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I'm Keystone, and I'm an old Dreamwidth hand who left for a while but am now returning. I've been searching around for any communities that I can join, and this seems up my alley! I'm a fanbinder, and I'm slowly posting my old binds here as a redundancy measure in case Tumblr bites the dust / becomes inaccessible (something my neighboring country did till 2018). Hope I'll be a contributive member here!

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3_good_things_a_day

1) a hot water bottle to sooth my aching shoulder muscles

2) a longer lunch break than usual. Going to enjoy the sun ^^

3) finished reading a good book, and now working on my crochet project again ^^

ysabetwordsmith

This year during Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I'm writing about reading as a way of becoming an expert in a given subject. Read Part 1: Introduction to Becoming an Expert, Part 2: Architecture, Part 3: Dance, Part 4: Music, Part 5: Painting, Part 6: Poetry, Part 7: Sculpture, Part 8: Conflict Resolution, Part 9: Cooking, Part 10: Coping Skills, Part 11: Gardening, Part 12: Relationship Skills, Part 13: Repairing, Part 14: Survival Skills, Part 15: Archaeology, Part 16: Biology.

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth Part 17: Chemistry

Chemistry is the science of studying matter, particularly how different substances interact with each other. Its subfields include astrochemistry, biochemistry, environmental chemistry, and geochemistry among others. At home, kitchen chemistry is both amusing and useful. Aspects of chemistry include history, famous people, and famous discoveries. Here on Dreamwidth, check out

common_nature,

environment,

naturaldyes,

science, and

scienceworld.

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth April 25-May 15

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These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Economics
Birdfeeding
Artificial Intelligence
Poem: "How Great You Really Are"
Space Exploration
Birdfeeding
Books
Climate Change
Books
Philosophical Questions: World
Poem: "Restoring Them to Their Former Glory"
Buffalo
Birdfeeding
Follow Friday 5-8-26: Muse
Wildlife
Birdfeeding
Moment of Silence: Ted Turner
Low Tech
Community Thursdays
Space Exploration
Birdfeeding

Poem: "Walnut Park" has 46 comments. Early Humans has 22 comments. Philosophical Questions: Pregnancy has 80 comments. Safety has 83 comments.

Last week's Poetry Fishbowl went well. I am still writing.

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth is running April 25-May 15. People aim to make a new post each day, or participate in various activities to celebrate the platform.

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth April 25-May 15

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Introduction to Becoming an Expert
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Architecture
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Dance
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Music
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Painting
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Poetry
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Sculpture
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Conflict Resolution
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Cooking
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Coping Skills
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Gardening
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Relationship Skills
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Repairing
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Survival Skills
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Anthropology
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Biology

"The Worst Thing in Life" opened and closed within a few days. Quain tries calling his friends to talk about recent accomplishments, but the only person willing to talk with him is someone he hasn't contacted in a couple of years.

"No Faster or Firmer Friendships" has 50 new verses. It belongs to Polychrome Heroics and needs $35 to be complete. Josué reads a funny poem to Maria-Vera.

The weather has been variable here. We got some rain the other day. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a pair of cardinals, a male and a female rose-breasted grosbeak separately, a male Baltimore oriole, a brown thrasher, a blue jay, a gray catbird, and a fox squirrel. Currently blooming: pansies, violas, sweet alyssum, alliums, marigolds, honeysuckle, snapdragons, lantana, million bells, blue lobelia, petunias, portulaca, nemesia, wild chives, wood hyacinths, columbine, peonies, irises, mock orange. Green fruit: mulberries, raspberries.

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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!

dialecticdreamer

Evening Update
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1b of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1113
[Late Sunday night, 12 November of 2017]

:: On the way home, chasing the last minutes of Sunday, Jules runs into Cold Cash on the way to pick up something from the grocery. Both end up at Bennett’s tattoo parlor. Part of the Lodestar story arc in the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::

“You look like a man trying to untangle a problem,” Cash declared. When Jules reached for the seat belt, he frowned at the shape of it, with the buckle sitting higher than in a standard truck. An extra section descended toward the floorboards, but Jules couldn’t tell much about where it was anchored. “Five point harness, with a crotch strap to keep you from submarining.”

