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Jeep isn't a particularly reliable brand, but some folks love them. If you're set on a Jeep, there are differences in reliability among models and model years.

Less steamy than I'd hope

Aug. 9th, 2025 11:25 pm
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There were fewer panels I wanted to sit in on and much fewer things I want from the vendors. I did go to a ghost talk with my friend in the morning (why at 10 AM people? We goths aren't made for morning. Did I mention you can tell a lot of older Steampunks were goths in the 80s and 90s? If not you should have seen the 80s=goth DJ party last night when The Cure came on and we were all dancing)

Speaking of which I am paying for it today. I'm having issues with the nerve damage all day. I had to take a few breaks because of it.

I wanted to do the make your own dice bag thing (but they way they do registrations here sucks) so I go where I was directed to go by his partner but turns out there was TWO of them, one for the VIPS and the one for the rest of us so when I ask him about the registration he just looks at me and says 'this is VIP only' You'd THINK he'd of added, go see my partner next door. I drag out of there embarrassed (and into break number one)

The afternoon session was about the history of tarot cards and I enjoyed that but there wasn't another panel I wanted to hear until 4 so break number two after another disappointing round through the vendors. I got a few less expensive things as holiday gifts but some things were SO expensive. Like the fun literary chocolates where they married classic novels with foods/drinks in those novels and made chocolates from them, like bilberries for Jane Eyre or nori and ginger for Cthulu. I planned to get several as gifts figuring they were 6-8$ a piece. they were much much more. Like twice that. I kept the flavor catalogue (I make own chocolates, no reason I can't try some of this myself) But maybe I'm the cheap ass bulking at pay 12$ for a chocolate bar because one couple raced up because they'd already finished the chocolate they bought yesterday and bought 6 more (that's over 70$, sorry but I can get a week's groceries for that)

There was a guy with collage art that was cool and the big pieces were 100$ which fair for that but he had ones the size of post cards that would have been loved by a couple friends but it was nearly that (or make me an offer. He seemed a little desperate. I didn't want to insult him because yes I don't know exactly what the cost of his time and materials should be but 50$ for a 3 inch square of burlap covered in things seemed...high)

I did get to talk to the woman doing the tarot thing. She runs a destination D&D thing in both new orleans and in a castle in the UK. It's something to look into. That could be fun.

The mocktail talk with Calamity Dawn was good. I knew what a Boulevardier cocktail was so she gave me the mock version. I had just used that in a story too. The alcohol free spirits did a passable bourbon attempt (but something in it made her and me cough, not sure what)

Tonight for me was all about music. First up was Steamcordia who...honestly plays accordian better than he sings. He stumbled over several songs.


Then came the main act, Frenchy and the Punk which I very much enjoyed. Ended up buy 2 cds (there was a price break and I didn't have cash enough for one and figured if I'm getting the card out...) It was a crazy long line for her that I was at the head of so I'll see if she's in the vendor's room again tomorrow and have her sign the cases.


Lastly came This Way to the Egress. I heard some of it but at this point it's 11 and I'm getting tired (feeling my age)


So overall a good night. I'll bring science saturday back next week.
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but it *is* pretty sweet!

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Read more... )
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[personal profile] but_can_i_be_trusted posting in [community profile] anythingdrabble
Title: 'White as Lilies, Pure as Milk'
Fandom: Original Fiction
Characters: Original
Word Count: 500
Rating: PG (Warnings for very mild innuendo)
Notes: Crossposted to [community profile] ficlet_zone and [community profile] whatif_au. Using Challenge #322: Lace, Challenge #329: Resort, Challenge #334: Expensive, Challenge #361: Limit, Challenge #378: Speak, Challenge #380: Beauty, and Challenge #397: Milk.
Summary: I gaze at the contract that's spread open before me.

