Challenge 196: Yellow
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Far across the broad Atlantic where the storms do rage severe
Jul. 20th, 2025 10:18 pmsovayBefore the thunderstorm broke in such steel-drum sheets of solid rain that we realized only after the fact that we had accidentally driven through a washed-out bridge on Route 127, I lay with my face against half a billion years of granite cooled in the volcanoes of Avalonia and weathered across aeons of which the ice ages were only the finishing touch to a boulder as rough as rust-cracked barnacles: it pushed into my palms like the denticles of sharkskin, my hair clung to it in the wind that smelled of high tide and the slap-glass of waves coiling around the sunken cobbles and combers of weed. The stone itself smelled of salt. I found a fragment of gull's feather tangled afterward in my hair. spatch had driven me out to Gloucester for a bonanza of fried smelts and scallops eaten within sea-breeze earshot of the harbor while the clouds built like a shield-wall against the sunset and the thunder held off just long enough for us to get back to the car, following which we were theoretically treated to the coastal picturesque of Manchester-by-the-Sea and realistically corrected course back to Route 128 when we saw a taller vehicle than ours headlights-deep. The sunset that came out after the rain was preposterously spectacular: a huge cliff of cloud the peach-pearl color of a bailer shell, the gold-edged stickles of smaller reefs and bars, the mauve undershadow of the disappearing rain, all sunk to a true ultramarine dusk by the time we were doing the shopping for my mother back in Lexington. I used to spend a lot more time out in the world and I need to be able to again. It is self-evidently good for me.
spatch had driven me out to Gloucester for a bonanza of fried smelts and scallops eaten within sea-breeze earshot of the harbor while the clouds built like a shield-wall against the sunset and the thunder held off just long enough for us to get back to the car, following which we were theoretically treated to the coastal picturesque of Manchester-by-the-Sea and realistically corrected course back to Route 128 when we saw a taller vehicle than ours headlights-deep. The sunset that came out after the rain was preposterously spectacular: a huge cliff of cloud the peach-pearl color of a bailer shell, the gold-edged stickles of smaller reefs and bars, the mauve undershadow of the disappearing rain, all sunk to a true ultramarine dusk by the time we were doing the shopping for my mother back in Lexington. I used to spend a lot more time out in the world and I need to be able to again. It is self-evidently good for me.
The sidekick with no fear - DCU/Welcome to Night Vale drabble
Jul. 20th, 2025 10:33 pmpetraThe sidekick with no fear (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU (Comics), Welcome to Night Vale
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clark Kent & James "Jimmy" Olsen
Characters: James "Jimmy" Olsen, Clark Kent
Additional Tags: Drabble, Crack
Summary:
Inspired by this Tumblr post.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU (Comics), Welcome to Night Vale
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clark Kent & James "Jimmy" Olsen
Characters: James "Jimmy" Olsen, Clark Kent
Additional Tags: Drabble, Crack
Summary:
Jimmy's not from around here either.
*Inspired by this Tumblr post.
[10 out of 20] Sherlock Holmes (ACD): Gen
Jul. 20th, 2025 09:25 pmstonepicnicking_okapi posting in sweetandshortTitle: Hesitancy
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Length: 200
Prompt: surprise
Summary: Watson reflects on the decision to go to Dartmoor with Sir Henry Baskerville.
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Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Length: 200
Prompt: surprise
Summary: Watson reflects on the decision to go to Dartmoor with Sir Henry Baskerville.
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Daily check-in
Jul. 20th, 2025 08:39 pmmecurtin posting in fandom_checkinThis is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Sunday, July 20, to midnight on Monday, July 21 (8pm Eastern Time).
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
Poll #33382 Daily check-in poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 23
How are you doing?
I am OK
13 (59.1%)
I am not OK, but don't need help right now
9 (40.9%)
I could use some help
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans live with you?
