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1. What item would you be embarrassed for people to know you own?

2. What is something you splurged on just for you?

3. What is something that you own with no real world value that is priceless to you?

4. Do you collect anything?

5. What item belonging to a friend/family member do you covet?

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Current Mood: drained
Current Music: All of Us, from Considering Matthew Shepard

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hurtcomfortex

As there are still unclaimed post-deadline pinch hits and I have had requests for extensions, I am announcing a delay. The new Reveals will be Friday, July 4th.

Pinch hit check-in day will be July 1st, if you currently have a pinch hit or pick one up they will need to be posted or you will need to e-mail me by July 1st.

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100words

Title: beach day
Original
Rating: G
Notes: N/A

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sartorias

It's very poignant to be here again. I'm in Minneapolis so rarely that I can still distinguish each visit, but the overall sense is one of extended memory, that is not just of my own, but of anecdotes from my mother and grandmother about their lives here, my grandmother as a (very) young adult, and my mother as a kid.

Not all the memories of mine are good--the week we spent in Bloomington ranged from weird to horrific, the axis we kid spun around was the sound of my mother crying in the bathroom when my bio grandfather started his daily drinking and turned into a monster. We kids at least escaped with his bio kids (our age, his second marriage) but mom couldn't escape--we had the car.

The city that was best to them all (though mom only got to visit, never got to live there) was Red Wing. I adore that place! There's something so peaceful about Red Wing. And extended memory is very complete, as we heard ALL the stories about life on the farm, etc. But it wasn't idyllic--my grandmother and her older sister had to go--that was the conditions my great-grandmother accepted when she remarried in order to save the farm, around 1930, with the Depression really digging in. The man said he could abide the two younger girls but the sixteen year old (my grandmother) and her older sister had to get out and find their way on their own. Which they did, in Minneapolis, waiting tables.

Anyway I'm here for a con. I came a day early, knowing that getting in at one in the morning would leave me a zombie for a day. The weather is perfect--cool and cloudy. I think I'll go out for another walk.

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Frankalmoigne

I screenshotted this word, but didn't realize it was such a doozy!

This medieval English legal concept is also spelled frank almoin or frankalmoign and describes a tenure by which a religious body holds land given to them, on the condition that prayers for the soul of the donor and heirs are offered.

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https://dailyotter.org/posts/2025/6/12/you-look-like-you-could-be-interesting-human

Via British Wildlife Centre

https://dailyotter.org/posts/2025/6/12/you-look-like-you-could-be-interesting-human

prettygoodword

maxicab (MAKS-ee-kab) - (Hong Kong) n., a minibus used as a shared taxi.

Maxi- gets used to indicate something larger than typical. Its etymology is less direct than others so far -- created in English by clipping maximum on the model of how mini- was apparently clipped from minimum (narrator: it wasn't, it was clipped from miniature). Maximum itself is from Latin maximus, the superlative of magnus, great, making it a cognate with mega-. Other words with maxi- include maxipad ("large [sanitary] pad") and maxiskirt ("large/long skirt," specifically ankle-length).

---L.

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recthething

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fics/fanart/fanvids/fancrafts/podfics/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

melagan

Are you planning out every detail of your story? Or writing on the fly carried by inspiration? A little of both?**

I have notes all over the place. When an idea hits I'll jot it down on anything handy. I should really work on being more organized.

That might explain why my current WIP is looking a little bit too much like the crime board picture. I don't even know how that happened. *facepalm*

It didn't start out with a mystery to be solved. It wasn't planned. That was a damn throwaway line.

I'm pushing through it, and I still like the story I'm working on, but a clear path forward would sure as hell help. Still, progress is happening.

**I refer to writing a lot because that's what I'm working on, but dusting off works in progress also includes art, podfic, or any other creative work.

green_knight

Anyone can be shouty, edgy, and black.

There seems to be more than one band with a pink logo, but this song surely features the most metal instrument of all times:

the recorder.

Watch on YouTube

(For Germans: This is Torfrock. Brings back memories. I got there via Platt folk songs: Dat Du meen Leevsten büst -> Nakich bün ick gor nich mehr so schmuck (from recommendations - c'mon, I had to listen to that [*]) -> other Torfrock songs -> WTF???)

[*] There's an English language folk song, 'I just don't look good naked anymore' of which this is riffing off. And in typical Torfrock manner, it's a lot more direct. ('schmuck' is an adjective used for attractive people, so... yeah. I still understand a fair bit of it. Not all, though, which is annoying.).

