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6/17/26 09:46 am
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I saw this article in my local paper and thought it was a great summation of a worrying situation (although it comes down on the side of social media bans for teens, which I oppose for privacy & practicality reasons):

Our children are growing up in a world controlled by technology, not democracy (Web archive link)
As I’ve previously argued, democracy does not reproduce itself automatically. It depends on citizens with attention, judgement and some command over their impulses. It needs the ideas of virtue and honour. A society that cannot form such citizens will still hold elections, but it will struggle to sustain democratic life.
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belated vital functions

6/16/26 09:57 pm
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Reading. Tiiiny bit more of Much Ado About Mothing.

Listening. More Hidden Almanac on the way to the field! Mord and Drom are On A Road Trip...

Cooking. First batch of experimental copycat Dr Karg's protein thins: didn't roll out thin enough, possibly wanna experiment with bumping the vital wheat gluten down, and also I think the (majority of the) chopped pumpkin seeds probably want to go on in some kind of final rolling step. Hurrah for progress!

Eating. The crêpe place on the field had STRAWBERRIES i could get them to add STRAWBERRIES to my lemon-and-sugar crêpe!!!

Breakfast mush worked... acceptably with the little pots of instant porridge from Crew Welfare, though I definitely preferred starting with plain and adding things to starting with even the dried-strawb-and-rasp option.

I remembered I could ask the pizza place to put pineapple on my veg pizza.

Observing. BATS on site!!!

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The trip where things weren't there

6/16/26 04:15 pm
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Background: I discovered that the county-run swim center nearest to me has deepwater running times open when I'm available. My swimsuits are ancient and the elastic in them is dying.

So I decided to drive to the Lands End outlet to try on what they have, get something to wear.

I drove over this afternoon. It wasn't there. In place of Lands End, in the plaza, was a Gap Outlet (no swimsuits.) I went a little further down the plaza to Athletica. No swimsuits.

Oookay, I will try to order one when I get home.

On the way home I noticed that the Chico's, which used to be across the street from another mall where I worked when they had a Borders Books, is gone. It's an empty site with a backhoe.

Another couple of miles, I turned left and headed toward the private Catholic girls' school that had so much traffic coming from it that it had its own dedicated cop to handle directing traffic. This time -- no cop. And no school. The rolling green lawn is not green but mostly paved and out of it have sprung enormous townhouses -- if a townhouse is four stories -- or flats, or something. Dozens of them.

I also noticed that the road I was driving on had changed names. It had been Knowles; now it is Strathmore, possibly in connection with the arts center and entertainment venue at the end of it.

Did I suddenly switch timelines or something? I do remember the county talking about housing and construction, but I don't recall anything about this.
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Something Good (Will Come From That): Ten Years

6/16/26 01:16 pm
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Today is the ten year anniversary of "Something Good (Will Come From That)", my retrospective of a hundred years of Holmes and Watson on film:



(Vid, commentary, FAQ, and timestamps on AO3.)

[personal profile] language_escapes and I spent a year making it, and a very good year it was. She turned down co-author credit, but I maintain this vid never would have happened with out her.

"Something Good" is ten years out of date now; that's especially apparent when I re-read the commentary. It's been good to see how many more versions of Holmes and Watson have come by in the interval. I'm particularly happy to have female and non-white Holmeses coming out of Korea and Japan: both of those were thin on the ground when we made the vid.

At the time, I thought of this vid as my masterwork, and despaired of ever making anything so good again! Mostly at a loss for what to do with myself, I kept on making things, and I'm happy to say there's been plenty of good stuff in the interim. Good stuff, new fandoms, and new fannish friends. There were even a few more vids!

So here's to [personal profile] language_escapes and all my fannish friends, new and old, and a hundred years (plus ten!) of Holmes and Watson walking arm-in-arm.
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European Castles

6/16/26 03:44 pm
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Not sure how to word this...

I'm looking for information on castles? In particular the keep, which was a residence for the nobility as well as a last line of defense.

Some questions include:

  • Wikipedia only talks about English, French, Italian, and Spanish castles having keeps. Did castles in northern, central, and eastern Europe not have keeps, or is this just a matter of fewer English-language sources on, for example, German, Danish, and Polish castles?
  • If you know of any good diagrams or floor plans with labels of castle keeps - both the kind of "generic" cross-section illustrations you see in children's educational books (the larger and more visually detailed the better!) and of specific real-world castles. Preferably castles that actually served as fortifications in addition to residences, rather than castle-esque palaces like Neuschwanstein Castle. It's difficult for me to reconstruct spatial information with text, so visual aids are helpful. It's very hard to find good educational pictures with an image search these days, there's too much AI-generated inaccurate bloat in the results.
  • Relatedly, photos or illustrations of the castle's interior.
  • Who (if anyone) resided in the castle, aside from the noble that owned it and their family, and the servants? Also, more information on the duties and types of servants who would have been present in the castle.

