chibifukurou

Writing it such a fascinating process. Like, I'm riveted to this scene playing out -- I have no idea how it's going to end.

When I began writing, I intended it to be a Rico/Trudy fic that was consummated. I had a very clear idea of what would happen. It was going to be sweet and poignant.

Then, the characters had to put emotions and motivations into the process. Now, it's a battle of will they or won't they. Who knows?! Trudy is willing, and her reasons are touching and sweet. Rico is being Mr. Moral, coming up with reasons why they shouldn't.

So, the jury is still out. I have no idea who is going to win. I just know that Rico is a twenty-first century guy living in the twentieth century. I've noticed that in previous fics. I have no idea why, but I let the characters be who they tell me they are, so. Is it something I'm picking up on in canon? Going by the way he is with Valerie, I'd be doubtful, but I write on instinct and I won't force myself to go against my instincts.

Current Mood: curious

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It started in October 2024 - it's been seventeen issues and one annual.

It's the Cirque, which Dick'd encountered as Robin, having designs on him and Blüdhaven.

In issue #132, he'd confronted the Cirque's representative Olivia Pearce - and seen her face.

( Her master, the Zanni, came out of it. )

Current Music: CYBER DRAGON - CityOfFeelings

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The launch of Justice League Quarterly might’ve seemed excessive, but in retrospect, it let Giffen, DeMatteis, and Jones explore a few story concepts in depth that otherwise might’ve been sent to the margins. First up was Booster Gold’s new super-team, the Fighting Shills. No, wait, I mean the Intellectual Property. No, wait, I mean the Bought-And-Paid-For Hacks. No, wait, I mean…the Conglomerate? Are we SURE that’s their name?

( In 1990, the name ‘‘Citizens United’’ would’ve said ‘super-team’ more than ‘‘overextension of corporate power.’’ )

petra

Pity and Terror (463 words) by RiaSaun
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Slings and Arrows, Medea - Fandom
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Geoffrey Tennant, Darren Nichols
Additional Tags: Humor, Drama
Summary:

Darren sells Geoffrey on a production. This is inspired by Petra's "Grace and a Cod-piece."

*

This was inspired by one of the first fanworks I ever put on the AO3, back in my Slings & Arrows heyday. It has an excellent use of Darren Nichols' off-kilter genius.

Current Mood: flattered
Current Music: That's really no excuse to be as glum as you've become

sonia

Student refines 100-year-old math problem, expanding wind energy possibilities by Kevin Sliman.

Divya Tyagi, a graduate student pursuing her master’s degree in aerospace engineering, completed this work as a Penn State undergraduate for her Schreyer Honors College thesis. Her research was published in Wind Energy Science.

“I created an addendum to Glauert’s problem which determines the optimal aerodynamic performance of a wind turbine by solving for the ideal flow conditions for a turbine in order to maximize its power output,” said Tyagi, who earned her bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering.

Sad news - Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 by Mary Wadland. "From segregated Virginia to global impact, her mathematics quietly changed how the world finds its way." I posted about her not too long ago.

muccamukk

I just have such a strong reaction to the question: "Is it queerbaiting if straight actors play gay roles?"

My answer is neither "yes" nor "no."

It's "Not today, Satan!"

mxcatmoon

Not doing anything structured at the moment, just ala carte work. I still have some stuff to catch up on, like I haven't posted all my three-sentence fic that I wrote over here yet.

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Current Mood: contemplative

sakana17

Toward the end of our trip to China,

thevetia and I visited Shanghai Film Park! We lucked out with the weather and it was a cold but sunny day. I'm so glad we went. It was a wonderful pilgrimage. :D

( Logistical stuff )

( Prelude to the pictures )

( Pictures! )

traykor

If you're going to be in NYC before June, you should see Masquerade. Especially if you are disabled.

We arrived at the venue early. They checked us in and asked if we needed the stairless route. I said yes. I was with my rollator as I figured the larger scooter I have would be too big.

We were ushered in to a side hallway and met by a staffer, who introduced himself as our butler for the evening. He got us our masks, took our coats, and asked if we wanted the alcoholic or non-alcoholic toast. Then he asked--and it was an ask--how we would like to move about the experience--I could walk with the rollator or one of their chair canes and he'd ensure a good path and when to go to the elevator (the main audience goes up and down stairs a lot), or they had wheelchairs available and he would push me. He talked briefly about the speed of transitions but I didn't feel pressed to choose any one option. I opted for the wheelchair.

