In (near) Prague

Jun. 14th, 2025 08:18 am
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On an ice hockey camp in Slaný, near Prague. I flew out on Thursday afternoon with two friends from Kodiaks. We arrived at the rink hotel in time to check in, have a little walk down to the nearby supermarket and get food, and settle in for the night. For reasons the three of us were all sharing a dormitory room the first night, and we decided the perfect film to watch over our picnic dinner was Inside Out 2 - also set at a 3-day hockey camp. I hadn't seen it before, though the other two had, and I enjoyed it very much.

Friday morning was pretty relaxed; a fourth Kodiak joined us after leaving home at awful-o-clock in the morning, and we were moved into the nicer ensuite twin rooms in pairs for the rest of the camp. We met in the dressing room at 1pm, were on ice at 2pm and again at 6pm, with a stickhandling session in between. Then dinner at 8 and falling into bed not long after.

It's excellent coaching, I'm being pushed well out of my comfort zone and the balance of drill and rest in each session and between sessions is just right. I hit my "cannot actually skate any more" limit about 3 minutes before the end of the last ice session.

Today will be two ice sessions at either end of the day, with video review (argh), optional swim+spa (yes!), and stickhandling again in between. My muscles this morning are making themselves known but I'm not exhausted. All is good. Time to go get changed.

Just Married signups

Jun. 13th, 2025 11:12 pm
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[community profile] justmarriedexchange signups are open through the 22nd. I immediately pounced on it, to no one's shock, but I SWEAR this is the last thing I'm signing up for until I at least get my casefic and Summer of Horror written.

Also, [community profile] hurtcomfortex is having a long reveals delay (until early July) in case you might want to treat someone. Hurt/Comfort-Ex requests on the AO3 app.

Daily Happiness

Jun. 13th, 2025 11:50 pm
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1. Today was a long day with a lot of meetings, but I did manage to get all the other stuff on my to-do list done in between at least.

2. Most other businesses in Little Tokyo are already shut down temporarily so we made the decision to close our store tomorrow. While the protests (or rather the response to them) has been disruptive to business for that store, it's still been worth keeping it open, but those protests were more spontaneous and the planned events tomorrow for No Kings Day are going to draw a huge crowd. The only business we'd get would be some protestors buying lunch or snacks, and considering employee safety it's better to just shut down. We also had the store boarded up just in case, since one whole side is all windows and a lot of the front is as well. I definitely think closing tomorrow is the right choice, so I'm glad we were able to convince the company president to give us the okay.

3. While Carla's out of town I moved one of the cars all the way up the driveway into the back yard so I don't have to worry about moving it from one side of the street to the other on street sweeping days, and Tuxie seems to like having the car there lol.

Creative Jam

Jun. 14th, 2025 01:29 am
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The June [community profile] crowdfunding Creative Jam is now open with a theme of "Good vs. Bad."  Come give us prompts, or claim some for your own inspiration.


What I Have Written



From My Prompts




Creative Jam

Jun. 14th, 2025 01:14 am
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Welcome to the 144th Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, June 14-Sunday, June 15. The theme is "Good vs. Bad."

Crowdfunding Creative Jam

Everyone is eligible to post prompts, which may be words or phrases, titles, images, etc. Prompters may request a specific creator, but everyone else may still use that prompt if they wish. Prompts may specify a particular character/world/etc. but creators may use the prompt for something else anyway and post the results. Prompters are still encouraged to post mostly prompts that anyone could use anywhere, as this maximizes the chance of having creators make something based on your prompt. Please title your comment "Prompt" or "Prompts" when providing inspiration so these are easy to find.

Prompt responses may also be treated as prompts and used for further inspiration. For example, a prompt may lead to a sketch which leads to a story, and so on. This kind of cascading inspiration is one of the most fun things about a collective jam session.

Everyone is eligible to use prompts, and everyone who wants to use a given prompt may do so, for maximum flexibility of creator choice in inspiration. You do not have to post a "Claim" reply when you decide to use a prompt, but this does help indicate what is going on so that other prompters can spread out their choice of prompts if they wish.

