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Name:
Sparklecat, they/them

Age:
bodily 23, mentally being rubberbanded back and forth through time

I mostly post about:
things that are inspiring/recovery related, things related to my studies (religion, demonolatry, sociology, folkways/folk music, appalachian history, union/labor history), fannish ramblings, any art. I feel i will probably use this as a bit of a diary, but im not sure......

I am very much a breaker of the rules of grammar, and a questioner of the rules of society. a slut who overthinks EVERYTHING.

My hobbies are:
(light) writing, crochet, making mix cds (like physically, which im trying to figure out how to translate into shareable art), looking at pretty pictures, about a million other things on any given day. I also make puzzles and have a website for it!

My fandoms are:
I write fanfic for Five Nights at Freddy's and Undertale/Deltarune. My main fandom is The Daycare Attendant community, a subcommunity of FNAF. we are small but mighty, lol. I have a vested interest in x readers and I enjoy self-ship. I also enjoy any form of monster/creature, not really limited to community. i guess you would call me a monsterfucker/lover/appreciator. A friend to monsters, hopefully?

I'm looking to meet people who:
ramble! share their thoughts! want to speak asynchronously! I am very new to this form of social media, being a tumblr native since 2015, and want to make friends!

My posting schedule tends to be:
hopefully multiple times a week, but i want to try to put out more "together" posts at least once. dont hold me to this however. Im hoping to use this journal as a mix between a diary, pinterest, and tumblr.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are:
No Minors, sorry! also no fascists/bigots/maga. I am against AI usage on environmental grounds.

Before adding me, you should know:
I am plural/a system and will post about that/other parts will make posts every now and again. we are interested in the experience of other systems and their concept of healthy multiplicity. Also genderfluid and aromantic(ish) and like to ramble about that too.

How am I? sleepy
What's that noise? Bread and Roses - Bobby Mcgee

hmmm_tea

So, a couple of things have happen recently. LJ emailed me to say my account is now 20 years old (yay! - although seems a bit of a cheat when there's been no posts to it for 11 years) and life seems to have turned completely upside-down (perhaps something for another post me thinks). Guess I could do with somewhere to post my thoughts like I used to...

My friends feed is ominously empty though. Did LJ die quietly while I wasn't looking or is anyone still lurking out there?

Did everyone move to DreamWidth or did that not pick up where LJ left off? Have transferred this blog there in case I'm not too late to the ball.

Guess I'll post this to both to see what response I get...

How am I? curious

silver_chipmunk

Got up at 10:00 and had breakfast and coffee, then showered and dressed and went by bus to

mashfanficchick"s place. I took the three zines that I found were duplicates of ones I had, and ze took them all. So that's off my mind.

Then we went out on a shopping and errand expedition. First we went to the Fed Ex store where ze di some stuff and I made copies of the front and back of the lottery tickets, and the letter I wrote.

Then we walked to a grocery store where ze looked for some things, but sadly did not find them.

By then it was lunch time so we went to Sweetgreen for salads. It was my first time there. Similar to Chopt, but not quite the same. Very tasty though. I got their seasonal Harvest Caesar, and a peach iced tea.

Then we went to Target, where I did not buy anything. And then we went to the Post Office where I mailed the tickets, certified. They should get there Friday, so I hope I get the money soon.

After that we went to Trader Joe's and ze looked for things that they were supposed to have but were out of.

All this was done walking, but then we took a bus to try another store and another Trader Joe's. Finally at Trader Joe's there was some success.

By then it was late though, so we headed back by bus to Continental Avenue where ze took the bus home and I took the subway home. I got here just in time to Team the FWiB.

We talked til just before 8:00 when I got off to go to my Al-anon meeting by Zoom. It was very good, both M and S were there, plus another person.

After that I went to the bedroom and played solitaire and scrolled Facebook til pet feeding time. I tried to call the Kid but she din't pick up. May have been in bed already, I texted instead, I need to know for sure about the days in October so I can tell Cousin Steve.

The FWiB told me he had a snack of corn chips and that made me want something crunchy so after I fed the pets I made a bag of Skinny Pop microwave popcorn. Very nice.

The day had a lot of walking though which is good. I got to over 9000 steps on my fitbit. Almost that magical 10.000!

