The earth is too smart for us to break through
Oct. 25th, 2025 11:39 pmWrite Every Day: Day 26
Oct. 26th, 2025 05:58 pm"Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
My day 26: Alibi sentence. Arms are a mess, so I've been AFK.
Btw, do we have anyone lined up to host November? Any volunteers?
The tally
( Tally )
Day 24:
Day 25:
When you check in, please say what day(s) you’re checking in for. You can join in or take a break at any time; you’re always welcome back. And please let me know if I’ve missed you.
Slings & Arrows drabble, Star Wars drabble sequence
Oct. 25th, 2025 10:53 pmChapters: 1/1
Fandom: Slings & Arrows
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ellen Fanshaw/Geoffrey Tennant
Characters: Ellen Fanshaw, Geoffrey Tennant
Additional Tags: Drabble, Love Bites, Bruises
Summary:
Ellen leaves marks.
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Tell Old Man Worry to go climb a tree (600 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo
Characters: Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo
Additional Tags: Mpreg | Male Pregnancy, Incest, Drabble Sequence
Summary:
The Force moves in mysterious ways in order to get great-grandkids.
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Oct. 26th, 2025 02:12 amChilly Creek and the Sarkorian couple both worked fine, as did the Heart of Mystery eventually, but then I went to do Nenio's questline and realised I had not done one thing from back in Act 3 and I had to go do it over again, which was somehow embarrassing. Look at me, Knight Commander of the 5th crusade, redoing ny homework because I didn't press a button right. Eh, it's fine, they're doing the quest properly now. Also with all the buffs on we seem to be immune to... damage, basically. Getting hit, in general. Anything getting through without a critical fail on the saves. It's interesting but also boring to play. No stakes, just let it run on auto and they'll win in a few seconds. Daeran hasn't had to heal anyone for ages. Plus I leave Nenio to last because I've never seen an explanation for the stupid puzzles that actually makes sense so I just have to make them match the pictures and that isn't puzzle solving. I am not a fan of the stupid things at all at all. So I now appear to be grumpy. Ah well.
Clocks went back and I have updated my home clocks already.
Pretty okay day.
AO3 Alphabet Meme
Oct. 25th, 2025 10:01 pmA - The A Train - DCU/Supreme Power
B - Back where we began - Hockey RPF
C - C'est la faute à Rousseau - DCU (sorry, Les Misérables fans)
D - The Daddy's Boy Job - Star Wars Prequel Trilogy/Leverage
E - Each result and glory - Doctrine of Labyrinths - Monette
F - Failsafe - Vorkosigan Saga - Bujold
G - Game theory - Life on Mars (UK)
H - Ha -- h'm - Horatio Hornblower - CS Forester
I - I ain't no brilliant writer, Kethe knows - Doctrine of Labyrinths (please don't ask why I wrote a sonnet in Mildmay voice)
J - Janet and Thomas's Halloween - Tam Lin - Dean
K - Keep it down in there - Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
L - L'appel du vide - Life on Mars (UK)/Ashes to Ashes
M - M'don'a's sex advice - Star Wars Prequel Trilogy/Madonna's Sex Advice
N - Naked truth - due South
O - Oak of the clay lived many a day - Promethean Age - Bear
P - A pack that almost became historic - Les Misérables + Psychic Wolves
Q - Q. E. D. - John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Logic Guards Sketch
R - Rated able seaman - Hornblower (TV)
S - Safe and sane - DCU
T - Take heed of loving me - Hockey RPF
U - Ululation - Harry Potter (written 2002)
V - A Vaderwan limerick for your delectation - Star Wars Original Trilogy
W - Wait till you hear the next one, legate - Marcus Didius Falco - Davis/Good Omens - Pratchett & Gaiman
X - X axis, Y axis, 2 axes - Murderbot/due South fusion
Y - Yas queen - Iskyrne Series - Bear & Monette/@dog_rates
Z -
26/26, 1312 works.
Bonus points: I have stories titled beginning with #, numbers, ¡ (inverted exclamation point), à, and ᓄ.
Also, I have no idea what possessed me to write a sonnet in Mildmay voice, but I'm proud of it just the same.
icons | two hundred.
Oct. 25th, 2025 08:18 pm( autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place 🍁 )
Sunday @ 11:41 am
Oct. 26th, 2025 11:41 amDoing my Least Favorite Maintenance Task, i.e., updating the relay, and think I’ve finally gotten enough of a process down that it should be easier in future. Maybe.
Did have to buy more disk space for the VPS, though, and I really need rustup not to take over a gigabye of disk space. Like, dude. Wut???
We're offered Moët, we don't mind Chivas
Oct. 25th, 2025 07:25 pmI was also going to make char siu today and then pork buns with the leftovers tomorrow, but I forgot the meat has to marinate overnight so now I will make the ribs tomorrow, freeze the leftovers, and try to make the buns next weekend. Or maybe I'll just make pork fried rice. Idk. I used to always order pork buns but I don't see them on menus anymore (lemon chicken, another Chinese restaurant fave, has also seemed to disappear, at least from the places around here), so it would be fantastic if I could make them myself. It doesn't seem too hard. I mean, the hardest part for me will probably be rolling and sealing them. *hands* Eventually we'll see!
In other news, Baby Miss L has settled on being a witch for Halloween and her costume is ADORABLE. But she also has a secondary costume, as she has quite the busy social schedule, which is a cow, which doubles as pajamas, for those nights where she's out past bedtime. SO CUTE. I also got some pictures of her pumpkin picking while wearing a jack o'lantern t-shirt and she remains the cutest and best dressed kid around. 😍😍😍😍😍😍
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PostSecret License
Oct. 25th, 2025 11:20 amTo: “frank” <frank@postsecret.com>
Dear Frank-
Twelve years ago I mailed in my license plate with the message “I don’t know where my home is” scrawled on the front. I had just dropped out of college and moved across the country to live with my dad. A lot has changed since then, but some things haven’t.
My life imploded (again) and I found myself back in my dad’s house; I changed careers, graduated college, and went to grad school. But that secret has followed me for a decade, often featured on the website or exhibits.
It popped up a few weeks ago and I thought “nothing has changed, I’m still just that lost kid” and then I realized how wrong I was. I’m not sure that I feel any more at home here now than I did back then, but something has changed. I found home in myself. Finally the skin that I live in feels like enough. Thank you for being a place of growth, love, and acceptance for all these years.
-Erica

