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thevagabondexpress ([personal profile] thevagabondexpress) wrote2025-05-20 11:52 pm

wake up besties new fanfic just dropped

if you feel like reading a fanfic for a comic you probably haven't read before because i cooked and the vibes are immaculate, have my favorite walking red flag handling the breakup he should've seen coming from a hundred miles away very badly (he is [technically not but he is] a vampire and tragedy was always the endpoint)

broken glass and ashes

388 words | canon compliant - missing scene - jeoan aaven centred | jeoan aaven / mialek
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thevagabondexpress ([personal profile] thevagabondexpress) wrote2025-05-20 09:28 pm
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frustrated because as much as i don't like this character it's easier to find playlist anthems for him than anyone else in the book
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thevagabondexpress ([personal profile] thevagabondexpress) wrote2025-05-20 09:17 pm

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speaking of the siabh fic, never regretting the decision to use "sugarhouse speakeasy" as rhianon's theme song. it's got just the right kind of creepy aesthetic. that and maybe "it will come back" by hozier

my brain suggested rhianon as a genderbent name for this asshole, and then provided the mental image of her samara-crawling out of a bag of holding on which i was immediately sold

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thevagabondexpress ([personal profile] thevagabondexpress) wrote2025-05-20 09:08 pm

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i love giving away the whole plot at the very beginning of something but so subtly you'll never figure out the foreshadowing until after it happens and then you're like "oh. fuck"

this is about the siabh fic for those who know
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boxofdelights ([personal profile] boxofdelights) wrote in [community profile] wiscon2025-05-20 10:40 am

Panels needing panelists

These #WisCon panels still need panelists:

We've lost some people and are looking for panelists on the below:

May 23 Fri7:00-7:45pm | Breathe the Pressure: Burnout and Recovery for Creatives

May 24 Sat10:00-10:45am | Pathways to Publishing

May 24 Sat4:00-4:45pm | Small Press Publishing

Please email Panels@WisCon.sf3.org if you are able to participate!
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Jesse the K ([personal profile] jesse_the_k) wrote2025-05-20 06:21 pm

BELLA: We’ve loved every minute together

On day one, she was beautiful, and brave, and ready to cuddle. She was underweight, so her sleek black-and-brown body just fills an oval bed. Staring right at the camera with hope and trepidation, her stuffed alligator rests in front.

Click for pic )

Today was her last day.

Euthanasia, generally described )

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Vridelian ([personal profile] vriddy) wrote2025-05-19 09:09 am
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Moving to Scrivener for fanfic, too

I'm not sure how long this is going to last, but I moved all of my on-going fanfic projects to Scrivener as well. I already started using it for my original projects, but for fanfics I used to find it too intimidating. This may well happen again, but for now I'm cherishing the organisational flexibility it allows. It's Just Great (tm) XD

I'll go back to 4thewords if I get too stuck in my own head again (defeating monsters and completing quests just works so well to kick me out of the 'Thou must write something Good or you will waste your time, nay, the entire world's time!' kind of block.) The recent weird bug that resulted in some data loss in many files has been such a pain to manage, even if I believed I recovered everything I needed. Between the hurt/comfort series, fics I drafted last November and still need to edit, and some other things I have going on, it's just been kind of messy to try to find all my files again and making sure they're whole. Scrivener is refreshing in that sense (easy to find things!), but may not help with the "getting stuck in own head" issue... I suppose there's always changing the font to Comic Sans and bright yellow font on neon green background or something to test, etc, if/when that happens again 😆

Note: even with the helpful AO3 Scrivener template that was shared with me, copy-pasting directly into AO3's Rich Text Editor doesn't work and I lose italics and other formatting. However, this Tumblr tutorial from [tumblr.com profile] zaharya (and the follow-up tutorial) appear to have resolved the problem for me, so I'm happy with the current status. I only posted a couple of things with it so far though, so tbc!

I'm enjoying working offline more. The only thing I'm missing at the moment is a good thesaurus program that would work offline, too. The one integrated with Scrivener doesn't cut it for my needs.

I want to talk about some stuff going on in my writing again, but because I didn't really share much especially around the orig novellas in January, my brain seems jammed about new thoughts and related posts until I get that stuff out first. I guess I'll attempt to summarise soon, so I can share the fresh stuff again XD

Any of you also using Scrivener for fic? How do you find it? Any tips? I'm still not 100% how I will organise projects over time especially with the many one-shots, but I'm looking forward to testing out various ways!

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Louis Chanina ([personal profile] grayestofghosts) wrote2025-05-18 10:41 pm
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Writing (and Zine) Thoughts

I guess I'm feeling kind of gross because I feel like I'm between projects, but not really.

I am Looking At The Novel, being the science fiction novel I've been working on for two years, and think the first few chapters need a heavy revision. So I have been trying to do that, but being on the computer, it's hard, and I'm just... not feeling it? And I'm not sure if I need to pause or need to muscle through it. My insane thought was to make a draft where I just took the passages I really liked, in some kind of opposite kill-your-darlings, and try to weave a narrative through that way, because this piece is really supposed to be running on vibes, so selecting the bestest vibes first from the old draft may be the way to go. Or maybe I should just do normal editing. I don't know. I feel kind of nuts looking at this thing, which is making me wonder if I should just chicken scratch at dirt for a new project that I want to do but isn't formed enough to really start writing.

