Work stress and furniture

Jul. 2nd, 2025 07:40 pm
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My current interminable work assignment is draining the soul out of me. Like I need the work and am grateful to have it, but also just ughhh. I'm just barely keeping myself functioning by mainlining the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, plus all kinds of music from my collections that I haven't browsed in a while.

Another way I'm relieving stress is by obsessing about furniture of all things, specifically a new desk that'll replace my current one which has been oversized ever since I changed things around to a split-desk layout for more comfortable seating. Changing the furniture is one of those middle-aged female coping mechanisms I didn't understand when I was younger, along with a taste for trashy drama about getting comeuppance in the face of unjust family situations. I'm turning into my mom in my middle age and I guess that's not a bad thing lol.

June: Monthly Overview

Jul. 2nd, 2025 10:32 am
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Time for our monthly overview. We have posted many great works during June. Thank you to everyone who participated.

Let's have a tiny statistic:
Participants: 8
Works posted: 35 in total

Congratulations to [personal profile] peppermint_shamrock for writing every prompt for the 10 out of 20 challenge. [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi completed the challenge with 3 written works, using 10 prompts in total.

Only two:
Congratulations go to [personal profile] tarlanx for creating five icons and to [personal profile] maraudersaffair for writing a Harry Potter ficlet.

Bingo:
Two participants completed the bingo card. Thanks go to [personal profile] tarlanx for creating four icons and to [personal profile] peppermint_shamrock for writing four ficlets.

Since we didn't have any fills for the Picture Prompt Fun challenge again and also the Comment Quicky challenge is only rarely frequented, I've decided to have a new challenge on the 8th of every month from now on. Stay tuned.


If you want to check out all the great works created for this community, go H E R E.

Despite summer, vacation, and heat waves, I hope to see lots of you again in July.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please don't hesitate to comment here or send me a private message.

Sunshine Challenge #1

Jul. 2nd, 2025 08:19 am
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Challenge #1

Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.


My goals this summer are

1) Participate in the sunshine challenge :D

2) Survive the pressure changes due to the summer weather. It wreaks havoc on my damaged ear unfortunately.

3) Crochet a dress for the first time. I won't be able to wear it until next year, but that's okay. I've been eyeing the Better World Dress pattern.

Have some more light in these trying times:
Firefly

sebastian stan; thunderbolts* (+782)

Jul. 1st, 2025 09:45 pm
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SEBASTIAN STAN AS BUCKY BARNES IN THUNDERBOLTS*


782 CAPS, DOWNLOAD


I will never get sick of capping him.

More pics )

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Jul. 1st, 2025 09:01 pm
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Today has been a day of cramps, grocery shopping, more cramps, talking to people on the phone, learning to debone a chicken, and having figured out when to do class work to get ahead of schedule without getting a headache from the overhead fan throwing flickering shadows over everything when the sunshine is coming in the clerestory window.

Let’s hope that works out tomorrow.
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Title: Hot All Over 8
Fandom: Harry Potter
Author: [personal profile] enchanted_jae
Character(s)/Pairing: Albus/Scorpius
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Warnings: Suggestion
Written for:
[community profile] anythingdrabble Prompt No. 396 - burn
[community profile] hp_nextgen100 Prompt No. 329 - lightning
Disclaimer: Characters are the property of JK Rowling, et al. This drabble was written for fun, not for profit.
Summary: Things heat up on the Hogwarts Express.

Hot All Over 8

Post Delay Deadline Pinch Hits

Jul. 1st, 2025 08:31 pm
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No need to claim, when a work is in that fits the requirements they will be removed from the pinch hit list.

All rules which are relevant for regular assignments also apply to pinch hits.Including the rule that the freeform must be indicated in some way


PDPH 1 - Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), Psych (TV 2006), Good Omens (TV), Supernatural (TV 2005), Hannibal (TV)

PDPH 2 - NCIS: Los Angeles, Twin Peaks (TV 1990), Crossing Jordan, RoboCop (Movies 1987-1993)

2025 CSFFA Hall of Fame Inductees

Jul. 1st, 2025 06:02 pm
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The quotation below is a quotation


CSFFA (The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association) is proud to announce the 2025 CSFFA Hall of Fame inductees.

