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1) This morning I received a mail they had fixed it (the problem I had worked on yesterday) I didn’t expect an answer the first days so I’m overjoyed ^_^

2) Enjoyed the morning sunshine while it was there

3) I’m tackling another administrative task today, with a bit of luck it will be fixed just as quickly

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Hello longhaulers,

FFFX Round 6 ended last month! Sorry for the delay; this exchange is designed for a leisurely pace but that isn't meant to include informative updates.

I am very grateful for your participation and proud of what we all made.

Round 7 will run on a similar timetable but I expect to start nominations in July (yes - only 2 months away) with sign-ups in August.

Please comment on your gifts. If you liked your gift(s) and are pretty sure you commented, please go check right now, and hopefully it's no hardship to click on your gift(s) again. If you aren't sure, please go check. Comments or refusal are required in this exchange, to ensure either positive feedback for creators, or closure.

FFFX round 6 innovated by changing the letter completion requirement; if that affected you, let me know your thoughts! I'm inclined to keep the round 7 rules around letters the same. I'm also pondering how best to clarify my rules around minimum standards of completion in works.

Onwards!

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Image of two swans with their beaks together in semblance of a kiss. It's been edited so it looks like a difusse oil painting, and it largely contains white, blue, black and pink tones. It features the text "DCU FEMSLASH OTP WEEKEND."

For the mini event we're hosting on May 22nd-May 24th, I thought I'd leave a few prompts. You can pick and choose, use any medium you want (fic, art, meta...), or ignore them and do your own thing! This is just meant to aid those people who like a bit of direction.

Relationship Stages: pre-relationship / getting together / established relationship (bonus: exes!). You could redraw their first meeting, or write fic about those first stages when they finally take the step to be together. Talk to us about the growing pains as they find a new rhythm... and if you're like me and you love post-relationship angst, there's a lot to be done with it! Maybe a playlist detailing each stage? The world is your oyster.
Fluff / angst / smut. Play around with tone on each of these days!
Multiple Ships. I know it's called OTP weekend, but many of us have trouble deciding on just one... Maybe you have an OTP that's a very popular ship in the fandom, maybe another one is this one obscure couple in a lesser known tv show, or you have this wild rarepair idea between two characters who never got to meet. Explore them all!
What about having fun with slightly-to-the left structures? Epistolary fics (letters? newspaper clippings?), Outsider POVs, art forms you've thought to try but haven't had the chance to...
What about playing around with some tropes that are the bread and butter of the superhero genre? Identity Porn and similar secret identity shenanigans (two-people love triangles can be such fun), hostage/rescuer situations (and subverting expectations with those, i.e. by having a civilian character do the rescue!). You can find some examples here.

And feel free to have fun with prompt generators if you want some inspiration, such as this AU generator, or looking at prompt lists! This kissing prompts list, for example.

And please refer to the community's sticky post for the baseline rules of the event.

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Title: 'Dreams and Wishes'
Fandom: Original Poetry
Author:

but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: PG
Word Count: 55
Characters/Pairings: Original
Warnings: Mildly depressing concepts
Summary: For others different it might be

( Dreams and Wishes )

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FANDOM: Project Sekai Colorful Stage!
FIC LINK: https://archiveofourown.org/works/82737601
AUTHOR LINK:

chiropteranOddity
RATING/WARNING(S): G, No Warnings
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Completed, 2,507 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Shiraishi An, Aoyagi Toya

FIC SUMMARY:

The apartment is quiet. Almost eerily so, for the Shiraishis'. Toya makes his way to An’s room and knocks gently on the door. “Shiraishi? Can I come in?”

For a moment, there's just a quiet rustling sound– then An's voice pipes up. “Yeah, all good!”
She sounds… surprisingly upbeat. Toya pushes the door open.

He looks inside to see An sitting on her bed in day clothes, a significant upgrade from some other days he’s visited. A quick scan of the room tells him more; it isn't too messy, and the bed is made. The balled-up tissues beside the bin aren't quite as plentiful as they were last week.

She’s doing better.

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In the aftermath of their confrontation with Taiga, Toya helps take care of An, as his teammate and best friend.
(written for the Ready Steady zine!)

RECCER'S NOTES: LIGHT UP THE FIRE lives rent free in my head, even after all these years. What a wild, shocking, totally-unrealistic-in-that-way-only-gacha-games-can-be event! What's even worse, the setup was there all along. I could see it coming from a mile away. It still hit me like a freight train.

Anyway, the fic: An's grief is so specific to her circumstances, and so… not. As in, her grief is still relatable and incredibly gripping to the audience. I was starting to taper off of PJSK around this point, so I'm not sure entirely how An's character was handled from this point on, but from what I saw at the time and what I see now, I still think we moved on too quickly from this event. Let that girl GRIEVE, holy moly!

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Part 95a of 105.

Max Lord, as Giffen and DeMatteis conceived him, was a challenging character to work with. They relished that challenge, but their successors often treated him as a problem to minimize or avoid. “Rich manipulator with a heart of gold but moments of egomania and Machiavellianism” can be a tricky balance to strike. ( It’s worth trying, though. I watched every episode of 2017-2021 DUCKTALES, but noped out on SUCCESSION halfway through the first episode. )

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Title: Ninefox Gambit (Machineries of Empire #1)
Author: Yoon Ha Lee
Genre: Fantasy

I went out of town for my little sister’s graduation this weekend and finished two books on the trip! The first was Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, a fantasy-in-space story about a young infantry captain who has the soul of a famous traitor embedded into her mind to assist with a tricky military campaign.

