Links to Beginner Friendly Fitness Youtube Channels
Sep. 21st, 2025 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snowynightFitness Youtube channels I watched this week:
Pilates
I like these because they have beginner friendly at home workout videos that can be done in 30 min or less. The intruction is clear and to the point.
No equipment home workout
They provide a lot no equipment sitting/standing workouts good for home and office workout
Pilates
I like these because they have beginner friendly at home workout videos that can be done in 30 min or less. The intruction is clear and to the point.
No equipment home workout
They provide a lot no equipment sitting/standing workouts good for home and office workout
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notalwaysright_feedMy coworker is a walking stereotype of the most hardcore part of a particular political party. He was telling us a story from a recent visit to a large grocery store. Coworker: Yeah so I have to go to court over a f***ing parking ticket from this (Hispanic slur) b****. Great set of t***s but […]
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Sep. 20th, 2025 09:00 amnotalwaysright_feed(My dad, along with the rest of my family, always nag me to get a college degree.) Dad: “Don’t you want to become somebody?” Me: “Yeah I guess. But I already have one!” (I have one in Education, since I wanted to be a teacher. However they’ve been really cracking down on teaching jobs, so […]
Weekend Cooking: Natto And Egg Rice
Sep. 20th, 2025 04:17 pmsnowynightIngredients
- 1 container of natto, room temperature
- 1 bowl of cooked white rice:
- 1 piece of egg
- 1 packet of sauce
- Cook the rice in a rice cooker or pot according to your usual method.
- Traditionally, the egg is served raw. For people with health and nutrient concern like me, boiled eggs or poached eggs also go well.
- Open the natto container and stir the natto. Pour them into the rice and egg bowl.
- Add the sauce that usually comes with the natto container
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Sep. 20th, 2025 08:00 amnotalwaysright_feedI’m a teenager and I volunteer at a kindergarten near my apartment. I’m basically trained with kids and their thought-crippling questions. I’m always called, ‘(My name) (Sister in my native language)’ as I almost play a role of a sister to them. Fast-forward…. There’s a guy I like who treats me with like a normal […]
I Love All of You (A Room with a View, 1985, NC-17)
Sep. 20th, 2025 02:39 ambring_me_sugar posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
iddyiddybangbangTitle: I Love All of You
Author: Missy
Fandom: A Room with a View (1985)
Characters: George Emerson, Lucy Honeychurch, and the entire main ensemble
Pairings: George/Lucy
Word Count: 5,000
Rating: E/Explicit
Warnings: No Achieve Warnings Apply; this is rated for smut.
Summary: How George and Lucy spent the fall and winter before their spring wedding. Or: Sex lessons with everything including the tip featuring George's reading skills, Lucy's determination, and Edwardian social mores being upended by under-the-table handjobs.
@ AO3
Author: Missy
Fandom: A Room with a View (1985)
Characters: George Emerson, Lucy Honeychurch, and the entire main ensemble
Pairings: George/Lucy
Word Count: 5,000
Rating: E/Explicit
Warnings: No Achieve Warnings Apply; this is rated for smut.
Summary: How George and Lucy spent the fall and winter before their spring wedding. Or: Sex lessons with everything including the tip featuring George's reading skills, Lucy's determination, and Edwardian social mores being upended by under-the-table handjobs.
@ AO3
Slo-Mo Rewatch: Guardian episode 2, part 1
Sep. 20th, 2025 06:06 pmchina_shop posting in sid_guardian
Hi, and welcome back to the Guardian drama Slo-Mo Rewatch. Watch half an episode a week, at your leisure, and then come and chat about it here in comments. Or you can just jump into the comments without rewatching, of course!
Here are the previous weeks' rewatch posts.
