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130 - 1 gif; 25.03 - kpop demon hunters
Oct. 5th, 2025 02:32 pmaliensamba
Medium: film
Title: From Eden
Fandom: Kpop Demon Hunters
Characters: Rumi, Jinu
Prompt: I3 - (Bittersweet) Truth
Warnings: Major Spoiler Warning. Saturated Colors.
Notes: 1 gif for week 4 of "25.03 - Bingo" at Fandom Empire.
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Title: From Eden
Fandom: Kpop Demon Hunters
Characters: Rumi, Jinu
Prompt: I3 - (Bittersweet) Truth
Warnings: Major Spoiler Warning. Saturated Colors.
Notes: 1 gif for week 4 of "25.03 - Bingo" at Fandom Empire.
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multifandom questionnaire pt 4
Oct. 3rd, 2025 11:01 pmsvgurlI forgot I was doing this. Well, here's part 4 of maevedarcy's 72 Multifandom questions to ask a fangirl
Favorites and Preferences
1. Who is your favorite character or member within your fandom, and why?
When it comes to Smallville, well, Superman has always been my favorite hero and even SV Clark had my heart early on and then Lois once she showed up. I think as I got older, I somehow got more sympathetic towards him. He's so young and tried his best, even when he made mistakes. With the MCU, it's Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson. Again, the "boy scout" characters tend to have my heart, especially when they're more complex than on paper. With my current fandom, 9-1-1, that would be Eddie Diaz. I was really drawn to him from the first episode he was in and he just kept growing on me. He's just fun and snarky and competent and such a good dad.
2. What is your favorite installment, episode, or album from your fandom?
I do like the early seasons of Smallville, specifically 3, but even though it's wacky, for a long time, 4 was my favorite. Probably because it leaned into the really weird and I kinda enjoyed the cracky moments. I don't love the doom and gloom all the time. The first half of s8 was strong and then it weakened. 9 was my favorite after that.
I don't love the handling of SHIELD but CA: TWS is probably my favorite MCU movie.
Season 3 and season 4 are tied for my favorite 9-1-1 seasons.
3. Do you have a favorite quote, lyric, or saying from your fandom?
Clark's "I stand for truth, justice, and ... other stuff" does still make me laugh, because of the delivery.
Athena's voice over in the s2 finale of 9-1-1 (I miss the voice overs), specifically, "This is how we save ourselves, by saving each other, because nobody, not anybody, has ever been saved alone."
4. What’s your favorite fan-created content (art, music, video, story) related to your fandom?
Yeah, there's no chance I can narrow it down to one or even five for any fandom. :D
5. Who is your favorite pair or group within the fandom in terms of chemistry or dynamics?
I've always been drawn to Clois in most versions of Superman and Smallville wasn't an exception. I did start writing fic for Clark/Oliver, a ship that snuck up on me and then inspired me to join fandom because barely anyone else was writing them and I figured I would give it a shot. I love a bit of a push/pull dynamic with ships so Steve/Tony after The Avengers and Sam/Bucky post CACW. With 9-1-1, it's Buck/Eddie. I actually didn't expect to ship them when I started watching the show. As much as I like friends to lovers, the best friend ships rarely appeal to me and I tend to prefer them as just friends, and my brain can be a little contradictory in general when it comes to the juggernaut, but this one really stuck.
6. Do you have a preferred genre when it comes to fan fiction or fan works in your fandom?
Probably romance/drama. I like canon level action fics (can't handle anything too violent), and while I enjoy fluff, if it is longer than a couple of thousand words, I need some sort of plot.
7. What’s your favorite piece of lore or backstory within your fandom’s universe?
With Smallville, I've read that Lois's nickname for Clark (calling him "Smallville") was an accidental slip by Erica Durance and it just stuck, which I love. I also like that it was her idea to nix the kiss in 8.15 "Infamous" and to jump on Clark after the secret reveal in 10.05 'Isis'.
When it comes to 9-1-1, the fact that Ryan Guzman and Oliver Stark seemed to have a hand in naming "Buddie" is my favorite. I wasn't in the fandom/watching back then, but I found a screencap of an old post from the official 9-1-1 account asking people if they were on "Team Buck or Team Eddie". And I think Oliver Stark must've called them "Beddie" because RG's replied, correcting it to Buddie, and OStark agreed that they can go with that. So if that was the first showing of the ship name, that's pretty great.