Watch on YouTube

Current Mood: amused

sholio

After a couple of years of really struggling with mood and creativity, between burnout and family issues and god knows what (and I know I've been hard to deal with in fandom, at times), things are suddenly ... good! I can write again, I'm signing up for exchanges, whatever has been blocking me has gotten a whole lot better.

July is my birthday month, therefore Best Month, obviously, and I would really like to try to do some kind of "post a short fic every day" thing if I can make it work. Unfortunately I'm suffering a dearth of appropriate challenges, because of course now that I want one and have the mental bandwidth to do something with one, daily month-long prompt challenges and/or bingo card challenges for July are nowhere in sight. The closest thing is July Break Bingo, but I've asked for cards for this before, and I just ... never really do anything with them; I appreciate that it exists, but I think I need more of a - I don't know, social element to it, I guess? Less open-ended, more directed? Their cards just don't really click with me somehow. And I can't find a Tumblr prompt/whump/whatever themed promptfest thing for July.

So I'm kicking around a few different ideas. Why not throw it out to a completely nonbinding poll?

Poll #33243

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 24

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What should I do for July?

View Answers

A custom bingo card/prompt list created (by me) from all my favorite tropes
12 (50.0%)

A personal challenge to finish older inbox prompts/unwritten prompts from past fests
7 (29.2%)

Find a prompt list from a previous (non-July) fest that I didn't do at the time, and use that
5 (20.8%)

Ask my flist for new prompts until I get 31 of them for fresh inspiration
8 (33.3%)

Run a comment fest over at the Biggles comm
6 (25.0%)

Something else that I will suggest in comments
0 (0.0%)

chestnut_pod

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Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: The Crow, The Owl and the Dove by Nightwish

mxcatmoon

I've wondered a lot recently: how can these evil, hateful people who literally want "others" dead call themselves Christians. How do they not see their hypocrisy?

I found this video to be informative and explained a lot.

Watch on YouTube

Current Mood: thoughtful

dine

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mistressofmuses

For the start of Pride month, a sticker from NerdyKeppie's "Proud to the Bone 2" pin collection.

And my tiny printout of the show flyer, since we don't get hard copy tickets anymore.

(It's a bit hard to write this from the perspective of it being the week Before, but I'm trying.)

This was a fairly busy week! It was a good week, and I made it through the first big rush of busy, but still feel like I have a lot to catch up on. FastCAT, the gardens, and the concert were all really good. Work was average to fine. I do hope to do more reading and writing next week, since it feels like that's where progress is most stagnant.

Goals for the week:

I did post my book reviews for May
I started, but didn't finish, catching up on DW
I watered my plants
I read more of Maeve Fly
I did my getyourwordsout check-in: 1666 words written in May, bringing the ytd total to 58483
We went to the Botanic Gardens with my mom and Taylor
We did Bella's FastCAT
I talked to mom and saw her briefly on her birthday
We went to the Aesthetic Perfection show
I wrote up and posted my June writing goals
I printed off some short stories for my mom
I put my laundry away
I still haven't cancelled the dentist appointment
I still didn't make it to the bank
I still didn't finish part 3 of the snowflake outline
Alex did get rent paid

Tracked habits:

Work - 5/7
Household Maintenance - 3/7
Physical Activity - 3/7
Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 2/7 - one day of over 1000, one day of over 500
Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 0/7
Meta Work - 5/7
Personal Writing - 5/7
Other Creative Things - 3/7
Reading - 6/7 - mostly I started reading Maeve Fly, and read some Duma Key with Alex
Attention to Media - 7/7 - Sunday I had some youtube in the background at work; Monday half-watched some exploration videos; Tuesday had storm chasing and abandoned place videos in the background; Wednesday was more storm chasing in the background; Thursday we watched some storm chasing (they found an impressive tornado!) and I listened to music (mostly Aesthetic Perfection in preparation for the show on Friday); Friday we went to the concert; Saturday listened to music (mostly Whorticulture, Solar Fake, and Aesthetic Perfection.)
Video Games - 0/7
Social Interaction - 5/7

Total words written: 4712 on my book reviews and writing plans

I am still very sad, and I'm trying to strike the balance between "being gentle with myself" and "wallowing."

