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oriolegirl ([personal profile] oriolegirl) wrote2025-09-07 01:03 pm

Weekends should be longer

So, perhaps getting the flu shot and the covid shot so close together wasn't the best idea? I've only ever had them months apart. I don't feel terrible but I also don't feel great. Malaise and fatigue, not congestion and coughing, thank goodness. I didn't set an alarm yesterday, though I did cardio when I finally got up, and I set it for late this morning but there will be no cardio today. I do have to go out later, so I'll turn that into a long walk on the way home.

Friday evening, I got a terrible pain in my right side. I was pretty convinced there was something wrong and I threw together a bag and walked over to the hospital, only to get there and feel fine. After talking to [personal profile] lurksnomore for a few minutes, I turned around and walked home. I'm usually not so convinced immediately and I do wait, but this was a very new and terrible pain. It has, thankfully, not recurred but it was definitely worrying. I'll add it to the list I've got for when I see my doctor next month. Yes, I keep a list. It's a post-it on my calendar for easy adding on to. I'll organize everything and put it into my doctors notebook before I see her. And she's prepared for it! The first time I saw her again after I started full-time at the esteemed!institution for the second time, I came with a post-it. Her response was, ok what's first? I do like my doctor.

Ok, now I need to find some food. I'm meeting conference!roomie on Zoom and then I'll have to find going outside clothes as I'm getting my haircut and then going to a PokemonGO trading meetup.
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escapade_team ([personal profile] escapade_team) wrote in [community profile] escapade_con2025-09-07 10:17 am
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In-Person Escapade 36 Registration and Hotel info is live!

Hey Escapaders!
 
We’re now just six months out from the next in-person Escapade, and I know many of you have been excited to book your hotel and register for the convention. The wait is over!
 
To register for the convention:
2. After making your payment, you should be taken to a page to enter your badge name and other information. If you aren’t, try going to https://escapadecon.net/escapade-36-registration-in-person/ and filling out the form there.
That’s it!
 
If you’ve already registered for the convention, you should be in our system. Unfortunately, you can’t easily pull up the information from the form you submitted (this is something we are working on fixing) but if you want to re-submit your information, you can go to https://escapadecon.net/update-your-registration-info/. 
 
To book your hotel room:
2. Click “Book a Room”.
3 .At the top of the page it takes you to, select the dates you want. It will default to a six night stay, so it’s important to change this to the actual dates you want! Make sure you also choose the right number of guests for your room.
4. Choose the room type you want, enter your information, and you’re all set! 
 
Remember, if you book with our link, you get many benefits, including discounted parking ($20 per night versus $60 per night!), a refund of the mandatory $12.92 per night tax, and a reduced deposit (capped at $250 for the whole stay). Plus, you support Escapade! If you have any trouble using the link above, please let us know ASAP.
 
Pro Tip:
 
It’s recommended to come in on or before Thursday night and leave no earlier than Sunday if you want to experience the full convention. We might have some fun activities for early birds who get there on Tuesday or Wednesday, too! And of course, if you want to stay for the Tired Puppy Pile party, you may want to wait until Monday to head out…
 
We’re so excited to see you there!
-glymr
Escapade Director’s Chair
 
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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2025-09-07 01:15 pm

[ SECRET POST #6820 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6820 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.


More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 49 secrets from Secret Submission Post #974.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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mrs_sweetpeach ([personal profile] mrs_sweetpeach) wrote2025-09-07 12:52 pm
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mrs_sweetpeach ([personal profile] mrs_sweetpeach) wrote2025-09-07 12:46 pm
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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-07 05:23 pm

Richard Dragon: Kung Fu Fighter #16

Writer: Dennis O’Neil

Pencils and inks: Ric Estrada


Richard Dragon must thwart the plans of a madman with a silly hat.