“Sub-what?” Jules waved the question off. “Talk me through getting this fastened, then tell me what submarining is? I can tell by your tone that it’s bad, at least.”
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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 Sunday, May 10, to midnight on May 11 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34583 Daily check-in poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 17

How are you doing?

I am OK
11 (64.7%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
6 (35.3%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
7 (41.2%)

One other person
6 (35.3%)

More than one other person
4 (23.5%)

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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Our new challenge is:

AVALANCHE

As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you.

Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Wednesday, May 20th. No sign-up required.

Mods will tag your work for fandom. When you've posted entries to three consecutive challenges, you will earn a name tag, and we'll go back and tag all your previous entries with your name, as well.

All kinds of fanworks in all fandoms are welcome. Please have a look at our guidelines before you play. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact a mod. And if you have any suggestions for future challenges, you can leave them in the comments of this post.

You can view stats for

fan_flashworks entries and search and filter them via the Community Report and Creator Report. See our FAQ post for more details.

Also, keep an eye out for the next

ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the

ffw_social comm, it's never too late to come and check it out. (Posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)

teaotter posting in

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The Gentle challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

Queen Susan the Gentle: The Chronicles of Narnia: Icons: Gentle, by

innitmarvelous_og
Criminal Minds: Fanfiction: Close to You, by

infinitum_noctem
Inspector George Gently: Fanfiction: Gently in the Darkness, by

lucy_roman
Miss Marple: Fanfic: Appearances Can Be Deceptive, by

smallhobbit
Heated Rivalry: Fan Fiction: Paying a Price, by

darkjediqueen
Gentle: Kirby/Project Hail Mary (2026): Fanfic: curious little pink thing, by

ecto_one_spengler
Torchwood: Fanfic: Parenting Problems, by

badly_knitted
Torchwood: Fanfic: Handle with care, by

m_findlow
no fandom : icons : soap bubbles, by

highlander_ii
Viola come il mare: Fanfic: Change of Plans, by

veronyxk84
Wiseguy: fanfic: where your worries go, by

teaotter
Hyouka (Kotenbu): Fanfic: the distant hill comes over to us, by

bluedreaming

Thank you to everyone who participated! You're now free to post your entries to your journal or wherever else you'd like. If you're archiving on AO3, you can add your work to our fan_flashworks collection there.

The Community Report and Creator Report will be updated shortly with the entries from this round. See our FAQ for more details.

New challenge coming right up!

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Fandom: Hyouka (Kotenbu)
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Content notes: canonically dead character
Author notes: The title is from Hallucinating in the Dark by Jin Haishu, translated by Simon Patton. In addition, REGISTER OF GHOSTS: HAI ZI gave me the idea to go in a ghosts direction, and Gentle Sentences on Winter’s “secret language” and CLOSING CREDITS’ musing on words/language made me think of Hyouka as a fandom due to Chitanda’s character.
Summary: What if Oreki could see ghosts? How would that (not) change anything?

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Title: where your worries go
Fandom: Wiseguy (tv)
Content notes: none
Challenge: Gentle
Length: 100 words

Summary: Carlotta Terranova, and the weight of a mother's concern.

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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.

This Week's Question: What do you wish you could get right first time, every time?

If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

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Current Location: my desk

ysabetwordsmith

When School Taught Me Basic Finance, Badly

The other day I wrote about the question Who should be teaching kids basic finance? Some point to schools and say schools should be teaching it; others point to parents and say it's their job. I noted that one difficulty with asking schools to do it is that they're already overloaded trying to cover basic academics. (And really the reason they're so overloaded on that is public school teachers end up spending, like, 90% of their time trying to manage behavior problems.) I also noted that schools seems ill equipped to teach it because, at least the one time a school I attended did try to teach basic finance, the whole lesson was basically a fail.

I would say that it's useful to teach basic finance BOTH at home and at school. That way if one skips or does a bad job, the other has a chance to pick up the slack.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is mostly sunny and mild.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches, a blue jay, and a fox squirrel. :D Blue jays are fun.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 5/10/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 5/10/26 -- I planted the pussy willow at the north edge of the savanna.

