Culinary

May. 3rd, 2026 07:06 pm
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Last week's bread held out remarkably.

Friday night supper: penne with Peppadew roasted red peppers in brine whooshed in the blender and heated.

Saturday breakfast rolls: eclectic vanilla.

Today's lunch: diced lamb shoulder casseroled in white wine with baby carrots, chopped leeks, bay leaf, thyme, white peppercorns and salt, with a sliced potato topping (blanched in boiling water for 5 mins, brushed with melted butter, and seasoned with salt and pepper, put on for the final 45 mins or so), served with white-braised fine green beans and baby courgettes.

Check-In Post - May 3rd 2026

May. 3rd, 2026 07:12 pm
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: What do you wish you could get right first time, every time?


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



fandom updates

May. 3rd, 2026 07:41 pm
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so various things:

  • i had to bow out of High Adrenaline (again) even though i got an extension.
  • despite defaulting on AU5k, i did actually end up posting my gift fo rmy official recipient, as the delays went on so long. so i wrote a 5k SGA, John/Todd fic for that, which was very fun
  • i've signed up to Id Pro Quo

also, fun fact, i have completed writing a 50k Teen Wolf fic! i haven't posted it yet, because for once i'm actually giving editing a shot (i don't tend to edit my fanfics, because it isn't fun and my fanfiction is for fun) but since it's my longest ever completed work, i'm putting in the effort. it's really slow going, though. i'm like 2k into it orz.

i also got hbo max just to watch The Pitt (it's my new comfort show!) and i will write fic for it. i so will. one day.

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Title: Unappetising
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Daniel Jackson.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: None.
Summary: Daniel has never been impressed with the standard MREs.
Written Using: the dw100 prompt ‘Food’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Stargate SG-1, or the characters.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 


 
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Title: Melodramatic
Fandom: FAKE
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 500: Amnesty 50, using Challenge 467: Time.
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: The workday is dragging for Dee.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.



Melodramatic


What books make you squeamish?

May. 3rd, 2026 05:28 pm
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Posted by /u/BeryyBritish

I’m usually a lover of psychological horror, but I’ve been having a hard time finding a book that makes me feel viscerally squeamish, be that through gore, body horror, or just fear. I’d like to dip my toes into this sub genre so any recommendations would really be appreciated!

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Schrader’s Chord by Scott Leeds

May. 3rd, 2026 04:49 pm
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Posted by /u/mysticthickness

i finished this book earlier this week and wow, what a ride

it had a lot of interesting horror elements i wasn’t expecting, and i really liked the lore it built.

although i will admit, it took me a little bit to get into. i felt like the beginning was a bit of a slog.

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FAKE Double Drabble: Melodramatic

May. 3rd, 2026 06:33 pm
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Title: Melodramatic
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 500: Amnesty 50 at 
[community profile] drabble_zone, using Challenge 467: Time.
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: The workday is dragging for Dee.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
 
 


Le comte de Monte-Cristo (2024)

May. 3rd, 2026 06:28 pm
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The BBC decided to show a French "Count of Monte Cristo" on BBC4, so I thought I'd watch it as a change from watching Russian programming; Read more... )Since it was being shown as a serial in several parts, I had rather hoped that this was *not* the recent French film, of which I'd heard various mixed and on the whole less than approbatory reviews, but some earlier TV production, but according to the end-credits of the first instalment it was filmed in 2024 and is thus the new one after all.

On the basis of the parts that I've seen, I'd have to concur with the mixed reviews. This is *not* an immediate success; in fact the opening is one of the weakest parts, and might have turned me right off, but it does get better later on. Read more... )

Double Drabble: Diplomacy

May. 3rd, 2026 06:24 pm
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Title: Diplomacy
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 915: Serious, at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto is not happy with what’s being asked of him.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

Wisguy stuff

May. 3rd, 2026 01:14 pm
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Some trivia from the 'No One Gets Out of Here Alive' commentary:

Read more... )

[#299] Uprising (X-Men: Evolution)

May. 3rd, 2026 08:02 pm
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Theme Prompt: #299 – Uprising
Title: Pizza and Sympathy
Fandom: X-Men: Evolution (Cartoon)
Rating/Warnings: G
Bonus: No
Word Count: 989
Notes: Set after S4, E5: Uprising

 

Read more... )

 

Challenge #236 - Animal

May. 3rd, 2026 06:57 pm
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Okay, if needed I can't extend this Challenge so I decided to go with a (hopefully) easy Challenge that we already had in 2016: Animal