Episode 2, up to 22:11
Summary
Shen Wei heals his shoulder while the fish in his aquarium look on. Zhu Jiu plays chess and schemes to get the Sundial. Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei save Li Qian from falling off the building, then she faints. Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan take her to the hospital and discuss, among other things, Shen Wei's marital status. They make a lunch date. Lin Jing, Wang Zheng and Zhu Hong watch footage of the Envoy's appearance, until Chu Shuzhi makes them delete it. Guo Changcheng and cat!Da Qing stake out the hospital to protect Li Qian. Shen Wei shows up with food. Watching from the SID, Zhu Hong identifies Li Qian's necklace as the Longevity Dial, and Zhao Yunlan concludes Li Qian killed her grandmother. Changcheng tackles the hospital attacker, is knocked out, and then Shen Wei plain-clothes Envoys the attacker out of the ward just as Zhao Yunlan arrives. The hospital attacker and Chu Shuzhi fight in the street, and the attacker escapes.
Quote
ZYL: I'll treat you to lunch once this case is solved.
SW: No need... When that happens, it should be my treat.
Detail
I think this is the first time I've noticed that when Zhao Yunlan catches Xiao-Guo at the hospital, he repeats his "I've got your back" from earlier. Zhao Yunlan seems quite shaken, to me, realising he sent Xiao-Guo into genuine danger.
Questions
Do you have a favourite scene or quote from the first half of episode 2? What is Shen Wei thinking when he sees Zhao Yunlan's graze? On a scale of 1 to 10, how sorry do you feel for Li Qian? How much bandage does a person need for a grazed arm? What do you think of Zhao Yunlan's management style? Were you surprised by the passing of time in this half-episode (at the hospital, we learn Li Yufen died two days earlier; at the SID, Zhao Yunlan says Xiao-Guo has been there for a week)? When Zhu Hong warns Zhao Yunlan about Shen Wei, do you think that's genuine suspicion or can she already tell which way the wind is blowing? Do you think Xiao-Guo manages to be successfully supportive at Li Qian's bedside? What's your impression of the hospital attacker, Gao Tianyu? Do you find him sympathetic? On a scale of 1 to 10, how hot is plain-clothes Envoy!Shen Wei?
If you're familiar with the novel, any thoughts about how the drama adaptation compares? The novel!SID team versus the drama!SID team? Anything else?
(As usual, these are all just conversation starters - feel free to answer all, some, or none, and to say as much or as little as you like! You don't have to be keeping up with the rewatch to join in. We'd love to hear your thoughts!)
And here is our schedule, where you can sign up to host a post!
Book review: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Sep. 19th, 2025 10:46 pmrocky41_7 posting in fffridayLast night I finished Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, a sci-fi book about a motley crew of spacefarers who "drill" wormholes to enable rapid travel across space for the diverse galactic alliance known as the GC. At the start of the book, they are offered a bid on a particularly difficult, lucrative job, and can't resist taking the bait.
This should be (another) lesson to me in not going all-in on a creator because I've enjoyed one of their works. I loved Chambers' To Be Taught, if Fortunate, and I've heard plenty of internet praise for The Long Way, so when I saw it at the bookstore recently, I dropped $20 on it readily. If I hadn't, I probably wouldn't have bothered finishing it.
First - if you picked up this book looking for the femslash, it's barely there, and it's a lot more friends-with-benefits than romance. The other two romances in the book get a lot more attention. If what you really want is F/F romance, it's not really here.
This is a character-driven book with barely a plot, which wouldn't be a problem if the characters were interesting. As it is, they are functionally interchangeable: a crew of people who are all optimistic, friendly, emotionally open, painstakingly polite, and obsessively well-intentioned (except for the one guy who's a Jerk, who exists to be a jerk whenever the scene calls for someone who needs to be less-than-fanatically-polite or there's a chance for Chambers to squeeze in another instance of his being a jerk, even when he's technically right). There is no character growth to speak of; none of these characters changes at all between the start of the book and the end. There's no complexity to anyone.
( Read more... )
This should be (another) lesson to me in not going all-in on a creator because I've enjoyed one of their works. I loved Chambers' To Be Taught, if Fortunate, and I've heard plenty of internet praise for The Long Way, so when I saw it at the bookstore recently, I dropped $20 on it readily. If I hadn't, I probably wouldn't have bothered finishing it.