Speaking of the fitbit, I need to charge it tonight. I noticed this morning it was down to 7% so I charged it while I showered, but only got it to 54%.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. My meetings and the people there.

3. Got the tickets mailed.

4.

mashfanficchick took the zines.

5. Got my pension for the month and paid my rent.

6. Lots of walking.

How am I? cheerful

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Name: ace (short for alex, but please just call me ace!)
Age: 48
I mostly post about: tennis, fannish rambles, book reviews, occasional football nostalgia, and random life musings
My hobbies are: reading (historical fiction, romance + the occasional sports biography), writing emotionally messy fanfic, cozy farming sims (stardew valley hours are ridiculous), traveling when i can, and yelling fondly at tennis players and footballers
My fandoms are: tennis (lifelong), historical fiction nerdery, bridgerton, and a splash of nostalgic 90s/00s pop (yes i still love take that and one direction, no regrets)
I'm looking to meet people who: are fannish, bookish, or just like chatting about their passions. bonus points if you also get tennis brainrot or historical-fiction cravings.
My posting schedule tends to be: sporadic — sometimes i post a lot, sometimes i vanish into the void with a book or a video game.
When I add people, my dealbreakers are: no bigotry, no cruelty. fannish disagreements are fine, but being mean about real people (especially athletes/actors etc.) is not my jam.
Before adding me, you should know: i ramble a lot in lowercase, i treat my journal more like a diary/archive than a performance space, and i’m always happy to chat if you are!

pauraque

After rewatching the Original Trilogy,

sdk and I allowed our enthusiasm to carry us forward into rewatching the Prequel Trilogy. That was... well, it was certainly a decision that we made.

I saw this movie in the theater and had not seen it since then. I knew it wasn't a cinematic masterpiece, but I did go in with a positive attitude hoping to enjoy some cheesy silliness and at least have fun razzing it. I'm afraid I was not able to maintain that attitude; I actually found the movie unpleasant to watch. So if you love it, maybe skip this post.

( cut for length and negativity )

In conclusion, I don't recommend this movie. I do, however, recommend this:

Embedded video: Music video for Weird Al's song "The Saga Begins", which retells the plot of the movie to the tune of "American Pie" by Don McClean.

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Nonetheless we plan to persevere with Attack of the Clones, which I think I have seen part of. Maybe it will be better! Let me dream!

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Every month in OTW Signal, we take a look at stories that connect to the OTW’s mission and projects, including issues related to legal matters, technology, academia, fannish history and preservation issues of fandom, fan culture, and transformative works.

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On September 23, SenLinYu’s Alchemised joined Rose in Chains by Julie Soto and The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley as the third “Dramione” fan fiction-inspired novel to be traditionally published in 2025. In their article “‘The Year of Dramione’: Fan fiction’s leap to bookstore shelves”, United Press International (UPI) spoke with OTW’s Rebecca Tushnet about the growing appeal of fanworks outside of fandom spaces. Many publishers are fans themselves, Tushnet noted, commenting on the—often fraught—relationship between fandom and traditional media publishing. She also highlighted the deeper, intrinsic worth of fanworks:

… the value in fan fiction writing extends well beyond the potential for publication, Tushnet said.

“To me, it’s never about making the jump to getting paid for it,” she said. “People develop all sorts of skills and passions and connections through fan fiction and I would never want to flatten that.”

UPI posited that it’s perhaps, in part, this passion at the heart of fandom that serves as a beacon for fans and publishers alike. Ali Hazelwood, whose “Reylo” fan fiction inspired her novel The Love Hypothesis, reflected on what binds her to fandom:

“… it’s also just great to feel a sense of community and to get to know people, to find someone who’s like-minded and interested in similar things. It’s very hard to make friends as an adult. And I feel like I truly found my adult friends through fanfiction and through the fandom community.”

Hazelwood’s experience embodies a core purpose of sites like the Archive of Our Own (AO3). “As long as there are humans, they will ask what happens next [beyond canon],” Tushnet said. “The fight we have is their ability to find each other.”

Rae Johnston, presenter of the Download This Show podcast, asks, “What does it take to keep a website alive when every other platform is chasing advertising dollars or subscription fees?” The podcast’s new episode, “How fanfiction took over the world (and stayed free)”, explores how AO3 has risen to the challenge. Johnston spoke with OTW Board Director Rachel Linton to learn more:

The vision was to have a space for fans, created by fans, to make sure that it was a noncommercial space and to make sure that it didn’t restrict content. And those were driven by concerns that were raised by FanLib and by Strikethrough, and trying to make sure that there was a space that people could post what they wanted to write without having that controlled by what corporations wanted to support or promote—and to keep ownership over that work.

