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Just One Thing (30 August 2025)

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!

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Letter Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Left Behind

Title: Left Behind
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Scott, Varian, Fred, Paul Jordan.
Rating: PG
Setting: Atlanteum.
Summary: Scott is hurt that his dad went back to their own time without him.
Word Count: 300
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 489: Amnesty 81, using Challenge 354: Letter.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Mods, please tag with f: tv (category)

( Left Behind... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Check-In Post - Aug 30th 2025

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: Share your favourite crafting tip, if you have one.

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!

red challenge: marvel comics: fanart: red

Title: red
Fandom: Marvel 616
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Artist Notes: watercolor and marker on 6x9 watercolor block
Summary: Natasha Romanoff
Other Notes: created for

fan_flashworks amnesty #81: challenge #64: Red

( red )

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Covid vaccine access at pharmacies

Because RFK Jr. is out to get us, CVS (and possibly other pharmacies) isn’t shipping the updated covid vaccine in 16 states. https://www.idse.net/CDC-News/Article/08-25/CVS-stops-COVID-shots/78068

In Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Nevada, state law says pharmacists can’t give vaccines that aren’t CDC-approved. In another 13 states, they can, but it requires a prescription.

These are state laws, so call your state respresentatives.

Here’s a script, and the Massachusetts phone numbers:
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This is in addition to calling your doctor’s office (if you have one) to ask for the vaccine.

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salad

ISRAELI SALAD

ISRAELI SALAD
Prep time 20 minutes total time 20 minutes’ servings 4 as a side

INGREDIENTS

1 and 1/2 cups (211g) Persian cucumbers (~2 cucumbers)
1 cup (157g) cherry tomatoes
1/4 cup (15g) Italian flat-leaf parsley
3 tablespoons (27g) diced red onion

1 and 1/2 tablespoons (23mL) freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/4 teaspoon paprika
Fine sea salt and freshly cracked pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

SALAD: In a medium-sized bowl, combine the cucumbers, tomatoes, parsley, and red onion.

DRESSING: In a small bowl, stir together the lemon juice, oil, paprika, and salt and pepper to taste (I add 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper). Whisk with a fork. Drizzle dressing over vegetables and stir to coat.

Current Mood: photographical
Current Location: 'ome from the market

More from Launceston

More woodcarving from the church.

The sheep and the goats.

( Here be pics: )

On Flower's Barrow

( Chased by the rain )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Dash Challenge: FAKE: Fanfic: The Real Thing

Title: The Real Thing
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Setting: Vol. 7, Act 19.
Summary: Dee can’t help wondering if this is a dream.
Word Count: 250
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 489: Amnesty 81, using Challenge 426: Dash.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.

( The Real Thing... )

Saturday 30/08/2025

1) Visit to the hairdresser, still a lot of waiting customers ahead of me but I had reading material with me

2) fresh Strawberries covered in chocolate :P

3) Didn’t buy the things that I could buy next week as well, no impulse buying this time ^^

Current Mood: busy

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holiday,
nature

Wildlife

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Wildlife

Celebrate International Bat Night August 30-31.

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Philosophical Questions: Money

People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

What would happen if a maximum income of was implemented?

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Poetry Fishbowl Report for August 5, 2025

Our theme this month was "Books and Learning." I wrote from 1 PM to 4 AM, so about 13 hours, accounting for breaks. I wrote 2 poems on Tuesday and another 5 later in the week.

Participation was about the same, with 7 comments on LiveJournal and another 23 on Dreamwidth. A total of 9 people sent prompts.

Read Some Poetry!
The following poems from the August 5, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl have been posted:
"He Who Whispers"
"An Inkling of Things to Come"
"To Allow in More Light"

Buy some poetry!
If you plan to sponsor some poetry but haven't made up your mind yet, see the unsold poetry list from August 5. That includes the title, length, price, and the original thumbnail description for the poems still available.

This month's donors include:

janetmiles and

fuzzyred. All sponsored poems from this fishbowl have been posted. There are 0 tallies toward a bonus fishbowl.

The Poetry Fishbowl has a landing page.

Current Mood: busy

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food,
recipe

Today's Cooking

Tonight I am making Ginger Gold Apple Pie. :D I've added 1/2 teaspoon of tapioca starch in hopes of thickening the filling a bit, but otherwise it's the same as before. If you see any, grab them -- these apples only appear for 2-3 weeks, usually in August.

8/29/25 -- Done! it's delicious. The tapioca starch helped, but I should've used a whole teaspoon.

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Just Create - Pussywillow Edition

What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?

Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?

What do you just want to talk about?

What have you been watching or reading?

Chores and other not-fun things count!

Remember to encourage other commenters and we have a discord where we can do work-alongs and chat, linked in the sticky

Current Mood: busy

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Unsold Poems for the August 5, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl

The following poems from the August 5, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl are currently available. Poems may be sponsored via PayPal -- there's a permanent donation button on my Dreamwidth profile page -- or you can write to me and discuss other methods. There are still verses left in the linkback poems "Delight in Another," "A Sense of Weather Changes," "Ouroboros Insects," "The Loving Embrace of Night," "Generations of Cooks Past," "Homefree and Clear, " "One Bite at a Time," "Stars and Diamonds," "Mishpocha," "Changing Your Nature," and "Besa."

"The Most Prestigious Heritage"
Story Date: Sunday, July 12, 2015
Summary: Syrian families create a language nest in Rutledge.
447 lines, Buy It Now = $224

Sabra Mamoud loved working
at 'Aswat Saghira, or in English,
the Little Voices Language Nest.

These poems form a triptych, to be posted in order:

"Where You Find Light"
Story Date: Early June, 2016
Summary: Josué and Aidan set up a house for earthquake refugees, complete with books.
422 lines, Buy It Now = $211

As soon as Aidan recovered
from the Big One flattening him
with the weight of so many deaths
and disruptions all at once, he
began looking for ways to help.

"When You Learn to Read"
Story Date: Monday, June 13, 2016
Summary: Josué reads aloud to refugee children.
286 lines, Buy It Now = $143

Josué parked his bike and
then bounded up the steps
of the big, bright pink house,
already looking forward to
the afternoon's activities.

"No Faster or Firmer Friendships"
Story Date: Monday, June 13, 2016
Summary: Josué and Maria-Vera read together.
515 lines, Buy It Now = $258

Once they finished putting away
all the groceries, the children
and a few adults drifted back
into the living room area.

Current Mood: busy

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Indigenous People

Cherokee, Osage, and the Indigenous North American Type Collection

After five years of community-partnered research with First Nations and Inuit communities in Canada and the United States, Typotheque is proud to announce the release of new Cherokee and Osage script fonts. Accompanying these is the Indigenous North American Type Collection, a large set of fonts that support the Indigenous communities in North America and their unique writing systems, in terms of digital access, use, and local typographic needs.

Speak it. Write it. Read it. Live it. Remember it.

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"Helium Miner's Song" by Catamariner

"Helium Miner's Song" by

catamariner is up for a Pegasus Award.

The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 1

The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 1 by Grrr and Irinbi

An isekai.

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