Hi Erica,
Thanks for your secret! I remember receiving that “naked mail” over a decade ago and yes it has been shared many times; on the web, in my PostSecret talks, and in museums from the Smithsonian to the Museum of Us.
I know many people have felt a connection to your secret and I believe many will now relate to your story behind it. Courage is contagious and I believe your story will inspire others to tell their truth – and take that first step in their journey.
Your secret definitely has a home, so glad you found yours.
Be well,
-Frank
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So can we say we'll never say the classic stuff, just show it?
Oct. 25th, 2025 05:14 pmDept. of The Darkest Timeline
Oct. 25th, 2025 04:19 pmI'll be back with other things to say, happy things, or at least I hope so.
But right now, I give you this, taken as a screen shot from video a neighbor took as the ICE thugs ambushed him, and who shared it on some local news sites.
It's my city.
It's my adopted country.
He's my neighbor.
He's my brother.
They don't care.
The cruelty, the racism and xenophobia, is the point.

multifandom icons
Oct. 25th, 2025 03:55 pm

Icons can be found on my journal here and are all free to use.
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Oct. 25th, 2025 02:02 pmAs a bonus feature, you can see exactly how most of the visual/camera tricks work because there's a second camera set up from the front of the apartment that shows the broader view of the cast and crew rushing around to cram themselves into the tiny sets and lurk in front of walls to cast dramatic shadows and so on. As a viewer, you always have the option to toggle between the main, intended view and the backstage view to see how they're doing whatever they're doing -- tbh this in itself made it worth the price of admission for me, as a person who loves practical effects. See Carlotta's entry evoked by a giant high-heeled foot and then toggle over to the crew member carefully dangling the foot into the frame! Superb!
The production itself evokes the aesthetics of German expressionist film, with an operatic organ soundtrack and most of the dialogue conveyed by classic silent film inter-, sub- or supertitles. It's a shock when the Phantom speaks out loud to Christine, and she speaks back to him. When Raoul says he heard someone in her dressing room, Christine looks understandably baffled by the way this breaks the rules: how could a silent film man hear an angel speak?
Christine can also break the silent film framework to sing, as trained, and, eventually, talk out loud about the Phantom as well as to him, but not about anything else. I love this conceit and I think it's probably the coolest thing the show does thematically.
Anyway, I really enjoyed the experience, worth my $20 to sit on my couch with the lights out and toggle between a Spooky Silent Phantom and a tiny apartment full of theater professionals moving tiny sets back and forth to make Spooky Silent Phantom happen, would recommend.




