First - if you picked up this book looking for the femslash, it's barely there, and it's a lot more friends-with-benefits than romance. The other two romances in the book get a lot more attention. If what you really want is F/F romance, it's not really here.
This is a character-driven book with barely a plot, which wouldn't be a problem if the characters were interesting. As it is, they are functionally interchangeable: a crew of people who are all optimistic, friendly, emotionally open, painstakingly polite, and obsessively well-intentioned (except for the one guy who's a Jerk, who exists to be a jerk whenever the scene calls for someone who needs to be less-than-fanatically-polite or there's a chance for Chambers to squeeze in another instance of his being a jerk, even when he's technically right). There is no character growth to speak of; none of these characters changes at all between the start of the book and the end. There's no complexity to anyone.
( Read more... )
Memento Mori
Sep. 20th, 2025 12:11 amviridian5While I was walking outside at 4 am, like I sometimes do, I got to see the skinny crescent moon with a bright Venus as an orange arc of light beneath it. Wasn't expecting it but I was glad to get it. (Usually when there are night sky events, my area has clouds or rain, not the clarity we had last night, with more stars visible than usual.)
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This sounds and looks interesting but ticket prices, especially for iMAX, are too rich for my blood so no.
In cinemas & IMAX® with limited screenings beginning October 28.
Get tickets at https://www.DepecheModeM.com.
DEPECHE MODE: M is a cinematic journey into the heart of Mexican culture's relationship with death, framed by the iconic performances of Depeche Mode during their 2023 Memento Mori tour. Conceived and directed by award-winning Mexican filmmaker Fernando Frías, the film captures the band's three sold-out shows in Mexico City, attended by over 200,000 fans, blending concert footage with interpretive interstitials and archival material. DEPECHE MODE: M celebrates the band's global influence while delving into the profound connection between music, mortality, and Mexican tradition — a sacred meeting point where pain, memory, joy, and dance dissolve into one another, blurring into something profoundly and beautifully human.
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This sounds and looks interesting but ticket prices, especially for iMAX, are too rich for my blood so no.
In cinemas & IMAX® with limited screenings beginning October 28.
Get tickets at https://www.DepecheModeM.com.
DEPECHE MODE: M is a cinematic journey into the heart of Mexican culture's relationship with death, framed by the iconic performances of Depeche Mode during their 2023 Memento Mori tour. Conceived and directed by award-winning Mexican filmmaker Fernando Frías, the film captures the band's three sold-out shows in Mexico City, attended by over 200,000 fans, blending concert footage with interpretive interstitials and archival material. DEPECHE MODE: M celebrates the band's global influence while delving into the profound connection between music, mortality, and Mexican tradition — a sacred meeting point where pain, memory, joy, and dance dissolve into one another, blurring into something profoundly and beautifully human.
back again!
Sep. 19th, 2025 11:16 pmpantoneocean posting in addmename: squid
age: 21
location: midwestern united states
i post about: i'm into a lot of things but what i end up posting about are monthly periodical-types of the music i discover and listen to (free for anybody to access) and the general musings and feelings of an anxious college guy (behind an access lock). i might someday make a dedicated post about history or politics or literature but i rarely feel like i have any meaningful contribution to what could be said. that's a very broad characterization but check my about me on my profile for a slightly more detailed synopsis
my hobbies are: my whole life revolves around music, more or less :] i listen to music extensively (squid771 on last.fm and rateyourmusic), collect vinyl records, and go to college studying sound engineering (i'm a senior!). i have an off-again, on-again recording project that i'll someday release something under. i play guitar, i'm an untrained singer, and i play various keyboard instruments. i always try to watch movies but usually that means i'll just gather a bunch, watch 2 in one night, and then go 6 months without watching another. i'm trying to read more (5 books read this year; infinitely times more than the past couple of years), i'm big into history (currently researching the george mcgovern 1972 campaign, and concurrently the history of how the word socialism/communism got such a negative connotation in the U.S.), and i like to walk around at night, or in the rain, or both. i try to appreciate the little things. i want to write, and learn esperanto, but i've never found enough consistent motivation to try either
my fandoms are: i haven't really considered myself to be really big enough on anything to be part of a fandom, but some of my favorite bands/artists are fishmans, stereolab, broadcast, nick drake, elliott smith, the radio dept., the field mice (all of sarah records really), brian eno, yo la tengo, ichiko aoba, and many many others! i could talk about music for days and days. as far as like forms of media go i'm big into the trails series (games 1-5, trails and crossbell; cold steel ruined the franchise), deltarune (haven't played undertale but i generally know what happens by osmosis), off, team fortress 2, and disco elysium; and then cowboy bebop, samurai champloo, NGE, general 2000s adult swim-core type stuff for anime
