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Aware I’d slid back into “let someone else take the chance on being horribly disappointed by new anime series” and conscious even that just might be a step towards “making a great show of disdain for all ‘recent’ anime,” I resolved to watch a few streaming series “with everyone else.” As soon as I’d started them, I was feeling kind of bad about “only watching the safest bets from among the most popular titles and very much depending on established names.” It took me a little while to think about the varied older titles I was also watching, a while longer to remember some unfortunate examples of “sequels much fault was found with for not matching the brilliance of the original production,” and some more time again to consider the examples I’ve piled up over a certain number of years of when I just didn’t seem as offended by certain series “everyone else” kept, or keep, singling out for condemnation, to say nothing of some perhaps more unfortunate instances when I wasn’t as impressed with some shows as insistences would have it. After all of that, in the end I suppose I was in general contented with all the anime I watched in the past three months, and conscious those months brought me up to another big anniversary of when I joined the anime club at university.
( Streaming sequels: DAN DA DAN and My Dress-Up Darling )
( Streaming absurdity: CITY the Animation )
( Getting around to work: Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. )
( On a new track: Shinkalion Change the World )
( Into dangerous territory?: Attack on Titan )
( A magical conclusion: Minky Momo )
( Back on a long road: Urusei Yatsura )
( Looking back, glancing ahead: Patlabor 2 the Movie and Nijiyon 2 )

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Here is the tolkienshortfanworks challenge for October.

Thematic prompt:

Below is an alphabetic list of plants said to grown in Ithilien. Pick at least one plant name to include in your fanwork. The fanwork can be set in Ithilien, but does not need to be.

Anemone, ash-tree, asphodel; bay, briars; cedar, celandine, clematis, cypress; eglantine; fir; ilex, iris; juniper; lebethron, lily; marjoram, myrtles; oak, olive tree; parsley, primerole; rose; sage, saxifrage, stonecrop; tamarisk, terebinth, thyme; water-lily, wood hyacinth.

[Helpful hint, if you are interested in combining this prompt with the SWG's Jumble Sale challenge: this list has a couple of additional plant names that are not included in the bingo card I compiled on the same subject for SWG.]

Formal challenge:

Your fanwork should include one or more set of in-universe instructions; for instance, instructions for tasks in botany, agriculture, cookery, medicine, etc.
These could be written or traditional oral instructions.

As usual, these two prompt sets can be filled separately or combined.

Usual reminder that in order to post the fill to this community or to the related collection on AO3 (linked in a sticky post at the top), the fanwork can only have a word count up to 1000 words and must be linked to a Tolkien fandom.
Rec lists and podfics can be posted as fills for thematic prompts, as long as the fanworks concerned meet those conditions.

Also we continue to welcome other pieces unrelated to any challenge, of course, including cross-posts and older stories, as long as they meet the criteria!

troisoiseaux

Kicked off spooky season with Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella, which is mostly a satire of "alpha bro" influencer mentality with the wolf metaphor made literal: Brian is a gay 20-something college drop-out with a budding drinking problem and, oh yeah, also a werewolf; at loose ends, he falls under the sway of Tyler, a trust fund wanna-be entrepreneur/life coach/cult leader with big ideas for a werewolf lifestyle start-up, The Pack (Tee Em). The parts that weren't satiric were a bit twee (maybe your real pack was the friends you had all along!), and I accidentally didn't pay much attention to the one subplot that turned out to set up the novel's punchline: ( ... ) But it was a fun read!

Have also just started The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson; two chapters in and I already love Eleanor Vance, and especially her dynamic with Theodora. They'll be fine, right? :) Nothing bad is going to happen to them. :)

(On a very different note: sad to hear that Jane Goodall has passed, even though it was at 91, after a life incredibly well-lived. She was my childhood hero; I read everything about her work studying primates and in conservation that I could get my hands on, and my library's copy of her book My Friends, the Wild Chimpanzees more times than I can count.)

serafaery

In a lot of physical pain today, I guess I messed up my back doing silks yesterday. Maybe doing silks while crying is not ideal.

The tears were mostly from the stress of the home buying process. It's gutting in its terror, for me, but Josh wants this so badly and I have let him down enough times. He has done so, so much for me, I need to put some faith in him that we can do this. I would rather not. My childhood home was foreclosed on. Watching the bank take back your parents' house is an awful experience, there are no words for the way it disrupts, permanently, any psychological notions (however false) of safely, stability, a place to call home, any sort of safety net. (My grandparents died when I was young or before I was born, sick and in pain, we have no other connected relatives, there has never been anything left to fall back on.) I don't want to experience anything like that ever again.

So, I cried a lot, yesterday, signing away my life savings for an unknown risk.

I was not happy with my realtor, and then embarrassed at my own behavior (I picked him out, after all), and he called me specifically to try to help calm me down a little bit, and offered gently that he could understand, because his parents also had their house foreclosed on, so, he could see why I would feel fearful and overwhelmed. It was kind of him to listen and have some real patience with my over-emotional over-sharing. It was nice not to feel judged or dismissed for being silly or overdramatic, as is usually the way when I try to make adult/major financial decisions and get overwhelmed and paralyzed.

