Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ([syndicated profile] smbc_comics_feed) wrote2025-10-30 11:20 am

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Identity

Posted by Zach Weinersmith



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Linaewen ([personal profile] linaewen) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2025-10-30 09:25 am
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WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 30 -- Thursday

Hello on Thursday! How's the day going so far for fic? (If you haven't gotten started on your day as yet, how did yesterday go for writing fic?)

    - Excellent!
    - Terrible
    - Somewhere in between
    - Nothing doing

How much time have you spent on writing fic today, roughly?

    - None
    - 30 minutes or less
    - 30-60 minutes
    - 60-90 minutes
    - More than 90 minutes

In five words or less, how do you feel about that?
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Glittery ([personal profile] glitteryv) wrote in [community profile] recthething2025-10-30 10:17 am
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Community Recs Post!

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fancrafts/fanart/fics/fanvids/podfics/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here
Cake Wrecks ([syndicated profile] cakewrecks_feed) wrote2025-10-30 01:00 pm

Fall Fail

Posted by Jen

Yesterday marked the first below-80-degree weather we've had in Orlando in nearly six months! Woohoo!

Which means I can now officially say...

Y'all have GOT to be kidding me.

And now for something completely unrelated…

Boop boop be SWEET LORD IN HEAVEN.

Thanks to Myriah L. and Stephanie A. for showing us that Betty Boop really does defy the laws of physics.

*****

P.S. This seems appropriate:

Disney's Nightmare Before Christmas T-Shirt

:)

******

And from my other blog, Epbot:

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yhlee ([personal profile] yhlee) wrote2025-10-30 06:02 am

unpopular opinions

Saying that the creative process of creation/conception for a story/novel MUST START with character/goal/motivation is complete fucking nonsense. You will usually need it in the END PRODUCT (modulo weird edge cases like Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men), but that doesn't have to be the inception.

cf. composing music, where this would be like saying to a composer: you MUST ALWAYS start FIRST with a melody or you MUST ALWAYS start FIRST with a harmonic progression or you MUST ALWAYS start FIRST with instrumentation etc. No??? You can start in any of a number of places and still wind up with music???

There are times you need to start with $XYZ because of the use case (if writing for a string quartet, that constrains your instrumentation, ranges, techniques).

But when writing music, I can START in ANY of these places (not a complete list) (and have done so at various points):

- instrumentation
- tempo
- time signature
- harmonic progression
- a rhythm
- a vibe
- key/mode/etc
- melody or leitmotif
- structure/form (e.g. theme and variations, ternary form)
- a transformation (e.g. diminution, retrograde)
- articulation(s) to feature
- trolling ("What if I rewrote Swan Lake's theme in 5/4?")
etc

You're not going to be able to tell which one from the RESULTING MUSIC as an end product.

For that matter, watching web/comic creators talk about story ideation is fascinating. A bunch of them start with "I drew this cool character, but who are they? what is their story?", which is absolutely not my process since I don't visualize, but it's a perfectly cromulent process!
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-10-30 10:26 am

Punch Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Impulsive Act


Title: Impulsive Act
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Fred, Varian.
Rating: PG
Setting: Vortex, and later.
Summary: Fred has always been a bit impulsive, act first and think later, but he regrets punching Varian.
Word Count: 300
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 495: Amnesty 82, using Challenge 119: Punch.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.





Darths & Droids ([syndicated profile] darths_and_droids_feed) wrote2025-10-30 10:03 am

Episode 2694: The NeverEnding Backstory

Episode 2694: The NeverEnding Backstory

Want to bring something new and interesting to fights? Interrupt them!

  • Have someone's phone ring. And then it rings again. Whoever is calling doesn't want to just leave a message.
  • It begins pouring rain. A tree nearby is split by lightning with a deafening crack of thunder.
  • A terrified NPC runs through the middle of the battle, screaming for help.
  • A strange horn blast echoes — reinforcements, monsters, or something worse?
  • Bats! So many bats.
  • A nearby building collapses.
  • Local authorities (police, town guards, security bots) arrive and order everyone to stop fighting.
  • A panicked horse pulls a cart at top speed through the battle, spilling barrels of fruit.

aurilee writes:

Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

Hehehehehahhah, okay. That's an excellent joke for the end of the comic.

Anyway, fighting with the weird dagger is certainly a decision for Rey. I would be shocked if it turns out to be made of Cortisol—I mean Cortosis—and that's what all of the fighting over it has been about. Okay, maybe not that shocked. It'd probably get another raised eyebrow at most like a number of the other plot decisions so far. But that would be kinda neat to see that material show up again.

So now that we've seen that there's more to this flashback scene now, anyone want to bet that there's even more to it that hasn't been shown yet?

Transcript

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alasse_irena ([personal profile] alasse_irena) wrote2025-10-30 08:44 pm

(no subject)

Trying to update my letter but my laptop is refusing to load dreamwidth for some reason.

Hang in there, writer!
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m_findlow ([personal profile] m_findlow) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-10-30 08:09 pm

Elusive or Ephemeral Challenge: Torchwood: Fanfic: Hard to spot

Title: Hard to spot
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto, Jack, Gwen
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,451words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 495 Amnesty, using Challenge 35 - Elusive or Ephemeral
Summary: The latest object to drop through the rift is proving difficult to locate.

Read more... )
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Vriddy ([personal profile] vriddy) wrote2025-10-30 08:32 am

Community Thursday

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...