Throughout the night him moved me into and out of the rooms quickly, the other staff were very on top of moving curtains, moving chairs, it was very well coordinated.

In the first room, as everyone else is standing, I was right in front. A cast member stopped and asked my name. A few minutes later, Andre entered and greeted me by name (he then went on to say hello to other attendees). I thought that might be it for the name but it was not!

Throughout the show there are notes from the Phantom, of course. These actually get handed out to people and you get to keep them, which is just fun in general.

So we are moving through the show, and there's a moment when the main audience is doing a long staircase down so you, in the elevator, end up in the next scene well ahead of them. It's Carlotta's dressing room. She also greeted me by name as an 'old friend', and started complaining about not having a big role in Don Juan (if you know Phantom you know what's being adapted here), we chat, the rest of audience comes in and suddenly I'm in the scene! I got to play along as her dear friend comforting her (I suggested a vacation to Italy), and then we read the Phantom's next note together, which I got to keep.

In another moment, the bring in some of the Phantom's backstory from Love Never Dies (and one of the songs), and it's supposed to be spooky. The rest of the audience goes through a spooky hallway, but from the elevator you don't.

They had a cast member waiting outside the elevator to spook us. Just us! So we wouldn't miss out on the scare.

It was like that throughout. Always positioned for a good view, lots of cast interactions. At the end there's a bar and merch shop. They quickly brought out my rollator and our coats and gave us directions on how to leave when we were ready.

So truly a magic night. It's a very different version of Phantom, but I've seen the musical live on stage 5 times, different was appealing. I could not have loved it more.

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https://www.unshelved.com/2015-12-14

This classic Unshelved strip originally appeared on Mon, 14 Dec 2015.

Unshelved comic strip for Mon, 14 Dec 2015

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lightbird

The throw pillow I needlepointed in the late summer/early fall is now finished!

My Completed Masterpiece:

I also made ornaments which will be gifts for my friends. Pics under the cut.

( more masterpieces! )

conuly

I didn’t guess that I’d be stuck with the roads closed until at least noon tomorrow.

Well, I’m getting paid every hour I’m here, at least.

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kaberett

Reading. Finished The Rose Field (Pullman)!!! I am Making Arrangements for it to Leave My House. ( Read more... )

ANYWAY. I finished it. It Is Done.

Then read the first few pages of Dead Hand Rule (Gladstone; latest in the Craft Wars) before deciding that actually I need to reread at least the end of Wicked Problems in order to remember what's going on...

Writing. Progress continues both glacial and extant.

Listening. My relisten-while-actually-awake of the first chunk of The Hidden Almanac continues, slowly.

Playing. We have finished an Exploders run on Hard in Inkulinati. I am contemplating, given how smoothly that went, whether I want to have a try at Very Hard...

Cooking. It's not quite "this week's breakfast dal, and a loaf of bread", but it does sort of feel like it was. Partly because for reasons we did not get our usual box of veg on Monday last week, which meant that we were scrabbling around using up Shelf Things and the occasional Supermarket Discount Item...

NO WAIT, I also DID make buckwheat pancakes, and inspired by lnr combined Tinned Pear and Stem Ginger with Vanilla Essence and also Ground Cardamom to go in same. V good. Will repeat.

Eating. My mother acquired for us, as A Special Treat, a variety of Baked Goods from The Fancy Bakery In Eddington: my favourite is still the fig-and-?ricotta, but the blueberry-and-?ricotta is also very good, as is the fougasse. A was extremely pleased with the pain aux raisins. AND my mother made some excellent baba ganoush, eaten with said fougasse.

This week also feat. rainbow bagels (which we got to watch some of the manufacturing process for!) as well as misc other foodstuffs from Shalom Hot Beigels.

A has some coffee and butterscotch cake (leftovers from a test bake!) from Flour Arrangements; alas by the time I got my act together to actually collect Excess Test Cake the apple pie and lemon had both all gone...