8. Is there a particular scene, moment, or episode that always makes you emotional or excited?
With Smallville, Clark & Ryan always gets me emotional, especially in the hot air balloon moment. There are a ton of Clois moments I love, but one of my favorites will always be the Dunk Tank scene because Clark & Lois have such good chemistry already and it's just a few episodes in. Plus she is a pro at getting him to smile, even when he tries to be annoyed with her. Even Tom Welling had said that Lois brings out a different side of Clark. It's true, she does. The Piggy Bank conversation also gets to me because she understands him so well even without knowing his secret, and isn't afraid to be firm while being sympathetic at the same time (which is something I love about her). There was also a moment toward the end of 9.04 "Echo" with Clark & Oliver talking on the balcony and the way Clark told Oliver he still believed in him was so good, even if they handled Oliver's very real suicide attempt badly. s8 was such a rough go for their relationship and I was frustrated. To see them have a moment like this in s9 really gave me hope.
In 9-1-1, all the Tsunami scenes in early season 3 get to me, especially the one where Buck is explaining to Eddie that he lost Christopher. It's so painful to watch Buck try to explain and the resignation, moving on to grieving look on Eddie's face, before Chris is found. Of course Eddie telling Buck about his will remains a top moment too.
9. What’s your preferred platform for engaging with fellow fans and content (forums, social media, etc.)?
I've always preferred journal based sites, probably because I was mostly on fandom in the peak LJ days, so I still love Dreamwidth best, but I do like Tumblr for the gifs, and it is nice to chat on Discord from time to time, even if I can't really keep up with any of the servers.
10. Can you name a favorite moment when the community came together to support the fandom or a cause?
I've seen a lot of works created for a 9-1-1 for Gaza event but I can't say I know the origins, but that was awesome. I generally think it's great when fandom does that kind of thing. Whether it's thesunflower_auction or Marvel Trumps Hate or Fandom Trumps Hate.
11. What’s your favorite way to show your fandom pride (cosplay, apparel, tattoos, etc.)?
I don't know if I really have a way. I don't really go out searching for fandom merch, mostly because I know it will collect dust somewhere and I'm so bad about being organized already. The only time I actively went out for something was Tom Welling & Erica Durance were featured on the TV Guide cover. I still have that issue.
12. Who’s your favorite content creator, artist, or writer within the fandom, and what do you love about their work?
Fanfic is hard to narrow down, but I've enjoyed watching fanvids again once I got to 9-1-1/Buddie so a couple of vidders I like are:
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maevedarcy's 72 Multifandom questions to ask a fangirlFavorites and Preferences
1. Who is your favorite character or member within your fandom, and why?
When it comes to Smallville, well, Superman has always been my favorite hero and even SV Clark had my heart early on and then Lois once she showed up. I think as I got older, I somehow got more sympathetic towards him. He's so young and tried his best, even when he made mistakes. With the MCU, it's Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson. Again, the "boy scout" characters tend to have my heart, especially when they're more complex than on paper. With my current fandom, 9-1-1, that would be Eddie Diaz. I was really drawn to him from the first episode he was in and he just kept growing on me. He's just fun and snarky and competent and such a good dad.
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2. What is your favorite installment, episode, or album from your fandom?
I do like the early seasons of Smallville, specifically 3, but even though it's wacky, for a long time, 4 was my favorite. Probably because it leaned into the really weird and I kinda enjoyed the cracky moments. I don't love the doom and gloom all the time. The first half of s8 was strong and then it weakened. 9 was my favorite after that.
I don't love the handling of SHIELD but CA: TWS is probably my favorite MCU movie.
Season 3 and season 4 are tied for my favorite 9-1-1 seasons.
3. Do you have a favorite quote, lyric, or saying from your fandom?
Clark's "I stand for truth, justice, and ... other stuff" does still make me laugh, because of the delivery.
Athena's voice over in the s2 finale of 9-1-1 (I miss the voice overs), specifically, "This is how we save ourselves, by saving each other, because nobody, not anybody, has ever been saved alone."
4. What’s your favorite fan-created content (art, music, video, story) related to your fandom?
Yeah, there's no chance I can narrow it down to one or even five for any fandom. :D
5. Who is your favorite pair or group within the fandom in terms of chemistry or dynamics?
I've always been drawn to Clois in most versions of Superman and Smallville wasn't an exception. I did start writing fic for Clark/Oliver, a ship that snuck up on me and then inspired me to join fandom because barely anyone else was writing them and I figured I would give it a shot. I love a bit of a push/pull dynamic with ships so Steve/Tony after The Avengers and Sam/Bucky post CACW. With 9-1-1, it's Buck/Eddie. I actually didn't expect to ship them when I started watching the show. As much as I like friends to lovers, the best friend ships rarely appeal to me and I tend to prefer them as just friends, and my brain can be a little contradictory in general when it comes to the juggernaut, but this one really stuck.