White as Lilies, Pure as Milk )
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Peach lemonade, french baguette, olive-thyme sourdough loaf, bacon-gruyere wheel, almond croissant, value tomatoes, prune plums, donut peaches, regular peaches, cardamon pull-apart bun, swiss bar (pastry with cheese), and 1/2 lb mixed mushrooms

2536/ Fic - IWTV

Aug. 9th, 2025 10:21 pm
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Interview with the Vampire | Lestat/Louis | ~1700 words

"In which Louis and Lestat engage in respectable, safe, consensual, and utterly carefully negotiated sex."

Because of formatting, this fic is only on AO3.
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I took a very bad fall Thursday on my apartment's driveway again. No use complaining to the landlord because he does jack shit. Left ankle is killing me, worse than the June incident, and my right knee is bashed up, swollen, pulsing, and buzzing. I rammed the concrete. The fall was so hard I just sat there for a while, like "Whelp, I guess I live in this driveway now."

This time, I didn't walk a few miles on it. I eventually, painfully, got myself to my feet, walked up the three flights to my apartment, iced it, tightwrapped it, and mostly stayed off it. I left a message at my podiatrist's office since they were closed when it happened. Considering I had a fracture with my left ankle injury in June, I wasn't taking chances.

The podiatrist confirmed my left ankle is sprained (but didn't fracture). I'm back in the boot for 2-4 weeks. I just got out of the boot!I'm somewhat depressed about it.

My foot didn't swell much but the ankle is still more painful than in June. I screwed up some ligaments on the other side of that foot too this time.

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In less serious but still annoying news, I bought a packet of Trader Joe's Super Sour Scandinavian Swimmers candy and the green ones taste like sweat to me. It's a flavor plus a burst of whatever up into your nose from inside your mouth issue. Given the other flavors, I think the green are supposed to be lime. I mean, there's cherry, orange, ...pink, and sweat.

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Writing long fics can be funny for me, since with a lot of them I have a "I thought up this bit while eating at White Castle that one night with the amazing sunset over Manhattan!" and "I was thinking of this while driving to see my dad." It's a patchwork of memories.

My earliest fic, when I had more IRL interactions with other fans, a lot of the discussions and sometimes happenings from those made their way into my fic.

Just Create - Kennel Edition

Aug. 9th, 2025 06:40 pm
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I may need to start putting the post up on Fridays. I'm started volunteering on Saturdary mornings and it wipes me out for most of the day.

What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?

Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?

What do you just want to talk about?

What have you been watching or reading?

Chores and other not-fun things count!

Remember to encourage other commenters and we have a discord where we can do work-alongs and chat, linked in the sticky

MCU Meme

Aug. 9th, 2025 08:44 pm
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Stolen from [personal profile] snickfic.

Bold = Watched Entirety
Italic = Watched Part
* Watched more than once.
† Watched in the first few weeks of release (at least initially, for TV shows).

the whole MCU under the cut )

In looking at this list, lmfao you can see precisely what year I quit the MCU. I have seen none of Phase 5 and don't really have any desire to seek any of it out. I honestly had not realized that there was a four-year gap between the last Marvel movie I'd seen in theaters and Fantastic Four! That is almost as long as I was actively in MCU fandom!!

Doing this meme also made me realize how few of these movies I have rewatched. Almost all of them were one viewing in the theater and then never again. Winter Soldier is definitely my most rewatched - I saw it four times in theater and have rewatched it more than once on DVD since then.

FWIW, I really liked Fantastic Four, and I have been thinking about going to see it again before it disappears from theaters. I liked that it was self-contained and that it felt very old-school both aesthetically and in its plotting. (It's tightly written, especially for a superhero movie. There are no scenes I'd cut, and that includes the big fight scenes/set pieces.)

I have negative interest in the Phase 6 movies that are to follow it, though. I don't know who the Avengers even are anymore, and I don't really care.

Bringing good ideas.

Aug. 9th, 2025 08:31 pm
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The baby shower had two games: one where you guessed how long various animal pregnancies lasted, and one where you guessed who was who in baby pictures. The second one was supposed to have been done by watching a slideshow, writing guesses down, and then learning who was who.

"Wouldn't it be more fun to shout it out?" I asked.