Clint Budd, fan, convention organizer, modernized CSFFA and created the CSFFA Hall of Fame
Charles R. Saunders, author, journalist, and founder of the “sword and soul” literary genre
Diane L. Walton, editor, mentor, and a founding member of On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic

More information here.


Congratulations to the Inductees!

Challenge 195: Voting

Jul. 1st, 2025 02:55 pm
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There are over twenty mer-marvelous icons entered this time. Thank you very much to all the participants!
Voter Guide
Anyone is welcome to vote.
Please choose FOUR (4) icons for the main placements and one each for the categories Best Color (Coloring), Best Image Crop & Best Composition.
Please, don't vote for your own icons or ask others to vote for your icons.
Please try to vote for the best quality icons, not only the subjects, fandoms or makers.

Important:
Please vote for a different icon for each of the categories (Color, Crop, Composition).
There is a checkbox & text answer combo poll.
Voting will be open for one week.
Thank you for voting.

Vote Here 🗳️.... )

Finished Patlabor the Mobile Police

Jul. 1st, 2025 04:32 pm
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Today I finished watching Patlabor and it was a very satisfying series to say the least, even though the final episode felt more like a normal instance than having closure after all the aventures and misadventures the team went through. I do believe the episode before the last would had been better left as THE last episode since it closed so nicely in comparison, but I digress.

But for now...




Mission accomplished.

My first Canada Day

Jul. 1st, 2025 03:44 pm
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I really need a Canada icon...

Anyway, it's my first national holiday as a semi-Canadian. I am working because I love to get time & a half, but did still want to celebrate in some way so I am:

  • Reading Dynasties and Interludes, a gigantic history of Canadian electoral politics.

  • Registering to become an organ donor & stem cell donor and making an appointment to donate blood.

  • Watching a documentary about mining.


I may also try to go see the fireworks later, though I would rather see fireflies...

what fresh hell is this?

Jul. 1st, 2025 09:44 pm
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It rained for three hours straight - thunderstorm, hail and torrential rain - and didn't cool done one bit. That shouldn't be allowed. And now we have all the heat and all the humidity, and ugh.

(Hi! I'm still here. Things are just very busy and I can't seem to find the time or energy for posting, much less keeping up with anything other than the [community profile] sid_guardian discussions ... I hope everyone's doing well, whether you're caught in this heat wave too or not.)

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Jul. 1st, 2025 01:10 pm
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Sometimes you're puzzling over why the characterization doesn't seem right, and then you realize that it's because you wrote someone having wayyyy more maturity and self-awareness than they should. Hoo boy.

Well, at least now I know how to fix this thing. :V

Speaking of writing, signups for [community profile] iddyiddybangbang will be opening on July 10! This is a panfandom fest where the goal is to write a fic of at least 5k featuring whatever fulfills your desires/tickles your fancy/brings you joy. You can sign up with a WIP, too, rather than starting something totally new.

I've participated in it a few times before and always found it good fun. The July signup + September deadline + minimum wordcount has done wonders for getting me to tackle ideas longer than my usual and finish things that have languished in my WIP folder for years.

Costume Bracket: Round 4, Post 4

Jul. 1st, 2025 07:16 pm
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Two Doctor Who companion outfits for your delectation and delight! Outfits selected by a mixture of ones I, personally, like; lists on the internet; and a certain random element.


Outfits below the Cut )

Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!

Voting will remain open for at least a week, possibly longer!

Costume Bracket Masterlist

Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.

Robert and Gracia Fay Ellwood

Jul. 1st, 2025 10:03 am
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I think one or two old Mythies might still be reading here; at any rate, these old friends had been on my mind this spring. Came back to discover that they died a week apart at the end of May/beginning of June.

