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Hello! I signed up for Round 19 at [community profile] tvmovie20in20 this time with Marry My husband-the Japanese version. Here are 20 icons and some alts! Enjoy! All icons are free to take. Comments are loved!

20 icons+alts here! )

allergies...

Aug. 27th, 2025 08:15 pm
javert: dead brian with blood on his chest (yp brian game over)
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I'm really not feeling well... I was going to have today's post be about Aggretsuko but I don't know if I have the energy. Maybe if I'd made it earlier but I put it off and then it slipped my mind and now it's almost 8 and all I want to do is keep playing Minecraft. Augh.

Little known fun fact about me: there was a time in my life where when I was really upset I'd go on Twitter and look through the hashtags for Baldi's Basics to look at fanart. There was just something about people being obsessed with a midtier joke game where the main antagonist is a lanky badly modeled bald dude with one single strand of hair like a cartoon baby from the 80s that brought me so much joy.

I never played the game nor any of its fangames (tho I did watch some Let's Play videos) but I was particularly taken with Alex from Alex Basics in Biology and Zoology. I liked that the big "twist" of his game was that he shed his human form to turn into a fucked up spider monster. I even drew him once!!!


This was in 2020 during a few months when I was Really Going Through It.
Not even because of the pandemic if you can believe it.


I just think it's nice when people enjoy stuff... but there's something special about people enjoying something particularly unusual or out there... Or taking something that was made as a joke very earnestly and seriously. Honestly, if [community profile] multifandomdoodle was still running I'd request some Alex art for nostalgia's sake...

This will have to do for today's post. I think. I'm desperately looking for dried ghasts in Minecraft and having zero luck LMAO. At least today I managed to get to an area I've never been through and found a biome I'd never seen before (the Pale Garden) so that's cool. I'm in the Nether right now, maybe I'll have some luck this time...

If I'm more cognizant tomorrow I'll try to work on my fanlisting... Get it done, even, maybe???

Wednesday Reads the Side Catalogue

Aug. 27th, 2025 10:23 am
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My recent reading features two short works by Tamsyn Muir, author of the Locked Tomb series.

I liked both of these books a lot: they seemed to me to feature Muir's strengths without some of the excesses of the Tomb books.

(I am aware that these excesses are precisely the source of delight for fans. I appreciate the meticulous artistry of the series; it's just that the particular qualities of deferral, substitution, and abrasion that are the formal and tonal preoccupation of these books, and that Muir wields so expertly and so persistently, are just not quite my tempo.)

The first book was Muir's 2022 novella, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower.

This is a revisionist princess-in-the-tower story, so the pleasure comes not from a surprise twist but from seeing how the genre is executed. Very well, I thought.

(That said, there were two or three times I did exclaim out loud, "oh no!" etc. So it's not twistless.)

I liked it enough that when it was done I felt wistful about not being with the characters any more.

(Not in a sentimental way. Or yes, in a sentimental way, but not in a cute way. Or yes cute, but not cozy. Difficult and heartbroken and ridiculous. That way.)

ETA: I mean to say that genre-wise Princess Floralinda is solidly with Beagle's The Last Unicorn and Goldman's The Princess Bride as an anachronistic and self-reflexive take on the genre.

The second was a long short story, or maybe novelette? called Undercover, blurbed thus (in part): "A fresh-faced newcomer arrives in an isolated, gang-run town and soon finds herself taking a job nobody else wants: bodyguard to a ghoul. Not just your average mindless, half-rotted shuffler, though. Lucille is a dancer who can still put on her own lipstick and whose shows are half burlesque, half gladiator match."

What's more, I think it is better that that sounds.

[personal profile] sabotabby, I felt like you might enjoy both of these. Like you might start out thinking "Why did Frac think I would like this?" but then fairly rapidly think "OH" instead.

Anyway, that appears to be most of Muir's non-tomb catalogue, which is too bad. I wish there were more.

§rf§

Fanfic: Rose Petals and Champagne

Aug. 27th, 2025 03:02 pm
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Title: Rose Petals and Champagne
Rating: Teen and Up
Fandom: The Blue Parrot (1953)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Bob/Maureen
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: n/a

Note: For [community profile] comment_fic, prompt was "it was their lucky number until it wasn't".
Thought it was a little funny. And yes, it's based on that story of Veidt being afraid of the number 17.

Read more... )

Fanfic: Seventeen

Aug. 27th, 2025 02:58 pm
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Title: Seventeen
Rating: General
Fandom: Eerie Tales (1919)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): a stranger
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: for the first segment of a 1919 film

Note: For [community profile] comment_fic, prompt was "rose petals and champagne", if you don't mind. That's a reference! How could I not?

Read more... )
yhlee: Alto clef and whole note (middle C). (Default)
[personal profile] yhlee
On a personal note, peace to Rai Weiss (https://news.mit.edu/2025/professor-emeritus-rainer-weiss-dies-0826) - physicist (co-won the Nobel Prize for detection of gravity waves at LIGO); learnt yesterday that he'd passed. I knew him only glancingly/socially (my husband worked with him as a grad student at MIT at LIGO Hanford) but I remember his extraordinary kindness and warmth.

DragonCon & BPAL?!

Aug. 26th, 2025 11:36 am
yhlee: Alto clef and whole note (middle C). (Default)
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Do I know anyone who is going to DragonCon this weekend in Atlanta, Georgia and who is

(a) willing to buy some BPAL for me there and ship it to me (Louisiana)
(b) in exchange for either filthy lucre (PayPal or Venmo) or
(c) 4 oz. handspun yarn just for you to be negotiated?

examples of my spinning:


wool, 2-ply


wool/sari silk, 2-ply

and more )

re: (c), fibers I have on hand in sufficient quantity



These are wool. Front left (greens & blues) and front right (blues & greys) I have 4-ish oz.

