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I am so far behind... T_T

Waaaaay back at the beginning of the month, we went back to Castlewood Canyon, wanting to see the rest of the "Cave" trail, which had been closed earlier in the season for nesting turkey vultures. The turkey vulture nesting was definitely a success, judging by how many of them we saw!

As always... Bella!

And we got to see a couple deer! I know that we have just... so many deer, but I'm still always happy to see them. This one was obviously young, still with little fawn spots, though it was most of the way grown.

Sixteen more pictures:

Wandering up the short stretch of road between the parking lot and the trailhead, there were some milkweed that were absolutely COVERED in aphids. But they also had lots of happy ladybugs having a massive buffet, haha.

Looking up from lower on the trail.

The rock wall that was roughly where the trail was closed off last time. I like being able to see the space behind the front "section" of the rock.

We were able to continue on, now that the nesting closures have been lifted.

It wasn't... quite as impressive as hoped. Still didn't find the alleged caves, haha. The cliffs are really pretty, though.

Unfortunately the sun was at just the worst angle for all of these pictures looking up at the cliff, haha. But I liked the dramatic dead tree and the tall bit of the rock.

Again with the sun making it look like a dream sequence.

Turkey vulture!

Something was drilling into this fallen log, ha.

As we were heading back, Alex looked over to the side, and...

The little deer! Mostly grown, just a little small, but still with white fawn spots! So cute. (Yes, this is almost the same picture as above the cut.)

And a second deer, nearby the first.

Bella was very excited to see the deer. (I think I've mentioned before, but she does enjoy "watching" TV sometimes, especially animal programs. There was a wildlife rehab show we used to watch sometimes, and her favorites to watch were seals and deer, haha.) She doesn't seem to want to chase them or anything, just wants to go see them, ha.

That second deer, staring back at Bella. It didn't seem overly concerned.

Speaking of successful turkey vulture nesting... Not sure how easy it is to see, but aaaaall those little black specks in the sky are vultures. SO MANY.

A fairly nice chunk of a shed snake skin. Probably a bull snake... but not nearly as impressive as the one my mom found last weekend!

Another ladybug on milkweed.

A very impressively active wasp nest over the bathrooms, ha.

Bumblebee on a sunflower!

Still more trails to explore, but glad we got to do the rest of the sort of "horseshoe" of this trail, and glad we had a chance to get out for the day.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my apartment

rhi

Quiet Breaks (1864 words) by Gryphonrhi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Numb3rs (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ian Edgerton, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Inkvent
Series: Part 1 of drowning in your doubts
Summary: Ian hasn't talked to either Eppes brother since they hunted down a black box together. He's been a little busy with this.

communal_creators is running!

spook_me
prompts are here. Fall is coming! More fic to write. In the meantime, I hope y'all enjoy this one.

Current Mood: cheerful

annathecrow

I haven't done this for a while.

I've written about Small Web September so it's not a proof-of-life for once, but I've also stopped posting on Mastodon at one point and it feels weird to just reappear with no "where have you been all these months".

So. Update post that I can link to from wherever.

Well, Crow, what have you been doing since... uh... May?

(This is so long. Here it is with cuts if you want them.)

Scooter

( scooty scoot )

Kitten

( kitten! )

Battleship Exchange

Oh crap. I thought I've made a post about that already. So I'm gonna do that, but in the meantime: I played, I wrote, I painted (quite a lot, that was great), and I had fun. It was cool to see how far the organization improved since I've played last, it's very very impressive. Battleship is definitely still my favorite fandom event of the year.

Boat trip

Yay, an event that doesn't require five paragraphs. Annual two days on the water have been had, we made campfires, we cooked špekáčky, we got woken up at 1am by surprisingly good but very drunk guitar players, we got rained on multiple times but nobody tipped over on a weir this time.

I've been a bit disillusioned with this event, thought I might not go next year, but you know what, nah. I like going splashy splashy, even if it means Being Social. Besides, people even bring their cute dogs sometimes. (There was this wonderful Border Collie, I fell in love.)