i'm looking to meet people who: i put a post up here about 6 months ago when i first started this account and i did get a lot of responses but nearly all of the people that replied to me aren't active anymore. i'm looking for people to really connect with and are in this site for the long haul (or at least for a while). i'm not too picky about sharing interests but having mutual appreciation for something always helps. the main thing though is that i'm just trying to make more friends :]
my posting schedule tends to be: whenever i feel like there's enough going enough in my life to post about something. this is usually like 2 to 5 times a month. i do tend to get wordy in my posts for what that's worth
when I add people, my dealbreakers are: i'm a very vague socialist so i'm not particularly chill with MAGA types or people who are just unnecessarily rude but i think there's like only 2 people on this site with those beliefs anyways
before adding me, you should know: i don't really comment much but i read everything that's posted. i get in my own head about responding to/posting comments and not feeling like i have enough to say. but i'm always looking to talk to more people and come out of my shell
i'm very depressed and mildly autistic and can be in my head a lot of the time, so the posts behind my access lock can get mopey and despondent. i'm doing the best i can to grapple with my emotions and the world around me so a little bit of empathy goes a long way. we're all going through something
age: 21
location: midwestern united states
i post about: i'm into a lot of things but what i end up posting about are monthly periodical-types of the music i discover and listen to (free for anybody to access) and the general musings and feelings of an anxious college guy (behind an access lock). i might someday make a dedicated post about history or politics or literature but i rarely feel like i have any meaningful contribution to what could be said. that's a very broad characterization but check my about me on my profile for a slightly more detailed synopsis
my hobbies are: my whole life revolves around music, more or less :] i listen to music extensively (squid771 on last.fm and rateyourmusic), collect vinyl records, and go to college studying sound engineering (i'm a senior!). i have an off-again, on-again recording project that i'll someday release something under. i play guitar, i'm an untrained singer, and i play various keyboard instruments. i always try to watch movies but usually that means i'll just gather a bunch, watch 2 in one night, and then go 6 months without watching another. i'm trying to read more (5 books read this year; infinitely times more than the past couple of years), i'm big into history (currently researching the george mcgovern 1972 campaign, and concurrently the history of how the word socialism/communism got such a negative connotation in the U.S.), and i like to walk around at night, or in the rain, or both. i try to appreciate the little things. i want to write, and learn esperanto, but i've never found enough consistent motivation to try either
my fandoms are: i haven't really considered myself to be really big enough on anything to be part of a fandom, but some of my favorite bands/artists are fishmans, stereolab, broadcast, nick drake, elliott smith, the radio dept., the field mice (all of sarah records really), brian eno, yo la tengo, ichiko aoba, and many many others! i could talk about music for days and days. as far as like forms of media go i'm big into the trails series (games 1-5, trails and crossbell; cold steel ruined the franchise), deltarune (haven't played undertale but i generally know what happens by osmosis), off, team fortress 2, and disco elysium; and then cowboy bebop, samurai champloo, NGE, general 2000s adult swim-core type stuff for anime
i'm looking to meet people who: i put a post up here about 6 months ago when i first started this account and i did get a lot of responses but nearly all of the people that replied to me aren't active anymore. i'm looking for people to really connect with and are in this site for the long haul (or at least for a while). i'm not too picky about sharing interests but having mutual appreciation for something always helps. the main thing though is that i'm just trying to make more friends :]
my posting schedule tends to be: whenever i feel like there's enough going enough in my life to post about something. this is usually like 2 to 5 times a month. i do tend to get wordy in my posts for what that's worth
when I add people, my dealbreakers are: i'm a very vague socialist so i'm not particularly chill with MAGA types or people who are just unnecessarily rude but i think there's like only 2 people on this site with those beliefs anyways
before adding me, you should know: i don't really comment much but i read everything that's posted. i get in my own head about responding to/posting comments and not feeling like i have enough to say. but i'm always looking to talk to more people and come out of my shell
i'm very depressed and mildly autistic and can be in my head a lot of the time, so the posts behind my access lock can get mopey and despondent. i'm doing the best i can to grapple with my emotions and the world around me so a little bit of empathy goes a long way. we're all going through something
Manga Check-in: Cardcaptor Sakura v7 ch. 30-35
Sep. 19th, 2025 11:46 pmbluapapilio
Chapter 30: Tomoya sweetly reassuring Akiho that her feelings are valid. :')
Eriol's stuck in bed, he's definitely got it worst of them all.