They met in the very early sixties at the U of Chicago, where both were studying. Robert was a bit on the spectrum; he said, and he stuck with it, he would never date anyone who couldn't read and love Lord of the Rings, which had blown him away when it came out. In retrospect I don't even know how he stumbled across it because to my later knowledge of him he didn't read fiction. Maybe he thought it was a northern saga when he stumbled on the first volume? Anyway, his field was religion and Japanese literature, and I remember him sitting in his rose garden reading copies of ancient Japanese texts for pleasure.

She was also blown away by it, but not especially by him. But he'd fallen hard for her, and when she also loved LOTR, he wasn't about to give up. They married around 1963, I think; by the time I met them in 1967, they were living in West LA, he a professor of Religious Studies at USC. They used to host many meetings of the early Mythopoeic Society; he'd disappear while she socialized with us gawky teens. She was a great role model for us; she was a scholar, married to someone who respected her brains, which was tough to find during the mid and late sixties.

I was on hand to deliver both their kids, now middle-aged. He married my spouse and me in 1980. They became Quakers later; they were firm pacifists and human rights advocates.

Time is just so relentless! But they used theirs well, living gently and kindly, always loving beauty, grace, and laughter.
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Our June 2025 Pride Bundles for Charity sale, selling bundles of short stories and art to raise money for Rainbow Railroad, has officially concluded, and we’ve already made the donation!

Duck Prints Press has donated $225.07 to Rainbow Railroad; the Press also kicked in another $5.63 to cover the processing fee.

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who boosted and liked the bundle campaign, and of course to everyone who bought one or more of the bundles! We couldn’t have done this without you.

What follows are screen captures showing our sales and proof of donation, for transparency purposes. The percentages donated for each bundle vary because authors and artists had the option to donate shares of their royalties; some did so, some did not. Which chose to do that impacted the total amount we could donate from each bundle. The Press donated $46.98 of our total share of the proceeds, plus the $5.63 for the fee; the rest of our donation comes from the generosity of the contributing creators. Note: small discrepancies in the dollar amounts in the “Net Sales” column of the first screen cap and the “Gross Sales” row of the third screen cap are caused by currency conversions; the differences were reflected when the total fees were calculated.
A screen capture from Woocommerce's sales analysis backend, showing a chart of sales for three products: Pride Bundle 2025 Explicit Imprint, sold 9 copies for $216.33; Pride Bundle 2025 General Imprint, sold 8 copies for $172.35; and Pride Bundle 2025 Art, sold 5 copies for $63.91

A screen capture from the itch.io sales analytics back-end, showing a chart. Three items are on the chart, showing that the Pride Bundle 2025 Art bundle and Pride Bundle 2025 Explicit imprint bundle had zero sales, and then the Pride Bundle 2025 general imprint bundle had 2 sales worth $48 USD.
A screen capture from a spreadsheet, showing a chart with a bunch of math. It has columns for each bundle, and rows for number of copies sold, gross sales, fees, net sales, Press share, author share, and the total amounts calculated to go to charity. The numbers match those in the previous two charts, with more detail on the break down of the fees and shares to authors and press and charity. For the General Imprint Bundle, total donation is 50% of total sales or $109.62; for the Explicit Imprint bundle, total donation is $103.58 or 48% of the total sales,
A screen capture of an e-mail sent by RAINBOW RAILROAD to info@duckprintspress.com. Title is "Order confirmation." Text in the e-mail reads: $230.70 USD 07/01/2025 09:28:27 AM RAINBOW RAILROAD. Your Payment has been approved. Transaction Type Sale, Payment MC, Transaction ID (blank), Approval code (blank), Approval Message APPROVAL, total $230.70. Bill to info@duckprintspress.com. Rainbow Railroad 5th Avenue Unit [blank] New York. Text in the e-mail fields, transaction fields, bill to fields, and organization address have been erased/redacted to protect the Press and the charity.
 


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