Creators are encouraged, but not required, to post at least one item free. Likewise, sharing a private copy of material with the prompter is encouraged but not required. Creative material resulting from prompts should be indicated in a reply to the prompt, with a link to the full content elsewhere on the creator's site (if desired); a brief excerpt and/or description of the material may be included in the reply (if desired). It helps to title your comment "Prompt Filled" or something like that so these are easy to identify. There is no time limit on responding to prompts. However, creators are encouraged to post replies sooner rather than later, as the attention of prompters will be highest during and shortly after the session.

Some items created from prompts may become available for sponsorship. Some creators may offer perks for donations, linkbacks, or other activity relating to this project. Check creator comments and links for their respective offerings.

Prompters, creators, and bystanders are expected to behave in a responsible and civil manner. If the moderators have to drag someone out of the sandbox for improper behavior, we will not be amused. Please respect other people's territory and intellectual property rights, and only play with someone else's characters/setting/etc. if you have permission. (Fanfic/fanart freebies are okay.) If you want to invite folks to play with something of yours, title the comment something like "Open Playground" so it's easy to spot. This can be a good way to attract new people to a shared world or open-source project, or just have some good non-canon fun.

Boost the signal! The more people who participate, the more fun this will be. Hopefully we'll see activity from a lot of folks who regularly mention their projects in this community, but new people are always welcome. You can link to this session post or to individual items created from prompts, whatever you think is awesome enough to recommend to your friends.

Philosophical Questions: Avoidable

Jun. 14th, 2025 01:03 am
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People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

What causes the most harm in the world, but is completely avoidable?


Gosh, that's a hard one. Personal vices leap readily to mind, like adultery and alcohol. But then there are things like climate change, which is created by humans, who could choose to stop pushing in that direction but won't.


2025 Disneyland Trip #40 (6/12/25)

Jun. 13th, 2025 10:59 pm
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I didn't head out from San Diego until around 6pm yesterday so I didn't get to Disneyland until almost eight, which meant the park was already very cloggy for nighttime events, but it wasn't particularly crowded overall, so once I got past the big Main Street clog it was pretty nice.

Dinner and fireworks )

The Incandescent-Emily Tesh

Jun. 13th, 2025 10:39 pm
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As I’ve commented to several people already, The Incandescent, as a book about magical education written from a teaching perspective, feels precision-targeted to my exact interests. This writeup isn’t exactly a review as such; it’s more a discussion of my own very personal and idiosyncratic responses to this book. I have a lot of thoughts, and I’m not sure how well I’ll be able to shape them into a coherent form, but here goes.

The Incandescent is very clearly in conversation with other magic-school books (including the usual suspects) sometimes in a very pointed way, but it’s staking out some unique ground. I’m trying to think of another magic-school book I’ve read that features a teacher/professor as a major POV character, and that talks about pedagogy in a serious way, and nothing is coming to mind. Diana Wynne Jones’s Year of the Griffin perhaps comes closest, but that book makes it very clear that the students are the heroes here. There are definitely some sections written from the perspectives of professors—mostly Corkoran—but these are primarily focused on administrative tasks like fundraising, the sort of thing that also tends to be the focus of non-magical academic satire. When we do see Corkoran engaged in any teaching-related activity, it’s only to highlight what an absolutely dreadful teacher he is, as in the scene where he’s grading essays and giving everyone C’s for, basically, being too thoughtful and creative rather than regurgitating the same slop he expects. The Scholomance of course doesn’t have teachers at all aside from the sentient school itself, and we don’t get its perspective in canon. And don’t get me started on the thinness of the worldbuilding around the Hogwarts professors.

Our protagonist in The Incandescent is Dr. (not Miss! The struggle is real) Sapphire “Saffy” Walden, who teaches Invocation at the elite Chetwood School. Like Hogwarts, Chetwood is a boarding school saturated in its own history and legend; like the Scholomance, it’s home to teenagers who are prone to attracting horrific magical monsters. And it’s obviously pushing back against both of these examples. For starters, the numbers make more sense: it’s not reasonable that a school serving the entire magical population of the UK would have maybe 10 students per grade, or that only 20% of every graduating class would leave high school alive. But more importantly, Chetwood is run by competent adults. I mentioned in an earlier post that the Scholomance books solve the classic YA problem of “getting adults out of the way so kids can save the world” in a particularly drastic way. The Incandescent takes an even more radical approach, by having the adults actually stick around and do their jobs. One of the major themes here is the idea that being a grownup is in fact a good thing, pushing back against the Peter Pan concept that childhood is a special magical time that no one should want to leave behind.

