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lannamichaels

-Adventures of buying a serger: I have gone from "the bottom looper always comes out" to "the upper looper always comes out" with the occassional "the right needle always comes out" and yet somehow I did manage to sew a couple seams before this inability-to-keep-the-machine-threaded problem started, I have watched videos, I have called the company, I have not yet wept tears over it but I am so frustrated, so hopefully telling people will make the machine stop unthreading and then I figure out the tension issues and then I can serge.

-Where is a good place to buy desk lamps? The one I had broke and then I spent a while trying to find one including going to a hardware store, and then I found out that home depot has two listings with what appears to be the exact same lamp, but a different company for each and slightly different cost, and this decision has now left me lampless for a month as I figure out which to buy and decide on neither. Lamp is used to be on a timer so it goes on at the time my alarm clock sounds, this is helpful for the time of year when the sun is not up yet at that time, which -- not to worry anyone -- is approaching. So I need a new lamp. Looking for 12-14 inches, not LED, no random bits at the bottom for pens and stuff that'll just collect dust. Not a sun lamp; I tried that and it gave me a headache immediately.

What is keeping me from buying a new sewing machine is falling in love with one that's out of stock and then scrolling down today on my usual check of it's in stock to see multiple complains, 2 and 3 years old, that it's out of stock. Perhaps I should settle on my second choice, rather than falling in love with an out of stock sewing machine with features I do not need. (but! the one I have now is not great and I've wanted to replace it rather than keep fighting it, and all it really does is straight and zigzag, so I do not, in fact, need to replace it with a machine with 240 built-in stitches and two fonts, I just need a machine that has a speed I can set rather than try to be perfect on my foot pressure. But if I'm going to upgrade, I wanna upgrade.)

I have no intention of writing a Tishrei fic. No ideas, nada. Happy to take a prompt if someone has one but this may just be the year where it stops happening, and I'm okay with that.

queenlua

the good news: my partner got me a fancy audio interface* for my birthday <3 so i can pull nice recordings off my piano now! and i broke it in by recording myself playing Verso's theme <3 it was very fun <3

the grind:

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thisbluespirit

I'm sorry, I still haven't really tried catching up properly, and next my parents will be here for a week, although that may actually not stop me posting some things.

Anyway, it's nearly

yuletide again! I'm not at all sure whether I shall be able to do it or not, but it's looking more likely than I thought, so I have had to consider the important issue of nominations.

Other people have nominated Welcome to Our Village Please Invade Carefully and The Winslow Boy, so my 5 (five!!) are looking like this:

* Enigma (Movie 2001)
1. Hester Wallace
2. Tom Jericho
3. Mr Wigram

* Indigo Saga - Louise Cooper
1. Indigo
2. Grimya
3. Nemesis
4. Fenran

* Mimic (1997)
1. Susan Tyler
2. Peter Mann
3. Cuy Gavoila

* Time Police Series - Jodi Taylor
1. Jane Lockland
2. Luke Parrish
3. Celia North
4. Matthew Ellis

* Wish Me Luck (TV)
1. Matty Firman
2. Colin Beale
3. Liz Grainger
4. Faith Ashley

I was VERY tempted to put down The Schoolmistress (BBC Radio 1991) but I decided that I shouldn't make my Jeremy Northam problem quite as bad as all that. Maybe next time! (Also because I'm not sure what I would request beyond "more shenanigans," really). I might swap out Mimic, though, idk. (I think it would be a great one for the Hurt/Comfort exchange or maybe Chocolate Box because I want a v specific thing (not an unreasonable specific thing), but OTOH I do not seem to be managing more than Yuletide, if even that, at the moment. Hmmm.

I don't know what I'll actually request if I do sign up, as there look like being a fair few other shiny things in the tagset already, just from the nomination coordination post. \o/

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evil_plotbunny

My final five were:

Pennington Wise - Carolyn Wells
Girl Scouts Series - Margaret Vandercook
The Four Corners Series - Amy Ella Blanchard
Brooklyn Dodgers Series - John R. Tunis
Callendar Family Series - John Verney

So three from the long list and 2 that I thought of after. But I have nommed and placed these in the spreadsheet so I would have to make changes in several places if I change my mind.

Fun fact about my noms, the number of books in each series goes as follows:
8,5,8,8,5 (hey, at least I avoided the 20+ book series I'm prone to nominate).

Also L'shana tova | Happy New Year to all who celebrate. I'm going to try to get a general update post up sometime in the next week (new year's resolution).

