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I didn’t have mom duty until 10am, so I went downtown as usual. I hit Walmart, the Bakery, and Agway while I was there, and got in a walk around the park.

After I got home from downtown I tossed a load of what I call ‘dog sheets’ (the sheets I use to cover the furniture) into the washer, hand-washed some dishes, took the dogs for a short walk (I got in .85 mi today, which is good considering mom’s operation/hospitalization etc has really put a crimp in my ‘I can get to a mile this week’ *spoken in mocking tone* notion), and scooped kitty litter before I headed to mom’s.

I got home in time to make supper, so grilled chicken legs, hand-washed more dishes, dried the sheets, and took a shower.

I watched the current ep of Murderbot and finished the Amelia Peabody book. I also saw my first fawn! Sadly, it wasn’t one of ~our fawns, but a downtown fawn. (I’m always surprised how many deer live downtown! I see them crossing the road or people’s lawns all the time.) Mama and baby were crossing the road as I was heading home (and made it safely, even though baby was taking its sweet time). Baby was so tiny and adorable! All those spots!

Temps started out at 51.1(F) (what is with these cool temps?!!) and reached 91.0. In the shade.


Mom Update:

Mom was tired today. Expandmore back here )
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Fandom: DC Universe; Sandman
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Morpheus, Alan Scott, Tomar-Re, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, OCs by the billions (including Reader?)
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 297
Content Notes: Nothing icky happens, but the story references Neil Gaiman’s Endless mythos;(1) dream transcript.
Creator Links: (Website): https://leighwoosey.co.uk/; (Instagram) [instagram.com profile] leighwoosey; (LiveJournal) [livejournal.com profile] woogledesigns; (Twitter) [twitter.com profile] Leighwoosey

Theme: Working Together, Action/Adventure, Gen, Just Plain Fun, Non-AO3 Fics

Summary: One for Sandman fans: I had a dream of Morpheus, who saw an invasion of earth that would go through the dreaming to reach target. Morpheus, who foresaw the plan even as it was being dreamt up by the aliens, was obligated to mount a defense. He recruited two sleeping Green Lanterns, one of Alan Scott of Earth and one Tomar-Re.

Author’s Notes: People are always telling me to keep a dream diary, this is a concession.

Reccer's Notes: Raw dream content notoriously tends to be some-assembly-required narrative material, but in a 29 August 2010 LiveJournal post(2), Woosey described this downright jackpot he received from Dreamland: a cool premise complete with plot, grand spectacle, a firm grounding in the canon lore (note the smooth incorporation of the various Elseworlds Batman scenarios), implicit invitation to the audience (what would you have been doing during the Big Event?) and a clear if haunting resolution. The title is my own [livejournal.com profile] metaquotes header.

Fanwork Links: We could be heroes, just for one night, by Leigh Woosey.

(1) Note that some commenters envisioned Morpheus from The Matrix.

(2) The entry has since been deleted; archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170821194033/https://woogledesigns.livejournal.com/69811.html

Small successes and mixed-up veggies

Jul. 6th, 2025 01:33 pm
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[personal profile] mific
I'm very much in winter mode here as although some days are sunny, it's cold, and a lot of days are very wet. So not going outside much and not doing gardening, which I don't feel great about. I seem a bit beset by inertia in terms of things physical, possibly a mid-winter slump, but I'm doing indoors things just fine - well, the things I like doing, anyway. Not cleaning or organising! I do tidy up once a week before Fionna comes to vacuum, and occasionally the dishes get washed, but that's about it.

I've started another longer podfic - this one for the due South Big Bang. Am also continuing to add lots of new podfics to the Audiofic Archive (we got inundated by >600 short ones from a recent Voiceteam challenge). And I finished a personal project with the Audiofic Archive of adding streaming links to all the SGA podfics there so they can be enjoyed easily with no need to download zip files. That's 138 pages of SGA podfics! - and increasing each week, as we make more. Next fandom to complete is due South.

In the process I stumbled on Lim's old Fanvid page on Wayback, and the vid downloads still worked. Lim made avant garde vids with lots of altered graphics. Some are on AO3 but a lot of the SGA ones aren't. The Wayback page is here (with additional info and credits), and I downloaded the SGA ones and converted them to mp4 format here. CW for flashing, fast cuts, loud music in some of them. One, Mission Report, (lyrics) is a multimedia podvid where Lim created the lyrics, music, and vid, and sang it for the SGA flashfic comm.

In "first world problem" news, a grocery mix-up. My online delivery packer needs help with alliums! Ordered a bunch of spring (green) onions:
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And got a giant leek. Size matters! (in terms of making salads, anyway)

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Finally, I saw this amazing poem on tumblr, apparently written by nine-for-a-kiss as a teenager. It's very Dark-is-Rising-ish.

