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Monday to-do list, non-work edition:

- Fold laundry
- Optionally vacuum if possible
- Call apartment maintenance to come fix the garbage disposal
- Cook actual dinner, not box macaroni
- Put the sausage in the fridge to thaw for biscuits and gravy later this week
- Finish the broken beaten damned scene that's been giving me trouble (it doesn't have to be good but it does have to be done so I can go work on a different scene)
- Go to bed on time

I went to bed early last night and was still so tired I slept through my alarm, and I've got a busy weekend planned. If I want to make it out of the house by 7 AM on Saturday, I need to catch up on my sleep sooner rather than later. So it's a no-late-nights sort of week.

malurette

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fardell24

“Are you sure?” Dafoanairi asked, having figured out what the Enigma intended to do.

“Not entirely, but do you or Ninja Talon have any better ideas?”

“Not right at the moment,” Dafoanairi admitted.

“Um, no,” Ninja Talon added.

Dafoanairi figured that Ninja Talon had figured it out too. “We need to defend her,” she said.

“I’ll do so too,” SpiderGirl said.

Dafoanairi saw that an agent had exposed more of the stone. ‘Trying to bury it in the short time left would be difficult,’ she thought.

The sun began to rise, illuminating everyone there.

“Now, you’re going to witness something.”

“That’s, like, what you think,” the Enigma said. She then concentrated as she tried to telekinetically lift a large amount of soil nearby.

Dafoanairi watched as the Enigma strained. ‘It would take at least ten minutes to get her home if she exhausts herself,’ she thought.

The Enigma strained and realised that she was trying to pick up too much soil too fast. She settled for just ripping up a sheet of grass.

“How long can you hold that up?” Osborn asked as he watched the grass block the rising Sun.

“Long enough,” the Enigma said, although she wasn’t sure.

But the lack of sleep that night had taken its toll on her and her hold on the grass slipped after another half of a minute. “Sorry,” she murmured to Dafoanairi.

“We’ll have to….” Dafoanairi started before the Enigma let go of the grass and leaned against her in exhaustion. ‘She’s not as out of it as before,’ she thought.

The stone glowed as the sunlight hit it. The mound started shaking.

“Uh olh!” SpiderGIrl said.

“Finally!” Osborn said.

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tielan

You know how sometimes you enter a fandom by the fanfic doorway?

That's me these days.

I mean, it was me back 20 years ago reading my way through Mulder/Scully fic in the X-Files fandom, which I hadn't watched since around S2. (The alien 'oil' freaked me out at the end of S2 and I never ended up going back. Horror and suspense are not my oeuvre.)

But I have very fond memories of reading my way through...golly, I can't even remember the fic archive anymore. But there were a number of "Virtual Seasons" and some fics that were very good - full episode types. Some better than others, obviously, but I still carry the gist of them here and there.

Anyway, more recently, I've read a Heated Rivalry fic or two, but my latest 'go through all the fic' obsession is Avatar: the last Airbender but specifically Zutara fic. And since I haven't seen the series all the way through (I watched Book 1 and maybe got a little way into Book 2, but never got to Book 3), then the AU doesn't bother me. Not that AU has ever bothered me when I'm talking about a pairing I like.

For this, I'm mostly blaming Pinterest, which has turned out to be more addictive for me than Tumblr. I go to FB because I want to know what's going on in my 'real life' friends lives; I go to Threads because it keeps me up to date with world events...and educated about the milieu of life beyond my experience. I scroll through Insta for pictures and sometimes 'turntables' of information and crafts and art and oddities.

But Pinterest has turned into my fandom exploration space. Mostly because all the Tumblr theories end up there, but algorithm'd, not just off a friends feed.

And, after a decade of Maria/Steve and maybe 700 fics, about 1/6th of which I either wrote myself or inspired, it's so nice just to wander into a fandom, plonk myself down, and get to read the best of some 8000 fics without having to create anything myself!

It's true that I've belonged to other fandoms with pairings with a decent amount of fic about my favourites (BBC Merlin: Arthur/Gwen had a reasonable amount, and Bridgerton: Kate/Anthony still has its proponents), but this is ~8000 worth of fics where people have extrapolated four seasons (and a lot of tie-in material) of a non-canon relationship and come out with some beautiful results!

