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yhlee) wrote2025-09-01 04:58 pmcatten yarn has entered the chat
Still fussing with the settings on the wheel (especially how aggressive I want takeup). Cloud seems to think the e-spinner is purring.
teslac0ils) wrote2025-09-01 11:50 amDamn these books hold up
I remember being super into these books as a kid. I remember very little else about them besides the basic premise of kids with animal powers fighting aliens and that there were spin-off books that take place entirely on alien planets. Idk. My memories from childhood in general are extremely spotty so it's not unusual for me to forget basically everything about what was my favorite series at some point.
Anyway, re-visiting them is such a fascinating experience. In a way it's like reading them for the first time due to the fact that I have forgotten so much that it feels "fresh"... but at the same time there is so much in the way they handle their subject matter that I can feel was deeply formative in what sort of things I like in media, and even how I relate to IRL animals and consider their experiences. Like holy shit, I really have unearthed a piece of myself here.
Also they don't fall prey to the usual problem that comes from revisiting children's action/adventure stories as an adult where you go "why are these kids left to handle this shit all by themselves, why is this never addressed" like, this is addressed, it IS fucked up and that's part of the whole point!! I mean, oof, like any story of this sort it's definitely an aspect that feels more painful to read as an adult but it just feels like another way to appreciate the story.
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pod_together2025-09-01 07:44 amDay 5 Reveals 2025
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Summary: This is how a story ends: with blood, and lights, and cameras.
This is how a story starts: with a road to Hell, and a railroad line.
This is how a story changes, plants roots, grows into something new.
Joe is missing. To find him, Norma and Max must follow the path down. Way down.
A Hadestown/Sunset Boulevard podfic musical.
Playfully Planned Parenthood (Sherlock (TV))
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Summary: Returning home from the registry office, newlywed husbands Sherlock and John launch into an increasingly fanciful discussion of their potential parenthood. John is giddy with the joy of having just married the love of his life, while Sherlock is doing his best to pretend he isn’t every bit as giddy.
Performance Practicum (The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types)
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Summary: Professor Julian Alfred Pankratz understands what the students of Oxenfurt’s Bardic College need to know to succeed, as his own illustrious career demonstrates. His advanced composition students are perhaps less interested in his artistic process than they are in his muse, the famous White Wolf. But as Jaskier lectures about the many artistic liberties he takes with the truth, who should show up but the subject of Jaskier’s recent, regrettable song, “Burn, Butcher, Burn?” It’s the famous witcher Geralt of Rivia, whom Jaskier last saw at the top of a certain dragon-infested mountain. Geralt has come to tell Jaskier how he feels about this latest composition.
Bonding the Tsakarem Way (Avatar (Cameron Movies))
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Summary: Tsireya finds herself in awe of all that Kiri is. She considers her friend inspirational. Maybe together, they can build a strong bond between both Eywa and each other.
Just a Bit of Skulduggery (Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023))
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Summary: "Did you shag our darling Alexander in the break room?" Pez asks, mischief in his eye.
Henry thinks about denying it for a moment.
"The first chance I got," He smiles and Pez slaps his shoulder.
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June is so excited to introduce Alex to her new favorite book and record shop, Skulduggery.
The eclectic store and its owners surprise Alex in all the best ways.
Alex finds himself begrudging friends with the owner’s brother.
Henry recommends a book for Alex and Alex recommends an album.
Their choices say so much more than either could express.
Truth Be Told [text, audio] (Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types, The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars Prequel Trilogy)
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Summary: As the blinding light faded, Din immediately registered that something was wrong. He hadn’t previously been standing in what was clearly a crashed ship. He put himself in front of Grogu, just to be safe, while he attempted to figure out what had happened.
“Who are you?”
Din turned in the direction of the voice.
Suddenly Stevie (Stranger Things (TV 2016))
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Summary: The guy playing Seymour in Little Shop is adorable and Eddie kinds of want to eat him. Not in an Audrey II kind way, more like in the way that he wants to suck him off.