Returning pinch hit, likely delay.

Jul. 5th, 2025 10:14 pm
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Post-Post-Deadline Pinch Hit :(

Unfortunately, one of our pinch hits remains unfilled, so we are facing a likely delay. Currently, the collection is set to reveal tomorrow, July 6th, at 10PM EDT. If someone can post a gift for Karios by 5PM EDT on July 6th, we will open as planned. If not, we will announce a delay.

You do not need to comment here claiming this pinch hit. You can just post!

Details about pinch hitting requirements here, if you need a refresher.

Pinch hit minimums

AAT is a little weird, so here's a quick rundown of the requirements for filling a pinch hit:

  • Post 500 words (or equivalent) in gift(s). You can find information about wordcount equivalents here.
  • There is no minimum gift length as long as a pinch hit receives 500 words total, but you probably shouldn't fill a pinch hit with 10 color palettes unless your recipient directly enthuses about receiving such a wealth of palettes.
  • Works must match one fandom, one character-slot medium, and one relationship-slot tag from the same request.
  • Freeform tags count as optional details in this event.
  • You may create multimedia works in requested mediums, for example an illustrated fic for someone who's requested both fic and fanart.
  • AAT has no anonymous period and you are not expected to maintain anonymity even while creating. If you have a question for your recip and know how to contact them, you're welcome to do so directly. If you don't know how to contact them, you can email us at auctionsasthreatened@gmail.com

How to pick up a pinch hit

Reply to this Dreamwidth post (no account required) with the following information:

  • The AO3 username you will be posting your gift(s) from.
  • Which pinch hit you would like to fill
  • Your email

We aren't using AO3 assignments for this event. If you comment on this post anonymously, we'll email you to let you know if you did or didn't get the assignment (because even though anonymity isn't required, we're still screening the comments on this post). Even logged in pinch hitters need to provide an email, though, so that we can contact you if need be later.

Pinch hit

Username Fandoms Mediums App link
Karios Crossover Fandom, New Amsterdam (TV 2018), So Help Me Todd (TV), The Equalizer (TV 2021), The Terminal (2004) Fic, Comic, Art, Epistolary/Journal, In-Universe Document, In-Universe Social Media/Internet, In-Universe Art, Interactive Fiction, Clue &/ Logic Puzzle Request Info

Ask me to write you something!

Jul. 5th, 2025 07:55 pm
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I am having a difficult brainweasel day, and would like to counteract that by making you some words. I am feeling poetic, with a side-order of "Drabbles are nice," so:

Comment with: Drabble or Poetry, Fandom(s) from the list of things I know, Character[/Character/etc.], Prompt (if any).

Feel free to publicize this.

Pinch Hits: 5, 7, 11, 14, 21, 25-27

Jul. 5th, 2025 07:59 pm
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2025 Collection | Modmail: TavinaFanfiction@gmail.com

Pinch hits are assignments in search of a creator! We have 8 pinch hits that are due on , August 9th, 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Check the rules post for information on work minimums and requirements. Fic must be at least 1000 words and must be focused on explicit noncon. Art must be clean line art on non-lined paper and must feature NSFW noncon. All works must be wholly original and created for this exchange.

In order to pick up a pinch hit either email the modmail or comment on this post (all comments on this post are screened) with:

  • The number and or username of the pinch hit you would like to pick up
  • Your ao3 username
  • An email where I can reach you

ExpandPH 5 - 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021), 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021), 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021), 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Shí Miàn Mái Fú | House of Flying Daggers (2004), 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021) )

ExpandPH 7 - Fairy Tail, 崩坏:星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin )

ExpandPH 11 - Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games), Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Elder Scrolls Online, 哀しみのベラドンナ | Kanashimi no Belladonna | Belladonna of Sadness (1973) )

ExpandPH 14 - Psychic Force, Fatal Fury, SaGa Frontier (Video Game), Chrono Trigger, 悪魔城ドラキュラ 暁月の円舞曲 と 蒼月の十字架 | Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow & Dawn of Sorrow )

ExpandPH 21 - DCU, Would You Rather (2012), Smile (Movies - Finn), The Mick (TV), Titans (TV 2018), Desperate Housewives, Pretty Little Liars (TV 2010), Pitch Perfect (Movies) )

ExpandPH 25 - Top Gun (Movies), Madam Secretary, Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Mission: Impossible (Movies), Star Trek: The Original Series )

ExpandPH 26 - A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Original M/F, Original M/F, Original M/F, Original F/F, Original M/F, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Original M/F )

