Tags:
Tags:
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
New Music Monday - 17 November 2025
Nov. 17th, 2025 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
paradisedinermod posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
paradisedinerThe regular weekly post for us to talk about any and all of our thoughts about the week's new releases.
(Links to MVs will be added a bit later this week)
NCT Dream - Beat it Up
Allday Project - One More Time
Handong
Nchive - Love in Christmas
Paul Kim - Have a Good Time
Y:SY - Naked
Jang Dongwoo- Sway (zzz)
Lee Seunggi - 너의 곁에 내가
Kiss of Life - Lucky
NiziU
Reina Washio - Top Note (feat. Soojin, ex-IDLE)
Baby DONT Cry - I DONT CARE
Yook Sungjaw - A Single Story
Apex - Check Point
Kyuhyun
9 and the Numbers - The Definition of Love
Burvey - Sugar Riding
VVUP
Stray Kids - Do It / Divine
Cha Eunwoo - Saturday Preacher
Shin Soohyun
Yein - Landing
Big Ocean - Red-dy Set Go
New MVs are also added to an ongoing youtube playlist.
Last week's MVs: 10 November
Feel free to add new comments in the replies for songs/MVs we missed.
[ Rec Something Wednesday | WIP Wednesday | Monthly General Chat | Comment Fest ]
(Links to MVs will be added a bit later this week)
NCT Dream - Beat it Up
Allday Project - One More Time
Handong
Nchive - Love in Christmas
Paul Kim - Have a Good Time
Y:SY - Naked
Jang Dongwoo- Sway (zzz)
Lee Seunggi - 너의 곁에 내가
Kiss of Life - Lucky
NiziU
Reina Washio - Top Note (feat. Soojin, ex-IDLE)
Baby DONT Cry - I DONT CARE
Yook Sungjaw - A Single Story
Apex - Check Point
Kyuhyun
9 and the Numbers - The Definition of Love
Burvey - Sugar Riding
VVUP
Stray Kids - Do It / Divine
Cha Eunwoo - Saturday Preacher
Shin Soohyun
Yein - Landing
Big Ocean - Red-dy Set Go
New MVs are also added to an ongoing youtube playlist.
Last week's MVs: 10 November
Feel free to add new comments in the replies for songs/MVs we missed.
FFA DW Post #2385 - Sing, goddess, of the wrath of me when Lisa steals my pig.
Nov. 17th, 2025 09:35 pmsunnymodffa posting in fail_fandomanonWatching GoT in real time was very much like Homer watching his stolen barbecue pig go through travails: “It’s just a little wet, it’s still good, it’s still good! It’s just a little airborne, it’s still good, it’s still good!”
-- I forgot the Simpsons existed and was like “Shit, should I have taken Classics in Year Nine? Does this happen in the Iliad or something?”
All the
fail_fandomanon Rules and Information (and Ban Requests): https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/1076.html. The short version: no embeds, don't out people's real names, don't be that much of an asshole, body fluids are off topic, Mods reserve the right to freeze, screen, and delete the fuck out of stuff. FFA discussion covers a wide variety of topics and has a very flexible view of 'fandom' that includes politics, current events, and cooking techniques. FFA is a Choose NOT to Warn experience. Meme away.Other posts on meme:
- Personal Issues, Off Topic Conversation, Religion, & Everything Else post (PP #31)
- Fic and WIP Post
- Book Clubs, Watchalongs, & Readalongs
- Prompt & fill fests: for FFA Post #1000, FFA's 10th anniversary, FFA Post #1500, & FFA Post #2000
Search
- Unofficial FFA archive & search: Dememe.info Username/password pairs are nonnie/pony, nonny/seal, or ayrt/velociraptor. As of 2025, Dememe is geoblocked for the UK.
- If you have a DW account, you can use DW's content search. Don't forget to tick the box to search in comments. You can also use FFA Rocks.
Related communities and additional resources
- New unofficial FFA wiki (archive: ffawiki_backup)
- New unofficial FFA Writers Tips & Recs wiki
- Unofficial Fyeah FFA tumblr
- Unofficial FFA recs list
- Unofficial FFA Discord Chat
- DW Blocker link & tips and now New! 2024 Updated DW Blocker Guide
- How to link to another account on DW or other sites. If you don't want to create a clickable link, type a backslash (\) before the @.
