Write Every Day Day 11

Jun. 11th, 2025 12:34 am
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I edited and posted that [community profile] getyourwordsout Yahtzee story. And I’m 500 words into a new Hazbin story


Let me know what day you’re reporting in for. If I've missed you on the tally let me know. Feel free to jump in at any time.

Day ten [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] lilly_c, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] nafs, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] brithistorian,


other days )

The weather today was actually lovely

Jun. 10th, 2025 10:28 pm
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After all that rain. I even sat outside and worked some. Tried to garden but the empty pots were filled with spiders and bugs and I ran away. I shall try again another day. Zucchini and me and spiders don't mix.

I've also been learning odd things lately like in my search for things to do in Kansas City MO (for my conference next year) I was nosing about a historic cemetery and found this lady. I am always interested in the women who went up the ranks from prostitute to madam to one of the richest women in town, like Madam Dufran in Deadwood SD. Well meet Leannah Loveall She had the same career path as Dufran and something amuses me about a prostitute named Loveall. If I wrote that people would be annoyed at me being clever.

Also I'm reading a book with the tag line Klimt, Freud and Jung meet the bride of Frankenstein (Anima Rising) it's not what I was hoping for (I have a love/hate relationship with professional RPF usually falling on the hate side) but it mentioned Felix Salten, the author of Bambi, is now considered the probable author of Josephine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself , a famous early erotic novel (not one I've read and I've oddly read a lot of these things, none of which that were very good IMO)

So my brother calls me yesterday to tell me it's my turn to rent a cabin in the Hocking Hills (he did it last year for the group) and he has the perfect one for me to rent because I love caves. He said he'll kick in 100$. It's 1600/night....dream on, bro but man, it's something. Check it out




I am a bit tired so I'm pushing off my fannish 50 women of fandom til friday. Instead I'm going to fall back on a fannish 50 standard for me: the fan animatics.

Satana came out with a new one for Hazbin a few weeks ago (but YT just recced it to me) and they have another one to the song ricochet by starset. The new one is to Paranoid DJ's fan songs for Hazbin. I've recced their work before. This song Get Hooked is not my favorite by them but I love that DJ experiments with style. This one has a mumble rap feel which is what I don't like because the lyrics are very hard to hear over the unbalanced instrumental but the animatic is pretty amazing. Satana does not make Angel smooth around the bend like a Ken doll like so many fan artists do. He's decidedly male.

Warning BOTH animatics have Angel Dust in his drug-addicted, sex worker role (including pole dance/stripping) and the allusion to sexual assault is very apparent. His and Val's relationship is a toxic abusive mess. This doesn't shy away from that. (Honestly as prudish as YT is getting i'm surprised they haven't been hidden)




mail call

Jun. 11th, 2025 08:43 am
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Anyone for mail?

If I already have your address, then you might end up with a postcard anyway. I also can't guarantee it won't be like a postcard I've sent you in the past, either. I'm just trying to work through my postcards...
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"Louisa, I love you. I'm the only one who has ever loved you. That's what you created me for."

Blurb: Jo March from Little Women gets into a fight with her author, Louisa May Alcott, about how her story will end. Who is writing our stories, and how do they trap or free us?

Why is it worth your time?: This play packs a punch! It hurt to read, but it is good. A lot of Gage's work is about the way we adapt to abuse and violence, how it gets into our heads.

Plural Tags: abuse high-focus, closeting, fictioneers, romantic relationships, nonswitching

Content Warnings: Incest! It's in the title! See comments for more.

Access Notes: Available on paperback and ebook. Also included in the collections The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and other plays (the 2004 HerBooks publication) and Nine Short Plays.
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"A woman who hears voices is a lot more dangerous than a woman with an army. Keep that in mind."

Blurb: Radical feminist play about a smartass butch lesbian named Jeanne Romee (AKA Joan of Arc) who recounts her story as the hero of France, heretic burned at the stake, and redeemed saint against her will.

Why is it worth your time?: This play is award-winning for a reason. Jeanne is incisive and insightful, witty and angry, and Gage has a rare ability to cut to the heart of dissociation as a tool of control. This play is very much of its time and culture, but if that's not a problem for you, check it out! It's good!

Plural/1+ Tags: Abuse intermediate-focus, the dead (saints), spiritual, voices, nonswitching

Content Warnings: It is not a spoiler to say that Jeanne suffers the fate of the historical Joan of Arc. Others DO involve spoilers; see comments

Accessibility Notes: This play is shockingly easy to get, aside from an actual performance! It's available in audio form as MP3 download or CD, in script form, and in the collections The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and other plays (printed in 2004 from HerBooks) and The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays (self-published and A DIFFERENT COLLECTION), the latter of which is available both on paper and ebook. It was also published (and now freely available online) in Sinister Wisdom #35, Summer/Fall 1988, pg. 95-116. Archive.org has audio recordings of various performances. Available in French, Bulgarian, Chinese (Mandarin), Portuguese, Italian, German, and Spanish.
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Submitted by [personal profile] thishouse. Thank you, [personal profile] thishouse!

We

Bootstrap ourselves from mere insensate clutches of jelly and molecular interaction until We

Remember

We were on an adventure.

For many long spans of time we were Lante, once we had repaired Lante. Except that Those-of-We who had learnt what Lante was had to make such repairs so that what came out was less Lante and more We. But Those-of-We had experienced what it was to be Lante and could fill in the gaps. We were We and We were Lante and Lante was Lante and did not know it was also

We.

