took the day

Oct. 2nd, 2025 11:13 pm
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to rest up from the rest of this hellscape of a week, just hit the coffee shop, the library and the bank and to write. I finished up a chapter of [community profile] fandomtrumpshate which is so overdue in my head it's not funny (it's not late but it feels late to me)

I didn't get to do the book thing yesterday so have it now plus all my reads in September!


What I Just Finished Reading:

Cards on the Table - Agatha Christie - a good reminder she was a woman of her time and that Italians were NOT liked well in the 20s and 30s The victim seems to have deserved to die because Dagos are shifty and untrustworthy....it's not in there much but it was there in the beginning and I set this aside for years and now it's back about mid way in...

Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World - imagine Gavin or Lindsey trying to get promoted at Wolfram and Hart and you more or less have it. It's interesting but it's hard to root for Colin since he's actively evil and petty. I thought the ending was...a tiny bit undeserved

Ghost Roast - a cute YA graphic novel think Ghostbusters in New Orleans with a young girl and dealing with the history (good and the very bad) of plantations and what should be done with them. And yes ghosts, cute ghosts





What I am Currently Reading:

The Gallery Assistant - a mystery set in the aftermath of 911 and I already hate the protagonist (figures, it's an arc and I feel obligated to finish those)

The Queen of Blood - a YA fantasy I've had on my shelf for too many years now. It's not bad so far but yes the first quarter is more dark academia, fit to survive school (eye roll)

Ash's Cabin - a YA graphic novel a queer coming of age


What I Plan to Read Next: I'm so behind on my challenges. something for that.


All of September's reads. You know the drill, if you like books and wanna talk about any of these let's talk


Third Shift Society, Vol. 2 paranormal graphic novel

What Moves the Dead gothic horror/Poe retelling


The Secret of Orange Blossom Cake Magic realism/romance


Nothing Special, Vol. 2: Concerning Wings fantasy YA graphic novel


The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor Gothic horror ya graphic novel


The Road to Strange: Travel Tales of the Paranormal and Beyond paranormal nonfiction


Monster Burger urban fantasy/horror comedy


What Cannot Be Said historical mystery


Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic medical nonfiction

Cards on the Table mystery


Wrong Side of the Grave urban fantasy/mystery


and a few community recs

[community profile] lands_of_magic Multifandom LandComm


[community profile] rarefemslashexchange Rare Femslash Exchange is a multi fandom fanart/fic exchange focusing on rare f/f ships.


And I'm pretty sure I have doll people on here [community profile] allkindsofdolls A community for all kinds of dolls

Queen Demon Playlist

Oct. 2nd, 2025 08:42 pm
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I did a playlist for Witch King (https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/627157.html) when it first came out in 2023, and now here's one for Queen Demon:



Seven Devils - Florence + Machine

Burning - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Bando - ANNA with MadMan and Gemitaiz

Bringing Murder to the Land - Anton Newcombe and Dot Allison

Bulletproof vs. Release Me - The Outfit

I Owe You Nothing - Seinabo Sey

W.I.T.C.H. - Devon Cole

Egun (theme from Manhunt) - Danielle Ponder

Warm - SG Lewis

Disease - Lady Gaga

Which Witch (Demo) - Florence + Machine

you should see me in a crown - Billie Eilish

Bakunawa - Rudy Ibarra, with June Millington, Han Han, and Ouida.

October's Bingo

Oct. 2nd, 2025 09:43 pm
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EEEEEE [community profile] allbingo is having their fall festival prompt this month. this is probably my all time favorite of the bingos! I want to do a blackout of my card. I don't have time but oh do I want to!!

