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Arrival
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1787
[Wednesday, 2 August, 2017, 1:30-2 p.m.]]

:: LaQuinta Dixon brings Brian and Theo Cort to Soup To Nuts to ask for help, and gets several shocks. Part of the Unfair Trades arc in Mercedes, within the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::

The Surrey moved smoothly on the road, though LaQuinta took the longer, better-maintained route from the county park and zoo toward the relatively congested downtown area of Mercedes. By the time she pulled into a parking space in front of Soup To Nuts, her hands, face, neck, and even her legs inside her jeans were covered in a heavy layer of sweat. In the back seat, both boys seemed quiet and content to remain fully covered by the fuzzy blankets.

Indecision tore at her as LaQuinta Dixon set the parking brake. “Boys?” she murmured, hoping that one would answer. At the same time, Candy Cain stepped out, though when LaQuinta did not pick up a delivery bag, the woman with pink and white stripes in her hair looked both disappointed and hurt.

Neither boy moved.

LaQuinta jerked her hand up, motioning Ms. Cain over, and pleading, “Hurry!”
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conuly

There don't appear to be details on flowers etc. yet.

olivermoss

Q Center advertised an event today called Pride Month Art Market today, and today is the day that most cities are doing their main pride. So I headed out. Didn't even think about it. Turned out it was a furry maker's mart that happened to be during pride month and hosted there. Because there is so much crossover between queer and furry here, I didn't notice at first that I was at a furry event. I was just like 'people seem more chill and hey, lots of original designs instead of kits and assets I recognize'. When I left one of the organizers was explaining to someone else who passed by that it was meant to be an event for the community. It was very a 'you can pop in buuuut' energy

Glad I decided to wear my werewolf shirt. I blended on accident. On one hand I am amused, on the other hand... Q Center maybe maybe have clearer comms?

neotoma

2 quarts of yellow sweet cherries, 1 quart of blue berries, 1 pint of black raspberries, 1 pint of apricots, 1 lb of black beans, 1 lb popcorn, 1 strawberry lemonade, 1 quart of chocolate milk, bacon-gruyere wheel, almond croissant, and a lemon tart.

The fruit stand that I usually buy from saved me an apricot from their limited selection today -- the benefits of being friendly, remembering everyone's pronouns, and occasionally wearing one of my ace flag pins.

ysabetwordsmith

Academia: Staying Afloat

You are the right person to do what you do, know what you know, study what you’re going to study. You do it.

You are a lifeboat.

You are not the passenger being rescued from a shipwreck. You are the rescuer. Your skills, your knowledge, your experience reside in you. You have pulled them from the cold ocean where cruel and careless captains have set them adrift.

You are a lifeboat.

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Event: Casefic Exchange is a fanwork exchange focusing on investigations. These can be solving murders, retrieving stolen items, finding missing people, missions, and mysteries. As long as it has an investigation as its core theme, it fits with the exchange. We are an AO3 exchange; you must have an account and be 18+ to participate.

Minimum requirements: We allow three mediums: a minimum of 3,000 words for fanfiction, a minimum of 10 panels for a comic, or a recording of a completed fic of 3,000 words minimum with "casefic" as one of its tags. Works must include a fandom, character/ship and be of a medium that the recipient has requested.

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Pinch hit link: Current pinch hits.
Due date: Friday 18 July at 11:59pm EDT.

Available pinch hits:

PH 4 (comic, fic) - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), 鴨乃橋ロンの禁断推理 | Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri | Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective (Manga), NoPixel (Web Series)

PH 8 (fic) - Severance (TV), The West Wing

PH 10 (fic, podfic) - Gilmore Girls (TV 2000)

PH 11 (comic, fic) - Tokyo Babylon, 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)

PH 13 (comic, fic) - 終ノ空 remake | Tsui no Sora Remake, A Girl Corrupted by the Internet is the Summoned Hero?!, Tsukihime (Visual Novel & Anime)

PH 19 (comic, fic) - Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (2005)

PH 20 (comic, fic) - Bones (TV), DC's Arrowverse, Constantine (TV), Lucifer (TV), Buffyverse (TV), Supernatural (TV 2005)

PH 21 (comic, fic) - The Defenders (Marvel TV), Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016), Crossover Fandom (The Defenders TV/MCU)

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There has been A Great Squawking audible through the open windows for much of the last week. Yesterday A got to witness the source and then this morning so did I.

