polyamships at 3 Weeks 4 Dreamwidth

Apr. 25th, 2026 09:43 am
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For the next three weeks, at [community profile] polyamships we will make a post every other day discussing, reccing, and commenting polyam ships. These posts will go up exclusively on DW and, hopefully, they will encourage more community amongst like-minded people on this platform.

Come chat with us! Our first post is up!

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Four books new to me. Three fantasy, one horror (maybe?) and at least one is part of a series.

Books Received, April 18 — April 24

Poll #34517 Books Received, April 18 — April 24
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 2


Which of these look interesting?

View Answers

The Drakon King by Terry J. Benton-Walker (November 2026)
0 (0.0%)

They Cry by Glen Cook (November 2026)
1 (50.0%)

The Raven at the Ash Door by K. A. Linde (June 2026)
0 (0.0%)

Monsters of Ohio by John Scalzi (November 2026)
1 (50.0%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
2 (100.0%)

Saturday 25/04/2026

Apr. 25th, 2026 03:26 pm
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1) Went shopping for one item, met up with my mum, and ended up with a whole new outfit ^^

2) Had a delicious lunch at a temporary place in the city

3) Going to an English improvisation theater this evening

last contract, radiant star

Apr. 25th, 2026 09:23 am
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Porting a pair of book reviews over from Bluesky:

Fonda Lee's Last Contract of Isako is terraforming cyberpunk. It's also a samurai movie in book form--directly, rather than in the secondhand way you'd get by riffing on cyberpunk without knowing the sources. Last Contract of Isako is thinking through what it means to have a moral code--an unrelenting and in some ways horrifying code--in service to someone who has no ethics at all. It comes down more or less on the side that some ethics are better than none, which is refreshing when you're used to grimdark, or real-world nihilism. It's also tremendously tightly plotted, in that way where as a reader you know one thing will happen but aren't ready for the sudden unfurling of ramifications!

Last Contract pairs well with Ann Leckie's Radiant Star, in the sense that both are portraits of people who are fucking things up for deeply embedded cultural reasons. Though the book I think you should read Radiant Star against is Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Leckie loves point of view experiments, and Radiant Star is experimenting with an opinionated nineteenth-century style narrator who can dip in and out of other points of view.

Like Jonathan Strange, Radiant Star is particularly interested in the ways that social stratification of various kinds leads people to ignore the knowledge of those they think are inferior, at great peril. When the narrator of Radiant Star comments that a decision is really very understandable, it is about to become a giant clusterfuck, and this becomes funnier and funnier (and scarier and scarier) as the book goes on. You can read most of Radiant Star with general awareness of Ancillary Justice, but the end will be most satisfying if you remember the events of Ancillary Mercy (it's close in time to that book, though places & characters don't repeat).

I requested both of these books from Netgalley, and I'm very glad I did.

VIDS! <333

Apr. 25th, 2026 09:27 am
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Hello vidders and vid-watchers!


I've been inspired by [community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth to encourage posting and thought... WHAT ABOUT VIDDING?!... (as one does). ;)

Making vids, watching vids, recommending vids, meta about vids... ALL THINGS VIDS! <333

So I challenge YOU to join me in committing to make three vid posts* over the next three weeks.
Sign-ups help, so please comment below saying 'CHALLENGE ACCEPTED'.
* You are welcome to use this comm to share your posts, please tag 'threeweeks'.


A cute pink kitty is playing with the Dreamwidth logo: Come join our celebration of Dreamwidth, April 25th to May 15th.
[community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth is celebrating Dreamwidth's anniversary!
Come join in for fun, memes, activities, and more ♥

Tokusatsu 3Weeks4DW Events!

Apr. 25th, 2026 09:15 am
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For Three Weeks For Dreamwidth I'm hosting a couple Tokusatsu events in two of the comms I run!

First [community profile] toku100challenge has a drabblethon! What makes this special is you won't need to follow a prompt table as you would normally do for standard posting.

[community profile] tokurecs is hosting its usual monthly Self Rec post but the time has been extended to the entire event period instead of the usual week or so. :D

Prompt fests!

Apr. 25th, 2026 09:06 am
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Hello! 

In my events journal, I am running a multifandom ultra-rarepair promptfest for this event; Rarest of Rarepairs: Micro Edition. This is for romantic/sexual ships with 35 works or under on AO3 (not counting any other archives), using otp:true.

In my comm, [community profile] ficto , I am running a three week ficto fest for fictosexuals/romantics/fictospectrum folks, self-shippers, yumeshippers, and anyone aligned to that. 

Cannot wait and loving seeing what others are up to!

Friday Phrase: Spit the dummy

Apr. 24th, 2026 06:47 am
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Spit the dummy

An Austrlian idiom to describe someone who is overreacting or acting wildly childish.



(no subject)

Apr. 25th, 2026 07:55 am
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The last couple of weeks have been trying, and I'll try to sum things up for y'all without getting too deeply into the weeds of any particular. As you may know or have inferred, Fox works in tech and for the past couple of years has been handling the patching and maintenance of an HR/payroll system. He knows SAP really well and taught himself things like HANA and bob-j (business objects) in order to make sure this system runs regularly and on time so everyone can get paid. One major obstacle to that is that each little department has their own systems, and everything is cobbled together into one over-arching payroll system. Apparently one OS he needs to deal with is from the mid-90s.

In the interest of cutting costs, the company decided to "sell" his team and several others to another company, who would then employ them to work at Company A as contractors. With the accompanying decrease in pay, loss of benefits, etc. Losing our health insurance at this point would be a nightmare - in fact, Fox has an MRI appointment tonight for his lower back. Anyway, they would be contractors for one year, after which Company B would reassign them as needed ... or let them go. As needed.