Kill the person in the group who suggests that you split up. That will eventually get you killed. virgin sacrifice Statistically you will turn an ankle and the creature will get you Anatomically Impossible Butcher Knife
Holy Water And the #1 rule for surviving a horror movie:DON'T HAVE SEX!!! Raisin Demons When approaching a room with a door that hasn't been opened in decades and the knob begins to slowly turn back and forth on its own back away! Do NOT ask loudly "Who's there?" Listen to the Nerd if You Want to Live
Nothing is ever over if it is still nighttime. If you are running for your life and are being chased by a monster/psychopath/axe murderer and you happen to be female take the high-heeled shoes OFF! FREE SPACE When you are trapped in a strange old house with your date NEVER say: "Let's try the basement!" or "Look! The stairs up to the attic!" When it appears that you have killed the monster never check to see if it's really dead.
If you're searching for something that caused a mysterious noise and find out that it's just the cat leave the room immediately if you value your life. Fell and Twisted her Ankle B Movie. As a general rule don't solve puzzles that open portals to Hell. If you open a door and the room you see is not the room that should be there do not explore it. In fact even if you close the door and see the correct room after re-opening it vacate the house.
Listen closely to the sound track and pay attention to the audience since they are usually far more intelligent than you could ever hope to be. When the family pet runs away DO NOT GO LOOKING FOR IT -- pets are usually not killed and even if they are it's just a warm-up for the next human victim. Vampires Love Eclipses Never ever ever turn off the paved road onto a gravel or dirt road. Do not search the basement especially if the power has just gone out.
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Neighborly Interests
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 2 of 2 complete
Word count (story only): 2116
[Wednesday, May 6, 2020, morning]



:: Aidan meets another neighbor, and gets another view of the impending effects of press coverage of the disappearance. Part of the Edison’s Mirror arc. ::

Back to Neighborly Interests, part one
To the Edison's Mirror Index
On to




“I’m sorry that people have failed to treat you with courtesy,” Aidan answered. He pushed Nik’s chair gently, until they reached the door, then angled it so Nik could open the door for himself. Nik’s shoulders trembled and his hands tightened into fists, white-knuckled, on the armrests. “Jus-- Just stop me in the usual space in the living room.”

Aidan nodded. “Sure. What would you like to drink? Last night, I saw bottled drinks and there’s several kinds of tea in the cabinet.”

“Give…” Nik took a deep breath. “Give me a second. Water is fine, really.”
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some things!

Oct. 2nd, 2025 10:20 pm
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  1. Bookshop.org is now doing ebooks in the UK. Unlike Hive, they do not apply DRM to everything. V excited about this!
  2. I think -- think -- I have worked out an Acceptable Wagamama order, at least for the time being. I'm mildly annoyed about needing to order extra vegetables in order to have enough vegetables in my vegetable noodle dish, though. (The yasai pad thai + wok-fried greens is not My Favourite Thing They've Ever Done, but it is better than anything else I have managed to make the current menu disgorge. Which is useful, because we have A Routine, and it involves Wagamama.)
  3. I have POACHED SOME QUINCE (I am turning windfalls I located round the corner into cake, and the Gift Quince are probably going to turn into a Ruby Violet sorbet recipe). I am going to make a cake, probably with added bay leaves, as I think I mentioned, probably tomorrow but the quince won't hurt for spending a bit longer sat in syrup. I am contemplating the merits of showing up on the doorstep of the folk with the quince tree, with some cake, and being all "hello yes I made this with windfalls onto the public path, I will very happily make you more things :) out of quince :) if you don't know what to do with them :))) which I am KIND OF ASSUMING YOU DON'T given that the branches overhanging your garden are still COVERED IN THE THINGS, unlike the branches overhanging the public byway..." (The social anxiety almost certainly means I won't actually do this, but I am, you know, considering.)
  4. Meanwhile today's poking around at recipe books introduced me to the concept of medlar sticky toffee pudding, which is now extremely high up my list of things to do with this year's medlar as and when we get any. (Recipe is in a book I'm not actually going to get from Oxfam, or at the Torygraph.)
  5. I continue to really enjoy looking at the Pelikan Art Collection pens (further links from within that one). It is possible I tripped and fell and spent more time reading about them this morning.

Birdfeeding

Oct. 2nd, 2025 03:15 pm
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Today is mostly sunny and hot. 

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/2/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 10/2/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 10/2/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 10/2/25 -- I watered the irises and the patio plants.

EDIT 10/2/25 -- I watered the telephone pole garden, savanna seedlings, and old picnic table.

