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I see that the last time I posted specifically about the anniversary of the attacks on September 11th was 2018. It's not that I don't notice or remember. Maybe I don't know what to say. On the train from NYC on Saturday there were bunches of firefighters in dress uniforms returning to their hometown. There were remembrances on NPR today, and lots of sweet things on twitter of people remembering loved ones.

thatjustwontbreak

Today I went to yoga and no one else showed up so I got a one-on-one class. It's not the first time this has happened, but it's always surprising. The instructor helped me to improve my tree pose and my side bend. Not bad.

Friday Five (from thefridayfive )

1. What is your favourite fruit?
I cannot think of a more challenging question than this. But this week, it's oranges.

2. What is the last book you read?
The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik. Finished it today. Onto the next!

3. Do you like any of your school photos?
Yeah. I generally like photos of me. Not all the time, but likely more than most people do.

4. Do you ever blowdry your armpits to get the deodorant to dry quicker?
No, but I'm open to trying it.

5. What was the last film you watched?
A Goofy Movie. :)

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: inside of my cozy cardigan
Current Music: piano meditation

ysabetwordsmith

We made this tonight.

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These are the content notes for "But an Empty Shell."

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Here are the character notes for "But an Empty Shell."

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This poem came out of the July 1, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "Independent Woman" square in my 7-1-25 card for the Western Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by Anthony Barrette. It belongs to the Kraken thread of the Polychrome Heroics series and is the prequel to "Beautiful, Damn Hard, Increasingly Useful."

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goddess47 posting in

no_true_pair

Title: Self Defense
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis,
Pairing/Characters: Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex
Word Count: 166
Content Notes: none
Prompt:

no_true_pair September 11 - Rodney McKay & Ronon Dex - weaving

Link to fic: Self Defense (on AO3)

brithistorian

This morning the YouTube Music app decided I needed to hear "Merry & Happy" by Twice. Even though it's a Christmas song, I listened to it, because I love this song. It lifted my spirits, so I went back and listened to it again, which lifted my spirits some more. So now I'm sharing it with you.

Watch on YouTube

After this experience, my daily affirmation for today was "Take joy wherever you can find it. If that means listening to Christmas music out of season, so be it."

shadowkat

The world continues to be just a bit crazy?

It was a pretty day, and almost 9/11 weather but not quite. Also for the first time ever - I was in the Financial District on 9/11. About fifteen minutes away as the crow flies to the World Trade Center footprint. It is still called the World Trade Center - we just don't call it that - we call it the Freedom Tower. Trauma leaves its scars.

I thought it would be an issue? But it really wasn't. I work in a building that is closer to Battery Park and Staten Island Ferry, not near the World Trade Center. I can see the Freedom Tower out of my office window, but I'm not really near it? And so didn't run into any of the crowds or political power brokers who felt a need to make an appearance (basically all the mayoral candidates), Frump didn't go (he went to the Pentagon instead - because NY kind of made it clear he wasn't welcome), but he also came to the city, to visit the site in the afternoon and to go to the Yankees game (most likely will get booed again - like he did at the US Open). The only downside of NYC, is everyone and their entourage feels the need to come here. But, on the bright side? It's a huge city, so I don't tend to see them.

Speaking of Frump. Mother was amused that he sued the Wall Street Journal ("WSJ")for $81 million defamation suit, and Rupert Murdoch (aka Fox News, Tabloid King and Frump crony, owns the Journal and didn't back down and even let Fox cover the story. She couldn't remember what it was about. I was reminded today - via a headline on Mozilla Firefox home page, with CBS News covering it (also ironic considering), and an email from one of the many news outlets that I keep unsubscribing from and they keep ignoring me.

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Honestly, the satire writes itself now, doesn't it? No wonder SNL gave up.

In other news, Frump's NASA and a bunch of folks at Frump's Pentagon are worried about a globe that a bunch of drones tried to unsuccessfully take down.

US House UFO Hearing regarding US Missile Strikes on Unidentified Object - and it Bounces off of it

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Title: Rearranging
Fandom: Transformers [Bay Movies]
Pairing/Characters: Starscream & Mikaela Banes
Content Notes: None
Prompt: September Eleven - 2 & 4 - weaving

Walk a Different Road is the backdrop

( Mikaela looked up at her Decepticon counterpart )

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lovelyangel

Junkluggers Truck in My Driveway
iPhone 13 mini photo

I spent the end of last week and the weekend sorting stuff - moving some into piles and packing some into boxes. Boxes became piles, and some boxes were stacked in the family room. Space Tetris continues.

( Taming the Stuff )

ysobel

New version now has a release announcement of "next week"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9QdA_SDnLY is a video going through all the brushes, including effects from pressure and also tilt and barrel roll. (I turn off tilt variation options, because not moving arm or wrist means tilt automatically changes through a stroke ... I may have to disable azimuth for the opposite reason, because I can't change pencil orientation. I don't have the Apple Pencil that supports barrel roll so )

TIL that a pademelon is a small marsupial, not a melon at all... (The new brushes are named after flora/fauna/locationsetc in Tasmania, which means the names aren't functional (no "gel pen" or "smoke" or "medium airbrush", now it's "chocolate" or "sandpiper" or "night heron") ... which means I have no chance at remembering what's what aaaaa

Anyway there are some reeeeally cool brushes and brush options.

