EDWARD ELRIC > FULL METAL ALCHEMIST

Oct. 4th, 2025 09:24 am
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CANON: Full Metal Alchemist
CHARACTERS: Edward Elric
ADDITIONAL INFO: 73 manga bases + 102 colored icons from the webtoon
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manga icons + webtoon icons @ [community profile] malagraphic

VARIOUS > KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE

Oct. 4th, 2025 09:20 am
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CANON: Knights of Guinevere
CHARACTERS: Guinevere, Andrea and Francesca
ADDITIONAL INFO: 211 icons from the first episode. CW: some body/robot horror
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part one + part two @ [community profile] malagraphic

Book Review: Coraline

Oct. 3rd, 2025 09:14 pm
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AUTHOR: Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illustrator )
RELEASED: April 24, 2012 by HarperCollins
GENRE: Dark Fantasy
AGE RANGE: Children's
SYNOPSIS: When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.

But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.

Coraline will have to fight with all her wits and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.


Celebrating ten years of Neil Gaiman's first modern classic for young readers, this edition is enriched with a brand-new foreword from the author, a reader's guide, and more.


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Oct. 3rd, 2025 08:03 pm
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Amid everything else, I have spent the past couple days still in a bit of disbelief that Jane Goodall is actually dead. I read two of her books for my science class in middle school, and they were the pair I loved reading most. I've been interested in chimpanzees and great apes at least a little since. (I would read Birute Galdikas' book too, largely because of Goodall.) Though it's only as an adult that I've come to understand how how big everything she spent her life trying to do was, and just how much respect and admiration one has to have for her. I haven't opened her books in many years, but now I'm wondering if maybe I should get them down from the shelf, and look again.
I also, of course, have now seen the first episode of Critical Role's new campaign. I've noticed before how the first episode of a new liveplay campaign, their third included, can be a little slow, but not in this one; I was engaged immediately. These were fourteen players who know both the game and each other well enough to keep one captivated even during the stretches of the episode when they were merely gathering together. And when towards the end of the episode... )
Right after this I'll probably get my suitcase down from the attic and start packing. I'll have enough to do tomorrow before I go to catch the train.

Prompt: Mid-Autumn Festival

Oct. 3rd, 2025 05:57 pm
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This week's prompt is the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Mooncake Festival, or Zhong Qiu Jie. It has a history dating back over 3,000 years, and is based on the legend of the Moon goddess, Chang'e.

This is one of our recurring annual prompts, which means that drabble sequences and drabble series are allowed, since these prompts have multiple or more complex concepts associated with them that warrant exploration in these longer formats. These formats are explained in this post, while the standard drabble formats are explained in the community rules.

I will be moving next Friday, so this prompt will run for two weeks. You have until midnight your time on Friday, October 17, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.

i did it!!!! i published a book!!!!!

Oct. 4th, 2025 01:28 am
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i've spent the summer participating in a writing challenge: the Inkfort Press Publishing Derby. the gist: fully write, edit and publish a book in <4 months. it's a anon challenge, so you can't share anything on main; you're assigned a premade cover and pen name, and then you just go go go! (limited to 100 participants)

(i'm fairly sure i mentioned this at some point, but that's the gist of it)

and i did it!!!!

my book, along with dozens of others, are live! it's still in the anon period (i believe till the end of October) so i can't tell you which one's mine. but! here's a list of all of them!! (lots of fantasy, scifi, adventures, etc.)

https://2025pubderby.carrd.co/

so cool!!! i have a book in there somewhere!!!! :blobcatblush:

Lois Lane | DCU/Superman

Oct. 3rd, 2025 07:06 pm
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CANON: DCU/Superman (2025)
CHARACTERS: Lois Lane (242 icons)
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Daily Check In.

Oct. 3rd, 2025 06:18 pm
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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Friday to midnight on Saturday (8pm Eastern Time).


Poll #33687 Daily poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 9

How are you doing?

I am okay
6 (66.7%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
3 (33.3%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
2 (22.2%)

One other person
5 (55.6%)

More than one other person
2 (22.2%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

dear Festividder 2025

Oct. 3rd, 2025 06:48 pm
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dear festividder,

hi! happy festivids! as ever I hope this letter helps!

Vid likes 🎞:

All kinds of music! I always enjoy an r&b or hip hop vid, if that's inspiring at all, but I am really pretty easy to please. I like character studies, competence and BAMF-ness, romance, strong emotions including sadness, action and adventure vids, danceable vids, narrative vids, worldbuilding and engaging with the themes of the source. I'm not terribly into created reality or crack.