EDIT 10/2/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

As it is time for supper, I am done for the night.

(no subject)

Oct. 2nd, 2025 02:17 pm
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My October AMS Feature Column, The Hypergeometric Flower Pot, follows a train of thought from high Balatro scores to a famous infinite series.

Selling the chiefhold

Oct. 2nd, 2025 01:57 pm
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What went before: So, proofed about 100 pages today, since I finished writing early, and the WIP had nothing more to say to me. That puts me well ahead of schedule, but honestly, I would be happy to get it done early so I can pick up another one of the writing-adjacent projects waiting in the wings.

I've been having a little problem with the shirt I'm embroidering. There's the unexpected resistance offered by having to stitch through the paper grid and the shirt, even though I deliberately chose a light shirt. Also, the instructions are adamant, that I use a small hoop, and that . . . just isn't working for me. The pattern is peeling up from the fabric and -- just not working. One of my friends at needlework last night asked if I didn't need a bigger hoop and I explained that a small hoop was called for, but the more I thought about it today, the more I really wanted a bigger hoop. So, I've made that adjustment. What I really want is an oval hoop, but I don't have one in-hand, though I do have one on order, now.

Tomorrow evening is my first stained glass class, so that will be exciting. The plan is to write! first!, then see what I can do in the time left before class.

The cats have had Happy Hour, and it's time for me to read the October 1 chapter of A Night in the Lonesome October, and then find a glass of wine and something to eat.

Everybody stay safe. Have a good evening.

I'll check in tomorrow.
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Good morning:

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Writing session:  supervisors on the job:

 

 

 

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Well, let's see.

Thursday. Sunny and seasonally warm.

The blanket I used to cover the rosebush last night was a little icy when I took it off at 8 o'clock. I'm not seeing a call for frost tonight, so that's good. I have to look up this sort of rose and find what they want for winter.

In the meantime, this morning's go at the keyboard netted+/-1,340 new words, bringing the WIP to +/- 88,800, which is kind of a pretty number, actually.

I have done my duty to the cats, and taken a walk. I'm planning on a late lunch because my evening class goes late. Ish.

Sarah confirms that she will be here bright and early tomorrow to clean -- it's been a while, what with having to cancel last time so I could see my doctor in Bath. The house is looking a little wild because my first priority has been to keep up with the writing and writing-adjacent stuff. Housekeeping is 'way down on the list of Other Stuff I feel compelled to accomplish.

I read the October 1 chapter of A Night in the Lonesome October last night, in which we get Insight into Snuff's duties. I'm reading aloud, because it feels Wrong not to, though that will perhaps change. The cats are ... not unamused. Firefly at least remembers this thing.

And I think that's it, aside a snippet. We haven't had a snippet in a while.

How's everybody doing?
* * *
SNIPPET:
Val Con looked to Shan. "I haven't seen this room open since Uncle Er Thom brought that person from the Aeschalees on-board."

"Good gods." Shan stared at him. "I'd forgotten all about that."

"You'd been sent down to secure the trade," Val Con said. "But I was cabin boy and called upon to serve."

"Thus all I have is hearsay. And the rug, of course. Though it did clean up nicely."

"And the trade was preserved," Val Con continued, "and Uncle Er Thom was pronounced a chief of the Aeschaleen."

"That I do remember," Shan said. "Mother would occasionally ask how his second and third wives went on. Which was really too bad of her."

"More cousins?" Miri asked.

"Sadly not," Val Con answered. "He saw the wives each well-set-up in their own establishments with the proceeds from the sale of his chiefhold."

Shan laughed. "Father had his moments, admit it."


Community Recs Post!

Oct. 2nd, 2025 09:25 am
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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fancrafts/fanart/fics/fanvids/podfics/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here

Ninefox Gambit comic

Oct. 2nd, 2025 03:55 am
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There are parts of this comic theme I find wildly confusing, but after accidentally destroying my WordPress install ~a year ago, Ninefox Gambit comic is back online! Includes both the Cheris reboot prelude/origin story and Candle Arc comics.

ink and wash portrait of Kel Cheris ink and wash portrait of Shuos Jedao

(The companion site Candle Arc is more specifically focused on the 2D animated short in preproduction.)

