arduinna

I have read some books which I had few thoughts or feelings about.

Dark Woods, Deep Water by Jelena Dunato. A varied cast of characters all end up at a haunted castle which won't let them escape. This is dark fantasy with strong but not specifically identifiable fairy tale elements. First person POV with multiple POVs is a struggle, especially when everyone's narrative voice sounds the same. I was disappointed that the naive rich girl whose heart gets broken and then who gets cruelly married off didn't get written with more nuance. IDK. It was fine, I guess.

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The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister. A family of siblings in rural Virginia with an ancestral charge to protect a nearby bog has to figure out what to do when the bog, for the first time in family memory, does not produce a woman to marry the eldest son.

I read this because I am always on the lookout for stories about people who are raised or sucked into very skewed perspectives, especially when those perspectives are supported by reality - for example, their very real bog-mother here. And this definitely delivered! That said, this feels more like a work of gothic fiction than anything else. Their terrible disintegrating family home just gets worse as the story goes on, and the ending in particular reminds me very strongly of

spoilers

We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

That said, I am not sure what I am meant to take away for this one. There are definitely themes of ecology and environmentalism, but also this is a family of very real characters with all their various squabbles and relationships. To be honest, when the book was over I was mostly sad about the ending for the two siblings who reminded me so strongly of the spoiler above.

An odd duck.

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The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice by Margaret Killjoy. The third novella in the Danielle Cain series, in which Danielle and her group of fellow anarchists tell ghost stories around a campfire. I always enjoy Killjoy's vibe, even when it feels like there's not a ton of substance, like here. And I guess others feel the same, because the kickstarter to fund this blew way past all its main goals. Hopefully that means we'll get more Danielle Cain books in the future.

settiai

First of all, relax! I'm far from being picky, and I can pretty much guarantee that I'll love whatever you decide to create for me. These are nothing but guidelines, for you to take to heart or ignore to your heart's content. Also, hey! You're writing me fic or drawing me art! That's automatically a good reason for me to love you, no matter what. So, please, keep that in mind. Trust me, you can pretty much do no wrong. ♥

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Current Mood: cheerful

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scrubjayspeaks

I took Monday off work--originally to allow for any grief-related needs, but ultimately to physically recover from last week’s bonanza of nonsense. Even so, this week was a real struggle. The worse things get, the more I feel the compulsion to be on social media to stay abreast of just how illegal my existence is. But the more I’m on social media, the worse I feel regardless of actual practical changes. So then I feel more paranoid and want to stay on social media like I’m keeping lookout from the battlements. &c &c unto the grave.

I feel like I need to be writing “if I disappear” posts, and I don’t know how realistic that impulse is. Those are conversations I am having with my mum. We’ve already got things set up pretty well--relative to normal life and death events--for either of us to get access to everything that belongs to the other. I don’t know if that would hold up to governmental unpersoning of me, of course.

It is perhaps very on-brand of me to be more worried about how my family would be taken care of if I got sent to the camps than I am about my own fate. ¯\(°_o)/¯

I am aware that I am experiencing existential dread right now. I also seem to be dissociating pretty hard, though, so everything feels like it’s happening on the other side of a pane of glass. I’m reading a lot--not just enthusiastically but frantically, which tends to happen when I’m dissociating for long periods.

We had a couple days of half-assed attempts at rain. Now its heating up again. September might be my least favorite month, were it not for Autumn Equinox and the apple season getting underway.

Lewisia: 3 new pieces written

Day job: 34 hours, with Monday off

Cleaning: moved a couple of the horses’ tire feeders around and made plans for repairing the damaged one

Gardening: garden club post, succulent club meeting

Reading: Don’t Let the Forest In by CG Drews (allowed my Libby app to recommend queer horror, received a fucked up little thing that was somehow exactly what I wanted to listen to just then), A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher (very unsettling, thank you, though I find the persistent skepticism of the narrator tips over into frustrating for me at times), Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire (another Wayward Children book, another time volunteering to have my heart ripped out)

Watching: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Listening: Harvest Season - Second Cutting by Alexander James Adams (man, I love folk music, I’ve been saving this one to listen to closer to the equinox)

Clock Mouse: 1503 words

regshoe

I also have book reviews to catch up on!

Lord Dismiss Us (1967) is a funny book in several ways. It is a novel about the Problem of Homosexuality in Boarding Schools, and in some ways a reappraisal of the boarding school novel tradition from the perspective of the later, more adult fiction which can deal more openly with homosexuality than those older books did. It takes place over a single term at a fictional public school whose new headmaster goes on a crusade against entrenched 'immorality', with various consequences.

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Posted by therealmorticia

https://www.transformativeworks.org/the-pinky-and-the-brain-page-is-moving-to-the-ao3/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=268665

The Pinky and the Brain Page, a Pinky and the Brain fanfiction and fanart archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).

In this post:

Background explanation

James, the archivist, used to run and maintain a Pinky and the Brain fandom site from around 1995 to 2000. When he recently found some of the stories in an old hard drive he searched the Internet for some of them, but his searches came up empty. Rather than letting those stories sit unread he thought he would rather they be shared on the AO3 for people to enjoy and remember.