… There was definitely a desire to have a very clear vision of why we think that [creating fanworks] is allowed and why this is legal, and as part of that, we’ve had a Legal Committee from the beginning who … exists to support AO3 and to support fans—and make sure that their work is protected and that they know what they are allowed to do and can’t be intimidated.

… On the technical side, [AO3’s] code base was created for the Archive … we own all of our own servers, which is great for having control over the work that we host and the work that we do. … we’re entirely volunteer-run, so any work that we’re doing in terms of coding or in terms of upgrades or anything like that is all done by volunteers. … All of our funding is through donations. … we are essentially completely run by fan volunteers, but also run by the money that fans donate.

An incredible testament to community, Johnston concludes that “Archive of Our Own has managed the near impossible: staying free, staying independent, and keeping the culture alive.”

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Looking for more OTW news coverage? Visit our Press Room! Here, you’ll find a catalogue of notable media mentions of the OTW and its projects—dating back to its founding in 2007. Browse articles, podcasts, and more to learn about how the OTW and its work and volunteers have been recognized across the media landscape.

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silver_chipmunk

Got up at 10:00 today and had breakfast and coffee. Then I showered and dressed, and took out the cardboard recycling and walked around the block. Then I puttered online til 1:45, then headed into Flushing on the 44 bus.

I went to Duane Reade and got my prescriptions picked up, and then I browsed the Halloween stuff.

Then I walked down Roosevelt ave. to the Skyview Mall. It's always an interesting walk.

In the mall I browsed through Old Navy, because I need a new pair of blue jeans. The Old Navy on 20th ave in College Point closed, which is a pity, so I'll have to come to Flushing for that sort of stuff from now on.

Then I went to Target, and browsed their Halloween section. Lot of great stuff, but nothing that really caught my attention.

I checked out their blue jeans, more expensive than Old Navy by a bit, and I looked at bras. But again, didn't buy anything.

Then I gave in to temptation and went to the cafe, which is Starbucks and Pizza Hut, and went to the Pizza Hut for their chicken Alfredo baked pasta. Terrible for me I know. The cafe no longer has seating so I had to take it outside to sit and eat, but it was good. Then I threw out the garbage and went back to the cafe, meaning to get a napkin, but ended up getting a drinkable yogurt for a beverage.

I drank that, and walked through the store again, still not buying anything, and finally left, walked up Roosevelt Ave and back to the 44 bus and home.

By then it was 5:00 so I puttered online for a bit then went to the bedroom and lay down. I played solitaire, scrolled Facebook, and dozed til 6:30 when I came out and got the computer going to Team the FWiB at 7:00.

mashfanficchick called to tell me about Bad Bunny playing the Superbowl halftime show, and how the MAGAts are losing theor minds over it, and has decided, as apparently many others have, that we shall watch the Superbowl and have Puerto Rican food for halftime. This sounds good to me. I haven't seen a Superbowl in many years, not since Oldest Brother and I used to go to the temple that had a Superbowl party as a fundraiser with John. That was fun.

After I got off the Team with the FWiB I called the Kid but she didn't answer. Then I went to the bedroom and filled out the info on my winning lottery tickets from the raffle baskets from the con. I wrote and printed a letter to go with them, enveloped them and addressed it. Now I have to find time to get to the library to use the copy machine to copy them, and the post office to mail them to Virginia either insured, certified, or registered. Whatever's cheapest.

By that time it was pet feeding time so I fed the pets and was starting here when the Kid called. Sadly she doesn't think that they can make Cousin Steve's on October 25 and 26. Bummer. I heard about her Chicago trip, they had fun.

And that's about it.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The Kid.

3.

mashfanficchick

4. Got my meds.

5. Nice weather.

6. Plans for Superbowl.

How am I? good

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silver_chipmunk

I had the alarm set for 10:00 but I didn't actually get up until 11:00. I kept pushing the snooze button. Finally got up and had breakfast and coffee, then called

mashfanficchick to see if we were getting together today. No, ze was just watching the end of the baseball season, so instead I went to the Starsky and Hutch creative work session on Zoom.

