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2026-03-09 11:54
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* D&D has licensed it's Forgotten Realms world setting (the setting with Baldur's Gate in it) for a romantasy book by C L Polk coming out in June.

That looks interesting. I haven't read any C L Polk.

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2026-03-09 16:03
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Age: 30s


I mostly post about: Daily life - my thoughts, things I'm up to, things I've created (I'm an artist), my travels, movies I've watched, photos I've taken. The mundane and anything that grabs my interest. I try to find whimsy in everyday life, and I probably think too deeply about a lot of stuff.


My hobbies / interests are: Drawing, journaling on paper and stationery in general, reading fiction, watching movies, musical theatre, EGL fashion, playing The Sims 4 and Animal Crossing, Lego, learning languages, traveling whenever I can (usually on my own), and whatever actor I might be obsessed with at the moment.


I'm looking to meet people who: Thoughtful people who have similar interests and values. I'm looking for community and people I can connect with. I'm feeling very burnt out from social media and how loud and demanding it is with people just observing each other and nothing ever going any deeper than that. I miss feeling like I had actual friends on the internet, and learning about people's lives from all over.


My posting schedule tends to be: Whenever I feel like. Sometimes that might be daily, sometimes weekly. I try not to post any less than that.


When I add people, my deal breakers are: Bigots. People who exclusively post about fandom, fanfic, or book reviews and little else. As an artist, I'm anti-AI. And just mean, judgemental types, I don't have space for that kind of attitude in my life. Be kind or get out.


Before adding me, you should know: I have C-PTSD, hEDS, and I'm neurodivergent. I don't talk about these things much, but they exist in the background and shape much of my world.

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For my Karaoke Iko people out there, the Let's Go Karaoke movie live-action is available on the Japanese Film Festival website until June 3rd (JST)! Hopefully for your region, too.

If you're not familiar, I can also warmly recommend the 5 episode anime that's on Crunchyroll, if you have access.

I haven't read the manga or its sequel yet but I'm sure they're great fun too ;)



It's been super interesting to watch the movie after the anime and see the tweaks in the adaptation!! I think it all worked really well and I enjoyed it a lot. If you've also watched both (or any!!!!) you should talk to me actually :D

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2026-03-08 19:31
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* Goaltender Interference by Ari Baran - This book was recc'd to me so much. I read the other Ari Baran books in order to get to it, and then I didn't like it much.

I am very glad I read the other books. Ari Baran's stuff is still the best hockey m/m I've read outside of Rachel Reid's books. But yeah, this didn't do it for me.

I've heard that a popular m/m hockey book had name choices that are very distracting if you are a Kraken fan. Well, found the book! Unlike a certain other situation also involving squiddy names, I am very sure this was unintentional. But wow, the name choices threw me out of the book a few times. That made it harder to get into, but I don't think a F&R on the names would have helped much.

spoilers )

Snapshots of wanderings

2026-03-08 18:07
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If you notice the phrase 'Buffalo Pothole Bandit' in there, I believe that's the name of a street artist who has done two 'residences' here doing guerilla repairs of streets and sidewalks. I think know where one other fill is, but I haven't made it out there. Some of his repairs are illegal road repairs, and I do need some shots of this literal street art.



Video of a pan and zoom onto that little picture.



Been a while since I've seen a fairy door. This is a cell phone grab I got out and about. May grab a better shot later.

Fic: Weary Traveller

2026-03-08 16:56
seleneheart: michael the wraith with the text 'archangel' (SGA Michael archangel)
[personal profile] seleneheart
Title: Weary Traveler
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing/Characters: Ronon Dex/Michael, John/Rodney
Rating: E
Summary: After Lieutenant Kenmore shakes off the retrovirus inoculation making him human, that was given to him by the meddling of Doctor Beckett, he becomes the Wraith known as Michael. He tries to find a way to survive, a person caught between two cultures, Wraith and human, but forever an 'other' to both.
Warnings: extremely dubious consent, ambiguous ending
Notes: originally written in 2006; diverges from canon as to what eventually happened to the Wraith named Michael.