It's an odd sensation, to take on a massive, incomprehensible debt, and pour ones life's savings (however meager mine happens to be) but a debt that at least you can live inside? How bizarre.

Anyway it's not set in stone until closing so we'll see how it goes.

I wanted to get SO MUCH done today, but I still haven't even managed to get my appointment schedule out to open appts for the month, and here it is 3pm, the sun is out after hours of rain, most of the day is already gone and I feel like I've done nothing. But I've been busy and nauseated all day working. I wish I had more to show for it. I'll get there.

Hot flashes get more bearable when the weather cools, lol.

I need a shower desperately.

Need to box up an order and ship it, visit the neighbor's plants one last time, send out checks and pay rent and pick up prescriptions and I reeeeeeeeeally wanted to get housework done today, sigh. My back says otherwise.

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1) Some TV stuff: I've been watching the KenJennings Jeopardy run, and enjoying it. It seems to me the questions were easier than some of the ones I've seen most recently, but I guess those were largely the tournament of champions so that makes sense.

I tried out Match Game, Weakest Link and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. ( Read more... )

2) Last week my partner went to Indianapolis for the weekend and on Sunday morning called me to say that the car wouldn't start. Luckily he was in the hotel parking lot and could just take his stuff back inside. All the dealerships were closed on Sunday but as he happened to be at an airport hotel, he took their shuttle there and I was able to get him booked for a week's car rental. ( Read more... )

3) Adding to fan image hosting woes: Imgur blocks UK access after the ICO notified it of a possible fine over its handling of kids' data

4) Thought this stat was interesting: U.S. streamers are increasingly sharing content catalogs across third-party services. In July, 39% of domestic titles appeared on two or more services, compared with 13% in the U.K. and 8% in France over the same period. ( Read more... )

5) I was amazed to see this story about boyfriend cosplay. "I cosplayed as the client’s chosen character and walked around with them, on the street, on a date. To be honest, I must confess that even as an experienced cosplayer, I found it challenging to act nonchalant in public while wearing a full costume and a light-colored wig. This difficulty was compounded by the specific nature of this commission: I was tasked with roleplaying as a romantic partner and caring for my "girlfriend." Though the date was challenging, I was obsessed with the sense of accomplishment I felt when I took care of someone and acted as their beloved character."

It certainly seems to be taking fanwork commissions to a new level...

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I have (finally!) just started upon my crackfic "Little Gentlemen" story (as with my usual crackfic, I envisage a total lack of humour :-p) And while checking on the description of the chateau at Bragelonne, I have just noticed that Athos appears to be in possession of some very unusual trees ;-)

In Chapter 15, we are told that as d'Artagnan approaches the house, he perceives it sur le fond d’un massif d’arbres épais que le printemps poudrait d’une neige de fleurs. Very picturesque, except that, constrained by history, Dumas proceeds to inform us some fifty-five chapters later that, after the passage of a relatively short period of time, the date at that point is January :-p

(But as we already know, consistency in dates is not the author's strong point...)

sage

( books (Dunnett, Aaronovitch et al, Mohamed) )

VAMPIRE SALE!
I've put all my Interview With The Vampire Art Dolls on sale for 20% off for the entire month of October! (I have a post on Tumblr that it would be great if you could reblog! Thanks!)

yarning
I've been crocheting a lot, making and selling more kickbunnies. (Enough that I may even get my Etsy star seller badge back!) I went to yarn group Sunday and had a nice time. I just finished a purple bunny & an under the door toy. Next is a yellow bunny, though I'm running out of boxes and am waiting on Prime Day to order more, oops. OH! AND! Niece LOVED her globe & moon! I'm so relieved. I still don't know what to make her for xmas, but I'm going to do a reversible octopus for her 2yo brother with a happy face on one side and a frowny face on the other. He's learning the basics of FEELINGS & this may help? I hope so. Might do a reversible rose doll for Niece (one side is a doll from waist up with a big skirt. Flip the skirt over her head and it's a rose. Though I wonder if she already has one. Hrm.

healthcrap
I had botox for migraines Friday & the skin clinic Monday. Boo: I've got a badly drooping right eyelid from the botox this time & it's so bad I'm having trouble focusing. Yay: Topical horse dewormer is incredibly effective for rosacea, I'm glad to say. I thought I'd never get rid of the spots on my face, but this works. (Note, it does NOT work for Covid.) Speaking of, I got my Covid & flu jabs today. Fasting labs tmrw, gah, but they have to be done. ( cut for discussion of weight loss )

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October 18: No Kings Day 2

I hope all of y'all are doing well! <333

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Title: Thursday
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG-13
Length: short
Content notes: none apply
Summary: Mozzie needs help again

( Thursday )

thewayne

The Jane Goodall Institute confirmed her death earlier today of natural causes, she was on a speaking tour in California.

