glitteryv | Reading

Forgot to post my media update yesterday! Unrelatedly, saw this chipmunk today :D

A lucky catch!

TV/movies:

Miss Night and Day we are 2 eps from the end and this one has stuck the landing, imo. I have quibbles, the whole murder plot is kinda - well, we kinda thought it would make more sense, lol. But this is, at its core, the cat magic shenanigans show.

Amphibia L really likes this show & we are doing a cultural exchange (he is watching Owl House). And I usually am so annoyed by all the "but it's so ugly" complaints that people have about cartoons when they just don't appreciate style & especially don't appreciate animation, but god, it's so ugly. And screamy. Perhaps it will grow on me. The nagging to get more episodes in is not growing on me, lol. I've only seen the first episode so far.

Games: Stardew Valley brought my wilderness farm to year 3, been needing a no brain media option lately.

Books/Comics: I think I'm quitting all of my books, ngl. Because Internet will come back around bc I had to return it but renewed the hold. Hammajang Luck seemed like it would be fun if I could look past one of my most loathed tropes (falling for the ice queen/king who betrayed you in the past) and might even go beyond that and give her A Real Good Reason She Had To. No thanks :D

Writing and other wips: I actually wrote a bit!! Brainstorming on a new wip, LOLOL. ;_; but you know what, I'll take it! Going to host next week at

writethisfanfic, don't expect good convo prompts!! *cough* or possibly any, lol

BONUS PARK PICS :D ( pretty )

pauraque posting in

common_nature

I got to see an Osprey sitting on its nest!

brown and white raptor sits on a nest at the top of a wooden pole

When I came back later to show my partner, we talked to another birder who said this nesting platform has been there for a long time but in past years Ospreys have only stayed for a short time and not fledged any young. This year they've stayed much longer than usual so hopes are high for a baby! The other adult was perched in a tree nearby.

Ospreys eat only fish. (The platform is above a river.) It's interesting that small birds seem to realize they're no threat, and completely ignore them. While we were there, we saw a flock of blackbirds furiously mob and chase away a Cooper's Hawk while the Ospreys calmly looked on.

lilly_c posting in

writethisfanfic

How is the writing going today?

Poll #33177

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 2

View Respondents

Today I

View Answers

wrote
1 (50.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

planned
0 (0.0%)

had a cheeky break
1 (50.0%)

dealt with life
0 (0.0%)

brightknightie posting in

fandomcalendar

FK Fic Fest 2025

fkficfest | FKFicFest A03 Collection

fkficfest '25 is releasing!

We have 12 all-new Forever Knight fanfic stories this year. We're releasing one per day as long as they last to savor the goodness. So far, 4 are available to read! We're looking forward to 8 more!

Follow the reveals as they happen on our '25 AO3 sub-collection or DW community.

Do you remember Forever Knight (1992-1996) on CBS's "Crimetime After Primetime?" In local syndication? On the USA cable network or the original Sci-Fi Channel? DVDs? Streaming on Crackle, AppleTV, or Amazon? We still love our favorite vampire homicide cop and all his friends, enemies, lovers, coworkers, and car. Come play with us!

glitteryv posting in

recthething

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fanvids/fics/fancrafts/fanart/podfics/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

lilac_misty posting in

fandomcalendar

( You're about to view content that a community administrator has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

case posting in

fandomsecrets

⌈ Secret Post #6718 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

( More! )

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 15 secrets from Secret Submission Post #960..
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

profiterole_reads

Reclaimed by Seth Haddon was amazing, as usual! The scholar Saba Vasili, a refugee from Kerinsk who now lives in Zvensia, is accused of inventing a machine that opened the astral sea and killed hundreds of people. He must prove his innocence with the help of Ambassador Luan Zek of the Rezwyn Empire.

This is the third book in the World of Reforged series, but they can be read more or less independently. Here, we get to learn even more about this original magic system.