Chapter 31: So Akiho's parents were 'truly terrifying' magicians before they died, Akiho was then raised in the group. She had no magic but she was like an 'empty book', so they tried 'filling it'.
Syaoran finally tells Sakura everything.
So cute 😭
I figured we'd be seeing Akizuki-tachi's group soon.
Chapter 32-33: omg did Sakura just shrink Syaoran?! She didn't exactly reverse time, but she did shrink him. Syaoran almost experienced cute aggression but Sakura mostly held herself back. 😂
Kaito stopped Syaoran from telling Sakura about him rewinding time. :/
Chapter 34-35: So the Society filled Akiho will all their spells so they could destroy their book (so no one could get their hands on it?), but it's destroying her soul. Momo said to Kaito 'you want to activate the magic, don't you?'. The magic in Akiho? I mean, that'd destroy her right? Also, how much lifespan does he have left now? Akiho's going to be devastated to know he's been using it for her. Just like Sakura finding out what Syaoran was doing for her.
The dark sleek heads are risen from the water
Sep. 19th, 2025 11:38 pmsovayHome from six days in hospital with a plan designed not to land me back there any time soon, I have been passed into the care of Dr. Hestia, who is already carrying out her duties with enthusiastic ministrations of purr. I have washed my hair for the first time in a week. I have eaten food prepared by my family. I napped like a stone in the late afternoon, which I will have needed since my regimen for the foreseeable involves a schedule of medications I cannot let slide even when some of them require me to be awake at hours I have preferred my entire life to spend unconscious. My calendar is inevitably full of further maintenance, but I am truly looking forward to an increase in conversations that have nothing to do with the monitoring of my vitals. Mostly I am marrow-tired and vague with new chemistry and glad to be home in my own clothes and drinking water I don't have to ring anyone to bring me in bed. I was not expecting and delight in the gift of a plush harpy eagle that arrived while I was away.
Very Done with Gen AI this week
Sep. 19th, 2025 09:04 pmmuccamukkContent notes for suicide, self harm and grooming, on this one. I'd seen reference to this story, but hadn't realised how bad it was.
Nothing but fandom
Sep. 19th, 2025 09:18 pmcornerofmadnessBecause the day was boring and I'm still unwell so have fiction
Title: Something to Make My Heart Beat the Faster
Summary: Charlie has decided to make a more in depth infomercial for the hotel. Alastor’s input is to add a little melodrama to it as well to showcase the idea of self-sacrifice as a path to redemption, volunteering Husk for the short movie. Angel can’t wait and he has ideas of his own for how this should go. He’s the movie expert, after all.
Rating: mature
Notes: Written for spikegirl58’s six word challenge. The six words were Wet, Implied, Thirsty, Dress, Grumpy & Surprise. These words couldn’t have been more perfect for a story inspired by (and spoilers for) the S2 teaser if they had tried. Also written for the allbingo prompt of rum and the lyrical titles bingo challenge for the prompt a pre-1950s song. I chose All the Things You Are, originally written for a 1939 musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammestein and covered by many. This version if by Ella Fitzgerald.