Just icon your favorite Animal. :D If said Animal is part of any fandom you're allowed to go with those too. So - for example - you can go with Sonic the Hedgehog if Hedgehogs are your favorite Animals. <3 Of course you can go with Stock only too if this was easier for you. :o) Everything goes as long as it's classified as an Animal. :o)

Please NO Magical Creatures (like Dragons) since there are no proof that they really existed. Only Animals with clear proof that they really existed. (And, yes, I count Dinosaurs there too because we have proof of them. :D)



Giraffe by [personal profile] emmatheslayer | Cat by [personal profile] thesleepingbeauty | Tiger by [personal profile] tinny | Dolphin by [personal profile] sandy79


* You may icon 2 different Animals in this challenge (in case you cannot decide which one is your absolute favorite).
* You may enter up to 4 icons (ICON+URL).
* Please submit your icons as new posts to this community. Every member has posting access.
* Please no animations or x-rated icons. Everything else is allowed.
* Icons must fit DW standards (< 60kb, 100x100 px).
* Tag your entries with challenge number and your username, or I can do it for you.
* Please put a description in your entry which Animal you picked.
* Please ask questions if you have any.

* DEADLINE: Sunday, May 17th 2026 (04pm Central European Time). [countdown]

Challenge #235 Voting

May. 3rd, 2026 06:52 pm
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* Vote for the best THREE (3) ICONS in order of preference (f.e. 80, 66, 57). Voting is weighted, meaning first place gets 3 points, second place gets 2 points, third place gets 1 point.
* Don't vote for yourself or ask anyone to vote for you.
* Voting ends in two weeks, at the end of the next challenge.

Voting: Challenge #235 - B/W with Favorite Color [Special Challenge] )

Please vote in comments, comments are screened.

Challenge #234 Winners

May. 3rd, 2026 06:43 pm
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Thank you so much for all your votes! Congratulations to all winners!
If you would like to get a winner banner, please comment.

FIRST (tie)
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FIRST (tie)
[personal profile] thesleepingbeauty
SECOND
[personal profile] magicrubbish
THIRD
[personal profile] wickedgame


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Russian in Heated Rivalry: a Masterpost

hiii everyone haii so… I am Here to Talk about the Russian Language in Heated Rivalry. we’ll cover scenes by episode, with timestamps, in terms of translation, tone, and pronunciation because I <3 am a russian canadian and certifiably insane about my (russian) canadian show. thank u thank u. strap in.

as a preamble: Connor’s russian is not perfect, but very good. he has an accent, he speaks with slightly unnatural inflections, and a native speaker would guess that he is not one. however, he could plausibly pass for someone like Ksenia (I believe her first language is russian, she just doesn’t use it frequently). when I watched episodes 1–2 with a russian friend we were both convinced Connor grew up speaking russian, or perhaps another slavic language, and around the age of like 10-12 kinda stopped, because, having been around many bilinguals, we have a frame of reference.

and then we looked him up.

anyway. to the point!!

Keep reading

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Posted by /u/LadyJane17

The body horror and imagery, the characters, and the interposed news/trial segments were awesome. I really enjoyed it and didn't want to put it down. Are any of his other books good? Any other books or authors with similar vibes? TIA

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Ophelia by Kaya

May. 3rd, 2026 11:35 am
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Warnings: None!



Comment: Kaya's voice is wonderful, as always. I love how sparkling the backing track sounds in comparison to the gothic vibes. Very lovely, sad song.

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Posted by /u/OldGodsProphet

Pgs. 244–245

Context: The party is traveling by raft, with four others on the raft:

”The fourth man, the strong one bent and cocked two more crossbows … Once he had fitted the deadly, iron-tipped bolts into their grooves and propped the bows against the cabin, he removed the bolts from the cocked ones and discharged them … ‘Resting the crosspiece,” Thomas said. The man knew his weapons.”

OK, to me it reads a bit confusingly. Is the man cocking, loading, resting and then unloading and discharging the same crossbows? That’s how I read it. What is the point of this?

Are they different crossbows? Very confused.

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nggg

May. 3rd, 2026 11:22 am
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Yesterday I had a very, very annoying set of shifts that started with me locking myself out of my office. Then, despite the client in question being a total sweetheart who is very familiar with the theatre, one particular group of dancers kept blocking the same fire door, over and over and over. It was blocked in different ways by different people all but two times I checked.

In fact, I encountered twice as many fire code violations involving that door yesterday as I have in the previous ten years.

The client was reportedly aghast but that didn’t stop it from happening.

If I’d been house manager in the evening, I would have parked an usher by that door full time to keep an eye on it. I happened to be the usher at the aisle just up the hall, so I did check every 30 minutes.

However, on my way home I missed my train and that meant I could spend ten minutes playing a ground hog. So that was good.

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