On AO3: Weary Traveller

On [community profile] raselgethi: Weary Traveller

A Reckoning of Swords 67

2026-03-08 08:52
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It has been awhile since I've sorted my swords... February ended up pretty busy and I got behind on a lot of things.

But I've done updates on the Lemonade Cafe, both website and at [community profile] lemonadecafe. Going to try to do a few more before it's time to sleep. There's a very real chance I can finish off January's very full calendar pages and debate how to tackle both February and March's.

I'm still working through my inbox and found a comment from 2022 talking about The Mangar and getting back to it and I did! I finally got back to The Mangar! I went to mention this and ah, the entry is gone. ^^;; This will probably be the case more and more often as I get back to the truly ancient messages. Alas. (After a point I will also find the people and entire sites gone, which will be far more complicated.)

I suppose at some point I will claim true comment amnesty. ^^;;
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The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern



Blurb:
Far beneath the surface of the earth, upon the shores of the Starless Sea, there is a labyrinthine collection of tunnels and rooms filled with stories. The entryways that lead to this sanctuary are often hidden, sometimes on forest floors, sometimes in private homes, sometimes in plain sight. But those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is searching for his door, though he does not know it. He follows a silent siren song, an inexplicable knowledge that he is meant for another place. When he discovers a mysterious book in the stacks of his campus library he begins to read, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities, and nameless acolytes. Suddenly a turn of the page brings Zachary to a story from his own childhood impossibly written in this book that is older than he is.

A bee, a key, and a sword emblazoned on the book lead Zachary to two people who will change the course of his life: Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired painter, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances. These strangers guide Zachary through masquerade party dances and whispered back room stories to the headquarters of a secret society where doorknobs hang from ribbons, and finally through a door conjured from paint to the place he has always yearned for. Amid twisting tunnels filled with books, gilded ballrooms, and wine-dark shores Zachary falls into an intoxicating world soaked in romance and mystery. But a battle is raging over the fate of this place and though there are those who would willingly sacrifice everything to protect it, there are just as many intent on its destruction. As Zachary, Mirabel, and Dorian venture deeper into the space and its histories and myths, searching for answers and each other, a timeless love story unspools, casting a spell of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a Starless Sea.


I found myself in tears by the end of this book, although I couldn't say why. Maybe because it was ending. A gorgeous, gorgeous story, full of lovely moments that took my breath away.

This is from a reviewer on Goodreads who hated the book:
The Starless Sea is a book written for true readers. I’m talking about the kind of person who spent their childhood in and out of libraries and bookshops; the kind of person who sits and imagines adventure and an escape from the mundaneness of every single endless day without magic: the kind of person who lives for books and reading.


That pretty much describes my entire childhood, so yes, I loved this book.

However, I understand why it would not work for some people - the story twists on itself, and requires a *lot* of attention to what has happened in previous chapters.
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Ooof, I got incredibly off-course with these and it'll probably take a little while to catch up. ^^;; But here's a start!

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz: Glory of the Losers 1-5 (Katsuyuki Sumizawa, Tomofumi Ogasawara) - I have had all of Glory sitting around for ages and have tried to read it more than once only to repeatedly have Stuff happen. This time, I will grab my swords if Stuff gets in my way. While normally I'm fine with the Sunrise stance of "only animated is canon", this is a firmed up version of the story featuring a lot of amazing redesigns, extra info, etc. Looking forward to reading the rest.

My Love Story!! - anime, since I'd just watched the live action. Honestly, I liked the live action more. I thought the anime was only 12-13 episodes but it's 24 and it really drags in places. It's nice to have the setting and characters filled out, but it really drags in places. Can probably let it go since I can't imagine wanting to watch it again.

Tsukipro The Animation - S1, like with any idol anime, I'm here to listen to the songs as much as anything. One of the guys looks a bit like RS2's Noel so he's automatically my fave. I have S2 waiting in the queue.

Cyborg 009 vs Devilman - this is a lot of fun and a complete mess. Should you watch this if you don't know either franchise? No. Should you watch this if you do? Probably not. But you'll do it anyway, just like I have multiple times now.