Read more... )

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fueschgast ([personal profile] fueschgast) wrote2025-09-07 06:17 pm

That TV Meme

2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024
January | February | March | April | May | June | July


Watched 0 episodes this month, so we're still at 84 this year so far. I was so sure that August would be the month I'd finally start my Battlestar Galactica rewatch, but I got derailed pretty early when I discovered new (at least to me, mostly) music and spent the whole month obsessing about MCR (and I'm still not done).
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silvercat17 ([personal profile] silvercat17) wrote in [community profile] rainbowlounge2025-09-07 09:03 am
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Questions & Suggestions September & August

(I keep forgetting to do these, so feel free to poke me via DM or on the discord. You can also keep posting to the most recent one.

This is the place for any questions or suggestions you have for [community profile] rainbowfic , [community profile] rainbowlists , and [community profile] rainbowlounge . This includes 'how does this work?', 'does this supply or style count for this?' and 'what are the limits on this?'

There are a good amount of things that have fuzzy limits or definitions and that's okay. You're allowed to use your judgement of how to use a list, supply, style, etc. But I also want to acknowledge that not everyone is comfortable with ambiguity and that some people need more concrete answers. So this is where to get those (and then it'll be added to the appropriate page). But there are no tag/prompt/writing police here

Anyone can answer (please, if you've been here longer, jump in and help). Please take time to check what the different [community profile] rainbowlists pages say because they might have the answer, but don't be afraid to ask something that seems obvious: it may be that I need to clarify a description or q&a. Checking the tags on [community profile] rainbowfic to see how something has been used is also a good way to get answers, or at least precedent.

I'll be using these as a resource to find things that need to be added or improved in the q&as on Rainbowlist
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Huxleyenne ([personal profile] huxleyenne) wrote in [community profile] addme2025-09-07 10:32 am

Huxleyenne's Theme Hits

Name: Risa

Age: 36

I mostly post about: I ramble briefly about writing, wrestling, people, whatever I'm feeling. I try to save my most crude and raunchy language/ideas for the fanfiction that I write. As a person who's been on the Internet long enough to know what it's like to run a Geocities site, I've seen... oh god. I've seen things. We've all seen things we cannot unsee. Sometimes I can be a little sardonic and grumpy about it, but I have a sense of humor. I'd always rather laugh, even when I'm crying. Not in a toxic positivity sort of way, but more in a way that I don't burden people with too much emotional baggage.

My hobbies are: Writing fanfiction, reading books and wrestling fic, watching emotionally damaged pretty people in tights get into stage fights, cooking and baking, and walking/jogging/hiking as my antidepressant (I've lost 95lbs. I am a weight loss advocate, but I'm neither fatphobic, nor do I view weight loss in an of itself as fatphobic. Let's respect each other, OK?) I'm not nearly the gamer I used to be, but I have dabbled enough in JRPGs, D&D, and Magic the Gathering that we can have conversations about all of these things.

My fandoms are: World Wrestling Entertainment (the superstars, particularly Dusty's kids f*ck the company, though!), South Park, Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Final Fantasy (in general, but 9 and 8 are overwhelmingly my faves) Stardew Valley, and gosh. Take me back to 90s/early 2000s Nicktoons and anime all day.

I'm looking to meet people who: I'm looking for chill friends who do their own thing, but take the time to say hello every now and then. I will try to do the same. I've been showing up to DW every day since I registered, so I dare say I'll be around. The only other social media site I use is Tumblr, and I don't do much there other than like and occasionally reblog wrestling stuff. AO3 is the site I'm most active on. I go where the fic goes.

My posting schedule tends to be: I'm aiming to update 3-4 times a week about any thoughts relevant to writing, but I won't force it. If I got nothing to say, then that's that. IRL, my life is super boring. I work. I exist. Not much to say about that. Carving out a little writer life on the Internet is my excitement.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: People under 18 is a hard no. MAGA is a harder no. If you are an existential threat to my people in the LGBT community, I don't respect that and never will. I will fight this prejudice until my dying breath, including any random internalized sexism/queerphobia that may still linger inside of me.

