Star Sunset and Flare + Ducks
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Perhaps because we were seeing it at a rippling distance, when I looked out at the lake the other night, the ball of fire that was the setting sun seemed to be reflected as a five pointed star. Don't know how clearly that came out here but I liked the photo regardless.
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Thursday Recs
5 March 2026 08:16 pmsoc_puppet posting in queerly_belovedThursday recs time!
Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!
Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!
Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!
Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!
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5 March 2026 08:45 pmflemmingsI spent the day, or most of it, in sweaty domesticity, which is not how I prefer to spend my days. But it was raining and cleanliness helps the megrims, so I doped my back up and took the couch apart so as to add some more cushions as I've been meaning to for a while. Am still not able to get up out of it without them. But of course this involved vacuuming everything, all sides, including the amazing amount of dust on the nether side of the cushions and the amazing amount of crap between them. Then got at the corner by the wall which was festooned with cobwebs and thick with dust because it's very hard to reach. Emptied cannister, drank 500 ml of water, then vacuumed the rest of the living room and the hallway. Some day I may get the carpet up and the couch pulled out to remove the dust elephants there, but that's a bit more than I'm up for just now. Lemon polished the wooden tables instead so they glow.
Am not totally satisfied because there's still too many miscellaneous boxes and bags here. A bag of unwearable back braces that still don't fit, the plastic hooked hanging thingies I use for laundry between the furnace turning off and the cherries falling, and a pile of calendars I can't throw out because they're where I tracked my weight gains and losses. Maybe if I noted the general trends in a notebook somehow? This would be easier if I had a computer of some description.
Currently have some basmati rice cooking so I can have omuraisu tomorrow. And maybe tomorrow will get to the kitchen floor.
Am not totally satisfied because there's still too many miscellaneous boxes and bags here. A bag of unwearable back braces that still don't fit, the plastic hooked hanging thingies I use for laundry between the furnace turning off and the cherries falling, and a pile of calendars I can't throw out because they're where I tracked my weight gains and losses. Maybe if I noted the general trends in a notebook somehow? This would be easier if I had a computer of some description.
Currently have some basmati rice cooking so I can have omuraisu tomorrow. And maybe tomorrow will get to the kitchen floor.
Game Check-in: "Ride Kamens" Prologue+Ch. 1.1
5 March 2026 07:41 pmbluapapilio
Prololgue:
Noa is the successor to Cosmos Conglomerate, he's at a museum with his butler Leon when he sees a kamen mask and gets sucked into a portal. Monsters attack but they're saved by Mikami (guy on cover) and taken to Rider Academy, where they meet another guy Iori.
The Riders-in-training have to show they can transform to pass aaand then a huge plot twist happens where it turns out the whole school is being run by the enemy, Chaosim, and they were lying and training the students to be Chaos Riders! The enemy leave after realizing who Noa is and say 'this too is fate' basically.
Chapter 1 Part 1:
Leon tells Nao he has inherited the Rider Station which has been locked up since their father's death, he was a Rider agent and looked after the Riders.
The top floor of the Rider Station is a front cafe called Camouflage lol aka Kamen Cafe, a concept cafe where you wear a mask. I guess it's supposed to be a way to get info from outsiders while masked?
Chapter 1 Part 2:
LMAO Noa screaming 'monster!' at Leon because he was wearing a mask and Leon screaming back
Noa's mask is very...flashy. It's a purple sparkly cat.
Are the Chaos stones pieces of an alien meteor or something??
Chapter 1 Part 3:
When I first learned about the game, I did not think Mikami's personality would be like this. He's pessimistic. He still has a sense of justice though. Noa saved him, so he wants to use the things he learned to fulfill his duty as a Rider and save them.
Chapter 1 Part 4:
What's wrong with just liking water to drink?
Iori trying to understand Mikami lol 'so when I can't tell what you're thinking, that means you aren't thinking'.
Mikai doesn't remember anything before the academy. š¤
Chapter 1 Part 5:
...Well this is dark. Chaosism fucked with their memories. Iori had this whole family in this head... They're somewhere they don't even recognize and the police just shrugged them off.
A long-haired blond guy says he believes them and gives them a place to stay. š¤
Lol at Iori being super positive and Mikami being super negative.
I'm on the edge of my seat wondering where this is going. What happened to the other Riders?
Daily Check-In
5 March 2026 08:23 pmmecurtin posting in fandom_checkinThis is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Thursday, March 5, to midnight on Friday, March 6 (8pm Eastern Time).
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.
Poll #34328 Daily check-in poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 8
How are you doing?
