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I'm trying out the Gideon Method with both my writing and craft projects. The short version is: you have five 'slots' for works in progress. You work for about 12 hours on one project, and then you got to the next project in the queue for about 12 hours, rinse and repeat. Once a project is done, it's slot is opened and you can add a new project to the rotation.

I'm not sure how well it will work with writing compared to crafts? With writing you're much more likely to go "wait, what was I doing with this one again?" But it seems worth an experiment.

Behold, my current Gideon queue:

taichara

taichara: 13 (well, 12 2/3 or something, and one skimmed) light novels in three shifts.
taichara: I retain my ability to chew text like a lunatic after all, I guess.

sholio

Space Swap revealed today, and I got a lovely gift!

Not Their Hero (Murderbot books, gen, 9K!!)
SecUnit and Gurathin accompany Ratthi to a scientific conference, where they end up accepting a request for assistance against a corporation. It goes about as well as one might expect, given Murderbot's history.

I was amazed and delighted to find out that I had received a 9K gift, and it was a great time - plotty casefic with a dash of h/c, very canon-feeling, with interesting OCs and worldbuilding, fun character dynamics, and a great Murderbot voice.

(I have *no* idea who wrote this and cannot wait to find out.)

kalloway

Saturday, we went to a little card/nerd show up in town. It was very small and badly lit, not helped by my new glasses, which are also transitions, transitioning very slowly. ^^;; I did buy some dice and a used set of Dragonball GT, which I've never seen past about the first episode.

Sunday, we drove over to Flint in the cold rain and... nobody had arrived to open the hall. I was worried we'd be late to set-up but it was another hour before we got in. Everything after that went smoothly, after the fastest set-up in history.

Stopped at Rider's Hobby after, and got a couple of kits, a bunch of DSPIAE markers I didn't have, and an AK marker set since I haven't tried those yet. Also a gift for my aunt so I have something for her birthday in a few weeks.

And now, a day off to recover. Aside from the usual housework I guess I'm just going to try to catch up on a few things?

mindstalk

I finally rented a bicycle in Japan. It took some effort: paying for a Mobal eSIM, it being the only easy way of getting a phone number. Going to an office to show my passport and get the process started. Getting back home and finishing signup or something. Waiting for someone to actually activate the number the next morning. Then figuring out how install the new eSIM (actually confusingly easy), and panic because my Google Voice wasn't sending texts. (Turns out G Voice simply does not send SMS outside of the US or Canada.) ( Read more... )

mindstalk

This morning I got up and out much earlier than usual -- particularly out, showering and getting dressed without stopping by my laptop. So by 8 AM I was wandering around, getting morning sun, and observing all the other people out, going to school or strolling or whatnot. The shopping street just north of me was still depressingly shuttered, but activity was high. Walking. Biking. Wheelchairs in the middle of the street.

On seeing the wheelchairs I realized: "no cars", and while these streets are usually low-traffic, this seemed to be no-traffic, and an expectation thereof. So I paid more attention to the signs, and found: ( Read more... )

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sholio

It's really too early for me to feel like doing a full Babylon 5 rewatch yet, so instead I had a possibly cursed idea, which is to watch IMDB's top 10 and bottom 10 rated episodes and report back on them. And in fact I think I am going to do exactly that.*

*Unless I get distracted by something along the way, as often happens.

The best/worst lists are hidden in case you want to preserve the element of surprise.

The 10 best episodes according to IMDB, starting at the top

1. Severed Dreams 3x10
2. War Without End Part 2 3x17 (Since Part 1 is also in the top 10, I'm just going to watch them together, I think)
3. Z'ha'dum 3x22
4. Endgame 4x20
5. Sleeping in Light 5x22
6. The Long, Twilight Struggle 2x20 (By about this point I will probably have died of Drama and Tragedy. RIP me.)
7. Point of No Return 3x09
8. The Coming of Shadows 2x09
9. The Fall of Night 2x22
10. War Without End Part 1 3x16 (will be combined with part 2)
11. No Surrender, No Retreat 4x15

This looks fun! (For Babylon 5 values of fun.)

And as an escape from all of these heavy episodes, apparently I will be watching, in order of worst to ... slightly less worst:

IMDB's lowest rated

1. TKO 1x14
2. Infection 1x04
3. Secrets of the Soul 5x07
4. The Gathering 1x00
5. Grey 17 is Missing 3x19
6. Grail 1x15
7. The Long Dark 2x05
8. Strange Relations 5x06
9. The War Prayer 1x07
10. Survivors 1x11

Genuinely surprised that they're not even all from season one and five! Absolutely unsurprised that most of them are! I do genuinely like some of these, and at least one of them, I skipped most of when I was originally watching season one, so it will be interesting to see what I think of it now.

