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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-06-18 12:37 am
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-06-18 12:36 am
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Cuddle Party

Everyone needs contact comfort sometimes. Not everyone has ample opportunities for this in facetime. So here is a chance for a cuddle party in cyberspace. Virtual cuddling can help people feel better.

We have a
cuddle room that comes with fort cushions, fort frames, sheets for draping, and a weighted blanket. A nest full of colorful egg pillows sits in one corner. There is a basket of grooming brushes, hairbrushes, and styling combs. A bin holds textured pillows. There is a big basket of craft supplies along with art markers, coloring pages, and blank paper. The kitchen has a popcorn machine. Labels are available to mark dietary needs, recipe ingredients, and level of spiciness. Here is the bathroom, open to everyone. There is a lawn tent and an outdoor hot tub. Bathers should post a sign for nude or clothed activity. Come snuggle up!

For the upcoming 4th of July, enjoy some of my previous posts about fireworks. Watch a video of fireworks going off and fireworks fail.


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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-06-17 10:31 pm
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Today's Smoothie

Today we made a smoothie with:

1 cup Brown Cow vanilla yogurt
about 1 to 1 1/2 cups fresh seedless watermelon chunks
1 frozen banana
about 2/3 cup frozen strawberries
1 teaspoon lime juice

The result is bright pink and a little thicker with the frozen banana, with a notable watermelon flavor. This is a definite improvement over the previous version and I quite like it. \o/
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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote in [community profile] recthething2025-06-17 07:31 pm

A few recs from Diagetic Exchange

[community profile] diegetic_exchange is for in-universe fanfic/RPF/etc. Here are some things I enjoyed from it!

Babylon 5

Stars Uncrossed: My Vorlon Sex Story! (1300 words, explicit)
OF COURSE there is Vorlon/human reader insert smut on Future Space AO3, and of course there are some very recognizable Space AO3 usernames in the comments. The author's notes are also pure gold. MINBARI DNI.

Megamind

Am I the Asshole for impersonating someone else to be with my girlfriend? (700 words, Megamind/Roxanne)
The most in-character thing ever. The comments are great, and also extremely in character.

Murderbot Diaries

Bot Sacrifice (600 wds, gen)
Sanctuary Moon fanfic with ART's inline beta comments. Hilarious and very them, and also very touching.
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pairatime ([personal profile] pairatime) wrote in [community profile] smallfandomfest2025-06-17 05:07 pm

Fanfic: Hit The Floor (tv); Jude/Zero; it was Jude who shot Jelena making it Zero’s turn to be Team

Title: Nothing I wouldn’t do for you
Author: Pairatime
Fandom: Hit The Floor (tv)
Pairing/Characters: Jude/Zero
Rating/Category: R/Slash
Prompt: it was Jude who shot Jelena making it Zero’s turn to be Team Jude
Spoilers: The Summer special
Summary: Zero realized what Jude had done and stays by his side.
Notes/Warnings: This didn’t go how I had planned but then with Jelena involved should I be surprised.

Link:AO3
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-06-17 05:43 pm

Where do migratory birds have their home?

Where do migratory birds have their home?

Below are just three screenshots from a series of 16 photos on the Instagram account of somadifusa (Laura Ortiz), of murals she and the tattoo artist Azul Luna (Instagram account azulunailustra) painted in Bogota, Colombia.

I'm captivated by these images both of traveling swallows, some bearing backpacks and baskets, some with shells on their back like hermit crabs, and of hearts that are also nests, or that morph into shells, or sprout flowers and eyes. "Home is where the heart is," or the heart makes the home
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Kalira ([personal profile] kalira) wrote in [community profile] smallfandomfest2025-06-17 03:15 pm

Fanfic, Moon Child (2003), Kei & Sho, choices

Title: No Choice At All
Author: [personal profile] kalira
Fandom: Moon Child
Ship/Characters: Kei & Sho
Rating/Category: T/Gen
Prompt: Moon Child (2003), Kei & or / Sho, choices
Spoilers: through the end of the movie
Summary: Choices made, choices taken - points that define and bound relationships, people . . . hearts.
Notes/Warnings: N/A
Wordcount: 1,515

Read on AO3

(I don't believe there's a tag for this fandom yet, but I've used the other applicable ones!)
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-06-17 03:07 pm

Birdfeeding

Today is partly sunny, steamy, and hot.