The Artist's Way

I have gone through the entire book The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, exercises and all. This is a topic that I want to dedicate a separate post to, but in short: it did not fix (what I perceive as) my problems or lead to a major artistic breakthrough (I did not expect one, but oh, I hoped); it did improve my life, especially in regards to creativity; I do not regret investing the time and effort into it (and it is quite an investment); it isn't a magical panacea but I would, with some caveats, recommend it.

As for lasting impact, I am still writing morning pages - they are not a magical panacea either, but they do bring some benefit and I'm at the point where breaking the habit would be more bother than keeping it up.

Library card

A small-but-significant event, I got a library subscription for the larger of the local libraries. While it carries all book genres (it's one o the institutions which receive a legal deposit copy of every book published in the country), it's mostly geared toward researchers and students. Despite that, I've never actually used it during my studies. Getting a subscription now is... reliving the nicer parts of my twenties, tbh. I miss reading specialist literature. I know I can do that at home - and do, I've structured my entire morning routine around it in fact - but getting it from a library is its own thing.

I don't know how much I will actually use the card, especially since a majority of the books are only available at the location and I just don't have that kind of free time during the day anymore, but it makes me feel good anyway.

Building things

I'm running out of steam here, so in bullet points:

A catio. Not done yet, not even close. It's fun, but it's not a priority and so it loses against things like "cook this veg before it rots", "clean the damn floors", or "if I don't rest this weekend I'm gonna lose my shit". I get to use power tools. It's awesome.
New furniture for my work/art corner. Inspired by The Artist's Way, in the sense that I want to prioritize my art making? Perhaps. I did a big IKEA purchase and now I have a new desk and two drawer cabinets, i.e. a bit more surface to do art on and a lot of storage to put my art supplies.
A hanging rod for the kitchen. Still not installed because the tiles are made from adamantium or I don't know what; concrete drill bit did not work, cheap glass/ceramic drill bit worked somewhat and then broke, and now I'll have to buy an expensive one because I refuse to surrender.

Walstad aquariums

( the newest shiny )

So... that's that. It's been an interesting few months. A lot of good things, although I'm running a bit ragged. Conveniently, the weather is slipping into fall here, so maybe my brain will take a hint and I can have a bit of a hibernation period.

taichara

... is a Fire Emblem fangame called Eliwood's Outrealm Adventures.

Yes, it's essentially what it says on the tin. With a slew of bodies from across the franchise. And a kickoff that, for a for-funsies fangame, was honestly a clip in the mouth and I'm actually really, really enjoying this.

Alas I will probably not trigger more than one gaiden chapter.

Alas it's only fourteen maps sans gaiden chapters.

There's probably a greater (~deeper~) observation or lesson or something in this fact somewhere, but I don't have the energy to be arsed to find it right now.

mistressofmuses

I took last Saturday and Sunday off to attend a model horse show with Alex. There haven't been many shows this year; he attended BreyerMidwest in the spring, but I wasn't able to take that weekend off, and the host who usually holds the majority of the semi-local shows has been taking a year off from it to do other things.

This one was held by a regular shower in the local community, and it was nice to have a show to attend!

It definitely made for a long day: we got up around 5:00 to get the car loaded, and then take Bella over to my mom's house for the day. We managed to get on the road by 6:30 or so (just slightly later than hoped, but did include getting coffee). After a couple hours' drive through mostly rural areas, we made it, just a bit after the 8:00 setup start.

The show itself was fun, but long, and a liiiiittle frustratingly disorganized. (The host kept changing things in the weeks leading up to the show, and continued changing things day-of.) Still, running a show includes SO many moving parts, and so much to keep track of, it's just a whole lot to do, so I appreciate anyone willing to do it!