Posted & commented on [community profile] bnha_fans.

Commented on [community profile] getyourwordsout, [community profile] common_nature, [community profile] access_fandom.

Signal boosts:

  • Over at [community profile] access_fandom, [personal profile] soc_puppet shares tips and timeline for getting at least bare bones accessibility set up for a con or event. There's a ton of helpful additional tips in the comments, too.
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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-10-29 11:03 pm
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Gratuitous poll

I have reached a never-again milestone on AO3; my number of works is currently sitting at 999!

It'll increment in a few days when some currently unrevealed things are revealed, but before it does that I want to try to write a lucky 1000th fic.

(Appropriately, I'm also hitting this weird little milestone on the 25th anniversary of my time writing fanfic, which started in 2000.)

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26


What should I doooooo?

View Answers

Write something extra special or iddy
22 (84.6%)

Use this as motivation to finish a WIP
10 (38.5%)

Actually manage to write something for spook-me this year
4 (15.4%)

Write a fandom or pairing I've never written before
3 (11.5%)

Revisit a fandom or pairing I haven't written in ages
11 (42.3%)

Write something experimental or wildly off brand for me
4 (15.4%)

Write something I, the person taking this poll, would like to see and will tell you about in comments
1 (3.8%)

Write a giant mega crossover of every fandom I've ever been in
4 (15.4%)

How very DARE you limit me to 3 options on this poll! I will express my opinions in comments
2 (7.7%)

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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2025-10-28 02:16 am

This Is The First Thing by Philip Larkin

This is the first thing
I have understood:
Time is the echo of an axe
Within a wood.


**********


Link
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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2025-10-27 12:10 am

It's that awful time of month again.

Boo.

(Wait, and also nearly Halloween! Boo!)

************


Read more... )
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The Gauche in the Machine ([personal profile] china_shop) wrote2025-10-30 06:10 pm
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Write Every Day: Day 30

There will always be constraints—time, budget, materials and equipment. If you’re waiting for all of the roadblocks to be cleared before you begin, you might be waiting all your life. So stop waiting. Just do your best to put something into the world that wasn't there yesterday. We can do that. I hope you begin something today, maybe something you’ve been putting off or waiting on the just-right conditions for. Forget just right and try right now instead. You don’t have to know what you’re doing or how it will turn out. Just start.

– Maggie Smith, via Substack

My day 30: I added another 530 words to my WIP (and did a couple more Youtube art tutorials: a dragon and a black cat). Depending on how my arms are in a couple of hours, I might go to UK Writers' Hour and keep working on my WIP. It would be good to get it done.

One more day in October! Reminder that [personal profile] alightbuthappypen has offered to host for November.

The tally
Tally )

Day 28: [personal profile] alightbuthappypen, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] trobadora

Day 29: [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora

When you check in, please say what day(s) you’re checking in for. You can join in or take a break at any time; you’re always welcome back. And please let me know if I’ve missed you.
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yhlee ([personal profile] yhlee) wrote2025-10-29 10:18 pm
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[music] Trailures and Other Fiascoes

I committed a mini-album on Bandcamp of Trailures and Other Fiascoes (= "failure trailers"). Hybrid orchestra instrumental music because mopey foxmoth can't sing.

(I know voice lessons exist but for medical reasons, sore throat for over a year; singing is contraindicated.)



(This is accumulated composition/production from the past few months; I'm bowing out of a bunch of things currently due to ongoing health stuff. I don't want to discuss health details further, thanks!)
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fairestcat ([personal profile] fairestcat) wrote2025-10-29 05:16 pm

Stuck in Paradise for the Foreseeable

So, as I mentioned in my Festivids letter, I am currently in Hawaii. Hilo to be specific. I have been here since October 10th and I genuinely have no idea when I'll get to go home.

My mother was diagnosed with congestive heart failure five years ago, but this fall she got significantly worse and also developed pneumonia. She was in the hospital for two and a half weeks and is now in a short-term rehab working on getting back her ability to do exciting things like walking across a room without getting shaky-legged and out of breath and using the bathroom unaided.

I'm in an itty bitty postage stamp sized airbnb room in Hilo, since my mom's place is a nearly two-hour drive away. I can't go home until we figure out what happens next for my mom. I don't think she can go back to the place she's been sharing with my sister. My sister is also disabled and not really able to help my mom with stuff, their tiny house is cramped and crowded, has built-in steps and is a constant tripping hazard, and honestly my mom and sister are driving each other completely mad.

Hawaii is beautiful and all, there are certainly worse places I could be stuck indefinitely, but I really want my own bed and my own spouses and my own pets and my own time zone.
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petra ([personal profile] petra) wrote2025-10-29 10:12 pm

Recommendation: Smile, and Smile, and Be a Lying Punk (MCU)

Do you ever miss Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom circa 2014?

So do I.

Let Dira's latest (just posted) take you back, by way of a much more recent development:

Smile, and Smile, and Be a Lying Punk (980 words) by Dira Sudis
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: The Frozen Smile of a Man Who Does Not Want a Baseball Jersey From His Favorite Team's Most Hated Rival, Post-Movie: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Summary:

"They'd heard I liked baseball and, I don't know, somehow forgot that Brooklyn has never rooted for the Yankees and will never root for the Yankees, no matter if the Dodgers leave us to play on the Moon. But I didn't want to make a scene."