Current Mood: sad
Current Location: my apartment
Current Music: Standing - VNV Nation

james

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petra

Make an ass out of u and me (1431 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker, Depa Billaba/Obi-Wan Kenobi/Shaak Ti/Quinlan Vos, Aayla Secura & Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Aayla Secura, Quinlan Vos, Shaak Ti, Depa Billaba
Additional Tags: A+ Jedi Pedagogy, Polyamory, POV Outsider
Summary:

Anakin has the most boringly perfect master in the entire Jedi Order. Some masters go on interesting missions; Obi-Wan does diplomatic missions where he sits at a table and says, "Hm, well…" a lot till he gets his way. Some masters have showy, dangerous lightsaber styles; Obi-Wan does Soresu, which is as purely defensive as anything anyone has ever devised. Some masters are fully-rounded people who drink and laugh and dance; Obi-Wan stays in with his three best friends and talks about philosophy all night, because he is a perfect Jedi, and so are they.

Current Mood: Alive, Dead, & Bloody Furious
Current Music: And your friends are my friends

sovay

I got home to find the day's mail had brought my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #83, containing my poem "Below Surface." It is a poem of empire; I wrote it at the start of the third week in January after shouting, "I ran out of curse tablets!" It bears about as much relation to the realities of the Emperors who died at Eboracum as the medieval Welsh legends of Constantius and I see no reason that should impair its efficacy. The issue it belongs to is gone, showcasing the elusive fiction and poetry of Steve Toase, Christian Fiachra Stevens, J. M. Vesper, Vincent Bae, and more. John and Flo Stanton contribute interior art as well as the reliable spirit photography of their front and back covers. You might as well pick up a copy before it disappears.

I photographed some ghost windows. I bought myself some white chocolate peanut butter cups.

selkie's gift of tinned mackerel with lemon did not survive the night.

Current Music: Billy Bragg, "A Pict Song"

james

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mistressofmuses

Tiny, silly thing that made me smile at least a bit today:

I have a notebook I bought for myself about 13 or 14 months ago. It's my current "writing notebook" that I take with me in my bag so I can jot things down at any time, with no excuse not to write an idea down. I mostly use it at work. (In actual usage it's more of a journal/to-do list/planning notebook, but at least with a bit of a writing bent.) It's got flowers and mushrooms and bugs on it. It's very cute, colorful, and kind of 'cottagecore', I guess. I bought it because I liked it!

At Christmas, Alex bought me the exact same notebook, because "it looked like something you would like!" ...The same one I'd been carrying around for seven months or so at that point, haha. (To be clear, I was happy with it, because it absolutely *is* something I would like! And now I have a spare!)

Today I got to work, and my manager had bought me... The exact same notebook. I had needed a new one for my work stuff, but figured I'd just get a plain one. She bought it because she knew I liked that size, and it was a cute cover that looked like I'd like it. (She has seen that notebook on my desk at work for over a year.)

Help, I'm predictable. But also it's very funny that I can carry something with me daily, and the people most likely to see it don't remember that... But see it and apparently think of me.

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: at work

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anais_pf in thefridayfive - The Friday Five for 13 June 2025
hurtcomfortexmod in hurtcomfortex - Delay Announcement
analogbasilisk in 100words - 446. Dessert – beach day
sartorias - Minneapolis
calzephyr in 1word1day - Wednesday Word: Frankalmoigne
daily_otter_feed - You Look Like You Could Be Interesting, Human
prettygoodword - maxicab
glitteryv in recthething - Community Recs Post!
melagan - Working with or without a Plan
green_knight - The true meaning of Metal
sholio - Contemplating July activities
chestnut_pod - TEW is up and running :)
mxcatmoon - Hypocrisy epidemic (religious topic)
dine - the failure mode of 'clever' is 'asshole'
mistressofmuses - Habit Tracking: Week 22 (June 01 - June 07)
james - Barf, The Sequel: 2 Barf 2 Napious
petra - Make an ass out of u and me - Star Wars story on the theme of "Obi-Wan: Virgin and/or Whore"
sovay - And then we shall dance on your graves
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The Friday Five for 13 June 2025

Delay Announcement

446. Dessert – beach day

Minneapolis

Wednesday Word: Frankalmoigne

You Look Like You Could Be Interesting, Human

maxicab

Community Recs Post!

Working with or without a Plan

The true meaning of Metal

Contemplating July activities

TEW is up and running :)

Hypocrisy epidemic (religious topic)

the failure mode of 'clever' is 'asshole'

Habit Tracking: Week 22 (June 01 - June 07)

Barf, The Sequel: 2 Barf 2 Napious

Make an ass out of u and me - Star Wars story on the theme of "Obi-Wan: Virgin and/or Whore"

And then we shall dance on your graves

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