I nearly had to eat crow on this book because I’ve said so many times I prefer when SFF books just dump you into their world rather than giving you an expositional primer, but Ninefox Gambit really tested my commitment to that. The first third of this book is a whirlwind of terms, practices, and concepts that not only are never explained, but for which the context is nearly nonexistent. I think you simply have to accept being confused to enjoy this one, which is why many reviews did not.

Semi-related, this may dress itself up as sci-fi, but it is fantasy. This is a magic system. A magic system that makes use of mathematics, but a magic system nonetheless. Accepting that going in will make dealing with the practical jargon much easier.

All that said, I ended up really enjoying this one, and I do plan to read the next two in the series. There’s just oodles of machinations and scheming and recontextualizations that I think are great fun and the end payoff was worth sticking with it.

As is the case with any story of this nature, our resident omnicidal traitor, Jedao, eclipses the book’s actual protagonist, Cheris. It’s just hard for our young, inexperienced infantryman to be as engaging as someone with as much history and baggage as Jedao. But I do think Cheris holds her own and doesn’t become just Jedao’s shadow. Additionally, Jedao, who is the most tactically brilliant mind the empire ever produced, gets plenty of opportunity to shine without making Cheris look like an idiot in comparison, which is a difficult needle to thread as the author. Furthermore, Cheris comes into her own more over the course of the book, which makes sense for her rapidly expanding level of experience.

Jedao is great fun to poke at and learn about, though I won’t say too much here to avoid spoilers. I hope we get to hear more from him in the next books.

Lee tees up the next book perfectly here without ending on a total cliffhanger. Nevertheless, I’ll be getting my hands on book 2: Raven Stratagem as soon as I can.

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Jedao is great fun to poke at and learn about, though I won’t say too much here to avoid spoilers. I hope we get to hear more from him in the next books.

Lee tees up the next book perfectly here without ending on a total cliffhanger. Nevertheless, I’ll be getting my hands on book 2: Raven Stratagem as soon as I can.

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Inspired by a conversation with

shivver .

Take a piece of your work ( or somebody else’s work) and try writing it in a different tense or POV.

greghousesgf

I went to my favorite cafe earlier this afternoon and had a piece of coconut cake. They usually don't even have coconut cake so I was really happy.

Current Music: Motorhead

shadowkat

Has anyone else been noticing that Google and MSN and other browsers are throwing FOX and CBS News stories, but one has to look for other outlets?
Or is that just me? I have to keep steering clear of them.

Also Paramount is blacklisting various actors now - who it considers too liberal. Meanwhile I'm blacklisting/boycotting Paramount and CBS. I won't watch either. At all. I blacklisted Fox News when it popped into existence. It's not that hard? I don't like anything on either. I watch ABC only on cable at the moment - which makes me wonder why I still have cable? (Oh right, I can't figure out how to get rid of the equipment - and they'll refuse to pick it up. What I need to do is come up with a deal in which they gain something by reducing my equipment and it's in their interest to pick it up.) I kind of miss spectrum news - but I refuse to pay $169 a month for it.

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No news on the strike - outside of the fact that they are still negotiating. I honestly wish my vote mattered more than it does - because if it did, we wouldn't be even considering a strike. But alas, no one cares what I think. I want Universal Health Care, Affordable Housing, Rent Control, and Food for Everybody. They did put up a free grocery store or Polymarket in February, it was on 137 7th Avenue. I don't think it exists now. NY and NYC also have health care - entitled MetroPlus or HealthPlus, and if you are a NY Resident you can go to the CUNY and SUNY Colleges and Universites for free (these are the NY State Universities and City Universities.)

The problem with money - is people never have enough of it. They always want more, or what the other guy has.

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Been comforting myself at work - listening to Charisma Carpenter's Bitch is Back podcasts of all things. I'm as surprised as anyone by this news.

She says things like:
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And that she's not crazy about hugs, they make her uncomfortable, she's not sure why - maybe it's the breasts or previous trauma? I felt seen. Because I feel the same way. It's also kind of hard to hug folks when you are almost six foot with big breasts, and they are five foot two. It's just painful.
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Carpenter has also pointed out a few things that didn't occur to me previously? ( Read more... )

Another thing Carpenter says that is endearing? "It's hard to be a human being."

I'm by no means a fan? But I do like Carpenter and find her Bitch podcast comforting and entertaining

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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 Monday, May 11, to midnight on Tuesday, May 12. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34585 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 15

How are you doing?

I am OK.
8 (53.3%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
7 (46.7%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
8 (53.3%)

One other person.
3 (20.0%)

More than one other person.
4 (26.7%)

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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Wild Boys [FANVID] byberlynn_wohl. Fun edit of the Penguins of Madagascar movie, and it doesn't shy away from using the whole song.
The Crochet Buffyverse by girlpire. Wonderful crochet dolls of various Buffyverse characters (the collection is ongoing).
Francis Forever by Bo Burton. Vid utilizing animated drawings depicting Merlin and Arthur, and a happier ending for them.
We Didn't Start the Fire by beccatoria. I've seen a couple of vids using this song, and it's always interesting to see what's going to get chosen for each historical item. This one was for Avatar: the Last Airbender + The Legend of Korra and there are some really wonderful (and funny!) choices. Definitely the sort of vid you'll want to rewatch a few times just to appreciate it all.
The Nutcracker by gyrhs. Merlin and Arthur comic about an Arthur transformed into a nutcracker, and his rescue. Wonderful art!

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