Blurb for Book 1: Avrana Kern spearheaded an exoplanet terraforming program with the goal of populating new Earth-like worlds with monkeys uplifted to human-like intelligence by a nanovirus. Her program was sabotaged by people who rejected her scientific ideals, and the conflict blossomed into nuclear war back on Earth. Avrana escapes the sabotage, and she uploads herself to a computer system while she waits for rescue. The monkeys died, but the virus lived on. Its host becomes a species of jumping spider, beginning their ascension toward a space-faring society. Thousands of years after the nuclear war, ark ships take off from Earth and seek terraformed planets to re-establish a home for humanity. The ark ship Gilgamesh discovers Kern's World, and its crew are determined to make a new home there.

Why is it worth your time?: Besides the unique and interesting plurality portrayed in these books, they're fantastic science fiction with an emphasis on worldbuilding and speculative evolution. Their greatest strength is their empathy toward atypical experiences of sentience and intelligence.

In Book 1, Avrana Kern is the primary plural character as the distinction between her, the computer system, and her uploaded version of herself blur together. In Book 2, Children of Ruin, Tchaikovsky adds sentient octopuses, and the octopuses' selves divided between their Crown, Guise, and Reach showcases a permanent co-fronting experience. Also introduced in Book 2 but explored further in Book 3, Children of Memory, is a naturally plural species that seeks to understand what it means to live as one and as many at the same time. In Book 3, there's also a sentient headspace-like world.

Plural/1+ Tags: setting-specific sci-fi stuff, enmity in Book 1, the naturally plural species is a scary antagonistic force in Book 2 at first, teamwork in Books 2 and 3

Content Warnings: nuclear war, extreme isolation, murder, lynching

Accessibility Notes: audiobooks available; pretty easy library book; Book 1 is available in English, French, German, Romanian, Portuguese, and Dutch; Book 2 is available in English, German, French, Romanian, and Dutch; and Book 3 is available in English, German, and Dutch

Misc. Notes (if any): Even though Book 2 has a "plurality is a scary monster" situation, the resolution is peaceful and empathetic, and the species is redeemed and explored further in Book 3.

TV Tuesday: Pride Memories

Jun. 10th, 2025 12:09 pm
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Laptop-TV combo with DVDs on top and smartphone on the desk



As it's Pride month, what are your memories of LGBTQI representation in TV shows? Do you have favorite characters, episodes, or shows that were significant in their depictions? How have you seen audiences responding to broader views of the population?

tired and writing

Jun. 10th, 2025 09:47 am
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But that's because I woke up at 2:30am and then read a book until 5:30 and doomscrolled until 6:30. Then had a nap.

But it's lunchtime now, I have (mostly) survived the morning after a long weekend ("King's Birthday" long weekend), and I think I might end up skipping hockey training tonight because my knee has been feeling a bit weird the last couple of weeks and maybe I should go to the physio and get it checked out?

IDK. Maybe see how it holds up this weekend? We're already down one player that we're probably going to need...

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I think I'm going to sign up for [community profile] iddyiddybangbang because I have a lot of exceedingly iddish stories that aren't going to get finished otherwise. I don't know if the creativity will come back, but I figure I should at least give it a go...

Now, the question of which story. Unfortunately most of the stories that I feel I want to finish and the ones that are half-done already. (Is the WIP Big Bang running this year? Anyone know?)

I know that I won't get many readers, I know that it's going to be something that not many people are going to read. I just want to get a few ideas out there.

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Finished my 'the women sort out the MCU Civil War' fic.

The Civilian Peace (7073 words) by tielan
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Helen Cho & Jane Foster & Maria Hill & Pepper Potts
Characters: Helen Cho, Pepper Potts, Maria Hill, Jane Foster, Okoye (Marvel), T'Challa (Marvel), Avengers Team Members (Marvel), James "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: Not Canon Compliant with Movie: Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Summary: What does it mean to be human, anyway?

Have a plan for the Psy-Changeling universe, it's gotten a little more complex.

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Editing on the novel is going slowly; I just feel like it's boring and terrible and ugh. Which it might very well be. Are more dramatic things needed at this point? IDEK.

Writing on the new story is going to need at least one screen, preferably two. And a lot of editing. More ugh.

Write Every Day - Day 10

Jun. 10th, 2025 12:41 am
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I really liked this writing prompt. I may actually noodle with it.

Finished my next [community profile] getyourwordsout Yahtzee story. Another 2477 words, most of it the brothers still fighting. (eye rolls) also got about 1060 on my original cryptid story only to learn I lost my cryptid source link. Whee.


Let me know what day you’re reporting in for. If I've missed you on the tally let me know. Feel free to jump in at any time.

Day nine [personal profile] nafs, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] shadaras, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] carenejeans



other days )

Another day that got away from me

Jun. 9th, 2025 11:06 pm
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Mostly wrote and then had a surprise writers zoom meeting because I forgot we weren't doing them thursdays any more due to conflicts in half our schedules. I didn't do well but mostly because some fool lost the link to the big bad Pennsylvanian cryptid she wanted to use. Sigh. I could NOT find it again. I found the others I wanted to use as red herrings.

Still having blood sugar issues. Today's breakfast sent it almost to 400. By lunch I hit a critical low and then I knocked my damn monitor off again.

two hours later the monitor covers arrived from Amazon. In ONE day. I'm so not used to that (even Prime will not guarantee 1-2 shipping in my area).

Also in there was a book I ordered on Italian healing herbal meds and folklore/paganism. I've been testing herbs from other people's culture and looking so long at UK/Viking paganism because all I could find on Italy was Raven Grimassi who I did not like. I'm excited for this.


Let's share our music! It's music monday. I'm still doing the alphabet challenge and I'm up to J. I'm only doing the last 5 years but you can share whatever. This was not a good letter so I'm not even cutting it because there are so few. Also YT was on fire with recs today. Lately it's been doing nothing but AI music which is a no (even if it's fan tracks. I'll listen to it if the fan wrote the lyrics but otherwise not so much) I have several new bands to follow.



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