Six wishes
Nov. 19th, 2025 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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holiday_wishes- A fits-in-an-envelope-package with stickers/pieces of paper for card-making/scrapbooking/journaling/collage and such things. (Could certainly be a swap!)
- The Hobbit/LOTR (books and films) fic recs. I mostly read m/m; but share whatever you love.
- Small Hobbit-hole drawings I can print out and colour in
- Book recs, non-fiction and fiction, that leaves you feeling hopeful for the planet and humanity (I am not religious, so religious books are not for me)
A digital copy of “Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien by Jane Brennan Croft (I am not able to get it where I am, digital or not.)This has kindly been gifted!- Repeating this from last year: Music recs: yule, winter, non-religious
Birdfeeding
Nov. 19th, 2025 12:36 pmysabetwordsmithI fed the birds. I haven't seen much activity today.
I put out water for the birds.
Good News
Nov. 19th, 2025 12:36 pmysabetwordsmithWhat good news have you had recently? Are you anticipating any more? Have you found a cute picture or a video that makes you smile? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your life a little happier?
Happy Holidays!!!
Nov. 18th, 2025 09:46 pmmaevedarcy posting in holiday_wishesHere are my wishes:
1. Comments/Kudos on my fics (including Original Work). I'm at AO3 and SQWA as maevedarcy (AO3 | SWQA). Not all of my works are on SQWA yet, but I'm working to change that.
2. Art inspired by any of my fics (including Original Work). See my AO3 for all my fandoms and ships.
3. Podfic of any of my works (including Original Work). See my AO3 for all my fandoms and ships.
4. Fanmixes inspired by any of my fanworks. DNW any Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga or Sam Smith though. You can check my Spotify profile to see some of my fanmixes and random playlists. I'd prefer Spotify links for these, but Youtube is good too! Can't use 8tracks in my country, so please avoid that.
5. Extra DW icon slots
6. Paid time on Dreamwidth (boy oh boy do I like the Network page)
7. Promoting any of my comms on a post like Community Thursday (available in the sticky post on my profile)
8. Donate some of your money to your local Non Profit protecting Trans women/LGBTQ homeless youth.
9. Postcards! Feel free to DM here on DW for my address. I am, however, in Chile, so mailing might be a pain. I'm still putting it out there because I love receiving things via snail mail. If you include a sticker I can put on my journal with it, I'll love you forever.
10. Pipe dream wish: a book from your local independent bookstore. Adding this as a pipe dream because shipping is so expensive guys I don't even want to know how much it is from some of the places some of you are. I read in English, Spanish and (Brazilian) Portuguese and I love chronicles and epistolary (at least that's what I'm obsessed with lately). I also love vegan cookbooks and all books related to Vincent Van Gogh.
Thank you so much for reading my list and special thanks if you decide to gift me any of the above.
Wednesday . . .
Nov. 19th, 2025 09:41 amsartoriasAlso, after four days of lovely, lovely rain off and on, back to toiling my steps. To get myself moving again, I had to bring out the big guns: listening to Rob Inglis' enchanting reading of Lord of the Rings. Reflecting that, while in Middle Earth, their era has forever passed, I can be introduced to young Frodo and company all over again, and re-attend the birthday party, enjoying the humor anew.
Also reflecting on how much influence anime has had in so many fantasies written by younger authors.
Wednesday Word: Gloze
Nov. 19th, 2025 10:45 amcalzephyr posting in 1word1dayIt seems my international sweet treat journey is over, and I'm diving into my Words with Friends screencap collection.
Gloze? Can it be used in a sentence? Sure, but this archaic Middle English word sounds clunky to modern ears. It can be used as a noun or verb has roots in the word glosen.
It can mean to flatter someone ("The congressman's gloze was evident during their campaign") or a note explaining something ("The manuscript for the play had a gloze in the margin").
If you're thinking gloze is similar to gloss over you would be right!
[comics] The princess and the grilled cheese sandwich
Nov. 19th, 2025 06:15 pmmaluretteAuthor: Deya Muniz
Language: English
Type: graphic novel
Genre: feel good period romance?
1st release: 2023
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Length: medium paperback, 235 pages
( Read more... )
Take it as tongue in cheek! it's metaphorically and literally cheesy~
I can't take the drama seriously and I loved it to bits &hearts
WIP CHALLENGE CHECK-IN, DAY 19 -- Wednesday
Nov. 19th, 2025 04:59 pmigenlode posting in writethisfanficWhat plans do you have in mind for the rest of today?
The Hunter, by Tana French
Nov. 19th, 2025 08:55 amrunpunkrunThe third book in this series is expected next March, and I look forward to reading it.
