Wednesday wishes Will S a happy 461st birthday
Apr. 23rd, 2025 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oursinWhat I read
Made a rather slow progression through Li, Wondrous Transformations, and finished it, a little underwhelmed somehow. Some useful information, but a fair amount of familiar territory.
As a break, re-read of KJ Charles' Will Darling Adventures, Slippery Creatures (2020), Subtle Blood (2020) and The Sugared Game (2021), as well as the two short pendant pieces, To Trust Man on His Oath (2021) and How Goes the World (2021).
Then - I seem to be hitting a phase of 're-reading series end to end'? - Martha Wells, All Systems Red (2017), Artificial Conditions (2018), Rogue Protocol (2018) and Exit Strategy 2018), and the short piece Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (2020).
Also read book for review (v good).
Literary Review.
On the go
Martha Wells, Network Effect (2020).
Up next
Predictably, Fugitive Telemetry and System Collapse.
Also at some point, next volume in A Dance to the Music of Time for reading group (At Lady Molly's).
Still waiting for other book for review to turn up, but various things I ordered have turned up, so maybe those.
[video edit] Justice in the Dark: Your Untouchable Face
Apr. 23rd, 2025 09:52 pmhalfcactusCW: quick cuts, a lot of moving text
Spot the mistakes:
In other news, I've broken out of the manhwa brainrot and fallen back into my awful habit of serially starting books:
Glasses! (Picspam)
Apr. 23rd, 2025 04:11 pmdancing_serpent posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
c_entSo, for this one I chose the topic Glasses. All kinds of eye glasses are welcome - regular ones, tinted ones, fake glasses, and sun glasses. Can be the actor/actress in a specific role, can be for a fashion shoot, or just their own regular prescription glasses. Goofy, sexy, or just plain adorable - show me your favourites rocking the eye wear!
Just post your pics/GIFs out of context. Mentioning actor/character/drama is perfectly fine, but if you want to elaborate or discuss in the comments, please use one of the codes to hide potential spoilers.
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NYR update - week 16
Apr. 23rd, 2025 09:49 pmfred_mouseOnly a 'what has actually changed' set of notes today, rather than a reflection on where I am on the goals.
- craft - the middle of the year 100 days goal to have fewer WIPs is moving along steadily. I have a document and it has a lot of information / ideas in it. I have found yet another list that is to be reconciled into the main list (this one is in trello).
- reading - ahead 26 'books' and 59 pages (this has not been much of a reading week).
- music - Malle Symon now mostly doable at what might be a performance speed. Found a recording of someone else playing it, on a much larger recorder than I use, so the last practice I did on the alto rather than the soprano. I'm not sure if that is what made it a better run through, or maybe just I'm nearly dealing with that speed.
- organisation The three boxes of fabric and yarn have been taken away; two empty boxes have been returned; it is possible some of the fabric will come back but at the moment I'm calling that specific goal complete.
- writing I have spent some time poking at the neocities site. I have more text in it. I still haven't worked out how I want to handle some stuff. I also now have an airtable base with many Untapped books (it is intensely frustrating that there isn't just a list of them readily accessible, but needs must, and I'm poking at several different sources - I have a search in trove open, it has slightly more books than I've identified already).
New binary, WTAF
Apr. 23rd, 2025 09:24 pmfred_mouseSo, I've been off poking at recorder playing websites, in an attempt to do some upskilling. At the moment, I'm thinking about experimenting with learning circular breathing, because it looks like fun.
Most of what I've been reading is fine. And then I got to this piece on mouthpieces which was going just fine when talking about two breathing styles.
Then it gets into specifying which playing characteristics go with which breathing style, which had me making that 'what are you talking about' face, because I really don't believe that ones breathing style is going to affect how one positions one's fingers, and I *really* don't believe it goes with footedness.
Then it jumped the shark.
Apparently you can tell which breathing style a person is going to be, based on the ratio of sun energy to moon energy on the day they are born. There are two links to look further in to this, and determine which side of the binary you are, but both are in German, and I decided I'd read enough.
Also: I believe that both breathing styles are useful, and it does rather depend on the type of music you are playing.
Also Also: I'm not convinced that these are all the options.
WIP Wednesday
Apr. 23rd, 2025 11:29 pmparadisedinermod posting in paradisedinerOptional meme questions:
1. title of a WIP/placeholder title
2. random line from a current fic
3. do you write everything in order or random scenes?
4. a favourite unpublished line?
You can contribute to the post until we put up the next WIP Wednesday! We are embracing the slower pace of Dreamwidth.
workaday Wednesday
Apr. 23rd, 2025 07:50 ammarcicatDue to various reasons (okay, one reason, which was that I felt sick and thought coffee might make it worse), I haven't had coffee since Sunday. I miss it! Really hoping today's the day.
(PS: That heating pad from Christmas is REALLY coming in clutch this week.)
[April: Bingo] Word of Honor Icons
Apr. 23rd, 2025 12:56 pmtarlanx posting in sweetandshortsweetandshort April: BingoFandom: Word of Honor (TV 2021)
| THE END | MARKET |
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| SAD | EVIDENCE |
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THE END: Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing in the special ending of the series, sparring on the icy mountain
MARKET: Wen Kexing using Zhou Zishu's money to buy watermelon (and other sweet treats) in the market
SAD: Wen Kexing after a verbal fight with Zhou Zishu over the deaths of the four sages of Anji
EVIDENCE: Luo Fumeng in background and the handkerchief with Zhao Jing's love poem in foreground that proves he betrayed her
Mystery Challenge: Babylon 5: Missing
Apr. 23rd, 2025 12:14 pmbadly_knitted posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Missing
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Garibaldi.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers/Setting: Grey 17 is Missing.
Summary: Garibaldi usually loves mysteries, but he could have done without this one.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 477: Amnesty 79, using Challenge 475: Mystery.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Triple drabble.
SetsuntaMew → 02
Apr. 23rd, 2025 03:41 amsetsuntamew posting in vogliaaIt's opened for unlimited requests with no time limit, so feel free to request whatever you'd like whenever! It's no bother, I promise ♥
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World Book Day
Apr. 23rd, 2025 12:10 amysabetwordsmith"Read Your Way: Diverse Books for Every Mind"
This theme emphasizes the importance of inclusion and diversity in reading. It encourages readers to explore different voices, perspectives, and cultures through literature, promoting empathy and global understanding.
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Check In Day 22
Apr. 22nd, 2025 10:04 pmfleetsparrow posting in writethisfanficHow was your writing day?
Fun!
1 (33.3%)
Work.
0 (0.0%)
Suffering....
2 (66.7%)
Exactly OK!
0 (0.0%)
An infinitely more nuanced answer....
0 (0.0%)
And then one day
This did help relieve some of the stress of "I'm not writing AND I'm also mad at myself for it, so I'll not write even harder." It also created a new issue where I have so many stories started but relatively few of them actually finished.
Which is a very long-winded way to ask: what about y'all? Do you tend to stick to one story/project until it's finished? Do you hop from one to another depending on your mood/brain capacity/due date? If you have multiple stories running at once, is there an order that you follow for when one gets its turn? If you write one at a time, do you ever have times where other ideas try to muscle in on your time, and, if so, what do you do with them?