Vaguely spoilery comments in relation to this
I was initially a little disappointed that Nikki and the rest of the Year 13 Invocation class didn’t get to play a bigger role in the final section of the book. They’re very talented! They have relevant skills! But as I consider it more, I think the role they played was exactly the correct one: to figure out the correct person to ask for help, and make the request. They’re still kids; it’s right and appropriate for adults to take the responsibility to protect them. So many children’s and YA books are centered on the premise of “we can’t possibly tell our parents/teachers/authority figures about this terrible problem”; it’s refreshing to see that get subverted a bit here.


I really liked the fact that Chetwood teaches regular academic subjects as well as magic. I suppose the Scholomance did this to some extent, but my impression there was that the other topics exist only in service to magic, like learning a language in order to cast the associated spells. I want to know more about how the magic and non-magic subjects interact. There’s a comment (in the context of Walden levitating someone) about magic like that having “really serious disagreements with physics,” but I don’t believe for a second that physicists, on observing a levitation, are going to sit back and say, “Oh, well, not our business.” Like, if it happens in the universe, it’s physics. We’d want our grubby fingers all over that. Kids in Mechanics 101 would be drawing free body diagrams of levitated objects. People would be writing papers about what kind of gauge bosons could transmit magical forces, and what fundamental particles demons are made of. And now you know what sort of thesis topic I would have chosen if I lived in this universe.

Many of the details about Saffy’s experience of teaching ring very true to me. Some are relatively mundane: procedural stuff about grading papers, such as starting with the stronger students’ work to give an idea of the scope of what can be expected, or going back through a weaker submission looking for opportunities to give more points and pick out useful ideas even if they got muddled in the final product. Or the experience of observing another teacher’s class and giving feedback—I’ve definitely never seen that in fiction before. And the imps and minor demons that infest copy machines and other electronic devices are supremely relatable. In my case they made me think of my office printer, which recently decided to complain of a paper jam after every single individual page, or the ceiling-mounted classroom projector that stopped responding to the remote and can only be turned on or off by manually pressing the power button with a 2-meter stick.

Other points of connection are more emotional for me. The comment from Saffy’s ex, Roz, about her being “wasted” as a teacher really hit me hard. I’ve gotten that exact comment multiple times (fortunately never from anyone I was especially close to). In most if not all of those cases, I think the person meant it as a compliment, but in fact it’s the opposite. Teaching is a skilled job, and an important one, no less so than other possible careers one might pursue with a PhD Doctorate in Thaumaturgy; implying otherwise is a direct attack on someone who has devoted their life to education. (Of course Saffy turns around and pulls the same thing on her love interest Laura Kenning, saying she’s too good to be in a “dead-end” job like campus security, and of course this underestimation is going to turn around and bite her later.)

Because I am me, I am always looking for Diana Wynne Jones connections, so this line jumped out at me: “Will Daubery, you have a charmed life.” I will eat my hat if that’s not a Chrestomanci reference. I know Tesh is a DWJ fan since I have been listening to the Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones podcast. In the episode on Charmed Life, there’s a discussion about how Chrestomanci represents the upper classes and traditional authority, while the upstart magicians and hedge witches working with Gwendolen to plot against him are a sort of working-class attempt at revolution. And there’s no question in Charmed Life about which side belongs to the bad guys. So I think The Incandescent is pushing back against this to some degree.

Putting this part under a cut–spoilers on a thematic level only:
So, okay, is Mark Daubery Chrestomanci? An outside consultant employed by a shadowy government-connected authority, who gets called in to investigate serious problems potentially involving misuse of magic? Who comes from a long line of powerful, wealthy aristocratic enchanters, who is good looking, extremely well-dressed and rather full of himself? Chetwood school shares a lot of DNA with Chrestomanci Castle, with its centuries-old traditions and architecture, the way its history (magical and otherwise) has soaked into the landscape and bled through into the parallel world of the demonic plane. The school is magnetically attractive to just about everyone in this book: Walden herself, random tourists who try to get onto the campus, parents who want to ensure their children’s future, and of course demons. Mark is there as a representative of all that: tradition, elite education, the Establishment; he’s superficially charming while concealing an unpleasant core. And he makes a good contrast: the exact opposite of Laura Kenning in every characteristic. So that’s what I think Mark is doing thematically in the book. (Plotwise, as others have pointed out, his role gets very confusing toward the end.)