And the entire rest of the party agreed with me.

Overall, I had a decent time. I arrived early to help set up, which included deciding how to arrange the table for maximum flow throughout the apartment, considering whether the plates and cutlery should be on this side or that based on how people are going to be moving and where the drinks will be. Nobody got in anyone's way, even when the room was crowded, so I take that as a small victory. I had a handful of genuine conversations with people, and the watermelon tonic I brought was a success. There were a few unpleasant moments - someone talking about generative programs as a positive thing, one of the guests not flushing the toilet after they were done in the bathroom - but overall, even with those moments taken into consideration, I'm fairly glad I went.
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You may have heard all kinds of theories about those purple streetlights that have been popping up. Most of them are false. Here's what's really going on.

The Second Ukiyo-e Print

Aug. 9th, 2025 05:17 pm
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It was in July 2024 when I purchased my first ukiyo-e woodblock print – of Ultimate Madoka. While I was waiting for production of that artwork, I ended up purchasing a second ukiyo-e print – a re-creation of one of my favorite prints by Hiroshige Utagawa. At Shin Hanga Gallery I was lucky to get a print of Ohahi Bridge and Atake in Sudden Shower. I had purchased from them in the past, and they are a reliable vendor. I placed the order at the end of July 2024 and received the print in perfect condition two weeks later.

I held off on getting the print framed until the framed Madoka print arrived. I wanted to make sure the Hiroshige print frame was compatible with the Madoka print frame. My Madoka arrived near the end of June 2025, and right away I Went to Chrisman Framing to get my Hiroshige print framed. Tony was very helpful.

The job estimate was two weeks – so, mid July. However, the frame I had selected was out of stock, and there was a four week delay for the material to arrive. So the total wait was six weeks. But it was worth it. The framed print is beautiful.

Framed Hiroshige Ukiyo-e Print
Framed Hiroshige Ukiyo-e Print

It’s hard to see, but the frame is a very dark brown. I needed the frame to not clash with the Saia oil pastel frame. The new frame does look too close to black, though.

I’ve temporarily hung the three pictures that will be on the gallery wall in the new library – just so I could get a feel as to how they will look. Because the art is radically different between them, I was a little concerned – but I think things will work out OK.

Gallery Wall Preview
Gallery Wall Preview
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So out of curiosity (while I get my drawing skills up, at least), I went looking to see if there were MMD models for Ren and Nagisa b/c I at least know my way around the program from having used it way back in the day. (I also plan to make them in Paralives when that comes in December, but STILL xD)

I FOUND THEM.



escuse me while I relearn the program and POTENTIALLY MAKE 3D RENAGI ART I AM LOSING MY MIND

Also made progress on a bunch of my ReNagi drafts (b/c I have WAY TOO MANY at this point and I need to stop feeding the GAPING MAW of the WIP Demon xD), so I'll hopefully get around to posting those soon! I might stagger it since I don't wanna spam DHJKDHSJKDS but I WILL say I at least appreciate folks for indulging me in my craziness about them!! I just love them so so much!! ; u;

This also leaves it open for me to grab Leona’s and Malleus' MMD models, too... 🤔
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he got a great charge on it

Aug. 9th, 2025 07:02 pm
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Arrgh, book 7 is not the last book! And the next one doesn't come out until next year! Arrgh!

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What happened to the DVD Commentary?

Aug. 10th, 2025 10:10 am
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Remember the "DVD commentaries" that fanfic writers used to do? They were often fun and I wonder why they've almost died out. Maybe as DVDs are very nearly a thing of the past?

If you haven't seen one, it's where a fanfic author, a while after posting a fic, posts a version of the fic with their comments interleaved - about why they wrote particular lines that way or what they wanted to convey about the characters or situation, or what inspired a particular section. Kind of like a self-meta discussion interwoven with their story. It's interesting, and useful to see the writer's process or thoughts with concrete examples. Here's an excerpt from Synecdochic's commentary on Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose (SGA), to show what they're like.

