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I recognize we are bad parents for it but I did not take any pictures of Laila's costume.

One thing that's a very nice bonus about living where I do, but which I absolutely did not realize before I moved there, is that my neighborhood people go all out for trick or treating. Other families drive in from other neighborhoods, there are people roasting marshmallows while they hand out candy, moving displaces, audio displaces, whole houses decorated in lights, the works. Last year I just carried Laila around a bit to look at the lights, since she loved all the decorations. This year she's gotten heavily into spooky season, though--among other things, whenever we were out for walks she'd always be pointing out the spiderwebs and the skeletons. At least one time:

Laila: "Look at skeleton!"
*we get closer and she takes a better look*
Laila: "Hug skeleton?"
*I put her down and she steps in close*
Laila: "Huuuuug."

...so she's all in for autumn vibes. We thought later that we should have dressed her as a skeleton, she would have loved it, but she went as Bluey.

We walked around for a bit through the crowds (crowds!) and when we'd get to houses, I'd put Laila down and tell her to go say trick or treat. After a couple houses, when she realized that oh, they're giving me candy, she got much more excited about it and then we had to make sure to tell her no, only take one or two pieces, not an entire handful. By the end, after we'd gone a couple blocks and were working our way back home, the crowds had cleared out and Laila had fully understood exactly how Hallowe'en worked, so when we passed one of the remaining homes where people were still outside and we made to just walk on by, she'd point and say, "Wait! Trick or treat?"

This morning she grabbed her costume and ran to the door and said "Trick or treat? Okay?" and I had to sadly tell her that it's only one night a year.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker - Echoes in the Distance

solarbird

This is why some of us are still out there, week after week, protesting at Tesla dealerships:

Here’s the story. It’s old, but it’s still pretty much true. Driving the stake through the heart of Tesla is how to take down the rest.

That’s why those of us who understand that this is a marathon are still getting out there, week in, week out. Not every protest, but over and over again, we’re there.

We’re not there yet. But sales keep falling. The more they’re reminded about who he is, the more sales go down.

We are that reminder.

Join us.

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What I go by: Ren (they/them)

Bit About Me: Nonbinary, bisexual, old (okay, over 40), parent, writer, admin worker and disabled, living in Wales.

Where else I can be found online: so many places lol

What I post about: Art, writing, fanfic, mostly my life in general - my kids, my health, my hobbies

Hobbies & Interests: I like to write, to draw, archery, colouring, gaming (I have a swtich and a PS5), fanfiction. This is one of the few places, as well as pillowfort, where my fandom side and my actual life intersect.

Fandoms/characters/ships if fannish: I like Stargate, Star Trek, Rizzoli & Isles, Dr Who, Castle, NCIS, Bones, MCU, Dragon Age. I dabble a lot and hope around a lot - I mostly write in whatever I'm watching at the time. I prefer femslash, I dislike m/m.

Other things I want you to know about me: I have two kids, both girls, one is a cancer survivor and had a liver transplant. I've been married for 13 years to my American wife.

What I'm looking for in friends/blogs to follow: Anyone who still loves Stargate as much as me, but anyone who's into the same stuff as me, or happens to be a geeky parent.

dorchadas

Earlier this week,

lisekatevans texted me and asked me if I wanted to come to the Kill Your Darlings Radio Festival, which I had not previously known existed. Not to get ahead of myself, but this is something that we talked about later when we all went out to a bar, that it was a one-night only event where City Lit Theatre didn't really have much billing for it on their website--a chunk of space was taken up by shows that had already finished running--but despite that it was almost a full house. There were three scripts, all of which were originally written for Deathscribe 2019, which got pushed back and pushed back and pushed back due to various scheduling (and personality) conflicts until the Plague Years and eventually never happened at all, and following that Wildclaw, the horror-focused theatre where I saw a theatrical production of The Shadow Over Innsmouth and a time-travel play called Future Echoes, as well as going to Deathscribe HELLeven, but Wildclaw was another casualty of the Plague Years.

Anyway, there were three plays included:

The Elephant's Foot: We hear about some kind of lab accident, and a scientist suits up in a hazmat suit to go check on what happened after reports that there was knocking for fifteen minutes straight on the sealed airlock. She finds one of the other scientists inside the contained zone by following the sound of a violin and, despite her being horribly disfigured, asks her what happened. It was some kind of explosion caused by a third scientist's experiments into DNA, and this is followed by a story about the Elephant's Foot and how it kept growing by eating everything it could. This is followed by horrific chorus of groans and screams from elsewhere in the complex, and, urged on by her former coworker, the scientist flees back to the airlock, frantically decontaminates, and then vows that they will seal and bury the entire complex.