Alex did pretty well - 21 NAN cards (the cards awarded to the top two places in each class of a NAN-qualifying show; serves as a "ticket" for that model to be entered into a relatively prestigious annual show) and 28 "Western Conference" cards (which appear to be an attempted regional "competitor" to NAN, which I have never heard of, despite it apparently having been a thing for 10 years... these "tickets" are awarded up to third place.)

Alex's biggest win was:

This is a custom that he did a few years ago. :) It was first in the custom Morgan class, and then went on to win the sectional champion for custom light breeds! (Got a ribbon and the 3-D printed dog. The show holder is very into German Shepherds, ha.)

This custom does extremely well for him, and deservedly so! The finishwork (done in pastels rather than paint) is extremely well done. (It's that much more exciting that it does so well, since he was the artist.) He never seems to believe that it does deserve it, though!

By the end, we were just extremely tired. The biggest divisions took a long time to get through, and we didn't end up finishing the last of it until 9:00... and then had to deal with the drive back.

I felt really bad making my mom stay up that late to wait for us to come get Bella. We made decent time on the way back (via a different route), and managed to get there just after 10:30 to pick her up, so not really much later than mom and Taylor would have been staying up anyway.

Mom said that Bella was very good. (She still hasn't really met Jaspurr; he came downstairs once, and as soon as Bella hopped off the loveseat to approach him, he bolted back upstairs and didn't come back down.)

Their excitement for the day was mom taking Bella on a neighborhood walk and finding...

A huge snake shed! Broom for scale, lol.

There is a huge bull snake somewhere in the neighborhood! :D

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Location: my apartment

lassarina

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yuuago

Sometimes I'm not satisfied with the way something came out, but then somebody comments positively on it. And then I realize, oh - I feel about it the way I do because I made it. (This happened today.)

Like, there was a vision in my head of how I wanted the thing to be, and then the result isn't what I had hoped, and that's frustrating and disappointing. But somebody reading it (or looking at it in the case of visual art) won't know about all that, because they didn't make it! They can't see inside my head! Whooooa! And if somebody else made this thing, I'd probably think it was all right. (Maybe not super duper amazing, but all right, and sometimes that's all you want!)

I think also, partly, I get very self-conscious when posting something that's the fic equivalent of rent-lowering gunshots. Like, I put upon myself this expectation that if I write something that a lot of people aren't into, I need to make it extra awesome to make up for that. But, nah. I can write whatever! And it doesn't have to be amazing! It can just be a thing! It doesn't matter!

It's always nice to have little moments of clarity like this.

dhamphir

I know it may seem I've dropped off the face of the earth, but I really haven't. Besides dealing with some health issues (I'm doing fine) the past 2-3 years, I've also been kinda busy with rewriting my novel. Especially this past NaNo and earlier this year. Well, it paid off!

I'm am officially a published author! Or I will be this Friday! Friday Sept 19th, my book, Rare Vintage will be available to buy!! You'll be able to buy the E-Book or paperback from Amazon, or the Ebook directly from Desert Palm Press.

small book cover

Jessica Morgan is a gifted profiler. Some might even use the term legendary when speaking of her skills. So much so that the FBI Director takes it upon himself to call her back into service years after a personal tragedy caused her to walk away from the Bureau. Returning with her profiling skills intact and a medical degree, Agent Morgan's task is to assess the investigation she's assigned, profile the UNSUB (unknown subject), and deliver the profile to the investigating agents before moving on to the next case. She works tirelessly, relentlessly, and most importantly...alone.

Until now.

The Director pairs Jessica with Dr. Erin Little, a skilled forensic pathologist and an outstanding FBI agent. Erin has earned a favorable reputation during her ten years at the Bureau. Erin's task force, assigned to find a serial killer dubbed The Slasher by the newspapers, continues to hit dead ends, prompting the Director to ignore Jessica's rule of working alone. He puts them together, knowing their combined skills are needed to catch The Slasher and bring him to justice. As sparks fly professionally and personally, Jessica and Erin race against time to stop the serial killer before he strikes again.

