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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-09-17 10:02 pm
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Backsliding

My sugar crashed out hard but I'm fine. So the drug is lowering my sugar (yay) but it's tearing up my stomach (boo). I'll stick it out a little longer. It took me a couple weeks to adjust to gabapentin after all. But if the GERD gets worse I'll have to give up.

Got a letter from the hospital because they don't know phones apparently. They scheduled my abdominal ct scan at 7 pm on the first. Okay I love that they HAVE a night appointment for those who work. On the other hand I live over an hour away...I'll call them and see if it can be a thursday.

My dentist called monday to reschedule. I keep calling back and no one returns that call.

Aspen called me and the girl keeps repeating what I wrote about them, as if trying to....I'm not sure. You don't need to repeat what I said. I know what I said. I appreciate the apology but I am keeping my eye on you. Also they tried to blame the other Aspen in PA which fair, they didn't reach out to me. Eye roll.


I got my [personal profile] spook_me prompts.

For cannibal I got
one and
two Not sure which one to use, probably one


And for Graveyard I got
one and
https://public.fotki.com/trillingstar/spook-me/spook-me-2025/graveyard-8.html I'm leaning toward two for this one

What I Just Finished Reading:

Wrong Side of the Grave - Bryna Butler mothman as an alien...she's a local author


What Moves the Dead - T. Kingfisher a very cool, queer coded retelling of the Fall of the House of Usher

The Road to Strange: Travel Tales of the Paranormal and Beyond by Rosemary Ellen Guilley and Michael Brein, one of the last thing I bought from her at a Mothman festival before her passing. I wish this were more interesting.



What I am Currently Reading:

Nothing Special vol 2 - a fantasy webtoon, it's cute

Jaws - I needed as J and one of my dentists handed me this to read. Someone's thesis on why there is so much malocclusion. Riveting (no, it's not)

Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World - imagine Gavin or Lindsey trying to get promoted at Wolfram and Hart and you more or less have it. It's interesting but it's hard to root for Colin since he's actively evil and petty


What I Plan to Read Next: I'm so behind on my challenges. something for that. I've lost track of where I put the books. I mean I know they're in the computer room but what box did I stick them in?
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FandomWeekly Mod ([personal profile] fanweeklymod) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-09-17 10:03 pm

[#274 | Near-Death Experience] Challenge Post

Challenge 274:
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE
It wasn’t the end...but it sure was close.

For a lot of characters, close calls are pretty common – whether they’re fighting dragons, visiting aliens, or traveling through magic wastelands, they deal with a lot of dangers. But even then, actual near-death experiences are pretty rare.

What happened? Did your characters witness some kind of afterlife, or something else entirely, or nothing at all? How did they survive?

Write a story about a near-death experience.

BONUS GOAL: “Please, stay with me.”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!


Challenge ends Monday, September 22 at 9:00PM EST.
• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 274 – near-death experience
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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FandomWeekly Mod ([personal profile] fanweeklymod) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-09-17 10:02 pm

[#273 | Bad Timing] Results Post

Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #273 – Bad Timing!

This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 2885

Congratulations to both of you, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes! [personal profile] autobotscoutriella will be making this week’s banners, so keep an eye out for those next week.

You may now post your Challenge 273 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there!
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flowing_river ([personal profile] flowing_river) wrote in [community profile] aspecex2025-09-17 06:59 pm

Nomination Clarifications 6

Reminder to 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.

NoPixel (Web Series)

Yeager Demonblood & Any Guild Member (NoPixel) - Who are the members of the "Guild"? Would the nominator be okay with nominating specific members they may want to request instead of "Any Guild Member"?

Yuno Sykk & Any Cleanbois Member (NoPixel) - Who are the members of the "Cleanbois"? Would the nominator be okay with nominating specific members they may want to request instead of "Any Cleanbois Member"?


Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (Video Blogging RPF)

Dan Howell/Phil Lester (Phandom) - This exchange is not accepting RPF nominations, is there a reason this pairing would not be considered RPF?