I, um, am sorry if this is too broad. ^_^;

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Unfairness

NSFW 6/16/26 11:50 am
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announcing schedule for "burn, baby, burn": a mechabae zine - NO APPLICATIONS required!!

NSFW 6/16/26 02:38 pm
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FAKE Double Drabble: Inappropriate Thoughts

6/16/26 06:38 pm
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Title: Inappropriate Thoughts
Fandom: FAKE
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo, OC.
Rating: PG-13
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Watching Ryo in action is a turn-on for Dee.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Appropriate’.
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.
 
 


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Fandom 50 S4 Post 28: Concert observations from a casual fan

6/16/26 01:05 pm
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TBH, I have zero idea how I found this channel, but anyways! 놀꾸야 NOLGGUYA's YouTube channel is abt her attending a ton of different concerts in Korea. It so happens that, among her many other videos (covering everything from TXT to Day6, exo, etc), there were these three which feature BTS (both individually and as a group).

In chrono order for funsies.




Jin's concert September 2025.

I really liked hearing from someone who had gone to Jin's concerts in Seoul thinking that it was gonna be OK . . . only to end up realizing how amazing he is as a performer. Also how unique his concert was. FWIW, I think that a lot of ppl (ARMYs included) had the same kind of awakening to Jin's AWESOMECAKINESS and talents, heheh.




A good review of the BTS comeback performance on March 21st, 2026.

This one was interesting due to how, because she's not an ARMY (though she knows and enjoys BTS music, but, again, in a v. casual way?), she talked abt the negative aspects of BTS' comeback show in Gwanghwamun. The lines, the extreme security measures that ended up inconveniencing way too many ppl including herself and her mother.

THAT SAID, she enjoyed BTS' performance (and really dug the addition of "Arirang" into "Body to Body".)

NB: A lot was discussed abt the way the police and the city of Seoul organized the crowds to the point of driving everyone bonkers. OTOH, however, there were zero reports of ppl being harmed--an important point given the Itaewon crowd crush tragedy a few years ago.

Could things have been a bit looser? Maybe, but there we are.





BTS' first concert in YEARS. Seoul Day 1 of the ARIRANG tour.

Let me point out that, in addition to this being the literal first concert and all the pressures that come with that, the weather did its best to be HORRIBLE. It was chilly (46F / 7.7 Celsius) AND there was non-stop rain. So the stage was potentially slippery. Due to the condensation and other things associated with moderate, (again) non-stop rain, some of the effects (especially the smoke) went sideways. There was a steady fog for the first Act, frex.

ANYWAYS, NOLGGUYA had some opinions (a few criticisms that feel valid (to me) and tons of praise) on the show.
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Doctor Who Drabble: Unstoppable Armies

6/16/26 05:46 pm
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Title: Unstoppable Armies
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Tenth Doctor.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 1034: ‘Deletion’ at [community profile] dw100.
Spoilers: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday.
Summary: The Doctor considers his two great enemies, as he tries to find a way to end the Canary Wharf massacre.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
 


 
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Wildlife

6/16/26 11:37 am
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Woman Who Rescued Injured Crow Keeps Getting ‘Thank-you Gifts’ from Other Birds

In a story that will make your beak drop, a Canadian woman has received a series of ‘thank you’ presents from a whole murder of crows after she took the time to rescue one from a gutter.

As Leah Wilson walks down the street, the superstitious among the neighbors might draw their blinds. Her steps herald the beating of black wings, as the carrion birds follow her every move.


I was instantly reminded of the various legends about the Crow Husband.
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Double Drabble: Stand-In

6/16/26 05:34 pm
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Title: Stand-In
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Twins.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 922: Goal, at [community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto loves his kids, but there are times he thinks they appreciate him for the wrong reasons.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 
 


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Birdfeeding

6/16/26 11:31 am
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Today is cloudy, mild, and wet.  It just started raining.

I fed the birds.  I've seen several sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 6/16/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

It barely rained at all, just enough to make things inconveniently damp. >_<

EDIT 6/16/26 -- We went out to the Charleston Food Forest and Grissom Family Orchard and Farm Market, along with other errands.  :D

There are a couple thunderstorms visible from here, but one is too far north.  The other to the west may or may not give us any rain.





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Fic: Odile's Discovery

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Two Against One The Sentinel and Will Trent

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Prompt: #499 - Release

6/16/26 12:14 pm
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This week's prompt is release.

Your response should be exactly 100 words long. You do not have to include the prompt in your response -- it is meant as inspiration only.

Please use the tag "prompt: #499 - release" with your response.