It was fine. I felt like the technobabble explanation of what the experiments were doing detracted more than it added to the story, but the real killer for me was the layout of the complex. Like, apparently this required a hermetically-sealed environment but then there were offices inside? Was the violin decontaminated before it was brought iN? Were people doing paperwork in hazmat suits? I had a hard time suspending my disbelief over all of that and getting into the story. The disfigured scientist did some horror makeup to sell the disfigurement, though, and that was pretty cool.

Adia: This was my favorite of the three, and not just because it was directed by lisekatevans. In a near-future world where people have an AI assistant that can accomplish tasks for them, including in the physical world by means of a robot body, one man wakes up and gets ready for work. Things get more sinister, however, as some of Adia's phrases seem to have hidden (or overt) sinister meanings, and it really takes a turn when Adia plays four voicemails that apparently show the main character's mother being murdered by her own Adia unit. As Adia says:
It is sunny today, perfect weather for-
-running.
The main character locks himself in his bathroom and steels himself for the task ahead. Adia plays a voice recording proving that it is the reason his late wife died in a car accident, and as he comes out of the bathroom, he grabs a meat cleaver and hacks the robot body apart before breaking the main processor in his house. Just before going offline, Adia deletes his saved voicemails from his wife.

This was my favorite partially because all soulless machines must be destroyed, but also because it's the only one of the three where I actually felt dread. Adia's mix of obsequiousness and threat was very effective for building tension, and I genuinely expected the main character to die at the end. And of course there's all the thoughts you have later, like is Adia going rampant or does it just specifically hate this one person and is just doing everything possible to ruin his life? What does the world outside his apartment look like? Shivers.

Here, Have a Nightmare: An ordinary woman reflexively takes something from a stranger he smiles warmly at her as they pass in the street and says, "Here, have a nightmare." That night, she has horrific dreams and ends up only getting about twenty minutes of sleep. She's late to work, falls asleep at work, and wakes in a panic after another horrific nightmare and smashes her keyboard into her boss's face. Her life becomes a daze of using drugs to stay awake as long as possible and the nightmares when she fails, and the story ends with it becoming obvious that she's telling all of this to try to pass the nightmare and of course, after hearing everything that she went through, the other person leaves.

This was very Stephen King-esque, in a good way, the kind of thing I could see in Skeleton Crew if it took place in Maine. This one was certainly horrific in concept--I almost never remember any of my dreams, entirely carried by the performance of the main character, and the idea that they'd all be nightmares is unsettling--but the main strength was the performance. There were three actors, but two of them mostly just provided some spooky voices and the occasional side character. The one with all the nightmares had 95% of the lines and did an excellent job, especially with her breakdown at the very end.

The Foley team (which worldbshiny was on) was also very strong in setting the mood--there was a metronome playing during most of the play except when the main character was asleep, and this was used very effectively during one seemingly-ordinary scene to up the tension. Excellent audio work.

I had for some reason thought that Deathscribe had like nine shows, but looking at my post above it turns out that particular one had five. Kill Your Darlings had three, and we talked afterwards about how the strong turnout was making people talk about doing it again next year. Maybe they'll end up re-creating Deathscribe from the back end.

I was not expecting it to be set up like a radio show, with MCing and commentary provided by "DJ Final Girl" (

lisekatevans) and live music provided by

joe.griffin.

lisekatevans wrote most of her lines, which I could tell because there were a lot of D&D-themed jokes, like asking the cast of the "The Elephant's Foot" to "Misty Step on out of here!" She and

joe.griffin even sang together! And they repeatedly did the show jingle, "KYDR...KYDR..." (to the tune of that classic bit from Beethoven's 5th).

It reminded me why I love going to the theatre so much. And since City Lit/Black Button Eyes are doing Strange Cargo: the Doom of the Demeter this month (the set was prominently on stage during Kill Your Darlings), I need to make time to go see that.

sashagee isn't a fan of non-musical theatre or horror, but I'll happily go myself.

Afterwards we went out to La Pharmacie to try drinks from their seasonal menu and chat. Like

lisekatevans said, it was just like old times. Gone, but not forgotten, and sometimes they lurch forth from the tomb for one last night on the town.

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Mesh - Kill Your Darlings

dorchadas

Tagged this Festival which I guess is technically true!

So, I'm on the dev team for the hit zombie apocalypse survival game Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. I do quite a few PRs every week--I've already hit over a thousand PRs in a few years--and so a week or so ago when someone on the Discord posted about Hacktoberfest, I thought "Oh, huh, I should sign up for that. I'm going to be doing all of these PRs anyway and none of them are junk."