Meme rules do not require spoiler cuts. But here are two ways to make them:
| HTML-5 (recommended) | |
Demo:spoiler titleSome spoilery content. |
|
| Alternative for inline spoiler-cuts - details here | |
| Demo: spoiler title Some spoilery content. |
|
If you would like to be banned to avoid anonfailing, please leave a logged-in comment at the rules post. It will be automatically screened.
Next post: https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/710729.html will open when this posts hits 5000
Previous post: https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/710203.html#comments
Regular view - First page: https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/710447.html#comments
Regular view - Last page: https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/710447.html?page=999#comments
Top Level view - First page: https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/710447.html?view=top-only#comments
Top Level view - Last page: https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/710447.html?view=top-only&page=999#comments
Flat view - First Comment: https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/710447.html?view=flat#comments
Flat view - Most Recent: https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/710447.html?view=flat&page=999#comments
Dememe flatview emulator is at https://dememe.info/flat_view (same login as the regular Dememe info above).
These topics are banned:
- 'Which topics belong on main meme'
- the game Hogwarts Legacy
- discussion about current events in Israel and Palestine
- US Politics
Only one clearly named top-level thread for each of the following topics:
- Disruptive and Provocative Opinions (DAPO)
- sexual abuse and rape culture
- UK Politics
- Russia's invasion of Ukraine and related current events
Journal is good for me, like eating kale
Nov. 17th, 2025 08:31 amhunninghamTrying to do dail(ish) journal entry - I know it's good for me but at a loss to explain exactly how or why it helps. Self-reflection? Vaguely social? Looking at what's happening in my life as opposed to in my head? IDK
I know that if I try and write about the big things I freeze up. So instead of "my father is dying" we have "today we et potatoes" And I can't do a "what I did today" journal - I just bore myself. So instead it's just what I'm thinking about right now this minute. 3 random things.
Yesterday was a good day. I got some exercise, I managed a journal entry, I ignored the greenparty WhatsApp, and I coloured my hair for the first time in about 3 months (I use henna and it really needs to be redone every 2-4 weeks).
And - above all - I am sleeping better. This does mean decamping to the sofa at about midnight with an eiderdown and a pillow, but it is working. If I'm sleeping okay I have superpowers, and I can do anything.
And the first thing I have to do today is order a lightweight single duvet. For my sofa escapades, I am using an old feather eiderdown which Mrs. Next-Door gave us some time last century. I think she bought it shortly after WW2. It has been stuffed into an old duvet cover to stop it leaking feathers, and it's very warm but it smells funky. Not exactly wet sheep, maybe elderly hens?
I know that if I try and write about the big things I freeze up. So instead of "my father is dying" we have "today we et potatoes" And I can't do a "what I did today" journal - I just bore myself. So instead it's just what I'm thinking about right now this minute. 3 random things.
Yesterday was a good day. I got some exercise, I managed a journal entry, I ignored the greenparty WhatsApp, and I coloured my hair for the first time in about 3 months (I use henna and it really needs to be redone every 2-4 weeks).
And - above all - I am sleeping better. This does mean decamping to the sofa at about midnight with an eiderdown and a pillow, but it is working. If I'm sleeping okay I have superpowers, and I can do anything.
And the first thing I have to do today is order a lightweight single duvet. For my sofa escapades, I am using an old feather eiderdown which Mrs. Next-Door gave us some time last century. I think she bought it shortly after WW2. It has been stuffed into an old duvet cover to stop it leaking feathers, and it's very warm but it smells funky. Not exactly wet sheep, maybe elderly hens?
Nearing the end of another extensive revision round
Nov. 17th, 2025 08:21 amvriddyHey it's me Mario vriddy... talking about... writing!! Everybody, act surprised!!! Haha. Thanks for indulging on my last post related to this. Rationally I knew it was just my brain being silly but sometimes knowing doesn't help, you have pop that cork by actually getting the stupid thoughts in the sun where they can burn the way they should.
Anyway! I'm nearing the end of this round of cursed witch revisions. Current tally: 87 hours over the last 4 months. That makes it longer than the actual chunky round I called "prose editing" (where I added tons of descriptions and worldbuilding too) which took 81 hours over, huh. Five months. Would have sworn it was 3. So this round will probably end up around 5 months too (to be followed by another round of proofreading in a couple months or so, with all the new stuff I need to look at). However, the work felt a lot nicer overall thanks to allowing chill fic breaks, I think. I still need to be careful how I handle this to avoid Shiny New Project syndrome, but I think that went well.