6. Do you have a preferred genre when it comes to fan fiction or fan works in your fandom?
Probably romance/drama. I like canon level action fics (can't handle anything too violent), and while I enjoy fluff, if it is longer than a couple of thousand words, I need some sort of plot.
7. What’s your favorite piece of lore or backstory within your fandom’s universe?
With Smallville, I've read that Lois's nickname for Clark (calling him "Smallville") was an accidental slip by Erica Durance and it just stuck, which I love. I also like that it was her idea to nix the kiss in 8.15 "Infamous" and to jump on Clark after the secret reveal in 10.05 'Isis'.
When it comes to 9-1-1, the fact that Ryan Guzman and Oliver Stark seemed to have a hand in naming "Buddie" is my favorite. I wasn't in the fandom/watching back then, but I found a screencap of an old post from the official 9-1-1 account asking people if they were on "Team Buck or Team Eddie". And I think Oliver Stark must've called them "Beddie" because RG's replied, correcting it to Buddie, and OStark agreed that they can go with that. So if that was the first showing of the ship name, that's pretty great.
8. Is there a particular scene, moment, or episode that always makes you emotional or excited?
With Smallville, Clark & Ryan always gets me emotional, especially in the hot air balloon moment. There are a ton of Clois moments I love, but one of my favorites will always be the Dunk Tank scene because Clark & Lois have such good chemistry already and it's just a few episodes in. Plus she is a pro at getting him to smile, even when he tries to be annoyed with her. Even Tom Welling had said that Lois brings out a different side of Clark. It's true, she does. The Piggy Bank conversation also gets to me because she understands him so well even without knowing his secret, and isn't afraid to be firm while being sympathetic at the same time (which is something I love about her). There was also a moment toward the end of 9.04 "Echo" with Clark & Oliver talking on the balcony and the way Clark told Oliver he still believed in him was so good, even if they handled Oliver's very real suicide attempt badly. s8 was such a rough go for their relationship and I was frustrated. To see them have a moment like this in s9 really gave me hope.
In 9-1-1, all the Tsunami scenes in early season 3 get to me, especially the one where Buck is explaining to Eddie that he lost Christopher. It's so painful to watch Buck try to explain and the resignation, moving on to grieving look on Eddie's face, before Chris is found. Of course Eddie telling Buck about his will remains a top moment too.
9. What’s your preferred platform for engaging with fellow fans and content (forums, social media, etc.)?
I've always preferred journal based sites, probably because I was mostly on fandom in the peak LJ days, so I still love Dreamwidth best, but I do like Tumblr for the gifs, and it is nice to chat on Discord from time to time, even if I can't really keep up with any of the servers.
10. Can you name a favorite moment when the community came together to support the fandom or a cause?
I've seen a lot of works created for a 9-1-1 for Gaza event but I can't say I know the origins, but that was awesome. I generally think it's great when fandom does that kind of thing. Whether it's the
sunflower_auction or Marvel Trumps Hate or Fandom Trumps Hate. 11. What’s your favorite way to show your fandom pride (cosplay, apparel, tattoos, etc.)?
I don't know if I really have a way. I don't really go out searching for fandom merch, mostly because I know it will collect dust somewhere and I'm so bad about being organized already. The only time I actively went out for something was Tom Welling & Erica Durance were featured on the TV Guide cover. I still have that issue.
12. Who’s your favorite content creator, artist, or writer within the fandom, and what do you love about their work?
Fanfic is hard to narrow down, but I've enjoyed watching fanvids again once I got to 9-1-1/Buddie so a couple of vidders I like are:
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Oct. 3rd, 2025 07:31 pmpaperghostrewatched bagi the monster of mighty nature today in hopes i could write a review, but i have no energy to summarize that whole mess of a plot... i was a teenager the first time i watched it in 2009... i liked it, but rewatching it as an adult it's rough and jumps around too much.
i didn't notice the sexism with ryo's mother until today, she's undeniably terrible since her schtick is experimenting on and killing animals, and realizes that's wrong at the last minute after finding out the genetically modified rice could poison *people* en masse, but in the actual movie the issue is that she's too devoted to her job and didn't stay home like a "normal mother" instead of all that 😭even though dad is equally absent. i know tezuka was "fair for his day" so i won't hold it against him but lmfao.