Vid DNWs ❌:

(The first item is a list of neurological triggers and there's a large chance I would be unable to watch any vid containing these effects.)
-I get mild physical discomfort and visual difficulties with effects like blinking, spinning, flashing, shaking, blurring, strobing or stutter cuts, flickering overlays, brightness flickers, dissolve cuts, very heavy fast cuts or very heavy quick action (action as in fight scenes, chase scenes, or similar, especially if shot with intense camera movement or cut quickly). (If it's a very few instances of flashing etc from the source, that's okay, unless the scene is specifically mentioned as a problem in the fandom details.)
Zooming, panning, and similar manipulation of still images also fall into the category of things that give me visual difficulties. (Stills that don't have motion-based stylistic additions are fine. It's also fine if it's just one moving still rather than a whole sequence.)
-the n-word (this applies to all fandoms even if used in canon)

All American: Homecoming

This show is a ton of melodramatic fun. Simone is gorgeous but my surprise other fave is actually Thea, what a GODDESS. I definitely ship them together or would enjoy a vid about their frenemyship. The guys are like, just okay. I wouldn't be into a vid that was solely focused on the cancer storyline.

I enjoy the show's questionably accurate but very earnest depiction of sports and striving to be your best at sports! I also love how much it leans into being a love letter to HBCUs. There's also great ensemble vids to be made about supporting each other, doing your best with life's curveballs, etc.

Andre De Grasse RPF

dnw: Ben Johnson

a Canadian sprint star! I love that he's always the underdog, fighting the ups and downs, but always believes in himself and, as they say, always finds a way to come home with a medal. His 4 x 100m team and their success and friendship is one of my favourite things if you want to take that wider scope. I'm not super interested in record discourse, as a person who doesn't believe Bolt's world records will be broken by anyone who's even born yet. (I'm here from a general fan perspective rather than a "study this person's technique for my own running motivation" perspective but if you do make more running motivation type vids I like watching those too!)

Emmanouil Karalis RPF

a vaulting sweetheart! I love him always improving and always going for a win despite facing a beyond generational talent in Mondo, and their friendship is so cute. I find his general off-track/social media presence adorable if you want to incorporate that.

The Fall Guy

I'm a basic b who found Colt/Jody a delightful ship! And I love vids that showcase all the action stuff too. Never too much dramatic slo-mo! Colt & Dan were also super cute. I think this is a great fandom for classic or classic-sounding songs.

Fire Country

Sweet emo firefighters! If you want to go serious I love the themes of this show, forgiveness and growth and change. (But meh on its feelings on the redemptive power of the prison system specifically.) A tribute of dramatic rescues and unlikely predicaments and dashing heroics would also be fun.

Bode and Gabriela and opposites attract and pining, ship it. Bode and Manny, I also ship it. Hot mess 4 hot mess. 😍Keeping it real: I don't know if you could distill the daddy kink aspects in a vid, but I would dig that! Those are my three faves, any solo vids for one of them would be great. Or team hurt/comfort and support and rescues!

Glory Road

This movie is pure cornball based-on-a-true-story sports drama and I love it so much, by the time "People Get Ready" kicks in at the end I'm always bawling lol. I'd enjoy anything really!

Let's Dance (Netflix 2019) [Safety]

This movie is so entertaining. I love how it just dumps every dance movie trope in and has fun with it. I enjoyed Joseph/Chloé a lot but Joseph & Karim were fun and Joseph/Karim could be a(n adorable) thing. Or you could go angsty, with some coming of age feelings. (If you're using any audio from the movie, either the French or the English is fine for me.)

I can't tolerate the effects in the first dance sequence (before Joseph wakes up on the train) at all, sorry. The David Guetta disco scene is not great but a small number of flashes is fine.

Lost in Space TV 2018

I love this show and how it's all about space and hope and problem-solving and ladies being strong and humans sticking together. I have big feelings about Don/Judy. Or I would love solo vids for either of them because Judy is perfect? I think Don has a great storyline, the rogue with a heart of gold and his journey to being part of the Robinson clan. All the family feelings would also make a good vid. I especially love the bond of the three kids and Penny is also a fave. I love a good rescue scene, and this show has a bunch. The robot and Dr. Smith are not central interests, but they'e important to the themes and cool in moderate amounts.

(The flickers in S2/3 don't really bother me.)

Rivals

brb but the short version is I love Rupert/Taggie. Or Taggie solo, she is the cutest, my sweet disabled queen.