This is definitely a spoiler for that little teaser trailer for S2 so read or not accordingly if you don’t want even a hint of spoiler.
( Story at the above link or under the cut )
Goodbye For Now 光渊 | Justice in the Dark
Dressed To Kill Torchwood
Chance Meeting Doctor Who
You Are Perfect Final Fantasy XV
Trouvaille The Owl House
Crazy For Trying Torchwood
In At The Deep End FAKE
You're Too Sweet For Me Hazbin Hotel
Freeze Frames Hazbin Hotel
Power to the People Stargate Atlantis
Making Something from Nothing Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis
A Weapon of His Making Hazbin Hotel
Score: i√2 to 𓅧 Elementary
DVD Commentary for Score: Q to 12 Elementary
The Aftershow The Amazing Digital Circus
Barely Holding On Torchwood
A Better Man Buffy the Vampire Slayer
C is for.... Conductor Stargate Atlantis
who cares (i'm fine) The Amazing Digital Circus
Title: Something to Make My Heart Beat the Faster
Summary: Charlie has decided to make a more in depth infomercial for the hotel. Alastor’s input is to add a little melodrama to it as well to showcase the idea of self-sacrifice as a path to redemption, volunteering Husk for the short movie. Angel can’t wait and he has ideas of his own for how this should go. He’s the movie expert, after all.
Rating: mature
Notes: Written for spikegirl58’s six word challenge. The six words were Wet, Implied, Thirsty, Dress, Grumpy & Surprise. These words couldn’t have been more perfect for a story inspired by (and spoilers for) the S2 teaser if they had tried. Also written for the allbingo prompt of rum and the lyrical titles bingo challenge for the prompt a pre-1950s song. I chose All the Things You Are, originally written for a 1939 musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammestein and covered by many. This version if by Ella Fitzgerald.
This is definitely a spoiler for that little teaser trailer for S2 so read or not accordingly if you don’t want even a hint of spoiler.
( Story at the above link or under the cut )
Goodbye For Now 光渊 | Justice in the Dark
Dressed To Kill Torchwood
Chance Meeting Doctor Who
You Are Perfect Final Fantasy XV
Trouvaille The Owl House
Crazy For Trying Torchwood
In At The Deep End FAKE
You're Too Sweet For Me Hazbin Hotel
Freeze Frames Hazbin Hotel
Power to the People Stargate Atlantis
Making Something from Nothing Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis
A Weapon of His Making Hazbin Hotel
Score: i√2 to 𓅧 Elementary
DVD Commentary for Score: Q to 12 Elementary
The Aftershow The Amazing Digital Circus
Barely Holding On Torchwood
A Better Man Buffy the Vampire Slayer
C is for.... Conductor Stargate Atlantis
who cares (i'm fine) The Amazing Digital Circus
Sign-Ups Close in 1 Day!
Sep. 19th, 2025 09:42 pmflowing_river posting in aspecexSign-ups close in 1 day, on September 20th at 10PM PST. Make sure to read the rules before signing up.
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Antibodies, Meet Antilogic
Sep. 20th, 2025 03:00 amnotalwaysright_feedRead Antibodies, Meet Antilogic
Customer: *Waves dismissively.* "Oh, don’t worry about me, honey. You don’t need to wear a mask around me."
Me: "...I do, actually."
Customer: "No, no, no, you don’t get it. I already had the Covid, so I can’t catch it again. I’m safe."
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Sep. 20th, 2025 03:57 ambeccaelizabethI am once again playing Wrath of the Righteous.
On Core, where the minimum requirement is to do everything you can do, every buff for you even for an easy fight.
I think I built the Knight Commander badly. I'm just shooting things with a crossbow because it turns out witch spells are mostly debuffs and I keep not throwing them. It is. Not good.
I know I could have built the others better.
It's kind of mostly working right now but.
if this grinds to a halt because I needed to make different choices many hours ago that is so frustrating.
Also I discovered that if you choose Demon even once in order to get an Achievement the neathers are completely screwed. They have no voice now. They're just killing stuff. And getting killed. So much.