i love the downer ending tbh, it's depressing but open-ended
weird movie. worth watching at least once but man it really could've been better. when i first saw it i made the mistake of watching it with family because i thought it'd be cute... don't do that
i also like bagi's design when she's a kitten and goes feral at the end more than the "iconic" one
src: https://web.archive.org/web/20230515135807/https://imgur.com/a/eZ1THO3
i didn't notice the sexism with ryo's mother until today, she's undeniably terrible since her schtick is experimenting on and killing animals, and realizes that's wrong at the last minute after finding out the genetically modified rice could poison *people* en masse, but in the actual movie the issue is that she's too devoted to her job and didn't stay home like a "normal mother" instead of all that 😭even though dad is equally absent. i know tezuka was "fair for his day" so i won't hold it against him but lmfao.
i love the downer ending tbh, it's depressing but open-ended
weird movie. worth watching at least once but man it really could've been better. when i first saw it i made the mistake of watching it with family because i thought it'd be cute... don't do that
i also like bagi's design when she's a kitten and goes feral at the end more than the "iconic" one
src: https://web.archive.org/web/20230515135807/https://imgur.com/a/eZ1THO3
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ficortreat)
Oct. 3rd, 2025 04:35 pmgimmighoulcoins
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Light is on for:
ficortreat participants with their own doors & dreamwidth users with mutual subscriptionsWhat's in the Bowl? fic of roughly drabble length (100 words, might be a little over or under) or aesthetic pinterest boards with at least 10 pins (my existing examples)
Creating For:
- Pokemon (general or games)
- Dungeon Meshi (anime)
- The Owl House, DuckTales 2017, Tangled the Series
- Dimension 20: Fantasy High, Dimension 20: Cloudward Ho
- Most* animated Disney or Pixar films
*I won't write for Pocahontas, and I haven't seen Strange World yet so I can't write for that either
Let Me Know: Let me know whether you want a pinterest board or fanfic! For fanfic, request a canon, character, or ship (romantic or not) and a prompt. Prompt can be as kept general or feel free to get more specific! For a board, simply request a character! Providing a back-up request is highly appreciated, but not necessary.
Other info: Not writing smut or themes of grief/character death or creating anything for adult/minor relationships. I will do my absolute best not to include any AI images in pinterest boards, and when I'm unsure I'll err on the side of not adding something, but if something slips past my notice on something I put together for you I apologize. Please let me know!
Bookpost: 3rd Voice and Margo Maloo
Oct. 3rd, 2025 11:19 amroadrunnertwiceHey, let's do another bookpost. Though first, speaking of comics: please be aware that the Shortbox Comics Fair is now running, through the end of October! It's a limited-run PDF sale of all-new comics, curated by one of the most fascinating and eclectic editorial tastes I've run across. I still need to do my shopping, but figured I'd put out the alert early so everyone else has time to peruse.
Drew Weing — The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo vols. 1-3 (comics)
Aug 7
Readable online again!
This is a top-tier kids' comic about a secret world of monsters overlaid on/under/around Echo City (a lightly disguised New York). Weing just started updating it again with a new story, and re-posted all the chapters that he had to make book-exclusive while the physical volumes were in print.
I love this comic. The story is a recipe you've seen before (monsters are largely just misunderstood and want to be left alone; there's a code of silence and stealth that's starting to wear at the seams as conflicts with humans become more common; our private detective heroine is caught between worlds trying to keep the peace), but it's prepared with so much grace and verve that it honestly tastes brand new. It's also quietly subversive under the fun and excitement, in a manner reminiscent of Pinkwater at his best.
One thing I especially love here is that since Margo's not our main POV character (that's Charles, who's a bit of a bumpkin but who catches on quickly), Weing's free to just make her unrestrainedly badass. She has clearly not been to school in a decade. She drives a moped she absolutely does not have a licence for. She's up all night shmoozing at the diner or putting the squeeze on informants down at the casino. She's fuckin' great.
Calvin Kasulke — Several People are Typing (re-read)
Sept. 20
I still like this surreal little office freakout.
It was much easier to follow the whole Lydia/Bjärk situation on this re-read.
Evan Dahm — 3rd Voice, webcomic backlog through early September 2025
Sept. 15
Oh man this is the good stuff. This is that high-purity gritty weird fantasy SHIT. Strong recommend.
I'm captivated by the mysteries of the world in this; it feels big and powerful and very badly damaged. I think the setting reminds me a lot of Martha Wells' Three Worlds setting (the Raksura books) — there's a very wide variety of "people" species, and it's not clear whether there's common descent or something else going on.
I'm also really invested in the troubles and triumphs of Spondule and Navichek, who make a lot of really bad impulse-driven decisions but who still manage to be tenacious survivors, and I've developed a real liking for Zelitte, a secondary character from the current arc, who I hope manages to extract herself into a life that feels more honest to her (but it could really go any way at this point).
I think the first volume of this may have hit print just uhhhh this past (i.e. prior to Sept. 15) weekend?
