Wednesday's Comic

Jun. 3rd, 2026 12:22 am
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Really? Hold my gear.

No forgiveness needed for the gear materializing just in time to make that pun work, because that's just pure brass.

How to know I'm too tired

Jun. 2nd, 2026 11:24 pm
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I was planning to go put in my travel expenses but I'm not getting my rental car paperwork until Thursday. I was too tired to think about that last night when I made a decision.

So I did laundry, got some groceries and somehow the whole day was gone.

Did call Capitol One, I was at my limit (Forgot all about being in Louisville two weeks ago and running up a big bill) Paid it all off because they don't deserve any interest after trying to tell me my limit wasn't lowered ever.

Here's my fannish 50 stuff

As a reminder I'm using Buffy the Vampire Slayer for this set of questions

Day 5: Favourite male character - This was harder than it should be. I guess push comes to shove it's still Rupert Giles. I know, I know, why not Spike or Angel. Here's the thing I like all three men almost equally and they all failed me in the course of this show. I think what I liked about Giles was smart didn't mean he was useless in battle like so many other places. His various choices weren't my favorite but over all I really liked him. I very much like Angel too and of course Spike but season 6-7 took care of that.


all questions under here )


and some fandom recs because I was too tired to do it on Friday. Still exhausted so I'll finish this all up on Friday



I Miss You Hazbin Hotel

Kaleidoscope Hazbin Hotel

Lost And Forgotten Torchwood.

One Step at a Time Stargate Atlantis

The Baby Hazbin Hotel

Settling Into the Future Teen Wolf

Dealing with Frustration 911

If I Should Die Torchwood

Rescue Mission Stargate Atlantis

PTO Tuesday

Jun. 2nd, 2026 02:13 pm
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Rice and Crackers from Uwajimaya
Rice and Crackers from Uwajimaya

Every day is PTO. Now that I’m no longer working, I can take advantage of Senior Tuesdays at Uwajimaya. Every Tuesday from 8:00 am to 11:00 am, senior citizens get 10% off their purchase. I’ve essentially had to wait until retirement to take advantage. (Who takes Tuesdays off from work?)

I saw that we were getting low on rice. (20# is low.) So I waited until today to restock. It turns out that Uwajimaya rice crackers are also back – so I restocked. The senior discount of 10% saved me $6.81. (Rice keeps going up in price.)

Later in the morning I went over to Abby’s Pizza and got a lunch special. The parlor did a nice job. Yum!

Abby’s Lunch Special
Abby’s Lunch Special
iPhone 13 mini photo

(Well... I did have to redistribute the green pepper a little bit.)

After lunch, I drove back into Beaverton on TV Highway. It’s always a joy to see snowcapped Mt. Hood, which appears to be at the end of the highway. (It’s an illusion of course.) The mountain always looks majestic under sunny, blue skies. This was not a good winter for snowpack, but for now, the mountain is still white.

Every Day is PTO

Jun. 2nd, 2026 02:09 pm
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My Desk at Work, September 2019
My Desk at Work, September 2019
iPhone 8 photo

I’m reviewing old photos in Apple Photos, deleting ones I don’t need. I’ve already archived the 7100 photos, so I can delete without hesitation.

At work we had desks that doubled as whiteboard surfaces – very handy for brainstorming and note-taking. I would often take photos of desk notes or actual whiteboards for later transcription. I’ll be deleting all whiteboard photos from my phone. I’ll keep the above photo, though, as it’s a nice reminder of what my desk was like – back when we had our own desks.

(Redacted: Rant about management stupidity that did away with assigned desks after the pandemic. We didn’t have our own desks and weren’t permitted to keep personal things on any desks overnight. No wonder employees hated the Return to Office initiative. It was like being in high school again – lockers for our things and no desks of our own. Stupid. The world’s gone stupid. Oh. I guess I didn’t redact much. 😇)

Whenever I took PTO (Paid Time Off), I wrote a note on my desk, as people frequently dropped by to see me – and I was rarely absent.

