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第四年第一百四十七天

Jun. 5th, 2025 08:27 pm
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冫 part 2
决, to decide; 况, situation; 冷, cold pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=15

词汇
汤, soup (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
我已经决定了, I have already decided
我真的不用,我不冷, I really don't need it, I'm not cold
[no 汤]

Me:
这个情况怎么整呢。
你喜欢清汤挂面吗?
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Cloudward, Ho! is the newest Dimension 20 campaign of actual-play D&D with its classic cast of comedy improvisers. This one is an aeronautical adventure set in a steampunk universe, about a motley crew who set out on a quest in search of a lost continent and the expedition that disappeared before them. The first episode just came out yesterday, and I really enjoyed it!



Some Notes About the Premise (Moderate Spoilers) )
I'm looking forward to seeing where the campaign goes from here! Anyone else watching or planning to watch?
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Hey all,
This is my annual Pod_Together Podfic Penceive Project post! You are all invited! This is a project that is pretty specific and also really experimental. We've done it for several years running and every time I have been stunned at the amount of awesome that we've come up with!! The focus is on memory and creation (I've included the basic instructions below). I've run this before and the collection of finished works is up on AO3 if you want to check out the kind of finished products this makes. Let me know if you are interested!

Please sit back and relax. This is one of a number of transmissions you will receive. You may read this as fast or as slow as you wish but please read it only once. Please do not take notes or talk about it on social media or record it while you read. This piece is about your memory as much as it is about my writing. However, it is not a memory test. Don't memorize it word for word (unless you want to). What you choose to focus on and what you pass over and what your brain makes up to fill the gaps is as much a part of the story as the text itself. After reading you can choose when to record it. It can be immediately after, or you could wait several days, or you could wait until after the final transmission, or some combination, or something I have not thought of.

The transmission you are about to read is one of a number and may not be in chronological order (with the others or within itself). It may shift tense and point of view. The piece will build and reveal itself as the transmissions go on. Feel free to edit the final product as much (sound effects or music or whatever else you can imagine) or as little (raw recordings) as you want. Now please, sit back and enjoy:


I want this to be a low stress project; you can put as much or as little effort into this as you want. "Transmissions" will go out once a week (there will be 4-5) as soon as I finish writing the whole thing. You can do major editing or you can leave the audio completely raw.

This runs as part of the Pod_Together podfic challenge but I take care of that side of things. (Unless you want to check in, you don't have to.) Pencieve podfic is also meant to be as low pressure as possible. As long as I have one (1) person finish, the project is a go - which means that if you want to sign up and check it out but find it too much, you can drop out without worrying. Or you could keep reading each transmission as it comes out but not think about it much until after all your other projects are done...for extra chaos.

Participants PLEASE get me your emails. I need them for the sign up. We have a discord server for planning and general communication during the project so I'd love your contact info for there too.

.

Jun. 5th, 2025 09:00 pm
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"I never know what I mean in my telegrams—especially those I send from America."

—Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

To-Do List Dysfunction

Jun. 5th, 2025 04:11 pm
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I have a long-term To-Do list, and last week I got this list down to two items, one of which was oiling the sewing machine so I don't really count it, and took myself quite by surprise. You wouldn't think that would be possible, and yet I found myself unexpectedly with Only One Thing On The To-Do List.

And I said to myself "Wow, this thing won't take that long! I will probably finish it quickly and easily tomorrow!" (I still haven't finished it.)

Only then the next day I woke up with a whole long list of things I suddenly needed to do first: clean the counter, paint my nails, have a bunny photoshoot, sweep the bunny cages, ink my italic pens and photograph sample writing. I thought vaguely in there, "Maybe I won't get it done today, but soon!" Except then I finished all those things in the day and also finished reading the book I was closest to the end of. (If I'd just done the last thing on the list instead of reading, I'd've finished after all.)

And that's when it occurred to me that I've been putting off the tasks on this To-Do list not simply because they are difficult or intimidating, but to avoid finishing my To-Do list.

At the end of the To-Do list lie all the other things that I should do, but don't know how to start! (Like removing a lot of wallpaper, because I've already tried several ways that don't work that well. We probably need to build scaffolding, which isn't something we are at all qualified to build.) Even worse, items like "Find more social activities and make more friends" are down there! They're things with a sense of 'should' but with no obvious first steps or convenient handles for executive function to get hold of.