Current Mood: accomplished

elf

Eaglecon is Cal State LA's student-focused science fiction convention.

It's very small - mid-week, two days only, 8 programming items the first day and 6 the second. Mostly one-hour events with 15 minute breaks between. Programming is over for the day by 4:30; there is no late-afternoon/evening schedule. Daytime student event.

I'll post later about the convention itself. General LA-related thoughts:

1) It mostly feels like home (SF Bay Area) except there is only one garbage can in each room - not three (trash, recycling, compost).

2) I am the only person I can see wearing mask.

3) Temperature's nice. I brought only a light denim jacket and it's been fine, a little warm at mid-day but okay even then, and it keeps the sun off my arms.

4) My prep would've been different if I'd known the room had a microwave and fridge. (I could've called to check; was not up for it.) Today on the way back to the hotel, I stopped into a Chinese supermarket and picked up some kind of beef-veggie rice bowl & frozen steamed buns with sesame filling, both of which can be heated up in the microwave.

5) Lots of Chinese stores nearby, with signs in both Chinese and English. I read zero Chinese but I can recognize the word "no" (の) in Japanese, and I didn't see it. It's common enough that I'd expect it of there are a lot of signs, so I am assuming the language I'm seeing is Chinese.

6) I may stop in to the Chinese supermarket on the way out tomorrow and grab short-grain rice. It's hard to find short-grain rice in American supermarkets. I will have to see how packing goes and if I can leave space for a 2-lb or 5-lb bag of rice.

jennaria

I am not dead, but I currently hate everything. (Personal stuff, which is sufficiently embarrassing that I'm not going into detail. I am just flopped on the floor and screaming into a pillow. Metaphorically.)

I keep meaning to write up a review of the new SUPERMAN movie (which I did not hate), and K-POP DEMON HUNTERS (which I also did not hate), and perhaps plans for NaNo. But it ain't happening today. I am posting to vent, in a small way, and also I realized I hadn't posted since July, and here it is late September. So: not dead, vexed, grr.

thisbluespirit

rainbowfic piece I finally posted a couple of weeks ago:

Name: On the Interpretation of Dreams
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #17 (Honesty)
Supplies and Styles: Nubs
Word Count: 1891
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray, Osmer Nivyrn.
Summary: Proof that Viyony also takes Leion's advice from time to time.

On the Interpretation of Dreams

komadori

Happy bisexual Visibility Day to all my beautiful bisexuals! ♥

So, I have actually been watching stuff, and I think it has lifted my mood somewhat. Here are my thoughts--I try to avoid spoilers for the most part.

Bridgerton - ( Read more... )

Interview with the Vampire - ( Read more... )

Wednesday - ( Read more... )

Apothecary Diaries - ( Read more... )

Ranma 1/2 - ( Read more... )

I have also started watching The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity, but I don't really have that much to say about it right now.

Current Mood: weird

donutsweeper

So many, many years after we probably should have we finally went out and bought a new bed to replace the 20 yr old futon (do not be me, that was *far* too long to keep that cheap thing) and when taking apart the bedframe I found an old braided rug I'd stored between the board and the slats in an attempt to flatten it *ages* ago.

And when I say ages, I mean ages. As I vaguely remembered posting about it, I search through my livejournal and found a mention of pulling out the rug to work on (while watching an episode of due South, good taste past!me) in a post from December 2007 (2007!! who knows when I actually started it) and included a picture of the rug then:

The rug I pulled out only had two more color rounds completed so wasn't all that much further along but was left with a long section of braid unattached and needing new strips sewn on. I never quite mastered the technique of sewing on the new strips properly so that the seam didn't show and always found lacing the braid to the rug was frustrating, fiddly and hard to do for any length of time without hurting my back so it's not surprising I just gave up at some point. Tension was always a perpetual problem so I must have shoved the rug there in an attempt to flatten it. (Something that mostly, but not completely, succeeded). Deciding to just figure out some way to finish it (unfortunately, that's a part I had never really mastered either) I eventually finagled something and TADA:

(Do I need another rug? No. Do I have a place for the rug? Also no. Am I also in the process of making a knotted rug that I took a break from to finish this guy off? Yes. Do I have a place for that rug? Bwhahaha, no.)

Anyway... Just a few more days left for Yuletide nominations! We get 5 slots, it's so exciting! (I really need to make an actual decision on my last slot, I've been waffling for ages about it)

And, last but not least,

recthething tumblr art recs (whoops, I've been forgetting to crosspost these here, sorry!)

