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petra ([personal profile] petra) wrote2025-07-05 07:55 pm
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Ask me to write you something!

I am having a difficult brainweasel day, and would like to counteract that by making you some words. I am feeling poetic, with a side-order of "Drabbles are nice," so:

Comment with: Drabble or Poetry, Fandom(s) from the list of things I know, Character[/Character/etc.], Prompt (if any).

Feel free to publicize this.
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Travis ([personal profile] torachan) wrote2025-07-05 04:24 pm
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2025 Disneyland Trip #48 (7/5/25)

We were expecting it to be crowded today because of the holiday weekend but it was actually one of the least crowded days we've ever experienced at the parks.

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adafrog ([personal profile] adafrog) wrote in [community profile] fandom_checkin2025-07-05 05:55 pm
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Daily Check In.

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Saturday to midnight on Sunday (8pm Eastern Time).


Poll #33327 Daily poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 13

How are you doing?

I am okay
8 (66.7%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
4 (33.3%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
3 (23.1%)

One other person
6 (46.2%)

More than one other person
4 (30.8%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
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nnozomi ([personal profile] nnozomi) wrote in [community profile] guardian_learning2025-07-05 06:48 pm

第四年第一百七十七天

部首
十 part 4
卓, outstanding; 单, single/list; 卖, to sell Expandpinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=24

词汇
往往, often; 交往, to affiliate; 前往, to go to/proceed Expandpinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
你是怀疑小郭会在里面出卖老楚, are you suspecting Xiao Guo will sell out Lao Chu in there?
历史往往都是成王败寇, history is often written by the winners

Me:
你的工作表现真卓越的。
我们公司往往跟她的公司合作。
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kaberett ([personal profile] kaberett) wrote2025-07-05 11:30 pm
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[pain, food] victory!

I have finally successfully got my head around when the local supermarket reduces the prices on its pastries, which means that we are now well-supplied for doing a batch of pistachio croissant strata to get us most of the way through the coming week. It is not going to be a tomorrow (Sunday) morning breakfast, though, because we have half a cherry clafoutis from this morning, made using allotment cherries.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-07-05 05:19 pm
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Early Humans

125,000-year-old ‘fat factory’ run by Neanderthals discovered in Germany

Stone Age humans living by a lake in what’s now Germany systematically processed animal carcasses for fatty nutrients — essentially running what scientists describe as a “fat factory” to boil bones on a vast scale, according to new research.


Note that another thing you can make with animal fat is pemmican: a stable, high-energy trail food made with fat, powdered meat, and a carbohydrate such as berries.  Since it's not something you'd make in a hot climate like Africa (where humans evolved) but rather in a cold climate (such as northern Europe), I'm suddenly wondering if it is in fact a Neanderthal or Denisovan recipe.
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pensnest ([personal profile] pensnest) wrote2025-07-05 10:37 pm
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Sunshibne Challenge #2

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Tunnel of Love
Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.

Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like


I'm going to be a bit wayward over the Journalling part of this challenge, but I think a bit of romantic fiction does squeeze into the category, so here goes.

Beast and I have lately started watching Bridgerton. I don't think it was the reason we decided to spend a little while chez Netflix, but it was one of the first things that sprang to my mind, at least.
ExpandNot spoilers, probably, since this is old news, but anyway.... )

The love poem is going to have to wait.
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-07-05 03:12 pm

Birdfeeding

Today is partly sunny and hot.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, plus some brown birds that might be female blackbirds.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 4/5/25 -- I refilled the thistle feeder.

I picked up the concrete paver that we used for fireworks last night, along with scraps of paper and cardboard left behind.

Volunteer sunflowers are blooming under the fly-through feeder.

EDIT 4/5/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 4/5/25 -- I picked a handful of blackberries in the prairie garden.

EDIT 4/5/25 -- I watered the telephone pole garden and some of the savanna seedlings.  A sunflower in the telephone pole garden is close to blooming.  :D

EDIT 4/5/25 -- I pulled some weeds from the septic garden.

Fireflies are out.  Cicadas are singing.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-07-05 02:21 pm

Poem: "Legs of Grass, Feet of Flowers"

This poem was written for the Sunshine Revival Challenge 2: Tunnel of Love. It also fills the "buffalo" square in my 7-1-25 card for the Western Bingo Fest.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-07-05 12:56 pm

Sunshine Revival Challenge 2: Tunnel of Love

Sunshine Revival Challenge 2: Tunnel of Love

Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.

Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like

See "Poem: Legs of Grass, Feet of Flowers."

Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

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facethestrange ([personal profile] facethestrange) wrote in [community profile] sid_guardian2025-07-05 08:12 pm
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Guardian Readalong: Vol. 3, Chapters 17 & 18



Hi, and welcome to this week's installment of the Guardian novel readalong! ♡

Here are last week's chapters, and you can find all previous discussions in the schedule posts (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5), or via the !readalong tag.

This week's chapters:

  • Chapter 17: Guo Changcheng can't get ahold of the rest of the team, and drives alone to the nearest town. An angry crowd is begging the police to find their loved ones who went missing at Spring Harbor Resort. Guo Changcheng manages the crowd and promises them that the SID is already on the case. Zhao Yunlan's sacrifices some of the true Soul-Guarding Order to save Shen Wei. Shen Wei defeats the Chaos shadow that chased them, but Ghost Face stabs him in the heart with an icicle and takes him away, demanding that Zhao Yunlan brings him the Soul-Guarding Lamp in exchange.