Exploring. I got to spend a little time in the City of London Cemetery, which is currently ablaze with (among other things) purple crocuses; we also (on our second attempt) managed to go on A Snowdrop Walk Around Anglesey (with thanks to aldabra for reminding me that it is That Time Of Year still!). Snowdrops excellent. May or may not get around to sharing some photos. (Our first attempt at A Snowdrop Walk Around Anglesey Abbey wound up mutating into a poke around the back of Churchill and Astronomy to peer at bulbs and other plants misc, which was also very enjoyable even if I did once again fail to take A to see the Barbara Hepworth.)

Growing. ... I bought a bag of snowdrops In The Green at Anglesey, to go into the ground around the cherry tree at the allotment? The lemongrass seedlings haven't all died?

jadelennox

I take a lot of pictures of three classes of things:

Cats: This pictures are good on any camera, including my agéd single-lens SE.
Birds: These pics are shit on the aforementioned handheld phone.
Moss and lichens and bugs: These pics are fine on the phone, but could be much better.

My real constraint is my hands and arms. I can't hold my arms above my head, I can't hold a phone still very long, the non-ergonomic controls and shape of a phone are shit, I realistically can't carry a tripod on a hike, and I can't bear weight on my shoulders or the back of my neck for any length of time. (I recognize that this collection of constraints means my pictures will never be great, and that's okay.)

So, questions:

Are there any cameras that have particularly good ergonomics, are particularly light, or have a good reputation for accessibility?
I believe I could get a remote shutter trigger & a remote focus, so I could prop the camera somewhere and get a good pic from a less painful angle; do you know how to choose a hand-friendly one? (Not finger-fiddly, easy to attach & detach, easy to click buttons.)
On a modern camera, is it possible to get lenses good enough for bird pics that are not, you know, heavy? Last time I had an SLR I was taking pictures on film, so that tells you how out of date my knowledge is.
What's the lightest tripod that works well for people with shit fine motor control and no finger strength? I can sort by weight on hiking sites, but hikers put up with a lot of fiddly controls that I can't handle.

(I'm only looking for advice from your experience or from the experience of people you trust. Please don't GoogleKagiGoPT it for me!)

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sovay

I spent much of yesterday running pre-blizzard errands, but the local state of the parking spots is the truest gauge of the meteorology about to go down.

I have not yet managed to get hold of her memoir, but I deeply appreciate being notified of the existence of E. M. Barraud, who identified herself with chalk-cut hill figures, candidly described her relationship status as "technically single, but 'married' in a permanent homosexual relationship with another woman," published under her assigned initials and was known in Little Eversden where she worked for the Women's Land Army as John. She gave her wartime responses for Mass-Observation as both a man and a woman: "People are people, not specifics of a gender." I had never even encountered her poetry.

Current Music: Pram, "The Owl Service"

settiai

My debit card was compromised late last week, and I'm waiting for the bank to get all of the charges reversed. I've been able to cover my most urgent bills (the hotel and my storage unit), but I have a few others that are due that I'm still worried about paying. If I can come up with another $100 or so, it would make a huge difference while I wait for the bank to get everything taken care of.

So I'm going to try to sell a few things and hope for the best. 🤞🏻

First, I have a few Nintendo Switch games for sale:

Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (example on Amazon)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (example on Amazon)
TemTem (example on Amazon)

And then a few TTRPGs that were Christmas presents so they're still in basically like new shape:

Candela Obscura Core Rulebook (example on Amazon)
Daggerheart Core Set (example on Amazon)

If you're not interested but know someone who might be, please point them my way. It would help a lot if I could manage to sell at least one or two things from this list.

For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).

Current Mood: hopeful

Will They, or Won't They?

Six Sentence Sunday

Nightwing's " Cirque du Sin " arc wrapped up this month.

Chapter Thirty-Eight of 'A Path of Thorns and Stones'- Meeting the Wall

Won’t Someone Think of the Corporations?: JUSTICE LEAGUE QUARTERLY #1 (JLI 61)

Recommendation: Pity and Terror - Slings & Arrows, Geoffrey/Darren and a production of Medea

Links: BIPOC Women Scientists

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Sunday Check-in

Shanghai Film Park! (image-heavy post)

Masquerade a Phantom of Opera Experience.

Unshelved strip originally published on Mon, 14 Dec 2015

Another Needlepoint Update

I guessed people would call out, and I was right

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The bones of houses show in the summertime

For Sale: Nintendo Switch games + TTRPG books

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