5 Times Merthur Weren't Together + 1 Time They Were [text, audio] (Merlin (TV))
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Summary: Arthur and Merlin have been best friends for years. However, Arthur soon comes to the realisation that maybe there's more going on than he initially bargained for.
Cloud Recesses Student Radio, Second Semester (魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV))
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Summary: The juniors need to create another radio show for school credit. This time they bring the multi-verse to them.
The Zagreus Archives (Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games))
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Summary: The saga of Prince Zagreus’s attempts to escape the Underworld, as told by the beleaguered Shade whose job it is to put his permanent record together.
Monster, I + Podfic (X-Men - All Media Types)
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Summary: Scott isn't handling well his new reality. Luckily, he has an amazing boyfriend.
Starting Playback… (The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells)
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Summary: SecUnit did something horrible, but its memory of the event was completely wiped. All that’s left is a volatile audio file. If it wants to know what happened, it will have to listen to the file the old-fashioned way—out loud.
The Never Again Job (Leverage (US TV 2008), Leverage)
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Summary: After losing everything, Eliot gives up, only to find that second chances really do exist.
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dw_maintenance2025-08-31 07:37 pmCode deploy happening shortly
Per the dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.
There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.
mekachu04) wrote in anime_manga2025-08-31 06:49 pmA month of Kidd Pirates [One Piece] Sketches - August
Author/Artist: Mekachu04
Title: July Punk Aibou Sketches
Pairing: Eustass Kidd & Killer
Rating: teen? it varies from gen/all audience to teen
Word Count: art
Highlight for Warnings: *some implied death/violence but nothing graphic. all are unfinished sketches so clothes might not all be there. *
Disclaimer: Kidd, Killer, the Kidd Pirates and other characters belong to the world of One Piece by Eiichiro Oda. I'm just playing in the sandbox
AN: I'm trying to draw something everyday. So most of these are drawn at about 3-5am in about an hour or two at work during the down time.
started a 50 sentence challenge toward the end of the month with a sketch for each sentance
( thumbnails linking to each day under cut )
Book review: Siblings
Author: Brigitte Reimann
Translator: Lucy Renner Jones
Genre: Fiction, historical fiction
This review will be briefer than I wish, because I’ve got two fingers taped up (injury) and it makes typing a pain. This morning I finished book #12 from the “Women in Translation” rec list, which was Siblings by Brigitte Reimann, translated from German by Lucy Renner Jones.
This book was published in 1963, just two years after the Berlin Wall went up, but takes place in 1960, before the Wall. It’s a book about three siblings, but really it’s a book about Germany’s future. The core of the novel is the relationship between the protagonist, Elisabeth (“Lise”) and her brother, Uli; and their views on the German state.
Lise is an adamant supporter of the German Democratic Republic (GDR; aka communist East Germany) and communism as a whole. She views it as her generation’s chance to right the injustices of a capitalistic world. Uli, on the other hand, while supportive of communism, resents the GDR for what he views as a lack of opportunity and its petty politics. At the start of the novel, Uli has decided to defect to the west, and Lise and her partner Joachim are trying to convince him to stay.
Throughout these efforts, the shadow of their eldest brother Konrad hangs over them—Konrad has already defected, years earlier, and is firmly settled in West Germany, though not without struggle.
This book is very politically philosophical. As mentioned, it’s about Uli and Lise (and Konrad), but it’s really about the future of Germany. Not yet 20 years out from the end of WWII, this is not an easy question (and there is a lot of finger-pointing to go around about who did what for the Nazis while they were in power). The book definitely leans in favor of supporting the GDR. While Uli and Konrad have their gripes about it, these are generally cast, through Lise’s viewpoint, as self-centered, or fig leaves for their real issue, which is that they cannot let go of a capitalist ownership mindset. Even where she acknowledges their complaints as valid—such as Uli’s frustration at the stunted opportunities for anyone who is not a Party member—her attitude is essentially that they need to tough it out for the sake of making the communist experiment work, or that it’s a reasonable trade off to avoid what she sees as the cruelties of capitalist West Germany.
