Nominations closed!

Sep. 23rd, 2025 09:50 pm
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Nominations are closed, with 240 fandoms and 1344 characters/relationships in the tagset!

Fire Emblem Series nominator: your nomination of Ashe from FE3H has been accepted into the broader series tag, as it was nominated. If you would like to have it moved to the more specific Three Houses tag, please comment and let me know.

Everyone, but especially people with large numbers of relationships in your fandoms: please take a look at your fandoms in the tagset and drop a comment here if you notice and duplicates under the same fandom tag. I'll be looking through the tagset tomorrow to try to weed these out, but more pairs of eyes always help at this stage.

The tagset is here for reviewing! Signups will open on the 25th, definitely by 9pm PDT and probably earlier.

Tuesday word: Banshee

Sep. 23rd, 2025 11:08 am
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Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025

Banshee (noun)
banshee Or ban·shie [ban-shee, ban-shee]


noun
1. (in Irish folklore) a spirit in the form of a wailing woman who appears to or is heard by members of a family as a sign that one of them is about to die.

Related Words
demon, devil, phantom, shadow, soul, specter, vampire, vision

See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com

Origin: First recorded in 1765–75; from Irish bean sídhe “woman of a fairy mound”; bean “woman” (from Old Irish ben; queen ) + sídhe “of a fairy mound” (from Old Irish síde, genitive of síd “fairy mound”; sídh )

Example Sentences
It was the fewest points the Lakers had scored in a playoff win since 1991 — a real celebration of the banshee stuff the coaches had been preaching for months.
From Los Angeles Times

When he heard the news he says he “wailed like a banshee for 20 minutes”.
From BBC

At the same time, he continues to throw himself a great pity party, wraps himself in his solipsistic view of victimhood, wailing like a banshee and gnashing his teeth in anger.
From Salon

At times sweet naif, at times screaming banshee, she seems not quite human, like the strange half-duck/half-dog creature that follows her around the scientist’s house.
From Seattle Times

On “Devil’s Advocate” from the recently released album “sneek,” Gallant’s lilting croon ushers in Martin’s smooth sax while a sound like a banshee’s lullaby flurries in the upper register — in a good way.
From Los Angeles Times

Fuck cover letters, for realsies.

Sep. 24th, 2025 03:57 am
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Ugh, today I had to write a cover letter and it sucked. I usually don't bother because I am deeply uncomfortable with the entire process of attempting to sell yourself, but this particular job came via Sibling and required a bit more effort. Ugh. Just. Ugh. SO tiring.

Helped out in the garden by breaking trimmed branches into small pieces so more would fit in the bin, afterwards. That was nice. Didn't need any brain, which was good as I was all out.

What else. Um. Lots of reading this evening, and some minecraft. That's about all. Now I nap!

Monday: Ormolu

Sep. 22nd, 2025 06:28 pm
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ormolu [ȯr-mə-ˌlü]

noun and adjective

1. the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold–mercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and objects finished in this way

examples
1. Specialists stabilized the ormolu (gilt bronze) and enamel panels and, most critically, dismantled and repaired clockworks that had been corroded by dirty floodwaters. Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 21 Oct. 2017
2. "Oh, come, Miss Pebmarsh. What about the beautiful Dresden china clock on the mantelpiece? And a small French clock--ormolu. And a silver carriage clock and--oh, yes, the clock with 'Rosemary' across the corner." The Clocks by Agatha Christie.

origin

French or moulu, literally, ground gold

ormolu

And today, a sadness.

Sep. 23rd, 2025 02:30 am
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I found out today someone I've seen around in fannish circles - not knew, or ever spoke to, but seen around semi-regularly for idk at least 15 years - died earlier this year. :( And so, I am sad. It's not really grief, I didn't really know them, but still. They were part of the community and now they're gone and it sucks. :(

There are many reasons why getting older is hard, and this is very much one of them. Particularly for someone like me, who's mostly had older friends, but just in general, too. The longer you're around the more people you know die, that's just... how it works. Alas. :(

Anyway I don't really have a point or anything. I'm just sad.

Soon! October Review-a-Thon!!

Sep. 22nd, 2025 05:19 pm
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We're getting very close! XD

Sign-ups are still open; they are, in fact, open until Oct 30 :D We have 11 unclaimed days (though of course, you can claim already claimed days, too, if that's what works best for you) and it'd be super cool to fill up some more!

You can review anything from cookbooks to short stories to novels or comics AND MORE: if you think it counts, it counts. There's zero (0) consequences for missing a claimed day <3 Let's have fun together! XD

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Event: AspecEx
Event Link: [community profile] aspecex
Pinch Hit Link: Current Pinch Hit Post
Due Date: October 7th 10PM PST

[community profile] aspecex is an Asexuality and Aromanticism themed multifandom exchange. You must create a fanfiction that is a minimum of 300 words. We have 4 initial pinch hits that are due at the assignment deadline.

Assignment Requirements

PH 1 - 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), 魔尊也想知道 - 青色羽翼 | Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know - Cyan Wings, Dark Souls (Video Games), Bloodborne (Video Game), Elden Ring (Video Game), The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

PH 2 - James Bond (Craig Movies), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Unfit to Print - K. J. Charles, Lilywhite Boys Series - K. J. Charles

PH 3 - Bridgerton (TV), Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), Little Women (2019 Movie - Gerwig), Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), This Means War (2012), Wonka (2023)

PH 4 - Leverage (US TV 2008), Tortall - Tamora Pierce, Emelan - Tamora Pierce, Keeper of the Lost Cities Series - Shannon Messenger, Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis

For more details/to claim, view the pinch hit post.