The purpose of the Open Doors Committee’s Online Archive Rescue Project is to assist moderators of archives to incorporate the fanworks from those archives into the Archive of Our Own. Open Doors works with moderators to import their archives when the moderators lack the funds, time, or other resources to continue to maintain their archives independently. It is extremely important to Open Doors that we work in collaboration with moderators who want to import their archives and that we fully credit creators, giving them as much control as possible over their fanworks. Open Doors will be working with James to import The Pinky and the Brain Page into a separate, searchable collection on the Archive of Our Own. As part of preserving the archive in its entirety, all fanfics and fanart currently in the The Pinky and the Brain Page will be hosted on the OTW’s servers, and embedded in their own AO3 work pages.

We will begin importing works from The Pinky and the Brain Page to the AO3 after September 2025. However, the import may not take place for several months or even years, depending on the size and complexity of the archive. Creators are always welcome to import their own works and add them to the collection in the meantime.

What does this mean for creators who had work(s) on The Pinky and the Brain Page?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We’ll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will add it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors.

Please contact Open Doors with your The Pinky and the Brain Page pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

You’d like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.
You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3, or would NOT like your works added to the archive collection.
You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your The Pinky and the Brain Page account, please contact Open Doors and we’ll help you out. (If you’ve posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they’re yours, that’s great; if not, we will work with the The Pinky and the Brain Page mod to confirm your claims.)

Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on:

importing your works to the AO3
adding your works to the new collection The Pinky and the Brain Page

If you still have questions…

If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.

We’d also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of The Pinky and the Brain Page on Fanlore. If you’re new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

We’re excited to be able to help preserve The Pinky and the Brain Page!

– The Open Doors team and James

Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.

https://www.transformativeworks.org/the-pinky-and-the-brain-page-is-moving-to-the-ao3/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=268665

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https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/32936

The Pinky and the Brain Page banner

The Pinky and the Brain Page, a Pinky and the Brain fanfiction and fanart archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).

In this post:

Background explanation

The purpose of the Open Doors Committee’s Online Archive Rescue Project is to assist moderators of archives to incorporate the fanworks from those archives into the Archive of Our Own. Open Doors works with moderators to import their archives when the moderators lack the funds, time, or other resources to continue to maintain their archives independently. It is extremely important to Open Doors that we work in collaboration with moderators who want to import their archives and that we fully credit creators, giving them as much control as possible over their fanworks. Open Doors will be working with James to import The Pinky and the Brain Page into a separate, searchable collection on the Archive of Our Own. As part of preserving the archive in its entirety, all fanfics and fanart currently in the The Pinky and the Brain Page will be hosted on the OTW's servers, and embedded in their own AO3 work pages.

What does this mean for creators who had work(s) on The Pinky and the Brain Page?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We'll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will add it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

Please contact Open Doors with your The Pinky and the Brain Page pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

You'd like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.
You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3, or would NOT like your works added to the archive collection.
You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your The Pinky and the Brain Page account, please contact Open Doors and we'll help you out. (If you've posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they're yours, that's great; if not, we will work with the The Pinky and the Brain Page mod to confirm your claims.)

Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on:

importing your works to the AO3
adding your works to the new collection The Pinky and the Brain Page

If you still have questions...

If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.

We'd also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of The Pinky and the Brain Page on Fanlore. If you're new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

We're excited to be able to help preserve The Pinky and the Brain Page!

- The Open Doors team and James

Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/32936

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Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Mary Wilshire

Inks: Bill Sienkiewicz

Professor Xavier has ditched the New Mutants to go to space with his bird-wife. His last wish was for Magneto to take over, but can the kids trust him?

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Here are items with dates between Sunday, September 21st and Saturday, September 27th, as well as items added recently that started this past week. Remember, you can comment here on new items that need to be added to the list.

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settiai

I've participated in the National Consumer Panel since January 2014, which involved scanning my grocery purchases and doing the occasional survey in exchange for gifts cards and such. Unfortunately, I've finally had to break down and delete my account due to their continued transphobia.

When participating, you have the list the demographic information of the shopper, and the only gender options listed are Male or Female. Which, you know, is an issue if you're legally nonbinary. Especially since X is a valid gender option on US passports as well as driver's licenses in many states. In addition, they have an annual demographic survey each year where you provide more information about yourself, and - once again - the only gender options are Male or Female. If you want to participate, you have to intentionally misgender yourself, or you cannot proceed forward through the survey.

I've been reaching out to the National Consumer Panel about this issue since 2021. In both 2021 and 2022, my messages were acknowledged, and they point-blank stated that the issue was that their parent companies (NielsenIQ and Circana) dictated what gender options they were allowed to list.

In December 2022, I received the following email:

That email? Was the last communication that I received from NCP one way or another. I've continued to reach out each year when the annual demographic survey goes out with only Male and Female as the gender options listed, but I haven't received any response from NCP at all since 2022.

