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Just remember, too much of this:

Can lead to this:

So please,

decorate responsibly.

Thanks to Alex D., Shylah E., & Jessica for the reminder.

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P.S. This isn't going to help, but it's too perfect:

Golden Girls Shot Glasses/Drinking Game

Each glass has instructions on the back telling you when to drink, like "when Blanche mentions 'Big Daddy'" or "when Sophia tells you to picture Sicily." Bahaha!
*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

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Title: And They Lived Happily Ever After
Fandom: Miss Marple/Winnie-the-Pooh
Pairing/Characters: Jane Marple & Tigger Holmes
Content Notes: No warning needed
Prompt: September 1st: and they lived happily ever after

And They Lived Happily Ever After on AO3

larryhammer

For Poetry Monday:

Prayer (I), George Herbert

Prayer the church’s banquet, angel’s age,
God's breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth
Engine against th’ Almighty, sinner’s tow’r,
Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
The six-days world transposing in an hour,
A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;
Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss,
Exalted manna, gladness of the best,
Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,
The milky way, the bird of Paradise,
Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul’s blood,
The land of spices; something understood.

Sonnet the verbless vivid. Published in 1633 in The Temple, Herbert’s only collection, as just “Prayer,” the first of a couple poems with that title, thus the commonly added (I). That last semicolon (which in modern practice would probably be a colon) is pulling an amazing amount of weight.

---L.

Subject quote from Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon & Garfunkel, which is just as much a hymn.

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Photograph of steel spoons and spices in a dramatic setting with added text that gives it the look of a gourmet magazine cover: September 2025. Food & Cooking, at Fancake. Steel teaspoons are arranged in an elogated oval to suggest a fish, with the bowls acting as scales and some of the handles left visible to create the fins and tail, giving the creature a spiky appearance. The concave bowls are dusted with a powdery orange spice for color and one spoon at the front of the fish is filled with a coarse black spice to create an eye. The fish is on a black surface with a rough texture and around it are three skinny green peppers, a mound of salt, a mound of orange spice, and a dipping bowl filled with a clear amber liquid.

Our theme for September is food & cooking!

The tag for this round is: theme: food & cooking

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prettygoodword

Another week of words from Native American/First Nation languages, this time random ones ranging over North America, starting with:

cigar (si-GAHR) - n., a cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped in tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.

We got it around 1740 (though there's traces of earlier uses around 1630) from Spanish cigarro, of unproven origin but almost certainly from a Mayan lect, compare Yucatec Maya siyar and Q'eqchi sik'ar, both meaning to smoke tobacco leaves, both from sik, tobacco.

---L.

althea_valara

Most of this month was spent NOT crafting. I'm behind on checking in at

get_knitted because of it - I hope everyone there has been having success with their crafts!

It was an on month for Nerdopolis; we were in the third and final round for the current tournament, and I got inspired by some of the challenges.

The first challenge was the traditional Love What You Do challenge, in which teams pick their own themes. My team is all about gaming, and this month, we chose Mini-games as our theme. I immediately thought of the butterfly hunt in Final Fantasy X and dutifully searched for butterfly-related patterns. I found this butterfly shawl pattern. "It's crocheted - I can finish it in a month!" I said to myself. Reader, I did not finish it. Instead, I knocked out a quick crocheted hat yesterday that has the classic butterfly-made-of-chains on it. Apologies for poor picture.

A crocheted hat featuring a butterfly made of chain stitches.

[Image Description: A pink crocheted hat, featuring a butterfly made of chain stitches on the brim.]

Then there was the Boats challenge. Well, boats are often white in color, so I thought hey, let's make some white snowflakes! I chose this snowflake pattern, and tried it holding thread doubled. Alas, I got bored at the tediousness of it in the final round, and literally dropped it to finish it later... and it ended up under my desk, where it tangled with OTHER projects that have been dropped. BIG SIGH.

Anyway! I did not feel like unearthing it, so I decided to do something else instead. If you stand on the deck of a boat while it's in motion, it gets HECKIN' WINDY and your hair blows all over the place. So I started contemplating a hairband of some kind.