I basically have the last chapter/epilogue left to edit, as well as the last scene from the previous chapter. The beginning of that penultimate chapter also saw extensive changes that I'm SO EXCITED ABOUT, sets up more worldbuilding and also sets up some of the foundations for the sequel that I'm really really excited to get on with writing hopefully soon.
However, I have to figure out what I want to do with the ending itself. ( Read more... )
I will absolutely need another set of eyes on this version. Even if I were to change nothing else and leave the epilogue as is, the story leaves the readers with completely different feelings now. Antagonistic(ish) characters that were easy to hate aren't anymore (...I think). I need to understand if this works for other people, too.
Normally after a big round of editing I'm like "THIS IS THE FINAL ONE I AM SO SICK OF IT" but... I'm not totally sure if fixing some of the major issues didn't make formerly minor ones more obvious now, and I'm curious about what's been surfacing *pokes* *pokes* I'll have to see what I think when I'm done for real, and get an external perspective. I think it's also interesting that I believe I would have the stamina for another round (however, no interest in spending another 80+ hours on it). I also like that I'm being more cautious about working on the ending. My previous way of doing things meant that I was so sick of it by the end I always rushed it once the end was in sight. Allowing small mental breaks, but not ones that completely take over (just one or two days here and there) has been really fruitful for my process, I think.
vriddy... talking about... writing!! Everybody, act surprised!!! Haha. Thanks for indulging on my last post related to this. Rationally I knew it was just my brain being silly but sometimes knowing doesn't help, you have pop that cork by actually getting the stupid thoughts in the sun where they can burn the way they should.Anyway! I'm nearing the end of this round of cursed witch revisions. Current tally: 87 hours over the last 4 months. That makes it longer than the actual chunky round I called "prose editing" (where I added tons of descriptions and worldbuilding too) which took 81 hours over, huh. Five months. Would have sworn it was 3. So this round will probably end up around 5 months too (to be followed by another round of proofreading in a couple months or so, with all the new stuff I need to look at). However, the work felt a lot nicer overall thanks to allowing chill fic breaks, I think. I still need to be careful how I handle this to avoid Shiny New Project syndrome, but I think that went well.
I basically have the last chapter/epilogue left to edit, as well as the last scene from the previous chapter. The beginning of that penultimate chapter also saw extensive changes that I'm SO EXCITED ABOUT, sets up more worldbuilding and also sets up some of the foundations for the sequel that I'm really really excited to get on with writing hopefully soon.
However, I have to figure out what I want to do with the ending itself. ( Read more... )
I will absolutely need another set of eyes on this version. Even if I were to change nothing else and leave the epilogue as is, the story leaves the readers with completely different feelings now. Antagonistic(ish) characters that were easy to hate aren't anymore (...I think). I need to understand if this works for other people, too.
Normally after a big round of editing I'm like "THIS IS THE FINAL ONE I AM SO SICK OF IT" but... I'm not totally sure if fixing some of the major issues didn't make formerly minor ones more obvious now, and I'm curious about what's been surfacing *pokes* *pokes* I'll have to see what I think when I'm done for real, and get an external perspective. I think it's also interesting that I believe I would have the stamina for another round (however, no interest in spending another 80+ hours on it). I also like that I'm being more cautious about working on the ending. My previous way of doing things meant that I was so sick of it by the end I always rushed it once the end was in sight. Allowing small mental breaks, but not ones that completely take over (just one or two days here and there) has been really fruitful for my process, I think.
Monday Update 11-17-25
Nov. 17th, 2025 12:26 amysabetwordsmithThese are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Cyberspace Theory
Poem: "Better Than a Million Dollars"
Food
Birdfeeding
Wildlife
Creative Jam
Today's Adventures
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Censorship
Politics
Communities
Education
Birdfeeding
Follow Friday 11-14-25: Kink
Food
Birdfeeding
Vocabulary: Carcinization
New Crowdfunding Project: "Monsterotica"
Read "An Old Diversion"
Cyberspace Theory
Conservation
Birdfeeding
Cuddle Party
Shopping has 28 comments. Trauma has 42 comments. Affordable Housing has 61 comments. Robotics has 98 comments.
"An Inkling of Things to Come" belongs to Polychrome: Shiv and needs $191 to be complete. Maiara and Arthur discuss taking notes.
The weather has been variable here. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a male cardinal, a young fox squirrel, and an adult fox squirrel. Most of the flowers have died off. I brought in the ceramic pots. Harvest is pretty much done, except a few random fields that may not get done.