I fed the birds.  Sparrows and house finches have been all over the feeders today.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 6/17/25 -- I checked the grass patch by the garden shed.  Something had eaten about half the seedling clover.  :/  So I sowed more Bee Lawn Mix, watered that, and watered the recently planted wild indigo.

EDIT 6/17/25 -- I took some pictures around the yard.

My wildflower garden is swarming with baby praying mantises, at least two hatches.  I've seen a tiny brown one and a slightly larger green one.  :D

I've seen a mourning dove in the forest garden.

EDIT 6/17/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 6/17/25 -- I picked a bag of mulberries along the street and in the savanna.  

Fireflies are coming out.

EDIT 6/17/25 -- I trimmed low-hanging branches in the house yard.

I hauled a large branch to the ritual meadow and broke it up for the firepit.

My partner Doug has mowed the ritual meadow.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote in [community profile] drabble_zone2025-06-17 06:32 pm

FAKE: At Liberty [Challenge 454: Liberty]


Title: At Liberty
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 454: Liberty.
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Dee and Ryo try to decide what to do with their unexpected half-day off.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.



At Liberty


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a million times a trillion more ([personal profile] dolorosa_12) wrote2025-06-17 01:08 pm

I wish this were an exaggeration

What I have seen, essentially wall-to-wall across social media, for the past week:
-'Why is no one talking about [this atrocity]?'
-'Why are people talking about [this injustice and not that injustice]?' (Often two different posts by two different people, in quick succession, with said injustices reversed.)
-'What you are doing in response to [this injustice] is insufficient.'
-'If you haven't mentioned [this atrocity] on your social media, you're part of the problem.'
-'If you've mentioned [this injustice and not that injustice] on your social media, you're a hypocrite and part of the problem.'
-'You're protesting the wrong way.'
-'Protesting when it's permitted by the state isn't real protest.'
-'These protests are all a bit cringe, aren't they?'
-'You're condemning [this atrocity], but not in the right way.'
-'You're condemning [this atrocity], but far too late.' (This coming, without irony, from the same people I witnessed several years ago saying, 'it's never too late to find courage and speak out publicly against [this same atrocity].')

What I have seen, in much smaller numbers — a little fragment struggling to stay afloat in the deluge:
-'[This injustice] is an injustice for these specific reasons, and here is something concrete that anyone reading/viewing this post can do to help.'

Needless to say, whenever I witnessed the latter, I actually did the things suggested, and felt much more of a sense of agency and purpose, than when I saw the former.

(And obviously I recognise the irony of being irritated by people complaining about what they see/don't see on social media rather than trying to offer concrete solutions to the consequences of major (geo)political injustices ... and then writing a whole post complaining about what I see/don't see on social media. But I am just. so. tired.)
jazzyjj ([personal profile] jazzyjj) wrote in [community profile] awesomeers2025-06-17 06:28 am
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Just one thing: 17 June 2025

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-06-17 05:11 am

Photos: Thrifted Paintings

I found these three paintings at the Thrift'n'Sip Indoor Rummage Sale. There is a seascape, a forest, and a flower garden with a birdbath.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-06-17 12:02 am

The Great Farting Oxygen Event

This is the earliest mass extinction we know of on Earth, and it may well have been the worst.  However, it usually doesn't appear on the standard lists of major mass extinctions.

Currently we are in the Anthropocene, whether people want to admit it or not.  We are also in the midst of the Anthropocene Extinction, whether people want to admit it or not.  See the insect apocalypse, amphibian apocalypse, and bird apocalypse

Despite these grim statistics, humanity is not the most destructive species the Earth has ever known.  That honor goes to whatever organism first discovered fire, harnessed the power of the Sun, and farted so much oxygen that almost everything else died.  
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-06-16 11:01 pm
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Asp ([personal profile] senmut) wrote2025-06-16 09:08 pm
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Daily Check In

*\o/* Word Count Step Count Headache?
Daily 3,418 6,649 yes
Monthly 13,032 164,994 4 days