I considered yet another Lacy Crochet Kerchief - this pattern is like potato chips for me, I've made NINE of them. I did dutifully get yarn and started the chain/first row, but changed my mind. I considered a granny head scarf I found and even started that one, but the pattern called for fingering and I had just grabbed the first yarn/hook combo I found (worsted weight and a J hook) and it was coming out ugly. So I went back to the drawing board AGAIN, and finally whipped out this YESTERDAY:

A crocheted headband that features a patch of pumpkins.

[Image Description: A crocheted headband. It is tan in color and features bright orange pumpkins made of cluster stitches. A green vine meanders through the pumpkin patch.]

I left off round 2 and 6 because I didn't have much time. Even so, I barely finished this before the deadline. I'm happy with it, and it looks really cute on me and HEY I LOVE ALL THINGS PUMPKIN so now I have a seasonal headband - or will, once I weave in ends, oops.

For Nerd Cred, I tied to the All Saints' Wake in FFXIV, as there are plenty of pumpkin decorations then.. and also pumpkin cookies, as featured in this clip from one of my Twitch streams:

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The Lab's theme this month was Paper Manipulation. I immediately thought PAPER QUILLING! Alas, I couldn't find my quilling pen, and didn't have the proper color paper for what I wanted to make anyway, so I bought more supplies, oops. I did start quilling a bird, but (a) it wasn't coming out too well (b) I ran out of time. So in desperation, I made an origami inflated box. HEY, IT COUNTS!

[Image Description: An inflated paper box, folded in the origami style. Made with a piece of paper torn from a spiral notebook.]

I made a ton of these toys when I was a kid. The children's craft book I got it from said you could fill them when water and use them as water bombs, but wouldn't the paper disintegrate? Hmmm. Anyway, I used that "water bomb" idea for my Nerd Cred, and tied to Final Fantasy Tactics as there is a Water Ball throwing weapon in that game.

I did not work on my cardi at all this month, but did spend an hour starting the Sylvan Tee. I'd like to really put some work into that this month, maybe for

communal_creators? We'll see!

Current Mood: accomplished

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umadoshi

I don't usually have too much trouble falling asleep these years (thanks mainly to a low dose of amitriptyline), although it's never as easy as it seems like it should be, going by frequent evening sleepiness. (No, I still have not sent feelers out about restarting attempts at trying CPAP. >.< I think I'm a bit resistant because as long as I don't try it, there's the hope that it'll help when I do, but what if I do and it doesn't? *sighs*) But last night involved lying awake for well over two hours because my brain would not stop. Ugh.

Firm reminder to self: that used to be the norm. And at least there's no Dayjob today.

We didn't go to the wee local market this weekend, because when we were out with a car on Friday we were able to stop by the stall for a produce place ("place") I love, even though this was only our second time there. It's produce from a variety of farms down in the Valley, and they usually have a lot of different things, but for us it's not super feasible to get to without driving, even though it's not that far.

We came home with a pint of blueberries and three quarts of peaches, encompassing four peach varieties! ( cut in case you DGAF about peaches )

Back when we lived in Toronto (over twenty years ago now--what even?), of course, we had access to Ontario peaches, which are a glory upon the earth. And because my exposure to popular music (or, y'know, an awful lot of music generally) was even worse then than it is now, a couple decades later, I didn't actually know the "millions of peaches" song other than the "millions of peaches, peaches for me; millions of peaches, peaches for free" bit. Like. At all. But I would go around singing that bit in sheer joy over peaches, and sometimes about other things that I loved. No context.

(The classic example of that last bit is the time or three I was singing about "millions of Quake-chans", because a] the original Quake is one of my lifetime favorite games {am I still ridiculously annoyed both that the name/"franchise" has had absolutely nothing to do with the original game beyond the fucking game engine AND how bad Quake II was? Yes} and b] I had mostly left behind my early-anime-fangirl habit of using fragments of Japanese, but was still blithely appending "-chan" now and then for fun.)

Anyway, the point of this ramble is that (if I'm remembering correctly at this distance) one time Em was visiting and I merrily sang out "millions of kittens" etc. (this was before

scruloose and I were married, but we were already in it for the long haul, and at this point I had zero reason to think I would ever be able to have cats again because of their allergies), and when I finished the scrap of the song I knew and stopped, she quite reasonably belted out "KITTENS COME! IN A CAN!", which I had no way of predicting, and I probably didn't literally hit the floor in horror, but it came close.