What's more, I realized that I would never even have realized this (that I was trying not to finish the To-Do list) if I hadn't hurt my shoulder and had to stop knitting.

Because all this winter I've been furiously occupying myself with knitting, knitting itself has been serving me as a bottomless To-Do list.

This To-Do list dysfunction also means that anything I don't urgently or impulsively do at once - anything which then lands on the list - is in danger of being indefinitely procrastinated, even if there's nothing inherently difficult or anxiety-causing about it (like buying another batch of ebooks, so actually the list now has two things besides oiling the sewing machine again).
[personal profile] infinitum_noctem posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: When Love Lasts
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Pairings: Jennifer "JJ" Jareau/Emily Prentiss
Characters: Emily Prentiss
Rating: G
Length: 88 words
Summary: Emily chooses her family.

Read more... )

[#261 | Schemes] Challenge Post

Jun. 4th, 2025 09:05 pm
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Challenge 261:
SCHEMES
Whether it’s planning a secret party, going on a forbidden quest, or overthrowing the government, there’s one thing you need to make it happen: a good scheme.

An evil scheme, or just a scheme? Well, that’s up to the schemers in question; it’s certainly possible to scheme without malicious intent, though most people would call it a “plan” instead. But anybody can make a scheme. Whether or not they can carry it out...well, that’s a different question.

What do your characters scheme about?

Write a story about schemes.

BONUS GOAL: “What could possibly go wrong?”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!


Challenge ends Monday, June 9 at 9:00PM EST.
• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 261 – schemes
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

第四年第一百四十六天

Jun. 4th, 2025 06:15 pm
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冫(两点水) part 1
冬, winter; 冰, ice; 冲, to collide with/against pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=15

语法
Chapter 23 quiz: Passive voice
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138651142/quizzes.php

词汇
谈, talk; 谈话, conversation; 谈判, negotiation pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
看起来像个大冰棍, he's like a big icicle
专业的事就得由专业的人来做, professional things need to be done by professionals
必要时候你就用这个跟她谈判吧, when it's needed, use this to negotiate with her

Me:
我比夏天更喜欢冬天。
我们的谈话被他打断了。

Original: Fanfic: go on

Jun. 4th, 2025 03:11 pm
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Title: go on
Fandom: Original
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Content notes: implied invasion/colonization in the past (science fiction)
Author notes: The title is from 10:10 o’clock by Lynn Moe Swe, translated by ko ko thett. I wanted to make this fit a fandom, but I got to the end and sat on it and I still haven't found one of mine for which this resonates.
Summary: In which two young people, not quite friends, on different sides of [something], talk anyway.

Read more... )
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I skipped last week because, while I had done a lot of reading, I hadn't actually finished anything. I was burned out by the past few weeks at work and personal life, so I didn't write anything up. 

What I Have Read

If you were a Mythical Thing by Kangofu_CB - Re-read bc I love this author. Solid romance between gym teacher Clint and Bucky, who is also a were wolf.

He Who Drowned the World - Shelley Parker-Chan - Book Club Re-Read. THis book rewards rereading. The characters all feel so real and could be main characters in their own stories. I had completely forgotten the last third of the book. Edit after book club: It also has a fascinating set of comparisons between many different characters - Zhu has so many connections and parallels in other characters, and in her relationships with other characters, that I loved to re-read and get a better sense of them. So many pairs of brothers in this set of novels and so many of them are vicious struggles for power; Zhu's closest friend and near-brother is willing to die for her, over and over. Deeply fractured and unequal marriages between men who disdain their wives - Zhu's wife adores her and is a trusted ally. Revenge is a continuing theme and every time someone gets it, it destroys them. Zhu wants a different kind of world and she's willing to be ruthless for it, and it's clear that is the only way out of a cycle of repeated revenge and power struggles.

My Favorite Thing is Monsters  vol 1- Emil Ferris - Well written and the art is beautiful, however, the conceit is that the book is a handwritten child's notebook and so it's literally on lined paper and HARD TO READ. The POV of a young lesbian main character in 1960s Chicago and is deeply lovely -her fascination with classic movie monsters is so charming and so recognizable. Not a Hugos nominee this year, but the second volume is.

