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wolffyluna ([personal profile] wolffyluna) wrote2025-09-30 04:51 pm

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I should mention this before I forget: I was in the US for a bit! But now I am back in Australia.

The US contains many friends. And also sea lions. But different sea lions.

(Apologies for the incoherence, but I am experiencing the Westward Jet Lag)

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elynne ([personal profile] elynne) wrote2025-09-29 10:42 pm

art post: soul bond, from The Monsters We Become

I apparently saved this picture earlier but never actually posted it so it could be linked elsewhere, so--here it is! Read more... )
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ride_4ever ([personal profile] ride_4ever) wrote2025-09-29 11:41 pm

Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 31: Firewhiskey Fic Challenge: more details

This is a reminder that the Firewhiskey Fic Challenge -- back from hiatus -- will be taking place on Friday, October 3 through Sunday, October 5. For the rules and the prompts, see the Firewhiskey Fic comm on DW.
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ladythmpr ([personal profile] ladythmpr) wrote in [community profile] justcreate2025-09-29 10:51 am

NaCraMaMo starts October 1 (in TWO days!)

Hi all!

October will be here in 2 DAYS! Since 2008, October for me has been National Craft Making Month, or NaCraMaMo for short. NaCraMaMo started as a community on LJ, and I started a new [community profile] nacramamo community on DreamWidth when I moved here in 2017.

In short, during National Craft Making Month in October, you work on a craft every day for a month and post pictures of your work daily in [community profile] nacramamo. [community profile] nacramamo is very free-form; you can work on the same project every day or work on different projects every day. Crafting is also very loosely defined; it's basically anything that you do with your hands that results in a tangible object. For example, I count baking as crafting, but I don't count making dinner as crafting (but you might!)

A lot of people use [community profile] nacramamo as a jumpstart for Halloween projects and Winter holiday gift making.

I'd love to have you join me, giving it your best shot.
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oursin ([personal profile] oursin) wrote2025-09-29 09:58 am

Menz B Weeerd

I do not think these are healthy or useful ways to look at SEX. Notches on the bedpost was bad enough, or how many times per night they could Do It, but really, these are taking the whole thing to new levels.

My boyfriend sees sex as a competition he is losing. How can I change his mind?:

He feels like he doesn’t perform enough (he does) and worries he isn’t big enough (he is!). He grew up without a father – the father’s fault – and I wonder if this has something to do with it. How can I assist him to see sex as non-competitive?:
Response:I assume he doesn’t think he’s losing the competition with you, somehow, but with imagined manly foes, comparisons, symbols of everything he (imagines he) isn’t?

I suppose there isn't actually some scoreboard somewhere out there Rate My Manly Performance but I wouldn't entirely rule that out, alas.

Because of this: Sperm-racing investors blow $10 million on ‘seed round’ for sports venture:

Last weekend, Zhu flew to YouTuber David Dobrik’s slick white Los Angeles mansion, collected the sperm of three influencers, and injected it onto a small race track as a crowd gathered in the living room. The competitors — Harry Jowsey, Jason Nash, and Ilya Fedorovich — watched a video of their swimmers, overlaid with animated tadpoles, zoom to the finish line.

Apparently, 'Zhu insists he has a deeper, more profitable mission: to gamify health and build an empire around male fertility'.

Yeah, well, I'm over here going

a) tortoise and hare, and are those sprinters whooshing right past the ovum in their mad gallop?

b) bit of an assumption that they are actually, you know, viably fertile, which I don't think at all correlates with speed. Motility is one thing, having what it takes to fertilise that ovum is another (and haven't I read something somewhere about It Is The Ovum That Chooses? Heh.)

c) Mary Ellman's image in Thinking About Women: 'the activity of ova involves a daring and independence absent, in fact, from the activity of spermatozoa, which move in jostling masses, swarming out on signal like a crowd of commuters from the 5:15.