And now let’s get into major plot spoilers:

I have a lot of thoughts about the Phoenix: first of all, how much do I want to read a description of Walden’s thesis defense? We clearly need an FAQ on the Snake Fight Demon Binding Portion of Your Thesis Defense. (Apparently my first thought about everything now is “snake fight crossover.”).

There were a number of things about the Phoenix that I liked a lot. When Walden first releases it in the confrontation with Old Faithful, it’s her secret weapon, but at the same time she is its secret weapon too: it has “Walden’s expertise, and Walden’s self-discipline, and Walden’s years of experience in outwitting schoolchildren.” And later, the Phoenix asks how to do “the thing you do”--how to help someone improve, how to teach. I love the idea of the demon as a student. It’s interesting that both the Phoenix and Laura (with her magic lessons from Roger Rollins) are setting out to learn new things, while Walden is resting on her own expertise just a little too smugly. This goes back to her observation of Ezekiel’s class, her disappointment that the topic is magical ethics because she expects it to be boring and perfunctory, and then the amazing discussion on whether a demon is a person. Walden is very comfortable giving her thoughts on this to the class, but she clearly hasn’t thought deeply enough about it for someone who is keeping a demon imprisoned on her own arm.

I do think the worldbuilding could be a little more clear as to how the Phoenix fits into the legal/institutional structure of magic. To what extent is it a secret? Is it completely aboveboard or is it pushing the envelope of what is allowed in the Invocation field? Obviously for us as readers it’s a complete surprise when the Phoenix is unveiled during Old Faithful’s incursion (which makes narrative sense.) From Laura’s reaction, we know it’s also a surprise to her, although she does say the Marshals keep track of the handful of people in the country who have the skills to summon higher-level demons (not necessarily the same thing as keeping a captive demon on hand–uh, on arm). When she decides not to wear her cardigan to the Christmas party, Walden reflects that her colleagues already know about her tattoos and the Phoenix, because they saw them on the night of the incursion–so does this imply that they hadn’t known prior to that night? Some of them must know. It was her thesis topic, which means she certainly would have written about it in her application, and probably talked about it in her interview. (I would totally read fic of her job interview, btw.) So the Headmaster would know, along with whoever was on the hiring committee. I have to assume they’d have had a conversation about it with whoever was head of the Marshals at the time, along with probably the school’s insurance company, legal advisors, etc. It’s not totally clear to me whether Walden is the first person ever to cage a demon in this way, or just one of a select few, but that’s the kind of research that makes a splash either way. She probably had a famous paper published in Nature, or whatever the magical equivalent is (Sorcery? Plane?). And the whole point about research in academia, as opposed to the military or the private sector, is that it’s shared and publicly available. People on campus would talk about this kind of thing–students, even. (Even my completely mundane, non-demon-involving thesis research has inspired a lot of unprompted student questions.) So it seems a little weird that Mark, on behalf of his shadowy government employer, wouldn’t have any other way to find out about the Phoenix and its capabilities than to hang around… surreptitiously luring in smaller demons to try to get the Phoenix to fight them? Anyway, I think this background could have been developed in more detail.


I still have more things to say, but this is already very long, so I’m going to cut myself off. In summary, I very much enjoyed this book and identified with it in multiple ways.

vexillology

Jun. 14th, 2025 01:00 am
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for June 14, 2025 is:

vexillology • \vek-suh-LAH-luh-jee\  • noun

Vexillology is the study of flags.

// An expert in vexillology, Cynthia has an impressive collection of flags displayed in her home.

See the entry >

Examples:

"... flags should have simple elements, a limited number of colors, and no words. One of the tenets of vexillology is that the elements of the flag should be simple enough to be easily drawn by a child." — The Toledo (Ohio) Blade, 9 Jan. 2025

Did you know?

