Quick Rec Wednesday

Wednesday, 16 July 2025 13:44
dancing_serpent: (The Untamed - WWX - resentful energy)
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Rec time! Did you read/watch/listen to something you really liked and would love other people to know about, too? Don't have the time or energy to make a full promo post, or think such a small thing doesn't merit a separate entry?

Here's your chance to share with the class! Just drop a comment with a link and maybe a couple of words in description. No need to overthink things, it can be as simple as Loved this! or OMG, look at that!. (You don't need to keep it short, though, write as much as you want.)

Check out the previous entries, too!
badly_knitted: (Rose)
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Title: Face Of A Vampire
Fandom: BtVS
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Angel.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 400
Spoilers/Setting: Angel.
Summary: Buffy is in shock after discovering that Angel is a vampire.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 485: Face.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.



Just One Thing (16 July 2025)

Wednesday, 16 July 2025 08:03
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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!
bluedreaming: (pseudonym - greenbench)
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Fandom: Narnia
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: The title is from CHRISTMAS EVE by Liz Berry and After You Died by Deryn Rees-Jones.
Summary: In which Eustace is interrupted while eating breakfast.

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Made a long, rambling post on one of my most favorite characters in c-novel/c-dramas to date: Lin Xi from Nirvana in Fire 2 | The Wind Arises in Changlin, if anyone is interested in reading. (She's also icon girly although she seems a bit blurry noooooo...) It's been over seven and a half years since, and you might think that wow, that's a long time to be remembering a character for, and well...you'd be right :). But also, genuinely, I think she's one of those characters I've now connected so deeply with it's like she's become 0.1% of my soul as well. 

I also wanted to share here 10 quotes I love from her, so this is a little bit of a messy quote translation compilation from the novel/drama (also at the end of the ramble post). 

1. 世人对医家最大的误解,莫过于我们是神仙。如果有就不回来的病人,那一定是因为没有尽力。
The biggest misconception the people of the world have about doctors is that we are gods. If there are patients we cannot save, it must be because we didn't try hard enough.
 
2. 我是医家,自小读的是医学宝典,想的是济世救人。至于世上为什么会有这样的事,我从来都想不明白。
I am a doctor; I've studied only the medical texts since I was little, and only thought about saving all the people I could. I've never understood why such things happen in the world. 
 
3. 既然做不到安守内宅,以夫为天,又何必去负累他人呢。
Since I cannot reconcile with a future of only staying within the household and look up to my husband as the sky, why should I burden others as well?
 
4. 我是大夫啊,面对这种情况我不可以走!
I am a doctor; when faced with such a plight I cannot leave!
 
5. 人但凡有心,又岂能不伤呢。(drama only)
As long as humans have hearts, how could they not break. 
 
6. 一个人能够承受的悲伤是有限的。
There is a limit to how much suffering an individual can take. 
 
7. 我医家之心,只愿济世救人,不图身后虚名。
True doctors only wish to save as many patients as they can, and disregard fortune or fame after death. 
 
8. 这世间最令人心折之处,不就在于人人不同而各有所长吗。
The most enchanting aspect of the mortal world is the fact that all people are different, yet they can excel in their various passions.
 
9. 我理解你的立场和做法,也从未想过改变你的念头。但我也没办法为了你改变我自己。
I understand your perspective and your actions, and have never thought about changing your mind. But I also cannot completely change myself for you. 
 
10. 我的心会永远等着你,可是我的脚步不能因为等你而停留。
My heart will forever await you, but my footsteps cannot pause in wait of you. 


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Specifically I have tracked down a copy of Treatise on Man, which is probably the source of the claim I've seen phrased several ways, most eyebrow-raisingly and also most readily to hand by Steve Haines, attributing to Descartes the idea that pain is

something similar to hearing, it is a fixed signal and measurable response

and it turns out I've got access to a whole entire PDF which turns out to be only 71 pages, including quite a lot of fairly large images, so I suppose I'm going to read Descartes now as a break from working my way through the BBC's Higher revision guides on neurobiology, which is itself a detour from reading the introductory text on nerves aimed at undergraduates...

(The things I've actually been reading today consist of two chapters of Hyperbole and a Half, a partial chapter of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, both as Shared Activities with A, and about half of A Handful of Flour, a recipe book I have owned for quite a while now and am rapidly concluding I might no longer wish to dedicate shelf space to...)

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I haven't participated in this comm in ages, but round 15 at [community profile] celebrity20in20 featured my own texture pack, one I always found really hard to use, so I thought it would just be fair if I tried my hand at it now. I usually find 20in20s stressful, and tend to make filler icons just so I can complete the set, but this time it went relatively easily and I am happy with most of these. (The texture pack was still really hard to use. :D)

Teasers:


20 icons of Mehdi Nebbou )

The splatter textures to be used are here: https://icon-resources.dreamwidth.org/3602.html

Concrit welcome! Comments adored! Credit appreciated! Take and use as many icons as you like. If you want to know whose textures and brushes I use, apart from the horribly hard to use ones I make myself ;), take a look at my resource post.

