Quick Rec Wednesday
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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.)
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Face Of A Vampire
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Title: Face Of A Vampire
Fandom: BtVS
Author:
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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)
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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.
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Face: Narnia: Fanfic: to be with you (a wild thing cohabiting)
Tuesday, 15 July 2025 23:12![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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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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C-Novel/C-drama Character rambles/Quote translations - Lin Xi (Nirvana in Fire 2)
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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).
today I have been dragged kicking and screaming into maybe reading some Descartes
Tuesday, 15 July 2025 22:01![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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...)
20 icons of Mehdi Nebbou for celebrity20in20
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Costume Bracket: Round 4, Post 6
Tuesday, 15 July 2025 18:27![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
( 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
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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.
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28 icons from The Untamed
Tuesday, 15 July 2025 14:07![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Admin: Tag culling
Monday, 14 July 2025 18:17![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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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![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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
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Sunshine Revival/Challenge 2025 #4: Happiness
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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…( What makes you happy? )
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.
More laughs and happiness later!