The Hunger and The Dusk vol 1. by G. Willow Wilson - A romance and adventure story - an orc healer is set to work with a team of human adventurers to face an enemy to both human and orc society, and fulfill a peace treaty between the enemy societies. I think this is mediocre, unfortunately . The art is lovely, but the writing is thin. They refer to tropes but don't actually depict them, so it feels very lazy and informed rather than characterized. Neither main romantic lead seems to have been really written, just assembled from tropes - and while I love romance novels and tropes, this isn't even using the tropes in the writing, it's just having the characters mention the tropes in their informed backstory. As a sidebar, I think the alliance between orcs and humans is supposed to be a commentary on racism in DnD settings - orcs are often treated as nonsentient and racially evil in gaming settings, while this books fleshes out orc society and culture and makes the secondary pairing into two really interesting people. If you want to pick it up, they are actually pretty interesting! However, the common enemy just.... evil hive mind nonsentient elves? Who maybe actually have a horrible king and a shared cunning plan? It kind of undercuts the exploration of orcs as sentient and worthy of attention and care if you turn around and assign the name traits to a different random fantasy species. Hugo award nominee, does not merit the award.

We Called Them Giants - Kieron Gillen - I read this immediately after The Hunger and The Dusk and contrast is striking. This book is also working hard from some tropes, but really works them and digs right in. The POV character is engaging with a terrifying and inhuman opponent, only to discover slowly that there is intelligence, compassion, and even communication. Overwhelmingly well done, great character work, the art is haunting and the pacing is excellent. It is a much tighter story with a simpler premise and delivers on it.


What I'm Reading
The Ministry of Time by Kailane Bradley – 25% ish,
Hunting Toward Heartstill by Blackkat -about 45%
The Antarctica Conspiracy Derin Edala – slightly on hold.
Someone You Can Build a Nest In – John Wiswell – 15%

What I'll Read Next
Hugo Nominees are out!
Track Changes
The Deep Dark
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2
The Tainted Cup
Alien Clay
Service Model
The Ministry of Time
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way
Monstress, Vol. 9: The Possessed
Navigational Entanglements
The Butcher of the Forest
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
The Brides of High Hill
The Tusks of Extinction
“Charting the Cliff: An Investigation into the 2023 Hugo Nomination Statistics”
“Signs of Life”
“By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars”
“The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video”
“Loneliness Universe”
“The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion”
“The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea”
“Lake of Souls”
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Neve the wild mini phalaenopsis orchid started to bloom! From above you can kinda see the size difference compared to Georges and Ella next to her. She's got so many buds already.

Wax's philodendron Jungle Boogie or Henderson's Pride, if that is in fact the one it is (apparently hard to tell, came without a proper label, on sale after being sadly mistreated at a hardware store), has made a new leaf recently and it's making a branch. I really love the leaves which are very majestic, but I keep trying and failing to get pictures of it. It's just so large and the light is from the wrong direction where it lives.

Nevar Forget (handwashing edition)

Jun. 4th, 2025 05:57 pm
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Speaking (as I did yesterday) of calligraphy practice, here's a quote from The Talisman that's funny, but not because it's homoerotic.



transcription )

Final emphasis mine.

Lettered in modified Carolingian (or "Caroline") style in Diamine Jade Green with 1.1-mm oblique stub nib vintage Pelikan 400. Heading in Rotunda (aka southern european Textualis or gothic). Atribution in chancery cursive.

(Knowing Walter Scott's feelings about the famous flaws in medieval Catholic doctrine, I thought at first that this was deliberate. But it's highly unlikely, since The Talisman was published in 1825. That Austrian guy who noticed that deaths after giving birth were associated with doctors delivering after autopsies and famously got hounded out of medicine for advocating handwashing was not until 1847.)

And another calligraphy unrelated to germ theory or medicine:



transcription )

Top: Humanist majuscule+minuscule in Sailor Yuki-akari ink with Lamy Safari 1.1-mm stub nib.
Bottom: Chancery cursive in Diamine Jade Green with Pelikan 400 oblique stub nib.

Torchwood: Fanfic: Menagerie

Jun. 4th, 2025 01:25 pm
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Title: Menagerie
Fandom: Torchwood
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 824
Summary: More alien creatures have fallen through the Rift and Ianto is starting to wonder how he’s supposed to cope with caring for so many different species.
Spoilers: Nada
Warnings: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 481: Charity at fan_flashworks.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood or any of the characters.



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