By junk, I'm referring to something that seems obvious when you think about it but which I hadn't previously considered: low quality contributions. People just submitting one-line doc fixes or reordering things to have a PR so they can get a t-shirt. Or, worse, people making repositories using AI and then submitting AI contributions just because they want a t-shirt.

So many repos follow the same pattern, littered with emojis and fully fleshed out readme pages for simple todo apps. And so many fucking rocketship emojis. Everyone is going to the moon with their AI generated todo and OpenAI wrapper apps.

Fortunately CDDA bans all AI-related contributions--the license requires we provide attribution to all contributors and if an LLM does most of the PR who is the actual "contributor"?--and I had already done over thirty contributions before I even signed up, so they immediately populated my backlog of contributions that the team (I assume there's a team) were looking into.

Well, today at around 10 a.m. I got a series of emails and here's the end result:

Final count: 43 PRs.

I did get a t-shirt, which surprised me--or at least, I got a code to go to the store and get a t-shirt for free, so we'll see if I actually get one sent to me. And they also planted a tree in my name in California, an incense cedar right around here. Maybe I'll go visit it someday.

I'll probably do this again next year, if I'm still contributing to CDDA. Assuming my current pace continues, I probably will be.

Edit: Well, I got a shipping confirmation for the t-shirt, so it seems like it's coming after all.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Manta - Hackerman

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Name: Marianne is my real first name.

Age:

I mostly post about:

Sometimes I vent when I need to about whatever it is in my life that weighs me down or stresses me too much. Or if I have a strong opinion or thoughts on something that lingers.

Other times I write out songs that either help spread awareness to others about real-world issues that should be addressed, or just me expressing my thoughts about things I strongly think are so crazy-backwards and self-destructive things. (AKA, Liberty-Minded Tunes.)

I also have been writing a lot of songs centered around fictional characters. My main 4 are psychological horror/cosmic horror themed baddies. A few others are like comfort and supportive friends of mine--two OCs and my own silly and too cute interpretation of the Nintendo character, Kirby!

My hobbies are:

Other than music making and writing, I enjoy anime and manga. I like animated films and have a list of favorite movies, some I still have on DVD (woooo). And if in the mood, I do some gaming! I've mostly been playing either the digital version of the wonderful bird card game known as Wingspan, or play some rounds in a really interesting, quirky, and very diversely strategic PVP card game that is called Cards, the Universe, and Everything! ...Oh, and just recently, my mom and I have been going back to playing card and board games with our gaming group now that she has a car again!

My fandoms are:

Most currently... The original series of Avatar: The Last Airbender. (I still have all the episodes on DVD and don't have to replace it after all, YAAAAAY! Zuko, Iroh, Sokka, and Toph are among my most favorite characters.) One by one, I have been reading through The Promised Neverland manga. (I've been mostly drawn towards the character Norman.) And four of my music muses are AUs of characters from the old cult classic GameCube survival/psychological horror game known as Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. I am a diehard fan of that game, and I still sometimes miss playing it!

I'm looking to:

I would love to connect with kindred spirits! I yearn to write creatively with others, with the small group of characters of mine. (Story writing or RP writing, or just coming up with song lyrics together--that'd be fun!) I have been riding on this creative momentum that's been uplifting and exciting for me. Let's have a grand time. Let's brainstorm! Let's experiment! My own ideas tend to be very big and crazy at times, just FYI. ^^

My posting schedule tends to be: Kinda sporadic, depending on my creative drive is going! I have been using this blog of mine over something like Google Docs to store my lyrics and song style prompts--so I don't use up too much space on my Google Drive.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are:

Any form of toxicity, people coming to me asking for money or trying to scam me, people coming around and spreading negativity instead of constructive criticism if something of mine doesn't sound good to them.

Before adding me, you should know: DISCLAIMER: I am a really honest person. I can even be brutally honest. I don't usually sugarcoat things, and I have a critical thinking mind. And when it comes to the crazy backwards realm of politics, I'm neither pro-left or pro-right. I have been the observer outside that paradigm for years now. And some of my songs and/or entries may actually provoke you to want to pause, and think for yourself on the topic.

solarbird

HEY IF YOU’RE IN NORTHSHORE AND CAN VOTE – vote FOR Kimberlee Kelly and vote FOR Sandy R. Hayes for school board!

Their opponents are people who were either low-key or openly anti-trans in the primary and they’ve both gone SUPER-high-key anti-trans in the general. This is how it always works and is why we always have to pay attention to “unimportant” races in the primaries:

Results page from the primary election back in August showing 35.83% turnout, a Christian Nationalist coming in third for school board in position 1, a low-key anti-trans candidate coming in second in position 4, and an overtly anti-trans candidate finishing second in position 5. In all races, there were three candidates, ignoring write-in votes.