Batman
- images that came to me in a vision. i just needed to see him in a nice cottage kitchen. (this vision of Batman made me laugh)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- buffy summers more like buffy snork mimimi <3333

Guardian
- boop the snoot (Adorable cat!da qing booping Zhao Yunlan)

Merlin
- [Dragonlord merlin - 2]: Magic returning slowly. (subtle but sweet)

MDZS/The Untamed
- His love language is being a menace (WWX has the best expression on his face when teasing LWJ)
- I have drawn many, many pictures of Jiujiu Holding A-Ling! Yet somehow, not enough. So I present to you all: Another One (adorable grumpy jin ling!)
- Emotional support hug (aww sweet)

Supernatural
- lazarus rising as a paperback (there's a whole series of these linked on the post and all are amazing)

Under the Skin
- Not sure if they should drink this… (Late night Shen Yi/Du Cheng and a very judgy but adorable cat)
- Cat Cuddles "Because everyone need a little sweetness in september I decided to make a fluffy little animation of DuCheng being adopted by the 2 cats of the house" (absolutely adorable)

Tomorrow is Rosh Hashanah, L'Shana Tova everyone! May your new year be sweet!

queenlua

When, in the course of human events, one reads a little bit too much of Marilynne Robinson's incredible prose, and then plays a little bit too much Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and thus gets the two very different types of work all muddled in one's head, and is thus seized with the need to go spit out many thousands of words of Clair-Obscur-fanfiction-in-the-style-of-Marilynne-Robinson, but becomes aware partway through the project that one's understanding of the culture and structure of the Paris Conservatory during the Belle Époque era is incredibly thin, and this lack of understanding is really becoming awkward given that one has gone and invented an entire subplot involving multiple professors at aforementioned conservatory in one's fanfiction based on a passing mention in canon that "oh such-and-such character went to conservatory" and literally nothing else—well, it thus becomes necessary to go read a well-regarded biography of a contemporaneous French composer to amend that lack of knowledge.

Which is how I found myself reading Gabriel Fauré: A Musical Life by Jean-Michel Nectoux (translated by Roger Nichols).

("You really have a knack for nerd-sniping yourself," a friend observed dryly when I explained my present pitiable state of affairs. Yeah I sure do, huh.)

As I've been reading this primarily for convoluted fanfiction research purposes, what follows should not be construed as a review or anything even approaching one (I haven't even finished reading the book yet!), but, more of a... thinking-aloud session? Because there's a great deal that's amused me, and also a great deal that's made me very ponderous, and also stuff that just straight-up confused me (recall my aforementioned staggering lack of historical/contextual knowledge)... and yeah the only way I know how to think these days is via blog posts, apparently.

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Oh, also, one last funny bit about the translation: there's a bunch of words that are left with the French spelling, for no particular reason I can discern? The funniest of these is "rôle," which is always spelled the French way, even though there is no semantic difference to be had there. Whatcha trying to prove with that little hat over the O, lol. Though I guess The New Yorker still spells coordinate and cooperate as "coördinate" and "coöperate" so. I guess we all have our little spelling hangups :P

lannamichaels

Title: Teach Us Something, Please.
Author:

lannamichaels
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: G
Archives: Archive Of Our Own, SquidgeWorld

Summary: Merope Riddle is a disquieting little girl.

( In which Tom Riddle is a girl )

thisbluespirit

As I mentioned about a month or so ago, I did some AU_gust prompts, starting with flash fic for the prompt Romance, using the UC generator to get a summary for The Winslow Boy. It was a bit of a complicated summary for flash fic, and it's just taken me about, um, seven weeks to straighten this out into being a reasonably more comprehensible bit of AU nonsense than it was at the start. idk why. Anyway, also for

genprompt_bingo & two

allbingo squares (for two different bingo fests of theirs, that is, I'm not cheating).

A Family Affair (1472 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Winslow Boy (1999)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Robert Morton/Catherine Winslow
Characters: Catherine Winslow, Robert Morton (Winslow Boy)
Additional Tags: AU-gust | August Writing Challenge 2025, Alternate Universe - Regency, Regency, Unconventional Courtship Generator, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Stranded
Summary: Catherine Winslow's day is getting worse by the minute.

komadori

1. Do you believe you can have more than one soulmate in life?

Yes, I do. I also believe that soulmates are made by growing together rather than found at random, but of course some people are more suitable for each other than others. Still, there is no singular perfect person out there or a missing half. I do find Aristophane's concept of soulmates to be interesting, though.!