Before adding me, you should know: I'm just a writer, guys. The current flavor is kinky wrestling yaoi, which you can read on AO3 if you're interested. Other than that, I'm cobbling together a collection of original work. My favorite DW community is [community profile] fic_promptly, and I plan on posting a lot of fills. I'm still getting used to being back on DW. Apologies if I'm not always consistent.
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killabeez ([personal profile] killabeez) wrote in [community profile] hlh_shortcuts2025-09-07 09:09 am
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2025 Beta Readers Wanted/Available

@hlh_shortcuts participants, we strongly encourage the use of a betareader for your finished exchange stories! Because while "No Beta We Die Like The Kurgan" sure is a choice for a tag, is it a choice you want to make? (Maybe you do?)
 
If you do not, and you need a betareader, please post "Beta Wanted" requests.
 
Do you want to offer betareading? This is also the place to post your offers. "Beta Available" is the subject line.
 
**If you are a betareader:** Please post what you are able to beta, for example, SPAG (spelling and grammar), pacing, characterization, plot, historical costuming details and/or general historical accuracy, fight scenes of various types, swordwork, crossover fandoms, or anything else not noted above. Include contact info!
 
**If you are looking for a betareader:** Please say what aspects of your exchange fic you need betaread, either something noted above or anything else you're looking for. Also include your contact info, the approximate length of your fic, and we do ask that you run spell/grammar check first and give your fic a look-through before sending it to your beta.
 
Writers, please save details that would reveal you to discuss directly with your beta (ie, historical items and/or crossover fandoms). We have both the anon period and the guessing game to contend with!
 
A note of caution: Should you be so informal as to ask for a beta for "just vibes," that's a buyer beware beta match-up. My Highlander vibes might not be yours! Betareaders may not be able to do a vibe check.
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killabeez ([personal profile] killabeez) wrote in [community profile] hlh_shortcuts2025-09-07 09:05 am
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2025 FAQs and Info Post (thank you, Teratornis!)

For those with a need to review AO3 processes:
HLH Shortcuts AO3 Signup Guide by @teratornis
HLH Shortcuts AO3 Submission Guide by @teratornis
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Your mods strongly encourage the use of betareaders, whether affiliated with the exchange or outside the exchange:
Betareaders Wanted/Betareaders Available

In case you need to review the 2025 dates:
  • Sign Ups: October 1 to October 11, 2025 11:59PM CDT on AO3
  • Assignments handed out: no later than October 14, 2025
  • Default deadline: November 20, 2025
  • Submission deadline: December 15, 2025
  • First story posted: December 20, 2025

Highlander Holiday Shortcuts dates
 
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a million times a trillion more ([personal profile] dolorosa_12) wrote2025-09-07 04:02 pm

Island of apples, baskets of pears

Fruit trees have very much been the theme of this weekend. Someone was giving away pears from a box in their front garden on my return walk from the gym yesterday, and another person was giving away apples when I passed on my way back from the pool this morning. Yesterday afternoon Matthias and I scrambled around on a ladder, and even in the tree itself, picking all the bramley apples from the tree in our back garden. Now two shelves, plus the vegetable crisper in our fridge are entirely filled with apples. Last year they lasted us from August to March!

Everywhere in our house, there are little scattered clusters of fruit — a trio of pears and two large tomatoes ripening on the front windowsill, bowls of apples on the kitchen table, a handful of black cherry tomatoes on the kitchen windowsill in between the indoor plants — like votive offerings to household or harvest gods.

In general, the garden is making me very happy.

If that wasn't enough, after breakfast today, Matthias and I walked out to Little Downham, past hedgerows laden with sloes, rosehips and ripe blackberries, until we got to the community orchard, and filled his backpack with yet more apples and pears. The leaves are yellowing at the edges, and the air has that slightly crackly, woody autumnal scent, although it's still as warm as ever.

Last night, Matthias and I rewatched Casablanca, which I had last seen about twenty-five years ago. It really is that good, and I cried buckets, of course (although about the politics, more than the interpersonal stories). It's extraordinary to me that it was made not post-WWII, but in 1942 — an incredible act of hope and optimism, and faith in human effort turned collaboratively towards an existential struggle. It is of course incredibly emotionally manipulative, but sometimes I just want to see a bunch of traumatised exiles stand up to totalitarian bullies, you know?

