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Current Music: Bellowhead, "Gosport Nancy"

How she'll greet me when she meets me when my ship gets in to port

It has not been a good week for sleep in the sense that I have managed about three to four hours out of every twenty-four and generally not when it's night out, but it has been an excellent week for ocean. After contemplating the question and decisively answering that she would rather be a dragon than a cat, my niece who was part of this afternoon's excursion with out-of-town family to Castle Island showed her fire by the sea.

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Globular star cluster

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Current Music: Cynthia Erivo [feat. Ariana Grande] - Defying Gravity

Tvmovie20in20 • Round 19

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Disney_20in20 • Round 12

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July Challenge - Day 26

From Special Bulletin

Peel peel
Peel off
The skin.

Sunday Secrets

Posted by Frank

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PostSecret BackStory

Posted by Frank

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Dear Frank,

I sent this secret to you 13 years ago at the age of 19. That year you selected it for the Christmas themed secrets on your website. In the years since I sent this secret, I wish I could say suicide never crossed my mind again. But it did and I spent a good part of my 20’s deeply struggling with my mental health. For so long it felt like a failure that after sending that secret, there were a lot of moments where I actually didn’t feel glad I didn’t kill myself.

However, throughout the years I’ve learned and come to accept that maybe for me, a person who has struggled with their mental health their whole life, and most likely always will, that maybe there isn’t exactly one light at the end of the tunnel and no one moment when everything falls into place and I never have desires to leave this life. Rather there are countless tunnels with breaks of light scattered throughout them.

And those breaks of light are what I’m always glad I stuck around for. For every time I wanted to end my life, I have 20 reasons I’m glad I didn’t-

Still getting to see my favorite band that saved my life perform all these years later. Graduating undergrad and grad school. The feeling I got when I stood at the top of the world at my first national park. Falling in love with my first love. Meeting my soulmate best friend in college. Seeing the pyramid in Mexico, dancing through Lavender fields in France, eating pasta in the piazza in Italy. The day I met my dog for the first time.

I have a house now with my own art studio, a partner of 8 years, a crazy Husky, backyard chickens, a garden. I became a therapist myself and work with a lot of folks going through what I went through. I still read postsecrets.

I have a 401k, health insurance, bills, a credit score, a budget. I go grocery shopping every Sunday.

And while the latter half of those are not the most enjoyable things per se, it often feels like a miracle I have gotten to and get to experience them because younger me never imagined myself functioning enough to experience any of it, let alone living long enough to.

I’m here. I am still alive. I’m doing well day to day considering the deep struggles with mental health I’ve had my whole life and where I used to be. And 13 years later, I’m still glad I wasn’t successful in killing myself and that I’m alive.

Warmly, with gratitude.

Thanks for sharing your hopeful message. So glad you got to see the rest of your story. Not everyone gets a happy ending, but I do know that those who experience the most suffering and frustration early in life have the potential to feel the most joy and accomplishment later.

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Classic Secrets

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Sunday @ 1:52 pm

reference to sexual assault allegations

Watching six whole seasons of Dragula before learning Dahli was in Blood on the Dance Floor and, uh. Okay. That really sheds light on some of the things they alluded to about their past, hey.

Fic: River Deep, Mountain High

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[324] THUNDERBOLTS*

---[324] THUNDERBOLTS* spoilers under cut
[x]324 yelena belova

(We used to throw thunderbolts;)

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AO3 Stats Meme

Snagged from

tellshannon815

If you’ve written fics for more than one year on AO3, go to your statistics page. Click on the different years at the top to see the categories of statistics for each year.

1. Which year did you write the most words? Do you know why? e.g. you had more time; you were caught up in an exciting new fandom or pairing; you got a rush of ideas etc.
I'm forever behind on posting fic, so not all posted in one year was written that year and not all written in one year was posted that year, but taking that into account... 2015 was my year with the most words, at almost 119k. Which is wild considering my current output! I was only working a few hours a week most of that year, basically unemployed, so I guess I did have more time to write.

2. Which year did you write the least words? Why was this? e.g. lack of time, too busy, no inspiration etc.
Same as above, and also taking out 2011 and 2025 as they're not full years on AO3. 2012 was my year with the least words, with 6.5k. I was in college that year, plus did a summer study abroad program, plus had a terrible soul-sucking roommate in the fall, so I guess that explains the very low word count.