Not starting this tonight (probably) because I have other things to do, but Soon™.

rosa_heartlily

A year ago I was doing the to do's (including repairing Son's jacket and paying Husband some attention), playing Forspoken, and enjoying a random mention of Primal on FGS.

Today I skipped church to catch up on my weekend. I cleaned the living room and bathroom, then I turned my attention to the garden. And it started raining. *heavy sigh* At the first sign of a break, I scurried outside. Half-way through, it started raining again but I stuck at it, correctly guessing that it was going to be one of those days.

So, the next phase is partly done - I'm expecting some more plants soon. I'm still weighing up what the other planters in the front should be - long and straight, or corners? And one long trellis planter, or three small ones?

I've played some Veilguard - I've made progress with Harding's story. Next stop Weisshaupt.

Now I'm watching a couple of episodes of Watson.

But it feels like I got my weekend back.

Current Mood: creative
Current Location: bedroom

muladhara

I had a weird experience the other night while lying in bed before I went to sleep.

( cut for talk of dentistry/teeth )

So yeah, that was a thing that happened!

~

Other than that, I have been binge watching Kathleen Illustrated on youtube, because I was looking up thrift flips (because I am in my Customising Clothes Era) and she was the first person I watched, and I latched onto her because I dunno. She seems like a fun person!

Also! She is a Scorpio, and in one of her videos, she posited designing a t-shirt with the relevant constellation on, and I sat there, mouth open, because how had I never considered this for myself??? I love shit with my starsign/constellation on! I have a glow in the dark constellation I made myself, and Famfrit's Esper symbol* ON MY LIVING ROOM WALL because I love that sort of thing so much (and also FFXII, but we knew that anyway ;) ) I have bought notebooks in the past because they have Aquarius on them! I bought a necklace that says it, and also a bracelet. I am such a sucker for that shit!

But how did I never consider making a t-shirt with it on?? After all the t-shirt ideas I've ever had, as well!

Oh well, something to do in the (very near) future! I have an eye test coming up, so I'm going to have a root around the charity shops in town afterwards to see what I can find vis-a-vis a t-shirt to do something to :D

~

I don't think there's anything else to say right now. I'm currently sitting here on the second day of a migraine, feeling very slack jawed, so if there was anything important to say, it has been lost within the folds of my brain. I think maybe I just need to sit and be still somewhere.

~

*I also made the Famfrit artwork myself, scaled up from a .png of the symbol, and then coloured with watercolour pencils in blue and green.

Current Music: Phantom of the Opera - Michael Crawford

catness

Discovered Kagi translate from human to LinkedIn. LMAO! https://translate.kagi.com/


Yesterday was all about strategic recovery and exploring innovative storytelling. 🚀

After a productive morning, I prioritized a high-impact rest period to recharge my creative batteries. 🔋 I spent the evening deep-diving into a cutting-edge indie point-and-click adventure, analyzing unique UX/UI mechanics and immersive world-building. 🎮✨

Investing in downtime is the ultimate productivity hack. How are you leveling up your perspective this week? #WorkLifeBalance #Innovation #GamingIndustry #StrategicRest #ContinuousLearning

Current Mood: amused

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rosa_heartlily

This time last year I was wrangling meetings, using Copilot, hoping for pretty flowers, enjoying new skills in Forspoken, and pondering my relationship with CS Lewis.

Today I got scammed. That's all I'm going to say about it because the more I tell the story the more stupid I feel. Unsurprisingly, the bank are not going to refund me. I made the payments. I was not under duress. I was just stupid, despite all the professionals I've spoken to today trying to reassure me otherwise.

Apart from the money, I lost an entire day to the nonsense of trying to sort it out. There are two bright spots. Firstly, it didn't happen closer to pay day; I could have lost a lot more. Secondly, I've changed some of my passwords, which I probably wouldn't have done if I'd just put the phone down when the scammer called.

In my efforts to distract myself, I watched Emma whilst eating the chippy tea Son treated us to, and the boys watched Liverpool win at home. After tea, I finally got round to some Veilguard. I've recruited a powerful ally through persuasion, again. I don't fancy fighting her...

And now I'm finishing Robots of Death. Someone's interfering with the robots' programming. Sooo far-fetched...