I also had this insane idea of making a zine of excerpts of notes I've sent to my therapist, which in my case are extremely prolific. I mean it's my writing so I can do what I want with it, right? But as I was starting to compile some stuff it just felt really hard, even if the excerpts I was working with weren't super significant. I was at a local group to write and in the middle of it I was just like, "wow, what the fuck am I doing, this is insane," and had to get up and leave. But maybe it would be worth it to do? I don't know.

There is a zinefest at the end of June so I did want to bring something more substantial than my minizine for trades, but this might... not be it.
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yui_miyamoto ([personal profile] yui_miyamoto) wrote in [community profile] anime_manga2025-05-18 01:29 am

Fic – [フェルマーの料理 / Fermat’s Cuisine / Fermaa no Ryouri] – Made for me. (pg-13, one-shot)

Fandom : フェルマーの料理 / Fermat’s Cuisine / Fermaa no Ryouri
Author : Yui_Miyamoto
Story Title : Made for me.
Rating : PG-13
Genre(s) : Romance, Drama
Main Character(s) : Kitada Gaku, Asakura Kai
Summary : Ever since Kai left, Gaku thinks he’s going to leave again. Even if they live together now, will he ever let this fear go?
MFG…Warning(s) : M/M.
Disclaimer : The manga is made by Kobayashi Yuugo and the drama with TBS so all rights belong to them.

Livejournal / Fanfiction.net / AO3
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Vridelian ([personal profile] vriddy) wrote2025-05-18 09:13 am
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Link: Multifandom questionnaire/question meme

Fannish person who would like to write more on Dreamwidth but isn't too sure what about? [personal profile] maevedarcy's got you :D They adapted a fandom questionnaire to make it more multifandom-friendly and the (72!) questions are so good!! If folks in my circles decide to pick it up, I'll be looking forward to reading y'all's answers :D

Link: Questionnaire: 72 Multifandom questions to ask a fangirl
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mistressofmuses ([personal profile] mistressofmuses) wrote2025-05-17 10:11 pm
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Bella got her BCAT!

Bella had another FastCAT today, this time sponsored by the Keeshond club. (As usual, I would rather have been there than at work. There is one in early June I get to go to, though!)

Her scores today... weren't great. Her first time was okay, 11.49. Her second one was pretty bad, 19.12. Apparently she got distracted at the start, and didn't actually start to run for several seconds, heh. Alex said the wait for both runs was pretty long, so she started to lose a little bit of her hype.

But she accumulated enough points to get her BCAT, which is the first title for doing the event! (Each run gets points, faster runs getting more points. The BCAT title means she got 150 points total in the event. The intermediate is the DCAT, at 500 points, and the highest level is the FCAT, at 1000 points.)


So here she is with her big fancy ribbon!

I also had her pose with her ribbons at home this evening:




A noble sport-beaft.
jazzyjj ([personal profile] jazzyjj) wrote in [community profile] access_fandom2025-05-17 06:35 pm

Request for Testing of Another Website

Hi everyone. Several years ago I posted here requesting assistance with some websites. Now I'm back to do the same thing. About 2 months ago I received an email on a list to which I am subscribed, regarding a website that was being launched about Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. They wanted people to sign up for their newsletter, but as I recently found out there is a problem. Actually 2 problems on the site, but I'll get to the other one in a bit. The newsletter sign-up form uses CloudFlare, which I believe Dreamwidth used at one point for security purposes or something like that. I might open a support ticket regarding this, but thought I'd ask here first. I've only encountered CloudFlare a little bit, but each time I attempted to fill in that form a box popped up prompting me to verify myself. I tried dismissing this pop-up to no avail. The verification checkbox is a good alternative imho, but it seems this one has been incorrectly implemented. The other problem on that website is with the forum registration. There is evidently some kind of CAPTCHA on the registration form, which was hopefully meant to be accessible for screen reader users such as myself. But there's some kind of site owner error. I attempted to contact them via their contact form, but again was met with that CloudFlare pop-up. I'm wondering if any of you who don't use screen readers could check out the website and see what happens. Oddly enough, it seems a couple of forum posts were made there, which to me seems impossible given that there is a forum registration. The website in question is http://www.title2.info , and I was able to read a few news articles on there but nothing else.
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hrj ([personal profile] hrj) wrote2025-05-17 06:10 pm
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A Finances Addendum

Just to acknowledge that I'm not always as smart as I think I am...

While going over things with my Fidelity Guy, I discovered that I overpaid on my taxes the last three years. This came up because I was certain that some of the money that went into my 401K was above the pre-tax limit and therefor needed to get rolled into a Roth IRA, not a regular IRA. Except they couldn't find any evidence that I'd made any above-limit contributions.

Why was I so certain that I had? Because there was this section in the tax instructions for Additional Income where I (mis)read my W2 as indicating that I'd contributed more than the limit. So being a good, law-abiding person, I plugged in the numbers and added it to my taxable income. Except it turns out the numbers I misread as overage were actually non-taxable contributions to my employee-provided health and insurance coverage.

So I need to do corrected tax returns for 2022-2024 and get some money back. I don't mind the paperwork. I just hate losing my pride in being tax-savvy. (Please, no advice required on this point.)