I am OK
7 (87.5%)
I am not OK, but don't need help right now
1 (12.5%)
I could use some help
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans live with you?
I am living single
4 (50.0%)
One other person
1 (12.5%)
More than one other person
3 (37.5%)
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.
Unshelved strip originally published on Tue, 29 Dec 2015
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unshelved_feedThis classic Unshelved strip originally appeared on Tue, 29 Dec 2015.
rebagel
5 March 2026 06:53 pmalatefelineNot having a Tumblr, I now inflict upon you, my dear dwenizens, the results of idly scrolling the Tumblrs of various authors whose public posting I follow on and off.
https://restlesshush.tumblr.com/729914555516485632
"I feel like it would be useful if people conceived of causing emotional harm to others more through the lens of being the emotional equivalent to stepping on someoneās foot. Like obviously you can step on someoneās foot deliberately and maliciously, but most of the time if someone tells you you stepped on their foot youāre going to go āoh sorry I didnāt realise!ā and stop doing it and try not to do it again. Getting caught up in how it makes you feel to be Someone Capable of Stepping on Othersā Feet would be a transparently self indulgent distraction from the other personās pain, but also likeā¦ thatās just a status you hold by virtue of being human."
https://restlesshush.tumblr.com/729914555516485632
"I feel like it would be useful if people conceived of causing emotional harm to others more through the lens of being the emotional equivalent to stepping on someoneās foot. Like obviously you can step on someoneās foot deliberately and maliciously, but most of the time if someone tells you you stepped on their foot youāre going to go āoh sorry I didnāt realise!ā and stop doing it and try not to do it again. Getting caught up in how it makes you feel to be Someone Capable of Stepping on Othersā Feet would be a transparently self indulgent distraction from the other personās pain, but also likeā¦ thatās just a status you hold by virtue of being human."
have a daffodil(s)
5 March 2026 11:23 pmkaberett
About twenty metres up the road is a front garden that is, at this time of year, full of ridiculous daffodils. It is an Annual Delight. I took this photo yesterday, and then I dragged A out to visit it at lunchtime today, in glorious weather. It has been a good day.
Nature
5 March 2026 04:50 pmysabetwordsmithSpending time in nature triggers a calming chain reaction in the brain
People often say a walk in nature clears the mind. Scientists have long suspected the effect is real, but exactly what happens inside the brain has been harder to pin down.
A sweeping synthesis of 108 brain-imaging experiments now shows that natural environments consistently quiet neural stress circuits and shift the brain toward a calmer, more integrated state.
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People often say a walk in nature clears the mind. Scientists have long suspected the effect is real, but exactly what happens inside the brain has been harder to pin down.
A sweeping synthesis of 108 brain-imaging experiments now shows that natural environments consistently quiet neural stress circuits and shift the brain toward a calmer, more integrated state.
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When I'm falling I'm at peace
5 March 2026 05:55 pmmusesfoolWork has been intensely busy these past few days, and tomorrow I have to go into the office because Assistant J is getting a pin for being with the organization for 5 years (even though it's more like six and a half at this point, but no one wants to hear my rant about how anniversaries work again), and I never get much done when I'm in, so we'll see what happens. I do have to take all my tax paperwork and scan it for my accountant. This is much later than usual, eep.
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Shrinking: Dereks Don't Die
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Lost Recipes was a really good read "about the legal and logistical barriers arrayed against people trying to archive rap media." to quote the email from Defector that included the link. It made me think about how despite its many, many issues (about which I have heard no news of progress at all, btw), the OTW is doing that work for this section of media fandom, and how important that work is (and how no one else was gonna do it). There's already so much that's gone, and that impacts how our stories get contextualized and passed on (thinking of all the thinkpieces on Heated Rivalry that only reference yaoi and animanga fandom and not Western media fandom, for example) and whatever place in the larger history of media and fandom this corner of it might have. Idk. I do recommend reading that post though, even if you're not a rap fan.
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Shrinking: Dereks Don't Die
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Lost Recipes was a really good read "about the legal and logistical barriers arrayed against people trying to archive rap media." to quote the email from Defector that included the link. It made me think about how despite its many, many issues (about which I have heard no news of progress at all, btw), the OTW is doing that work for this section of media fandom, and how important that work is (and how no one else was gonna do it). There's already so much that's gone, and that impacts how our stories get contextualized and passed on (thinking of all the thinkpieces on Heated Rivalry that only reference yaoi and animanga fandom and not Western media fandom, for example) and whatever place in the larger history of media and fandom this corner of it might have. Idk. I do recommend reading that post though, even if you're not a rap fan.