I got some writing done on the story I'm working on, and had a lot of fun chatting. Major topic of discussion was stuff about the con of course, another recap after yesterdays discussion.

So for those who don't know, I crossspost this journal in both Dreamwidth and Livejournal. Livejournal has really stagnated over the last few years, but someone has started a community to revive it. Basically a friending community. So I joined up and posted today. I got some new friends out of it, hello everyone, and I hope that LJ can be revived a bit.

Anyway, I did that during the breaks when we were not chatting. And I also got a new friend on DW, so hello also.

After we finished the Zoom session at 5:30 I puttered online, until 7:00 when I Teamed the FWiB. We talked for about an hour and a half, which was nice.

Then I called Middle Brother. Nothing new with him, except he's looking forward to Columbus Day and Halloween.

After that I had dinner, and then went to the bedroom where I meant to read the zine I've been reading but ended up playing solitaire on my phone and scrolling Facebook.

At pet feeding time I came out and fed the pets, and here I am.

Oh, disturbing news of the day, a woman's body was found in the water at MacNeil Park, the one I call the big park in College Point. I hope that, sad as it would be, she was a suicide, because a murder would be too upsetting there where I have so much emotional history, and an accident doesn't seem very likely.

Anyway, that's all for tonight. After this, go read that zine before bed.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Made new friends.

3. Middle Brother is fine.

4. Starsky and Hutch fandom.

5. Got some writing done.

6. My pets.

How am I? cheerful

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pauraque

This young adult novella (also appearing under the title A Very Long Way From Anywhere Else) is one of Le Guin's few published pieces of non-speculative fiction. Set in the Pacific Northwest, it follows a friendship between two gifted high school students. Owen wants to study at MIT and go into science, but he feels pressured by his parents to be a "normal" guy who likes cars and girls and goes to State; Natalie is a musical prodigy, but feels constrained in her options due to her conservative father and the lack of opportunities for female composers.

The book is very short but densely packed with close observations about the pressure to conform, not only the overt pressure to conform to positive expectations, but also the covert pressure to conform to negative stereotypes and sexist narratives about how guys and girls interact. It's incisive in its portrayal of being very smart but very young and knowing basically nothing about the world outside your home town, and taking a first shaky step towards a broader perspective.

Owen and Natalie reflect a specific kind of gifted experience that wasn't the same as mine. They're aware that they're different from others, but able to play the part of a kid who's kind of an overachiever but basically normal, well enough that they can hide in plain sight. Not that that makes things easy—it's hard to choose to be yourself when the safety of conformity is a real option.

Many synopses of this book say that Owen and Natalie develop romantic feelings for each other, but that is emphatically not what happens in the book. What the book actually says is this: "I had decided that I was in love with Natalie. I hadn't fallen in love with her, please notice that I didn't say that; I had decided that I was in love with her." Owen is very clear that he tries to force himself to be in love with her and to be sexually attracted to her because he thinks it's what other people expect of him. You don't have to read Owen as aroace, but that is a possible reading and I see a lot of my aroace experiences in him.

But even if you don't read it that way, the point of the book is that their connection is about who they are as specific people, and when Owen tries to make it conform to a generic "he was a boy, she was a girl" heteronormative narrative, that connection is almost destroyed. Some of the ideas Owen has already absorbed about hetero relationships at 17 are a little scary, I think intentionally so. He's at a crossroads where he can go down the path of seeing Natalie and other girls as people, or as objects of male conquest. I think it's a good example of using a male POV to demonstrate why all of us need feminism.

The book is really good and I'm not sure why Le Guin didn't write any more like it. Maybe in between other projects she didn't have the time. But this book makes it easy to imagine an alternate timeline where this was the genre where she found success, and came to be best remembered as one of the standout contemporary YA writers of the 1970s alongside Judy Blume.

silver_chipmunk

Got up this morning at 9:00 for my Al-anon meeting. Had breakfast and coffee, showered and dressed, and headed over.

Made the meeting early and helped set up. The meeting was good, but I didn't go to the diner afterwards. That's because instead of the regular diner trip to the Neptune diner, people were going to meet the son of a member who died last year and was in town now for I think the unveiling of her grave. I didn't know her well at all, in fact I'm not sure I could put a face to her name, so I didn't feel I should go.