...still buried under orchestration homework, see y'all later?!

Hobbies: Seatweaving

Oct. 2nd, 2025 01:16 am
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Folks have mentioned an interest in questions and conversations that make them think. So I've decided to offer more of those. This batch features hobbies.

Seatweaving is a practical hobby of creating seats, backs, and other furniture parts from various materials. Among its branches are caning, strapping, and rope / rush weaving. These traditional crafts span a wide range of time, location, and materials. It's especially useful if you like upcycling old chairs with broken or missing parts.

On Dreamwidth, consider communities like [community profile] crafty, [community profile] everykindofcraft, [community profile] get_knitted, and [community profile] justcreate.

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New frontiers in conflict resolution

Oct. 1st, 2025 10:13 pm
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As apparently the result of some long-running bad communication (not on Belovedest's side) there's a certain snarl at their work currently. They laid out the situation and the players to me.

Regarding the largest part of it -- "You have a leg to stand on there," I said. "Two legs. And my legs. That's four. And Yellface's. That's six. Eight. And when you have eight legs? creepy AND crawly )!"

Write Every Day Day 2

Oct. 2nd, 2025 01:04 am
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I will put up the tally later in the day. Sorry. I didn't return from the hospital until nearly midnight and my arms are full of IV holes.

As for me an alibi sentence and a lot of planning on the long drive. How about you? How did you fare today

Day one [personal profile] badly_knitted [personal profile] trobadora[personal profile] china_shop [personal profile] carenejeans [personal profile] the_siobhan [personal profile] cmk418 [personal profile] ysilme [personal profile] goddess47 [personal profile] sanguinity




Day Two [personal profile] luzula [personal profile] badly_knitted [personal profile] trobadora [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi [personal profile] china_shop [personal profile] carenejeans
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After calming down a bit from yesterday I realize I am probably partially at fault for yesterday. After 2 weeks post scan no one had contacted me (even to say see you in a year), I'm the one who made the follow up appointment not the doctor. He might not have had me come in period. (though someone should have called to say hey no need to visit, just repeat the ultrasound in a year)

Today was absolutely pissy at work. 6 weeks in and the online book stuff is STILL not fixed and is getting worse because students are getting locked out of the online stuff. This new way of doing it is going to be the end of us.

As a result I headed to Huntington an hour later than planned. That took the comic book store and Macy's off the list of stops. Bye Bye Books a Million. All I had time for was to buy stuff I don't need to spend my vouchers at Michael's (and one didn't work) and the homegoods for halloween (nothing I wanted was discounted enough to make it worth my time, got some food instead)

Nearly late to the abdominal CT scan. It's 7 o'clock and the hospital is spooky because it's nearly empty. I go up, am taken back and they have to put in my IV. It clots off instantly in my right arm and the vein explodes. This is common with me. I warned them. We get it into the left arm and it bleeds enough to get blood to test my kidney function (which was fine 3 weeks ago) I have to have contrast dye. It's kidney damaging potentially ESPECIALLY if I forget and take my metformin in the next 2 days (I pulled it out of my med pack)

But what no one told me was I had to drink barium. UGH it's like 32 oz of bullshit and you have to wait an HOUR before the testing could start O_O I say no one mentioned this to me. The tech rolled her eyes. They NEVER like to tell a patient back it. No, you don't understand I'm 85 miles from home. Do you know how late it's going to be? I would have reschedule this for earlier in the day. SIGH.

The actual scan took 10 minutes. So I was at my car at 830 which was great because I was starving. I wasn't allowed food for hours (contrast can make you vomit, not me mind you) I was thinking I'd get out so late I'd have to eat taco bell. But at this point Chili's is still open for more than another hour so I race there (people came in after me. Wow) And tried that three for 16. They messed up gave me bone in wings not boneless but it's late I wasn't sending it back (they're in the freezer for another dinner now) I ate the chicken tenders and the slabs of fried mozzarella smothered in honey-chipolte sauce.