I am living single
10 (43.5%)
One other person
9 (39.1%)
More than one other person
4 (17.4%)
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
The highest and sharpest mountain
Jul. 20th, 2025 07:00 pmnewredshoesThe neighborhood is hosting the 18th annual BurgerFest, where you can get burgers made of gator, ostrich, bison, boar, lamb and virtually anything else you want. Gingko is madly obsessed with it, not just for the free smells and opportunities to make chaos, but also for the adoring masses who all want to know what kind of dog she is and remark on how chill she is. That is a ruse; she is a criminal mastermind and is straining to just go apeshit and devour all the display burgers on counters and the plates of fries little kids are pulling behind them in wagons.
It is making both of us wildly overstimulated, though, and I've spent the whole day trying to grab enough time to write down some thoughts on a show I started last night. It's called Our Generation, and I was only going to watch it because the leads are both fantastic — they have fabulously intense, deliriously delightful chemistry both in real life and in their previous project, The Princess Royal. I love a costume drama, but I don't so much care about youth dramas, and I fully expected this one to be sort of sentimental and sloppy, to be honest.
That's my prejudice against the genre. It's — incredibly moving, beautiful and unsparing. ( Everyone just calls her Cherry. )
It's on Netflix, for those who don't have Viki. I've only seen three episodes, but it's made a huge, strong impression on me. Even if you don't like youth dramas or realistic shows, this one already seems many cuts above. It's also only 24 episodes, versus the usual 40, so it's not as heavy a lift. I will be watching it for a while, probably, and thinking (and hopefully writing) about it for a long time.
It is making both of us wildly overstimulated, though, and I've spent the whole day trying to grab enough time to write down some thoughts on a show I started last night. It's called Our Generation, and I was only going to watch it because the leads are both fantastic — they have fabulously intense, deliriously delightful chemistry both in real life and in their previous project, The Princess Royal. I love a costume drama, but I don't so much care about youth dramas, and I fully expected this one to be sort of sentimental and sloppy, to be honest.
That's my prejudice against the genre. It's — incredibly moving, beautiful and unsparing. ( Everyone just calls her Cherry. )
It's on Netflix, for those who don't have Viki. I've only seen three episodes, but it's made a huge, strong impression on me. Even if you don't like youth dramas or realistic shows, this one already seems many cuts above. It's also only 24 episodes, versus the usual 40, so it's not as heavy a lift. I will be watching it for a while, probably, and thinking (and hopefully writing) about it for a long time.
Cherry Fayre
Jul. 20th, 2025 11:36 pmloganberrybunnyPublic
170/365: Wyre Forest Big Band
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It was the Bewdley Cherry Fayre this weekend. Long ago, Bewdley used to be a significant cherry-growing area, and that heritage is celebrated now. It's one of those low-key events that isn't really marketed beyond the town itself, but it was pleasant enough. Sadly the showery weather meant that the Wyre Forest Big Band wasn't able to play in Jubilee Gardens as hoped. Instead, as you can see here, they made use of a covered area in Bewdley Museum next door. They played very nicely, too.
170/365: Wyre Forest Big Band
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It was the Bewdley Cherry Fayre this weekend. Long ago, Bewdley used to be a significant cherry-growing area, and that heritage is celebrated now. It's one of those low-key events that isn't really marketed beyond the town itself, but it was pleasant enough. Sadly the showery weather meant that the Wyre Forest Big Band wasn't able to play in Jubilee Gardens as hoped. Instead, as you can see here, they made use of a covered area in Bewdley Museum next door. They played very nicely, too.
[Vorkosigan] Six Sentence Sunday
Jul. 20th, 2025 04:57 pmlannamichaelsI've picked up Isekai Cordelia again, which is great fun, taking it from ~11K to ~18K.