Creators Revealed

Sep. 21st, 2025 08:00 pm
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Creators for Just Married 2025 have been revealed! Many thanks to all of this year's participants, with special thanks again to our wonderful pinch hitters. We couldn't have done it without you!

If you have feedback for the exchange, you can e-mail marriageex@gmail.com or comment on this post.

Hope to see you again at next year's weddings!

Jiiii

Sep. 22nd, 2025 02:42 am
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I did NOT have much in the way of brain at all today. Basically just read, and played some Minecraft in the evening. Which is fine, it's Sunday, if there's ever a day to veg out without worrying about it it'd be Sunday.

Still, I DID manage to get myself to have a shower, since I need to go get meds tomorrow, so I still have SOME brain left! :D Not displeased with this, no.

And now Sushi's making a nuisance of himself, which does tend to mean it's 'go the fuck to sleep o'clock' - not that that stops him, it's just a semi-reliable reminder - so I'mma do that, yes.

Prompt table challenge: check in #3

Sep. 22nd, 2025 12:55 am
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Check in #3!

How's your writing going?

How many prompts have you made it through? How many stories?

Even if you've only been poking little bits here and there, any writing you've done is more writing than you had before.

If you've not written yet, consider this a gentle nudge to take a look at the prompt table and consider working on something today.

As usual, feel free to share writing links or snippets or the like too!

Sunday Word: Hierophant

Sep. 21st, 2025 03:50 pm
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hierophant [hahy-er-uh-fant, hahy-ruh-, hahy-er-uh-]

noun:
1 (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
2 any interpreter of sacred mysteries or esoteric principles


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Examples:

To the delighted worshipers, Cody Goodfellow, here a Most Exalted Hierophant, delivered a sermon that started with growled mentions of 'doom-engines, black and red,' 'great hammers of the scouring' and so on. ( Elisabeth Vincentelli, A Festival That Conjures the Magic of H P Lovecraft and Beyond, New York Times, April 2022)

The number five also equates to the hierophant card in tarot, which is associated with spiritual guidance and learning. (Olivia Munson, What does 555 mean? Details on what angel number means for your relationships, work life., USA Today, January 2023)

According to local legend, the tradition began as a solution to a severe famine in Bode, with a hierophant suggesting that piercing one's tongue would improve the state's condition. (Ani, Nepal: Bode's 30-year-old Sujan Bagh Shrestha continues century-old annual tongue piercing tradition, Tribune India, April 2025)

At the corner plaques she fitted her movements to their design--wild in Spring, languorous in Summer, in Autumn a bacchanal, in Winter a tempest. Before the throned Ceres she became a hierophant, and her dance a ritual. (John Buchan, The Blanket of the Dark)

The hierophant was a revealer of holy things... It was essential that the hierophant should be a man of commanding presence and lead a simple life. (Dudley Wright, The Eleusinian Mysteries And Rites)

And here, from the venerable hierophant, who from a strict sense of duty had left his sick-bed to come hither and instruct me, the words seemed to possess a peculiar meaning and value; his simple appeal to my own sense of rectitude had all the force of a profound thought extracted from a world of thinking. (Herbert M Vaughan, Meleager)

Origin:

'expounder of sacred mysteries,' 1670s, from Late Latin hierophantes, from Greek hierophantes 'one who teaches the rites of sacrifice and worship,' literally 'one who shows sacred things,' from hieros 'sacred,' from PIE root eis-, forming words denoting passion + phainein 'to reveal, bring to light' (from PIE root bha- 'to shine'). In modern use, 'expounder of esoteric doctrines,' from 1822. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

Hierophant, hieroglyphics, and hierarch have a common root: hieros, a Greek word meaning 'sacred.' Hierophant itself joins the root with a derivative of phainein, which means 'to show.' The original hierophants were priests of the ancient Greek city of Eleusis who performed sacred rites. In the 17th century, when the word was first documented in English, it referred to these priests. By the 19th century, English speakers were using the term in a broader sense. A hierophant can now be a spokesperson, a commentator, an interpreter, or a leading advocate. (Merriam-Webster)

Saturday!

Sep. 21st, 2025 02:27 am
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Pretty chill day today! Went for a walk with Mama, which was fun! For whatever reason (and it really shouldn't've been overexertion) I had to pass out when I got home though, so that was annoying. Tried to not, read a bit and and did some sewing and stuff first, but nope. Had to. Body what are you up to I ate breakfast and lunch and drank water and took my meds and did an exercise! My blister's even gone down without popping! Bleh.

Other than that, not a lot. Played minecraft this evening, as usual, hahaha. That's about it.

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Title: I Love All of You

Author: Missy

Fandom: A Room with a View (1985)

Characters: George Emerson, Lucy Honeychurch, and the entire main ensemble

Pairings: George/Lucy

Word Count: 5,000

Rating: E/Explicit

Warnings: No Achieve Warnings Apply; this is rated for smut.

Summary: How George and Lucy spent the fall and winter before their spring wedding. Or: Sex lessons with everything including the tip featuring George's reading skills, Lucy's determination, and Edwardian social mores being upended by under-the-table handjobs.

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