2. Are you with that soulmate now?

Sadly, no. I'm still looking.

3. If not, how long did your relationship with your soulmate last?

This is assuming that I have met them yet, which I definitely have not.

4. Do you still think about your soulmate, if you are not together?

I think about who they could be even though we haven't met.

5. If you're not together, do you think your soulmate still thinks about you?

Again, I have not met this person or persons, but I like to imagine that there is someone out there who is looking for someone like me.

Current Mood: pensive
Current Music: Caviar Dreams - Kristin Chenoweth

desertvixen

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lannamichaels

Okay so Horayos was very long per day and very dry. But Nezikin was great, really wonderful and relevant. I had a really great time, such a wonderful contrast to Nashim. Definitely a lot to discuss in the siyum.

Notes on Horayos (only the 3rd perek had anything I wanted to note) behind cut:

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evil_plotbunny

Is this thing still on?

I fell badly out of the habit of posting here, but I miss it, so this seems like a good way to break the ice.

As usual, I have come up with way too many fandoms with no fic on the archive. Some have tags due to us importing the tagset the first year, but no fic. Some haven't even managed that. It seems like every year I discover a few new fandoms that would have had a fandom if fandom had existed at the time of release the way it does now.

So here is a list in no particular order with no details. If anyone is still reading this, you can give me a number request and I'll write a small blurb. I'm not expecting the fandoms to be recognized except from previous noms of mine, but I'm hoping the act of writing blurbs will help me narrow it down.

ETA: What will probably happen (because it always happens) is that I'll nominate a bunch of fandoms no one knows and end up signing up with half those and half things other people nom, just to make myself matchable (and usually there's something I hadn't even thought of that I would have nominated myself).

Current Mood: determined

donutsweeper

Earlier today I *finally* finished checking all the links on my research/useful links posts, adding all the new links and reorganizing them. Both the Hollywood/History/Clothing/etc post and the Randomness one had gotten too big so I removed somethings from the history one and separated the randomness one into two posts with the history things (old books, magazines, radio theater etc) fitting into one. There's now close to 2250 links between all the posts. *phew* The masterpost is here or everything can also be found via my useful links tag.

And also, excitedly, Yuletide nominations have opened!! Go forth and nominate! (I'll be nominating that cute animated short, Vampire Gastelbrau, and also The First Shot (Gu Yiran, Zheng Bei and Jiang Xiaohai), See Your Love (Jiang Shaopeng, Yang Zixiang) and All Souls (Mitchell Grace, Glory, and Worldbuilding) definitely but am still waffling on my last slot. But we are allowed 4 characters per fandom so if anyone wants someone added to First Shot or See Your Love just give me a shout.

What's everyone else nominating?

badritual

Dear Creator,

Welcome! I'm

giallos and I can also be found at

debbie-jellinsky. I'm very excited we matched up for this challenge! I'm sure I'll be thrilled with whatever you decide to write, and I hope something here pings your interest! Gifts are enabled if anyone wishes to leave extra treats.

Fic and fanart for all fandoms! Fics don't necessarily need to be Halloween themed or centered on Halloween!

I like het, slash, femslash, poly-ships (poly-v too), etc.

I have used parts of previous letters to compose the body of this letter. If anything is confusing, or you have any questions or need clarification, you can reach me through the mods or you can anonymously message me via tumblr!

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( What I Love/DNWs/etc. )

The following prompts are meant as suggestions. I'll be perfectly happy with any combination of Stuff I Like, if none of the ideas I've offered grab your attention.

Fic and fan art for all fandoms! I prefer to leave all art details/styles/decisions/etc. up to the artist and you're welcome to utilize the prompts if you want! The only art style I don't care for is chibi art. If you'd like some guidance, more prompts/scenarios/ideas, or have questions, please send a message through the mod and I'll get back to you ASAP.

( Creep (Movies 2014 2017) )

( Elementary (TV) )

( Laid (TV 2024) )

( Prodigal Son (TV 2019) )

( Quantico (TV) )

( Sleepy Hollow (TV) )

( Smoke (TV 2025) )

( Star Trek: Discovery )

( Tracker (TV 2024) )

( Will Trent (TV) - gen )

Once again, I'd like to emphasize that these prompts/ideas are only suggestions! Please don't feel constrained by them! Mix and match my favs/likes/prompts/etc. as you please, or come up with something completely on your own. Optional details are optional!

If you have any questions don't be afraid to contact the mods! Thank you and happy writing!

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