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Location: bedroom

sholio

The other prompt fill I wrote today ended up being full-story-length (~1100 wds) for Babylon 5, posted on AO3 as Exercises in Linguistics.

The prompt was: G'Kar and Londo (slash or gen, up to you!) and Language. Set in early season 5, probably between about 5x02 & 5x06.

( Exercises in Linguistics )

anneapocalypse

In recent months, various life circumstances have pretty much forced me to slow down on a lot of things. This has its ups and downs, but one upside to all that is I’ve been doing a lot of reading. I’d been kind of struggling with my reading pace for a while, and just in general struggling to figure out where to fit reading into my daily routine, because if I don’t find a way to make things routine they tend to slip through the cracks even if they are important to me. What finally helped me break through that last year was just to try and finish a book at whatever pace worked for my routine, and not worry about setting a numeric goal, as that just felt like disincentive to start anything long.

So here’s what I’ve read so far this year.

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halfcactus

https://thefridayfive.dreamwidth.org/150938.html

1. What was the last book you read (or are currently reading)?
Last read manhwa: On My Way to Meet Mom, would recommend! It's a 30-chapter story about an orphan boy in a post-apocalyptic world (where there are more aliens than humans) who discovers the concept of family one day and sets out to find it. Very comforting because the boy is so ordinary! He is small and round and human and that is enough reason for him to be deserving of love. It's gen through and through, which I like, and acknowledges that gender and gendered family roles are human constructs, which I also like. And the character designs are so good!!! Beautiful fantasy elements too, like whales in the sky.

Last read book: A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid, an 80-page essay about Antigua, post-colonialism, white tourism, and global power dynamics. Hits pretty close to home and written quite lyrically. Would also recommend!

Currently reading: The Fellowship of the Ring audiobook (narrated by Andy Serkis)—I'm not sure how sustainable the audio format is for my attention span but it got me further than all past attempts to read the text with my eyes. I now see the appeal of Tolkien. I still can't visualize anything, though...

2. What was the last movie you watched?
This morning's groupwatch—we meant to watch the Journal with Witch live action movie, but the subs were machine-translated from Chinese which was painful, so we switched to 100 Meters on Netflix. It's about what running means to athletes, the years and years of training and self-doubt all for these races which are over in 15 seconds, and what those 15 seconds mean. On paper: good concept! I can see this being a nice, thoughtful manga. In practice, it had some really interesting textures and breathtaking moments, but I thought the storytelling was poor and did not maximize the animated form. None of the characters also ever really have inner lives, and because of that, the main character's speech at the end feels unearned.

3. What television series are you currently watching?

Loving Strangers (cdrama): I stopped watching this for a while and then got back to it because I was feeling tired and 委屈, and this show is nothing but characters who are tired and 委屈.

How Dare You!? (cdrama): 14 eps in, I don't have very strong feelings about it but it's a group watch and there are enough interesting plot points that I'd like to see through. The show is kind of uneven, some sets of episodes are paced better than others. I really liked the first ED so I was very sad that they changed it to the more "serious" one.

Pursuit of Jade (cdrama): One of my oomfs said this got her out of a cdrama slump and true enough I managed to watch 2 eps in a row. XD I am not very enthused that the FL, a small village butcher, is Secretly Proficient in Martial Arts and has Secretly Important Parents (deceased).

Witch Hat Atelier (anime): So beautiful and worth the wait! Not sure how much the anime covers and how long I'll stick with it, but I'm pleased that its impact is mainstream enough that I have a common interest with IRLs again.

4. What are some of your favorite blogs or communities online?
My fav community is the HnG server where we groupwatch non-HnG-related things and people share pictures of their local birds and flowers. :') Also the gaming channel in the NiF server, it's like the only channel I check haha. Also all the bookish people in my Dreamwidth and Storygraph circles because how else do I know what books exist! I read A Small Place because I saw two of my Storygraph mutuals (one of them is, naturally,

aartichapati) finish it recently.

My favorite blogs are mostly defunct. </3 Some old blogs that are still up but no longer active: Lazy Evaluation Ranch, a personal farm blog; Hanzis Matter, a blog "dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in western culture"; Source Code in TV and Films; and Said the Gramophone, a music blog (still updates every December).

5. What social media do you belong to and check often?
Twitter and Bluesky... I also have an Instagram but as usual I've stopped checking it 😂

vriddy

I was growing really antsy about the missing notifications because day after day the tickets were piling up yet the problem didn't seem to get acknowledged anywhere (not in the known issues on the support page, not on

dw_maintenance, no replies to those tickets... I even went to check the dreamwidth github issues but crickets there too :C).