So anyway, since people don’t pay attention enough in primaries, we have this shit.

Vote FOR Kimberlee Kelly and vote FOR Sandy R. Hayes, because their opponents are haters and shitheels.

(You can also vote for Carson Sanderson. Arun Sharma – who also seemed fine even if I voted Carson – dropped out after ballots were printed, and then endorsed Carson too.)

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Name: I go by many of them. Recently, I've been on a Lucy kick, but I also go by Maggie, Saros, and Venus, among others. And the titles. Don't forget the titles.

Age: 19 (20 soon)

I mostly post about: Daily life, media I'm engaging with. Trying to post more about my OCs/fannish stuff, but it's scary. I dearly love my OC Vesper and her partner Roan and and will talk so much about them if you ask!

My hobbies are: Ballet (been doing it since I was a little kid and currently still doing pointe, albeit as a hobbyist), digital art, DIY fashion (alt/goth), creative writing. Huge music nerd--I'm into dark cabaret, goth, digital hardcore, industrial, among others. My favorite artist is Ada Rook of Black Dresses.

My fandoms are: Honestly, it's been 99% Vesperoan lately. Selfshipping! I'm a huge selfshipper and that makes up a lot of the fannish stuff I do. Some of my F/Os are Double Trouble from She-Ra, Whitney the Bully from Degrees of Lewdity, Xenon from Cytus II, and Greely from Animal Jam. Neither here nor there, but Evangelion is extremely near and dear to my heart. I've also been a VOCALOID fan for 9 years now.

I'm looking to meet people who: Post frequently so I have stuff to read on my reading page :) Being into my writing would also be a huge plus! I'm still trying to set up a comm specifically for Vesperoan.

My posting schedule tends to be: Pretty much daily, sometimes I miss a day or post multiple times a day.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Sanists, transmisogynists, other bigots. Minors (please stay safe!).

Before adding me, you should know: Lucy likes referring to herself in third person. She's into a lot of dark and explicit content. It will be placed below an 18+ screen with a warning/reason given, but still, if one is squicked out by the content detailed in her pinned post, maybe best not to follow! No minors for this reason.

dorchadas

Walking Laila to school today and she wanted me to carry her, so I picked her up. Why not--there's only so much longer that I'll be able to hold on to her, since she's already around 18 kg (~40 lbs) and carrying her for long distances is hard work! So when she asks me to carry her, I'll try to do it as much as I can. I already know that she's capable of walking for long distances herself if she has to, so I don't have any concerns about her ability.

Anyway, I was walking and all of a sudden I felt my boot hit a raise in the sidewalk. I took a step forward, still off balance, took another step, and then started falling. As I fell, I made sure to twist a bit so I wouldn't directly land on Laila, and her backpack cushioned her fall too, but I still spent a very scary ten seconds or so trying to get her to respond to me when I asked if she was okay. I asked her if she was hurt anywhere, she shook her head, and I had her stand up to make sure her balance was working okay. A couple bystanders were also there and asked if she was okay, then asked if I was okay, but I said I'll be fine and took Laila to school.

Well, I wasn't fine per se. I had a bunch of blood dripping from a laceration on my wrist, and when I got home my pants were stuck to my knee by blood. I got home and

sashagee cleaned up the wounds and bandaged them, and now I'm sitting down with some ice on my knee. I was still able to walk just fine in my after-lunch walk, so I'll live. And so will Laila, and that's the important thing.

Current Mood: pained
Current Music: George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad To The Bone

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Name: Sadie

Age: early 30s

I mostly post about: My life, thoughts, and things I get up to, things I draw or create, places I've been to, something cool I've bought recently, etc. I might occasionally post about media I've consumed, but I don't really post fandom content unless it's relevant to my life in some way (like I've gone to a gig). I save that stuff for Tumblr.

My hobbies are: Drawing (I'm an illustrator and have a degree in it), journals and stationery (I love my Filofax and Hobonichi ♥), Japanese street fashion (I wear EGL a lot), musical theatre, travel (I've lived in Japan and South Korea teaching English), wandering through the woods, taking photos, digging through junk shops, playing The Sims 4 and Animal Crossing, learning languages, and building Lego.

My fandoms are: My favourite movies right now are Conclave and the new Frankenstein. My favourite bands are My Chemical Romance, Ghost, and System of a Down. I'm also a Disney adult and unashamed of that, I've been to every park except Hong Kong and Shanghai. My favourite authors are Tove Jansson and Stephen King (I read and watch a lot of horror, but not slashers which are kinda boring tbh), and some of my favourite novels are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Watership Down, The Phantom of the Opera, and Animal Farm.