And, now, I’m delighted that every day is PTO. And I have my own desk. And it’s cluttered with all sorts of fun, personal stuff.

Tuesday ✎ Adulthood [DW]

Jun. 2nd, 2026 12:08 am
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Hello and welcome, y'all! 🎶 This is [community profile] comment_fic, and I'm your host this week, [personal profile] creepy_shetan. Let's get started, shall we? :3

Today's theme is adulthood. Maybe you're already an expert on being an adult... Or maybe you're really good at pretending. Everyone seems like they know what they're doing, right? Think of characters' impressions of adults, expectations of their lives as adults, and what marks adulthood (or its many checkpoints) in their eyes.

Feel free to add specifics to your prompts, like whether you'd prefer a gen fill over something shippy, or if you have a squick or trigger you hope to avoid. Original fiction, fanfiction, and fanfic crossovers are always welcome. ~_^

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get things started...
+ DC and/or Marvel (any 'verse), any + any, reuniting after a long time apart and seeing how they (each?) have grown up
+ Stranger Things, any (+/ any), their first real paycheck working full time
+ author's choice, any +/ any, are they young at heart or immature for their age?

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection. See further notes on this option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].

While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

As a friendly reminder about our schedule, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications!

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word! [community profile] comment_fic


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Let us begin with a pair of bad decisions. The first is that someone enterprising stored a case of cans' worth of beer in one of the microfilm storage areas in an archives. The second bad decision is that they chose Natural Light as the beer to store. Natty Light and PBR are the things that someone drinks at university because they're cheap and terrible, and if you're at Duke, presumably, you have both the means and the willingness to drink better beer than that. I still wouldn't store beer in the microfilm area, because, well, warm beer is nobody's friend, either.

Snaaaaake, snaaaaake, ooooooh, it's a snaaaaake! (has been inducted into the British Film Institue's Archives.)

Pictures from a Black Fae Fest in Georgia, which I love primarily because of all the fae there having a good time. (Admittedly, the idea of Black fae was not much of an issue for me - a collegiate production of A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Queen of the fairies (Drag Queen of the Fairies, at the bare minimum) and the King of the Fairies throwing up the hood of his hoodie to turn invisible.)

An accurate obituary for Ted Turner, who, as billionaires went, was eccentric, but also had some good ideas, and certainly turned aside from the path of being a completely evil man. Even though he cursed us with CNN.

The grift, the corruption, the iocaine dilemma pushed on trans people, and, of course, the techbros )

Last out, someone has compiled together operating systems across the decades and tweaked them so they run properly in emulation, as a museum and a way of allowing people to access older OSes and play in them. The full edition is about 174 GB uncompressed, the lite one a mere 21 GB uncompressed and will need to download anything not initially included. This is a good reason to fire up your BitTorrent client for both downloading and seeding, because holy shorts, that's a lot of OSes to look through.

A plea not to remove the thing that makes science work by trying to produce automation and non-human scientific pipelines to get faster results. Just so - new knowledge does not always come from rearranging old knowledge, but from the breakthroughs and evolutionary paths and inefficiencies that come from exploration.

Server Charms, a self-contained small network with a few HTML pages that runs on an ESP32 powered by recycled vape batteries. Which is about small and local networks, and hiding a server in plain sight, or in an art project. Reminds me of PirateBox and its insistence on creating a local network for file-sharing and chatting and other such things, albeit on slightly more power-hungry hardware for slightly more power-hungry applications. The idea of small things, very local, very low-powered, and not connected to the greater Internet, still appeals, although there's always the difficulty that connecting to unknown WiFi networks is not encouraged. If there were some way to help satiate the curiosity, and also potentially be a viable local network, that would be something interesting. I feel like this is the sort of thing that a student might use to generate a network away from prying eyes. Or anyone else who would like a small and local enclave they can use away from surveillance and with community at its heart. (Which would work very well with things like PirateBox.)