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oursin ([personal profile] oursin) wrote2025-09-29 09:39 am

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Happy birthday, [personal profile] violsva!
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humorist + humanist ([personal profile] erinptah) wrote2025-09-29 12:46 am

New AO3 canonicals I worked on during this round of NF Syn Hunters

Roughly in the reverse order they were finished, most-recent first.

Technically the round ends on the 30th, but I'm not jumping on any new tags at this point! So this is the final version of the list.

I thought about emoji-coding these based on how much work I did ("just one of the final syn checks", "some of the synning", "basically all the synning", etc)...then decided, no, that's too much effort. The point is, over the last 3 months, I did Some Amount Of Wrangling on every single one of these:
  1. Humans Are Space Orcs
  2. Cottagecore
  3. Clit Play
  4. Roommates to Lovers
  5. Pussy Spanking
  6. Fangs
  7. Strangers to Friends
  8. Reader-Insert Has Scars
  9. No Use of Y/N for Reader-Insert
  10. Sexual Free Use
  11. Soulmate Goose of Enforcement
  12. Paranoid Reader-Insert
  13. Gamer Reader-Insert
  14. Enemy to Caretaker
  15. Biting Kink
  16. Purring
  17. Cis Male Reader-Insert
  18. Cis Female Reader-Insert
  19. Masochist Reader-Insert
  20. Phone Sex Operators
  21. Breeding Kink
  22. Mercenary Reader-Insert
  23. Fighting as Foreplay
  24. Past Trans Mpreg | Trans Male Pregnancy
  25. Reader-Insert is Bad at Feelings
  26. Wholesome
  27. Kabeshiri | Stuck in a Wall
  28. Underage Reader-Insert
  29. Forced Proximity
  30. Incontinence
  31. Reader-Insert Wears a Dress
  32. Shapeshifter Reader-Insert
  33. Siren Reader-Insert
  34. Reader-Insert Needs Therapy
  35. POV Reader-Insert
  36. Reader-Insert Wears Glasses
  37. Innocent Reader-Insert
  38. Conlangs | Constructed Languages
  39. TTS | Text-to-Speech Podfic
  40. Micropodfic
  41. Character Has Had Bottom Surgery
  42. Character Has Not Had Bottom Surgery
  43. Bottom Surgery
  44. Rivals to Lovers
  45. Teenage Reader-Insert
  46. Character Has Had Top Surgery
  47. Top Surgery Scars
  48. Mpreg | Male Pregnancy
  49. Transmasculine Reader-Insert
  50. Transfeminine Reader-Insert
  51. English Is Not The Author's First Language
  52. Autistic Characters
  53. Reader-Insert Needs a Hug
  54. Desi Reader-Insert
  55. Asian Reader-Insert
  56. Mind Break
  57. Gender-Neutral Reader-Insert
  58. Genderless Reader-Insert
...so, AMA, I guess?
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flexagon ([personal profile] flexagon) wrote2025-09-28 10:06 pm
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Workouts are freaking awesome, at least

Continuing to feel super burned out at the mere thought of working, or constraining my schedule too much. I know this makes sense. I know it takes more than six months to recover from 17 years of cortisol flooding my system. Gotta drift along and observe the whirling world for a while, and have faith in neuroplasticity.

In the meantime, physical workouts are only getting better. In some ways, there's joy in recovering ground I've lost before, because I can be confident in the path to gaining the skill again; for instance, I know that once I can bop my chest against the wall in a backbend, my kickover isn't too far away. And I know that once I have a dropback (check) and a kickover (as of today, check!), a back walkover will be coming along. This is easier on me in some ways than the -- exciting, for sure -- improvements into things I've never had before, where I don't know what comes next or where I'll max out, or how much faith to have. Anyway, in the last week or so I've gotten a set of 5 chinups back, and my kickover back. (The week before, also in backbend territory, I touched each toe to the top of my head in turn; that's a maintenance marker not touched since last December.) There was a cramping episode that made me think I should carry some runners' salt chews, but overall I'm doing really well.