It's very clear at this point that the blatant transphobia of forcing nonbinary individuals to misgender themselves to use their site is intentional and won't be changing. Maybe it is the parent companies that are to blame, but the fact that NCP sent me an email in 2022 saying they were working to fix the issue and then ignored every single message that I've sent since then? Well, that says a lot. If nothing else, they're the ones who chose to simply stay quiet.

At this point, I'm done. I deleted my account earlier today, and I sent them an email making it clear why I've done so. With the current state of the world, I can't in good conscience continue to participate with an organization that's not even pretending to try to not to be transphobic.

I honestly doubt this post is going to do much of anything in the grand scheme of things (and the same's true of the thread that I posted over on Bluesky). Still, I wanted to at least make a public post about it just in case it lets even one person out there know that the National Consumer Panel shouldn't be trusted if you're LGBTIQA+.

Current Mood: frustrated

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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

missizzy

I've largely spent the weekend on painkillers, after my arm pain kept me up for too much of Friday night/very early Saturday. Though that did mean I saw plenty of the Skate to Milano. I particularly enjoyed my introduction to Karina Akopova & Nikita Rakhmanin in the wee hours of the morning, as well as the short that ultimately got Donovan Carrillo to the Olympics. Though this morning I slept through almost everything, getting up just in time to see most of Carrillo's free skate struggle, sigh in relief along with everyone else when he qualified anyway, and then get reintroduced to Petr Gumenik, who has seemingly grown dangerously handsome since I watched him last. Of course there's no point lamenting the two Russian skaters making the Olympics once they and the Belarussian skaters were allowed to try for it; you knew they would. I was glad to see this morning that Kyrylo Marsak had also made it in. Though given the tiny margins between qualifying and not in both men and ice dance...well, it was already bad they took a berth away from all the events, but that just made it worse.
I also finished Act I in my Gale origin run last night. I haven't been blogging about that one the way I did my first playthrough, but I did put up some screenshots.

neekabe

We've been on the edge of seasonal allergies or maybe a cold or maybe just reactions to the cooling weather in this household. For the fella it seems to have settled into a cold. I might have just picked up his cold. Might just be having some blahs.

We were supposed to go to a party yesterday but cancelled due to probably contagious. Had a quiet day instead. I made mac and cheese which the fella wasn't too excited about, but then had seconds and raved about it again this morning. I suspect he just hasn't had much actual mac and cheese because it was pretty basic XD

Eyes weren't cooperating well last night. Was up a couple of times with some pain, but not the terrible stabbing pain from before, so it still a win. I suspect I'm going to be extra sensitive to the seasons.

Watching the F1 this morning, might make cinnamon buns this afternoon. Might just have a nap. It'll be exciting :D

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Like most Kpop groups, Le Sserafim has their own variety show called Leniverse. There are almost 70 eps so far and I've enjoyed all of them.

This 2-parter (which first aired a few months ago) is a DELIGHTFUL way to spend some time for days when in need to watch something gentle (yet still funny.) The premise is that Le Sserafim takes care of 5 of HYBE's employees' doggies for a day. There are puppies and senior dogs with each doggo having introverted or extroverted personalities.

You legit don't need to know ANYTHING at all abt Le Sserafim and/or Kpop and just sit down to watch a LOLARIOUS 2-parter episode where the doggies are the stars.

Part 1

Watch on YouTube

Part 2

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Posted by Zach Weinersmith

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/holy

Click here to go see the bonus panel!

Hovertext:
You can do this with a metallic sharpie if you don't want to pay printing costs.

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I'm a proud born-and-bred Illinoisan, a State where there is so much opposition to the Orange-Tinged Dictator. A number of you may know of the ways that my State's Governor -- JB Pritzker -- stands against the Dictator. A number of you may know that Illinois was the very first State to pass legislation opposing book bans in libraries. A number of you may be aware of the Dictator's recent direct threats of war against Chicago with his AI-generated image of Chicago in flames and his "Apocalypse Now" references. A number of you may already have seen Illinois Senator Karina Villa confronting ICE agents and telling them "This is my city. Get out of my city...." but I want to make sure that she gets seen and hopefully this video gets spread.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TZQlqpogGWk

Current Mood: politically active
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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Title: Girl Time
Fandom: Transformers [Bay Movies/Bumblebee]
Pairing/Characters: Charlie Watson & Mikaela Banes
Content Notes: None
Prompt: September Twenty-one - 3 & 4 - "is that yours?"

Follows this

( Charlie wandered into the motor pool )

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This week's prompt is:
exclusive 🚢

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.

pauraque

After some consideration of my options, I have made a Star Wars icon that pleases me. It's a screenshot of the music video for Jeremy Messersmith's "Tatooine" with animation by Eric Power.

Embedded video: Paper cutout animation retelling the plot of the Star Wars Original Trilogy.

Watch on YouTube

smallhobbit

The trees are remaining in leaf, as we come into autumn, and the grass has recovered due to our recent rain.

( September views )

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https://operaramblings.blog/2025/09/21/enormity-girl-and-the-earthquake-in-her-lungs/

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