You see. There is a slightly scruffy, slightly scrawny magpie, which we wouldn't even necessarily have clocked as a juvenile if we'd seen it by itself? But we didn't. What we saw was it being attended by two actually filled-out adult magpies... up to and including it sitting back on its haunches and raising its mouth to the sky and continuing to yell until food was placed in it.

We have also got to watch it hop around in important little circles, intermittently pecking disconsolately at the ground, because apparently this is how the grown-ups make food appear!!! and it has not yet quite managed to work out why It's Not Working for baby, who is a Good Brave Baby who is doing All The Right Things and yet??? no food?????

And now that we have matched the yelling up with the culprit, I am grinning every time I can hear it, not just when it's visible. :)

ysabetwordsmith

Art pieces double as carbon-free air conditioning, inspired by ancient civilizations

Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a 3D-printed evaporative cooling system made of hollow clay columns that can cool the surrounding air by up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit.

The columns are filled with water and sand, and when warm air passes through the porous clay exterior, water stored in the sand columns evaporates, which in turn, cools the air that passes through.

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jadelennox

"Academia: Staying Afloat" by Timothy Burke from the end of January made me feel warmer. It's about everything. AI slop. Fascism. Modern employment. Greed. The broad gesture at everything. Hope. Determination.

You are the right person to do what you do, know what you know, study what you’re going to study. You do it.

You are a lifeboat.

You are not the passenger being rescued from a shipwreck. You are the rescuer. Your skills, your knowledge, your experience reside in you. You have pulled them from the cold ocean where cruel and careless captains have set them adrift.

You are a lifeboat.

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Title: Interrupted Cat Nap
Fandom: Tokyo Mew Mew Olé (Manga)
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 300 words
Content notes: Established Shibuya/Anzu, fluff
Author notes: N/A
Summary: Ever since getting his Mew Mew powers, Shibuya would nap more often than before. But this time, his nap gets interrupted.

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(One of these days I'll run out of random objects within my eyeline to name the weekly post after)

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?

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Chores and other not-fun things count!

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redbird

I learned this morning that

acelightning has died. She was one of the people I only know online, but feel like friends because we have real conversations (in her case, here on Dreamwidth and previously on LJ).

rmc28

Friday:

Mary Rose, worth the admission fee all by itself, thoroughly absorbing exhibition of the many many objects found within the wreck, and amazing to see the preserved timbers themselves from lots of different angles.
lunch
dockyard boat tour, including a good look at the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier currently in dock (I cannot look at aircraft carriers without Danger Zone playing in my head)
HMS Victory, audioguide version with dramatic retelling of the battle of Trafalgar. Very absorbing, impressive amount of the ship available to visit even while restoration is ongoing, very tiring.
back to hotel and flop for a little
walk, ferry, bus to Gosport ice rink, disco skate, bus, ferry and walk back to hotel; ice is rather worse than Cambridge, but ferry+bus beats 2x Cambridge buses any time

Saturday:

sauna and swim for me
walk to the dockyard, waterbus to the Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower
lunch
walk ~2 miles to Submarine Museum
walk through of HMS Alliance, also a look around HMS Holland 1 (the first ever Royal Navy submarine)
my body in full rebellion against "museum walking" by this point, we took the waterbus back to the main dockyard, got cold drinks, and got back on the dockyard boat tour - different guide, different focus, well worth it
little wander around Gunwharf Quays and a little shopping in the outlet stores; having forgotten to bring my ereader, I resorted to buying a newspaper and we sat quietly ignoring each other in a curry gastropub for a while. Eventually we ordered some curry, which was really rather good, and then toddled back to the hotel
I decided I'd had enough moving for the day, so now I'm lying on the hotel bed with Glastonbury on the TV, life is good