I don't read much in the fandoms I write anymore - as I had to say in the

3weeks4dreamwidth friending meme - "specifically [insert female character here]" because so few of thoe fandoms had a focus on the (usually secondary) female character.

It's true that I'm not getting much sleep, cos I'm too busy reading 100,000 word fics. But this? This is fun.

I feel like I haven't had fun in fandom for a while...

yuuago

+ Been super busy lately! Not with anything in particular, mind you, just odds and ends.

+ Took Friday off. Very glad I did. It's nice to have a 4-day weekend (Monday is a stat).

+ Managed to finish the draft for the fic I'm working on for Crack the WIP! ...Still need to do a lot of work mind you, but The End Is In Sight. For a while there I was totally hating this fic, but after putting it away for a month I'm at the "huh, it's not that bad" stage.

+ Worked on my FTH fic today. Not sure when it'll get finished but it's moving along. I'm starting to hope that Pru is becoming easier for me to write. If this story works out (which, well, it has to, because FTH) then I might, at some point, be able to finish the other fics I started with him and never finished. Until this point, he has always defeated me, that obnoxious bastard.

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Current Location: on my Chandler/Joey chair

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fardell24

3rd May: https://www.deviantart.com/brenorenz/journal/Church-notes-3rd-May-2026-1328736435

10th: http://fardell30.deadjournal.com/349936.html

17th: http://fardell30.deadjournal.com/350883.html

fardell24

17th
Evangelism
One beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.

Luke 15:1 - 10
Lost people matter to God.
vs 1, 2
The Pharisees and Teachers of the Law muttering about who Jesus was associating with.
God's heart is broken when His children are lost.
vs 10

Luke 15:11 - 32

Therefore they should matter to you.

You can share the Gospel and be yourself.

As there are many ways of teaching, there are many ways to be an evangelist.

Peter - Confrontationist
Paul - Intellectual
- Acts 17:22, 23
Blind Man - Testimonial
- John 9:25
Matthew - Friendship
Samaritan Woman - Invitational
Dorcus - Service

Ephesians 4:7 - 16
Roles
- Apostles
- Pastor
- Teaching
- Evangelism
- Prophecy

We are all called to be evangelists
Matthew 28:18 - 20

Acts 1:8

2 Timothy 4:8
Do the best you can

God has given us the responsibility, to tell other beggars where to find bread.

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autobotscoutriella

I can't quite tell if this section of broken beaten damned is working or not, and I am unreasonably annoyed by it. It's just Daryan's first conversation with Klavier in prison! I wrote like a dozen of those for until I bring you home, this should not be complicated. (Which might be part of the problem, come to think of it. We've covered some of this ground before.)

( rambling about why this scene isn't working, because if I type it out maybe it'll fix itself )

TL:DR: writing hard, how dare this not simply leap fully formed from my brain to the page

thawrecka

I finally finished my Yu Yu Hakusho rewatch:

- Yikes, the sexism. It's pretty bad. Yuusuke groping Keiko and flipping her skirt up in public early on is pretty awful.

- My other main takeaway is that everyone wants to kiss Yuusuke. Kurama definitely wants to kiss Yuusuke. Hiei maybe wants to roll around shirtless in the dirt with Yuusuke. Kuwabara wants to make sweet passionate bro love to Yuusuke and pretend he's still straight afterward. Everyone in the last arc all ooh he gets my blood fired up. Yeah, I'll bet.

Anyway, I don't actually ship anything, but I do think Kuwabara's crush on Yukina is pretty cute.

The first time I watched I didn't get why Kurama/Hiei was popular at all, and this time I saw it a little, but I still think they're only mildly shippy, but Kurama is definitely shippier with Yuusuke, and probably even more shippy with Kuwabara than with Hiei.

- LMAO, Kurama getting mistaken for Kuwabara's girlfriend.

- That Hong Kong action cinema influence is so obvious.

- So much of this is that Japanese anxiety about juvenile delinquents that was all over stuff in the 90s and early 00s and that you don't really see in new series. Also, anime just doesn't look like this anymore, so it's not really a surprise it's not as popular as it used to be.

I do think the Dark Tournament doesn't actually get interesting until the semi-finals and there's a lot of dull bits I hadn't remembered. That's probably why newer viewers are underwhelmed by what is always hyped up as the ~best tournament arc ever~. It's okay. Kurama v Karasu is still pretty good, and there's a bunch of great stuff at the end.