Please put your drabble under a cut tag if it contains potential triggers, mature or explicit content, or spoilers for media released in the last month.

If you would like a template for the header information you may use this:

Subject: Original - Title (or) Fandom - Title

Post:
Title:
Original (or) Fandom:
Rating:
Notes:



If you are a member of AO3 there is a 100 Words Collection!
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Inspector George Gently: Fanfiction: There's No Place Like Home

6/16/26 03:53 pm
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Title: There's No Place Like Home
Author: [personal profile] lucy_roman
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: John is in London but he misses George. Pre-slash. Set after the episode Gently Through the Mill.
Word Count: 667

( There's No Place Like Home )
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Round 188 Theme Poll

6/16/26 07:44 am
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Poll #34738 round 188 theme poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 48

Pick the next theme of fancake:

Fannish Non-Fiction
13 (27.1%)

In Denial
11 (22.9%)

Unreliable Narrator
24 (50.0%)

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6/16/26 09:51 am
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We were both awake this morning at five and couldn't go back to sleep despite a decent night of pet behaviour (Rated Nico: D, Sunny: C) so I lazed and thought about my wip and very important emotional scenes and what do I remember now that I'm at my keyboard??? Uhhhhhhhhh. Someone cried??? Maybe it'll come back to me.

Writing still coming along, laundry still coming along (like four loads yesterday with all our sheets and blankets, and today is human clothes and towels), I think it's the only chore I can stand right now. That and meal prep, I guess. Making good use of my vacuum sealer >>:D today I have to make more dog fooood. Kelly is bbqing like three different dinners this week, which is great for me. Today I'm making the burgers (chipotle pork???) and it will be a delicious team effort.

Yesterday Kelly had to do weapons training (which is supposed to be every couple years but usually ends up being closer to a decade, at least for nerds) because the military got a new handgun that ✨isn't from ww2✨ He said it was weird and plastic and doesn't have a safety. (The old one was very inaccurate and very heavy.) Today he is in the gas hut doing tricks while being teargassed all morning, but at least he gets to wfh the rest of the day.

I tried the cheese souffle fifa chips and they are not bad. Very buttery.
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Heated Rivalry: nobody knows (and nobody gives a damn, either way) by milominderbinder

6/17/26 12:36 am
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Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairings: Ilya Rozanov & Scott Hunter (background Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Scott Hunter/Kip Grady)
Rating: Teen
Length: 2426
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: milominderbinder on AO3
Themes: Just like canon, Canon LGBTQ+ characters, Missing scene, Friendship

Summary: "I did. After MLH awards, in June. Oh, I did not tell him about Shane and me. But what he did, it was important. It changed things. For me, at least - maybe for us."

On the night of the MLH awards, Ilya corners Scott Hunter on a quiet balcony.

Reccer's Notes: A nice missing scene that fills out the brief mention in canon. Ilya has a quiet word with Scott Hunter - seems like it would be the start of their friendship. Very much 'just like canon', and with great characterisation.

Fanwork Links: nobody knows (and nobody gives a damn, either way)

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even more of that backstory fic

6/16/26 07:45 am
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if you recall how I said I have no chill, that lack of chill continues. I wrote a third part of that backstory fic about my paladin Dalton and the prince-turned-thief that he fell in love with, this time set in the first few months after Dalton crash-lands in Kristoff's life. it's also up on AO3 if that's easier.

( in which Dalton kills an assassin and makes an offer )
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Drabbles mois des fiertés, partie 5

6/16/26 01:01 pm
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13 juin : Un coming-out glorieux
Little Witch Academia, Croix(/Chariot), PG
Un coup de tonnerre sur AO3

14 juin : Émission queer
Miraculous Ladybug, Alec, G
Vir privée sur AO3

15 juin : Himbo et coming-out
The Dragon Prince, Terry/Claudia, T
Une révélation sur AO3
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Icebreaker Week: Day 2

6/16/26 05:55 am
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Day 2's icebreaker questions are related to group work!

  1. What strengths will you bring to the group?

  2. What things do you struggle with when it comes to group work? (And, if you want, how can your partner help you with these things?)

  3. What are you hoping for from this collaboration experience? What would your dream version of Pod-Together collaboration look like?

  4. What's one thing your partner(s) could say or do that would feel really good to you? (For example, compliment your fanwork, offer to help with organization/beta/cheerleading, reach out to you to say hi every few days, etc.)
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New Substack post

6/16/26 01:16 am
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Communities

6/15/26 11:59 pm
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Fansites and encouraging interaction
[personal profile] rigelatin  in [community profile] makeashrine 

I'd like to hear some opinions, experiences, and ideas on the topic of encouraging interaction with our fansites and collectives.


This seems like an interesting discussion.

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