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Location: cloud 9

evandar

Dear Author,

Hello! Thank you so much in advance for writing for me. I can't wait to see what you create.

This letter contains a list of Likes and DNWs as well as a couple of prompts. If none of the prompts catch your eye, then write whatever you like. As long as it doesn't hit any of my DNWs, we're good.

( Read more... )

Thank you for reading! I'm really looking forward to reading what you create for me <3

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Hanoi - Vietnam
Current Music: Ain't No Love in Oklahoma - Luke Combs

lassarina

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yuuago

The local library is doing an "Exploring Horror Subgenres" challenge. The idea is to try out various different types of horror, read one from each category, maybe give something new a shot, etc. They have a list of recommended reading (you can also pick stuff for the challenge that isn't on their list, though).

Here's the library's recommended list (plus notes on what I've read):
( Cut for length )
For books not on the list, I'm planning on reading these two:

Slasher: My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. I really enjoyed The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and have been meaning to read more of this guy's work.

Sci-Fi horror: Authority by Jeff VanderMeer. I've already read Annihilation, and enjoyed it enough to put the sequel on the to-read list, soooo I guess there's no time like the present. :V

Anyway! Has anyone read any of these? Thoughts etc? I find with a lot of horror the premise sounds interesting but the execution doesn't live up to my hopes. Which goes for movies too, I suppose.

straightforwardly

A collection of Final Fantasy VII fic recs from the past couple of months of reading, listed in chronological order of when I read them. Mostly because that was easiest for me, though I suppose it has the added side-effect that you could chart my ~~descent into madness~~ progression through different character relationships and concepts.

Once again, I originally intended to include “why I’m reccing this” commentary for all of these fics, and once again, I am accepting that I will never finish this recs list if I actually try to do so, so here we are. If you’re curious about any one fic in particular, ask and I’ll pull together some words! Otherwise, I am once again practicing “perfect is the enemy of the good” and sharing this as it is.

( beneath the cut )

mistressofmuses

Honduran white bats, sticker by the Atomic Pixies.

This was a long week (despite being a short work week for me) and a rough one. The shooting at Evergreen High School ("minor" as it was, considering, and how awful is that?) impacted me more than I expected, having interacted with the two named students. I didn't know them well, by any stretch, but it still hit me hard. The endless discourse around Charlie Kirk's death has also been completely exhausting. The stuff from early in the week - more back and forth getting the AC fixed, a walk in a neighboring city to see an uncommon bird - seems like it was way longer ago now. We had a model show to end the week, which was tiring but a nice break. Having a long weekend was a good thing.

Goals for the week:

I did finish reading The Dead Take the A Train
I started reading Tidal Creatures
I did not finish (or even work on) the WIP intro
We did finish the model show prep, even if it was last-minute
We went to the model show on Saturday
I stopped by mom's earlier in the week to collect caterpillars, and Saturday to drop Bella off
I went to the bank
I ordered birthday gifts for Taylor, though they aren't supposed to arrive until day-of :/
We got a bit of outdoor time
I did write up my September writing goals
We paid rent, finally getting an accurate amount
I still haven't put my laundry away
I did go buy fruit flies
I didn't work on my reading page

Tracked habits:

Work - 4/7 - I took Saturday off
Household Maintenance - 7/7
Physical Activity - 2/7
Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 1/7 - over 500 words
Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 0/7
Meta Work - 3/7
Personal Writing - 5/7
Other Creative Things - 2/7
Reading - 7/7 - I finished The Dead Take the A Train, and started Tidal Creatures, I also caught up on Dracula Daily/Re: Dracula, Alex and I read more of Duma Key, and I started reading a short story called Swelter
Attention to Media - 6/7 - Sunday we watched the Ravens game (which was good for the first three and a half quarters), then watched two episodes of The Paper; Monday we watched two eps of The Paper, and then an ep of Great British Bake Off, then a documentary I don't remember; Tuesday I caught up on Re: Dracula, we watched a couple eps of Dateline, then finished the last couple eps of The Paper; Wednesday I listened to Re: Dracula and we had news coverage in the background; Thursday had some documentaries in the background; Friday watched Great British Bake Off, and then The Most Hated Man on the Internet
Video Games - 0/7
Social Interaction - 4/7

(I've got way too much to catch up on.)