- Kurama is still my favourite, just like the first time I watched, but I would say Botan is my second fave now.

dhampyresa

I recently bought (the French version of) this Tarot deck because it is extremely pretty and shiny. I know how to play Tarot -- been ages, though -- but never done any divination. Does anyone have spreads that they like?

rekishi

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beatrice_otter

Does anyone work on the Open Doors project at AO3? Or know someone who does? I am trying to do something similar on Ad Astra, and need some advice from someone who knows the OTW archive software better.

Specifically, there are a couple of people who had accounts and fic on the old Ad Astra archive who are now dead, and we would like to make sure that their works are preserved by transferring them to the new archive. We would like them all to have the same format that unclaimed works imported by Open Doors have on AO3--"by name [archived by archivist]". We have successfully achieved that with shorter works, but I'm trying to import a fic with 363 chapters and half a million words. It cannot be imported; the archive times out. I thought that if I imported the first chapter and then uploaded the rest of the chapters manually, it would work, but trying to import only the first chapter timed out the archive as well. Then I thought about importing another work that would import, changing the title and chapter text to the one I wanted, and then manually adding further chapters. But it's listing it as just "Archivists" in the author space, without the name of the original author.

Help!

ETA: figured it out myself!

Never mind, I figured it out myself!

The issue is that when you are uploading a fic for someone else, you are required to put their email in the box so they are contactable. This person is dead and I have no idea what their email address was when they were alive, so I put in the archivists' email. So the system decided that it was just by Archivists despite having the name of someone else and having the box checked that it was someone else's fic that archivists was posting.

I made up an email to put in instead, and it posted as "by name [archived by archivist]" just as it should.

rekishi

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tielan

1. How often do you hear live music?

Not very often. I never have been much of one to go see bands or even concerts. A few musicals. The occasional concert by an artist I enjoy. And sometimes bands on a Saturday night down at the pub back in university days.

These days? Very rarely.

2. What was your favorite live musical performance ever?

I don't know if I remember this one with fondness so much as just it's the strongest memory I have. One night after university computer lab, a couple of the people I'm working and doing uni with say they're going to a bar in town to celebrate the 18th birthdays of a couple of the guys we work with. The two of them room together, and their birthdays are back-to-back. It's not my usual scene, but I figure I should really do more socialising with this group, so I agree to go along.

It's a dive bar. On a Wednesday night. In a university town. Kinda quiet, but there's a band on stage that's doing rock covers from the 80s. The floor is an old nylon carpet and we're not going to think about how it's slightly sticky underfoot. The lighting is dim, there's about a half-dozen of us, and after a drink or two, we're singing along with the band who takes it pretty well.

They invite the birthday boys up to sing the Eagle Rock, but somehow end up singing Hotel California. I am served a triple-rum-and-coke having admitted to the others that I don't really drink, and they think that it's hilarious to get me an excessively alcoholic drink for my 'first drink'. The 2xrum&coke is foul, and someone else ends up drinking it. I go for a wine cooler, which is sweeter and easier on my palate. We bawl songs until it's midnight and it's the birthday of the second guy, and then we keep going for another hour.

TBH, the performers weren't standout. But I remember the night the best, simply for the hanging out and the friendships.

3. Do you play an instrument, or sing?

I play piano, I learned flute and tuba, and I sing - happy birthday, at church, in the car, on the karaoke machine.

4. Have you ever performed music onstage?

Does karaoke count? But even without that, yes, I've performed at concerts and eisteddfods when I was younger. Not for three decades now, but then it might even be years since I've touched a piano.

5. Who is your favorite musician?

That's a tricky one. Modern or classical? Artist or musician? Live, recorded, without autotune?

I can't choose. I love them all - Beethoven and his Ninth, Elgar and the Engima variations, Chopin's Impromptus and the haunting notes of Tchaikovsky's opening to Swan Lake. There's Queen's Rhapsody and P!nk singing about falling into trust, there's Billy Joel crooning smooth and sweet and Deborah Harry declaring she wants that man, there's Rihanna singing about being unfaithful and Anna of Cleves rmeinding us that she's the Queen of the Castle... I remember going to see Roxette and Offspring, singing with U2 in the car - raised by wolves | stronger than fear | when I close my eyes | you disappear...

You can't make me choose. I carry it all in my heart.

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