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but Paramount Plus won't cooperate at all. So I finally convinced E to watch some Prodigy with me!

Man, I really love that theme song. Also, I'm gonna just say, maybe it's because it's aimed at a younger audience but this show does the best technobabble - just enough to explain, not enough to confuse or bore.

**********


Read more... )

Deadline Approaches!

May. 22nd, 2025 04:03 am
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Works are due May 24th (all time zones inclusive)

We have many wonderful gifts in the coffers already and can't wait to start sharing them starting June 1st.

Submission Guidelines

Beta Volunteer Post (comments not screened; volunteer or contact one of the folks already volunteered)

Pinch-Hitter Volunteer Post (comments screened for anonymity)

If you have questions or need to request an extension, as always send us an email at holmesticemods@gmail.com

Thursday: Painting Titles

May. 22nd, 2025 12:44 am
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Hello, everyone. I’m [personal profile] simplyn2deep and your host for the week.

If you're interested in being a Thursday/Thursday guest host, you can sign up here. Thanks! These are the currently available dates:
May 27 & 29
June 3 & 5
June 10 & 12
June 17 & 19

Today's theme is painting titles. Much like Tuesday's theme, I struggled with how to describe this. Just prompt a painting title and writer, you are free to interpret the prompt as you want.

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
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.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ any, any, Long Point by Robert Genn
+ any, any, Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler
+ any, any, The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2024 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].

While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

As a friendly reminder about our schedule, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications!

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word! [community profile] comment_fic


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Community Thursday

May. 22nd, 2025 06:47 am
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Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week...

Commented on [community profile] common_nature, and more Vigilantes anime chit-chat on [community profile] bnha_fans!
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Despite spending rather more of the afternoon at the doctor's than planned, I do not consider the day a total loss because it contained an unexpectedly successful nebulizer treatment, the acquisition of bagels and chopped liver, a cinnamon cake donut, and [personal profile] ashlyme introducing me to Idris the Dragon. I have now seen what a gas station looks like when the fire suppression system has been deployed. Fell over in the evening and went down a rabbit hole of Boston vintage radio. Read some film criticism by Graham Greene. Am still not really watching movies myself. My brain could come back online any time.

(no subject)

May. 22nd, 2025 04:47 am
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Typically, the International Space Station is visible only at night. Typically, the International Space Station is visible only at night.


Aurendor D&D: Summary for 5/21 Game

May. 22nd, 2025 12:20 am
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In tonight's game, the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Mostly good day

May. 22nd, 2025 12:00 am
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Got up and showered and had coffee at [personal profile] mashfanficchick's. Then we Ubered over here, arriving in time for my Shipt order to get here.

I brought Oldest Brother's ashes back and put the box on my printer (pretty much the only free flat surface I have) with the two photos we printed out for the service. Not great but will do until I can get them taken care of at the cottage this summer.

I needed to get my laundry from the laundromat, and so we did that, then we took out my recycling. The kitchen looks much better.

We tried again with the new tools to get the tip off the spigot to attach the python to clean the turtle tank. Again we failed. This is very frustrating.

We ordered a meal from Chipotle, and after we ate, spent the rest of the afternoon just hanging out. We charged our phones and I charged my fitbit and then we went into Astoria to Omnia to meet a fellow Starsky and Hutch fan who also happens to be a Bard graduate.

That was a lot of fun and we hung out and talked until quite late. Then I came home and Phoned the FWiB.

And now I have to get to bed because my hair appointment tomorrow is for 10:00!

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The ashes are here and safe.

3. Clean laundry.

4. Recycling out.

5. Fun time with friends.

6. Bed soon.

Whose Rights? (part 1 of 1, complete)

May. 21st, 2025 11:36 pm
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Whose Rights?
By Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1104
[Landing #7, day 2]


:: Surprisingly, it’s Backstep who goes toe to toe with the Iblis when they refuse to consider Anita’s idea. Part of the Sidestep Travelers universe. ::




“You want us to use you as bait to trap the shayatin?” Iblis Nur blurted, shocked.

Anita nodded. “It’s my right. I’m the one being targeted, at least according to the way that you describe the situation.”
Read more... )

3 Weeks - 20

May. 21st, 2025 08:05 pm
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Today I had a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast, my first in a long time, and I realized I slice up my banana the exact same way my pops did: diagonal cuts so the slices fall off the knife instead of sticking to it. I don't remember deciding to adopt his method. But there you go.

How do you slice your banana? Are there other tricks you picked up from parents or friends unconsciously?

Rec Lists for SNK, XMFC, The Untamed

May. 22nd, 2025 12:36 pm
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Over time I've made a few rec lists for friends and never thought to share them with the wider fandom, so I thought it would be nice to do that and post it here!

An SNK (specifically Levi/Eren) rec list from Aug. 13 2022 with 40 recs, split into CANON, CANON DIVERGENCE, REINCARNATION and ALTERNATE UNIVERSE.