Then she and

scruloose had to explain WTF had just happened and talk me down a bit, I think. ^^;

Current Music: KITTENS COME! IN A CAN!

lightreads

Rakesfall

3/5. Chandrasekera’s first book made a splash, but this one really didn’t. I didn’t know why until I read it, and now I’m pretty sure it’s because no one wants to talk about it and demonstrate that they have no freaking clue what it’s about.

I’m . . . sort of . . . kidding. This is a strange passage of a book. It is ostensibly about two people who are instantiated across many lives over huge spans of time, and how they relate to each other, and how they don’t. It’s also about colonialism and modes of resistance and a sort of cosmic war. Probably?

Mostly, it’s a beautifully written piece with extremely clever intertextual stylings that is disorienting (on purpose, but I suspect he thought he was being much clearer than I think he is) and that does the reader only a few very basic favors in trying to figure out what is what. Or who is who, from chapter to chapter. Read if you like that sort of experience of disorienting fragments stitched together into something that, for me, did not resolve much at all.

Content notes: Many kinds of interpersonal and terroristic violence.

osprey_archer

My mother volunteers at the local library, and sometimes I help her process the new books, which is how I discovered Sandra Nickel’s Making Light Bloom: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Lamps.

Picture book biographies seem to be having a real moment, which is convenient for me as I’ve apparently got a weakness for them. Most of the current run focus on a lesser-known woman or person of color who did a cool thing, for values of “lesser-known” that vary from “actually I think this person is really pretty famous” to “no one has ever heard of this person.”

Clara Driscoll definitely falls in the latter category. Not only is she not famous now, but she was unknown in her own lifetime, as she did her work under contract in the Tiffany factory. She started out cutting out glass for the famous Tiffany windows, a job that required quite a bit of artistic taste as these windows are famous, among other things, for their gorgeous variegated glass - the cutters had to select the particular part of the big sheet of glass that would look best in the whole window.

Eventually, it occurred to Driscoll that one might also make stained glass lamps. Her design for a dragonfly lamp caught Louis Tiffany’s eye, and the lamp went to the World’s Fair, where it was a big hit. Tiffany gave Driscoll permission to design more lamps, and she went on to design at least sixty, all with beautiful nature themes.

The illustrations by Julie Paschkis are in a striking stained glass style: it was this reason that the cover caught my eye. Like Tiffany windows, the colors vary within one panel, orange drifting into red and green to yellow. A rich and lovely array of colors.

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It's labor day in the USA. Picnics, sales... and oh yeah, celebrating workers' rights won the hard way through labor unions. Here's a bit of history, and some protests you can join today.

From UnionPlus.org "Working people began organizing and bargaining collectively to advocate for better working conditions and wages and celebrated the first Labor Day in New York City on Tuesday, September 5, 1882. Following the deaths of 13 workers during the Pullman Strike in June of 1894, President Grover Cleveland made reconciliation with the labor movement a top priority of his administration, making Labor Day a federal holiday in 1894. " Visit mobilize.us for events and rallys near you, including the Women's March "Workers Over Billionaires" and Indivisible's "Stop the Cuts." You don't have to register, you can show up. East coast events starting in an hour!

https://www.metafilter.com/210177/Its-Labor-Day

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Title: Hope
Fandom: Transformers [Shattered Glass-ish]
Pairing/Characters: Starscream & Thundercracker
Content Notes: None
Prompt: September One - 2 & 6 - and they lived happily ever after

Thundercracker stood on the ground, letting the weight of pollution and wasted resources settle into his ember, reminding him of what it had been all been for.

His optics flicked out further, seeing the scientist that every Seeker who had survived was pinning their hopes to.

As if in response to the gaze, Starscream looked back at him and flared his wings in a clear show of optimism. For him to do that… Thundercracker ran to him, looking at the test patch.

The metal was renewing itself, clearing away rust and acid pits.

