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Aug. 26th, 2025 08:51 am
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Did you know: If you don't keep up with the internet for a couple days, it takes even more days to catch up again?

(I'm not back home yet; I fly back tomorrow.)

(Tomorrow will also mark 5 years on T. I keep a note in my phone calendar about that because I think it's nice knowing the exact day instead of what I remember off the top of my head, which is "Late August, 2020".)

But hey, I've got some time now, let's write up some stuff about how travel's gone/what I've done!

(if you are here for aikido ramblings, they're hidden in the california section under a second cut [details tag] xD)

up in oregon )

down in calfornia )

Really once I go back to MA the thing I am dreading most is dragging myself back onto the sleep cycle necessitated by work (offline by 9:30pm, up by 5:30am which means I wake up at 4:30am). I've finally settled back into what's really the natural habit of my body: get offline at 10-something, fall asleep at like 11pm, wake up around 6am.

But hey once I'm home I get to cook my own food and see my cat and be in my space again, which will be very nice thanks.
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dw_news | Mississippi legal challenge: beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs ]

I don't have anything to add to this except that I'm grateful DW is fighting the fight. Though I never expected they'd roll over on age verification, it's heartening to see.

DragonCon & BPAL?!

Aug. 26th, 2025 11:36 am
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Do I know anyone who is going to DragonCon this weekend in Atlanta, Georgia and who is

(a) willing to buy some BPAL for me there and ship it to me (Louisiana)
(b) in exchange for either filthy lucre (PayPal or Venmo) or
(c) 4 oz. handspun yarn just for you to be negotiated?

examples of my spinning:


wool, 2-ply


wool/sari silk, 2-ply

and more )

re: (c), fibers I have on hand in sufficient quantity



These are wool. Front left (greens & blues) and front right (blues & greys) I have 4-ish oz.

In back, I have 1-2 oz. of others (pink & blue, sky blue, navy blue), which could be blended, or I could spin multiple yarns up to 4 oz.

(I can't get more of the colorways shown here because these were inherited from others' destashes.)

Also 2 oz each of the following:



- left: 25/25/25/25 flax/hemp/cotton/ramie blend
- right: 25/25/25/25 flax/hemp/bamboo/ramie blend

I have smaller quantities of various sari silk colorways that could be blended into most of these for effect. (The silk fiber is the stuff on the chair, not the wool yarn draped over the arm lol.)



Or I could order US-based fiber batts/combed top (etc) within an agreed price range and spin those for you.

But I imagine filthy lucre is the most interesting. :p Leave a comment or email me at yoon at yoonhalee dot com!

Blue Beetle #22

Aug. 26th, 2025 05:42 pm
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Writer: Len Wein

Pencils: Ross Andru

Inks: Danny Bulanadi


Blue Beetle returns from the Millennium crossover to discover that dinosaurs have taken over Chicago.


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I've had this Rebecca Solnit essay bookmarked for a few days, because it's such a clear distillation of my own personal and political outlook that rather than write the ten millionth iteration of my own 'behave as if you have agency' rant, I can now just point to Solnit's post and call it a day.

I might quibble with some of her specific illustrative examples, but the overall shape of what she's saying aligns exactly with my thinking. And while I'm on this topic, I'll add (yet again) that constant awareness raising about iniquities and atrocities absent any specific instructions about concrete action to take in response to those iniquities and atrocities provokes exactly the kind of demoralising, despairing-in-advance apathy Solnit deplores in her essay. The only people who should be raising awareness are those whose job it is to do so: people who work in the media, or people who functionally fill a media-like role (paid or unpaid) by virtue of the content they've decided to disseminate via social media, and the large audience they have there. Even in those latter cases, awareness-raising without context does more harm than good.

Hope is an action. This doesn't mean a naive, apathetic confidence in the status quo. It means being clear-eyed about the gravity of the situation and the potential societal and personal risks it causes, and using what agency remains to you as an individual, a community and a society to push back against the tide, without being overwhelmed by the knowledge that it will be a marathon, not a sprint, comprised of lots of tiny little moments of concrete action. (And being able to handle the fact that the greater the atrocities and injustices, the less likely it will be to stop them with one grand action, and to be able to acknowledge the weight of this without being steamrollered into apathetic despair.)

None of these complaints are directed at anyone on my Dreamwidth reading list, which (to my good fortune) is comprised of sensible, thoughtful people who are better than most at understanding the motivating (and demotivating) power of words and information. But I felt, in the wake of Solnit's post, that it was time to set out my own thoughts on this particular nexus of issues once again, with as much clarity as possible. (And thank you to [personal profile] muccamukk for giving me the push I needed to set words to screen.)
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Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed
Pairings/Characters: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
Rating: Explicit
Length: 70,972 words
Creator Links: harriet_vane at AO3
Theme: Marriage of Convenience

Summary:

It’s a really unfortunate thing, developing a crush on your husband. Wei Ying had assumed this would be easy. Lan Zhan had been so icy and unpleasant to him, it had never occurred to him that he might end up spending the next however many years with this dumb, burning feeling in his chest whenever he looks at him.