So I went back home and got on the Starsky and Hutch chat, which today was a recap and discussion of SHarecon. It was very enjoyable.

mashfanficchick was there, which was nice. And Flamingo was there to hear what we had to say.

We chatted until a little after 5:00, and then ended. After that I puttered online and as usual at 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB. This time Teams did not act up like last night and we had a good time til 8:30.

I had dinner and then went to the bedroom and went through my zines. Sadly I discovered that, of the freebies I brought home from the con, I already had two. I am either going to give them to

mashfanficchick or, if ze doesn't want them, I'll hopefully be able to bring them to the next in-person SHarecon for the freebie table. Fingers crossed there will be a next one. We won't know for certain for about a year. But it looks hopeful.

Anyway, then I called

mashfanficchick and talked a bit. Possibly I will see zer tomorrow, we shall see.

I played solitaire til pet feeding time, and then I fed the pets, and here I am.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. My meetings and the people there.

3. The Starsky and Hutch fandom.

4. It didn't rain until tonight.

5. Popsicles.

6. Zines.

How am I? cheerful

grayswandir

Andy Lau is 64 today! 🎈🎈🎈

He didn't post anything on his website for his birthday this year, but a couple of days ago on Douyin he did put up a 2½-hour concert video from last year's concert tour. I just finally had the chance to watch it tonight, and enjoyed it a lot. ❤️ All the footage is from the Hong Kong leg of the tour, so even though I don't think any of the specific song recordings are from the nights I was in the audience, it all felt quite familiar and was fun to revisit. I do wish his company would put out proper high-quality concert DVDs like they used to do (the image quality on the YouTube copy of the new video is pretty so-so), but on the other hand, I'm always glad for any new videos we get, and this one was certainly a very nice gift to his fans for his birthday this year. ❤️

( Video link / a few highlights. )

A couple of months ago he also put out a series of behind-the-scenes videos about the making of the concert tour, which I keep meaning to share here as well. But that will have to wait for another post, since I worked all day and it's now like 1:00 am.

(I wore my one Andy Lau T-shirt with his picture on it to work today -- a bit risky, since the shirt has some Chinese text on it -- the word 今天 -- and I'm still supposed to be pretending to have zero knowledge of Chinese for whatever weird reason. But luckily I didn't get in trouble for wearing it. A few students did ask me why I was wearing a shirt with Chinese writing on it, and helpfully read it for me XD and one kid in particular seemed very amused that there was some guy's picture on my T-shirt, and kept commenting or joking about "that guy" as if he was part of our class for the day, but did not seem to recognize him as anyone in particular. XD)

In other news, I've been extremely remiss in commenting on posts (or indeed doing anything else online) recently! Work has been 100% exhausting pretty much all the time, and also I (perhaps foolishly) signed up for

ficinabox, so I've been spending all my very limited not-work time trying to do a bunch of canon review and hopefully pull together 10k of something for my recipient. (I'm nowhere close yet.) >_> Will I ever have free time again? ...Maybe after Yuletide??

silver_chipmunk

Got up at 10:00 and had breakfast and coffee. Then I puttered online for hours, not doing much of anything.

Eventually I showered and dressed, and continued puttering online.

I did read some in one of the zines I brought home from the con, not the new one I paid for but one of the freebies.

Then finally I headed into the Bronx for my Al-anon meeting. I had my pizza first of course, and got to the church by 6:30, where L met me masked, and gave me the key, and left cause she's sick. Maybe Covid.

I knew several people weren't coming, so I opened but didn't bother setting up. Then, just when I was thinking of leaving, two of the beginners showed up, so I ran both the Beginners meeting and the regular meeting. C came to the regular meeting, and drove me to the bus stop afterward.

Came home and tried to Team the FWiB. The computer wasn't working right, Teams wasn't working right, and I think there's some issue with the FWiB's iPad too. The result was awful. I had to hard restart the computer several times because it froze up. He ended up phoning me to say good night.

I turned off the computer to let it rest while I fed the pets and it seems to be working OK now.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Zines.

3. My meetings and the people there.

4. Pizza.

5. Beautiful autumn day.

6. Bed soon.

How am I? frustrated

delphi

Karaoke Iko! | Let's Go Karaoke is a coming-of-age comedy manga by Yama Wayama, which was adapted into a five-episode anime series this year and a live-action movie in 2023. The manga also has an ongoing sequel series called Famiresu Iko | Let's Go to the Family Restaurant.