3. Which years did you get most hits, kudos, bookmarks and fic subscriptions? Do you know why? (e.g. popular fandoms, lots of words written.) Are there years where you have the same amount of bookmarks and subscriptions?
Most hits was 2015, with almost 663k hits. Most kudos was also 2015, with almost 15k kudos. Most bookmarks was 2017, with almost 2.5k bookmarks. Most fic subscriptions was 207, with over 500 subs. My two most popular fics by hits were posted in 2015 and my most popular fic by kudos was posted in 2017. All of which were HP fics, when that was still wildly popular lol

4. Which years did you get least hits, kudos, bookmarks and fic subscriptions? Do you know why? (e.g. niche fandoms, not many fics written.) Do you have any other conclusions?
Least hits was 2024, with almost 19k hits. Least kudos was also 2024, with almost 2k kudos. Least bookmarks was 2013, with less than 300 bookmarks. Least fic subscriptions was also 2013, with less than 40 fic subs. 2013 was all short fics under 1k words and 2024 was a lot of poetry, which never gets much attention. Just my guesses on why the numbers are lower, since mostly the fandoms/ships were fairly similar in terms of popularity.

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tv:murderbot

A few Murderbot things

I really enjoyed this David Dastmalchian interview and also this adorable associated piece of fanart from the part of the interview in which he basically starts channeling Gurathin.

And some of my stuff on Tumblr:

Something I noticed rewatching the first episode

Random thought on bookverse!Gurathin

Oh, and I posted another fic a few days ago, Old Familiar Sting, which is pretty much all about characters working through the aftermath of Corporation Rim medical trauma.

Current Mood: contemplative

Then and now

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Reforming the WSFS committee elections

The quoted material below is quoted material.

I wrote in 2022 that the election system used by WSFS should be changed. At present, the rules for electing the Mark Protection Committee, the body charged with ensuring that the intellectual property of WSFS is protected, are set out in Standing Rule 6.2:

Voting shall be by written preferential ballot with write-in votes allowed. Votes for write-in candidates who do not submit written consent to nomination to the Presiding Officer before the close of balloting shall be ignored. The ballot shall list each nominee’s name. The first seat filled shall be by normal preferential ballot procedures as defined in Section 6.4 of the WSFS Constitution. There shall be no run-off candidate. After a seat is filled, votes for the elected member shall be eliminated before conducting the next ballot. This procedure shall continue until all seats are filled. In the event of a first-place tie for any seat, the tie shall be broken unless all tied candidates can be elected simultaneously. Should there be any partial-term vacancies on the committee, the partial-term seat(s) shall be filled after the full-term seats have been filled.

I warned that this carries the risk that a single faction with roughly half of the total votes could win every single seat and squeeze out other viewpoints.

My warning has come dramatically true.

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More 12 Clara Doctor Who

I watched Flatline and In The Forest of the Night.

Flatline was good ideas and a bunch of complicated character stuff and I like it very well.
But if Clara being the Doctor is a bad thing then the Doctor shouldn't do it neither.
Also all the bits with the TARDIS and passing things out was a very fun bit. And crawling like Thing. And seige mode. All that stuff plenty good stuff.
And the world's creepiest murals. Nicely done.
The end trick was a very good one too.
But the complicated character stuff has proper depth.

In the Forest of the Night I remember as being worse than it actually was on rewatch. ( Read more... )

The finale remains but I know I am going to be deeply annoyed so I think I'll just get some sleep instead.

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Ships Crossing 2025: Nominations Now Open

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[ SECRET POST #6777 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6777 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 37 secrets from Secret Submission Post #970.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #971 ]

[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #971 ]

The first secret from this batch will be posted on August 2nd.

RULES:
1. One secret link per comment.
2. 750x750 px or smaller.
3. Link directly to the image.

More details on how to send a secret in!

Optional: If you would like your secret's fandom to be noted in the main post along with the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret. If your secret makes the fandom obvious, there's no need to do this. If your fandom is obscure, you should probably tell me what it is.

Optional #2: If you would like WARNINGS (such as spoilers or common triggers -- list of some common ones here) to be noted in the main post before the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret.

Optional #3: If you would like a transcript to be posted along with your secret, put it along with the link in the comment!

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c: lemon

Challenge #059: Lemon

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