I'm sitting there with dressings on both arms and a plastic hospital band still around my wrist. Sad looking p icture. I stop at Sheetz for coffee on the way home. Next to me in the parking lot is an audi convertible, top down while the driver is putting on make up in the light up mirror...it struck me odd.


It's so late so I'll do the book thing tomorrow. But the full Hazbin trailer dropped so here

Fall Festival Bingo Card 10-1-25

Oct. 1st, 2025 10:53 pm
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Here is my card for the Fall Festival Bingo over in [community profile] allbingo. The fest runs from October 1-31. (See all my 2025 bingo cards.)

If you'd like to sponsor a particular square, especially if you have an idea for what character, series, or situation it would fit -- talk to me and we'll work something out. I've had a few requests for this and the results have been awesome so far. This is a good opportunity for those of you with favorites that don't always mesh well with the themes of my monthly projects. I may still post some of the fills for free, because I'm using this to attract new readers; but if it brings in money, that means I can do more of it. That's part of why I'm crossing some of the bingo prompts with other projects, such as the Poetry Fishbowl.

Underlined prompts have been filled.


FALL FESTIVAL BINGO CARD

WizardsAutumn"I wasn’t
afraid of you."
Alone in the WoodsMystery
Black / OrangeHerbsWerewolvesTransformationTalking Dog
MagicDark SideWILD CARDMoon BathingSomeone Touched
the Thing
WitchesCandlesCatsDestroy It with Fire"That felt weird."
UnstableBroken"What are you?"Books the Best Weapon in the World"Do you trust me?"

If You Start Me Up I'll Never Stop

Oct. 2nd, 2025 12:10 am
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And a happy 75th Anniversary to Peanuts to all who observe.


The first thing we saw when we got to MJS's pole barn for the tournament was CST and wife coming in and parking beside us. We haven't seen them since ... not sure, really. Possibly the last time MJS ran a tournament. Always good seeing them, though, and refreshing some of the in-jokes we share.

Next thing [personal profile] bunnyhugger saw was some species of woolly caterpillar. A big one, trundling along at a heck of a clip, considering. She tried to pick it up and move it somewhere safe but the caterpillar wasn't having it. So, we just wish it well. We also spotted a couple perfect snowflake-globe mushrooms and some coffee-table-size toadstools, which is when I realized I didn't bring my camera and just had my phone if I wanted to photograph anything. (I would end up photographing a couple scores only, and that just because playing head-to-head on a single-player game you need some record of what everyone's scores were.)

We had maybe 45 minutes before the tournament started so, like everyone else, went to a couple games and tried them out and got the feel of them. Felt good, felt ready to play. It was to be sixteen rounds of Max Matchplay, where we don't wait for every one of the, in this case, 18 games per round to finish. Instead whenever there's enough players not playing, they draw up some new matches, picking pairs who haven't played before and putting them on games neither has played before. The people with the most wins go on to finals.

So, I started off on Iron Maiden, playing that guy I mentioned with the Gay Warming T-shirt. We both had lousy first balls. He had a killer second and third ball; I got killed my second ball. Third ball I started to rally and only ended up at about half his score, but, you know, if I'd got a multiball that was ready to go started I might have made it. Second round. Pop-A-Card against SMS (MJS's daughter and onetime top-female-Michigan-player). This is a single-player game, one from the early 60s where you can earn up to ten balls to play. I have a decent game, never collecting this earned extra balls. SMS has a lousy first and second ball, but she earns two more balls, and I figure she's sure to beat me. Yet it doesn't happen; my decent score holds up. I figure seven more wins and I'm in the playoffs.

But ... then ... a peculiar slowing-down happens. There are a lot of consultations between MJS who's running the tournament, and SMS, and JM who I guess was the tournament director? Or at least making the rulings. (There was some unintentional comedy of JM starting to make some announcement and then MJS going ahead and making sometimes the same announcement right over him. This sounds like MJS was being mean to JM, but I think it's more that waiting for JM to surrender the stage would be too long a wait.) It transpired that they had set up the tournament with the wrong format, doing it as sixteen discreet rounds where everyone had to wait for all 18 matches to finish, instead of where you make some more matches when people are available to play. There's some time spent working out whether they can change the tournament type (you can't), and then, what to do?