Example recs:

Grown To Be Wild by graves
| T, 4k | Hanahaki. Eren wakes hours before dawn with his hands tearing at his throat.

Pinecones by ShamelesslyPoetic | G, 5k | While Eren is wandering in the forest, he meets a short, dark, handsome soldier and immediately falls in love.

Example recs:

Kiss and Tell by pearl_o | T, 2k | It's been a long time since Charles and Raven were able to sit down and really talk to each other, but the awkwardness of the occasion is lessened by a lot of red wine and comparing notes on something they have in common - namely, what Erik was like in bed.

Kintsugi by xtinethepirate | E, 49k | When Charles had told Hank there would be a time when they would all be together again, he hadn't meant immediately. In Charles’s mind, that indeterminate time was something more along the lines of “in a few months or a year, once Erik realized what a colossal ass he had been and Charles had stopped wanting to punch him again.”

An MDZS Fic Sampler with 16 fics, with a subsection of fics specifically where the Wen Remnants survive, posted on Apr. 22, 2020.

Example recs: 

Seldom All They Seem by fahye | 24k, E | He bows to Wei Wuxian, sword in hand, sleeves falling properly. Wei Wuxian bows in return, and the sect leaders begin the opening courtesies, and for all of ten minutes Lan Wangji is under the impression that he is betrothed to a boy who is perfectly normal and acceptable apart from an unfortunate tendency to fidget with his clothes. That impression does not last.

Operation Old Men by chiharu | 17k | An ill-fated parent teacher conference reunites Jin Ling's wayward uncle with Sizhui's father. AKA: A matchmaking disaster as told by Jin Ling, Sizhui, and Jingyi.

Tuesday: Lake walk

May. 21st, 2025 08:13 pm
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Monday evening, we got notice from the apartments that we were having another "annual" inspection on Wednesday (today.) This is the fourth annual inspection this year! (Wish they'd just combine some of these.) So we had to spend the rest of Monday evening and a big chunk of yesterday cleaning, making sure all the surfaces were cleaned off, that floors were vacuumed, etc.

We did decide to take a break yesterday and go out for a walk. We picked a local lake that we hadn't ever walked around before. It was very windy, but nice out, and I'm glad we had a chance to get outside for a while.

Because it was so windy, Bella got to encounter ~waves~.


She was interested in them, but not overly bothered.


A bee on a wild rose.


Fourteen more pictures:


Globemallow. Having a good year this year.


A mushroom!


A heron in flight.


Just trees, but liked how green they were against the bright blue sky.


Red-winged blackbird, sitting up tall.


Dead tree. There was a woodpecker hole up near the top, with maybe some nesting material sticking out.


Another red-winged blackbird.


Ladybug larva on a wild rose.


Another ladybug larva on another wild rose.


I wish this little damselfly had been in better focus! But such a nice blue.

Back at the eastern shore of the lake, Bella got to take a look at more little waves.




She was very interested in the noise the water was making.


Bella blep.


And another tree with bunches of woodpecker holes!


Glad we got to go out and be outside for a bit!

Jaws ficlet

May. 21st, 2025 07:14 pm
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I was swamped the entire writing and treating period for this round of [community profile] seasonsofdrabbles, and only barely managed the one fic I did write. Glad I finished something, though.

respects a triple drabble for Jaws. Brody/Hooper, post-canon, featuring a ghost.

Now to finally get back to my H/C Ex fic...

Daily Check In

May. 21st, 2025 09:15 pm
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*\o/* Word Count Step Count Headache?
Daily 0 7,811 yes
Monthly 12,133 194,216 7 days

Daily Check In (Tuesday, belated)

May. 20th, 2025 11:30 pm
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*\o/* Word Count Step Count Headache?
Daily 470 8,833 no
Monthly 12,133 186,405 6 days

(no subject)

May. 21st, 2025 09:19 pm
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By force of will I got the biodegradable garbage out in its green bin but nothing else, because it rained all day and I am not up for getting soaked more than twice. Once was physio and twice was nama gomi, and though I know garden waste bags don't disintegrate in the wet like other paper, my bag can stay dry in the bunker for another fortnight. By which time there may be two or even three of them.

It's not unheard of to have the heat on in May, it just hasn't been necessary in recent years. But I bumped the thermostat up this evening because 10C/50F on a day when the sun didn't shine but the wind did blow is quite different from 10C when it does and doesn't. 

Worrying about not hearing anything re: my dental plan renewal, I went back online and did it again, this time being sure to give my address, which Service Canada surely has. This time I read the note about You will not receive an email in response to this (good, that's why I didn't get one) we will mail you your registration. Well no, you won't, because we're going to have another mail strike oh joy. Oh well. I trust I'll be covered come July one way or the other.

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