Video Blogging RPF

Buddha & Sykkuno (VB RPF) - This exchange is not accepting RPF nominations, is there a reason this pairing would not be considered RPF?

Buddha/Sykkuno (VB RPF) - This exchange is not accepting RPF nominations, is there a reason this pairing would not be considered RPF?

Dan Howell/Phil Lest (VB RPF) - This exchange is not accepting RPF nominations, is there a reason this pairing would not be considered RPF?

Disguised Toast & Sykkuno (VB RPF) - This exchange is not accepting RPF nominations, is there a reason this pairing would not be considered RPF?

Disguised Toast/Sykkuno (VB RPF) - This exchange is not accepting RPF nominations, is there a reason this pairing would not be considered RPF?

Ellum & Sykkuno (VB RPF) - This exchange is not accepting RPF nominations, is there a reason this pairing would not be considered RPF?

Solo: Sykkuno (VB RPF) - This exchange is not accepting RPF nominations, is there a reason this nomination would not be considered RPF?



Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)

Please disambiguate your nominations!


The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

Please disambiguate your nominations!


文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs

Please disambiguate your nominations!


The Strange Case of Starship Iris (Podcast)

Please disambiguate your nominations!



Doctor Who & Related Fandoms

Please see the previous nomination clarification post!
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Elise Matthesen ([personal profile] elisem) wrote2025-09-17 08:46 pm

silly body continues to be silly, yet I trudge forward, for I am frikkin' stubborn

 In the course of dealing with silly body stuff with which I will not bore you, my sleep cycle got turned upside down again, so I am busy with various attempts at precessing back to a more manageable situation.

Somewhere in some book or other, a character said something about the phrase for having a hangover in a certain language was "my eyes are not opposite the holes." It's not a hangover, but when my sleep schedule is deeply out of synch and I'm trying to do stuff connected to the outside world's schedule, I kind of feel like my life is not opposite the holes.

How's your life matching your hours of access lately?
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firecat (attention machine in need of calibration) ([personal profile] firecat) wrote in [community profile] iddyiddybangbang2025-09-17 06:49 pm

The Anatomy Model [Original Work]

Title: The Anatomy Model
Author: firecat on AO3
Fandom: Original Work
Characters: Anatomy Model, Professor of Hands-on Sex Ed Class, Students of Sex Ed Class
Word Count: ~8560
Rating: E
Warnings: Rape/Non-con (although it’s mostly dub-con), Underage Sex (late teens)

Summary:
“We do have one way you can earn your way out of the disgrace you’re in,” said the headmaster.
Agatha shyly raised her eyes to his face.
“You can serve as a teaching assistant to Professor Fallon. He teaches biology and sexual education. Mostly the work is grading papers, but occasionally other jobs will be assigned.”

The Anatomy Model on AO3
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Elise Matthesen ([personal profile] elisem) wrote2025-09-17 08:28 pm

Om nom: food combinations, or, playing with what's here

 So a little while back, for. my birthday I got various tasty things to nibble. One of them was salmon skin and salted egg crisps, with curry leaves in the mix, and some spice. Extremely tasty. When I got down to the bottom of the bag, there were a lot of little shards and crumbs that were particularly spicy. A mental note was. made for possible future uses.

Today was a future use. There wasn't a fresh vegetable in the house, but I wanted something with both softness and crunch, and wanted it to be in something that had umami plus. The last of the bread gave me toast. There was some braunsweiger (liver paste, Nueske's in particular) which went onto the toast, cut pretty thinly. (I am from people who like thick slices of braunsweiger on toast or bread, and normally I do too, but this was a special application, part flavor and part structural adhesive.) Then I spooned out some of the fragments from the bottom of the bag of salted egg and salmon skin crisps, laying them on top of the liver paste and pressing them in with the back of the spoon, and had it open-faced. 

Big win. Big tasty win. Especially the way the curry leaves went with the braunsweiger. 

Must remember this and make it again.