Media consumption: Robots & Artificial Intelligence Short Stories 📚
Oct. 3rd, 2025 11:13 pmtropicsbearRobots & Artificial Intelligence Short Stories
(I bought this 100% because of the pretty hardcover with the shiny foil. The picture doesn't do it justice.)
It took almost three years for me to finish this 💀 In my defense, I kept putting down and ignoring this for long stretches of time whenever I was in the middle of a story that I didn't vibe with. I'm not gonna rate the collection as a whole because I think it makes more sense to rate per story ... but I'm also too lazy to rate per story.
I'll settle for listing my favorites in no particular order:
- "Demeter's Regard" by Deborah L. Davitt
- "Owen" by Bruce Golden
- "The Dancing Partner" by Jerome K. Jerome
- "The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant" by Rachael K. Jones
- "Dispo and the Crow" by Rich Larson
- "I, Coffeepot" by David Sklar
Problem that I didn't anticipate with this book: How absolutely unengaging I would find some of the older stories. Those were usually the ones I needed to drag myself through because the completionist in me wasn't bored enough to skip anything. I don't know if it's because the style of prose just doesn't jive with what I'm used to or if it's something else. The worst ones (in terms of keeping my attention) were "The Steam Man of the Prairies" by Edward S. Ellis, and "Frank Reade Jr. & His New Steam Man" and "Frank Reade Jr. & His New Steam Horse" by Luis Philip Senarens.
(It also didn't help that they were very racist towards the characters of color. I thought it was weird that they had a foreword and a publisher's note for the collection but neither one included any warnings about it, like the Warner Bros. one for their old cartoons.)
I have a couple more collection type books in my to-read pile to go through, but I think after those I'm done with collections.
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Oct. 3rd, 2025 11:45 pmlucavi
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129 - 2 gifs; 25.03 - alive
Oct. 3rd, 2025 02:08 pmaliensamba
Medium: tv series
Title: He Lives
Fandom: Frankenstein (2004)
Character: Victor Frankenstein, The Creature
Prompt: B5 - Alive
Notes: 2 gifs for week 4 of "25.03 - Bingo" at Fandom Empire. With this, I have BINGO/completed B1-B5.
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Title: He Lives
Fandom: Frankenstein (2004)
Character: Victor Frankenstein, The Creature
Prompt: B5 - Alive
Notes: 2 gifs for week 4 of "25.03 - Bingo" at Fandom Empire. With this, I have BINGO/completed B1-B5.
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Crafting & Creative Update, September 2025
Oct. 1st, 2025 04:48 pmalthea_valara
Let's dive right in, shall we? (you know you are a knitter when you accidentally typo "shall" as "shawl").
[Image Description: A spreadsheet table showing the various creative things I did in September. I spent 7 hours and 40 minutes on crochet, 3 and a half hours knitting, a whopping 10 hours on my Small Web project, and 4 hours writing fic.]
That was only from September 15th. I also did over 4 hours of knitting from the 1st to the 15th, and numerous hours working on mysmallweb project (I didn't track it for the beginning of the month, but I'm guessing about 7-10 hours?)
Folks, all this creativity has been doing WONDERS for my mood. Usually I mark the "how do you feel about today?" question in Finch as only 2 or 3 stars, but lately it's been consistently 4. I feel better about myself these days, and am starting to feel like maybe, just maybe, I *do* have the oomph to be a productive, organized adult and still do my passion projects. I still have a ways to go on that, but it feels in the realm of possibility, and that's a GOOD thing.
I completed one item this month, and that was a very basic knitted kitty from a kit I picked up at Five Below, which I wouldn't have picked up if there hadn't been a thread on Ravelry in which someone was lamenting that Five Below was selling such a thing. (1) Bwuh? I don't get their logic at ALL; (2) hey cheap craft kits LET ME AT THEM. I bought two for my birthday, the knitted kitty and a crochet Halloween Stitch, which I still need to complete. But I was pleasantly surprised at the quality for the kits! They only cost $4 for the kitty and $5 for the Stitch, and they had everything you need PLUS really good instructions. I mean, the knitting kit had instructions showing you how to do the knit stitch in the English method for both left and right handers. WOW!
smallweb: I did SO MUCH on my Neocities site! I finished porting over the FFBE Season 1 script and all my FFXIV "summaries" to date, and have finished FFXI for Bastok missions up to rank 5 as well as the first expansion, Rise of the Zilart. I'm very pleased! I'm hard at work now on FFXI's Chains of Promathia, but I've exhausted what I have the game logs for, which means I need to go on my documentation alt and play some more, oops.