Today in open studio, Birdie and I and another friend set up a station for walkover drills (tick-tocks) and worked on them for about an hour. It was so fun, and useful to really work on one thing for quite a while.

Also this week I ordered some organization stuff for our IKEA cube unit and for the freezer.

I spent a whole day helping a friend move (third one this fall, for anyone counting). She had a lot of the same Zillian swag as me, from working in the same office and, for a few years, in the same group, and I had all kinds of complicated feelings about seeing those items. Mostly sadness and a desire to avoid them. Neither she or I sees a way back to working the way we did when we got those things.

I floofed off to Portland Maine for the first time ever, with the squirrel. On the way up we listened to a podcast about fear, anxiety, exposure therapy etc, and had a good conversation about fears... later that day a tiny not-very-scary spider got onto my hand in a park, and I said "wait! exposure therapy!" and let it crawl around a little before putting my hand on the ground to let it get off. The squirrel was proud of me for letting it live, I was just proud of myself for doing something I'd literally never done before.

I'm sure there's more, but the sleepiness is rising fast, and I must succumb.
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marthawells ([personal profile] marthawells) wrote2025-09-28 07:11 pm

Short Story

The audio version of “Data Ghost” my short story from the recent Storyteller: the Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology is now online at Pseudopod!

https://pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/pseudopod-995-data-ghost/



Also, Queen Demon, the sequel to Witch King, will be out on October 7, in ebook, hardcover, and audiobook narrated by Eric Mok.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/queen-demon-martha-wells/b7abd63577bd30a5?ean=9781250826916&next=t
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-09-28 08:49 pm
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It's very educational being me

Ways to tell you have a child #37: the contents of your tumble dryer's lint trap is 50% glitter.

(And your hands are now covered in glitter from emptying it)
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oursin ([personal profile] oursin) wrote2025-09-28 07:14 pm
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Culinary

Last week's bread did some spectacular mould action, bah, so I made the light rye loaf from Elizabeth David's English Bread and Yeast Cookery, discovering as I weighed out the ingredients that I had rather less strong white flour than I thought and had to make up the requisite proportion with white spelt. Turned out v nice, though.

No Saturday breakfast rolls because of rushing off to conference.

Today's lunch: pork spare ribs, which I rubbed with a mix of maple sugar, hot and sweet smoked paprikas, black pepper, garlic salt, and salt, and left overnight, then wrapped in foil and cooked for 3 hours in a very low oven, then basted with what was more of a barbecue sauce than a glaze of a small tin of chopped tomatoes + apple vinegar + dashes of tabasco and worcester sauce, simmered together, and cooked at a slightly higher temperature for 45 or so minutes - v tasty if a little dry - possibly did not need quite so long at that final stage; served with tenderstem broccoli and okra simmered for 45+ minutes in coconut milk with ginger paste and fresh coriander (possibly a little overdone?); baked San Marzano tomatoes; and cornbread (plain white flour + baking powder, half and half with mixture of fine/coarse cornmeal).

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skygiants ([personal profile] skygiants) wrote2025-09-28 08:25 am
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VOYAGER CATCH UP. I said I wanted to post about the first half of S6 before we were actually done with s6 and have not .... quite achieved that, technically, but TODAY we start the seventh and final season so I feel like if I post today it more or less counts, spiritually, emotionally, etc.

Voyager Season 6, episodes 1-13 )

Overall early S6 not a high point in our Voyager experience, with some exceptions; it feels like we're on a little bit of a downward arc after the highs of S4/S5, but we will see what the future holds!
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scifirenegade ([personal profile] scifirenegade) wrote2025-09-28 12:51 pm

In happier news


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Guess who's a body language girlie lol

It's certainly a way to promote the film. The journalist isn't doing it.



How many pictures of him frolicking in the pool are there??