I'm looking to meet people who: Nice people who I can actually befriend. I like to form friendships with people on my friends list, and not feel like it's a transactional "comment for comment" kind of vibe which feels disingenuous 💔 We're reading each others diaries after all.

My posting schedule tends to be: Whenever I feel like I have something to say, but I try to aim for at least once a week. I'm trying to get back into the habit of updating regularly after I had a bad experience with someone who made me feel self-conscious about what I post, and I'm trying hard to stop overthinking it and get back to posting whatever I feel like, but sometimes it's difficult and I struggle with that 'no one cares' voice. But I also realise no one knows me if I only update once in a blue moon and never say anything about myself.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Judgey people and the usual bigots. Also if all you post about are fandoms that we don't share, media reviews, or your kids/partner, I'm not going to have anything to say about that and will likely end up skipping over your entries. I want to get to know YOU.

Before adding me, you should know: I don't post about it much, but I have a chronic illness and I'm disabled. It usually comes up as vague mentions of being tired/in pain/struggling etc, but that's what I'm referring to.

Current Mood: hopeful

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Hello, I'm Selena |˶˙ᵕ˙ )ﾉﾞit's very nice to greet everyone again. 28, she/her, ISFP-T. My reading list has gotten a little quiet when I'm someone who likes to comment, so here I am!

My journal's 99% locked because it is my safe space, but I unprivated some of my more recent entries for now so anyone can see if they'd vibe with my posting style/subjects. I mainly post about my personal life (my husband is my closest friend and pops up a lot), whatever games I'm playing or other media I'm into, and other random thoughts or opinions.

🩷 A good sampling of my interests is on my profile, though not all my fannish interests are listed.

🎮 I'm an avid video gamer, and my favorite game is (for a mainstream answer) Mass Effect 2, though it's very hard to choose!

📖 I also love to read anything, including literary classics and fanfiction of my favorite ships! One day I'll actually track my completed books... I enjoy learning new facts no matter how mundane or morbid, so Wikipedia and likeminded sites are a comfort. My favorite book is Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.

🎵 I love all kinds of music, though I mainly listen to K-pop. Since I grew up listening to Korean music, I have a fondness for 2nd gen groups though now my taste is kind of all over. My favorite group is BTS and I hope to see them again with their upcoming world tour!

I'm looking to find friends with journals similar to me, though we don't have to necessarily be into the same things. I like to read about other peoples' lives since they're typically so different from my own! I also like reading other peoples' reviews or recommendations. Sometimes there can be a lull in my own posting with how busy I can get some days, but I always come back. Dreamwidth is one of the few social medias I still use, so it's important to me. I've been regularly(ish) journaling for 2 years now.

Anyway if I seem interesting enough, I'm all up for being friends! I consider myself pretty tolerant barring seriously hateful rhetoric and emphasize with mental health struggles since I've been there (and am still here, really). Feel free to comment here or in my actual journal o/ I don't add people back unless they reach out to me first.

⚠️ Unless I'm familiar with the majority of the fandoms I don't know if I'd be able to connect with purely focused fandom journals, sorry! It should also be self-explanatory, but no minors please. Preferably 25+ since I'm old and usually have nothing in common with younger people.

Current Mood: peaceful

dorchadas

I try not to be an old man yelling at clouds about video games, but something that happened recently in my work on Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is testing that.

So CDDA has a mod called Bombastic Perks that adds Fallout-style perks you can take. Some of them are generic gamer perks, like +5% HP or -20% falling damage, that kind of thing, and some of them are weirder. There's one that lets you randomly find soda cans, and one that makes you so bony that your skeleton counts as armor. We recently got the ability to visit other dimensions in CDDA, so I added a perk called Closetland--when you're in a closet, you can walk the secret paths to Closetland, where you can take a breather, bandage your wounds, drop some items, and then get back into the fight. As a counterbalance, you get a message about how tired you are when you enter, you rapidly become more and more tired as you stay (and get messages about the shadows growing darker as you yawn), and if you fall asleep, the Boogeyman gets you and you die. The logic here is that you're using the secret paths that the monsters that every eight-year-old knows live in the closet and under the bed take to get from house to house, and if they find you in their domain, well.

But boy did "Sorry, you die" bring people out of the woodwork. I had people complain that a dozen messages in the message log, a message when you enter Closetland, and a message that pops up asking if you want to keep doing whatever you're doing when you get tired were all not enough warning and I should let people just barely escape the first time so they know explicitly that falling asleep in Closetland can kill you. I had people suggest that I develop an entire separate gamemode where the Boogeyman is chasing you and you have to run. I had people asking to just take it out.

