fandom things

Sep. 15th, 2025 10:05 pm
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- Yuletide nominations are upon us!! I don't know how this happened so fast, but here we are.

- AO3 is canonizing more freeform tags! Very, very slowly! This latest update includes cosmic horror and clit play, among others.

- Regal is doing a giant horror October release thing, with a classic horror movie every day of the movement (for variable definitions of classic). Because Regal's marketing is absolute pants, I couldn't find an official announcement of this anywhere, but here's a comprehensive listing on Reddit.

- I started posting my Oasis WIP, one vignette a day, ranging from less than 300 words (today) to probably around 3k (the sex scene if I can ever finish it!!). It is here if you are inclined to read along. I don't think I've ever done daily fic posting in all my years of fandom, and I'm excited about it. And the response so far has been really nice. :)

- And as of Saturday I broke 70k for the year!!!

- Speaking of Oasis... just look at these bozos. Look how happy they are. Can you believe. 😭😭😭

Please note Liam has balanced his maracas AND his tambourine on his sombrero. A shelf hat, exactly what he has always wanted.

New doggo

Sep. 16th, 2025 03:02 pm
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After Torin died, the lad swore off owning a dog until a couple of months ago when he started whining about missing having "a mate" to hang out with. *sigh*

the tl;dr )
Bailey-with-duck

This sweet goofball's name is now Bailey. more tl;dr )

[#273 | Bad Timing] Voting Post

Sep. 15th, 2025 11:55 pm
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Here are the entries for this challenge:

List of entries )

Please Note: Because we only have 3 entries this week, there is only a First Place and Runner Up to vote for!

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Voting closes Wednesday, September 17 at 9:00PM EST.

And the streak keeps going

Sep. 15th, 2025 10:39 pm
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Last night before bed, I put on my new Dexcom. It synchs and I cover it with a cute jellyfish cover. I'm waiting out the 25 minute start up time while I read in bed. It starts screaming. WTF? It failed. Sigh. I have to burn the cute jellyfish cover because I have to remove the defective dexcom (there's 300$ down the drain) the wire sensor is gone...again. Next time I have a MRI so many of these pieces of wire are so getting ripped out of my arm.

So I woke up early (as I do like twice a night) I took my Rybelsus, went back to bed, woke up an hour later with nausea. STILL nauseous 14 hours later. Burping up a ton of acid too. Worse, I'm dizzy. I haven't had that one with a GLP1 before. It does say that it should get better. I'm going to try to stick it out a week. Maybe I'll get used to it (Might call the endocrinologist and ask, hey can I take this when I got to bed and sleep off several hours of this bullshit).

But hey I'll lose weight because I can't fucking eat. Ugh

There was more b.s. at work today that is making all of us lose it. (It shouldn't have happened and impacted our students. it'll get fixed but still)

I noticed a strange color to one of my toe nails under the polish which I wanted to remove and redo one last time before fall. Yep, like I thought, the new cross trainers which made the tip of my big toe ache. Sure enough both nails (right > left) have leukonychia, white spots from the pressure. i.e. it's trauma. bah. Next time I'm in Chillicothe I'm going to try and get another pair of tennis shoes and keep these ones back for places I don't have to be on my feet all day (because they are cool looking and are comfortable except for the right toe which yeah is now traumatized. I better not get a fungal nail from this.

This is the second time mail hasn't been in my mail box after the USPS has scanned it in so I know it's coming. I'm getting annoyed and wondering if someone has been in there.

Oh and that whole 'oh your loans will automatically renew with the IRB' thing? Bullshit. My loan repayment was 4 times what it was last month. Screams into the void.

I had previously rescheduled my allergist and psychiatrist appointments, the former being today. Scheduled them right in the middle of class. Had to redo that. I am so done right now.

it's music monday and we're doing music that inspires you. For the next month or so, let's do one song that inspires us to draw or write. If you're not a creative, share one song that's making you happy right now. I wrote Master of Puppets

So here is the song for that
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Dear ITPE Creator Letter

Sep. 16th, 2025 12:51 pm
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First, thanks so much for making me a gift! I'll love whatever you want to make, but here are a few general guidelines about things I prefer and those I'd rather not receive.

Read more... )

Book Review

Sep. 15th, 2025 08:15 pm
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Rogue Protocol
by Martha Wells

This is the third Murderbot book, in which Murderbot visits a defunct terraforming operation in order to find evidence against the corporation that tried to kill them and their team of humans in the first book. Murderbot finds themself thrown together with a team of humans sent to salvage the terraforming station. The station is not quite the abandoned derelict they thought, however. Murderbot thus yet again ends up saving the hides of humans they would rather not be interacting with at all.
This was a nice little adventure with a couple of interesting plot twists and characters. The team of humans have a robot that they've developed a friendship with, and Murderbot has some strong reactions to observing that relationship. I really liked seeing the ways Murderbot's experience of humans expands here.
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Posted by Etai Eshet

Life runs on the fragile hope that other people are at least mildly competent. We trust the barista to know coffee goes in the cup and not on the floor. We assume the road painter won't forget how letters work halfway through STOP. We put faith in the idea that someone, somewhere, is paying attention. That faith is routinely misplaced.  

The truth is most jobs are boring, repetitive, and slowly dissolve your will to live. A Sisyphus-type situation. Maybe it's no surprise that people mess up. Sometimes it's an innocent mistake, like hitting the wrong stencil. Other times it feels more like quiet rebellion, the human spirit pushing back against another beige day on the assembly line. Either way, the result is the kind of failure that's way more fun to look at than success.  