(Materials via [personal profile] adrian_turtle, [personal profile] azurelunatic, [personal profile] boxofdelights, [personal profile] cmcmck, [personal profile] conuly, [personal profile] cosmolinguist, [personal profile] elf, [personal profile] finch, [personal profile] firecat, [personal profile] jadelennox, [personal profile] jenett, [personal profile] jjhunter, [personal profile] kaberett, [personal profile] lilysea, [personal profile] oursin, [personal profile] rydra_wong, [personal profile] snowynight, [personal profile] sonia, [personal profile] the_future_modernes, [personal profile] thewayne, [personal profile] umadoshi, [personal profile] vass, the [community profile] meta_warehouse community, [community profile] little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)

Made it home

Jun. 1st, 2026 09:49 pm
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Evil Little Dog and I had a leisurely morning and then I took off. over 100 miles on I-64 and not a single rest stop. Not. One. Had to stop at a Pilot truck stop. Finally north of Louisville KY there was a rest stop. It was closed.

I got off the road to find food twice only to see no restaurant anywhere. Dudes if your restaurant is more than a mile off the highway DONT be on the highway sign. Finally found a rest stop just outside of Florence KY (Meaning I'm nearly in Cincinnati) and in there was a mom trying to get her daughter to take a picture talking on the pay phone. Yes you read that right, there was a living pay phone.

Finally found food in a freaking sit down Skyline chili (it's now like 330) and then I realized I'm literally 20 miles from Jungle Jim's in Cinci. I was going to stop there but I was already not getting home until 730 and I'm like are you really up to shopping (I just wanted the cheese) If I had realized I was almost there, I would have skipped Skyline and stopped there to eat.


On the negative side, I realized that my eyes were tired so I shut my left eye and things went bad. The right eye, the one that has been inflamed twice...I could barely see through it. Couldn't see the cars in front of me, not the road signs or the billboards. I mean I could see them but they were unreadable, like everything was smeared with vaseline. I thought it has gotten a little better and the eye doc said he saw nothing wrong but this was worse than I realized and when I was on 32 which has relatively few cars, I played with it more just to prove to myself this was real. Sadly it was. I have another eye doc appointment on friday. If he STILL says there is nothing wrong with my eye when it is demonstrably worse (and frankly it was when we did the eye test) I'm going to find an eye specialist because I'm not fucking around with my sight. Did that inflammation damage my cornea? Has the cataract gotten bigger? Because there is no way being unable to see anything but blurry shapes with one eye is normal. And I'm honestly scared about it.


Also my card got declined at breakfast. I figured it finally had enough. But I got a text later in the day saying I'm at my limit. I thought I had a 10K limit on this card. I'm hoping to hell they lowered the limit and didn't tell me because there is no way I spent 10K in a week.


Rocket is fine. Being here has sent my anxiety up and I hate that. There are things I need to fix because I can't have my home be a place of anxiety.


It's music monday 30 weeks of music. This week's prompt is #28 A song that makes you feel empowered

meh, I don't really get that kind of thing from songs )





here's the whole prompt list

All under here )

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Jun. 1st, 2026 10:56 pm
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Quick note that post-by-email and comment-by-email is (sometimes?) failing silently without actually posting right now! I'm pretty sure this is related to last night's shenanigans and will be fixed once Mark can finish the full fix for it, which he's working on, but if you've posted or replied by email in the last 24 hours, fish it out of your sent folder to check if it posted!

EDIT: This should be fixed as of around 7AM EDT! We *believe* everything that was stuck in the plumbing has been sent along to your journal or the comment thread it was meant for; it's definitely not where it was stuck anymore, at least.

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Jun. 1st, 2026 04:31 pm
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Posted about the aikido seminar yesterday during the period of time DW was having trouble actually posting posts, so idk when that got out of the cache relative to when people check in on their DW feeds.

It's also getting warm again after the weekend that was weirdly chilly/rainy for the end of May, but hey that went well with "do physical activity in a space without AC for most of the weekend".