EDIT 5/10/26 -- I picked up sticks in the south lot, but only got as far as the birdgift tree. There were a LOT of sticks and they filled the trolley, which I dumped in the firepit. My partner Doug is out mowing a path around the prairie garden.

EDIT 5/10/26 -- I trimmed grass around the small garden beside the maple tree. The burgundy iris is open and smells musky-sweet. :D

We walked around the newly mowed parts of the prairie garden path. Much raking to do before anything can be sown there, but the sowing needs to wait for a rain forecast anyhow.

EDIT 5/10/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I've seen a gray catbird at the hopper feeder.

EDIT 5/10/26 -- I dug a hole for planting in the west hedge of the savanna.

I've seen a male rose-breasted grosbeak in the forest garden.

EDIT 5/10/26 -- I planted the sandbar willow in the west hedge.

My partner Doug re-mowed the south lot.

EDIT 5/10/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I watered the recently planted things in the savanna.

I trimmed around the goddess garden. I still need to do a lot of work on that one: installing the goddess statue for the summer, digging out weeds, getting moss rose and thyme to plant.

EDIT 5/10/26 -- We burned off the firepit. \o/

I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Generative AI vegetarianism

Hello, it’s me: I’m a generative AI vegetarian.

The tech industry is convinced this is the future; every app on my phone and most of the apps on my computer want me to use their new AI features.

I don’t want any of them. I want to write my own emails. I want to write my own (mediocre) software code. I want to learn and think and ponder with other humans, not with a text-prediction system built by consuming all the text on the internet.

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After spending the winter along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, Gray Catbirds are back in Vermont!

gray bird with dark cap perches on top of a suet feeder with suet on its bill

gray bird with dark cap perches on top of a suet feeder with suet on its bill

They're named for their characteristic nasal "mreeennnh!" call that sounds like a cat impatient for dinner. They're related to mockingbirds and can also mimic other birds' songs and miscellaneous noises, but unlike mockingbirds which tend to perform an imitation several times in a row clearly, Gray Catbirds do a chattery stream-of-consciousness jumble of bits and pieces of different things.

The all-gray plumage with a darker cap makes them easy to recognize. In this photo you can also see a glimpse of the rust-red undertail coverts. Males and females look alike. Their bills are black; this one's looks mottled because it's got suet on it. We've had two in the yard lately which are both very into the suet, and they will fly in and rudely body-check the other one off the feeder if they feel like it.

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Title: Change of Plans
Fandom: Viola come il mare
Author:

veronyxk84
Pairing: Viola Vitale/Francesco Demir
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Ellipsus)
Spoilers/Setting: Set post-series.
Summary: A gentle kiss, a forgotten movie. Viola and Francesco choose each other over everything else.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #514 - Gentle
Also for: #119 - A Better Idea by

drabble_zone

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( READ: Change of Plans )

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1) More gorgeous weather so far, I even went for a walk this morning

2) Excellent coffee to get me properly awake

3) Dinner at my parent and therefore time on the much loved swinging bench

ysabetwordsmith

This year during Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I'm writing about reading as a way of becoming an expert in a given subject. Read Part 1: Introduction to Becoming an Expert, Part 2: Architecture, Part 3: Dance, Part 4: Music, Part 5: Painting, Part 6: Poetry, Part 7: Sculpture, Part 8: Conflict Resolution, Part 9: Cooking, Part 10: Coping Skills, Part 11: Gardening, Part 12: Relationship Skills, Part 13: Repairing, Part 14: Survival Skills, Part 15: Archaeology.

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth Part 16: Biology

Biology is the science of studying life. Its two main subfields are botany (studying plants) and zoology (studying animals) but there are other branches such as evolutionary biology, genetics, mycology (studying fungi), paleozoology (studying extinct animals), and so forth. Aspects include history, famous people, and regions. Different cultures have very different approaches to biology too. Here on Dreamwidth, check out

birdfeeding,

common_nature,

environment,

gardening,

naturaldyes,

petchat,

science, and

scienceworld.

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