The story starts out with young teenager Oka Satomi living in Osaka and dealing with the stress of being the leader of his school choir right when his changing voice is forcing him out of the soprano role. His worries about the future are thrown an even bigger curve ball when he's approached (*cough* kidnapped) one day by a local gangster named Narita Kyouji who has watched him perform and has a request: teach him to be a better singer so he can win a karaoke contest.

Kyouji's in a jam. His boss has a love of both music and tattooing, and to keep his men in line, he holds a quarterly karaoke contest where the loser is volunteered for his amateur tattooing practice—usually getting an image the boss knows they'll hate. Kyouji is determined not to lose and, in a fit of bad decision-making he potentially can't even explain to himself, decides this choir boy will make a good tutor.

Satomi starts spending time with Kyouji at the local karaoke parlour, and the two bring out sides of each other that neither seems to be able to express in their separate lives. Things then come to a head as the school year finishes up and Satomi's final concert is scheduled for the same time as Kyouji's karaoke competition, with an unexpected event disrupting both performances.

The sequel manga, Famiresu Iko, picks up three years later, when Satomi is a university student in Tokyo working part-time at a restaurant. He's visited regularly by Kyouji, and the two have to figure out what a relationship looks like between them now that they're both adults while dealing with complications related to Kyouji's criminal affiliations and Satomi's desire for a normal life (or belief that he should desire a normal life).

The premise of the series is enjoyably absurd, but the story is also rooted in reality in the right places, with strong characterizations and a good dose of feelings in there amid all of the ridiculous and dry humour. And admittedly, I'm just obsessed with Kyouji and Satomi's dynamic. Anyone who knows me knows what a sucker I am for two people who have nothing in common on the surface, who are both a little off or out of touch with themselves, but who somehow fit together in an unexpected way.

The series isn't marketed as BL, but queerness runs through the series and adaptations in both textual and subtextual ways that I'll put under the cut.

( Spoilery and Speculative Rundowns of What's Going on Between Satomi and Kyouji in Each Version )

Karaoke Iko! (Manga)
( A Page from the Karaoke Iko Manga )

Famiresu Iko (Manga)
( A Page from the Famiresu Iko Manga )

Karaoke Iko! (Anime) Note: contains some animated blood splatter and rescue from implied attempted sexual assault.

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Karaoke Iko! (Live-Action Movie

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Intro:
Hi my name is Mint Chocolate Chip but I also go by more sensible names like The Overlord of The Pasta as well. That is actually a childhood nickname given to me when I was 42...

I'm abt 25.... A zillenial/zoomer-millenial hybrid and no, I was not grown in a lab despite the rumors.

I post frequently and the blahg is a hybrid between personal/recovery stuff for my cptsd and interests and passions. I am many things, but aren't we all? Things I regularly think about and do (or at least TRY to engage with regularly) are reading, writing, comicking (I'm trying my hand at my own super robot series. It's very.... Me), indulging my musicphilia, lifting, animals (dinosaurs and evolutionary theory oh my!), smol chubby things (think pibbins as an example) and generally trying new things in these categories.

I will say my personality is Cheerfully dark or darkly cheerful. A lot of gross, creepy, weird things cheer me up, make me laugh or inspire me to do better. And I am a very easily amused person who really likes jokes, but my ideas of what's funny can be really odd or morbid. Like I thought the movie Tusk was just okay but had a very life affirming message about personhood. Ultimately, scary stuff registers to me as beautiful. Is it because it's so scary it's pretty? Or it's not scary at all? I don't think I'll ever know, but the closest equivalent I can think of is what gothic fiction describes as "the sublime."

How I try to live can be summed up by something I wrote on my blog recently that I will paraphrase here:
1. Death is the ultimate equalizer. If it won't matter after you're dead, it's not going to matter while you're alive.

2. Being yourself is the only way out.

3. Everything you know and love will pass and be forgotten one day. Including you. It's like we all get to keep special secrets from the next generations.