It's the closest I’ve ever come to reading a pro-communism book (even Soviet authors I’ve read have been pretty staunchly against the Party, a la Lydia Chukovskaya’s Sofia Petrovna), which made it interesting in that respect, as well as in how it addresses the ways the split of Germany affected individual Germans and German families.
However, the prose is very “tell not show” and this, combined with the highly philosophical nature of it, kept me at arm’s length from the characters and their lives.
Nevertheless, it’s fascinating from a historical perspective.
Mississippi site block, plus a small restriction on Tennessee new accounts
A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.
The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.
In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.
The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.
Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.
Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.
jesse_the_k) wrote2025-08-31 11:29 amHaunted Toilet — Best Craigslist Post This Decade
Free Toilet – Haunted. Slightly Used. You’ve Been Warned.
Posted 7-Aug-2025 from the north side of Madison
In a dark room, a standard toilet seems to glow white
( click for pic )
Do you have guts of steel, a strong back, and a questionable sense of judgment? Then boy, do I have the throne for you.
As Paul Harvey intoned, the rest of the story…
I’m giving away a toilet. Not just any toilet. A porcelain enigma, a mystical butt-bucket, a vessel forged in the deepest depths of a cursed Home Depot clearance aisle.
It flushes with the fury of Poseidon’s trident and occasionally emits sounds that suggest it’s trying to communicate in Morse code. It once screamed. Not like the pipes—like a person.
The backstory? This toilet was installed in my guest bathroom, affectionately known as “The Chamber of Screams.” Three guests used it. Two of them have since moved to Canada without explanation, and the third refuses to make eye contact with me at barbecues.
What you need to know:
Flushes. Sometimes violently.
Bowl glows faintly during thunderstorms.
Came with a bidet. Now it just hisses and sprays randomly like a venomous snake.
Every full moon, the tank fills with glitter. Unclear why.
One Yelp review from a plumber simply said “no.”
I just want it out of my house. You must pick it up yourself and sign a waiver that I am not responsible if it follows you home.
NO SCAMMERS. NO WITCHES. NO EXORCISTS (already tried). Serious inquiries only.
If you’re brave enough to sit upon the throne and live to tell the tale, contact me ASAP.
yhlee) wrote2025-08-31 10:57 amlatest spinning WIP
Two singles; will ply them tomorrow, I expect. Assuming no plying/finishing disasters, this will go to
niqaeli. ♥klb) wrote in pod_together2025-08-31 10:12 amDay 4 Reveals 2025
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Summary: Hen got baby fever. A safe haven baby was surrendered.
Are these two things connected?
Fascinating Knowledge (Warehouse 13)
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Summary: Myka was just trying to do something nice for Claudia when she encouraged her to continue her education... She didn't sign up to be on a podcast in Claudia's stead, and oh no, her co-host is really hot!
lie to me, lie to me (Bridgerton (TV))
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Summary: “You think you can pull off sideburns but you really, really can’t!”
The words spill from Penelope’s mouth before she has a chance to stop them, her hand clamping across her lips as her eyes widen in shock.
Still in the doorway of his home, Anthony blinks. Once. Twice. Eyes narrowing as he appraises her. “I beg your pardon?”
He doesn’t even look like he disagrees with her (which, she supposes she should feel grateful that even Anthony was aware of how much his sideburns made him look like a prick out of a shitty period piece). Behind him in the doorway, Kate snorts out a laugh and makes no effort to hide it as Anthony spins back to shoot her a look as well.
“They…were not your best look, darling.”
Engineered Sweet, Produced Sour (Mickey 17 (2025))
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Summary: Mickey Barnes is the only expendable on the ship, and he has survived weird experiments and messy deaths. But his biggest problem is hiding a secret; he's registered as a beta, but if he plays his cards right, nobody should find out he's actually an omega.
But after Mickey 17 Is presumed dead , he gets to meet Mickey 18, who is the science team's latest experiment. And also an alpha. And he thought the multiples violation was going to be a problem.
The Diary of a Ship Cook in Unwilling Service to Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies))
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Summary: A ship cook unwittingly tags along on Jack and Will's adventures during "Curse of the Black Pearl." The cook changes absolutely nothing about the plot, but somehow they become invaluable to our swashbuckling heroes (or to their stomachs, at least).