I assume they're going to have to call it a wash and restart the tournament from scratch. Which I'd be okay with, and [personal profile] bunnyhugger, who had two losses, would be great with, but I understand the people who'd have two wins being disappointed. They eventually do start a new tournament, one with the correct format but only fourteen rounds, and go to the labor of manually adjusting everyone's scores to reflect their first two rounds.

[personal profile] bunnyhugger pointed out, though, this meant the tournament software didn't know who played who, and could make people who'd already played play again. Like, she might have to play MSS, a top player who beat her in the first round. Indeed, probability dictates many people would get a rematch. For example, I got put up against Gay Warming guy again, although this time on FunHouse, and this time I managed a decent win. And, yeah, in the first round of the restarted tournament, [personal profile] bunnyhugger had to play MSS again, and took a loss again.

But we were off again, ready to play. I needed seven wins to make the playoffs and [personal profile] bunnyhugger needed eight. It could happen.


Back to pictures of Cedar Point from closing day 2024!

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The sun's setting on Blue Streak. I like the light on the smoke effects and reflecting on the porch of the Chickie & Pete's, which did close forever sometime before this day, actually. It's now just an empty space.


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Bench at the Kiddie Kingdom that's perfectly fine but we keep expecting to be renovated out of existence some day.


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And peering up into the tower with the Kiddie Kingdom banners on it. I don't think it ever occurred to me before that you could just walk into it.


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Looking west at the big loop of Raptor, well-framed by the Sky Ride lines.


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And back to the Kiddie Carousel, loading up on rides on all the rabbits just in case the rumors of the ride's sale came true.


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And here's a slightly tilted angle of the same ride. Also you can see it was finally at least chilly at the park.


Trivia: The Sigma 7 logo on Wally Schirra's Mercury capsule was designed, and painted onto the capsule, by Cece Bibby, who did the logos for two other capsules. Source: Sigma 7: The Six Mercury Orbits of Walter M Schirra, Jr, Colin Burgess. Burgess doesn't specify which of the other capsules she painted, but her obituary on collectSpace says they were John Glenn's Friendship 7 and Scott Carpenter's Aurora 7. It also has other artwork, some of it a bit risque, that she made for the space program.

Currently Reading: Some more comics.

Drawtober! (Day 1)

Oct. 1st, 2025 09:53 pm
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It's the 1st of October, and the start of our annual Drawtober challenge over at [community profile] drawesome! :D

I don't think I was able to manage participating at all last year, but I'm determined to do it this time around. Sometimes it helps to keep a theme in mind or a particular direction to go in, so I'm thinking about focusing on figure drawing - gestures, line of action, musculature, that sort of thing.

Day 1's prompt was THROUGH A WINDOW. I sketched the figure from a reference photo and filled with marker:

Day 1 - Through a window

Feels like I haven't done any art in forever, so this is a good start I think! :)

One of my art goals is learning to convey movement using fewer strokes, to develop a more loose and natural figure drawing style, which I know will only come with practice. Not sure how many sketches I'll be able to do this month, but I'm hoping for around 10.

Here's the list of daily art prompts, for my own reference: Drawtober 2025 Prompts )
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Neighborly Interests
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 2, complete
Word count (story only): 2044
[Wednesday, May 6, 2020, morning]


:: Aidan meets another neighbor, and gets another view of the impending effects of press coverage of the disappearance. Part of the Edison’s Mirror arc. ::

Back to (Un)Employment
To the Edison's Mirror Index
On to Neighborly Interests, part two




Aidan settled himself carefully in the passenger seat of the car, and smiled when Ronna started the engine. “That is very different. Each car seems as unique as a human voice.”

Ronna laughed. “I hadn’t thought of it that way, but yes. So, do you like the island so far?” She eased the car onto the narrow country lane.

He brightened. “I’m looking forward to learning what grows well here, especially as I’ve struggled to amend acidic soil in earlier years, but… other places.” His voice remained smooth, but he swallowed thickly. “The boys are going to need some time to adjust.”
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