Likes: Metal, classical music, jazz, french house, horror, sci fi, surrealism, reading, philosophy, Friedrich Nietszche (did I spell that right?), superheroes, mecha/super robot (real robot is okay), violent stuff, birds, birds being dinosaurs, bones, medsci, dentalsci, psychology, flexibility, playfulness, puns, wordplay, spicy food, clowns, birds, dragons. A lot more but I'll be here all day if I list everything. Fandoms include Sonic, Mario, Getter Robo, Pokemon, Batman, Spawn, Godzilla, Street Fighter, Story of Seasons, Stardew Valley. Again, a lot of fandoms. That's not even all of them. Most of all, anything filled with cheese, hopium or grossness is what I love most.

Dislikes: The way a certain strain of nerds are like that, people who are mean to animals, country music, folk music, SOME types of pop music (I enjoy the genre but am not fond of certain pop artists who are currently big) AI """art,""" rigidity and inflexibility.

I'm working on being more interested than interesting and I like people of different backgrounds. I like swapping thoughts with people who share similar feels abt things + have good boundaries. I like independent personalities who like to laugh.

As a warning, I wouldn't describe my blog as gloomy but very honest. I am someone who likes having the ability to be articulate and say what I mean and mean what I say, mental illness be damned! So I WILL talk abt the hard times, when mental illness hurts and stuff like that.

There will ALWAYS be TWs, but I'm mentioning this bc I don't think I will be good match for people who find that stuff inherently depressing as I don't see it that way at all and don't want to repress how I talk for the comfort of others. I am going through some major changes in my life after a lot of personal tragedy, including but not limited to homelessness, and I want to feel free to share it honestly.

On interactions:
Just bc it's in my dislikes doesn't mean I dislike people who like what I don't. Unless you're into some sick shit, I will be interested in hearing your differing perspective and would be open to friendship or whatever other type of platonic relationship it evolves into. I'm not someone who is easily scandalized or put off by people.

Though I admit, remembering to write back or to be unafraid to be emotionally vulnerable is NOT always easy and I'm trying hard to get better at it.

I don't tolerate ableism or any abusive rhetoric towards the poor or homeless.

Going back to what I said earlier. Most shit we are told matters actually does not matter and that fits a lot of nerd drama/discourse well. I will never see lolisho or whatever else some people go to bat for as some free speech issue I am obligated to fight for, I think it's disgusting, I don't have to justify myself and I'm not interested in being converted (people have tried that before). Those are the types of people who I block liberally.

I do not add minors.

If you are mentally well, NOT white trash, monosexual, or are just curious, I ask you to please be open minded and to ask questions if you decide to follow and interact. I am like. A random bi religious lady who was raised and identifies strongly with the white trash thing. I can't tell you how EVERYONE who falls under this very niche overlap thinks and I don't intend to, but I think I can tell you an excellent story.

Anythin else?
I'm white trash.

I never got to finish highschool.

I don't post horny stuff but I'm not allergic to discussing media that portrays sexuality or discussing sexuality itself.

I don't post many graphic pictures or vids, but I do like media with graphic stuff in it.

I don't get political, as a personal boundary and way to make sure I stay respectful online. Please do not push me to share my beliefs. I do not mind if YOU get political (tho a journal all about politics isn't my bag), but I will only share my political stances if I feel comfortable doing so.

Evolution is the most important scientific fact for me. It is a driving factor in my decision making and personal worldviews. I like that people are monkeys. Don't you think that's hilarious? I love that birds are dinosaurs.

I'm bi. I was agnostic for most of my life but I like that I started practicing christianity as an adult. I don't see these as contradictory. I like theistic evolution. I read a lot of things I disagree with anyway bc it's good for the soul.

I am someone's whose definition of freedom is "I am allowed free to do or say what I like" rather than "I am free from the consequences of what I do or say." So speaking honestly and openly is more abt self improvement than just being a dick and then saying "Well I'm just being HONEST! You're violating my freedoms if you push back or block me!" It's about having uncomfortable conversations and realizing we don't know everything and we never will and that's just more reason to keep having conversations.

Add me! Or don't. I don't really care.

What's that noise? Perry Mason – Ozzy Osbourne

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https://www.transformativeworks.org/collection-tags-and-improvements-to-collection-filters/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=268822

We’ve just given the code for collection browsing and filtering a much-needed overhaul! In addition to some long overdue performance improvements, this update introduces collection tags — a new way to find collections featuring the fandoms, relationships, tropes, and other topics you enjoy.

How do collection tags work?