"We will survive, and have our future."

adore

Friday was my last working day. I was able to schedule a therapy session for this afternoon (because no work!) and I feel good after it. I usually want to snack on something after therapy because being vulnerable expends energy or something, idk. I had cinnamon biscuits on hand, they were nice. I talked about how I'd felt shitty after finishing Project Fang, and I've slowly come to realise why. It's because my writing is not how it used to be. The quality of prose in my debut novel is not the quality of prose I can achieve now, because the debut novel was written before the bookstore debacle and subsequent cognitive changes in myself. But as I talked to my therapist I also slowly realised that I want to write self-indulgently and prioritise pleasure, rather than artistic achievement. It helps that the readership I'm writing for has mostly similar priorities. So it's okay that I'm not the writer I used to be. I'm still improving and will get back up there eventually.

My workplace added my replacement to the work WhatsApp group and welcomed her. They'd forgotten to remove me from the group. So they removed me after adding her instead of before, lol. They also deleted my work email over the weekend. Both these things felt sudden to me. I emailed them from my regular email asking them if I could have access to my work email to save some things I'd worked on to my portfolio. If they say no, then perhaps that's a sign I'm not meant to return to this line of work lol. They've been nice to me though. They might say yes.

In writing news, I've opened ARC signups for Bloodhunt Academy. Its working title was Project Fang, so that's how I've been referring to it, but now it's got its final title. It's all feeling so real! Especially as I have the final cover. I'll do a cover reveal on Instagram soon but I'm revealing it here first because I love it here. Look! SO pretty isn't it!
( Cover reveal! )

Every time our vampire heroine menstruates, she has to drink the blood of men to replenish herself. Things are complicated by Society Frowning Upon This. Things are further complicated when she falls in love with a human girl who rebels against their dystopian regime. Things are even further complicated when she falls in love with a boy who has been trained all his life to become a vampire hunter.

If this sounds like something you or someone you know would enjoy, but don't want to support Amazon (the book will be KU-exclusive after release because this is apparently my livelihood now), you can bypass Amazon by getting an advance reader copy before its release. Here's the ARC signup form: Link! No worries if this is not your thing! I would be delighted if it's someone else's thing and you point them to it.

Here's the complete blurb, for the curious:
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I'm so nervous about doing the steps in the process of launching this book. I have to start recruiting ARC readers from Instagram and Threads and goddess knows where else. I have a simple website in the works and I need to figure out my author newsletter and... AAAAAH I'm doing just the basics for my pen name launch but it feels like a LOT. I'm glad I'm posting the cover reveal and ARC signup form and everything here first because everything just feels less scary on Dreamwidth, lol.

Current Mood: accomplished

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lunabee34

Stranger Things Recs

boys trip! by crybaby
Steve/Eddie
Omegaverse
BFFs who are put on the spot when Steve goes into heat. Super, super hot.

Pull Not Down Your Hedge by thankyouplease
Steve/Billy, Steve/Eddie
Warnings for domestic violence
Steve and Billy have an awful relationship; Eddie watches and tries to help.

Someone's Bound to Get It by ShortAngryTwinks
Billy/Eddie
Billy clocks Eddie's hanky.

Symbiosis series by teddywesworl
Steve/Eddie
Omegaverse
Steve is abducted by a government black op in the aftermath of Vecna's defeat. When they throw him in a tiny cell with a rutting Eddie Munson, he thinks they'll both go feral and kill each other before they can be rescued—but there's another way out.

kiss your knuckles (before you punch me in the face) by insertsomethingwitty and L_E_D
Steve/Eddie
Eddie decides that if he can't get a hug, he'll settle for a punch.

your cosmic call sign by heartofwinterfell
Steve/Eddie, other minor pairings like Suzie/Dustin
This is one of the best writers in Stranger Things; they are so inventive and creative, and this fic is no exception. It's an AU/fusion where the Upside Down is actually aliens. Writing a successful AU of that sort is so difficult, and heartofwinterfell pulls it off so well. In this fic, Eddie is a teenage radio DJ, and I absolutely love all the parts of the fic that are his radio shtick.

The Rest of Our Lives by inkjette
Steve/Eddie
I'm really reccing this for chapter four in which Jonathan and Steve have a truly fantastic conversation that Eddie then joins.

spikedluv

I did two loads of laundry (both washed, dried AND folded!), hand-washed dishes, ran a load in the dishwasher and emptied it, went for several short walks, baked chicken for the dogs’ meals and cut up said chicken for said meals, changed kitty litter, and showered.