What an amazing life and career! She never attended university, instead she completed secretarial school and did odd jobs in London until she visited a friend's family farm in Kenya in 1956. While there, she met archeologist Louis Leakey, who hired her as an assistant and secretary. He had been interested in sending a researcher to study wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and assigned Jane the task in 1960.

Three months into her observations, she saw one "stick a long grass stem into a termite mound, withdraw it, and eat what he’d pulled out.

“It was so obvious that he was actually using a grass stem as a tool,” Goodall wrote.

When she cabled Leakey about the discovery, he famously wrote back: “Now we must redefine ‘tool,’ redefine ‘man,’ or accept chimpanzees as humans.”

Because of this and other significant findings, she was admitted into the doctoral program at Cambridge in 1961 despite not having an undergraduate degree.

Amongst her honors were "the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2003, Queen Elizabeth II appointed her a dame of the British empire."

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jane-goodall-dead-obituary-1235439125/

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Fandom: Hilda the Plus-Size Pinup
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Hilda
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 100
Creator Tags: IN SPACE!, Drabble, wonder, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide Madness, Drabble Invitational
Creator Links: (AO3)

Missy; (Dreamwidth)

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Theme: Uncommon Settings, Drabble, In Space, Old Fandoms, Sense Of Wonder, Small Fandoms

Summary: Hilda makes it to space - the universe is vast, but she's one with it.

Author’s Notes: For Topaz_Eyes.

Reccer's Notes: Hilda takes her exploration of The Great Outdoors to the next level. This is a gift-wrapped illo-op; I’m envisioning her in a brilliant red Latex Space Suit with an emergency backflap—in homage to her winter longjohns.

Fanwork Links: Here I Am, by

Missy for

Topaz_Eyes, for Yuletide Madness 2020.

Current Music: ”The World Is Just Awesome”.

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asakiyume

Thanks to

osprey_archer's Newbery project, I got out The ~~Flying~~ Winged Girl of Knossos (thanks for catching that

light_of_summer!) originally published in 1933 and reissued in 2017 by Betsy Bird, who's served on the Newbery Committee, reviewed books for Kirkus, blogs about children's literature, and has in fact written her own middle grade novel (Long Road to the Circus --I haven't read it).

It's easy to see why Betsy Bird and

osprey_archer loved this story: it's great fun and excellently told. I loved it too. The author (Allena Best, writing under the pseudonym Erick Berry) was entranced with ancient Minoan culture, and that love shines through on every page. And in Inas, the daughter of Daidalos (she's genderswapped Icarus for Inas), she's got a great heroine. Who dives skillfully for sponges? Inas does! Who is the best bull vaulter? Inas is! Whose hang glider experiment leads to realization that flying into the wind works better than flying with it? Again, Inas!

The authorial voice is definitely not contemporary, but it's lively and fresh. Every now and then there's something about people's races or features that's winceworthy, but mainly the 1930s-ness of it wasn't intrusive in a negative way.

Tangentially, I loved this description of archaeologists, from the author's introduction: "Then in our own time came the archaeologists, those magicians who build authentic history out of lowly potsherds." Magician archaeologists.

I also read a hilarious short story about the foiling of a racist: "Supply and Demand," by

f0rrest. Why yes, his user name is my IRL last name, but we are not related in any way. We stumbled upon each other quite by chance.

In "Supply and Demand" a pushy racist is hoisted by his own petard, his petard in this case being his successful participation in capitalism: he ends up supporting and promoting what he despises. I loved the hapless narrator (a young employee at a big-box home goods store) and the digs at retail training scripts. I will also offer a content warning, though, because the racist dude says alllllll the negative things you can think to say about "those people," as he calls them. There are no slurs, and he never specifies exactly who comprises "those people," but you may not feel like imbibing his nonsense, even if it's to see him taken down. His vituperations are pretty hilarious though, e.g, his rant about the historical Santa Claus (and later, his praise of Santa Claus as a hard worker up there at the North Pole).

Anyway, if you want to see a racist taken down in an unusual way, give it a try. It's about 7,000 words.

raven

I've told this story to so many people but I just. I cannot. I. Well. The new job is going pretty well, I'm really getting into it, I have a crush on my boss and I like everyone I've met so far.

Yesterday one of my new colleagues came into the office a little down-hearted after being out for a meeting. The meeting hadn't gone well, she explained. "I forgot to invite anyone."

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The complete tabletop RPG about the heroic rats of Fortitude

Bundle of Holding: The Far Roofs

redbird

Bona Fide Masks currently has covid tests and combination flu+covid tests on sale at a good price. With a discount code they sent me, BFM15, I just paid $41 for a total of six covid+flu combo tests (three boxes of two), with free shipping. For both kinds of test, they list the expiration dates. The website is https://www.bonafidemasks.com I've bought KN95 masks from them; this is the first time I've ordered tests from them, but the company has been reliable.

This is probably only relevant to people who live in the US.

I still have a few of the free covid tests we got from the city of Boston last fall, but these tests are well past their expiration dates. The city stopped giving them away over the summer, and I don't know if they're going to restart the program.

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