This week I finished three books )

In the time since I started writing this post, the UK government sent me its (scheduled, warned-for) blaring, vibrating phone test emergency alert, and the sky outside has turned from burning blue to cloud-covered grey. The weekend is winding down, and gathering itself in, like a blanket thrown over tired legs.
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kat_lair ([personal profile] kat_lair) wrote2025-09-07 03:17 pm

Doctor Who Fic: Mercury Lane

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Title: Mercury Lane
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Tenth Doctor/The Master (Simm), Tenth Doctor & The Master (Simm)
Tags: Gen or Pre-Slash, Ambiguous Relationships, Reunions
Rating: G
Word count: 1,134

Summary: The Doctor finds him without meaning to, in a sprawling no-name city on a backwater planet, where the streets wind and twist like something living, where the people come to get willingly lost. 

Author notes:
Written for a prompt 'exile'. Unbetaed so if you spot a typo/mistake, you should definitely tell me.

Mercury Lane on AO3

Mercury Lane )

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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-07 02:39 pm

The Power of Shazam (1995) #1

Writer: Jerry Ordway

Pencils: Peter Krause

Inks: Mike Manley


All of Billy’s other appearances Post-Crisis are supposed to have happened in-between the graphic novel and this issue.


Read more... )

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a million times a trillion more ([personal profile] dolorosa_12) wrote2025-09-07 02:37 pm

Grab-bag linkpost

Let's close some tabs:

In my country of origin, Australia, sun protection is serious business, and testing requirements for sunscreen are very strict (in Europe, sunscreen is classed as a cosmetic product, but in Australia it's classed as a medical product) — that's why there's a massive scandal brewing as a number of Australia's most popular sunscreen brands have been found to be making false claims about the protection they offer.

One of the journalistic newsletters to which I subscribe has elected to put all their material behind a paywall for the month of September, and they lay out their reasons in a clear, compelling way here. As they point out, if no one who cares about credible, responsible, independent journalism, especially from foreign correspondents on the ground, is prepared to pay for it, the gap will be filled by nefarious entities that have the funds — authoritarian states, disinformation networks. I'm not saying this to suggest everyone should fund this specific newsletter, but I am saying that (if you have any money set aside for non-essentials), you should be paying for some form of journalism.

One of the journalistic outlets which I do fund is Byline Times, and this piece they published, by historian Olesya Khromeychuk, director of the Ukrainian Institute London, is just an incredible piece of writing, weaving together personal history, contemporary politics and geopolitics, and literary analysis with searing clarity.

This essay from Rebecca Solnit is another way of describing what I've long been calling '(geo)political abuse apologism.'

Did this kid use AI to fake research about how great AI is? — basically what it says in the title.

Speaking of extractive AI, this is basically where I'm at right now.

I liked this essay on fanfic as a form of literary criticism.

I really love instances of people with niche jobs or interests who are able to communicate to interested non-experts in a way that conveys a sense of wonder and curiousity, like an invitation into a hidden world — and I'm very much enjoying [instagram.com profile] boisdejasmin's posts on perfumes and all things fragrance-related.

As always, Yuletide is abruptly upon us, and as always, it feels as if it's arrived without warning (despite being the same time every year). If you're planning to participate, the schedule and other requirements can be found at the [community profile] yuletide_admin comm.
tcampbell1000 ([personal profile] tcampbell1000) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-06 09:16 am

Justice League #2-3 (JLI 2 of ?): Nukes, Some Popcorn

The cover for JUSTICE LEAGUE #2 isn't nearly as iconic as the #1 cover, but it spells out the central conflict clearly enough.



Who the heck are these guys flying in to electrozap our heroes? Don't they care that Guy's spent an hour getting his hair just so? Well, they're basically the Avengers, but NOT.

Not shown: the un-Shazammed Billy Batson falling out of frame and muttering, 'I hate it when this happens.' )
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Alis ([personal profile] alisx) wrote2025-09-07 11:05 pm

Sunday @ 11:05 pm

So tonight Friend recommended me The Summer Hikaru Died and I’m like five eps in so take this with a grain of salt but so far if you like angsty gay monsterfucking my friend do I have a show for you!!!

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