Cyberspace Theory
Poem: "Better Than a Million Dollars"
Food
Birdfeeding
Wildlife
Creative Jam
Today's Adventures
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Censorship
Politics
Communities
Education
Birdfeeding
Follow Friday 11-14-25: Kink
Food
Birdfeeding
Vocabulary: Carcinization
New Crowdfunding Project: "Monsterotica"
Read "An Old Diversion"
Cyberspace Theory
Conservation
Birdfeeding
Cuddle Party
Shopping has 28 comments. Trauma has 42 comments. Affordable Housing has 61 comments. Robotics has 98 comments.
"An Inkling of Things to Come" belongs to Polychrome: Shiv and needs $191 to be complete. Maiara and Arthur discuss taking notes.
The weather has been variable here. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a male cardinal, a young fox squirrel, and an adult fox squirrel. Most of the flowers have died off. I brought in the ceramic pots. Harvest is pretty much done, except a few random fields that may not get done.
3 Cat Things
Nov. 16th, 2025 07:00 pmhunninghamCat has had blood tests for kidney disease and for thyroid. And all clear, cat is in good health, just thin and a very fussy eater. I'm so glad. It's not just my little cat, but I'm looking after very elderly father-in-law right now and we're making decisions about his future and his care, and I really don't want to manage end-of-life care and decisions about euthanasia for my cat at the same time. Distressing for everyone.
Cat & father-in-law are getting on well. They share the sofa, have naps and listen to radio 3 together. My father-in-law has told me that one of the big regrets of his life is not getting a cat when his wife died. I am very surprised by this, because he is so not a cat person.
James-the-robot-vacuum-cleaner now has googly eyes. This has not endeared him to the cat. I think the robot is cat's equivalent of a dalek. It's approximately the same size as cat, makes very threatening unpleasant noises, will slowly pursue cat with obviously hostile intention. Have discussed this important matter with family & decided that big googly eyes would not have improved the daleks. Wise design decision on part of the BBC.
Cat & father-in-law are getting on well. They share the sofa, have naps and listen to radio 3 together. My father-in-law has told me that one of the big regrets of his life is not getting a cat when his wife died. I am very surprised by this, because he is so not a cat person.
James-the-robot-vacuum-cleaner now has googly eyes. This has not endeared him to the cat. I think the robot is cat's equivalent of a dalek. It's approximately the same size as cat, makes very threatening unpleasant noises, will slowly pursue cat with obviously hostile intention. Have discussed this important matter with family & decided that big googly eyes would not have improved the daleks. Wise design decision on part of the BBC.
The Marriage Method by Mimi Matthews
Nov. 17th, 2025 07:00 am![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
smartbitches_feed
I was delighted when I saw this book was being released. I devoured book one in the series, Rules for Ruin, and ended that review with a note about how I was looking forward to the couple I guessed would be in the next book. I was delighted to be right!
Nell is one of the earliest cohorts at Miss Corvus’ school and when she was younger, she felt destined for great things. But a fall in her tween years left her with a permanent limp and a desire to only ever be a teacher at the school. In Rules for Ruin, she makes it clear the school is her world, but in The Marriage Method she takes her first step into the real world proper.
Miles is the editor-in-chief of The Courant, a London paper looking for a big story to improve their circulation numbers. He has deep suspicions about Miss Corvus’ school and Nell is dispatched to his offices in London to answer his questions without revealing anything of what actually happens at the school. The school believes in preparing girls for the real world which includes things like learning self-defence, how to pick locks and the like. If this were widely known, the school would be shut down in scandal.
Miles has a penchant for saving stray cats and it is a stray cat that serves as Miles and Nell’s undoing. As with all of Miss Corvus’ girls, Nell wears a wire crinoline. The cat Miles is currently trying to tame gets tangled in the crinoline and the only way to free her is for Miles to expose her legs to the knee (gasp!) and untangle the cat. OF COURSE, as they are doing this, the reverend who is connected to the parish in which the school is based walks in on them with Miles’ assistant in tow. Ruin!
Incidentally, I found it difficult to believe that an animal could get tied up in a crinoline, but there is an author’s note at the end sharing that there are a number of newspaper articles from the time in which small animals became tangled in crinolines – a persistent problem, it seems!