Fox started contacting people he knew at other tech companies looking to get on there, and then the most fortuitous thing happened. A guy who has been a data warehouse dev since forever decided this was probably a good time to retire. And Fox's manager recommended him to fill the position. As of yesterday the paperwork has been signed, and the crisis is averted. The people he regularly works with see him as a valuable asset, since he's very good at programming languages, self-starting, and has worked at this company since it was AT&T way back in like, 1998. Fox has stayed at his job there as the various companies bought and sold the business. In fact once his old team was informed of his move, they were "distressed." Of course, I think they're also down to two now.

So that made the last couple of weeks an anxiety roller-coaster.

We're still "on" for a camping trip next week, since the time off was approved back in January. We'll be pulling the camper out tomorrow and starting to clean it up. As I said, he's got an MRI tonight, so we need to drive over to Baptist South for that. Earlier this week he had a neurology appointment where they determined he's got no nerve damage in his foot and leg, which is good, though it means his problem may likely be in his back. That's what tonight ought to tell us.

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth 2026

Apr. 25th, 2026 08:06 am
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This fest runs from April 25 to May 15 to celebrate the anniversary of Dreamwidth. There is RSS feed with entries tagged 'threeweeks' so you can follow along with all the entries

In celebration of Dreamwidth, I am offering a custom Dreamsheep icon, like the one I'm using on this post. Some examples I've made in previous years belonging to other people below the cut:
icons made in previous years )

Please comment to this post with your requests - include things like colors, items, or fandoms you would like me to try to include. Although it may take me a while, I promise that anyone who makes a request will get a Dreamsheep.

Weekly Chat

Apr. 25th, 2026 01:54 pm
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The weekly chat posts are intended for just that, chatting among each other. What are you currently watching? Reading? What actor/idol are you currently following? What are you looking forward to? Are you busy writing, creating art? Or did you have no time at all for anything, and are bemoaning that fact?

Whatever it is, talk to us about it here. Tell us what you liked or didn't like, and if you want to talk about spoilery things, please hide them under either of these codes:
or

Oops Challenge: Babylon 5: Forgotten

Apr. 25th, 2026 12:20 pm
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Title: Forgotten
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: G’Kar, Londo, Na’Toth.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Spoilers/Setting: A Tragedy of Telepaths.
Summary: G’Kar is horrified to find Na’Toth still a prisoner.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 513: Amnesty 85, using Challenge 415: Oops.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.




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It is [community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth time and I am celebrating the same way I always do by bringing a mini version of my old beloved [livejournal.com profile] sharp_teeth to Dreamwidth! The fest is open to everyone and runs here for the full three weeks (until it's no longer May 15th in any timezone).

(no fancy promo banner yet because my photoshop skills are ass and I'm late to meet a friend at the farmer's market, but check back later maybe)

Rules

☠ This is a comment meme for creating works focussed on horror for any fictional canon, including original works and crossovers. [personal profile] summerofhorrorexchange has a list of horror subgenres for your inspiration, and you can also re-post prompts from the 2024 round.

☠ RPF is not allowed. Fictionalised versions of real people (e.g. prompts for Gentleman Jack) are allowed, provided they are not in extremely bad taste (war criminals, serial killers, etc). I determine what extremely bad taste is. This rule does not apply to fictional canons.

☠ This is a comment meme for gen (in the relationship sense, i.e. not focussed on romance or sex) fanworks. Background pairings are allowed, but should not be the focus of the work.

☠ This is a comment meme for Dreamwidth. Works should be Dreamwidth-exclusive for the duration of the event, to the extent possible (e.g. artists and podficcers obviously need to host somewhere, but fic should not be posted to AO3 or other sites until after the 15th). You can crosspost anywhere on Dreamwidth (your own journal or fic comm, other thematically relevant comms) at any point during the event, and anywhere else after May 15th.

☠ To participate in the meme, all you have to do is leave a prompt or reply to a prompt with a fill.

☠ Post your prompt as a comment to this post, one prompt per comment. Prompt comment subject lines should follow the format Fandom, Character(s), short description of prompt, for example Zone Blanche, Camille, came back wrong.

☠ 'Any fandom' and 'Specific fandom, any character' prompts are allowed.

☠ If you want to use an image or video as a prompt that's fine, but please link to it with a description rather than putting it directly in the comment.

☠ Post your fills as replies to the prompt comment. Fill comment subject lines should follow the format FILL: title, rating.

☠ If filling an 'Any' prompt, fandom and/or ship names in the fill titles are appreciated but not mandatory

☠ Warnings at the start of fills are appreciated but not mandatory. In fact, the entire comments section is a choose not to warn-friendly space.

☠ Link your fills in the fills thread below. I'll collect them in a masterpost after the event ends. (I mean it this year.)

☠ Multiple fills and self-fills are allowed.

☠ You can use fills you create for this event to fill prompts in other events, as long as those events are also hosted on Dreamwidth and their mods are fine with cross-fills.

☠ Be 18+ and don't be a fuckwit. Complaining that you don't like a prompt, character-bashing, and other wankery will get you banned from my journal. If you're one of the tiny handful of people banned from my journal, you're also banned from this particular event.

Dreamwidth With Friends

Gen horror not your thing? There are other prompt fests ongoing! If you're running one as well, drop the link in the Questions/Etc thread and I'll add it here.
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Thank you everyone, for bearing with my deadline mixup, and for using the extension to its fullest potential! <3

We have 33 inspired icons by 6 makers! )

Feel free to comment here or on each maker's threads linked next to their name.

Our next activity will be posted later today!

Various memes for your journal

Apr. 25th, 2026 12:07 pm
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