Writing: FOLKS! It is rare that I write fic. ANY fic writing from me is a cause to celebrate. So the fact that I have THREE fics in the works is astounding, and that doesn't count my1character stuff. I'm having fun with the fic, but haven't worked on it in a few days. Need to get back to it. But I also need canon review, which might mean replaying some patches in FFXIV/doing a particular job's storyline.
SO yeah, VERY successful month, especially since my contract job has spun up again and I've worked 13.5 hours two weeks ago and 15 hours last week. I did all THIS and also worked? WOW. JUST, WOW.
[Image Description: A spreadsheet table showing the various creative things I did in September. I spent 7 hours and 40 minutes on crochet, 3 and a half hours knitting, a whopping 10 hours on my Small Web project, and 4 hours writing fic.]
That was only from September 15th. I also did over 4 hours of knitting from the 1st to the 15th, and numerous hours working on my
smallweb project (I didn't track it for the beginning of the month, but I'm guessing about 7-10 hours?)Folks, all this creativity has been doing WONDERS for my mood. Usually I mark the "how do you feel about today?" question in Finch as only 2 or 3 stars, but lately it's been consistently 4. I feel better about myself these days, and am starting to feel like maybe, just maybe, I *do* have the oomph to be a productive, organized adult and still do my passion projects. I still have a ways to go on that, but it feels in the realm of possibility, and that's a GOOD thing.
I completed one item this month, and that was a very basic knitted kitty from a kit I picked up at Five Below, which I wouldn't have picked up if there hadn't been a thread on Ravelry in which someone was lamenting that Five Below was selling such a thing. (1) Bwuh? I don't get their logic at ALL; (2) hey cheap craft kits LET ME AT THEM. I bought two for my birthday, the knitted kitty and a crochet Halloween Stitch, which I still need to complete. But I was pleasantly surprised at the quality for the kits! They only cost $4 for the kitty and $5 for the Stitch, and they had everything you need PLUS really good instructions. I mean, the knitting kit had instructions showing you how to do the knit stitch in the English method for both left and right handers. WOW!
smallweb: I did SO MUCH on my Neocities site! I finished porting over the FFBE Season 1 script and all my FFXIV "summaries" to date, and have finished FFXI for Bastok missions up to rank 5 as well as the first expansion, Rise of the Zilart. I'm very pleased! I'm hard at work now on FFXI's Chains of Promathia, but I've exhausted what I have the game logs for, which means I need to go on my documentation alt and play some more, oops.Writing: FOLKS! It is rare that I write fic. ANY fic writing from me is a cause to celebrate. So the fact that I have THREE fics in the works is astounding, and that doesn't count my
1character stuff. I'm having fun with the fic, but haven't worked on it in a few days. Need to get back to it. But I also need canon review, which might mean replaying some patches in FFXIV/doing a particular job's storyline.SO yeah, VERY successful month, especially since my contract job has spun up again and I've worked 13.5 hours two weeks ago and 15 hours last week. I did all THIS and also worked? WOW. JUST, WOW.
my prada's at the cleaners, along with my hoddie and my 'fuck you' flipflops
Oct. 1st, 2025 02:51 pmmercuriosso there's a tsn sequel in the works, officially
as someone who holds the social network dear to their heart and should probably be excited about this sequel, i find it hard to muster the same excitement for a couple of reasons:
1. the social network was released FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, so once again i am being slapped in the face with the unrelentless passage of time
2. no andrew garfield :( disappointing. like i understand eduardo saverin has no monkeys in the current facebook circus (or if he does it's a very small amount) but idk, cast him as someone else! give him a different haircut! he has the range!
3. why the hell is sorkin directing. it's not like david fincher is doing anything useful nowadays
4. jeremy strong is a bit old for mark (in 2021)? not that he deserves better, but still
but there's also good things!:
1. mickey madison and jeremy allen white could make this interesting
2. jeremy strong will absolutely give the performance of a lifetime. but at what cost
3. i am IN for any media that portrays how harmful facebook has been for.... everything. existing. life. (i still need to read careless people now that i think about it)
4. maybe trent reznor and atticus ross will score it and it will be amazing
i lied, i am a bit excited. like even if it's trash i will be watching it release day. it's hard to believe it will be able to catch the same momentum and space as the first one did, but i'd be lying if tsn wasn't one of the best parts of my online life fifteen years ago (ew i need to stop typing that)
change the director!
as someone who holds the social network dear to their heart and should probably be excited about this sequel, i find it hard to muster the same excitement for a couple of reasons:
1. the social network was released FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, so once again i am being slapped in the face with the unrelentless passage of time
2. no andrew garfield :( disappointing. like i understand eduardo saverin has no monkeys in the current facebook circus (or if he does it's a very small amount) but idk, cast him as someone else! give him a different haircut! he has the range!