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[Daf Yomi] Maseches Menachos perek 3-4
5 March 2026 04:23 pmlannamichaelsFrom a discussion of what parts of something on-topic-for-Menachos are essential, we get discussions of what's essential for the Menorah, Sifrei Torah, mezuzas, tefillin, and tzitzis! Four of those are very practical!
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[ SECRET POST #6999 ]
5 March 2026 04:18 pmcase posting in fandomsecretsā Secret Post #6999 ā
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 08 secrets from Secret Submission Post #999.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Prompt 2778: Exhausted
5 March 2026 09:50 pmimmortalje posting in dailyiconsToday's prompt is: exhausted
• You have 2 days time to submit an icon for this prompt (in other words, until prompt 2780 gets posted)!
• Prompt 2776 has been closed.
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Warm Heart #10 [Starfall]
5 March 2026 07:51 pmthisbluespirit posting in rainbowficName: Thrown in the Deep End
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #10 (Betrayal)
Supplies and Styles: Chiaroscuro + Pastels (also forgenprompt_bingo square "Betrayal") + Nubs + Charcoal + Novelty Beads (2020 Leap Day Challenge - "Exploitation.")
Word Count: 2426
Rating: Teen
Warnings: person held against their will, forced drugging, needles. Viyony's POV for the second half of Missteps & and your light can't guide me.
Notes: 1313, Portcallan; Viyony Eseray, Tess Hyan, Eollan Barra.
Summary: It's the first night of the festival, and Viyony makes a terrible mistake.
( Thrown in the Deep End )
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #10 (Betrayal)
Supplies and Styles: Chiaroscuro + Pastels (also for
genprompt_bingo square "Betrayal") + Nubs + Charcoal + Novelty Beads (2020 Leap Day Challenge - "Exploitation.")Word Count: 2426
Rating: Teen
Warnings: person held against their will, forced drugging, needles. Viyony's POV for the second half of Missteps & and your light can't guide me.
Notes: 1313, Portcallan; Viyony Eseray, Tess Hyan, Eollan Barra.
Summary: It's the first night of the festival, and Viyony makes a terrible mistake.
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The Friday Five for 6 March 2026
5 March 2026 03:09 pmanais_pf posting in thefridayfiveThese questions were suggested by dray.
1. Do you know of any other words for snow? What's your favourite and why?
2. What's your ideal temperature range for winter?
3. Favourite winter activity? What about it makes it your favourite?
4. What are three things you can't do without when winter arrives?
5. Do you have favourite winter holiday activities?
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dray.1. Do you know of any other words for snow? What's your favourite and why?
2. What's your ideal temperature range for winter?
3. Favourite winter activity? What about it makes it your favourite?
4. What are three things you can't do without when winter arrives?
5. Do you have favourite winter holiday activities?
Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.
If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!
**Remember that we rely on you, our members, to help keep the community going. Also, please remember to play nice. We are all here to answer the questions and have fun each week. We repost the questions exactly as the original posters submitted them and request that all questions be checked for spelling and grammatical errors before they're submitted. Comments re: the spelling and grammatical nature of the questions are not necessary. Honestly, any hostile, rude, petty, or unnecessary comments need not be posted, either.**
Birdfeeding
5 March 2026 01:10 pmysabetwordsmithToday is cloudy, mild, and wet. It rained on and off yesterday, then stormed last night. Everything is still soaked.
I fed the birds. I've seen a small mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
More crocuses are blooming -- lavender, purple, white, and pale yellow. :D The grass, which in recent years has retained bits of green through the winter, is suddenly much more green with growing tips visible.
EDIT 3/5/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
It's mizzling rain again.
EDIT 3/5/26 -- I did a bit of work around the yard.
Many more flowers are blooming! :D There are buds of purple-and-white crocus in the rain garden and orange in the goddess garden. The first miniature irises are blooming periwinkle and red-violet in the tulip bed.
EDIT 3/5/26 -- I did more work around the patio.
I've seen a female cardinal at the hopper feeder.
I am done for the night.
I fed the birds. I've seen a small mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
More crocuses are blooming -- lavender, purple, white, and pale yellow. :D The grass, which in recent years has retained bits of green through the winter, is suddenly much more green with growing tips visible.
EDIT 3/5/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
It's mizzling rain again.
EDIT 3/5/26 -- I did a bit of work around the yard.
Many more flowers are blooming! :D There are buds of purple-and-white crocus in the rain garden and orange in the goddess garden. The first miniature irises are blooming periwinkle and red-violet in the tulip bed.
EDIT 3/5/26 -- I did more work around the patio.
I've seen a female cardinal at the hopper feeder.
I am done for the night.