(The old brushes will still be available and included, so e.g. old tutorials can still be followed, but I'll probably use the new ones more.)

mrkinch

U and I spent the morning in Wildcat Canyon Regional Park, first walking up from the parking area at Alvarado Staging Area to the Belgum Trail Gate. It's still early, and the only Fall migrants were two Yellow Warblers unless there were some Allen's or Rufous amongst the surprising number of hummingbirds we found feeding on flowering eucalyptus and bottlebrush. Ebird had to be reassured that U really meant the number of hummingbird sp she entered. Then we went down to the picnic area, where we had not only Yellow but a Townsend's Warbler, and a Warbling Vireo most likely just stopping to eat while on migration to Central America. We had a little rain a day or so ago but it hadn't done much for Wildcat Creek, and we didn't find anything around the few little pools. It was a good woodpecker and nuthatch day and of course there was a Red-shouldered Hawk flying and yelling. ( The morning's lists: )

It's the time of year when the American Crows start to gather. They were in the tops of some very tall eucalyptus, flying out in a loose flock and then returning. They made quite a racket in which a surprising number (to me ) of individual voices could be picked out. Crows are certainly interesting. Every so often I think about trying to befriend my locals but then come to my senses. I do not need that!

but_can_i_be_trusted posting in

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Title: 'Honest to Goodness'
Fandom: Friends
Rating: G
Notes: Crossposted to

vocab_drabbles and

emotion100

( Honest to Goodness )

settiai

Hey, there was a positive for once today!

Me: Here's my money to cover another another week in the hotel.
Hotel Manager: Thank you. Would you like a brand new 43" TV to replace the 13-year-old 32" TV that you currently have?
Me: ... so is this a trick question?

But, yeah, they apparently are updating some of the televisions in the hotel, and the manager likes me enough that I'm near the front of the list. Which means I got a brand new TV in my suite today!

Current Mood: cheerful

stonepicnicking_okapi posting in

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Title: Dice
Fandom: Inception
Rating: Gen
Notes: Arther & Eames banter about their totems in a dream.

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First, if you nominated Batman AMT, Digimon Adventure, or Sonic AMT, please check out this query post!

Second, signups are now open! 🎃 They will close on September 18 at 7:59 PM EDT/23:59 UTC.

Please review the signup instructions in this post before signing up.

The community challenge post will be up sometime this week.

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mecurtin posting in

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Thursday, September 11, to midnight on Friday, September 12 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33602 Daily check-in poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 16

How are you doing?

I am OK
11 (68.8%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
5 (31.2%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
6 (37.5%)

One other person
6 (37.5%)

More than one other person
4 (25.0%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

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Hey, everyone! It’s been a while, but we want to thank you so much for your comments and feedback on the Proposal to Remove the Challenge Tags post. It was all super helpful, and we spent a long time mulling over the best approach to take. We wanted to keep the functions of the challenge tags while freeing up tag space, and it was a bit of a conundrum.

Then

treonb kindly and wonderfully approached us about creating a comprehensive spreadsheet of all

fan_flashworks entries ever!!

This has ultimately resulted in a Community Report web tool, where you can search and filter the comm entries by challenge, fandom, and type. What’s more, exciting bonus! There’s also an individual Creator Report web tool, where you can see your own (and other’s) entries. Please take a look at these and try them out. We’re really excited about them.

(We are so grateful for all of

treonb’s amazing work on this -- please join us in a hearty round of applause!)

Data-cleaning is still in progress (especially wrt fandoms) and will likely be on-going, but we are proud to announce that our data project is open for business! Check these out:

Fan Flashworks Community Report

Fan Flashworks Creator Report

For the spreadsheet-y types among you, here is the complete dataset of fanworks, plus a full list of challenges, available in a community Google drive doc. An important note about using the spreadsheet: this is set as View only. If you want to sort or filter the data in spreadsheet form, you can either download your own copy or make a Filter View (by going to the Data menu and selecting Create filter view - this won’t affect other users’ view of the spreadsheet).

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We’re going to wait about two months to iron out any issues with these resources, and then we’ll remove the challenge tags from the comm, to give us elbow room to keep adding new creators and fandoms.

Huge huge thanks again to

treonb for all their amazing work on this project!!

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lauradi7dw - I remember
thatjustwontbreak - Friday Five
ysabetwordsmith - Recipe: "Edwards Family Meatloaf"
ysabetwordsmith - Content notes for "But an Empty Shell"
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goddess47 in no_true_pair - Self Defense (Stargate Atlantis; Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex)
brithistorian - SOTD: Twice, "Merry & Happy"
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senmut in no_true_pair - Rearranging (Transformers [Bay Movies], Starscream & Mikaela Banes)
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