3. why the hell is sorkin directing. it's not like david fincher is doing anything useful nowadays
4. jeremy strong is a bit old for mark (in 2021)? not that he deserves better, but still
but there's also good things!:
1. mickey madison and jeremy allen white could make this interesting
2. jeremy strong will absolutely give the performance of a lifetime. but at what cost
3. i am IN for any media that portrays how harmful facebook has been for.... everything. existing. life. (i still need to read careless people now that i think about it)
4. maybe trent reznor and atticus ross will score it and it will be amazing
i lied, i am a bit excited. like even if it's trash i will be watching it release day. it's hard to believe it will be able to catch the same momentum and space as the first one did, but i'd be lying if tsn wasn't one of the best parts of my online life fifteen years ago (ew i need to stop typing that)
change the director!
128 - 2 gifs; 25.03 - the fifth element
Oct. 1st, 2025 02:16 pmaliensambaMedium: film
Additional: Team Alpha
Title: War
Fandom: The Fifth Element
Character: Leeloo
Prompt: Team Alpha Bingo Card - B1 - Doomscrolling
Warnings: slight flashing gif
Notes: 2 gifs for week 4 of "25.03 - Bingo" at Fandom Empire.
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Additional: Team Alpha
Title: War
Fandom: The Fifth Element
Character: Leeloo
Prompt: Team Alpha Bingo Card - B1 - Doomscrolling
Warnings: slight flashing gif
Notes: 2 gifs for week 4 of "25.03 - Bingo" at Fandom Empire.
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Sep. 30th, 2025 06:38 pmpaperghostI really need better friends. It says a lot how I can't talk to anyone about the string of traumatic incidents in the last 16 months, and have to actively pretend they didn't happen around people who knew my ex. I feel unsafe talking about personal things around people I thought were my friends because they'll use it against it me or read me in bad faith. If anything bad happens to me, absolutely no one will have my back.
I just really don't know how to find better friends. I haven't used Discord in a while but a DM I sent expressing discomfort over sharing a GC was left unanswered. Just like I expected. How do you even find people who are mutually interested in what you make, what you have to say, your personal life, etc. Feels like friends nowadays are just people you send memes to, or sounding boards.
There are entire albums, former passions, and hobbies I can't touch anymore because it reminds me of how fucking cruel my ex was to me by dumping me to the curb and refusing to contact me "until I get better". Trying to date diagnosed sociopaths: Not even once.
I just really don't know how to find better friends. I haven't used Discord in a while but a DM I sent expressing discomfort over sharing a GC was left unanswered. Just like I expected. How do you even find people who are mutually interested in what you make, what you have to say, your personal life, etc. Feels like friends nowadays are just people you send memes to, or sounding boards.
There are entire albums, former passions, and hobbies I can't touch anymore because it reminds me of how fucking cruel my ex was to me by dumping me to the curb and refusing to contact me "until I get better". Trying to date diagnosed sociopaths: Not even once.
fandom comms/events
Sep. 29th, 2025 11:26 pmsvgurlpolyamships is running Polyartober, a daily art poly ship prompt challenge set in the month of October. dreamwars is a Star Wars fandom chat community.ships20in20 is an icon challenge community where once sign-ups open, you claim a ship and make twenty icons based off the ship and the provided themes. thestoryinside, a comm where you sign up to and pick books for a partner's TBR list based off voted for themes and vice versa, is open for October sign-ups until September 30th.festivids, a rare fandom fanvid exchange, is open for sign-ups until October 3rd, 11:59PM UTC (I know the page says Sept 30th but it has been extended) amperslashexchange, a fic and art exchange for ambiguous relationships that are hard to definitively classify as either platonic (&) or romantic/sexual (/), is accepting nominations until October 4th, 11:59PM UTC.swrarepairs, a Star Wars rare pair (fewer than 250 fics on AO3 that are completed, in English, and over one thousand words) fanwork exchange, has opened sign-ups until October 4th, 11:59PM Eastern.eatdrinkmakemerry, a multifandom exchange celebrating food and drink, is open for sign-ups until October 5th, 8:59PM Pacific.Ashe's birthday being soon is keeping me going honestly
Sep. 30th, 2025 03:35 amrequiemsHaving a lot of "good hours, bad hours" lately. Not really sure what's triggering it other than perhaps that we're now heading into the less light months and I feel particularly panicked by things I can't affect and very much caught up in grief of not living a life and struggling to do most things.
I'm just, really tired. Seasonal shift. My PEM hasn't been too bad after groceries but the brain fog has been gruelling, I finally managed to look at words four days on but after about half an hour my head is on fire and it hurts, and I've not been sleeping too well due to pain from however I'm laying so keep waking up every half hour to adjust my arms. The lack of recovery and improvement and just slippery parameters of "basically nothing" is very hard to deal with.
I don't know if I'll do November writes this year. I want to, but I'm still struggling my way through C7-10 rewrites for undercoverfic after six weeks. I haven't touched C10 at all yet, and though I made it through C8, C9 needs more adding to it but I am not smart enough to figure out what that thing is. The other reason is the uncertain number of days I can't write around groceries: I used to be able to get away with one session the day of. Then I had to cut out the day of completely. Now it's anywhere from 2-4 days. I might do something small in Bloodstains' universe just to play with a concept, but I think the bigger Ashe fic that runs concurrent with Dawntrail will have to wait. I really don't want another behemoth to edit.
Still working on alts through ARR. Yorva is at Coerthas; Kaesumi, Faye, and Mélodie are in ARR patches, Faye furthest along. I can tell you playing the gambling game of "please give me the next Crystal Tower raid on alliance roulette" failing for all three of them is three too many lotas in one day lmao. I'm kind of trying to get a job to 80 on each of them before doing patches in earnest, since they all either have picto or viper on their job lists, then I can speed through all the ARR patch trials solo... I'm smart.
I'm just, really tired. Seasonal shift. My PEM hasn't been too bad after groceries but the brain fog has been gruelling, I finally managed to look at words four days on but after about half an hour my head is on fire and it hurts, and I've not been sleeping too well due to pain from however I'm laying so keep waking up every half hour to adjust my arms. The lack of recovery and improvement and just slippery parameters of "basically nothing" is very hard to deal with.
I don't know if I'll do November writes this year. I want to, but I'm still struggling my way through C7-10 rewrites for undercoverfic after six weeks. I haven't touched C10 at all yet, and though I made it through C8, C9 needs more adding to it but I am not smart enough to figure out what that thing is. The other reason is the uncertain number of days I can't write around groceries: I used to be able to get away with one session the day of. Then I had to cut out the day of completely. Now it's anywhere from 2-4 days. I might do something small in Bloodstains' universe just to play with a concept, but I think the bigger Ashe fic that runs concurrent with Dawntrail will have to wait. I really don't want another behemoth to edit.
Still working on alts through ARR. Yorva is at Coerthas; Kaesumi, Faye, and Mélodie are in ARR patches, Faye furthest along. I can tell you playing the gambling game of "please give me the next Crystal Tower raid on alliance roulette" failing for all three of them is three too many lotas in one day lmao. I'm kind of trying to get a job to 80 on each of them before doing patches in earnest, since they all either have picto or viper on their job lists, then I can speed through all the ARR patch trials solo... I'm smart.
2025 week 39
Sep. 29th, 2025 04:28 pmlarissait's been a tough week, tbh. my hands hurt so much that i basically had to put myself on the equivalent of bed rest to let them recover. i'm seeing my doctor this week for something unrelated, so i'll be talking to him about that, but in the meantime: ow! my hands really fucking hurt!
since i haven't been able to play video games, i've instead been watching tv. i'm nearly finished with the pitt, which is a very realistic (and apparently quite accurate) medical drama. it's done in the style of 24 in that each episode is one consecutive hour of a shift in an ER, so it's got great continuity and character work. i'm not at all surprised it did so well at the emmys recently; it's a very good show. i've never really watched much in the way of medical dramas, so it's nice to have started the genre with something of this quality.
other than that i've just been reading a lot. i'm up to 10 books read for the year, which is nowhere close to my goal of 40 books, but is pretty good considering i read nothing until june. i'd like to try and hit 15 or 20 books read overall this year, so we'll see how i've done once december rolls around.
i think that's all for now.
127 - 2 gifs; 25.03 - the walking dead
Sep. 29th, 2025 02:28 pmaliensambaMedium: tv series
Title: Storm Vigil
Fandom: The Walking Dead
Characters: Beth Greene, Daryl Dixon
Prompt: B4 - Shelter from the Storm
Warnings: flashing gif
Notes: 2 gifs for week 4 of "25.03 - Bingo" at Fandom Empire. They are from season 4 episode 12 ("Still").
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Title: Storm Vigil
Fandom: The Walking Dead
Characters: Beth Greene, Daryl Dixon
Prompt: B4 - Shelter from the Storm
Warnings: flashing gif
Notes: 2 gifs for week 4 of "25.03 - Bingo" at Fandom Empire. They are from season 4 episode 12 ("Still").
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