Apparently it has been a full year since [personal profile] hafnia and I started our origfic series which wasn't supposed to get this long or complex or include a second generation of story ideas about their kids. xD (The ones up there are shorts, but we do have novel-length thoughts about them all too...)




Summer plans continue apace. Apparently my twin is going to be in the area around our birthday? Which is cool, especially since my mother informs me that he did not realise it was going to be so close to our birthday when he first made the plans (with other friends of his who happen to be relatively nearby), but hey once he knew he was all "okay, I think I can extend my stay until our birthday so we can celebrate together". So! That'll be neat, should be a good time.

Fitness Fellowship 2026: Check-in 22

Jun. 1st, 2026 11:28 am
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Greetings from my last week of teaching duties before summer break! Despite the work being exhausting and sometimes disheartening, there is something to be said for the reward of precious time. I have so many plans for just living a healthier life during my break, hopefully inculcating some new(ish) habits to make me healthier during the work year.

I hope whatever your week has been like, you'll feel comfortable sharing your ups and downs with us here. I look forward to touching base with you each week.

My Week in Review )

May the week ahead be full of time for you to spend on yourself. :-)
rionaleonhart: revolutionary girl utena: utena has fallen asleep on her schoolwork. (sort of exhausted really)
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Dream roundup time! I've been remembering a lot of my dreams lately, maybe because it's been so warm.


Dreams from May. )


We're down to a more acceptable temperature now! We can have the curtains open during the day again! Very exciting. (I'm still hoping to fulfil the fic requests I took during the hot weather; I'm just struggling with writer's block at the moment.)

I regret everything about today

May. 31st, 2026 10:40 pm
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It stormed all night and I was afraid it was going to storm the whole way home. I ran down and got the egg/bacon breakfast burrito. The flour tortilla was welded to the paper but the worst of it was it was 90% potato and I don't like potato. But later I found the breakfast buffet that we saw on line but it was only on Sunday so that's why I didn't know about it and it didn't start until 9 after I already choked down that burrito. By the time I left the rain had stopped.

And off the jump the GPS says 9 north's exit is closed. Yeah, no shit, we've been going around it for the last 3 days but you never noticed it was closed then. God I regret NOT going to Union Station because from downtown to 70 E is a short trip. So my GPS tries to go around the closed road or so I think. I figured we were looping around downtown since we don't need to go there.

I couldn't have been MORE wrong. The detour added THREE hours to my 6 hour trip. I was getting ready to pull over and put the address back in for evil little dog's place only to finally see 70 East was my next turn nearly 70 miles away. so it took me nearly 200 miles out of my way. I have no idea why. It's set for either fastest route or shortest but this was neither. It took me 9 hours to get to ELD's place

So I'm too tired for a writerly ways so you get some links

Open Call

Exquisite Undead vampires


10 EXTRA Writing Calls and Opportunities for JUNE

the reckoning ecojustice

FUN IN THE DARK small town weirdness

The Book of Demons Demons, daemons, evil spirits, supernatural entities, possession, trauma, addiction, folklore, and infernal mythology

Tractor Beam: The Water Issue Water, ecosystems, agriculture, migration, drought, island ecologies, and anti-apocalyptic futures

Baneberry – A Literary Horror Annual Literary horror and psychologically rich dark fiction

Baffling Magazine June 2026 Window “Gossip” theme plus open/unthemed speculative submissions

Sley House Patreon June 2026 Window Ecopunk

58 Literary Journals that Pay their Authors



From Around the Web

The Author Who Cannot Write (About Themselves)

How Could You Do This to Me? When Characters Betray Other Characters.

Writing Away From Yourself: How to Fictionalize a Character

The Elements of Horror: Building Suspense and Tension in Your Writing

Notes from the Editor’s Desk: May 2026

Writing Stakes Without Raising the Volume


I believe Betty is traveling this weekend too so no links from here.

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