The Omen 1-4 - ah, boycritter brought these over because I'd made a comment about never having seen the first one (or being aware of there being more than one, I guess). The first one was pretty good, 2 had me laughing uproariously at the bad special effects, 3 was decent, and 4 was atrocious. Good fun, but more ridiculous than scary and I also feel like 4 forgot half the plot of 3.

Yoroiden Samurai Troopers/Ronin Warriors - technically the latter since I watched the dub. Absolute fun except for the middle part which I want to edit down with a knife. This is one of those "I have watched good chunks of this in the past but never made it all the way through" shows, and yay, now I have. (Except the OVAs which... I can continue skipping, lol.)

And now, I can't believe I'm watching these before even the halfway point of the viewing period - JFF Theater!

The Lines That Define Me - culture drama about a young man finding healing through sumi-e. Absolutely gorgeous and takes the time to explain sumi-e and demonstrate beautifully without feeling like it's taking away from the plot. Also very tropey, as far as culture dramas seem to go. Definitely recommended if you can watch JFF stuff.

Bonsai Warrior - a documentary about a guy traveling the world teaching and demonstrating bonsai. Interesting watch, worth it also for the information about bonsai practitioners around the world.

Thermae Romae - if you can watch any JFF film this quarter, watch this one. It's fucking hysterical in every way. The gist is that a Roman bathhouse architect is in a slump and ends up magically transported to a modern Japanese bathhouse. This happens again and again, and he experiences all sorts of interesting things (like a bidet, lol) but not really understanding what's happening. At one point, a group of old Japanese men end up in Rome.
(Roman slavery is a fairly prominent concept, however, if you would rather not.)

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2026-03-07 16:20
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* Stream for Oops All Goalies game tonight will be here. Starts in about 2 hours from when I am making this post.

* Newest squid is NCAA path and minored in theater? He did contemporary dance to round out his minor? Huh, we might only have him until the end of the season, but he could be interesting if he sticks around.

McCann is claiming they are putting McMann next to him in the locker room and are also putting them on the same line. We are trying to figure out if he is kidding. He doesn't typically kid, he showed an emotion in front of the press once in Vancouver over a decade ago and is still paying for it. But also McMann being a first liner is not what people are expecting. We'll see in a few days.
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I'm writing a Brindlewood Bay adventure based on MDZS/The Untamed.

Or rather, based on one small detail of MDZS/The Untamed, using a modern-AU setting: Investigating the death of Lan Furen. (Adventure title: Lost in the Clouds. Complexity 7. Would be 6, but the death is 30-ish years old, so they're working with some difficulty.)

Brindlewood Bay has a different approach: Instead of "GM decides on the details of the murder and sets a bunch of clues that the players have to find and figure out," the GM sets the location, a list of suspects, a list of clues - and the players then come up with their own idea of who did what. Then they roll. If they roll high enough, they were correct and have solved the murder. (If they roll almost high enough, they were correct but now there is a complication - the murderer is getting away, or attacks them, or someone is in danger because of what they've revealed, etc.)

I don't have to decide what happened to Lan Furen to have it as the base of a murder mystery here. I just have to figure out who might've been involved, invent some clues, and throw them at the players.

It's been more difficult than I thought. )

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2026-03-07 06:09
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A busy, quiet weekend... Friday, after work, I ran a bunch of errands and then settled in. (And slept my face off.) Woke up to storms, but also having annihilated the bedding. Changed the sheets, did a ton of dishes, fussed around... [personal profile] taichara and I are theoretically building MG Tallgeese Fluegel this weekend but I've not gotten mine started quite yet. Mostly finished up a 30MF Knight and have been picking up in general while half-watching the Granblue Fantasy anni stream.

Going to try to actually go through my cassettes and get through my cassettes this time... I wish I was more attached to my old radio shows, but I'm not. You know how some people have a face for radio? I had a voice for print and I sort of wish someone had done me a kindness and pointed this out sooner. So far, on my actual demo tape, I've found one incredibly good cut and that's it. I also found the single for MC Hammer's U Can't Touch This. ^_^ Right now, there's a mix tape I made at a station... So many empty cases, too. At one point, I was finding piles of my cassettes at home among my mother's stuff and I never figured out what she was doing with them.

