nothing's off limits

Aug. 22nd, 2025 01:51 pm
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I am charmed to discover that there is a fandom on AO3 for Cautionary Tales - Hilaire Belloc, and that I am therefore not the first person to post such an item. \o/

Round 153, hour -11

Aug. 22nd, 2025 01:35 pm
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*grabs the hour* Howdy folks! 

Today is on of those days where I keep losing track of time, so I'm going to apply some food to the problem and start again. 

Initial Pinch Hits

Aug. 22nd, 2025 08:03 am
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We have two initial pinch hits! Please reply to this post with your AO3 username and the AO3 username of the pinch hit you would like to pick up.

https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/JumpScare2025/user/BardicRaven
Biggles Series - W. E. Johns, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Original Series
All fic

https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/JumpScare2025/user/Sath
다정하게 쓰담쓰담 | Sweet Caress (Webcomic), 첫사랑이 하고 싶어 | Please Be My First Boyfriend! (Webcomic), 천계지부 로망컴퍼니 | H&H Roman Company (Webcomic)
All fic

Summer bops

Aug. 22nd, 2025 01:04 pm
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This bop was released today. I've listened to Pabllo Vitar before but not much NMIXX, should i get more into them? 


My Summer Playlist (most repeats):
  • LE SSERAFIM - Different, Kawaii (+whole discography)
  • Hearts2Hearts - Style
  • KiiiKiii - Dancing Alone, Strawberry Cheesegame
  • ILLIT - bomb (album)
  • TWICE - This is For, Mars, Battitude (whole album really)
  • BLACKPINK - JUMP
  • TXT - Beautiful Strangers, Upside Down Kiss
  • Yves - White Cat, Soap (whole album)
  • Kesha - Boy Crazy ft. Jade
  • PinkPantheress - Fancy That (mixtape)
  • BIBI - EVE: ROMANCE (album)
  • horsegiirL - My Blunt My Rules
  • J-Hope - Killin' it Girl
  • BoA - Crazier
  • EXO - Cream Soda 
  • Tame Impala - End Of Summer
  • JVKE - butterflies ft. Taehyun &Chaewon
  • d4vid - Always Love ft. Hyunjin
  • ENHYPEN - Bad Desire, Echoes, Shine On Me (whole discography really)
  • FKA twigs - Perfectly 
  • f5ve - Television, Sugar Free Venom
  • Rebecca Black - Cygar Water Cyanide (+her whole album)
what i've been playing lately:
  • Ashnikko - Trinket
  • MNL48 - Oh My Pumpkin!
  • CORTIS - GO!, What You Want
  • Charli XCX - Lipgloss ft. Cupcakke
  • Charli XCX - Rewind ft. bladee
  • KAYTRANADA - AIN'T NO DAMN WAY! (album)
  • Sudan Archives - Freakalizer 
  • Tyla - MR. MEDIA
  • Shygirl - Room 2 RMX (album)
So, lot of kpop and new releases.
Also just gave a first listen to ADÈLA's debut album "Provocateur". She was done dirty by Popstar Academy doc and the online hate definitely affected her and she does touch upon it in her songs "Machine Girl" and "FinallyApologizing". I really liked her album, she has her own vibe and i hope she can become successful!

If i had to pick one song i've been obsessed the most it definitely would be "Different" by LE SSERAFIM. 
The second one would be "Soap" by Yves ft. PinkPantheress since it had Rebecca Black's sample of Sugar Water Cyanide.
Album/mixtape of the summer is definitely "Fancy That" by PinkPantheress, i even bought the CD+zine.


  • Good news: f5ve didn't disband! I was scared..
  • Few weeks ago i went to Flow Festival. I saw Air, FKA twigs, bladee, yung lean, Sudan Archives, and Charli XCX! It was an amazing experience. I also got to know more djs in my city and i have a new event lined up i'm excited about. It was a 3 day festival and i was really tired and overstimulated afterwards but it was worth it. 
  • I got my grandpa's old record player! My old one didn't work so i've been playing my few records and planning my next steps in collecting, but this means i have to budget better and buy less kpop albums because it can be an expensive hobby...
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I managed a no-shopping day, but I did get in a walk around the park while I was downtown. I visited my aunt, hand-washed dishes, went on a couple short walks with the dog/s, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, placed an online order, and scooped kitty litter.

I visited mom, read more in Hatshepsut (and a little in the Kindle fantasy I’m re-reading), watched some HGTV programs, and typed in the last of my fic, another ~3,100 words! I apparently underestimated that pretty badly. o_O

Temps started out at 54.5(F). I didn’t realize it was misty until I left the house. Also foggy. And still so dark out. I’m already hating how it’s darker in the mornings, and it’s only August! It was only 59 when I got home mid-morning and it seemed like there was no way it was going to reach the forecasted 70. But it did! It warmed up, the sun came out, there was a nice breeze. Perfect! Temps reached 73.6.


Mom Update:

Mom was still very weak, but was doing better. more back here )
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Anemone     HD720p 25MB
Emotionally charged family drama that gets a lot of attention because after eight years Daniel Day-Lewis takes a break from his acting retirement for this film. It's set in Northern England and begins as a middle-aged man (Sean Bean) sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother (Day-Lewis). Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender relationship - one that was forever altered by shattering events decades earlier. Samantha Morton also stars. It marks the directorial debut of Ronan Day-Lewis, it's also written by the father and son.
The father-son connection made me wonder if all the hoopla is justified. But so far it's an impressive looking trailer. Will Sean Bean survive?