  • Chapter 18: Zhao Yunlan asks the Magistrate to take him to the Reincarnation Cycle in order to awaken Kunlun's spirit. Lin Jing regains the use of his senses and finds himself imprisoned at the Seal, surrounded by youchu. Ghost Face brings Shen Wei there too, and shackles him to the Merit Tree. Shen Wei is in pain, but he mocks Ghost Face and reveals that he's always had the power over the Mountain-River Awl, and that he has tracked Ghost Face and manipulated his actions. Ghost Face attacks him with the icicle again and Shen Wei passes out.


The corresponding chapters in the Chinese version on JJWXC/the fan translation are 98-99.


Excerpts:

Expand1) Xiao Guo manages the crowd )

Expand2) Zhao Yunlan's burns the Soul-Guarding Order )

Expand3) Ghost Face kidnaps Shen Wei )

Expand4) Lin Jing talks to the youchu )

Expand5) Shen Wei mocks Ghost Face )


Questions:

Are you as surprised by Xiao Guo's bravery and competence as he is? What do you think about Zhao Yunlan's decision to sacrifice the Soul-Guarding Order? What's your favorite comic relief moment? Favorite angsty moment? Any thoughts about the many parallels between these chapters and their drama adaptation?

You can answer as many or as few questions as you like, or just comment without answering any of them at all! And if you see this post and you're not actually reading the novel, I would love to know what you think about any of this with limited context. :D

And here is the schedule, where you can sign up to host a post!
jazzyjj ([personal profile] jazzyjj) wrote in [community profile] awesomeers2025-07-05 01:17 pm
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Just one thing: 06 July 2025

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!
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kingstoken ([personal profile] kingstoken) wrote2025-07-05 02:00 pm

Sunshine Revival Challenge #2

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Challenge #2

Tunnel of Love
Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.
Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like

Oh man neither one of these challenges was made for me. Summer is not my favourite season, that would be Autumn, I know very basic white woman of me. Plus, I grew up on a farm, so summer always meant work. I guess I do like how fast and easy it is to get dressed in the mornings, just throw on shorts and a t-shirt and you're good. I also love all the summer fruit we get this time of year, strawberries, raspberries, cherries, etc, yummy!

I'm not a person who really writes poetry anymore (I dabbled a little bit when I was teenager). I got nothing against it, I enjoy other people's poetry, it just not something I enjoy doing myself.

As recompense for my lack of creativity please accept his famous poem about Sherlock Holmes:

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sanguinity ([personal profile] sanguinity) wrote2025-07-05 10:37 am
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[heron fic] Hegesistratus

Been reading a lot of Herodotus lately. The flight of Hegesistratus made me think of Ewen.

Hegesistratus (100 words) by sanguinity
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy | The Flight of the Heron Series - D. K. Broster, The Histories - Herodotus
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Ewen Cameron
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Drabble, Angst
Summary:

Ewen Cameron, lame and hunted after his escape at High Bridge, remembers his childhood daydreams.



...now back to finishing Book IX before book group tomorrow!
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-07-05 06:13 pm

FAKE Double Drabble: Best Dad Ever





Title: Best Dad Ever
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Bikky, Ryo.
Rating: G
Setting: Early in the manga.
Summary: Bikky breaks something.
Written Using: The tw100 prompt ‘Accident’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
 
 


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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-07-05 06:02 pm

Doctor Who Drabble: Perfectly Aligned

 


Title: Perfectly Aligned
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: The Doctor.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 937: ‘Syzygy’ at 
[community profile] dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The Doctor knows something the locals aren’t aware of.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
 


 
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lightbird (she/her/hers) ([personal profile] lightbird) wrote2025-07-05 12:46 pm

[community profile] sunshine_revival Challenge #2

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Challenge #2

Tunnel of Love
Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.
Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like


I'm not sure if I would categorize it as romance per se, but the one thing I love about summer in the northeast, where it's not warm year-round, is being able to go to an outdoor pool. I swim laps in an indoor pool, both in summer and the off-season, but I love being able to sit at an outdoor pool and read and relax. I joined a gym out where my mom lives several years ago, anticipating that I would need to move in with her, or at least stay with her for long periods, to help her out. The gym has both an indoor and an outdoor pool, and the outdoor pool deck is one of my favorite places in the world, and something I don't have in the city. The members are a mix of families with young kids, families with older kids, young couples without kids yet, and seniors, and it's fun to watch the kids play in the fountain in the family pool. It's surrounded by trees, and it's really just a lovely place to be when the weather is nice. It's definitely one of my top enjoyments in life.

As for the creative side of the challenge, I've never been much of a poet. So instead I'm going to share some summer-themed haikus by Bashō:

In bright summer moon,
and with softly clapping hands,
I herald the dawn.

Summer in the world
floating on little waves
of shimmering lake.

Orchid is breathing
its pungent incense into
a butterfly's wings.


Previous Days
Day 1
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-07-05 05:53 pm

Double Drabble: Turning Point

 


Title: Turning Point
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Team Torchwood.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 872: History at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Children of Earth Fix-it, sort of.
Summary: Torchwood needs to be ready to guide the people of earth into the future.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.