My sheer glee and joy in this fic may require a bit of backstory. The first fic I ever did anything with, I submitted to Star Wars Chicks, they were having some kind of competition or submittal or something, this was back when you got there via IP address and not a domain name. Obviously my fic did not win whatever it was, as you would expect. There was another fic that was submitted during that time, it was about an OFC, who Luke falls in love with, and I loved her and the descriptions of her dress at the end, and I will never find this fic again, I am aware of that, and it was probably meant to be a 1/?, and who knows. But it was so great.
There are problems dating this story. My FFN join date was Oct 1998. Star Wars Chicks, according to fanlore, didn't exist until March 1999. I distinctly recall already being head-deep into OT Star Wars, especially the Luke side of things, in 1998-1999. I think I think this story happens a lot earlier in 1999 than it probably did. I used to write fic in notepad and save as .txt, despite many computer changes since then, the earlist date modified on a txt file in my old Star Wars folder is July 1999. There are also problems with that. Also on this deep dive I discovered some school assignments from 1997 and also what might be the address list for invitations to my bat mitzvah, I can think of no other reason for me to have this list of names and addresses, nor why I have it even with that reason for me to have it. At one point, I think around 2003/2004, I had a massive computer failure and had to get everything out through DOS and so that capped file names to be like "ALITTL~1.DOC" and no I never renamed any of them back to their full names, so this is a journey of discovery. -- okay I've got some Q-the-star-wars-character in my homework folder, last modified date December 1998, yeah, who the hell knows. But this does work, I know I was heavily on StarTrek.com and various Star Trek sites before I got into Star Wars.
Later on, I discovered that kind of fic was disparaged as being a Mary Sue, and one of the reasons I was never too het up about Mary Sues is whenever someone would complain about it, I'd be like "you mean that fic I loved?"
So writing an OFC transmigrates into a sci-fi series and fixes everything -- the kind of fic that would get mocked as being Mary Sue -- is so satisfying.
So the next time I'm in the district, I track down Vasily Petrov at a warehouse right outside of Hassadar. There are machines in there that simulate a ski environment. There are Space TV Screens on the wall that show scenic scenery. There are--
--a fully created, fully funded business plan for opening a ski resort in the Dendarii Mountains, which will employ only people who have lived on the mountain since the Cetagandans left.
"I told you to leave it to me," Vasily says, smiling.
第四年第一百九十二天
Jul. 20th, 2025 05:44 pmnnozomi posting in guardian_learning部首
⺁ part 3
原, original; 厦, tall building; 厨, kitchen ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=27
厶 sī
去, to go; 县, county; 参, to participate ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=28
又 parts 1-4 yòu
又, again; 叉, fork/to cross; 及, and; 友, friend; 双, pair/double; 反, against; 发, to send out/hair; 叔, uncle; 取, to take; 受, to receive; 变, to change; 叛, to betray
( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=29
语法
以前 and 以后
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/yi3qian2-yi3hou4/
过 for present perfect(-equivalent)
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/guo4-past-experiences/
除了...以外, except...
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/chu2le-yi3wai4/
词汇
屋子, 房屋, house
武器, weapon; 武术, martial art
舞台, stage; 跳舞, dance
西部, west
希望, hope
系, [university] department; 关系, relationship; 联系, contact
( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/
玩玩
Only very tangentially related to Chinese language study, but this is an artist I happened to meet in person a little while back and thought her work was gorgeous—sort of a Chinese Osias Beert in a way (very random analogy). Couldn’t find very much of it online, sadly.