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my apartment

taichara

Title: Pieces
Fandom: Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Characters: Gaelio Bauduin, Rustal Elion, Ein Dalton
Warnings: CNTW
Summary: Sometimes the pound of flesh being sacrificed is literal, plural, and repeated.
Comments: This could have been aeons longer and also is exactly as long as it needs to be; more to the point it's a long time coming, I suppose?

( Agony. )

raisedbymoogles

OMG GUYS IT'S DONE I DID IT

In which everyone gets to lock down that happy ending. (on AO3, account needed)

.......and yes of course I'm already noodling about on a sequel. I was like 'no I am absolutely not doing an alternate S3, that would be way too much to take on' and not five minutes later my brain was rearranging its toybox going 'yeah but what would that look like though'

...thanks brain >_>

donutsweeper

Earlier today I *finally* finished checking all the links on my research/useful links posts, adding all the new links and reorganizing them. Both the Hollywood/History/Clothing/etc post and the Randomness one had gotten too big so I removed somethings from the history one and separated the randomness one into two posts with the history things (old books, magazines, radio theater etc) fitting into one. There's now close to 2250 links between all the posts. *phew* The masterpost is here or everything can also be found via my useful links tag.

And also, excitedly, Yuletide nominations have opened!! Go forth and nominate! (I'll be nominating that cute animated short, Vampire Gastelbrau, and also The First Shot (Gu Yiran, Zheng Bei and Jiang Xiaohai), See Your Love (Jiang Shaopeng, Yang Zixiang) and All Souls (Mitchell Grace, Glory, and Worldbuilding) definitely but am still waffling on my last slot. But we are allowed 4 characters per fandom so if anyone wants someone added to First Shot or See Your Love just give me a shout.

What's everyone else nominating?

kalloway

One of my original plans for Saturday fell through; it wasn't anything I was particularly looking forward to though. (Just adulting.) So the day was lunch with M and some planning for the future.

I found info for a scale modelers club down in the City, but they meet Weds evenings. I have a lot of vacation time to blow, so taking a day off isn't a problem to feel them out, but I can't do this month because there's just way too much going on. So maybe next month? They also have an annual model show with tables available and I know M has kits to sell (I don't, but we're in this together); it's in April so there's time to figure this all out.

Started working on a HG Nu Gundam, which I probably picked up more than a decade ago. I mean, also working on my other Project, but there are physical limits to how much of that I can work on. (i.e. I need more sticks with roach-clips on the ends!)

badritual

9-17-2025
Letter is a WIP

Dear Creator,

Welcome! I'm

giallos and I can also be found at

debbie-jellinsky. I'm very excited we matched up for this challenge! I'm sure I'll be thrilled with whatever you decide to write, and I hope something here pings your interest! Gifts are enabled if anyone wishes to leave extra treats.

Fic and fanart for all fandoms!

I like het, slash, femslash, poly-ships (poly-v too), etc.

I have used parts of previous letters to compose the body of this letter. If anything is confusing, or you have any questions or need clarification, you can reach me through the mods or you can anonymously message me via tumblr!

( Table of Contents )

( What I Love/DNWs/etc. )

The following prompts are meant as suggestions. I'll be perfectly happy with any combination of Stuff I Like, if none of the ideas I've offered grab your attention.

Fic and fan art for all fandoms! I prefer to leave all art details/styles/decisions/etc. up to the artist and you're welcome to utilize the prompts if you want! The only art style I don't care for is chibi art. If you'd like some guidance, more prompts/scenarios/ideas, or have questions, please send a message through the mod and I'll get back to you ASAP.