Travelers (TV)

I love this show! I'd probably pick Trevor as a favourite but it changes every watch because all the main travelers have such interesting, different arcs and they're all great. I love Marci's particular journey to being a person and not a robot-doctor a lot. And Grant's journey, fumbling his way through unexpected stuff. Everyone, really! Sorry, I might be failing to narrow things down here. This is another show where all the big thematic stuff makes me really happy. Humans! Simultaneously the best and the worst. Fate! Inevitable? Maybe? Whether you'd want to go optimistic or sad or dark or whichever direction with it is up to you.

that's it! thanks and please have fun,


d

SCA: al-Barran Champions

Oct. 3rd, 2025 04:18 pm
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2025 08 29 14.09.23

[My booth! It’s in a popup with a blue roof tucked under a big pinon pine tree, with more trees all around. There’s a table on each side, with shelves holding various products. In front on the left is a good-sized wire cat crate covered in a grey and brown patchwork wool blanket with a cat bed on top; Loiosh is curled up in the bed, and Tom is just visible in the crate. On the right is a set of shelves holding a couple of wooden boxes, and next to that is a dark blue cat stroller.]

Mom wanted pictures of the booth, so I took pictures of the booth. It looks … more or less like it usually does, which is nice; it had been so long I was worried I’d forgotten how to do the thing. But it went quick & looked just fine.

2025 08 29 14.08.35

[A set of wooden shelves on a table. There are display boxes of soap in front of the shelves, and also on each shelf. Off to the right, on the white tablecloth, are a selection of pride flag pins.]

The soap! I had to mess around with the spacing on those shelves a BUNCH before I could fit the signs without blocking anything too much. Of course I’m going to be replacing them with folding shelves pretty soon, & I don’t think those are NEAR as easy to adjust as these shelves …

2025 08 29 14.08.52

[A broad double set of shelves takes up the entire width of the other table. Purple display boxes hold a variety of tins, jars, and bottles. A rainbow pride flag hangs behind.]

Similar futzing here. Not sure what to do with that empty shelf, although if I’d remembered the big bottles there would have been things to go there. Next time!

I was RIGHT next to the A&S display, & that was AWESOME, I got time to actually LOOK at everything. One lady had supplies to make the easiest Turkish spindle imaginable, so now I have that, plus a tuft of wool & and a NICE little bowl for supported spinning.

2025 08 30 14.52.50

[The spindle consists of a pencil-width dowel that’s been sharpened on one end, probably with a pencil sharpener, plus four colored popsicle sticks, paired off and held around the stick by tiny binder clips. Next to that sits a small white ceramic bowl holding a goodly hunk of grey wool.]

One guy had made his own composite bow, horn and wood glued together, and arrows to go with it. There was some BEAUTIFUL Turkish (I think?) garb. One lady has done a CRAPTONNE of research into Roman cosmetics AND THEN went & made a whole bunch, & was offering people makeovers. SO MUCH COOL STUFF. I wish I’d remembered to bring my phone over, but, welp.

2025 08 30 15.37.09

[A flat rock, roughly a foot across, with a small pile of partly-burned twigs, matches, and pine needles. A hand holding a lit match hovers over the whole business.]

The next day was me & my accompanying band of trans kids getting bored & trying to make a tiny fire so they could smell how awesome juniper berries smell when you burn them. This would have been far more effective if anything at all had been willing to stay on fire. On the other hand, apparently there was a burn ban, so it’s probably just as well. It was, at least, hilarious.

Also due to the burn ban, I made off with all the firewood various people brought & then left. A nice little haul!

2025 08 31 17.06.39

[A pile of pine firewood. It’s a couple-three armloads, if you’ve got long arms. It’s sitting on the ground next to the van.]

The fun part was fitting it into the van. Especially fitting it into the van with enough room to lay the bed flat so I had somewhere to sleep on the way home. That was pretty tricky, ngl. But I managed it!

2025 08 31 22.01.47

[The view from the back of the van, looking forward. The bed is just visible at the bottom of the shot, along with part of Loiosh’s butt. Forward of that is a veritable wall of stuff — shelves, a cat crate full of stock boxes, another set of shelves with the popup precariously perched on top, a long stick, and yet another set of shelves, this on its side atop the cat crate and stuffed full of firewood.]

It didn’t all fall down, but I do not know how.

I’d planned to stay until Monday, but most everyone had left by early Sunday afternoon, so I packed up & headed north. Not the whole way home — I NEEDED a Woods Day, so aimed to stop somewhere in the Carson National Forest off of 285 on the way north. Espanola’s mall wart has a parking lot I’ve slept in before, so I slept in it again, & anything past that is a later post.