夏天好长啊，但是至少我现在听不到蝉鸣，蝉鸣的声音我就是最讨厌的。大家过的怎么样？
⺁ part 3
原, original; 厦, tall building; 厨, kitchen ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=27
厶 sī
去, to go; 县, county; 参, to participate ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=28
又 parts 1-4 yòu
又, again; 叉, fork/to cross; 及, and; 友, friend; 双, pair/double; 反, against; 发, to send out/hair; 叔, uncle; 取, to take; 受, to receive; 变, to change; 叛, to betray
( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=29
语法
以前 and 以后
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/yi3qian2-yi3hou4/
过 for present perfect(-equivalent)
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/guo4-past-experiences/
除了...以外, except...
https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/chu2le-yi3wai4/
词汇
屋子, 房屋, house
武器, weapon; 武术, martial art
舞台, stage; 跳舞, dance
西部, west
希望, hope
系, [university] department; 关系, relationship; 联系, contact
( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/
玩玩
Only very tangentially related to Chinese language study, but this is an artist I happened to meet in person a little while back and thought her work was gorgeous—sort of a Chinese Osias Beert in a way (very random analogy). Couldn’t find very much of it online, sadly.
夏天好长啊，但是至少我现在听不到蝉鸣，蝉鸣的声音我就是最讨厌的。大家过的怎么样？
Hello!
Jul. 20th, 2025 05:03 pmthemagpieapologues posting in addme_fandomName: Zumi
Pronouns: They/them
Age Group: 40s
Country USA
Subscription/Access Policy: Public posts in general, with some members-locked ones. Everyone is free to add, though!
What I chat about: Usually whatever random thoughts are going on, particularly any fandom thoughts I have. I want to post more often, particularly in talking about a couple creative projects I've got going on. So, pretty much anything I feel like posting...? With heavy irregularity; it's not unusual for me to go weeks without using my journal, so don't be concerned if I vanish off the face of DW for a while.
I'm looking to connect with people who: Want to chat, whether about random things or fandom things (even if non-shared fandoms). Collaborators, other creators, or people who just want to have ordinary conversations! I'm not that interested in taking part in discourse or anti culture, and I don't tend to post many negative things myself, but if you wanna chat about something and get it off your chest, that's also fair game.
Main Fandoms: Disney Ducks (particularly the wider Uncle $crooge comicsverse) is a big one, as is Fraggle Rock. Pokemon and Digimon are also huge ones cohabitating in my brain. Oh! And also Megaman, especially the EXE series. These are all pretty equally big fandoms in my book. And Red Dead Redemption 2 and RDO; looking to play RDR1 someday, but that's a little out of my reach right now.
Other Fandoms: Dimension 20, Skyrim, Dungeon Meshi, Fullmetal Alchemist, Animal Crossing, Dreamlight Valley, Undertale and Deltarune, Final Fantasy series, Kingdom Hearts, In Stars and Time, Stardew Valley, The Sims, Sherlock Holmes, assorted other older anime, Dragonlance, DnD as a whole, assorted Disney franchises, assorted Dreamworks franchises, been really getting into CBS's Ghosts, really I've been in fandom spaces for a long time there's a LOT here, I KNOW I'm forgetting some...
What I Create for Fandom: Fanart, for the most part. The occasional fic, but mostly it's drawing.
Other Hobbies: Reading, photography, hiking, fishing, video games, painting
Pronouns: They/them
Age Group: 40s
Country USA
Subscription/Access Policy: Public posts in general, with some members-locked ones. Everyone is free to add, though!
What I chat about: Usually whatever random thoughts are going on, particularly any fandom thoughts I have. I want to post more often, particularly in talking about a couple creative projects I've got going on. So, pretty much anything I feel like posting...? With heavy irregularity; it's not unusual for me to go weeks without using my journal, so don't be concerned if I vanish off the face of DW for a while.
I'm looking to connect with people who: Want to chat, whether about random things or fandom things (even if non-shared fandoms). Collaborators, other creators, or people who just want to have ordinary conversations! I'm not that interested in taking part in discourse or anti culture, and I don't tend to post many negative things myself, but if you wanna chat about something and get it off your chest, that's also fair game.
Main Fandoms: Disney Ducks (particularly the wider Uncle $crooge comicsverse) is a big one, as is Fraggle Rock. Pokemon and Digimon are also huge ones cohabitating in my brain. Oh! And also Megaman, especially the EXE series. These are all pretty equally big fandoms in my book. And Red Dead Redemption 2 and RDO; looking to play RDR1 someday, but that's a little out of my reach right now.