( Creep (Movies 2014 2017) )

( Elementary (TV) )

( Laid (TV 2024) )

( Prodigal Son (TV 2019) )

( Quantico (TV) )

( Sleepy Hollow (TV) )

( Smoke (TV 2025) )

( Star Trek: Discovery )

( Tracker (TV 2024) )

( Will Trent (TV) - gen )

Once again, I'd like to emphasize that these prompts/ideas are only suggestions! Please don't feel constrained by them! Mix and match my favs/likes/prompts/etc. as you please, or come up with something completely on your own. Optional details are optional!

If you have any questions don't be afraid to contact the mods! Thank you and happy writing!

Current Mood: okay

badass_tiger

Title: New Beginnings
Prompt: Wedding
Fandom: Original Work (Where Shines The Sun Aslant) x Pokemon
Characters: Hilbert of Rasfura/Solange of Fleuyer
Notes: Spoilers for Pokemon Legends Z-A (contains descriptions of a new Mega Pokemon). My jaw was literally on the floor when this Pokemon was revealed, it looks so much like my OC that I had to started writing a Pokemon AU right away.
Summary: Solange gifts Hilbert the royal Key Stone on their wedding day.

( Read more... )

yuuago

Scenario: I kept having cravings for pancakes.

Problem: I am terrible at making pancakes and going out for pancakes would be very expensive.

Details: When I first moved into my condo, I kept looking up recipes to make pancakes at home. But no matter how I fiddled with the ratios to adjust the recipe to make pancakes for 1 person, it still ended up with way too much batter. So, I would end up with too many pancakes, which I then cooked poorly because I wasn't practiced at it, and some of the batter in the bin because I couldn't possibly use all of it, and I would feel very frustrated and annoyed and wasteful instead of happy because I was enjoying delicious pancakes.

Solution: I remembered that pancake mix Is A Thing and picked some up at ye olde grocery store.

I feel very silly.

(But in my defense, we almost never had pancakes at home when I was a kid! This is a very 'special occasion, have when you're out of town' kind of breakfast!)

1/4 cup mix, plus at least 1/4 cup water depending on what else I'm mixing into the batter = enough for one person. Who'd've thunk. Amazing. Also, butter in the pan instead of oil works better for this, at least for my pans.

I still suck at pouring them and flipping them and getting them into the pan in a way that will look nice, but I only burnt something the first time and now (after a few weekends of Saturday pancakes) they come out quite tasty.

So far I've tried making banana pancakes (delicious, but require a lot of water), blueberry pancakes (delicious, but the berries turned the pancakes a weird shade of blue), and pumpkin spice pancakes (delicious, but needs more spice mix than what I used this time around).

I will never need to go out for pancakes ever thanks to a $4.50 box from the local shops. Hooray.

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Page Summary

mistressofmuses - Tuesday, September 02: Castlewood Canyon (yes, again)
rhi - Fic posting: Quiet Breaks, Numb3rs
annathecrow - A life update
taichara - the new game that's held my attention best all year ...
mistressofmuses - Saturday, September 13: High Country Live Model Horse Show
lassarina - What Are You Playing Wednesday
yuuago - (no subject)
dhamphir - Book Announcement!!
evandar - Trick or Treat Exchange Letter
lassarina - Tales of Vesperia Liveblog, Part 2
yuuago - The local library's reading challenge
straightforwardly - 315 | a compilation of ff7 fic recs
mistressofmuses - Habit Tracking: Week 37 (September 07 - September 13)
taichara - [Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans] Pieces
raisedbymoogles - FIC: Prime Time, chapter 20
donutsweeper - Yuletide! And Resource Posts!
kalloway - And Next
badritual - trickortreatex letter
badass_tiger - New Beginnings (Original Work/Where Shines the Sun Aslant)
yuuago - Pancake adventures

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