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Admin Post: Drawing Challenge #72 - What Makes You Happy

Thanks to mekare, who suggested a version of this prompt.

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Challenge #72: What Makes You Happy

We all need some positive vibes these days, so this month the challenge is to draw or paint anything that makes you happy, or that makes your favourite characters happy. It could be a person, a place, a garden, a cup of tea or coffee, a pet, a stack of books - anything at all!

If you're into Star Trek, Spock could be what makes Jim happy, or for Blackbeard, it might be Stede. You can draw something fannish, or something personal, as long as it makes you or your characters happy.

A round-up post for submissions to this challenge will be done at the end of July.

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trails in the sky sc liveblog part 4

i guess it's not really a liveblog since i'm writing this after the fact. whatever.

anyway, i've finished trails sc! took about 55 hours; thank god for the turbo button during some of the more tedious parts. a spoiler-free review is below, followed by indepth talk on chapter 8 and the final chapter.

Lives up to its predecessor in terms of scope of world and story, but gets bogged down by so-so villains in sharp contrast to the excellent character writing of the main party. The majority of the game retreads areas from FC, though the new dungeons are a joy to explore. Worth it for Estelle and her story, but some patience is required to tolerate the parts in between.

( spoiler talk )

on to 3rd! i think i'll start it tonight, but i may not get further for a few days. also, now that i've finished SC, i'm looking forward to the FC remake even more... there were some callbacks in SC to stuff i'd really quite forgotten in FC, and it'd be nice to revisit. the new graphics are truly gorgeous; i saw a gifset today and just about cried seeing kloe in motion. THAT'S MY GIRL.

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Admin Post: Drawing Challenge #71 (Pride!) - Round-Up Post

Congrats to those who took part in this challenge!

drawing of a group of smiling, diverse people holding up the pride flag, and smaller asexual and bisexual pennants. Two women are kissing. Text at right says: Pride - Drawesome Challenge 71.

drawing of a group of smiling, diverse people holding up the pride flag, and smaller asexual and bisexual pennants. Two women are kissing. Text at right says: Pride - Drawesome Challenge 71.

Entries submitted for Drawing Challenge #71 - Pride:

Caeneus/Riddy sketch by mekare - Kaos, G
Show Your Colours by mific - Stargate Atlantis, G
Jim by goss - Our Flag Means Death, G
Joan and Meredith by mific - Stargate Atlantis, G
Goodbye Kiss by mekare - Star Trek: Discovery, G

As usual, this challenge as well as all of our previous challenges will remain open, so you can continue to submit entries to the community any time after the Round Up date. Be sure to tag your art post with the challenge name, so that it can be added to the list.

Thanks to all who participated in this challenge! :)

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Light Black #19, Realgar #8 [The Fulcrum]

Name: Lost
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Light Black #19: Endure, Realgar #8: Pause
Styles and Supplies: Life Drawing, Graffiti (Disability Pride Month), Brushes (July 3 2025: Desultory), Calendar Page (StartTheConversation Day)
Word Count: 2793
Rating: PG
Warnings: Discussion of slavery
Characters: Setsiana, Liselye, Qhoroali
In-Universe Date: 1912.1.1-3
Summary: Setsiana tries to find a place for herself in 1912.

( Lost )

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rounds 151-175

Round 152 Is Open!

AO3 may be down but we're not!

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Sign Up July 4 - 6!

Need to get some words in? The Weekend Writing Marathon (WWM) is a writing challenge designed to help you do just that. You set your own writing goal for the weekend and work to achieve it before reporting back to the group on Sunday night.

How do I participate?

1. Reply to this post with your weekend writing plans–be as specific (or not) as you’d like.

2. Start writing on Friday 12:01 am local time. Work to meet your goal by Sunday night at 11:59 pm local time. You can work on whatever you want during this time.

3. Post your accomplishments to the Finish Line post at the end of the weekend (even if you didn’t reach your goal).

How do I report my accomplishments?

A Finish Line post will go up on Sunday. Reblog that post with your final word count/accomplished goal(s) by Monday at midnight local time. Totals from the weekend will be posted on Tuesday.

This challenge is currently running on 2 platforms: pillowfort, and dreamwidth. If you sign up on this platform, please respond to the Finish Line post on this platform.

Let us know if you have any questions!

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Feeeeeels

I dreamed of Number Five from The Umbrella Academy a fortnight ago, and now I'm rewatching S1 & S2 and my brain is being eaten alive by feels. I haven't seen S3-4 yet, and since I have heard many terrible things about the series finale, I'm a bit worried, but I'll definitely at least watch S3 once I'm done with my rewatch.

It's been quite a few months since I was really obsessing over a piece of media, and it feels so nice to have proper blorbos again!

I love Five a normal amount. I'm surprised Aidan Gallagher isn't utterly ripped from carrying the whole show. What a fantastic character, and such stunning acting skills from someone who was literally 14 when they started filming for S1. What. When I was 14, I was failing math class and starting to write Yu-Gi-Oh fanfiction.

Anyway, so naturally, I've been perusing AO3 and reading everything I can get my hands on. Normally I'm not that picky about fanfics, but it seems that with Five-centric stuff, I am! So far, I have found only one series I like, and the rest was kind of meh. That never happens to me. But I constantly find myself going, 'He would not say this. There's no way he'd do that. He would not fucking say that.' Ha. I can see where this is going. I'm gonna dig up my old post-S2 AU fic that I started writing in 2020.