Collection owners can now use up to 10 tags of any type (What are the different types of tags?) to describe their collection. The tags are listed on the collection blurb, and the collection filters have a new “Filter by tag” autocomplete field to help users find collections matching their interests.

While it is possible to use brand new tags on collections, we strongly encourage owners to use existing canonical tags or their synonyms. This makes it easier for users to find your collection using the autocomplete options in the collection filters.

We’ve also added a “Multifandom” option specifically for collections that feature a wide variety of fandoms. Collection owners can select this option to help users find collections where the focus isn’t a specific fandom, but rather a theme like fanvids of old films or fic written in first person. We think this will be particularly useful for users whose fandoms don’t have their own prompt memes or gift exchanges, but who want to find challenges they might be able to participate in.

Please note that while we encourage collection owners to start using the “Multifandom” option right away, there are a few more changes we need to make before it will be possible to filter collections based on their multifandom status. We’ll update this post when multifandom filtering becomes available.

What about existing collections?

Together with the collection tags feature going live, we automatically tagged existing collections with the fandoms from their works and bookmarks, as well as any works or bookmarks in their subcollections.

Additionally, collections with more than one unrelated fandom were automatically marked as multifandom. We used our tag wrangling system to determine whether fandoms are related, just like we do when marking works as crossovers. Collections with more than 10 fandoms (the limit for collection tags) were marked as multifandom but did not have any fandom tags added.

Collection owners are welcome to edit their collection and change any information we automatically added.

Other changes

As part of the browsing and filtering overhaul, there are a few other noticeable changes to collections.

Subcollections are now listed on the main Collections page and included in the results when filtering.
In order to make room for collection tags, we’ve combined the list of owners and moderators in blurbs, similar to the way they’re combined on the collection profile. Because we know this distinction may be important to some users, we’ve made it possible to style owners and moderators separately by using the a.owner and a.mod selectors in a site skin. (Your styles will apply in the blurb and on the collection profile.)
The Open Challenges page, including the Open Gift Exchanges and Open Prompt Memes pages, now list collections that are closing the soonest at the top of the page.

https://www.transformativeworks.org/collection-tags-and-improvements-to-collection-filters/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=268822

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Got up this morning at 7:30, ate my Cheerios, but did not have coffee, and then went back to bed until 10:00.

At 10:00 I got up, had coffee, and puttered on line. I wrote a little in the story I hope to have finished soon. It's coming along.

Eventually I got up and showered and washed my hair. I got dressed, and then got back on line, and was reading back entries of my journal, looking for various reasons to see what I was doing in 2014, when

mashfanficchick called.

Our original plan for today was that ze was working, and I would head over to zer with zer zine around 4:00, in order to get there when ze was done and we'd have dinner.

Instead, since there were storms forecast for this evening, ze said I should come over then and we'd have lunch. So I packed up the zine and headed to the bus.

Got the 44 so I decided to stay on and take the bus rather than the subway. Got to Main and Union, and was waiting for the 45 or 46, when a 45 pulled up way past the stop, let people off, and drove away before I could reach it. Very frustrating, but I got the next 46 so it was OK.

Got off and called

mashfanfichick who said I should proceed to zer place, so I did.

Ze met me there, and we decided to go out to Cobblestones for lunch. I don't know why but I've always wanted to try that place.

Lunch was very good. I even had a glass of wine, a moscato, with lunch. I had mozzarella sticks, and a burger with provolone and mushrooms, and sweet potato fries.

After lunch I came home because it was supposed to storm as I said above. Spoiler alert. It didn't.

But anyway, I got home about 6:00, after taking the subway back, so it was almost time to Team the FWiB. WE talked at 7:00 as usual, until 8:30 when I called Middle Brother. He's doing fine, hasn't done anything interesting lately but is looking forward to October.

After that I went to the bedroom an played solitaire and scrolled Facebook until pet feeding time. Then I fed the pets, and started here.

That's about all.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Out for a change.

3. It didn't rain.

4. Good lunch.

5. Friends.

6. Middle Brother doing well.

How am I? relaxed

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delphi - What I'm Reading/Watching: Karaoke Iko and Famiresu Iko
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Revisiting the con

Andy Lau birthday post ❤️❤️❤️

Al-anon and technical issues

What I'm Reading/Watching: Karaoke Iko and Famiresu Iko

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