 12:08 pm[personal profile] yourlibrarian posting in [community profile] tv_talk
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Laptop-TV combo with DVDs on top and smartphone on the desk



Quentin Tarantino called TV a forgettable medium compared to movies. At least one actor took offense: “Our shows, if I didn’t have the great fortune of being in them, really stick with me. I’m still thinking about Leftovers. I’m still thinking about Six Feet Under. The storytelling is what sticks with you.”

Does TV storytelling, and its memorability, differ from movies (in any way other than length)? Does it matter what kind of TV it is? Does familiarity play a role?

Call My Agent! The Film trailer

Sep. 15th, 2026 11:16 am[personal profile] jo posting in [community profile] tv_talk
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For fans of the original French series Call My Agent! (Dix pour cent) (Netflix) -- it's back! In the form of a film (also Netflix). Here's the trailer.




go eat worms

Sep. 15th, 2026 11:12 am[personal profile] gloss
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Unpopular fic meme from [personal profile] regshoe via [personal profile] trobadora.

Prompt: I think we should start sharing our most unpopular stuff. let’s see those fics that no one else cares about (but I do. I care about them). Share your top 3 fics with [least hits, comments, kudos, bookmarks]

There's a lot of repetition across those categories, so I'm condensing my answers. Also, several of the eligible fics were posted before AO3, so I omitted them.

Not for Nothing (Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)) (656 words) Hits: 6 Kudos: 0 Comment Threads: 0 Bookmarks: 0.
Llewyn is not visited by Mike's ghost.
My most neglected and unloved child. Like most of what I wrote for [community profile] taggle that got ignored by recipients, I'm actually pretty proud of what this tries to do.

Night Witches (Homestuck) (802 words) Hits: 402 Kudos: 21 Comment Threads: 0 Bookmarks: 4
They hate each other almost as much as they love to fly. (Historical, all-human AU)
Blackrom femslash Soviet aviation AU: it's my dream fic, I don't know what everyone else's problem is.

love is worth (Shitsurakuen | Paradise Lost) (622 words) Hits: 466 Kudos: 12 Comment Threads: 0 Bookmarks: 1

"Baby girl you've got to know what your love is worth."
Minor manga series that was sort of "what if Utena assembled her own harem?". I can't imagine why no one read this.

Wake Up, Warlock! (Saturday Night Live Sketches) (1,599 words) Hits: 17 Kudos: 1 Comment Threads: 2 Bookmarks: 1.
Sheldon's got a cruuuuuuuush. You don't know him, he goes to another school.
A crossover between two SNL sketches 20 years apart in which a cis actress plays a pubescent boy? It's a true mystery how this has gone unread. I reread this just now and it's good! I updated links to the sketches, too.

Men Who Love Too Much (Twitch City) (6,575 words). Hits: 36 Kudos: 1 Comment Threads: 3 Bookmarks: 2
Newbie suddenly can't get enough of the Nathan Show.
This was pre-AO3 but I really like it (and it didn't exactly change lives on LJ anyway).

Conclusions: Niche femslash and humourous anything are not going to be very interesting to others. ¯|(°_o)/¯

Cleaning day!

Sep. 15th, 2026 06:50 am[personal profile] susandennis
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The laundry is laundrying and the house cleaner will be here this afternoon. Clean clothes, clean house. It's my weekly reset and I love it.

I was able to work on my crochet sweater a good bit yesterday but this morning I felt it as soon as I kicked off for my first lap. Owie. Not horrible but clearly, there's an issue. I keep thinking that my arm should be able to handle more crochet the more I do but, apparently, my arm thinks differently. I think today will be a crochet vacation. Thank goodness for knitting.

I ordered two pairs of jeans last week and they arrived yesterday. One had a very weird fit - lots of fabric at my crotch. Not a good look. But the other pair... fit perfectly. The first time I ever remember buying a pair of jeans that needed absolutely no alteration. Not even hemming. Wild. And they feel good and look good. The jeans trifecta.