Sorting through papers, too. I'm finding cards and whatnot from ~xmas and argh, I'm sorry and thank you to everyone who sent things. ^^;;
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* Crave has made a dedicated Heated Rivalry youtube channel so all BTS and features by them are in one place.

* Also Jacob Tierney Gets Netflix Series Order For Alexander The Great & Aristotle Drama based on The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon

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2026-03-06 20:16
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i used to be super active on livejournal, mainly in the icon community. i made a dreamwidth account as livejournal was fading, but i didn't really connect to the site and with irl changes i ended up leaving this part of the internet altogether. i've been reminiscing and have wanted to get back into "journaling", so i'm giving dreamwidth a proper go this time around.

name: laura

age: 30

i mostly post about: life updates and the occasional book review. i dealt with a lot of changes last year and a major loss at the end of january, so i'm navigating this new chapter (that sounds so corny) and just want to document the ups & downs as i experience them.

my posting schedule tends to be: for now, i'd say sporadic, maybe a few times a week.

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my dealbreakers are: aggressive or continuous political content; i'm well aware of what's happening in the world and i have no problem with people who want to discuss or vent, but i have no desire in befriending anyone who is consumed by politics (especially whatever trump is up to). anti-lgbt, conservatives/traditionalists, ableists.

before adding me, you should know: i have social anxiety; i have good days and bad days. i might come off as standoffish, but i promise i'm not. i love reading/hearing about other people's experiences and getting a glimpse into their lives. i'm just too nervous to approach them lol
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No big moves for the Kraken. Divisional rivals making moves will impact us a bit.

We now have a McMann in addition to our McCann, and Ryden Evers in addition to our Ryker Evans? Front office, what did our announcers do to deserve this? I mean, outside of all the things they have done. KHN is a bit chaotic.

To think when the season started I was excited over the idea of a Nikke Kokko call up so we'd have a Nikke Kokko and a Kaapo Kakko in the same game. Still hasn't happened! Kokko is a strong goalie prospect so he will get some NHL ice time coming up, but calling up a goalie is very different from calling up a skater.

Also, people telling us to not worry over who McMann might be edging out, he's a bottom sixer... probably on our fourth line... Dear god, y'all do not understand how Kraken fans feel about our fourth line.

* Our fourth liners are mostly our own, home grown draft picks developed on our own farm. We are a baby team. We don't have many developed in house yet.

* Our team's very streaky runs this year map *very* tightly to whether our fourth line is in order or we've lost key members to injury or roster moves.

* Our fourth line has Melanson. The team, our broadcast team, and the fandom... which of these three groups is actually more into Melly? Eddie Olczyk, former player NHL player and also former Pens coach, is on our broadcast team and he's yelled that we should field him every game more than I have

I get that this is baffling to fans of... pretty much every team. Rangers just found out how we feel about our home grown fourth liners when they grabbed Kartye on waivers, our undrafted sometimes-call-up.

Also, if he clicks with us, it sounds like he'd be more of a middle sixer? We also haven't announced re-signings of most of our pending UFAs and RFAs. McMann is also a pending UFA, but if someone doesn't re-sign we could look at him as a replacement. We've got the cap space for where he's expected to sign in free agency. Kraken's big announcement today was posting the re-signing of our team captain for two more years, full NTC, which means he's probably retiring here. That and most of who is staying and not is likely already set, just not announced/recorded yet.
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Beck Chambers



Blurb:
Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, wandered, en masse into the wilderness, never to be seen again. They faded into myth and urban legend.

Now the life of the tea monk who tells this story is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They will need to ask it a lot. Chambers' series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?


An enjoyable story about a monk who becomes dissatisfied with their life and therefore treks into the wilderness to try to find their purpose. The world is a sort of utopia where the humans gave up their mastery of the machines they built when the machines gained awareness. They let the robots go without a fuss. The humans also ceded their mastery of the wilderness.

'Wild-built' turns out to refer to robots who were built by other robots once the robots gained their freedom and moved to the 'wilds'. Such an interesting idea - to put the robots in the wilderness.

A hopeful vision of what things could be like if humans weren't so arrogant. I may or may not read the next book in the series; there's only the two books and both are short.
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