Swiped     HD1080p 24MB
Biographical drama about Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder of online dating platform Bumble, who became the youngest female self-made billionaire. It is 2012. The tech industry remains a boy’s club. But 22-year-old Whitney (Lily James) refuses to observe Silicon Valley’s glass ceiling. In the wake of a failed startup, she joins the development team at MatchBox, a company she would rebrand as Tinder. As vice president of marketing, she cracks Tinder’s college campus market and sees its user base explode. She's on top of the world — until tensions between her and her male counterparts burgeon, and she finds herself subject to sexual harassment.
Will start streaming on Disney+ and Hulu September 19th.

Peter Hujar's Day     HD720p 25MB
A richly cinematic rendering of a conversation recorded in 1974 between photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) and writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall). Their talk that day focused on a single 24 hours in the life of Hujar, the famously uncompromising artist who was one of the most important figures in downtown New York’s legendary cultural scene of the 70s and 80s. Set entirely in Linda’s Manhattan apartment, the film freely and imaginatively recreates that long-ago afternoon and the wonderfully discursive exchange between these two singular individuals.
An interesting concept. Festival reviews are very favourable.

It Was Just An Accident - Yek tasadef sadeh     HD720p 22MB
Tense moral thriller from Iran in which Vahid, an unassuming mechanic, has a chance encounter with Eghbal, a man he strongly suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, he gathers several former prisoners, all abused by that same captor, to try and confirm Eghbal's identity. As the bickering group drives around Tehran with the captive, they must confront how far to take matters into their own hands with their presumed tormentor.
Written and directed by Jafar Panahi who won the Golden Palm this year in Cannes. Another movie from him that's unlikely to ever be shown in his home country.

Anniversary     HD720p 29MB
Thriller drama in which a close-knit family is caught in the turmoil of a controversial rising movement known as “The Change.” Ellen and Paul (Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler) witness their lives fall apart when Ellen’s former student, Liz (Phoebe Dynevor), reappears and starts dating their son (Dylan O’Brien). As Liz becomes a part of the the family, tensions rise and loyalties are tested. Zoey Deutch, Madeline Brewer and Mckenna Grace are also part of the cast.

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Aug. 22nd, 2025 09:48 am
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Happy birthday, [personal profile] elisem!

Editing for pace, and storyboarding

Aug. 22nd, 2025 08:41 am
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This is mostly silly. A problem with one of the early chapters is that nearly everyone noted it "feels" long even though it's not that much longer than the others. There are a number of issues: the sentences are too long for what should be a quick and fast-paced scene (bandits attack the village!), the descriptions feel quite remote as if the main character was only observing instead of being part of the action. It's vague in too many places instead of zooming on specific, vivid events and characters.

I've been editing this story for a lifetime (untrue) (but apparently still 179h41 over 141 days in the last 18 months, so CLOSE ENOUGH! XD), and because this is an early chapter it's one of those I've reread the most. So to shake things up a bit and try to experience it and its outline differently, I decided to storyboard it. It turned out surprisingly effective! It helped me narrow down on the key moments, and also give more agency to the bandits. Also it was fun.

At first, I drew two sides: one for the bandits, and one for the village, to show the preparations/lack thereof.

Then once the two collide, I started narrowing down on the key battle moments. By the 4th moment, I realised this was already a lot and stopped there. I removed a couple of unnecessary minor plot threads, like worries about a spell failing, and more magic stuff that's interesting but not particularly relevant to the scene or story. And I buffed up the 4 selected moments to make them more vivid.

You don't need to be good at drawing. Are the bandits bringing torches to burn down the houses, or flower bouquets to secretly woo the villagers? Who knows! 😂 )

I think it was good just to help me think about the scene differently. My usual outlines sure look nothing like this!! I was also hoping to reduce the chapter's word count to make the prose tighter, but it ended up bubbling up because making things more specific required fleshing out background characters and actions. I think I'm okay with it, but I'll have to see how it flows when I do a full reread later, after I'm done and have taken a break from the story.
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I just wanted to share some baihe titles that stuck in my mind for their interesting puns, especially since they are very likely to be dropped in translation (HTL or MTL). I will be dividing this into two obvious categories

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Follow Friday 8-22-25

Aug. 22nd, 2025 01:42 am
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Got any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).

Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die".

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These are active communities in Dreamwidth from Summer 2025. They include things I've posted, but only the active ones; the thematic posts also list dormant communities of interest. This list includes some communities that I've found and saved but haven't made it into thematic posts yet. This post covers A-I.

See my Follow Friday Master Post for more topics.

Highly active with multiple posts per day, daily posts, or too many to count easily
Active with (one, multiple, many) posts in (current or recent month)
Somewhat active (latest post within current year, not in last month or few)
Low traffic (latest post in previous year)
Dormant (latest post before previous year, but could be revived because membership is open and posting is open to all members or anyone)
Dead (not listed because there are no recent posts, plus membership and/or posting are moderated)
Note that some communities are only active during a limited time, or only have gather posts on a certain schedule.

Follow Friday 6-6-25: Active Communities on Dreamwidth Spring 2025 J-Z
Follow Friday 6-13-24: Hetalia
Follow Friday 6-20-25: Highlander
Follow Friday 6-27-25: Hiking
Follow Friday 7-4-25: Historical Fiction
Follow Friday 7-11-25: History
Follow Friday 7-18-25: Homestuck
Follow Friday 7-25-25: Horror
Follow Friday 8-1-25: House
Follow Friday 8-8-25: Icons
Follow Friday 8-15-25: Indie

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