Anyway, behold! A few of the (many, many) tickets about notifications were updated with the following:

"Our developers have been looking into this and finally figured out what was going on. There's a fix in, and notifications should start flowing again. I can't say if you'll get the old ones, but new ones should be fine."

I can't wait! Thanks to the "Recent Comments" page which I'm checking first like a kinda inbox, I'm fairly sure I'm not missing anything posted anywhere on my journal. Unfortunately, because I have a couple of active posts at the moment, the "Recently Posted" page isn't as useful to me and if someone replies a couple of weeks later to a comment I left on their journal, which is usually one of Dreamwidth's strengths, I'm unlikely to see it if the notification gets dropped :C

Glad a fix is on the way and hope it's coming to us soon!! To all the chit-chat and associated notifications!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😆 (Yes I'm constantly trying to get my inbox under control but not like this 😱 XD)

Edit: There is a

dw_maintenance post about it, now. One of the subthreads asks to share new, recent comments in which the notifications went missing.

kalloway

A long weekend, since I will be helping my father with things on Sunday.

Through no fault of its own, Lord of Heroes will be shutting down in the near future. The developers put all their money and LoH's money into developing a game that went straight into development hell and then tanked upon release, bankrupting the entire company. It's the kind of ultra-grindy Korean gacha that has a really good story, but I never got more than halfway because the grindwalls are real. OG Shadowverse is also shutting down but at this point that'll mostly be reclaimed space on my phone. I just cannot brain card games.

Probably going to bounce in and out of both Ever Crisis and Dissidia. That'll put me down to ~7 phone games. I guess Eternal, Last Cloudia, and Seven Knights will be my mains. Still need to get back to playing FFVII on Switch; I'm right before Wutai, which I've never actually played through, and feel like I need to put a little more effort into it. ^^;;

Picked up my new glasses, which are baby's first progressives and so far they're okay? I haven't quite figured out the proper angle to look at some things but I'll get there.

Should have the blue Estailev finished up tonight. Then, jokingly, I'm going to build like 10 HGs. But maybe. Definitely time for a few smaller things.

sholio

Catching up on some older prompts now that I'm in between books.

1. EvS on Sakhalin

Prompt: EvS, that last night on Sakhalin between when Biggles first speaks to him and his escape the next day.

Posted on Tumblr here.

( Under the cut )

2. EvS & Algy (Biggles/EvS implied)

Prompt: Set post defection in London. A misunderstanding leads to Biggles being told that Erich is cheating on him. After some angst and h/c, their relationship is even stronger.

This went in a Direction. Also posted on Tumblr.

( Under the cut )

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Hello, everyone! Over at

moodthemeinayear, the second Medium Track run has just started.

For those not familiar with the schedule over there, the Medium Mood Track lasts about three months, and covers all of the higher-level moods: The fifteen absolute minimum moods you need for a complete custom mood theme, and the next nineteen that have moods that branch off of them (plus two extra). If you want to create a custom mood theme that's fairly well filled out but don't want to go for the whole 132 graphics, the Medium Track may be for you!

If you want to try and min-max your mood theme, on the other hand, the Minimum Track has also restarted; it lasts six weeks, and takes you through the bare minimum fifteen moods you need for a complete custom mood theme, plus the next three most populous higher-level moods, so you get the most image diversity for the least amount of work 👍

Feeling ambitious and want to go for the whole thing? Jump in now and follow along with the Medium and Maximum Tracks simultaneously! The Medium Track will catch you up to all of the moods the Maximum Track has already covered, while the Maximum Track covers all of the moods that aren't in the Medium Track.

Come check it out, and maybe earn some Dreamwidth points while you're at it!

Current Mood: bouncy

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wolffyluna - (no subject)
taichara - the more things change
sholio - Space Swap
kalloway - Longer Weekend
mindstalk - In which I join the Osaka bicycle menace
mindstalk - In which I discover a new street feature of Japan
littlefics in seasonsofdrabbles - Signups Closed: Grace Period and Matching
sholio - A cunning plan
rosa_heartlily - Hello, weekend
muladhara - i am that mask you wear
catness - Translate
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rosa_heartlily - I'm not stupid? Oh, I think you'll find I am...
sholio - Promptfic from Tumblr 2: Babylon 5 edition
anneapocalypse - Recent Reads, and thoughts on POV.
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