I did not visit mom today as my three siblings had plans to go out, but I did check her mail and had a brief telephone conversation with her. I also hit Stewart’s on the way home from mom’s. We had the ziti I put together yesterday for supper tonight.

I finished Amelia Peabody and read some fanfic, watched an HGTV program, and got in nearly a mile and a half in walks! I haven’t gotten that much in a long time.

Temps started out at 46.8(F) and reached 76.5. It was sunny with a slight breeze.

I forgot to include this pic in yesterday’s post, but this was the sight at the bird feeder last night (Saturday). Not only the buck and two does, but a fawn!! First time I’ve seen one closer than the pumpkin patch, lol! (Yes, the mother and fawn have visited the pumpkin patch on more than one occasion; I’ve seen them from the house and Pip has passed them with the dogs on a walk.)

Mom Update:

Mom sounded good on the phone when I talked to her. (And by ‘good’, I mean she didn’t sound as exhausted as she has been; the kind where it’s hard to make yourself form words.) ( more back here )

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Current Mood: nostalgic

finch

Over in smallweb it's smallweb September and so I've been trying to list out the stuff I've been meaning to do on my website and haven't gotten around to.

So far my list is:

probably find a webhost that's not just uploading shit to my email provider?
put my original universe stuff together literally at all
reformat the character reference pages and get them up
putting the art up would also be nice
fanfic archive could use updating/incorporating
so could some random other pages like my Flight Rising lore

Not sure how far I'll actually get in the list but it's nice to kind of lay out what I'm thinking, at least.

The end of September I'm going to be hosting Fourth Wing Femslash Week over on Tumblr again, which people seem to be excited about. It's not a fandom that sees a lot of femslash, so it's fun to drum up some interest.

This week I've been focused on writing for a different event week over there, but after that my plate's mostly clear between now and then so we'll see what happens, eh?

Also at the end of the month I start classes again. Ughhhhhh. Not terribly excited about that, but I guess I'll worry about it when we get there.

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This week's word is

Taciturn

Adjective

Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.

From Word Hippo

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Page Summary

cakewrecks_feed - HAPPY LABOR DAY!
smallhobbit in no_true_pair - And They Lived Happily Ever After (Miss Marple/Winnie-the-Pooh, Jane Marple/Tigger Holmes)
larryhammer - “when you’re weary / feeling small / when tears are in your eyes / i will dry them all”
runpunkrun in fancake - Round 178: Food & Cooking
prettygoodword - cigar
althea_valara - Crafting Update, August 2025
jacieleigh - September 2025 - First of the month!
umadoshi - A bit about sleep, but primarily about peaches, plus a long-ago happening in Toronto
lightreads - Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
osprey_archer - Picture Book Monday: Making Light Bloom
metafilter_feed - It's Labor Day
senmut in no_true_pair - Hope (Transformers [Shattered Glass-ish], Starscream & Thundercracker)
adore - (no subject)
vriddy - New BNHA fic: Sex education (Hawks/Mera)
lunabee34 - What else?
spikedluv - The Day in Spikedluv (Sunday, Aug 31)
minoanmiss - Labor Day Letter
minoanmiss - Sometimes, nostalgia
finch - Small Web September, perhaps
mxcatmoon in vocab_drabbles - #161 - Taciturn

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HAPPY LABOR DAY!

And They Lived Happily Ever After (Miss Marple/Winnie-the-Pooh, Jane Marple/Tigger Holmes)

“when you’re weary / feeling small / when tears are in your eyes / i will dry them all”

Round 178: Food & Cooking

cigar

Crafting Update, August 2025

September 2025 - First of the month!

A bit about sleep, but primarily about peaches, plus a long-ago happening in Toronto

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera

Picture Book Monday: Making Light Bloom

It's Labor Day

Hope (Transformers [Shattered Glass-ish], Starscream & Thundercracker)

(no subject)

New BNHA fic: Sex education (Hawks/Mera)

What else?

The Day in Spikedluv (Sunday, Aug 31)

Labor Day Letter

Sometimes, nostalgia

Small Web September, perhaps

#161 - Taciturn