Saba Vasili is a trans man with anxiety. I thought his dysmorphia was very well-written, without being too depressing. Luan Zek has an old leg injury and uses a cane. There's major m/m, as well as some f/f.

troyswann

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

Current Mood: Itchy

paradisedinermod posting in

paradisediner

Here is where you can drop your recs or ask for recs for fanworks or any kind of media or content.

Post-disbandment stories

Reminder: you can self-rec and promote your works in this comm too.

If you're leaving a rec for a fanwork, you can include some/all of the following info:

[ New Music Monday | WIP Wednesday | Monthly General Chat | Comment Fest ]

pilottttt posting in

common_nature

For more details about our trip to this desert (in Russian), see here: https://pilottttt.dreamwidth.org/445028.html

case posting in

fandomsecrets

⌈ Secret Post #6717 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

( More! )

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 22 secrets from Secret Submission Post #960..
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

lilly_c posting in

writethisfanfic

How is the writing going?

Poll #33172

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

View Respondents

Today I

View Answers

wrote
4 (57.1%)

edited
3 (42.9%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

planned
2 (28.6%)

had a cheeky break
0 (0.0%)

dealt with life
2 (28.6%)

Discussion: what is your favourite fandom to write in? the one you go back to the most.

(Might not be around for posting tomorrow as I'm travelling long distance straight after work.)

omens

Mowed the front lawn! Had trouble with the mower even though it was SO EASY last time, lol. Sixth time's the charm!! I imagine the old-timers who may have witnessed my mowing process were probably like "what the fuck is she doing" but I have a system!! I get there in the end! Tomorrow I'll do the back yard but it's still wet. We had so much rain in the last week and now we'll have a day and a half of sun before we are rained out again, looks like.

Some May birds! ( birb )

We went down to the water to see if any of the geese or swans had babbies yet (they had not) but we saw MANY turtles ( park )

littlerhymes

Originally this was to be a conversation between Asako Yuzuki (author of "Butter") and Sayaka Murata, which I think would have been a fascinating conversation as they both have such interesting perspectives on being a woman and an outsider in Japanese society, and they are also friends. Unfortunately Sayaka had to pull out of the festival, and so this became a solo event, with Junko Hirabayashi as the MC.

The event was almost entirely in Japanese, with an automated translation supplied via a screen at the venue and also on our phones. Although good in theory, the translations were riddled with errors ("the translation said you DID breastfeed while drinking," one person told her in the Q&A section, as she laughed and said "no, no!") and very slow. Yuzuki spoke at what seemed like a fairly normal pace but it rapidly became evident the translations were way behind. After the event wrapped up, I kept my phone screen open and read the remaining translations for the next 20 minutes - that's how far behind it was by the end. So far from a perfect solution.

Despite the guesswork and delays involved in reading the translations, I thought it was a really interesting session. Please take these notes with a grain of salt, due to the aforementioned translation issues:

( notes )

skygiants

I've had great luck in the past with the sort of kdrama in which an angry immortal supernatural woman has to hang out in contemporary Seoul with a nice mortal boy. We were hoping The Judge From Hell would be that sort of kdrama, and, technically, it is; I think in its heart it would love to be Hotel del Luna. Unfortunately, it has also decided that what it wants to be is a violent revenge fantasy with incoherent and punitive ethics. Interspersed with wacky shenanigans! and a healthy dose of Catholicism?

Okay, so the premise: our heroine is Justitia, the DEMON JUDGE of the UNDERWORLD, THIRD IN LINE to the THRONE OF HELL, whose job is to sentence unrepentant murderers to unending torments. However, when a nice young judge gets murdered and accidentally ends up in her domain instead of the lesser hell where she belongs, Justitia refuses to listen to her pleas of innocence, gets ready to sentence her anyway, and promptly gets her wrist slapped by her superiors: she's gotten complacent! Time to go to Earth, wearing the body of the dead judge, and learn! about JUSTICE!!!