Tomorrow I think we'll do a couple of brief museum things at the historic dockyard, and then perhaps go for a wander through Southsea. I'm going to watch England v Jamaica tomorrow afternoon (I think R has less than zero interest in football, women's or otherwise) and we've a reservation in the Spinnaker Tower for sunset cocktails tomorrow evening.

physical issues

My leg muscles, especially the ones that stabilise hips, knees and ankles, have been giving me some grief since I went clubbing after the Kodiaks won playoffs at end of May. I'm reasonably sure it's muscular fatigue and not joint/ligament damage. Rest helps, but so does gentle movement: if I sit still too long everything has seized up a bit when I stand up, but loosens up again as I start moving. Skating and hockey are fine once I'm warmed up. Yoga and general stretching seem to help, as do hot baths and sauna. Steady walking is a lot better for me than the stop-start of museum walking, as the last two days have made clear. I love museums but right now the spirit is willing and the flesh has Had Enough.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is mostly sunny and sweltering. It rained off and on yesterday and last night.

I fed the birds. I've seen several house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 6/28/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

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james_davis_nicoll

Police introduce system to facilitate targeting neurodiverse people.

katarik

Was at the queer youth group I volunteer at last night and the youth came in and were immediately like 'KPOP DEMON HUNTERS!!!' and, you know, the trailer looked cool, I've heard good things, and anyway the youth get to watch what they want to as long as they promise it's appropriately rated. So we put it on.

I have listened to the opening song six times in the subsequent twelve hours. I don't like all the songs in here, but "How It's Done" is absolutely an earworm, and it's an excellent example of how to effectively layer multiple voices. (Alcor Star Systems on Youtube has lyric videos which translate the Korean!)

I want the story where Rumi dodged the entire friend-breakup plotline by just TALKING to her friends like an ADULT, but I don't want to have to write it.

The worldbuilding is pretty shallow; it follows the tropes it's doing closely and there's no twist, which is both a feature and a bug; and the love interest is meh, but it's a very pretty movie with good female friendship and I am entirely here for the core concept of 'Jem and the Holograms but they're also Slayers'.

oursin

But this is just plain bizarre: reading the AI summaries rather than watching the series or presumably, reading books.

What is even gained thereby?

It's so massively Point Thahr Misst about why one consumes story-telling that I can't even.

Why not just go straight to: this work manifests [whichever of the whatever the allegedly number it is of standard plots it is] tout court?

I guess these are the people that live on Soylent and pride themselves on 'rawdogging' airflights?

Have they completely eliminated enjoyment and fun from their lives, and if so, WHY????

Conversely, and in the interests of pleasure, there has recently opened a bookshop entirely dedicated to romance, in Notting Hill. (I do cringe a bit at calling it 'Saucy Books'.)

Back in the day, in Charing Cross Road, there used to be a dedicated Romance section alongside Murder One and the SFF section in the basement, all in one bookshop, but that has long been one with the dodo.

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Arrival (part 1 of 1, complete)

unintelligible tired noises

acelightning has passed away

(no subject)

Farmer's Market -- 28 June 2025 (Sickle Day, 10th of Harvest, Year 233)

Staying Afloat

Freethought Blogs

Pinch hits at Casefic Exchange (Due Friday 18 July EDT).

much yelling

Evaporative Cooling

it's chopped onions all the way down

Nap (Amnesty): Tokyo Mew Mew Olé: Fanfic: Interrupted Cat Nap

Just Create - Netsuke Edition

acelightning has died

Holiday fun

There is a shade of purple now gone from the world

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I can see no way in which this could go horribly wrong

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