Other Fandoms: Dimension 20, Skyrim, Dungeon Meshi, Fullmetal Alchemist, Animal Crossing, Dreamlight Valley, Undertale and Deltarune, Final Fantasy series, Kingdom Hearts, In Stars and Time, Stardew Valley, The Sims, Sherlock Holmes, assorted other older anime, Dragonlance, DnD as a whole, assorted Disney franchises, assorted Dreamworks franchises, been really getting into CBS's Ghosts, really I've been in fandom spaces for a long time there's a LOT here, I KNOW I'm forgetting some...
What I Create for Fandom: Fanart, for the most part. The occasional fic, but mostly it's drawing.
Other Hobbies: Reading, photography, hiking, fishing, video games, painting
Challenge 196: Red
Jul. 20th, 2025 03:15 pmlinky posting in iconthat
Minato from Kamen Rider Gotchard
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Next Color: Orange
Culinary
Jul. 20th, 2025 07:44 pmoursinThis weeks bread: a loaf of Dove's Farm Organic Heritage Seeded Bread Flour, v nice.
Friday night supper: penne with bottled sliced artichoke hearts.
Saturday breakfast rolls: eclectic vanilla, strong white flour - perhaps just a little stodgy.
Today's lunch: kedgeree with smoked basa fillets - forgot the egg due to distractions and basa cooking rather more slowly than I had anticipated, still quite good - served with baked San Marzano tomatoes (we entirely repudiate the heretical inclusion of tomatoes in kedgeree but they are perfectly acceptable on the side), and a salad of little gem lettuces quartered and dressed with salt, ground black pepper, lime juice and avocado oil.
Challenge 196: Violet
Jul. 20th, 2025 08:27 pmholyscream posting in iconthat
Quote paraphrased from Jex Lane’s Beautiful Monsters
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Images used: Ingrid Behrens, Annie Spratt
Next color: Red.
Thai Singer-Actress Nene Changes Her Name to Qala Nôir
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Thai singer-actress Pornnappan Pornpenpipat —known to many as Nene—announced a dramatic name change during her fan meeting and on social media, rebranding herself as Qala Nôir and sharing her new Instagram @0xqala. At her fanmeet, Nene introduced “Qala Nôir” as her new stage name and renamed her fandom from “Atom” to “The Killian.”
Nene Emotional with Boyfriend Bright
She also made headlines when she suddenly jumped off the stage barefoot and rushed into the audience. She approached her boyfriend Vachirawit Chivaaree, better known as Bright and broke down in tears in his arms before she calmly returned to the stage to continue her performance.
Contrary to her “sweet image” as C-pop idol Zheng Naixin, Nene, now Qala Nôir has drawn flak over her change in stance; with incidents like her calling public toilets in China dirty seen as a one-eighty from her Produce 101 days when she’d emphasize her Chinese lineage. Before that, Nene going public with Bright also drew flak, not just from C-netizens but even fans of Bright’s BL series 2gether who weren’t happy that the lead actor ended up with the supporting actress. Her recent decision has similarly drawn divided opinions as some showed support and others criticism.
Nene Says She’s Moving to the Next Chapter
To everyone who once loved “Nene”,
Thank you –
for walking with me, for believing in my dreams,
and for seeing the light in me.
Over the years, I gave all the love, hope, and strength I had
to follow what I believed in.
And now… I’ve finally found it. The light I was searching for
has been within me all along.
And with that knowing, I feel it’s time.
It’s time for “Nene” to rest.
To lay everything down, to be remembered gently,
and to no longer carry what she no longer needs to.
From here on, I will carry the next chapter myself –
under a new name,
with a new voice,
and in a new world.
Thank you, from the deepest of my heart.
Nene. The final light.
– Qala Nôir
Source: nenevader
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