I have zero packages arriving today. I have a couple of returns but they can wait until tomorrow.

It now looks for sure like the Mariners are going to carry their search for rock bottom to the end of the season. It's now beyond pitiful and it's going to be a really uncomfortable last three weeks. Sigh. So sad.

The only other big news is that for the second day in a row all the newspapers were on the shelves. Timber Ridge Quirk. Joan and the Grams get the Times delivered every day. Bonny and Jim get both the Times and The Wall Street Journal and Jim Across The Hall Who Got Moved To Memory Care sometimes still gets the Times.

The papers are all delivered in a giant stack and security carts them around to the individual doors - usually before 5. Joan cannot bend down to get her's off the floor. And Bonny has issues. So does Jim. Bonny has asked security numerous times to please leave all papers on the shelves NOT on the floor. But, security has goldfish memory. Sometimes they remember, sometimes they do not. But mostly they remember some and not the others.

So... every morning on the way to the pool, I scoop up those papers on the floor and put them on the shelves. This has turned into a thing. They all ask 'was my paper on the floor this morning?' And tsk tsk if I tell them it was. Bonny says 'this is how we'll know you are dead. If my paper is on the floor, I know you are dead.' I also have sworn her to just leave well enough alone until after lunch in case I'm not totally dead yet and need more time to finish the job.

But, yesterday they were all on the shelves and today they were, too! And no paper for Jim Across The Hall. No idea why once a week or so they still have him on their list. It's a Times thing, not a Timber Ridge thing. I just toss his paper out.

Life in the 'home'.
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A logo with a golden shield with a flower motif on it and the words Commander Sealed below.

And now for something a little different, Duck Prints Press will be among the small number of vendors honored to vend at Commander Sealed, a charity Magic: The Gathering tournament hosted by Just Games in Rochester, New York! Held at the RIT Inn and Conference Center from September 18th to 20th, Commander Sealed raises money for the Trevor Foundation, and will feature vendors related to queer stuff and to Magic: The Gathering. It’s gonna be a good time and (as far as I know) it’s not too late to join us, if you’re into supporting queer causes and playing Magic!

Learn more about Commander Sealed!



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Greetings from Silver Spring! Yesterday was a lovely day, though there were a few hours in there that weren't so great. Around 1:30, I started feelling very queasy and headache-y, so I left work at 2:00 in the hopes that if I relaxed ad closed my eyes and took meds, I would be good for dinner and concert. It worked tolerably well, and at 3:59 on the dot, we headed out towards Silver Spring. We were meeting with [personal profile] coyotegestalt and [personal profile] weyrlady for dinner. We went to a great Tapas place that had really excellent food and even better company.

Then it was off to the Filmore to see Danny Elfman. For a 73 year old, he definitely can bang it out. He played some new stuff-not to my taste, but still had a really good beat. And of course, he played some Oingo Boingo, which was awesome. I was sad that it was only 90min, but that's okay.

Then, back to the hotel for a not-terrible nights sleep.

ETA, after a long drive, we are back home.

This morning, we went to the restaurant in the lobby for an absolutely horrible buffet. I object to paying $20/pp. It sucked hardcore.

After that, we took the long way home and arrived about 9:15. My sister hadn't taken the chain off, so we stood in the hallway with the dog barking for five minutes, but eventually we got in and settled. I'm going to work a half day, which shouldn't be bad.

We have a fairly full week. Tomorrow, doggo gets groomed. Thursday, nothing, Friday, I have the managers dinner which should be fun. Then a game on Saturday, and maybe a trip to our local Greek festival for some tasty foods on Sunday.

The weekend after that, we have the mooncake festival, and then fall will begin in earnest! It's almost spooky season!

Okay, time for me to hop off and see what's in the fridge that I can eat. The hotel breakfast may have soured me on eggs forever. Everyone have a fabulous Tuesday!

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