Smooth Sharks (Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett)
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Summary: Crowley has the brilliant idea to start a podcast, because everyone who's anything has one of those nowadays, don't they? Aziraphale agrees that it's a splendid idea, a way to share knowledge can only be a wonderfully nice and angelic pursuit... Of course, as soon as he hears that opinion, Crowley immediately has to prove his angel wrong with some bouts of fun misinformation!
places meant for wings (The West Wing)
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Summary: Charlie Young applies, as many do, for a Supreme Court clerkship.
The Yaatree: Letters From Elsewhere (Original Work)
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Summary:
O dearest brother mine,
I sincerely hope you’re still alive to read this letter – if it finds you at all. I don’t know if you can receive anything from the outside right now, even though I used the same messenger service as before. I have a pretty good idea that you’re right in the middle of it all, as always, following that captain of yours to the end of the universe and beyond, if needs must. It’s just that you care too much – that’s always been your problem.
Almost, Always (The Wedding Mishap) (Stranger Things (TV 2016))
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Summary: A cringe-fest of Steve bringing a date to Dustin & Suzie's wedding while Eddie is in the corner, in love with him.
built on stolen parts (The Magnus Archives (Podcast))
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Summary: Mary was not a caring mother, Gertrude was not a trustworthy person and Gerard was a bit of a fool.
Letters in the wind (Nosferatu (2024))
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Summary: Five letters Friedrich sent while Thomas was off attempting to secure his fortune, and one that he sent after deciding to take action.
Sat Next to a Shy Nerd Who Has a Crush on You (JSMR Layered Sounds and Whispering) (NCT (Band))
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Summary:
Jaeminventures followed you back!
He makes a strangled sound in his throat that catches Mark’s attention.
“What?”
Jeno clicks through to make sure he’s not dreaming. Sure enough, the profile that has followed him is Jaemin’s, with over two million followers, his YouTube channel linked in his profile.
“Jaemin just followed me.”
or
Jeno is an ASMR youtuber with a secret, and Jaemin is an adventure youtuber with fresh grief. They find each other at the perfect time.
Pucker Up (Teen Wolf (TV))
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Summary: Stiles can admit, even though he doesn't want to, that the first kiss he and Derek share isn't one. Technically.
or:
5 Times Stiles Kisses Derek + 1 Time Derek Kisses Stiles
vriddy) wrote2025-08-31 08:41 amLittle Black Dress Exchange reveals
littleblackdressex exchange creator reveals happened this morning :D I wrote a Hawks/Natsuo quiet nature walk fic (and added a notch and 28th ship to my Hawks shipping challenge XD). Funnily enough, I ended up matching to the person I wrote all the pinch hits for earlier in the year. Hopefully they aren't sick of me yet 😂Unknowable | Boku no Hero Academia | Natsuo/Hawks | 1.3k words | rated G
Summary: After the war, Hawks and Natsuo start meeting regularly. It all started with Natsuo desperate to understand more about how his lost brother became the broken man in the hospital.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3
Delightfully, my gift was also Hawks/Natsuo! What are the odds?? Little Black Dress is like a personal "bowl" exchange, and Hawks/Natsuo is not a particularly popular ship... I'm not actually sure they even ever share a panel in the manga? XD
My gifter went at the ship from a different angle and I loooove the story premise they wrote to go with it, it is perfect and their art is LOVELY, they picked a perfect scene :D
I wanna date my role model's son! | Boku no Hero Academia | Natsuo/Hawks | Art | Not rated/SFW
flareonfury) wrote in dw_community_promo2025-08-30 11:17 pmMCU100 - a weekly drabble challenge
mcu100 is a weekly drabble challenge for the Marvel Cinematic Universe!o1. Join the community & you can JOIN AT ANYTIME!!
o2. Read the rules/FAQ. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
o3. Once you're a member and have read the rules, be prepared to join a team.
o4. Start writing once the prompt is posted! & Earn points for your team to win!
o5. If your team wins, you get a badge!
This first prompt will last two weeks, from August 16th to 30.