Miles proposes marriage and Nell accepts. It’s not supposed to be a love match, but right from the start this couple are so gentle with each other. It’s absolute bliss to read. With each small reveal of her delicate underbelly, Miles meets her with kindness, support and gentleness. It’s exquisite. Similarly, as Nell gets to know Miles, she sees beyond the stern exterior to the loyal, caring man beneath. It gave me the warm fuzzies in the best way.
Our couple from Rules for Ruin makes a cameo appearance, as do a few other characters from previous Mimi Matthews books not in this series. It’s not enough to mean that you couldn’t read this as a standalone necessarily, but I would definitely recommend reading them in order. We also have a glimpse of the potential next couple in the series: a teacher at the school and a police inspector. I’m intrigued!
If the story were just a couple falling in love with each other by tender steps, it would still be good, but there are two intertwined mystery plots to solve which make it great. First, a girl travelling to Miss Corvus’ school disappears on her way there. Nell needs to find out what happened to her. Second, one of Miles’ reporters is missing and he needs to find him. Incidentally, the two stories intersect in a surprising, but plausible way. Miles and Nell engage in high-jinks to solve the two mysteries while being (sort of) sensible about involving the police. I found the plot around the missing newspaper reporter particularly compelling and there are some wonderfully tense moments as the truth is revealed.
In keeping with the series, this book features women with a feminist outlook operating in a decidedly patriarchal world. Nell speaks openly and frankly about how marriage is detrimental to women’s freedom. So yes, Miles and Nell are forced by circumstances to marry, but the foundation of that marriage is a partnership of equals.
If you’re looking for a book that has tender love at its core set in a good mystery with lashings of feminism in Victorian England, then this book will more than surpass your expectations. I wait with bated breath for the next book in the series.
Finish Line November 16!
Nov. 17th, 2025 01:02 amformidablepassion posting in weekendwritingmarathon
FINISH LINE
YOU MADE IT!
I hope your weekend treated you well, but even if it didn’t, we’re here to celebrate your marathon achievements!
Please reply with your numbers for the weekend–word count, number of pages edited, outlining work–whatever you accomplished. Include what you feel should be included, but please remember that we love numbers almost as much as words.
Thank you for writing with us this weekend!
Cyberspace Theory
Nov. 16th, 2025 11:46 pmysabetwordsmithSelf-Worth in the Digital Age
Why are we letting algorithms rewrite the rules of art, work, and life?
( Read more... )
Why are we letting algorithms rewrite the rules of art, work, and life?
( Read more... )
Dept. of Memes
Nov. 16th, 2025 10:54 pmkaffy_rMusic Meme, Day 11
A song that reminds you of summertime:
The moment I read this, a completely inappropriate song - Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" - was right there in the front of my mind. I know why; I heard it during the summer between Grade 9 and Grade 10, when friction between my Granddad and me made my Mum and Nana decide to send me to stay with my Great Aunt Bobbie at her summer cottage in Shediac, New Brunswick.
There were a fair number of teens spending their summer at Shediac, and so I got a chance to do a lot of things which, while not completely inappropriate, did involve youthful parties with beer and dope. I managed to stay out of the kind of trouble that would have forced Bobbie to report on things back home. And "In the Summertime" was the song I remember most fondly, despite it being problematic these days.
Of course I got older, and learned other summer songs, not least of which were the many versions of Gershwin's Summertime - too many from which for me to choose for this meme.
There was one more summertime song that I fell in love with, and which I associate with my love of Bob and of my adopted city. (Those of you who know Bob may spot at least one of the reasons.) So I give you Summer In The City.
Here are the previous days: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9, Day 10
A song that reminds you of summertime:
The moment I read this, a completely inappropriate song - Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" - was right there in the front of my mind. I know why; I heard it during the summer between Grade 9 and Grade 10, when friction between my Granddad and me made my Mum and Nana decide to send me to stay with my Great Aunt Bobbie at her summer cottage in Shediac, New Brunswick.
There were a fair number of teens spending their summer at Shediac, and so I got a chance to do a lot of things which, while not completely inappropriate, did involve youthful parties with beer and dope. I managed to stay out of the kind of trouble that would have forced Bobbie to report on things back home. And "In the Summertime" was the song I remember most fondly, despite it being problematic these days.
Of course I got older, and learned other summer songs, not least of which were the many versions of Gershwin's Summertime - too many from which for me to choose for this meme.
There was one more summertime song that I fell in love with, and which I associate with my love of Bob and of my adopted city. (Those of you who know Bob may spot at least one of the reasons.) So I give you Summer In The City.
Here are the previous days: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9, Day 10