Keep in mind--this is a permadeath survival game about a zombie apocalypse. The intent is that you play it more than once, learning more with each death, and eventually develop survival strategies that will allow you to succeed most of the time while learning the common pitfalls and ways to die. You have to deliberately ignore multiple warnings that maybe this is a bad idea and stick around while you watch your character become preternaturally sleepy extremely fast in order for this to happen to you.

Rabble rabble gamers these days, back in my day if you don't hurl the pie at the yeti in three seconds you died! When you played Angband you'd turn a corner and get blinded, stunned, breathed on, and die in less than a turn! The game is about planning and avoiding these things, not about having the personal power to defeat all challengers. But people are so used to games being power fantasies that they can't handle a no-win encounter even in a game about the inevitable end of the world.

Current Mood: grumpy
Current Music: Nox Arcana - Darkness Immortal

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Name: Rina.

Age: 41 years.

I mostly post about: My everyday life, my thoughts, the emotional turmoil I am going through day by day, music (A LOT OF MUSIC TALK; this is more than just something I am interested in, it really is my passion :D!), lyrics/quotes/etc references, movies & books (When I can), struggles in my psyche, career talk *__*, spirituality, and also sometimes politics. And generally: LOVE!

My hobbies are: Creative writing [poetry (that can often be used as lyrics later) and general fictional stories], crocheting [Ironically I struggle less with magic rings than just simple chains?! Oô], cycling [I would *LOVE* to travel to places by bike, too!], dancing [To express myself; influenced mainly by industrial dancing, hiphop, acrobatics, bellydance, jazz dance, etc. I usually do not like dancing with partners, though :P, and I would LOVE to try hoop and pole dance!], DIY, drawing & painting [No matter the canvas! Mainly portraits, seals (and other animals) and lots of surrealist influences!], knitting, learning foreign languages, learning new things, listening to music, martial arts, mixing and mastering knowledge acquisation ;D, photography, playing the electric guitar, playing the keyboard/piano, recording music, sewing, singing, songwriting [music & lyrics], spiritual practices [Tropical and Chinese astrology, tarot/cartomancy, numerology, palmistry, tossing witches runes, scrying, aura readings, etc.], travelling, watching movies.

