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Drawtober 2025 Prompt 29. Bell
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drawesomeleecetheartistDiamine's Sugar Snap ink, with the bell using Pelikan's Golden Lapis. Touches of another ink which I don't know what it was.
Reading Wednesday
Oct. 29th, 2025 06:50 amsabotabbyCurrently reading: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang. It's time, fuckos! I've had a hold on this one since I read a bad review of it. I have heard that Kuang often doesn't land her endings, which I hope is not the case, because this has one of the best openings I've come across in a good long time. It begins with Alice Law, a postgrad in linguistic magick, preparing a chalk circle to go to Hell to retrieve the soul of her recently dead advisor, Professor Grimes, because he's on her dissertation committee and is her only chance to get tenure. The cost for going to Hell and returning is half your remaining lifespan, but Alice is more than willing to pay that in exchange for having a stable job, making her possibly the most relatable character in genre fiction. Her plans are interrupted by Peter, her hated academic rival and the department's golden boy, who insists on coming with her even though his prospects for career advancement are much better than hers.
Anyway this is completely hilarious and painful and only an inconvenient need to work and sleep is keeping me from it at the moment.
Wednesday Reading
Oct. 29th, 2025 06:53 amseleneheart- Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig. Loved this one! Second (and last) book in The Shepherd King duology. Perfect autumn read as both books take place between the autumn equinox and winter solstice. Fantasy.
2. What are you currently reading?
- Empire of Grass by Tad Williams. This will be in this category for a while, it's over 1000 pages long.
- The Wild Huntress by Emily Lloyd-Jones. As I type out her last name, I realize why her book is set where it is, which is a fantasy version of medieval Wales.
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore. I'm reserving judgment.
3. What will you be reading next?
Hard to say. I do have a list of 'Want to Read' books that I'm working through. But I could potentially finish up the last Lily Adler mystery. I also have hard copies of The Spellshop and Six of Crows sitting on my shelf. Lots of possibilities!
WINNING AT LIBRARY-ING
Oct. 29th, 2025 06:35 ammarcicatWaaaay back in August (August 5th, to be exact), after I'd finished listening to Freya Marske's 'Marvelous Light' series, I saw another Freya Marske book was (sort of) available on my best app friend, Libby the library app. I could put it on hold, but had an estimated 24 week wait time.
So I thought to myself 'will I still care about this book in six months?' And the answer was 'maybe,' and I enjoy watching my hold list even when I don't end up reading the books (it's a thing, idk). So on hold it went!
And now the book is mine! (For 14 days, then I need to give it back.) After a mere 12 weeks! A true victory, winning at library-ing, etc, etc. HECK YEAH, LIBBY THE LIBRARY APP!
Almost 30 Cat Memes for Almost-30 People on Their Trajectory of Becoming Crazy Cat Ladies
Oct. 29th, 2025 09:00 amicanhascheezburger_feedHello, dedicated cat devotees on their trajectory… that slow, inevitable slide into becoming what society lovingly calls a Crazy Cat Lady. Don't worry, though, this is a gender-neutral title. Crazy Cat Gentlemen, Crazy Cat Enbies - you're all welcome in this mad house. It starts so innocently, doesn't it? You get one cat. Just one. Maybe two, because they need company. Then you start taking pictures of them in funny poses. Then, before you know it, your phone storage is 97% cat content, your camera roll is a shrine to your feline overlords, and your friends send you cat memes because they know. You've been marked.
But honestly? It's not even a bad thing. You could say it's the natural evolution of adulthood - some people collect plants, others collect vinyls, and we? We collect cat memes. And cats. And then even more cat memes about the cats we already have.
So, if you've ever said, "I'm not a crazy cat person, I just really like cats", while wearing socks with little paw prints and showing your friend a photo album named "Meowsters", this list is for you. These almost 30 cat memes are here to guide you further down the path - from "cat enthusiast" to "purroud unhinged feline archivist". Embrace it. You're not losing your mind - you're just gaining more cats. And cat memes.
A Cute Concoction of Wholesome Feline Posts That Are Like Comical Catnip for Cat Lovers
Oct. 29th, 2025 08:00 amicanhascheezburger_feedWhat is the hooman equivalent of catnip, feline fam? We think that answer differs for each purrson, but for us, we can safely say that our catnip is wholesome and hissterical cat posts. Just like our fluffy felines and their green leaves, we can't get enough of them. If you leave us alone, we could spend the whole day browsing and scrolling through the endless supply of silly cattos on the internet. They make us aww, they make us laugh, and they make us feel closer to our cute kitties at home. This is because cats are the best thing to ever walk this Earth.
Some days we need a hit of the good stuff more than others, but today, we pawsitively need a carefully curated concoction of all things cute and cat. If you're here, reading this, you probably do as well. Maybe you're escaping from your worries, putting off a work assignment, or simply scrolling because you love it… we don't judge. -We accept your love of these wholesome darlings we call cats and even want to encourage you to imbibe in more funny felines, floofy kittens, and anything else your feline-shaped heart desires.