Previous icon posts:

Costume Bracket: Round 4, Post 6

Tuesday, 15 July 2025 18:27
purplecat: The Tardis against a sunset (or possibly sunrise) (Doctor Who)
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Two Doctor Who companion outfits for your delectation and delight! Outfits selected by a mixture of ones I, personally, like; lists on the internet; and a certain random element.


Outfits below the Cut )

Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!

Voting will remain open for at least a week, possibly longer!

Costume Bracket Masterlist

Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.

Just one thing: 15 July 2025

Tuesday, 15 July 2025 09:39
[personal profile] jazzyjj in [community profile] awesomeers
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!

28 icons from The Untamed

Tuesday, 15 July 2025 14:07
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 Hi, guys! Just posted 28 new icons from The Untamed over here in my journal. They are all free to take and use.

Preview
   

Link to the icons in my journal

Admin: Tag culling

Monday, 14 July 2025 18:17
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While we figure out what to do with the challenge tags, we are continuing our project for combining the oldest fandom tags that have only been used once. As always, this is a rolling project as we mods have time, and we'll post the list each time so that anyone who would like to create a second work for one of these fandoms has the opportunity to save it from our pruning!

For this round, here are some single-use tags that haven't been used since 2019-2020, and how we plan to replace them:

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Stars Without Number, With Adventures

Monday, 14 July 2025 20:33
schneefink: Babylon 5 (Bab5)
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We've now played four half-day sessions of our "Stars Without Number" campaign and I'm having a lot of fun.

Our party owns and operates a mining ship, and our first two sessions featured quite a bit of asteroid mining, and also a rescue mission and exploration. Then the space pirates attacked! Not us directly but the space station we are currently based at, so we helped fight them off. And then our latest session was mostly shopping & intel gathering & planning: it sounds like there's an entire fleet of pirates, likely from outside the system, and they've sabotaged and possibly taken over several stations/planets/routes. We'll find out more next time!, which sadly won't be until September because of vacations.

I really like my character. I'm a teleporter! (Talk about wish fulfillment.) Partial psychic/partial expert, because I thought being a full psychic would be overwhelming and I was mostly interested in one discipline anyway. Being able to teleport is so cool. I can teleport 1000 kilometres already and take three people with me.
I'm also really happy with my role in the party. In our main campaign I'm the youngest cat in a group of older and more headstrong cats, which I found difficult sometimes. This time I decided to play a character with more authority, and I've enjoyed it a lot. While all of our party members own the ship together and have equal say, on the bridge I'm the captain; and more importantly, I'm the one keeping track of our money and inventory. (Idk why our GM was surprised that I made a budget and business plan after the first session ^^ )
Our DM told us to prepare back-up characters in case we die, and I did, but I really hope I survive. I even ordered a nice mini figure for her :) As a party I think we've good odds of survival: we have a medic, a biopsionic (=healer), and I can teleport us out in emergencies. Fingers crossed.

I also really enjoy the system, both the setting and mechanically. Playing in a sci-fi world is a welcome contrast after around three years playing in a fantasy world as cats. And playing someone with supernatural abilities feels especially cool after three years as a non-magical archer.
One thing I didn't expect to enjoy this much is leveling up. In our previous system we earn adventure points and we can spend those on improving abilities/skills/etc., but it's more gradual, which tbh makes more sense in-universe. Buuut, leveling up just feels cool. Especially when I can pick new abilities.
What I like less is how ship combat works. So far it's been a little tedious as it seems like half the party always has very little to do; but I suspect that's also because our combat options as a mining ship are limited. We'll see how it goes. We just upgraded our weapons because of the pirates.

Once again our GM has underestimated how long it'll take us to get through his plot so we'll have to see how far we get/what happens when our fifth cat comes back from her year abroad. But until then I really look forward to our next adventures.

28 icons-The Untamed

Tuesday, 15 July 2025 00:24
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 Hi, guys! Just posted 28 new icons from The Untamed over here in my journal. They are all free to take and use.

Preview
   

Link to the icons in my journal

Ninth Doctor Icons

Monday, 14 July 2025 19:34
purplecat: The Ninth Doctor with decorative effect with the number 9 (Who:Nine)
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The Tardis with the ninth doctor leaning against it in the botton corner. The Ninth Doctor, side view, greyish background. The Ninth's Doctor's face with a dalek behind him. THe Ninth Doctor grinning The Ninth Doctor.


Snagging is free. Credit is appreciated. Comments are loved.
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[community profile] sunshine_revival posted up their fourth topic, even as the heat continues to hammer the Northern Hemisphere, along with humidity, and many of us hide in our climate controlled buildings against it.

We’re heading towards the middle of July, and I hope the weather is treating you kindly this summer, no matter where you are. Any fun plans so far? I’ve spent this week on the mountain, reconnecting with family and staying in a pretty cool house. And talking about houses…

Challenge #4:

Fun House
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.

Creative: Write from the perspective of a house or other location.
What makes you happy? )

More laughs and happiness later!

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