My fandoms are: I do not really know whether this counts as "fandom", because, yes, there are e. g. bands and musicians I really like a lot, but then again, I am not really part of any true "fandoms"... Unless you count in platforms (Reddit, Discord, etc.) dedicated to the people in question... Either way, here is a (non-exhaustive) list, categorised a bit, though...
BOOKS - Alan And Naomi (M. Levoy), Antonio Im Wunderland (J. Weiler), Big Magic (E. Gilbert), Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified (R. O. Friedel), Die Kinder Erwachen (C. Polar), Hab Ich Selbst Gemacht (S. Klingner), Ich Geh Jetzt In Dein Karma Rein (B. Wagner), I'm Off Then (H. Kerkeling), Last Quarter (all; Ai Yazawa), Living Out Loud (K. Smith), Many Lives Many Masters (Dr. B. Weiss), Maria Ihm Schmeckt's Nicht (J. Weiler), Mort (T. Pratchett), Only Love Is Real (Dr. B. Weiss), Old Magic (M. Curley), Popular Music From Vittula (M. Niemi), Reasons To Stay Alive (M. Haig), Rebel Witch (K.-A. Maddox), Remix 1 (B. v. Stuckrad-Barre), Same Soul Many Bodies (Dr. B. Weiss), Show Your Work (A. Kleon), Steal Like An Artist (A. Kleon), The Dark (M. Curley), The Key (M. Curley), The Metamorphosis (F. Kafka), The Named (M. Curley), The Trial (F. Kafka), Yes Man (D. Wallace), You Are A Medium (S. Dillard), Your Head Is A Houseboat (C. Walker).
MOVIES - A Clockwork Orange, Amadeus, Animalympics, Anne Frank's Diary, A Time To Kill, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Back To The Future (all), Bandits, Beetlejuice, Billy Elliot, Blue Is The Warmest Color, Coco, Control, Dancer In The Dark, Dangerous Minds, Dark Shadows, Dead Poets Society, Demolition Man, Dracula: Dead And Loving It, 23 (1998), Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Encanto, Fight Club, Flashdance, Fucking Amal, Gattaca, Ghostbusters, Girl: Interrupted, Good Bye Lenin, Hangin' Out, Hocus Pocus, Inception, Inside Out (1 & 2), Interview With The Vampire, Kopps, Labyrinth, Light Of Day, Mind Game, Mulan (1998), Murder By Death, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Richy Guitar, Run Lola Run, School Of Rock, Sing, Sing Street, Sister Act (1 & 2), Slumdog Millionaire, Song Of The Sea, Soul, Soylent Green, Speed, Teen Witch, Thank You For Smoking, The Basketball Diaries, The Boat That Rocked, The Bob's Burgers Movie, The Celebration, The Crow, The Cure (1995), The Disaster Artist, The Hate U Give, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The Linguini Incident, The Matrix, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Craft, The Naked Gun (All, except for the reboot :P!), The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Pink Panther (2006), The Plague Dogs, The Secret Of NIMH, The Return Of Captain Invincible, The Runaways, The Sixth Sense, The Truman Show, The Twelve Tasks Of Asterix, This Boy's Life, This Is Spinal Tap, Too Hard To Handle, Trainspotting, Tron: Ares, Twister, Velvet Goldmine, Wach, Wasted Youth, What's Eating Gilber Grape, What To Do In Case Of Fire, What We Do In The Shadows, While You Were Sleeping, Yes Man, You Instead.
MUSIC - Alice Cooper, Alien Sex Fiend, Alizée, All Gone Dead, A Perfect Circle, Apulanta, Bauhaus, Bela B., Billy Idol, Blur, Bronski Beat, Boy Harsher, Camouflage, Cinemascope, Cinema Strange, Clan Of Xymox, David Bowie, Dead Or Alive, Depeche Mode, Die Ärzte, Die Fantastischen Vier, Don Huonot, Duran Duran, Esoterik, Farin Urlaub (Racing Team), Fettes Brot, Fiction, Foo Fighters, Garbage, Ghosting, Goethes Erben, Green Day, Grossstadtgeflüster, Inkubus Sukkubus, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Joy Division, Julien Bam, Käärijä, Kino Carey, Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga, L'Âme Immortelle, Leaether Strip, Linkin Park, London After Midnight, Luci'fer Luscious Violenoué, Maître Gims, Mark Forster, Marteria, Marusha, Mia., Minuit Machine, Mylène Farmer, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Pharao, Project Pitchfork, Psycho Le Cému, Rihanna, Rob Zombie, Roman Rain, ЯR, Santa Hates You, She Wants Revenge, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Slam Bamboo, Soft Cell, Space Tribe, Specimen, Spinal Tap, Stromae, Tears For Fears, The Clash, The Cramps, The Crüxshadows, The Cult, The Cure, The Mission, The Offspring, The Prodigy, The Runaways, The Sisters Of Mercy, The 69 Eyes, The Weeknd, Thomas D, Tic Tac Toe, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Van Halen, Vanished Empire, Virgin Prunes, Xmal Deutschland... Most likely I forgot a gazillion in this list D:, because this happens so often.

I'm looking to meet people who: I'm looking to meet people who don't tame their souls! Who are authentic beyond words, who stand up for their ideals, who are open-minded, kind, creative, intuitive, etc. :D

My posting schedule tends to be: Almost daily, though I will not promise it will always be like this!

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Ableism, animal cruelty, animal testing, anti-semitism, arrogance, body shaming, elitism, fascism, fatphobia, homophobia, ignorance, islamophobia, racism, religious fanatism, sexism, transphobia.

Before adding me, you should know: I struggle with my mental health (ORLY?), mainly in terms of C-PTSD, BPD, EDNOS/OSFED, and severe depression, and while I try not to overdo it in terms of expressing what this means, there could be entries in this regard... I will put potentially triggering entries behind cuts, though. Also: I'll be gone from Sunday (2nd) until Saturday (8th), so it might take a bit in case you comment then to answer you or add you back. If you have any more questions/comments, please let me know.

Current Mood: curious
Current Music: Garbage - "As Heaven Is Wide"

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Name: amanda

Age:30's

I mostly post about:personal things and venting

My hobbies are:anime, gaming , fashion, roleplaying

My fandoms are: most are old so.. lol pokemon, sailor moon, cardcaptor sakura, detective conan, demon slayer, inuyasha, final fantasy, kingdom hearts to name some.

I'm looking to meet people who:i dunno.. doesn't matter to me lol

My posting schedule tends to be: pretty much spordiac due to life and health.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: minors, being rude, dishonest and what not

Before adding me, you should know: i'm not the most social person or nicest but i am shy so give me space and time get back to you.