"The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history." Woodrow Wilson was speaking of the U.S. flag when he made that statement in an address in June of 1915, but those who engage in vexillology—that is, vexillologists—would likely find the comment applicable to any national banner. Vexillologists undertake scholarly investigations of flags, producing papers with titles such as "A Review of the Changing Proportions of Rectangular Flags since Medieval Times, and Some Suggestions for the Future." In the late 1950s, they coined vexillology as a name for their field of research, basing it on vexillum, the Latin term for a square flag or banner of the ancient Roman cavalry. The adjectives vexillologic and vexillological and the noun vexillologist followed soon thereafter.



Prompt - Week 1

Jun. 14th, 2025 12:06 am
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 I have a master list of unused prompts. Some didn't end up being used in previous seasons. Some are new. All are now on a wheel of chaos. 

I will not know what the week's prompt is until a couple minutes before you do!! 

For anyone new here - or who hasn't been around for awhile, just a couple reminders: 

Use the prompt as a jumping off point for your own creativity. The only limits are those you place on yourself and your work! 

ONLY POST YOUR LINK to this thread. Any non-link comments posted here will be deleted. It makes it more difficult to keep track of entries for the week if everyone comments here. Comment to people on their entries or in one of the other spaces provided. This is solely for links. Not reactions. 

With all of that now being said - and I reminder that if someone HASN'T signed up, they still have another week to do so, therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1182845.html

T
he prompt for Week 1 is 

Quality 

You have until Saturday June 21st at 2pm ET to link your entries back to this thread. So much longer than usual, but it's the first week so I'm giving you a bit of a break. Enjoy it while you can! 

Twist Reveal - Week 1

Jun. 13th, 2025 11:57 pm
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 During each week, I will spin the wheel and reveal the twist.  Sometimes it will be before the prompt is announced, sometimes before the voting. 

As I said before, I was feeling merciful as we got closer to starting, so I added another wheel. We're calling it the first wheel.  2/3 of the spots on it read "Twist" and the other 1/3 are "No Twist".  Obviously "No Twist" means that the second wheel will not be spun that week and you will get a break from the normal level of chaos.  You will get to breathe with only the normal amount of Idol chaos, more or less... 

That first wheel it did spin and it came up that there WOULD be a twist on Week 1. 

I was very happy that we were starting off this event right. 

So I spun the second wheel, the one with the master list of twists on it, hoping for something delightful.  After all, some of the list are quite twisted and some are quite twisted in other ways.  :)  This one turned out to be one of the latter. 

It's probably the first "first week" twist that there could be, because it might as well be a "No Twist": 

Anyone who was previously eliminated from the competition is automatically back in the game. 


Being that no one has been eliminated yet, it means nothing. But since twists are NOT removed from the wheel once selected, it does reveal what one of those spots is, and you now know that it is out there, and the possibility exists. 

So, I guess that's a good thing for you... 


Week 1's prompt will be posted soon.  

Today's Adventures

Jun. 13th, 2025 09:54 pm
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Today we went to the Marshall Farmer's Market. It's an evening market from 6-8 PM, followed by a band concert, which is way better than a morning one.

Read more... )

Fandom50: #16

Jun. 13th, 2025 11:03 pm
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1990, [redacted a lot of depressing anecdata]. Let's just roll the credits, hmm? Nine movies because I was choosy... and honestly don't have much to say about movies of this year.

~ Tremors - AWW YEAH a hella good creature feature. To be honest? This was like catching old 50s B movies on TBS, because those creature features were my kind of camp horror comedy.
~ The Hunt for Red October - I can't remember much of this film, but there were some pretty people in it.
~ Ghost - +sighs+ Patrick and Whoopi, I loved. I am still on a fence about Demi's acting, but she's pretty.
~ Quigley Down Under - the movie that reinforced lessons I had begun studying due to "Beds are Burning" by Midnight Oil. It's also the movie that put Alan Rickman on my radar properly. I love his villainy here.
~ The Rescuers Down Under - Hmm, two Aussie based movies for me this year? MARAHUTE! Not quite mixing the adventure and scary like the first, but a DAMN GOOD FILM.
~ Predator 2 - So I enjoy the first. So much. BUT THIS?! This movie started solidifying actual lore for me (BLESS DARK HORSE COMICS) and the yautja in this one is BADASS.
~ Mermaids - A really sweet film, and the cast? +faints+ Hoskins, Cher, Ryder, Ricci? Excellent. A little angst and harm to children warning.
~ Hamlet - So I rather hate putting this on the list. And I know it is seriously panned. But honestly? Seeing this in the theater, watching EVERY ACTOR CHEW THE SCENERY? Made me delighted at an above the top performance. Just wish the fucker in the lead role wasn't... himself.
~ Kindergarten Cop - Sweet. Funny. Dramatic at parts. "It's naht a too-mah" Was surprised when I went back to find that his partner that was supposed to do the teaching and got sick was Iza from Clan of the Cave Bear.

