Happy Anniversary!

Sep. 17th, 2025 08:46 am
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Four years ago on this day, I created and opened this comm for business.

I've said it before in past anniversary posts, and it's still true: This comm provided some much needed distraction and fun, and I'm very grateful to all of you who made it so. Comments, discussions, fanworks, resources - thank you for participating and keeping this community active.

I've found new friends here, and lots of interesting things to watch and read and listen to, and I'm hoping this will continue for another year (or longer)!
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Fandom: Pokemon (Juicebox Collective ARPG)
Rating: T
Length: 565
Prompt: Lyric with "sleep" or "wake" (song here)
Summary: the strange eevee has an experience

fic on ao3

More school stuff

Sep. 16th, 2025 11:35 pm
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Big project for Intro to Human Services: History project (5 to 7 minute presentation, needs visual aid(s)); can work in groups of up to three. I'm working solo, and my project is on the history of the ADA. It's due Monday the 22nd, aaaaand I haven't really done a lot yet 😑 On the plus side, no homework next week?

No big project for Social Problems! I just gotta read another textbook chapter, originally by Thursday but now possibly not until Tuesday. (I may try for Thursday anyway.) No Asynchronous Course Materials this week, because last week's was two-and-a-half hours long.

Big project for Ceramics: Two coil-and-pinch projects due for bisque (initial, pre-glaze) firing by end of day Friday. I've got one finished, and have only barely started the second. To be fair, I tried starting the second twice already, and had to scrap it both times, because I just kept pinching the bowl larger when I was trying to smooth the coils together. And then yesterday, though I finished cleaning up my fish (that I love and can't wait to share), we did some practice of taking stuff out of the kiln, and that ate up some class time I would have otherwise used to work on my bowl.

Our next class period, tomorrow, will be dedicated to Raku firing our test pieces, so I doubt I'll have a lot of time to work then, and will have to leave class ASAP to get to an appointment back home. So I anticipate staying late on Thursday and coming in on Friday, neither of which is an official Ceramics day, to finish my bowl.


I probably should not have slacked off quite as much as I did over the weekend, but slacking off felt so gooooood 😭 Ah, well; back to work!
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Hello, sweet and spooky Trick or Treaters! Signups close in just under two days (September 18 at 7:59 PM EDT/23:59 UTC). Here is the signup information post!

And for this year's Community Challenge, we're going retro again. Your collective goal is to treat every participant.

*except for the ones who opt out of treats. do not treat them!

This will be managed in a similar style to the 2021 community challenge (see here) with percentage tiers of success. I'll post the exact tier targets after signups close and we have the numbers.

Get excited, and good luck!

Daily Happiness

Sep. 16th, 2025 09:04 pm
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1. My knee is sore today but the other aches and pains I had last night when trying to get to sleep seem to have gone away in the morning.

2. I had two meetings today and both were cancelled!

3. I made an appointment to get my covid shot next Monday, which was the soonest I could get an appointment, though I might drop in tomorrow on the way to work and see if they have any walk-in availability (it said limited walk-ins online), as there is a location offering them close to work.

4. Ollie has such impressive eyebrows.

In Need Of A Braincheck

Sep. 17th, 2025 03:00 am
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Read In Need Of A Braincheck

Customer: "I lost my wallet, I’m gonna need some rainchecks."
Me: *Blinking, getting ready to explain rainchecks.*
Customer: "I need this, and this, and that, and…”
Me: "Are we actually out of those items?"

Read In Need Of A Braincheck

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Nominations close in a little over a day, on September 17th at 10PM PST! Make sure to read the nomination rules before submitting your nominations!

Additionally, make sure your relationship and character nominations are disambiguated with the fandom name in parenthesis after the tag. Incorrectly formatted nominations will be rejected if they are not corrected.