Given that Justitia's initial mistake involved accidentally sentencing an innocent person, you might be forgiven for thinking that Justitia's job on Earth might involve perhaps getting justice for the wrongly accused, or learning to temper justice with mercy and a little bit of nuance, or even uncovering faults and corruption within the justice system as it exists. haha! no. Justitia's job is to hit a quota of Unrepentent, Unforgiven Murderers On Earth and sentence them to unending torment, just like in her day job. She does this by chasing them around a sequence of nightmare scenarios that mimic the things they have done to their victims and beating them up, then stamping them on the forehead with a little stamp that says GEHENNA while then the doors of hell open and an ominous voice roars GEHENNA!!!! and they get sucked into hell. We did not enjoy the excruciating sequences of murderers being chased around a sequence of nightmare scenarios that mimicked the things they had done to their victims, which the show obviously wants us to find cathartic and satisfying. We did enjoy the ominous voice that roared GEHENNA!!!! It made us laugh every time.

( this got long but tbh not as long as it could have been. this show was so incoherent )

full_metal_ox posting in

common_nature

Taken last year, this is pictorial tax for my previous post; this little guy was one of a family headquartered in a vacant lot along one of my habitual shopping routes.

Note the ropes cordoning the space off, as well as the designated perch set up for the owls. In the upper background, across the path, is another staked-off owl nesting site; unusually for birds of prey, Burrowing Owls are social animals who sometimes form communities of multiple families.

(If I’ve slipped into Earnest School Essay Mode, it’s because this is stuff I myself am very much newly learning.)

Current Music: “Underground” by David Bowie

snickfic

- Saw some pap photos of most of the returning members of Oasis, got all excited, spent a bunch of time on the forum catching up with convos and speculation, reading linked articles, etc. Two months from today I will see them live! Ahhhhhhh!

- Tried American Psycho because Todd in the Shadows talks about it a lot and because I knew the director was a woman. Unfortunately these were not enough for me to care about satire of 80s capitalism. I DNFed about halfway through. Christian Bale was very good, though.

- I am rereading SA Harian's novel Briardark so I have some hope of understanding the sequel. The character writing is not that great, but the scary weird parts are SO scary and weird that it's worth it. It's also nice being able to reread knowing the biggest spoiler, and being able to interpret things in that light. Still, I'm excited to get to new material.

- Made a tiny bit of progress on an old Oasis WIP. Zero additional progress on H/C Ex. I have 1100 words, but now I need to write the rest of the story. I've got six days to do it in...

mific posting in

fanart_recs

Fandom: The Pitt
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Dr. Robby, Heather Collins, Samira Mohan, Frank Langdon, Dana Evans, Mel King, Dennis Whitaker, Trinity Santos
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: enthyrea on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: Great drawings of several of the characters, very lively and with spot-on body language. Santos and Whitaker are chibis!
Link: page of drawings

itsanonyx posting in

fandomcalendar

( You're about to view content that a community administrator has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: ZDFinfo

Profile

Glittery

May 2025

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Page Summary

Style Credit

Base style: Ciel by carisma_sensei
Theme: Bold Enough by krja

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags

Page generated May. 29th, 2025 07:09 pm

Because Empty Fame Is Evil. That's Why.

Reading

whoopsie, media update

Osprey nesting

check in day 29

Forever Knight: FKFicFest 2025 (now releasing)

Community Recs Post!

Innocence: A D.Gray-Man Big Bang Update

[ SECRET POST #6718 ]

Reclaimed by Seth Haddon

Canadian fistfighting: me v bug

Rec Something Wednesday - Post-Disbandment Stories

Post-disbandment stories

Turtle from the Kyzylkum desert

[ SECRET POST #6717 ]

check in day 27

bird post!

Asako Yuzuki in Japanese (25 May, Carriageworks, Sydney Writers Festival)

(no subject)

Burrowing Owl nesting site, taken 28 April 2024 at 19:24 EDT.

(no subject)

page of drawings by enthyrea (SFW)

land_of_art

Profile

May 2025

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags