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⚠️ Discussions of complications related to childbirth, infant death, birth- and pregnancy-related medical issues

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

By 2024, it was becoming increasingly hard to deny how many babies were dying to FBS mothers. Deaths followed a pattern. First-time mothers – whose pregnancies are known to be higher-risk – attempting freebirths over many days, even a week, after wild pregnancies. Some women went to more than 44 weeks of pregnancy.

Most women who freebirth will have positive outcomes, and for healthy mothers the risks are low. But the radical version of freebirth Saldaya and Norris-Clark pioneered caused alarm even among freebirth advocates.

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OC Realm - Character and Creative Prompts on Dreamwidth!

Looks like a little community focusing on original characters is booting up on Dreamwidth, called

ocrealm! If you have any characters you want to chat about, this looks like a nice little haven for them.

I've tossed up an introduction post here and I'm thinking of popping the occasional prompt in from time to time. Want to join me to play in a slower-paced space than discord tends to be?

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Comics, anniversaries, icons & Dispatch

New community!

comicsfanfiction (all comics - including webcomics or graphic novels) - I haven't started adding my works to it yet, but I figured I'd post about it here first. I felt bad that all the other genres have a community now but yet not comics.

Over at the new community I posted a list of Other {Comics Fandom-Specific} Communities to Post to - an {incomplete?} list of both active and non-active communities to try to inspire some crossposting/activity in those communities. I'm sure I'm missing some communities/fandoms, because I mainly focused on DC & Marvel 'cause I'm more familiar with those fandoms, so if anyone happens to be a part of or know of others, let me know either here or there.

Also because of stumbling upon

nevanna's journal I realized I missed the 25th Anniversary of X-Men: Evolution (November 4, 2000) - although did I? 'Cause in a way I sort of honored it by writing several drabbles for it this year for the first time in years, and made banners with screenshots at

xmen100, made tables with Episode Titles from XME at

xmen15 and even made several icons this year for it (although technically haven't released them at

harpieicons yet & they're only currently located at Muse-Insanity.com/Icons). But Yeah I love that series so much - and I think it'll continue to hold a special place in my heart forever.

Also realized that Supergirl (TV series) has an anniversary this year - 10 years (October 16, 2015). I did make a few icons for that series this year (again mostly released at Muse-Insanity.com/Icons right now), but I haven't written anything new for the series (or the overall Arrowverse or DC Universe) lately although it has been tempting me a bit. Next year Legends of Tomorrow would be 10 years as well, and Superman & Lois would be 5 years.

Incase anyone wants to get free points/paid time,

moodthemeinayear is offering if you participate/make a moodtheme (even just partially!), for full details check it out here. I've been wanting a moodtheme, but I can't seem to decide what to do. I'm probably going to do either a Marvel one? Or maybe just MCU or X-Men. Someone had made a Hawkeye comics moodtheme but the download button is gone/locked? now so I can't use that one sadly. Honestly I don't use the mood theme that munch, partially because I don't have one that I like. I don't know if I'll make one, but maybe? If I do, I'll definitely share it.

sapphic stocking stuffers is happening and I've made a few people some icons {so far!}, namely for the Sailor Moon, DC Comics, Once Upon A Time, and MCU fandoms. So Mars/Venus, Mars/Moon, Moon/Venus, Cassie/Rose, Rose/Raven, Elsa/Emma, Maria/Natasha, and Natasha/Pepper. There's a lot of people with fandoms I don't know and I feel weird touching those. I also received BEAUTIFUL CHEETAH/WONDER WOMAN & HARLEY/IVY ICONS by the lovely

likealighthouse - yay!!!

Still haven't gone through the list of

fandomtrees yet, so I have to do that this week sometime. Also finished the rewatch of Moonlight - it did get better and Josef had a lot more screentime in the back half of the show thankfully. I don't think I ship Mick/Beth anymore though? Not really anyway... I think I'm more intrigued by Josef/Beth - the way he basically brightens as soon as he sees her is just perfect. I wish we could have had more scenes and another season, but I do kinda understand why it didn't get another season compared to other Vampire shows did before or since. It also may have done better after the Twilight film was released but it happened before during the 2007-2008 TV schedule. But I think I'm ready/motivated to write for the

smallfandomfest for the ship/fandom.

In other news, I completed Dispatch for the first time last night (at like 2AM lmao) - and I loved it. I definitely want to play the game again because of my bad "hacking" skills (and maybe a few other selections? IDK) Spoilers: Invisgal went bad by the end! I want her and Robert to kiss in the end! I couldn't pass basically any of the hacking parts once the anti-virus things started appearing Ugh, I'm gonna try again. Basically I ship everyone with everybody? Mainly OTP-ing hard on Invisgal/Robert though right now even though I started shipping Blonde Blazer/Robert first. I also like Robert/Blonde Blazer/Invisgal, Robert/Malevola, Robert/Prism, Robert/Coupé, Blonde Blazer/Invisgal, Blonde Blazer/Malevola, Invisgal/Malevola, Invisgal/Prism, Golem/Malevola, Prism/Coupé, Coupé/Malevola and Flambae/Waterboy. Oh I'm definitely going to check out fics soon, so if anyone has any favorites, please let me know!

Flambae sings Meredith Brooks "B***h" | DISPATCH Episode 5 RULES!!! ♥

Current Mood: sore
Current Location: hueco mundo
Current Music: push - matchbox twenty

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170 - 1 picspam; 25.03 - frankenstein (2025)

Medium: film
Additional: team challenge (alpha)
Title: Forgiveness
Fandom: Frankenstein (2025)
Characters: The Creature, Victor Frankenstein
Prompt: team alpha card 02 - O5 - I forgive you
Warnings: Spoiler warning.
Notes: 1 picspam for final week of "25.03 - Bingo" at Fandom Empire.

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I still need to do my Vendetta first impressions... next time.

I am almost out of things to do in Hollow Knight.

( reaching the end of the game )

Almost done with Mogtomes: just those that can do everything that just need next week's weekly challenge to top them off and I'll be finished. I have a few alts that got some stuff this week that, despite having enough for Gwiber, I may still do anyway; extra dogs never went amiss. And although Prae takes an age, I have to hang up laundry tomorrow, and it's always a good time to do it in...

Drives are also done! I got lucky and had a win streak today so I only had to play three games to hit the last tier for points, which was good, because I was envisioning being just short if I had lost one and having to play many more to bridge what would have been a twenty score gap. I didn't quite make it back into Legend on tank, but I'm one game off it, and kept encountering a bug where I was not receiving compensation on losses so was just pingponging the same -80, +80 points over and over... small indie game and all that, Stadium has so many bugs even now... but I am not too worried about it, honestly. I played a lot in weeks 2-6 and kind of burnt myself out, so I've been glad to take it easy the end of last week and now the rest of this one before it starts over again. And people are really grumpy during Drives, lmao. My D.Va winrate went from 2-10 in BO5 to something like 50-30 in BO7, so that's my tanking comeback story.

I have 19515 comp points now, so I'm well on my way to getting the 27,000 I wanted for golds for all women. If we get bonus Drive points next season for the end of the competitive year, I'll probably get galactic on Moira and Mei, since they contributed to stadium gains to get me there.

Season 21 next week. Ashe is getting three (three!!) new skins next season, she has been very loved lately. One is heist themed with an animal mask, either a snake or a large cat, and she has soooooo many beautiful tattoos, another she's a cyber bunny because why not, and the third is a festive skin from official art from many years ago that never got made but Mercy's did and now it's finally real. And also has more art to go with it. Look at my girl who's happy and full of whimsy.

But wait. Who is she shopping for gifts for in this official art? Cassidy, because they're always connected and perhaps if they made amends she would, and...

Widowmaker.

Thank you for the crumbs T4 I will cherish them always.

Current Mood: sick

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[life] At least the fever broke

Got both my flu and Covid vaccine boosters on Friday, right after work. Like I always do, I got the shots in the same arm. Like I always do, I started feeling like crap shortly after, culminating in a night of poor sleep, a devastating headache that lasted all night and most of today, and a fever. The fever's finally broken, and the headache is fading. My arm is still sore and stiff, but I think I should be good tomorrow.

Downside is that I missed hotpot night with the Cabal because of it. I was too dizzy and in pain to be good company, and the noise, heat, and light would've made me too nauseous to eat. But having the worst of the symptoms fade about an hour after everyone wrapped up is still a bummer.

At least I treated myself to a (too) sweet treat right after the shot. Bought pastries from Tous le Jours for everyone after my shots, and I got a hazelnut chocolate spread filled chocolate muffin for myself. Delicious, but extremely tricky to eat while walking home on icy sidewalks in the dark. While one arm was getting sore. And carrying all of my work bags. Sigh. The ice has made me walk less, which means I have to be stricter about my diet since I can't stave off the glucose spikes as easily.

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Angel of the Overpass, In Which Margo Halifax..., Loser of the Year, The Other Wind, & 4 more

It has been a long two weeks full of a power outage and long illness, but also family and friends, so it all balances out in the end.

*****

( books! )

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This was also discussed over at anime_manga, but I wanted a link here for mirroring reasons as well.

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason

There is only one conclusion that can be drawn from that: the Funimation-turned-Crunchyroll executives still do not have any respect for anime as a medium. In addition, they seem to be treating Crunchyroll and its ways of doing things as the ways of pirates – which isn’t entirely incorrect, as Crunchyroll’s use of Aegisub and ASS did originate from the ways of pirate fansubbers. But fansubbers deeply care about anime as medium (they wouldn’t be illegally subtitling it for free as a hobby otherwise), which in turn means that the ways fansubbers have developed to subtitle anime are in fact extremely efficient for the job – much better than basically any “industry standards” for subtitling, even.

Like the anime_manga OP says, I do remember a time when Crunchyroll was a piracy site. It's why I made an account over there in the first place 😂 (An account I promptly forgot about in favor of torrenting, only to log in again after so many years and be surprised to see that the site was now legit.)

If I were running Crunchyroll, I'd hire a bunch of fansubbers and have them use their preferred software to make high-quality subtitles then use that as my selling point versus other streaming platforms.

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: hueco mundo
Current Music: departure! - galneryus

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169 - 1 gif; 25.03 - kimetsu no yaiba

Medium: anime
Title: Nervous Disposition
Fandom: Demon Slayer/Kimetsu no Yaiba
Characters: Agatsuma Zenitsu
Prompt: card 02 - I5 - nervous
Notes: 1 gif for week 13 (final week) of "25.03 - Bingo" at Fandom Empire.

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✒️ I know I've said multiple times that I want to delete my FF.net account ... but now I also want to start cross-posting stuff between AO3 and SqWA because of the fear that one of them might suddenly disappear one day. The urges directly oppose one another, but I think the main difference is that AO3 and SqWA give me control over my account—I can delete it if I want—while FF.net doesn't. I'm holding off for now because I'm not even done emptying my FF.net, but we'll see.

❓ Is the tiny AO3 username icon not working for anyone else? Or is it just me?

💄 I've cleaned out all my expired lipsticks (donated them to a funeral parlor) and now I don't have a nude lipstick anymore. I poked around the department store for a replacement and decided to try GRWM's lip booze sheer balm in the shade Whiskey and omg. It's so good! Not sticky, made my lips feel super hydrated, and it looks so nice! Now I want to nab the Weng-weng shade.

🐏 I decided it was time to switch up my journal layout again. There's some things I'm trying figure out with the spacing of list items, but other than that, I think it's the perfect layout for TadaAi. Creating the custom layout layer wasn't as difficult as I thought it'd be. Opens up a whole new avenue of layouts for use. (I've been avoiding the ones using custom layers because I was scared of the implementation 😆)

Do not perceive me, please

( Don't mind me, I'm a test entry )

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TheFridayFive

Hi all, I've been under a rock for most of the year and I hope you've been alright! Things have been very up and down for me, but I'm chugging along.

thefridayfive has posted this week's questions already, so why not sneak in some participation?

1. If you had to participate in one Olympic event, what would it be and why?

Biathalon! Not that I would be any good at it, but I like the idea of cross country skiing and target practice combined into one. There's something very prairies in it for me that calls to some of the more positive thoughts of my heritage.

2. What is the one song you always sing along to?

I have to pick only one? Alright, let's see. I think that "Your Song" from Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge would probably be my #1. Kat and I sang it a lot together when we were first dating and it's been lodged in my head as one of those 'most romantic ever' ditties that lifts my heart and makes me smile.

3. Do you wear a seatbelt in the car?

Yep! I'm generally law-abiding if I have proof that it's sensible to be so, and I have second-hand accounts from coworkers who experienced trauma due to friends and family not wearing seatbelts, so I'm taking their word for it.

4. Car, SUV or truck and why?

Car! I like being low to the ground and being able to sense where the corners of my vehicle are. I also like having more maneuverability than either an SUV or truck can offer. I currently have an SUV right now and am having to relearn how to drive it, but I'm looking forward to understanding the new proportions a lot better.

5. Are you a good/bad driver? Explain.

I'm an inexperienced driver. For 40 years I have managed to get away with living as a pedestrian and a transit user, but a semi-recent move out to the boonies has required the use of a vehicle, so I've been working my way through getting learners and then new driver licenses, and practicing. In fact, I'm going to purchase some new driving lessons before my current work contract is over so that I can replenish some guided experience, because inexperience is worse than simply being a 'bad' driver, you know?

Anyways, sending lots of good vibes to y'all! I hope your holidays go well and that we all get a good break in the months and year ahead.

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icons, drabbles, and communities, oh my!

Voting is up at

lgbtrainbow - managed to make 6 SkyMed icons for it for "Round 16" and so far I like the community - it's kinda low pressure even though the rounds can be quick. I like it 'cause you participate when you can. I am looking forward to new rounds of

characters20in20 and

ships20in20, and trying

tvmovie20in20 and

disney20in20 if they come back.

heartsfate has a new prompt community

10trueloves - pick a character, prompt table and create 10 fics of 10 different pairings for that character. Already joined - picked Wanda Maximoff because why not - kinda obsessed right now... especially right now with Bucky/Wanda. Which was my first entry for my prompt table. And why I have a new icon for them alone.

Also participated three times so far for

adventdrabbles - two for Charmed (reboot)'s Abigael/Mel (day 2) and one MCU's Bucky/Wanda (day 3). They even used my prompt for day 3 - cat in a Christmas tree.

The only reason I suggested that one, was because my first cat (RIP Cally) crawled all the way up in it ages ago (maybe the first year we had her I'm guessing, I don't remember anymore) and my family used that as a Christmas image/card for years - it's adorable but not great for ornaments plus they can hurt themselves potentially. But yeah, I've found that if you slowly introduce your cats to the tree before adding your ornaments - they get bored with it and don't bother it as much... well - mostly, just the bottom tree branches at least. At least that's how it's gone the last several years with my cats. I haven't even put my tree up yet (which is severely late for me), but I'm probably going to do that tomorrow or Friday.

Anyway I'm not sure if I'll participate with all the Days of the adventdrabbles - guess it depends on the prompt. Day 2 & 3 prompts definitely sparked something.

At

mcu100 the new bi-weekly prompt is Lights, with Jessica/Matt and Betty Ross as the monthly challenges "pairing"/character.

xmen100 the new bi-weekly prompt is Decorating, with Kitty/Wanda and Blink as the monthly challenges "pairing"/character.

I need to get to bed, otherwise I would probably write more, lol.

Current Mood: lonely

december is here....

and i hate it already. like i hate my fucking family. i wish my mom was alive. or at least i died instead of her... better yet.. i wished my brother and fucking father died. they are the reason for my unhappiness and me being miserable. they even ruined my wedding was suppose to happen this month. so it pretty much got cancelled. they are over controlling and pretty much abusive. my mom was never like this!!! this is rather sad and pathetic at my age. i'm a fucking adult. i want to see the friends IDO HAVE or my bf. pretty much, i'll probably end up breaking up with him.. or he'll do it first. i'm sure of it. i'm disabled with special needs so i don't work. i don't have any money... the money i did HAVE was stolen by my brother. so yeah.. can't go to a hotel or get an uber. sucks don't it ? can't go to a shelter cuz they are booked up. my brother is asshole who hides aspirin and food from me. i'm pretty sure that is a form of abuse.. i get headaches often and blames me for being on the computer. he's on the computer 24//7 and games.. more than i do. calling the kettle black eh ? and plus i have very bad teeth which cannot be helped. what am i suppose to do???? like fuck him. i'm not even in the mood to celebrate christmas this year. i want no part of it. like i don't want to be around them at all. i don't even want their fuckin gifts either. i never get shit i ask for every year now. at least my fuckin mother tried when she was alive!!! they don't. always say money this, money that. sick of their lies and excuses. maybe, get off ur fat ass and get a real job instead working from home. doing youtube shit ain't a real job, moron.

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winter break advent card

My card for the Winter Break Advent Challenge.

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promo post

current fandom events

12daysofchristmas is a multimedia multi fandom winter prompt based fest that runs from December 13-24th, with three options to choose from on each day.

mcu15 is a prompt table challenge focused on the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

elasticella is running sapphic stocking stuffers, a multifandom multimedia f/f gifting event where you post your own "stocking" and fill others requests. Sign-ups are open until December 6th and fills are open until Dec 31st.

rarefemslashexchange (:D :D :D), a fic/art exchange for rare f/f ships (less than 250 works, complete, in English, using the otp:true filter), is accepting nominations until December 10th, 10PM PST.

polyamships is running Pass That Blorbo: Holiday Edition, a prompt challenge where you try to figure out how to pass that blorbo in as many ways as possible. Sign-ups are open until December 19th, 8:00PM (GMT-4).

Blood Drive is an event encouraging people to donate blood, plasma, or other blood products, register as a donor for bone marrow, organs, research, or other donor programs, and/or facilitating a blood drive by volunteering, organizing, or other kinds of help. If you do those things in December or January, you can leave a prompt to be claimed. :)

Holiday Love Meme is back for another year! :)

✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread here

genprompt_bingo, a multimedia multifandom bingo that has "gen" prompts, is open for Round 29 sign-ups.

comment_bingo (:D), a bingo challenge where you used the provided prompts to comment on existing fanworks rather than create your own, is opened for Round 8 Sign-Ups. Click on the banner below to find out more and request a card! :)

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fancake's theme of the month is: amnesty. Click on the banner below to learn more!

Photograph of the aurora borealis taken in Norway, text: Amnesty, at Fancake. The northern lights are a bright green scribble that stretches over the horizon, along a snowy mountain ridge, and up into the starry night sky.

Current Mood: cold

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life hates me

[life] I need new snow boots

First big snow of the year, and this is how I find out my snow boots have finally kicked the bucket and are no longer waterproof. 🙃

My socks are soaked past the ankle. This day cannot end fast enough. 😩

EDIT: They were still wet when I left work. As were my socks. I threw them out. No more betrayal from thee, wretch.

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: hueco mundo
Current Music: landscape - florence and the machine

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168 - 1 wallpaper and 2 picspams; 24.29 - the witcher, celebrities

Medium: tv series, celebrities
Fandoms: The Witcher, celebrities
Notes: 1 wallpaper and 2 picspams for "24.29 - have you clued in? (clue post 2)" at Land of Art.

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Current Music: Like a doll — ayumi hamasaki

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2025 week 48

✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread here

in the continuing comedy of errors that is my body, my thumb hurts. this isn't even the thumb on the same hand as the other injury, so i guess i've been overcompensating. i've been resting and icing it all day and am hoping it will settle down on its own... i really don't want to deal with more hand pain than i've already got.

thanksgiving was nice; i got to see some family i hadn't seen in a long while, so it was good to catch up. (also i had some excellent pumpkin cheesecake.) other than that, there hasn't been a lot going on in irl news.

this week's ff14 update is that i'm pretty much done farming mogtomes aside from weeklies, so it's been back to the diadem. i am nearly done grade 3 botany, at which point it will be on to grade 3 mining. then i'm home free. (i am not even remotely home free; i still have 200k+ points to get in both botanist and miner.) other than that i've been working on the crafting portion of the ishgard restoration grind; i really should be working on the moon crafts as well but i haven't caught a lot of weather windows for it lately.

in reading news, i did not end up continuing the trilogy i was struggling with. instead i read a quick, lighthearted sci-fi romp, and have since started a space opera, bethany jacobs's kindom trilogy. i'm only halfway through the first book, but if it sticks the landing it's definitely going to be a favorite: excellent writing, characters, and plotting in a genuinely fascinating worldbuild. the characters are really what's selling it more than anything; one of the leads is refreshingly unlikeable and makes for a great character to follow.

that's about it for now. i really hope my body chills out in the coming weeks, because i am so over all this pain...

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