ExpandPH 27 - Original Other or Multi, Original Other or Multi, Original M/M, Original M/M, Original F/F, Original F/F, Original F/F, The Wheel of Time (TV), Crossover Fandom )

第四年第一百七十七天

Jul. 5th, 2025 06:48 pm
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部首
十 part 4
卓, outstanding; 单, single/list; 卖, to sell Expandpinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=24

词汇
往往, often; 交往, to affiliate; 前往, to go to/proceed Expandpinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
你是怀疑小郭会在里面出卖老楚, are you suspecting Xiao Guo will sell out Lao Chu in there?
历史往往都是成王败寇, history is often written by the winners

Me:
你的工作表现真卓越的。
我们公司往往跟她的公司合作。

July 5th

Jul. 5th, 2025 06:03 pm
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It's Quock Walker day (also known as MA emancipation day). The celebration in Lexington Center included performances by a group called Rhythms of Ghana. I can't find them online. I took a 10 second video but haven't transferred it from my phone. They had a LOT of drums. My janggu (I ordered the next size up from the kid one) is still in California but will supposedly be delivered by FEDEX by the end of the day on Wednesday, whatever that means. I am not sure I've ever had a FEDEX delivery work right, but that might be a slight exaggeration. I certainly don't need to buy a bunch of drums from Ghana as well, but they did fling a craving on me. I didn't buy Caribbean food from the nearby food truck, but did make collards with beans when I got home, inspired by what I saw on a friend's plate. (um, takeout container)

It is the anniversary of Frederick Douglass's famous speech "What to a slave is the 4th of July," delivered for NPR in 2020 by his descendants
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/884832594/video-frederick-douglass-descendants-read-his-fourth-of-july-speech

It is the 50th anniversary of Arthur Ashe being the first Black man to win a singles title at Wimbledon.
(thanks, Billie Jean King on twitter). I remember a headline at some point earlier than that (when I would still have been getting My Weekly Reader in school) that said "Arthur Ashe, the tennis smash." I was impressed by the rhyme at the time.

Sunshine Revival Challenge #2

Jul. 5th, 2025 04:06 pm
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[community profile] sunshine_revival's next challenge is:
Tunnel of Love
Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.
Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like.

This is a topic I've been thinking about a lot lately. As an aro-ace person growing up in a time before we really had labels for those things (and, frankly, even now when some people still just don't get it), I've had a lot of experiences of being told that the way I loved people was wrong or not good enough. I'm... well, I was about to say I'm lucky to have people in my life now who don't see my love as lesser because it isn't romantic and never will be, and that is true, but also I have worked damn hard to accept myself as I am and to put energy into relationships with people who get me. So it's part luck, part skill. :P

I recently got a formal diagnosis of being on the autism spectrum. (I promise this relates.) This was something I had suspected for a long time, but having it confirmed has led me to take stock of a lot of past experiences and shine a different light on them. I've always had intense "special interests," but early on in life I learned to downplay them because of other people's disapproval. I think I am a much more... passionate person than others might suspect? I've only been able to let it show a little in fannish spaces where it's more accepted to fall in love with a fandom, or become infatuated with a character, or be swept off your feet by a storyline. Those aren't metaphors, it's really what it feels like, and I feel that way about a lot of things!

When I was a kid one of my special interests was ancient Egypt. I remember flipping through history books and feeling a physical level of joy and contentment as I pored over photos of pyramids and papyri, because I just loved loved loved what I was seeing so much. When the prompt asks about what gets my heart pumping, I think of things like that. But I learned to hide that part of myself because people didn't get it. I want to work on changing this. I know that kind of love is still there and I can still tap into it, and I want a future for myself where I'm proud that it's a part of me. That feels far away right now, but there was also a time when being proud of being aro-ace also felt very far away, so I think there's cause for hope.

2522 / Fic - The Pitt

Jul. 5th, 2025 02:46 pm
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Jobsworth
The Pitt | Gen | ~1000 words | Written for the [tumblr.com profile] au-roulette challenge, for the prompt "dystopian." Thanks to [personal profile] sheafrotherdon for betaing.

(Also on AO3)

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Prediction: in 15 years, nobody under the age of 20 will see why this was supposed to be funny.


Today's News:

The Old Guard 2

Jul. 5th, 2025 05:28 pm
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The Old Guard 2 was awesome, but Netflix'd better greenlight a third movie right freaking now. I'm reading the comics, but that doesn't help with the cliffhanger because the plot of the movies is different.

The first film was already full of hot people, and they went and added Henry Golding and Uma Thurman to the cast. ^^

There's major m/m, as well as subtext f/f (canon f/f in the comics).

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