Nomination Clarifications


Doctor Who & Related Fandoms

Solo: Thirteenth Doctor - Please disambiguate this and re-nominate it under "Doctor Who (2005)"

Solo: Zoe Heriot (Doctor Who 1963) - Please re-nominate this under "Doctor Who (1963)"

Thirteenth Doctor/Clara Oswin Oswald (Doctor Who 2005) - Please re-nominate this under "Doctor Who (2005)"

Thirteenth Doctor/Clara Oswin Oswald/River Song (Doctor Who 2005) - Please re-nominate this under "Doctor Who (2005)"

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Zoe Heriot & Jamie McCrimmon (Doctor Who 1963) - Please re-nominate this under "Doctor Who (1963)"

caught the last days of summer 🌅

Sep. 16th, 2025 08:30 pm
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caught the last days of summer 🌅

Shekvitili, Georgia 🇬🇪

September 2025

📸 Canon AE-1

🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400

(no subject)

Sep. 16th, 2025 09:20 pm
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I liked the Korean movie Phantom (2023) enough that I decided to hunt down the novel on which it's based, Mai Jia's The Message -- in large part out of curiosity about whether it's also lesbians.

The answer: ... sort of! The lesbians are not technically textual but there's a bit of Lesbian Speculation and then a big pointed narrative hole where lesbians could potentially be. It is, however, without a doubt, Women Being Really Weird About Each Other, to the point where I'm considering it as a Yuletide fandom (perhaps even moreso than the movie, where the women are also weird about each other but in a more triumphant cinematic way and less of an ambiguous, psychologically complex and melancholic way. you know.)

The plot: well, as in the movie, there's a spy, and there's the Japanese Occupation, and there's a Big Haunted House where we're keeping all the possible spies to play mind games with until somebody fesses up. Because the book is set in 1941 China, there are actually three factions at play -- the Japanese and collaborators, the Communists and the Nationalists -- and for the whole first part of the book, fascinatingly enough, we are almost entirely in the head of the Japanese officer who's running the operation and choreographing all the mind games in an attempt to ferret out the Communist agent in his codebreaking division. The result is sort of a weird and almost darkly funny anti-heroic anti-Poirot situation, in which Hihara is constantly engineering increasingly complicated locked-room scenarios designed to get the spy to confess like the culprit in a Thin Man movie, and is constantly thwarted by his suspects inconveniently refusing to stick to the script, even when presented with apparently incontrovertible evidence, placed under torture, lied to about the deaths of other members of the party, etc. etc.

The suspects include several variously annoying men, plus two women whom we and everyone else are clearly intended to find the most interesting people there: quiet and competent Li Ningyu, cryptography division head, mother of two, whom everyone knows is semi-separated from an abusive husband, and who somehow manages to keep calmly slithering her way out of every accusation Hihara tries to stick on her; and her opposite, loud bratty chic Gu Xiaomeng, whom Hihara would very much like to rule out as a suspect as quickly as possible because she's the daughter of a very wealthy collaborator, and who seems moderately obsessed with her boss Li Ningyu For Some Reason.

Both book and movie spend, like, sixty percent of their length on this big house espionage mind games scenario and then abruptly take a left turn, with the next forty percent being Something Completely Different. In the film this left turn involves DRAMATIC ROMANTIC ACTION HEROICS!!!! so I was quite surprised to find that the book's left turn involves spoilers )
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Reccd Wagnetic's wonderful craft project yet again over at [community profile] fancake!

It's here.

Final Deadline Reminder

Sep. 17th, 2025 03:03 am
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The deadline is almost upon us, which means that there's now one day left to finish your fic(s)! Technically, that is, because I'll throw in the same "surprise" mini-extension as I always do, and keep the collection open for submissions until an hour before reveals (which will happen at 00.01 GMT on the 19th).