“Okay,” says Wei Ying. “But tell me if I…if the pretending gets to be too hard, okay?”

“It will not,” says Lan Zhan, quietly certain.

Reccer’s Notes: Is it redundant to rec a fic that has 31,682 kudos (and counting)? And has already been recced on this community (although 5 years ago and for a different theme?) Probably. Am I going to do it anyway? Yes. Yes, I am.

Because it is fabulous.

It’s kidfic with Yaun at his most adorable, it’s a modern AU, it’s beautifully written and even if you’ve read it before I’m sure now is a great time for a reread.

Lan Zhan is his impeccable, smitten, useless at communicating self and Wei Wuxian is, as always, just doing his best in the circumstances he finds himself in.

An absolute classic. BTW, If you haven’t dipped a toe in MDZS canon or fanon, you could read this anyway due to its AU nature, and then perhaps be hooked… 31,682 AO3 users can’t be wrong, right?

Fanwork links: The Simplest Way Forward

Parental Payback

Aug. 26th, 2025 01:00 pm
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Posted by Jen

Parents, when it comes to planning your child's birthday party, prepare for a lot of whining, temper tantrums, and willful brattiness.

Plus your kids might be a pain, too.

Well, here's one way to exact a little revenge: your kids' birthday cake.

Can't sleep. Barney will eat me.

Yep, there's something about seeing their favorite lovable character transformed into a homicidal psychopath that could slightly unhinge more impressionable minds.

"To infinity! and killkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkill."

Hey, whatever doesn't make your children soil themselves in panic-stricken terror only makes them stronger, right?

"Now, don't worry, kids; Elmo's more afraid of you than you are of him!

"Billy, would you like to do the honors? Let's start with a good clean stab through Elmo's eye. Go on.

"Oh, quit crying. Birthday boys *like* eating Muppet eyes! And just look at that face! Elmo wants you to eat him!"

Ok, granted, you'll be the one paying for their therapy sessions later, but in the meantime...

Spongebob No Pants is here to say hello, kids!

Besides, sometimes there are added benefits:

I'm pretty sure your daughter will never ask for a pony again.

Thanks to wreckporters Laurie H., Stephanie L., Kevin H., Fraulein M., & Jennifer S., who think I should totally write parenting books. (Working title: Odds Are, They'll Live.)

*****

Silly Jokes For Kids: The Best Jokes, Riddles, Tongue Twisters, Knock-Knock jokes, and One liners for kids

*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

Knightfall: Batman #496

Aug. 26th, 2025 02:46 pm
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Writer: Doug Moench

Pencils: Jim Aparo

Inks: Josef Rubinstein


Batman gets triggered like somebody just said their mother's name was Martha.


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Hawaii five-O: hoʻokāne by Siria

Aug. 27th, 2025 01:08 am
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Fandom: Hawaii five-O
Characters/Pairings: Danny Williams/Steve McGarrett, Grace, Kono, Chin
Rating: Explicit
Length: 13,614
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: Siria on AO3
Themes: Marriage of Convenience, First time, Fake marriage, Action/adventure, Family, AU: fork in the road

Summary: As active as Danny's imagination was, however, as strong as all his fears could be at the thoughts of his little girl being taken away from him again, he'd forgotten to factor in one very important element: Steve.

Reccer's Notes: This take on the marriage of convenience trope centres on Danny's devotion to his daughter, Grace. His ex moves to the US mainland with her husband and the only way Danny can get custody is if he's in a stable relationship - a marriage. Steve tells the judge they're about to marry and Danny stumbles through it, baffled at the way his team fully accept the situation and only berate him for keeping the affair a secret. The story takes us through the usual enjoyable dilemmas of a fake marriage like the need to share a bed, made more pressing with Grace in the house as she believes the marriage is genuine (which of course it is - Danny just doesn't know it yet). They're clearly married in the show and in this fic, but in Danny's case, massively oblivious (Steve not so much, having masterminded the marriage plan), and it all works out happily, as expected. Along the way there's lots of amusing snark and backchat, and it's wonderfully written, and a thoroughly good read.

Fanwork Links: hoʻokāne

moar spinning

Aug. 26th, 2025 07:59 am
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[personal profile] yhlee
This one's going to an astronomer friend. I think catten is trying to figure out where the SHEEP are. :p



Earlier:



Martha Wells/Murderbot book bundle

Aug. 26th, 2025 08:42 pm
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Martha Wells' Murderbot & More is about $30AUD (so $20USDish?) for a whole heap of her books. It's available for the next 18 days. I had no trouble downloading them as DRM free ebooks in Australia.