Part of the idea for this one was looking at the braunsweiger and wishing I could magically make a banh mi from the place in Global Market appear. So some of the taste combo came from that. Lettuce or bok choy or other green or variously colored thinly sliced vegetables, with vinegar or not, would have been great, but there was no such suppy in the house, alas. Although hey, there is a little new kraut in the back of the fridge which should get eaten up. Hmmm. Although we are out of bread now. Hmm. I wonder how it would be on top of ramen noodles. Pity that the boiled eggs are all et up.

Do you have any tasty kludged-together food that you are fond of? What gave you the idea?  

(My term for kludged-together food is "cream of refrigerator soup," which explains the tag. No actual soup was generated in this particular instance.)
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Lune Soldier ([personal profile] glitteringstars) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2025-09-17 08:22 pm
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Check In: Day 17

Good (insert your local time of day)! Hope all is doing well!

How has writing gone today?

Do you have a piece of fiction you've written 10+ years ago that you want to revisit? It doesn't necessarily need to be in the sense of wanting to rewrite it or write a sequel.
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Alison ([personal profile] landofnowhere) wrote2025-09-17 07:51 pm

wednesday book about a Great Man

Gauss, Titan of Science by G. Waldo Dunnington, with additional material by Jeremy Gray. I mentioned in last week's post that during recent air travel I watched a movie with a dubiously historical version of Gauss and was entertained but ultimately would accept no substitutes for actual historical Gauss.

This is the biography of Carl Friedrich Gauss that I picked up off a university library shelf when I was 15, and made me go all swoony over Gauss's letter proposing to his first wife (link is to the original German manuscript). Returning to it with less swooniness and a more mature ability to evaluate historical sources, and also reading a new edition with helpful front matter, it's clear the book is not 100% "actual historical Gauss": it starts off with a version of the famous 5050 story, which is based on an anecdote that Gauss reportedly told about his childhood, but probably didn't happen exactly that way.

Indeed, as I learned from the front matter, G. Waldo Dunnington was a professional Gauss stan; one of his elementary school teachers was a great-granddaughter of Gauss, and learning that there was no Victorian Great Man biography of Gauss, he spent his entire academic career (interrupted by WWII) remedying that lack. Since I'm also a Gauss stan, I found the book generally readable if sometimes a bit repetitive, and enjoyed various fun Gauss facts. (In the department of obscure historical figures who ought to be fictionalized, there is Friedrich Ludwig Wachter, Gauss's student who studied non-Euclidean geometry and vanished without a trace at age 25.)

I'll probably do more Gauss reading (though also I now have an unproofread scan of Teresa by Edith Ayrton Zangwill so I may read that first); I've started with the letters online, but may also seek out other biographies. I continue to be fascinated by Gauss's youngest daughter, whose story would make a good historical romance; and having done some Gauss reading I'm starting to think I can actually write this fic.
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neekabe ([personal profile] neekabe) wrote2025-09-17 08:25 pm

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A couple nights ago was the first night of the eye goop where I couldn't fall asleep easily and it was very annoying because everything is soft focus Vaseline haze so I can't read until I get more tired.

I'm going to need more podcasts or maybe delve into audio books or something. But I guess it'll have to be book I've read before. But sometimes I fall asleep in under 30 minutes and sometimes it's hours, and books that are too interesting are too interesting. But also the ad breaks are getting longer and longer in podcasts and more and more repetitive and I can't skip easily.

--

I've gone my first whole bottle of eye drops. We got a three pack from costco and I'm happy because they can get expensive. And there were some days when I know I should have used more.

My right eye has been bothering me more recently. I'm curious about what this deterioration is going to be like.

--

I've started using Hank Green's Focus Friend app. It recently added a new room, and my Bean Friend has been knitting away to help furnish it. It's been useful.

I think one of the more annoying things about it, is that it makes me aware of how little time things take? Like I'll be like "I'm gonna put away my laundry! Set the focus session for 20 minutes" And then 10 minutes later, it's all done. It feels like it takes 20 minutes, but the awareness of the reality is annoying.

It's probably a good thing, overall, to have these regular reminders that this chore really just takes 10 minutes maximum. But still annoying XD

--

I'm considering getting an ereader that's newer than my .... 15 year old Aluratec Libre? Open to recs, I'm thinking kobo but I keep seeing boox and am tempted by that as well. I know I don't want the kindle.