Good job to everyone who has already posted, and best of luck to those who are still writing!
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Posted by Sarah Brown

Pop a tab and your feline appears like it heard a summoning bell. Nose boops the can, ears flick at the fizz, and suddenly you've got a tiny beverage auditor inspecting your pawla cola. Cats prefer dignified stillness in their water bowls, but "spicy water" is great theatre. The straw is a wiggly snake, the tab is a miniature cymbal, and the can instantly becomes a percussion instrument for midnight mewsic. One whiff and the verdict is dramatic: too many bubbles for delicate whiskers, but excellent for supervising.

Then comes the performance art. A micro-spritz lands on a whisker and the cat executes a full-body offended shimmy. Tongue blep. Tail poof. The look says you just served Meowntain Doom instead of a proper vintage from the sink. They won't drink it, of course, but they will park directly in the condensation ring and stamp toe-bean watermarks across the nearest keyboard for archival purposes.

In the end, the Fizz Committee agrees: soda is entertainment, not beverage. The case it arrived in is prime real estate, the can is a drum, and the hooman's job is refilling the world's finest drink. Fresh, quiet, majestic water.

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Blown Away By Their Thinking

Sep. 17th, 2025 12:00 am
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Read Blown Away By Their Thinking

Coworker: "Why do they need to build so many ugly windmills?!"
Me: "Well, it's green energy! Plus, there's so much wind out in the North Sea they might as well do something with it!"
Coworker: "There's no wind out there! There aren't any trees!"
Me: "…beg your pardon? What do trees have to do with wind?"

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Title: To Move Forward
Fandom: Transformers [Shattered Glass-ish]
Pairing/Characters: Megatron & Thundercracker
Content Notes: None
Prompt: September Sixteen - 6 & 8 - bring your own [choice]

It was the highest platform )

a 2-run bomb from brett baty

Sep. 16th, 2025 07:37 pm
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Last night at this time, I was on what ended up to be a 90 minute (or more - I left after 90 minutes) call with other shareholders in my building to discuss options for complying with local law 97, which is all about reducing carbon emissions. It was informative, though as usual, the people running these meetings are bad at it it, and 2 people basically monopolized all the Q&A time with very specific-to-them concerns instead of applicable-to-all-tenants stuff, but at least nobody accused the board of being racist for muting them, which is what happened the last time I joined a building-related zoom call. Still only about a quarter of the people who live here showed up, which I find inexplicable considering the financial considerations involved. While no final decision was made, it seems like there will be a recommendation to take one of the incremental measures while continuing to explore the more expensive (but not the ludicrously expensive most expensive) options. So we'll see how that goes. If it helps my apartment not to turn into a sauna going forward, I am interested!

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Baby Miss L is still trying to finalize her Halloween costume, but as with last year, there may be multiple outfits as she has a very full social calendar. She has gotten better about school, too - apparently she waves hello to everyone as she enters, and I imagine they all appreciate her attention. *g* I have also started compiling a list of books to buy her for her birthday and Christmas, which I guess I'll start shopping for soon.

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I complain about work fairly often, but today I learned that 1. they've confirmed that our insurance will cover covid jabs for everyone who uses it, and 2. they're giving us 2 extra paid holidays this year since both 12/26 and 1/2 fall on Fridays. So I know I have it pretty good despite...everything happening in the world to try to ruin public health and nonprofits.

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I can't remember if I posted about the very addictive phone game I recently downloaded, but after several lelvels where the only way to advance was to spend money to get helpful items, I deleted it. I can't be spending that kind of money and I am definitely the kind of person who needs to defeat the puzzles, even though I can see they are specifically designed to not be beatable without those helpful items. It's one reason I don't gamble or play "real" video games - I tend to get feverishly obsessive about winning and neither sleep nor money matter to me in that state. *hands* At least I know this about myself? Idk, but it felt good to delete the game even though I am still craving it.

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The Mets snapped their losing streak on Sunday and still control their destiny in terms of a wild card spot, but given how poorly they've played for so long, this series with San Diego feels like a playoff game already. We'll see if they can hold the early lead. ....and now Lindor goes deep! <333

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