Batgirl (2000) #1

Aug. 26th, 2025 01:01 pm
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Writers: Scott Peterson and Kelley Puckett

Pencils: Damion Scott

Inks: Robert Campanella


Best Batgirl, let’s goooo!


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Episode 2666: Smith and Worsen

Aug. 26th, 2025 10:55 am
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Episode 2666: Smith and Worsen

Beings can be of vastly different sizes. DOn't have all your monsters or critters be roughly human sized. Have some be gigantic. Have some be tiny. It can add a lot of interest in exactly how you interact and deal with such creatures.

aurilee writes:

Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

Well, I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting now, but this little alien certainly wasn't on the list. They do have a little welding visor though, which is perfect for a "blacksmith". Metalsmith? Circuitsmith seems like a pretty good sci-fi descriptor if Babu only works on fixing/modifying droids.

Making a copy of that dagger feels like a comic thing, so why would the protagonists need to open Threepio's head up anyway? Did something happen down in the gravel pit? I would have said the Rathtar grabbed the droid and that did something to necessitate this operation, but it turns out that I'd misremembered that scene. And I guess there would have to be some urgency as well that means the group can't simply head back to the Resistance and get a known droid mechanic for repairs.

Transcript

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Fandom: Red White and Royal Blue (RWRB)
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Henry/Alex & David the dog
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: artbyflor on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: A charming view of the boys on the sofa having an afternoon nap. I love the details and the warm colour palette.
Link: Domestic first prince
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Faerie, a Tolkien fanfiction archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).

In this post:

Background explanation

Faerie: Tolkien fanfiction was an archive founded by Esteliel in 2011 and run with the help of mods Narya and Spiced_Wine. The site welcomed all sorts of stories, poetry and non-fiction writing, regardless of genre, rating or pairing. Due to unforeseen circumstances the site owner could no longer maintain it and the site was taken offline sometime in 2021. As a result and in order to keep the stories available to the fandom, the mods Narya and Spiced_Wine decided to move the archive to the AO3 as part of the Open Doors project.

The purpose of the Open Doors Committee’s Online Archive Rescue Project is to assist moderators of archives to incorporate the fanworks from those archives into the Archive of Our Own. Open Doors works with moderators to import their archives when the moderators lack the funds, time, or other resources to continue to maintain their archives independently. It is extremely important to Open Doors that we work in collaboration with moderators who want to import their archives and that we fully credit creators, giving them as much control as possible over their fanworks. Open Doors will be working with Narya and Spiced_Wine to import Faerie into a separate, searchable collection on the Archive of Our Own. As part of preserving the archive in its entirety, all fanfictions currently in Faerie will be hosted on the OTW's servers, and embedded in their own AO3 work pages.

We will begin importing works from Faerie to the AO3 after September 2025. However, the import may not take place for several months or even years, depending on the size and complexity of the archive. Creators are always welcome to import their own works and add them to the collection in the meantime.

What does this mean for creators who had work(s) on Faerie?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We'll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will add it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors. We will then permanently close down the site.

Please contact Open Doors with your Faerie pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

  1. You'd like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.
  2. You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
  3. You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
  4. You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3, or would NOT like your works added to the archive collection.
  5. You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
  6. You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your Faerie account, please contact Open Doors and we'll help you out. (If you've posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they're yours, that's great; if not, we will work with the Faerie mods to confirm your claims.)

Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on:

If you still have questions...

If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.

We'd also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of Faerie on Fanlore. If you're new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

We're excited to be able to help preserve Faerie!

- The Open Doors team, Narya and Spiced_Wine

 

Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.


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Title: The Interview
Fandom: FAKE
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, OC, Bikky.
Rating: PG
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: A reporter interviews Ryo about his son.
Word Count: 250
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 489: Amnesty 81, using Challenge 457: Credit.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble and a half, 250 words.




Amazing Spider-Man #110

Aug. 26th, 2025 10:47 am
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[personal profile] iamrman posting in [community profile] scans_daily

Writer: Stan Lee

Pencils and inks: John Romita, Sr.


Spidey does the Funky Gibbon. (Another niche reference for all you fellow old farts.)


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Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

Aug. 26th, 2025 09:58 am
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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

That being said, the increasingly authoritarian stance of the current US administration continues to cause concern.

And petty cruelty being a feature not a bug becomes more evident with each passing day. Aside from everything else, Governor DeSantis of Florida ordered that the rainbow crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, put there as a memorial to the 49 people killed in the 2016 attack, be painted black again. Locals retaliated by colouring it back in with chalk.

Trying to get into Wednesday Season 2, though I'm not sure adding the whole family in so much works particularly well. If you want to make an Addams Family series with them, do that, but this is supposed to be a spin-off with a different focus.

On the other hand, I found that I have the original "Leverage" on demand, a series which had shockingly poor terrestrial access in the UK, so it's fun to go through and watch the seasons I never got to see.

I have so many dishes to wash

Aug. 25th, 2025 12:02 am
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And I have so little interest in washing them.

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