Now, we should warn you that everything is okay in meowderation. Too many cute cats (is there such a thing?) and you might start to lose your passion for the feline species, so make sure to take breaks to give your own cat some love before binging some more. The time has come - let the scrolling begin!
icanhascheezburger_feedYou know what is unfair? The fact that we are here, have been here, waiting to be chosen by the cat distribution system again for so many years, and it has not happened to us. We have been waiting and praying and hoping, but no. All the cats seem to be going to the people who don't want cats. And that's just… the most cat thing that the cat distribution system could ever do. So, we suppose that we cannot be mad about it.
And still, it seems to be true. Cats choose people who hate cats all the time, and they choose people who don't want cats like- literally all the time. This person who "didn't even want a cat" got chosen by the system not once, not twice, not even three times, but five. Five whole times, this person got chosen by cats, and yes, we are so very jealous of them, and also so very happy that there are five kitties out there who are living in such a good and loving home.
Diverging Media Worlds
Oct. 29th, 2025 02:33 amheron61Now I have a similar problem, because my mom watches NBC, ABC news, or CNN and reads the Washington Post, and I don’t and instead get my news from Bluesky, What the Fuck Just Happened Today? (which is awesome), Daily Kos, and similar lefty sources. Recently I discovered my mom hadn’t heart of the costumed protests (starting with frog guy) in Portland, hadn’t heard of any but the largest No Kings protests, and most concerningly had no idea who JB Pritzker (the governor of Illinois, and by far the most credible 2028 presidential candidate on our side) was or how he'd been standing up to 47, and she also hadn’t heard or seen anything about 47’s increasingly obvious mental decline (like the recent video of the Japanese PM leading him around, which reminded me astonishingly much of how my mom used to lead my dad around while he was still mobile (he died of Alzheimer’s). OTOH, she has heard of Gavin Newsom and has also heard news reports that he is (gag) the only possible Democratic candidate in 2028). That’s what you get when billionaires own all large-scale media in the US, because billionaires almost universally support authoritarians.
new intro !!
Oct. 29th, 2025 04:38 amcharmmypaws posting in addme_fandomage group: 30's
country: usa.
subscription / access policy: i don't accept people into my circle or whatever you call it... until i get to know you and trust you. plus, i won't always be active on this site so lol
fannish interests: icons, writing / roleplaying , editing graphics.
i like to post about: on this account, i just say whatever strikes my fancy lol. or just me venting.
about me: i'm somewhat new to dreamwidth as i came from tumblr. i used to rp on there and lost interest on there. it overwhelmed too much for me. so im trying to get used to here. so yeah, i have a few rp accounts in case anyone is interested lol. but on this account, i'll just post personal stuff.
other hobbies: coloring books, collecting stickers and anime stuff, plushies, watching letsplays on youtube. i do game but not much due to my health. napping is nice too.
i'm looking for people who are: nice, kind, and trustworthy. not those who back stab me. as you can tell i don't have many friends. whether irl or online. just to mention, i'm not exactly too nice. i'm blunt and tell how it is. i'm not all that social so.. yeah.
journal info: minors dni as i will be venting. like a lot as i suffer from mental and physical health issues.
cuteoverload_feedYo, pet-squad!
Remember last week when my cat stepped on the remote and somehow landed on a horror flick? Little dude watched the whole thing without blinking – guess he’s into jump-scares more than laser pointers. Anyway, while I was hunting for something calmer (for me, not for Mr. Nightmare-Paws), I bumped into the news: Coflix packed its chew-toys and moved to a brand-new doghouse. New address, same stash of movies, zero fleas.
So, what’s the fresh turf? Type yhawards.com in your browser bar and boom – Coflix opens like a cardboard box on moving day. No VPN leash needed, no “create an account or we’ll shave your golden retriever” pop-ups. Just click, pick, play. Perfect background noise when you’re trimming your corgi’s toe-floof or trying to convince your parrot that “Polly wants a rom-com, not another cracker.”
(Quick promo break – because even hamsters deserve spoiler-free downtime: Coflix @ yhawards.com streams everything from Disney tail-waggers to R-rated cat-ninja revenge flicks. All free, all HD, all day. Bookmark it before your goldfish forgets.)
Pro tip: open the site on your tablet, hit the paw-print icon in the corner, and the player flips to “pet mode.” Basically, the screen dims so your hedgehog can snooze beside you and you still see every sparkle of Ryan Reynolds’ sarcasm. My bearded dragon legit nodded approval—either that or he was just warming up under the heat lamp, but I’m taking it.
Bottom line: next time your pupper does the “I’m bored” head-tilt, don’t fetch another tennis ball. Fetch lhcm.fr instead. Grab popcorn (kibble for the audience), hit play, and let the fur-family binge. Just keep the remote away from cats—they’ve got dark taste.