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The Friday Five: 10/3

Oct. 3rd, 2025 03:59 pm
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From [community profile] thefridayfive


1. Do you ever wonder if the way you see things visually aren't how other people see them?

Oh, I'm certain I do. Both literally (most of the people I know wear glasses of varying prescriptions) and figuratively (picking out patterns and being whimsical and fantastical is a past time).

2. What kind of sounds are the most annoying?

Very erratic ones. I can handle a lot of noises at most volumes, but when the noise comes and goes with no pattern, it grates on my nerves.

Also, pretty much any noise when I'm looking for an address or a parking spot. 

3. When walking through a store, do you shop with your hands by touching/feeling the texture of things?

When I shop, I'm usually shopping with intention - hunting for a specific thing or a non-specific thing that I know I'll recognize when I find it. In short, yes.

Before I buy anything, be it a dish, a towel, decor, furniture, etc., I have to touch it. Turn it over if it can be turned over. Test its weight. Feel its texture. If it can be opened, I look inside it. If it's for sitting or lying on, I do that. 

4. If you could only smell three scents for the rest of your life, what would they be?

Off the top of my head, I'll say: nag champa, storms, and coffee. There's nothing quite like the smell of a storm (I realize, I could've said petrichor, but there's more to a storm than that); nag champa is one of my favorite perfume oil scents and one I wear often; and coffee...reminds me of so many good times, home and creativity and my favorite people. There's a reason I have coffee scented candles tucked throughout my office.

5. What sorts of things do you savor when eating them?

Pizza. Coffee. Van Leeuwen's Black Cherry Chip ice cream. Tiramisu. (There are probably many more things I should savor. I'm working on that.)

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Book Tour Starting Next Week

Oct. 3rd, 2025 05:00 pm
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I don't think I posted about this yet: https://us.macmillan.com/tours/martha-wells-queen-demon/

There's more info at that link, but here's a brief list of the tour stops and dates:


- Mon. Oct. 6 at 7:30pm: Brookline Booksmith with Holly Black, offsite at Arts at the Armory (Brookline, MA)

- Tues. Oct. 7 at 7pm: Politics & Prose (Union Market location) moderated by Leigha McReynolds (Washington DC)

- Wed. Oct. 8 at 7pm: The Strand, with Meg Elison (NYC, NY)

- Fri. Oct. 10 at 6pm: Let’s Play Books, with Chuck Wendig, offsite at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA)

- Tues. Oct. 14 at 7pm, Third Place Books (Seattle, WA)

- Wed. Oct. 15 at 7pm, Iron Dog Books, with Nalo Hopkinson offsite at Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island (Vancouver, BC, Canada)

- Thurs. Oct. 16 at 7pm, Powell's (Cedar Hill location) with Jenn Reese (Beaverton, OR)

- Mon. Oct. 20 at 7pm: Bookpeople, with Ehigbor Okosun (Austin, TX)

- Tue. Oct. 21 at 6:30pm: Murder by the Book (Houston, TX)

- Thurs. Oct. 23 at 6pm: Nowhere Bookshop (San Antonio, TX)

- Saturday Nov. 8-9 Texas Book Festival, Austin TX

- Sat. Nov. 15 at 2pm: Hyperbole Bookstore, offsite at Ringer Library (College Station, TX)

The Friday Five on a Friday x2

Oct. 3rd, 2025 10:57 pm
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20251002_105849
[HELLO I AM COMET AND I AM TOO CLOSE]

  1. Do you ever wonder if the way you see things visually aren't how other people see them?

    Frequently. My partner and I sometimes have very different perceptions of certain colours (and no, he’s not red-green colour-blind).

  2. What kind of sounds are the most annoying?

    Sounds I didn’t choose to hear, ha. Seriously, though, I quite frequently put my noise-cancelling headphones on with nothing coming through them, just to block out background sound.

  3. When walking through a store, do you shop with your hands by touching/feeling the texture of things?

    I *want* to do that all the time. I’m very sensitive to touch. I restrain myself most of the time unless it seems like it is OK (like in a clothing shop). I suspect I’d get thrown out of places if I went round running my hands over veg, freshly baked goods or pick-n-mix for example.

  4. If you could only smell three scents for the rest of your life, what would they be?

    My cats’ fur when they come in from outside on a cold day. Black Opium by YSL. My partner’s armpits. I am not joking.

  5. What sorts of things do you savor when eating them?

    Everything! I love food so much. I especially love very cold fruit juices on a hot day or with a sore throat, the velvety texture of a good chocolate mouse, and the salty satisfaction of slurping ramen noodles.


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