Contains: Child harm; dog harm; violence (both interpersonal and mob); fire.
(no subject)
Nov. 19th, 2025 04:39 pmturpsAll much needed though, as it's so cold and last night and this morning snow came down big time, and was lying, too. I looked like some kind of yeti by the time I'd walked to class this morning, and my feet were soaked, as my trainers were no match for the snow. I was the only person at class for ages, and Rosie was on the verge of cancelling when another guy turned up. At that point we had a talk and decided as we'd both done the talk for today previously, we could skip that and just do the exercise section.
Then three other people turned up, all but one old timers, so we kept with the plan and just had the activity part of the session.
I was offered a lift home by one of the guys in class, but as I told him, I didn't mind getting some extra steps in walking home, plus, my big coat was soaked, and I didn't want to get his car wet. I'm glad I went though, I was considering not doing so, especially when my friend texted saying she wasn't coming, but in the end it was a good session, even if it was shorter than expected.
And ha, talking about my big coat. I posted on Insta stories this morning and Kayleigh has just seen the post, and messaged telling me off for going out without a winter coat. But I told her I was wearing my winter coat, but because it's a bit big now, it wasn't covering me to my neck. But getting told to put my coat on by my baby sister, it amused me.
Now, I'm going to have a lobster bath, I've been looking forward to it all day.
- f:army of darkness,
- f:bridgerton,
- f:burn notice,
- f:far from the madding crowd,
- f:gothic,
- f:laverne and shirley,
- f:little women,
- f:north and south,
- f:oxford blues,
- f:persuasion,
- f:pride and prejudice,
- f:room with a view,
- f:rose red,
- f:tenant of wildfell hall,
- f:this is spinal tap,
- f:warlock,
- f:will,
- m:any medium type
ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction
Nov. 19th, 2025 10:22 ammount_oregano
Anthologies tend to make less money than novels, yet they keep appearing. And I keep reading them. An anthology offers the chance to read a carefully curated selection, and I love short stories as an art form.
Apex Book Company asked me if I’d like to read an advanced copy of ECO24, The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, and offer a blurb if I liked it.
I liked it a lot. Like every good anthology, the stories offer a range of approaches, including literary science fiction, magical realism, and dark fantasy. Some are set in the present, such as the war in Ukraine, others in the future, and they feature settings around our planet and beyond. Some are grim, many hopeful.
My favorite is “The Plasticity of Being” by Renan Bernardo, which illustrates the paradoxes of offering help to poor people. I also especially enjoyed “Bodies” by Cat McMahon about the dangers of being a clone, and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackened Husk of a Planet” by Adeline Wong about the emotional weight of being a student, with hints of poetry. But I could go on. There’s the quiet wisdom of “Batter and Pearl” by Steph Kwiatkowski, and the aspiration of “Father Time Dares You to Dream” by Trae Hawkins — and both stories take place near me.
My blurb:
Each author offers us a unique ecological niche to reveal what our present and future could be, ranging from wrenching disasters to elating possibilities of recovery. These stories are personal and lyrical, and the breadth of imagination and styles make this anthology dazzling. Every story is a gem.
- f:bastard son and the devil himself,
- f:boy meets world,
- f:bridgerton,
- f:dc comics,
- f:dctv,
- f:disney,
- f:doc,
- f:doctor who/torchwood,
- f:grimm,
- f:harry potter/fantastic beasts,
- f:life with derek,
- f:marvel comics,
- f:mcu,
- f:revolution,
- f:roswell nm,
- f:sabrina the teenage witch,
- f:saved by the bell,
- f:sense8,
- f:sherlock,
- f:skymed,
- f:sleepy hollow,
- f:wednesday,
- f:wizard of the wacerly place,
- f:x-men movieverse,
- f:you me her,
- m:fic,
- m:graphics,
- m:icons
Wednesday there was SNOW
Nov. 19th, 2025 03:52 pmoursinWhat I read
Finished The Golden Notebook - had a few comments about Lessing and blokes and plus ca change and allotropes of excuses in yesterday's post.
Decompressed with a Dick Francis, Slay-Ride (1973), which is the one set in Norway - period at which The War, resistance, Quislings etc still hangs heavy over them - not a top specimen of his, I spotted Dodgy Person very early on (but maybe protag does not read thrillers....).
Then got a jump on the next volume in the Dance to the Music of Time reading group, Temporary Kings (#11), which is the one set at some kind of cultural conference in Venice.
Also the latest Literary Review.
On the go
Continuing to dip in to Some Men in London 1960-1967.
Was agreeably surprised by the arrival of my preordered Cat Sebastian (had forgotten it was due), After Hours at Dooryard Books, which is being v good so far.
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