(reading) dalemark quartet
Oct. 29th, 2025 02:19 ampassingbuzzardsPart 2 (of 3, now, felt like it made sense to break off this batch of DWJs into their own thing) of notes on recent books:
Cart and Cwidder, Diana Wynne Jones
Liked Moril’s reaction to his own actions at the end of this, and the way he realizes/absorbs pieces of what was going on with Clennen and Lenina (both separately and together) that he’d never noticed prior to ( spoilers )
Drowned Ammet, Diana Wynne Jones
DWJ writes sailing so clearly and coherently that I am now of course dying to know if she did sail! Her descriptions of how the tiller and boom/sail affect the motion and stability of the boat + how the boat responds to things like currents, shallows, turns, big waves feel very real; there’s a big section of the book where the protagonist kids run away aboard a small racing sailboat and eventually get caught in a storm, and the environment in that part is such an integral part of the storytelling, I can’t imagine pulling that off if you don’t personally know how a small sailboat handles/feels in the water. Really enjoyed reading that, it’s never boring and (obviously, since this is a children’s book) not over-the-top technical like you get with Patrick “need to consult a martime glossary just to make sense of what’s happening in this paragraph” O’Brian, lol.
The Spellcoats, Diana Wynne Jones
I was NOT expecting this to be as good as it turned out to be, wow, this honestly might be one of her best. Absolutely genius use of the first person and in-universe language, loved the narrator’s very unique voice (and the way it was very clearly In Translation!) and the whole concept of the story being told through the spellcoats (the temporal arrangement of the events vs. the storytelling! the narrator looking back at her own narrative to figure out what she’s doing! the specific way in which she narrated an event turning out to be salient to the story!! the fact that she explicitly tells us she’s leaving out lots of dialogue!). Amazing execution, terrific ending and in-universe postscript, DWJ really knocked it out of the park with this one. A narrative confection.
The Crown of Dalemark, Diana Wynne Jones
I had a ton of fun reading this, I love everyone in this bar (Navis!!! Maewen and Moril and Mitt and Kialan! everybody is so good, so many of their interactions are so good), but definitely felt like the plot got away from DWJ towards the end; ( spoilers and also me screaming because [redacted]’s plot thread is somehow the SINGLE SADDEST THING DWJ HAS EVER WRITTEN, oh my god??? )
To be continued
Oct. 29th, 2025 12:14 amladyjaxFrom Politico: The Pitchforks are Coming...For Us by Nick Hanauer
"If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us. No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when".
And I'm sorry that I forgot that binders don't go in the dryer
Oct. 29th, 2025 01:55 amsovayCritical Role: Campaign 4, Episode 4
Oct. 29th, 2025 01:16 amsettiaiAs with previous posts, it's a combination of quotes, random thoughts, and some speculation. And it's obviously full of spoilers (albeit vague ones in places).
( Spoilers under the cut. )
Complicated feelings? Check. But I at least made it through the episode.
Cardigan nights
Oct. 28th, 2025 06:05 pmradiantfractureLike a fool who thinks it's 2015, I ordered clothing online from the United States and have been fretting about it ever since. All shipping interfaces were as incoherent as you might expect.
But Blamo was having a deep-discount flash sale and I have been drooling over this non-species-specific sock-animal onesie for... a long time.
Sadly, that magnificent garment was not on sale and incidentally profoundly impractical. So I ordered this Completely Normal Cardigan(tm) instead:
... it happens to have this hood:
(Not sure why the resolution is so crap here.)
There did end up being tariff charges, but not that bad.
I... feel more whole as a person.
§rf§
PS I swear it did not have to be a rabbit.
the first who ever did (Roswell, New Mexico)
Oct. 28th, 2025 07:32 pmpolyrecsdaily_feedthe first who ever did, by nostaljinks. Nestra: I would read many more than five versions of Michael saving Alex in some way.
Daily Happiness
Oct. 28th, 2025 07:41 pmtorachan2. I brought home sushi from work for dinner and it was very tasty. There's a seared salmon sushi that all our stores carry and Carla often gets from the location nearest us, but that location doesn't have an in-store kitchen and gets all their packaged food delivered. But the Gardena location makes it in-house and theirs tastes so much better (at least in my opinion; Carla didn't notice that much of a difference). They go heavy with the blowtorch to sear them and you can really taste the grill flavor.
3. So far this week's heatwave has not been as bad as predicted. Hopefully that holds true for the rest of the week! (It's supposed to be back to cool weather this weekend.)
4. Gemma has perfected the disapproving look.
22 Hilarious Memes of Cats Craving a Second Cup of Catfeine to Fuel Up Their Nine Lives
Oct. 28th, 2025 05:00 pmicanhascheezburger_feedSome mornings just hit harder than others, even for the most purrfessional felines. You know the look. Half-open eyes, crooked whiskers, and that slow tail flick that says they're not quite ready to function. One sip of catpuccino clearly isn't enough, and these sleepy kitties are reaching for their second cup to chase away the early morning fog.
Between the yawns, the bleps, and the "don't talk to me yet" stares, these cats perfectly capture the struggle of waking up before you're ready. Maybe it's the 5 a.m. zoomies catching up to them, or maybe they stayed up all night guarding the hallway from imaginary intruders. Either way, they're feeling the effects of too few naps and too much responsibility.
Still, even with sleepy eyes and heavy paws, they're icons of purrseverance. A good stretch, a warm drink, and a quiet corner are all they need to recharge. After all, no one does rest and recovery better than a cat. They just need that second cup to get there.