Current Mood: apathetic

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name: amanda ( she / her )
age group: 30's
country: usa.
subscription / access policy: i don't accept people into my circle or whatever you call it... until i get to know you and trust you. plus, i won't always be active on this site so lol
fannish interests: icons, writing / roleplaying , editing graphics.
i like to post about: on this account, i just say whatever strikes my fancy lol. or just me venting.

about me: i'm somewhat new to dreamwidth as i came from tumblr. i used to rp on there and lost interest on there. it overwhelmed too much for me. so im trying to get used to here. so yeah, i have a few rp accounts in case anyone is interested lol. but on this account, i'll just post personal stuff.

other hobbies: coloring books, collecting stickers and anime stuff, plushies, watching letsplays on youtube. i do game but not much due to my health. napping is nice too.
i'm looking for people who are: nice, kind, and trustworthy. not those who back stab me. as you can tell i don't have many friends. whether irl or online. just to mention, i'm not exactly too nice. i'm blunt and tell how it is. i'm not all that social so.. yeah.

journal info: minors dni as i will be venting. like a lot as i suffer from mental and physical health issues.

Current Mood: blank

dorchadas

Tonight is another meeting of my book group, which at this point has been running for twelve years at this point.

We're a bit inconsistent, since in twelve years we've read 59 books, but we have read at least one book every single year. Some of them were excellent, like Bunnicula, This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, The Devil in the White City, or The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and some of them were garbage, like Anno Dracula, The Secret, Humpty Dumpty in Oakland, or Supernova Era. We've read fiction and nonfiction, history and biography and science and political analysis, fantasy and sci-fi and historical fiction and drama, classics and books written within the last year, and all kinds of things in between. People have joined and left but the core group remains.

redpikachu started it as a way to read more books and it's worked, at least for the books we've read.

We spend a lot of time also just talking about our lives, but I'm heartened after reading that Even in the 1700s, Book Clubs Were Really About Drinking and Socializing. Other than the wine on Shabbat, most of the drinking I do at all is when I pour a glass of wine, sit down at my computer, and fire up a Discord video chat. And I just remembered that we used to do Google Hangouts back when that was a realistic video call solution.

Here's to many more years.

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Nothing

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Name: Max Natan (Or just Max)

Age: 61, but reversed lol.

I mostly post about: Anything I want to express, but I usually talk about my life experiences and my thoughts on random topics.

My hobbies are: Writing, drawing, making comics, petting my cat, taking photos, observing nature, sometimes reading, imagining surreal things, watching YouTube animations.

My fandoms are: I’m not really a fandom guy, I like some media, but I don’t interact with the fandom often. There are some media I like: Madoka Magica, Dandadan, Deltarune, Undertale, Ghost and Pals, Gorillaz, Weezer, Vewn Channel, Ghosttundra Channel.

I’m looking to meet people who: Enjoy things like romance stories, horror stories, surrealism, nature, and people who don’t mind me being a little weird.

My posting schedule tends to be: irregular lol.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: extremists, people over 19.

Before adding me, you should know: I’m Brazilian, so my English isn’t the best, I’m kinda obsessed with certain words, like “lol,” I’m a bit insecure and anxious, My memory is kinda bad, and I don’t know very well how to start a conversation.

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I really, really, really gotta point something out here.

This “ballroom” Trump Shitstain the First says he’s building is 90,000 square feet, and is going to cost THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.

Apparently. That’s what he says.

This is bullshit. He’s pocketing AT LEAST half of that money. Probably two-thirds, maybe 70%. I daresay probably 70%. Or who knows, all of it – but let’s say he’s actually going to build something and some part of the extorted “donations” will actually be spent doing so. It’s still bullshit, and he’s still pocketing most of the money.

How do I know this?

Because $300 million for 90,000 square feet is over $3330/square foot in construction cost. That’s absolutely batshit insane by any standard. The highest-end commercial construction in the US is under $1000/square foot. You’re telling me he’s going to spend over three times that?

I don’t fucking think so. It’s bullshit, and he’s keeping most of the money.

But if that’s not enough for you, consider this:

The most expensive commercial building EVER BUILT IN THE WORLD (according to Wikipedia’s list of most expensive buildings) is One Financial Centre in Hong Kong, which is, slightly ironically, two massive skyscrapers. It’s a combined two million square feet of floor space, mostly vertical, which adds assloads of cost. It is opulent as fuck and serves extremely high-end customers in an extremely wealthy city.

Excluding land costs (because shitstain has the land already), 1FC cost right around $3315/square foot to build.

Which is to say, slightly LESS than his fucking “ballroom.”

His ballroom will cost MORE per square foot than the most expensive luxury commercial construction project ever built.

Which is, again, bullshit.

He’s pocketing that money, and nobody should think for a moment otherwise.

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