SGC finally stops calling him by December. Rodney celebrates by writing a final exam for his relativity class so difficult that it reduces four students to tears in the exam hall. Upon reflection, he decides to be merciful and offer partial credit.

(Commentary) This, to me, was where the story started to turn. I hadn't at all realized that I'd been building up all these little details of an ordinary life, hinting at all the major changes that would lead to it, until I caught myself typing that first sentence. At the time I didn't know where it was going, or why Rodney had cut ties with the SGC so completely and thorougly; I just knew that he had.

A lot of this story worked like that for me. I tend to write in a very linear fashion -- I have the starting image and I know where I want to get it, but the entire middle is this vague unsurmounted wasteland, until I get there and the story tells me where it wants to be going. This is a perfect example of how that works, because I was putting in semi-ominous hints and foreshadowing before I had any idea where it was leading

 
Here's another entertaining example: Gozer's DVD commentary on LtLJ's Raiders of the Seven Systems - also SGA. This one was written and posted with LtLJ's permission - doing these commentaries on other peoples' stories was encouraged by specific challenges at the time, but it was a bit more common overall for authors to do a DVD commentary on their own work, sharing their internal processes while writing, and their reactions. In the comments of this example by minxy on a Janet Fraiser-centric SG1 story there are links to other DVD commentaries, and to this list - it's old though, so many of the LJs with these commentaries have gone.

One thing I noticed was in a DVD commentary on Hindsight, where Rageprufrock mentions having gotten critical comments after posting the fic - about characterisation or other details - and sometimes explains these choices. That brought home how much fandom etiquette's progressed in the last 20 years (in fan-spaces where I play, anyway) so it's now not OK to criticise a writer's posted work unless they specifically request it - and mostly not then. A DVD commentary done by someone not the author these days would need to be reactions to the story, speculations about where it's going, and positive comments - which is what they generally were, back in the day. I think I've only ever seen an actual author comment negatively on their writing in retrospect, but I haven't read a lot of them.

Actually, there's one place where this style of commentary still happens - in podfic. It's not uncommon for podficcers to make a podfic with their readers notes and chatty reactions to the fic interwoven through the recording - and it's often part of the annual Voiceteam challenge. Kisahawklin both recorded and transcribed an Untamed RPF story containing a lot of commentary and chat. There's quite a history of this - e.g. general_jinjur's DVD commentary on their reading of Your Cowboy Days Are Over by M. - although this is an interleaved written commentary, not a podfic recording that includes commentary. Here's a sample:

At the first knock his body snaps to alertness, and he drops Teyla's shirt in the sink. The peephole doesn't reveal much more than a short shadow standing in the corridor. John drilled the hole himself, but the door's skin-steel keeps trying to heal over it. (Commentary) Nice juxtaposition of high-tech and squalor, again.

Returning to fic again, I guess the fanfic DVD commentary was a thing of its time as there haven't been any posted to AO3 since 2011 - the recent ones are all podfic commentaries, and a few works tagged as commentary because of an author's start or end-note. Here, I'm talking about the older style of (almost) line-by-line, interwoven fic and commentary. I find these old commentaries interesting when they're in one of my fandoms. It's especially fascinating to see the thoughts, inspirations and processes that happened for the author, as they react to their own fic.

Have you ever made a DVD commentary of your own or someone else's fic? Know one that you like, and can link to? Do you think we could revisit the DVD commentary as a way to reflect on our writing, or would it be seen as too self-indulgent and a thing of the past?

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[personal profile] ysilme here: I'm on a few days of staycation with the intention to be as lazy and unproductive as possible, which is surprisingly hard for me. ;op But I'm also not attempting to write more than a snippet or an alibi sentence, so today's result of 360ish words for another first draft for a 3SF fill is quite satisfying. ^^

[personal profile] sylvanwitch here: We had a day out full of seeing things and rambling around gardens and woods, but before we left, I wrote a 328-word poem, “The Forever Fruit,” about finding joy in the little things.

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