In back, I have 1-2 oz. of others (pink & blue, sky blue, navy blue), which could be blended, or I could spin multiple yarns up to 4 oz.

(I can't get more of the colorways shown here because these were inherited from others' destashes.)

Also 2 oz each of the following:



- left: 25/25/25/25 flax/hemp/cotton/ramie blend
- right: 25/25/25/25 flax/hemp/bamboo/ramie blend

I have smaller quantities of various sari silk colorways that could be blended into most of these for effect. (The silk fiber is the stuff on the chair, not the wool yarn draped over the arm lol.)



Or I could order US-based fiber batts/combed top (etc) within an agreed price range and spin those for you.

But I imagine filthy lucre is the most interesting. :p Leave a comment or email me at yoon at yoonhalee dot com!

yearning for the mines

Aug. 26th, 2025 03:13 pm
javert: red light green light robot girl's eyes activating (squid game rlgl)
[personal profile] javert
I've been trying not to look at my August goals post (don't ask me why, I guess I just feel like it'd be more interesting to be blasted by the goals I'd set at the end of the month???) but I did remember like a few days ago that I believe I'd put playing Minecraft on there. I'm not feeling great physically today (I don't know if it's allergies or if I somehow caught a very mild cold from going to the park where there are children or something, I sure fucking hope not) so this is the best time to play Minecraft... I think...

I did get a bunch of stuff done today already; I finished the commission I had in progress and I've also prepped all the pages for the fanlisting. This is a little preview that I'm putting under a <details> cut so you don't get blasted with six wholeass screenshots LOL. A lot of it still has placeholder text, and I want to fix some of the HTML before I "officially" unveil it, but it's coming together...

Click me for screenshots! You can open them in another tab to see them at a larger size, as usual.



Not gonna lie, I'm getting tired of staring at that layout adgsghsd I'm kind of looking forward to working on more of my fanlisting ideas in the future... I like it though. Maybe by the time I decide to redesign it we'll have actual official art of them together (← coping mechanism...)

Anyway... I guess today's vibes is "I'm tired and I don't want to use my brain" LOL. Hence the small post! But that's okay. Maybe if I do end up playing Minecraft I'll edit this post later with some crafting and mining adventures... I kind of want to try to get the From the Fog mod to work again on my old world so I can live the Herobrine experience again. All my previous attempts have failed LOL but you never know...

I also still want to make treats for [community profile] seasonsofdrabbles but I don't have the braincells for it right now. At least Noah's tasty devilled eggs are keeping me going. (Watch it comment meanly at me again 😔) I'm also planning on drawing some NSFW art for [community profile] bbtp_challenge as soon as I'm able, so you can also look forward to that because it will definitely be posted here o7

Keep on keeping on, as they say...

Actually, before I forget, I really want to redo my tagging system on here at some point. I don't know if it'll be this month but I do know I'll remember it better if I write it down, so I'm writing it down here. I have no idea what it'll be like yet but I'll figure it out lmao.

Editing to add a short Minecraft update, and screenshots )

moar spinning

Aug. 26th, 2025 07:59 am
yhlee: Alto clef and whole note (middle C). (Default)
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This one's going to an astronomer friend. I think catten is trying to figure out where the SHEEP are. :p



Earlier:



Martha Wells/Murderbot book bundle

Aug. 26th, 2025 08:42 pm
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[personal profile] alias_sqbr
Martha Wells' Murderbot & More is about $30AUD (so $20USDish?) for a whole heap of her books. It's available for the next 18 days. I had no trouble downloading them as DRM free ebooks in Australia.

Hello, friends!

Aug. 25th, 2025 06:57 pm
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Requisite "omg how has it been so long since I updated, blah, blah" shenanigans, time is weird and I don't understand how it goes so quickly.

I've drawn several things recently but I'm gonna share thing th

I took a silly little personality quiz that ended up being extremely accurate! I love personality quizzes and I used to do them all the time. It helps that the design is super cute. <3


I've been on the hunt for a new MMO as my interest in FFXIV wanes (it never really recovered after the shenanigans with the grifter) and have fallen firmly into Elder Scrolls Online. I love the Khajiit so much! I started the game as a dude but since I don't really have a group to play with (Will is playing but they're on PS4 and I'm on PC and there's no crossplay - YET) and I prefer playing as a girl. So I created a second character - also a Khajiit. Whoops!


and also, Razum-Dar is adorable and I love him.


I also started replaying Pokemon Violet, since I didn't get very far along in it. I tried to make my character look like an office worker, lmao. I don't know how old these characters are meant to be but I don't think it's fourteen, right? Like. Maybe.


Also: garden producing a lot! This is just one bowl of five that has been harvested. <3 I'm really pleased with how it's been going! I also have at least four spaghetti squash and six mini-pumpkins! And another six pocket melons! And lemon cucumbers!


I'm definitely going to be expanded the gardens for next year; with the way grocery prices are going it's better, I think, to take advantage of the space we have for vegetables.

Let's see...I'm sure there are more things, but that's all I can think of! I have art to post but some of it is NSFW and should have its own post. :3

whatever

Aug. 25th, 2025 06:54 pm
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I was going to promise at the end of my last entry that I might post about "fun" things at one point, but my work phone changed my schedule and says I work six 8 hour shifts in a row starting the 28th, and I'm freaking out over that because I can't physically handle working that much. So whatever. Don't expect anything interesting from me at this point. I've already retired from Neocities because I've grown to hate it and doing anything offline is far off with my "randomized by computer" work schedule.

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