Fave? Toss up between Predator 2 and Kindergarten Cop.

🔊 Daily music

Jun. 13th, 2025 10:11 pm
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@ Spotify

Stay
The story barely started
Can't you stay?
Do you really want no part of this?
Oh, so sweet reverie
🎵
Nadir Rustamli - Fade To Black

Mostly stayed in

Jun. 13th, 2025 10:31 pm
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Got up at 10 with Theo knocking on my door. Came downstairs and had breakfast and coffee.

Eventually everyone was upstairs except me so I took the opportunity to shower and dress.

Hung out in the living room after that. Dani sent Theo over to the library, and eventually he came back with his friend Uriah, who stayed the rest of the day.

After awhile Dani, Winnie, and Uriah went out and walked to a small store and got ice cream. Came back, and continued just hanging out.

Around 6:30 Dani and I went to Walmart and got some stuff, mainly a dog house for Moose. We also got some food, including a pizza for Dani and I for dinner.

Came back and Dani and John put the dog house together while I Teamed the FWiB. Then Dani put the pizza on and when it was done I got off, and ate.

Tomorrow Dani is going to take me to see the FWiB!!!

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Ice cream.

3. Quiet day.

4. Seeing the FWiB.

5. Got my prescription refill approved and [personal profile] mashfanficchick is going to pick it up for me.

6. Friends.
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Due to a missed tickybox, this year's signup form does not have a dedicated box for linking exchange letters. If you have an exchange letter, please paste the letter link in the Optional Details box instead, clearly marked Letter.

Thanks to the participant who pointed this out!
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Content advisory: the following images portray animal decomposition and a messy (though not scatological) plumbing mishap, respectively.

This is the very first photo I took in the process of exploring my new surroundings in Florida. I was recovering from a lengthy illness and a lengthy road trip, and coming to terms with a discombobulating succession of life upheavals; accordingly, I began with a local animal in no condition to evade me.

This roughly crow-sized bird (species and cause of death unknown) lay in an oddly heraldic position suggesting a necromancer’s coat of arms, on the disheveled curb strip of a business that was both recovering from Hurricane Ian and changing hands—likewise in a state of transition. The red spot at heart level is a dried wild fruit of some sort.

Taken on 4 June 2023 at 19:48 U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time:

Fined_be_ye_who_move_my_bones. )

Some while later, I suffered a clog of mysterious blue-gray residue in my bathroom sink (don’t worry; it’s long since been dealt with, although not conclusively explained)—and was fascinated by the delicate poinsettia-like radial pattern created when the water finally receded.

Taken on 20 July 2023 at 14:16 U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time:

Mystery_plumbing_sludge. )
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Title: Rumour Has It
Recipient: happyeverafter72
Author: REDACTED
Verse: ACD Holmes (& Terry Pratchett’s Discworld)
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Warnings: None
Summary: A mysterious illness is spreading throughout Ankh-Morpork and the city’s population is scrambling to find the culprit behind it. The rumour mills are running wild. Unable to get to the bottom of it all, the Ankh-Morpork City Watch seeks the advice of a long-retired detective and his faithful chronicler - How could Sherlock Holmes resist a case as puzzling as this one?

Read on AO3: Rumour Has It

Lake Lewisia #1264

Jun. 13th, 2025 05:40 pm
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The hacking group took the old public service announcement as a challenge, rather than an admonition, and started with creating a way to download a car. Eventually, they figured out how to pirate everything from chicken eggs to couches, digitizing and transmitting real-world data in the first rudimentary replicator technology. They were not devoid of morals, however: their pirate’s code demanded they share their ill-gotten goods as widely as possible, so that they gave much more than they ever took.

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LL#1264

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