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Posted by Bar Mor Hazut

When you go on vacation to a nice hotel with your family, the last thing you want to deal with is someone else's noise. You are on vacation, you shouldn't have to deal with that kind of stuff, right? You have the rest of the year to deal with entitled neighbors. Who has the energy to do so when they are in a hotel?

But sometimes, those things are out of your control, which is exactly what happened in the story below. This family was staying at a nice resort for a relaxing weekend, except they never really got to have a chance to relax. Instead, they had to deal with the noise from the neighboring family next to them, who wouldn't let them sleep. 

The dad decided he was going to take matters into his own hands and get back at the entitled family for the disturbance, but he forgot to take into account how his revenge was going to affect the hotel staff and the rest of his family.

Keep scrolling to read the full story, and let us know how you would have handled this situation in the comments below.

Erased

Sep. 15th, 2025 04:50 pm
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Erased HDDs for Giveaway
Erased HDDs for Giveaway
Box 1 of 2

A cleanup of my external hard drives was long overdue. There are about 20 HDDs with backups going back to 2007. Some of them contained archives of my Apple Aperture photo library.

I slated the bottom 11 for erasure and giveaway, and I completed the task today. Other than two old Time Machine drives and one broken RAID unit, all the drives were 1TB or smaller. The HDDs I kept were 2TB and larger – maxing out at 16TB. The larger drives had newer backups.

I used Apple Disk Utility to reformat the drives. Disk Utility seems more stupid and less capable than back in the old days. There’s no way to do a hard overwrite of the disk, and Apple clearly states that the one erase option the utility can perform leaves data in a recoverable state. I don’t have a giant magnet to run over the drives. I did the next best thing – I formatted the drives as exFAT. Hopefully newcomers won’t expect the drives to really be the old Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format and won’t attempt file recovery.

I’ll take the drives to Free Geek, although they are closed this week. The box has my drive labels stuck on the outside of the box. I did that for logging/tracking purposes and will remove the tags before delivering the box to Free Geek.

[ SECRET POST #6828 ]

Sep. 15th, 2025 07:00 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6828 ⌋

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


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Lake Lewisia #1304

Sep. 15th, 2025 04:12 pm
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We have heard a rumor that a new shop is going into the rotating storefront on Chicory Lane, and this time it is soup. We plan to use the remaining un-soup-suitable weather to speculate wildly about the possible offerings of the new business, while conversion of the space takes place. We encourage everyone to report sightings of workers, chefs, food deliveries, and any other hints at the nature of the future soup, which promises both tasty food and cooler weather to come.

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LL#1304
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Title: Glimpses
Fandom: Transformers [Bay Movies]
Pairing/Characters: Mikaela Banes & Scion [OC]
Content Notes: None
Prompt: September Fifteen - 4 catches 7 doing something unexpected

Mikaela had not gone out of her way )

Thank you, lferion!

Sep. 15th, 2025 04:52 pm
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 Belated but heartfelt thanks to [personal profile] lferion for contributing paid account time to the community. Thank you, kind fairy godperson!

Check In: Day 15

Sep. 15th, 2025 05:48 pm
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Hi all! Happy Monday!

How is writing going today? Any goals for this week?

Fitness Fellowship 2025: Check-in 37

Sep. 15th, 2025 06:22 pm
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Hey, there, friends!

How has the past week been for you, fitness-wise or any otherwise? Please do share as much or as little as you'd like with us. You know we're a non-judgmental group hereabouts. :-)

My Week in Review )

I'm sending you good energy for a week that gives you what you need!
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Posted by Bar Mor Hazut

How many times have you called customer support or a help desk, only to realize they can provide you with no help whatsoever? If you ask us, we think most of these calls end with us getting absolutely no help from the other side of the line. It seems like companies have a hard time sitting the right people behind the help desk, and end up giving the job to people who have no idea how to provide the service they were hired to do.

The software developer in the story below decided to do something about it. They realized that they could help users with issues that the help desk was, well, helpless with. So when calls came in, they were directed to this developer, who was more than happy to set aside time to help out.

The company, however, was not pleased with this change of responsibilities and demanded that he developer stop with this side job. It wasn't long before they realised that users no longer got the help they needed, and took that demand back.

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Posted by Ben Weiss

Three years ago at the Venice Film Festival, Brendan Fraser was the talk of the internet. A video of him overcome with emotion while receiving a standing ovation for the premiere of his new film, The Whale, went viral. The actor best known for roles in box-office crowd pleasers like George of the Jungle and The Mummy had never been in the awards conversation before. After that viral moment, however, a successful Oscar campaign was launched. Fraser would eventually go on to win Best Actor despite fierce competition and a divisive critical response to the film. In the end, it didn't matter how critics felt about The Whale. The comeback narrative for Fraser's campaign was so strong that, in retrospect, his win was inevitable. 

Flash forward to today, and it seems that the same exact narrative has begun to take shape with another well-known Hollywood actor gaining buzz for a similarly transformative role and an even more familiar "awards bait" narrative. This time, however, we're talking about someone known for a different adventure film with the word "jungle" in the title. Now, we're talking about Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, star of such critically reviled titles as Jungle Cruise 2 and Jumanji: The Next Level. The professional wrestler turned actor is already an early favorite for an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of MMA fighter Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie's upcoming film The Smashing Machine. But how is this performance already firmly in the awards conversation when it has not been released theatrically yet? Well, Johnson has already begun copying Brendan Fraser's homework beat by beat, and it seems to be working in his favor so far. In fact, Johnson's copy-and-paste approach to awards season further proves that when it comes to campaigning, the only thing more reliable than a strong performance is an even stronger PR narrative.

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