I do need to go hold things though.

We're thinking of going somewhere south in the winter for a vacation, so I think it'd be nice to have for then.
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scrubjayspeaks ([personal profile] scrubjayspeaks) wrote2025-09-17 05:09 pm

Lake Lewisia #1305

One sizzling day in late summer, she came down from the tree, red from head to foot. Sunburn accounted for her nose and shoulders, throbbing and coppery, while the mulberries could be blamed for the smear of deep purple-red that tinted lips and teeth. Her hands and feet were red with something more visceral, which perhaps went some way to explaining why she had been missing up a tree for all season and had come back looking so wild.

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LL#1305
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StarWatcher ([personal profile] starwatcher) wrote in [community profile] fandom_checkin2025-09-17 05:58 pm
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Daily Check-in

 
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, September 17, to midnight on Thursday, September 18. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33630 Daily Check-in
This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 26

How are you doing?

I am OK.
14 (53.8%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
12 (46.2%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
10 (38.5%)

One other person.
11 (42.3%)

More than one other person.
5 (19.2%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
 
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nnozomi ([personal profile] nnozomi) wrote in [community profile] guardian_learning2025-09-18 07:35 am

第四年第二百五十二天

部首
土 part 1 tǔ
土, earth; 圣, holy; 在, to exist pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=32

语法
Using 对 and 跟
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/dui4-gen1-prepositions/

词汇
乐队, band (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
从这个土质和骨头的成色来看,起码是百年以上的产物, based on the soil quality here and the bone discoloration, it's from at least one hundred years ago
你是他们的女儿和妹妹,他们当然对你好, you're their daughter and sister, of course they're good to you
[no bands in Guardian]

Me:
我跟你说,你得对她再好一点。
我想去听他们的乐队的live。
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𝓬𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓪 ([personal profile] mulhollands) wrote in [community profile] icons2025-09-18 08:36 am

Multi fandom icons


Sherlock (mostly of Moriarty), Fleabag, Andrew Scott in Hamlet, Andrew Scott, Winona Ryder, Gillian Anderson, Little Mermaid, Moonstruck, Alice in Wonderland.

here
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peaceful_sands ([personal profile] peaceful_sands) wrote in [community profile] bitesizedcleaning2025-09-17 11:23 pm
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Day 17 or 18 of the September Stampede

Another week has passed us by and some of us might still be stampeding, some of us might be stepping more cautiously or even hobbling along struggling (like me) trying to balance out other commitments and squeeze in a few blasts of time to catch up.

If you've been using the table and tackling something each day, feel free to tell us all about it this week. If not here's the table and pick up with today's (or any other day that suits) and tell us about it when you can - use this post until I manage to get up to speed enough to make another one.

Wishing you well for the next week ahead and remember the aim of the month's challenges is that most can be adapted to fit what you need so if it says a 'flat surface', any type of flat surface will do - desks, worktops, floors, tables and so on. Similarly a vertical surface could be a window, a tiled wall, mirror or door. Part of the challenge is deciding how to apply the daily challenge (ha ha!).

This is supposed to be a low-stress challenge - if you miss a day, it doesn't matter, if the day's challenge doesn't suit, repeat the day before or start on the next day's. With the exception of two days, the challenges should take about 10 minutes, if you want to spend longer that's great, judge by your personal available time and energy.

To make it easier to take part and not be held up by time differences and days when I'm not able to post, all challenges will be posted in the table below the cut to aid both those taking part and the daily poster.

My biggest request for the month is that, whenever you can, you join in the chat - even if you haven't done the day's challenge come and cheer for others. We're here for the ups and downs this month so you can tell us when you're struggling as well as celebrate your successes.

Daily Challenge Table shown below the cut )

And so today's challenge is, depending on where/when you are reading this (but I'll go with the 17th/18th) to either spend 10 minutes on a flat surface or on a vertical one.

Good luck and enjoy what's left of your September.