Basically this Knight Commander is going to feel So Bad Forever. Lose temper once, watch intelligent beings apparently lose their minds. So so bad.
They chose Angel at Drezen but they have a lot to make up for.
Also I have played this game so often I am completely forgetting which bits I have done on this play through and which are still to do. Game journal is only thing keeping me in the right timeline. Time loop much?
I should sleep. Sleep is of the good.
On Core, where the minimum requirement is to do everything you can do, every buff for you even for an easy fight.
I think I built the Knight Commander badly. I'm just shooting things with a crossbow because it turns out witch spells are mostly debuffs and I keep not throwing them. It is. Not good.
I know I could have built the others better.
It's kind of mostly working right now but.
if this grinds to a halt because I needed to make different choices many hours ago that is so frustrating.
Also I discovered that if you choose Demon even once in order to get an Achievement the neathers are completely screwed. They have no voice now. They're just killing stuff. And getting killed. So much.
Basically this Knight Commander is going to feel So Bad Forever. Lose temper once, watch intelligent beings apparently lose their minds. So so bad.
They chose Angel at Drezen but they have a lot to make up for.
Also I have played this game so often I am completely forgetting which bits I have done on this play through and which are still to do. Game journal is only thing keeping me in the right timeline. Time loop much?
I should sleep. Sleep is of the good.
Light Black #24 [The Fulcrum]
Sep. 19th, 2025 07:08 pmparadoxcase posting in rainbowficName: Nyufeisyälye Ciria
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Light Black #24: Steal
Styles and Supplies: Gift Wrap, Panorama, Pastels (September 19: Scavenge, from this list), Novelty Bead (this image, given here)
Word Count: 3200
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mention of child murder
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali
Summary: The double full moon arrives.
( Nyufeisyalye Ciria )
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Light Black #24: Steal
Styles and Supplies: Gift Wrap, Panorama, Pastels (September 19: Scavenge, from this list), Novelty Bead (this image, given here)
Word Count: 3200
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mention of child murder
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali
Summary: The double full moon arrives.
( Nyufeisyalye Ciria )
Yike.
Sep. 20th, 2025 12:11 pmalisx[Derek] Thompson is very skilled, a latter-day slightly-less-talented version of Malcolm Gladwell, who can make the upper class chatter. For instance, he recently wrote about how young people aren’t partying or drinking much anymore, which is a perfect topic for a 15 minute conversation between two lawyers in DC.
Matt Stoller .
This is from a longer article on an internet slap-fight between Stoller and Thompson over the former’s critique of the latter’s “abundance” bullshit; basically neoliberalism repackaged as “hey wasn’t this better than fascism tho?” to sell back to a gullible “socially liberal but politically conservative” professional-managerial class. For all that I do have problems with Stoller (specifically, as a populist he’s too fast to get into bed with the far right so long as they make vague anti-monopoly mouth-sounds), I think his critiques here are worth a read, if only for the drama.
Free for All Saturday, Week 38 [DW Edition]
Sep. 20th, 2025 12:42 am↑↑↑ Available dates:
September 30 & October 2
October 14 & 16
October 28 & 30
Happy Saturday, everyone! :D Today's Free for All is your last chance to post new prompts before our quarterly Lonely Prompts Week starts (Sept 22~26). There are no themes to follow for prompts or fills. If you've had any ideas this week that didn't really work with Tuesday's or Thursday's posts, today's your chance to prompt 'em. Be free, and have fun! ✎
Just a few rules:
1. No more than five prompts in a row.
2. No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
3. Use the character's full name and the fandom's full name for ease in adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
4. No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
5. If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
6. If your story has possible triggers, please warn for them in the subject line!
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Are today's prompts not catching your eye? No worries, because we have plenty of older prompts that just might do the trick! You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^
We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection.
If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site: please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site, but you are still more than welcome to participate. =)
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A friendly reminder about our posting schedule: Themed posts for new prompts go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day for new prompts of any flavor. Sundays are for showing Lonely Prompts some love, whether by requesting for someone to adopt them or by sharing any fills that you've recently completed.