My writing server is doing a July camp event! It's a lot of fun! We all get points for completing different tasks each day (start a new scene; edit one page; reach your daily word count goal, etc.) and then get to play around on a "world map" Excel sheet based on which things we did. It's just a large expanse of green squares, and when we've got enough points we can set up a tent, till fields, grow trees, and such--by inserting emojis into the green squares. It's kind of Stardew Valley-like, but with writing. I love everything about this, Our admins are amazing at coming up with this stuff.

My July writing has started slow, on account of all the TUA fangirling. Also, we had our first big heatwave this week. 39 degrees (102F), in houses built to store and preserve heat, with no AC! It was... not fun. But I had a Discord date with my girlfriend on Wednesday, which made the so-far hottest day of the year infinitely better!

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Writing Sprints July 4-6

what’s a 1k1h?|| time zone converter || 1k1h Calendar

All sprints are run on Discord only. You can find our Discord server here.

Friday ( time zone converter)

8am PT/ 11am ET/ 4pm UTC Max

11am PT/ 2pm ET/ 6pm UTC LittleMissTPK

1pm PT/ 4pm ET/ 8pm UTC LittleMissTPK

5pm PT/ 8pm ET/ 12am UTC Treefrogie84

7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Sat UTC Alec

Saturday ( time zone converter)

4am PT/ 7am ET/ 11am UTC PreciousAnon

7am PT/ 10am ET/ 2pm UTC Treefrogie84

9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 4pm UTC Treefrogie84

12pm PT/ 3pm ET/ 7pm UTC LittleMissTPK

4pm PT/ 7pm ET/ 11pm UTC Treefrogie84

7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Sun UTC Joe

Sunday ( time zone converter)

4am PT/ 7am ET/ 11am UTC PreciousAnon

7am PT/ 10am ET/ 2pm UTC Treefrogie84

9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 4pm UTC Treefrogie84

11am PT/ 2pm ET/ 6pm UTC PreciousAnon

1pm PT/ 4pm ET/ 8pm UTC Treefrogie

5pm PT/ 8pm ET/ 12am Mon UTC Treefrogie84

7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Mon UTC Joe

Current Mood: pensive

The Friday Five for 4 July 2025

This week's questions were suggested by

lord_azurewave.

1. Who is your best friend?

2. Why did you become friends?

3. How did you meet?

4. Why have you stayed friends?

5. How long (realistically) do you think you'll be friends?

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.**

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thinking about someone I should not bother thinking about

Once upon a time, I was friends with a guy named Jim. A very, very few of you might know him. Almost all of you won’t.

I walked away some years ago, blocked him on the socials over his support for the fascist, because I said that the fascist’s promises absolutely, positively, literally required American concentration camps, and that’s what he was supporting by supporting the fascist, and I could not abide that…

…and yet, he carried on, saying I was a fool, and that none of it would ever happen.

(I asked him then why did he support someone he insisted was lying to him. I do not remember getting an answer, before I quit.)

So now that we have American concentration camps…

…and now that people with direct access to the fascist are talking about sending literally every American citizen of Latino heritage there to die…

Laura Loomer on X, screencap-quoted on Bluesky:"Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now."El Norte Recuerda on Bluesky, who posted the screencap:"The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us."

(it will require more concentration camps than that, of course, but that’s a detail which makes no difference)

I wonder…

…has he yet been moved to repentance?

Or is he still a good and solid member of that wretched cult?

It’s immaterial now, of course. We are long past the point where the pebbles’ opinions matter, and crimes already done cannot be undone.

But once in a while, I think of it.

And for a moment – a pointless, irrelevant moment – I still wonder.

Posted via Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected.

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Fancake Theme for July: Working Together

Photograph with added text: Working Together, at Fancake. Workers in India use wide wooden paddles with long handles to shove a huge yard of drying grains into big piles. The grain, most likely rice, is a beautiful golden color, and there's a mix of western and traditional clothing among the seven men and women.

fancake is a thematic recommendation community where all members are welcome to post recs, and fanworks of all shapes and sizes are accepted. Check out the community guidelines for the full set of rules.

This theme runs for the entire month. If you have any questions, just ask!

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to do

Monthly Roundup Returns

sunshine_revival's first challenge is goals/plans for the month, just in time for me to actually post my monthly plans roundup. (A couple of days late, because hot.)

So here goes:

( June )

July's plans are to survive being too fucking hot.

( July )

There is another part to the challenge but I'll worry about that later, if at all.

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Thursday, July 3 - Free for All

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All Tags Checked

The tagset is now in a reasonably final state. If your nomination does not appear in the tagset, please contact me here or at tentaclemod@gmail.com for any last minute changes or questions.

If you notice anything wrong, please don’t hesitate to contact me! Signups will open in approximately 6 hours as scheduled.

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New Multifandom Challenge Comm: Dreams and Mayhem

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Global Ranking

https://xkcd.com/3110/

Starting a meta-leaderboard for tracking who holds the record for ranking behind the most distinct people on an online leaderboard.

https://xkcd.com/3110/

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[#265 | Trickster] Challenge Post

Challenge 265:
TRICKSTER

a dishonest person; a person skilled in the use of tricks and illusion; a cunning or deceptive character appearing in various forms in the folklore of many cultures

Maybe he’s a con man, tricking other people out of their money or time. Maybe she’s a stage magician who can make your keys disappear and reappear in the blink of an eye. Maybe they’re an ancient being who’s been around for a very long time and enjoys playing tricks on unsuspecting mortals.

How does it go? Are your tricksters good at what they do, or could they use a little more practice? Do your other characters enjoy the experience?

Write a story about a trickster.

BONUS GOAL: “You can just call me ‘goddess’. Most people do.”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!

Challenge ends Monday, July 7 at 9:00PM EST.

• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 265 – trickster
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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Tokurecs (Belated) June 2025 Monthly Self-Reccing Period

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