vignettes

Jun. 7th, 2026 11:40 am
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This week's prompt is:
juvenile 🧸

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.
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Let us break bread together on our knees,
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today's adventures

Jun. 7th, 2026 11:16 am
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Because I was rambling in my substack as I usually do here:
https://writingandreflections.substack.com/p/one-pass-in-the-art-of-revision

Up to date on The Harbingers

Jun. 3rd, 2026 12:01 pm
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Which I can sum up for you as "They went on one date a decade and a half ago and have been obsessed with each other ever since. Also, something terrible happened to Boston and everybody therein."

(It got sent to the moon. I'm just going to assume everybody died almost before they had time to realize.)

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Frieren Vol 4+5 and Skipshock

Jun. 5th, 2026 08:10 pm
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Volume 4 of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End was fine.
Some cute moments.
Some deep moments.
Some heartwarming moments.
Some stupid moments.
Volume 5 was really great, with Frieren and Fern entering a competition-style exam to gain the highest magical qualification available. There were a lot of new characters to keep track of but also lots of really interesting character development, magic use and intrigue about where it was going next - which left me wanting more!

Skipshock by Caroline O'Donoghue follows Margo, a teenage girl, who slips into another dimension and finds herself in a strictly regimented set of worlds, where the days can be anything from 2 to 36 hours long. She meets Moon, a salesman who travels between the worlds, and they get mixed up with a rebellion against the regime that's restricting everyone's freedoms.
The switching between viewpoints was initially very annoying because Margo's POV was third person past tense and Moon's was first person present tense, even though they were almost always in the same place and the different chapters followed directly on from one another. But then I realised it was the author's way of getting the reader to experience the 'skipshock' of the title, which is a disorienting sickness people suffer when they move between worlds too much. After that, it was still annoying, but I could see it was also clever and deliberate.
The setup of how the different 'time zones' worked was absolute nonsense - the more I thought about it, the less sense it made, but once I acknowledged that and just went with it, things were a lot smoother. I also wasn't a fan of the romance, which felt quite 'instalove' and a bit too obsessive for my tastes.
All that said, though - I really enjoyed this book and was extremely irritated that it ended on a cliffhanger, with no release date yet for the sequel! I thought it was standalone, but I seem to have inadvertently launched myself into a YA dystopian romance - but it was really good!

Anthony Head dies at 72

Jun. 5th, 2026 05:45 pm
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0p0rz4n0mo
Buffy and Ted Lasso star Anthony Head dies at 72



awful news

LB are at Dyke March tomorrow!

Jun. 4th, 2026 07:55 pm
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We’ll be tabling tomorrow (Friday June 5) at Dyke March, at Boston Commons from 6-10ish! We will have copies of Betty Dodson’s Liberating Masturbation, Joani Blank’s Sexual Playbook for Men, and the anthology zine My Love Is Strange!

Be here! Be queer! Hope to see you!

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Jun. 4th, 2026 04:07 pm
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Today: two more loads of laundry, and a couple of discs of Legends of Tomorrow.

I have caught up to the season with John Constantine. He was fun in the season with Mallus but now he's setting up the next season problem he is way more of a bastard. Goes all spiky when he's scared and self loathing, and guess how much of the time that is. He is so fascinating to watch. ... which, given how much of the time so far he was being tortured shirtless, is a very specific statement...

But I have seen Beebo save the world, so today is a very good day.
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Title: The Obvious Aside
Fandom: ST: Voyager
Rating: G
Pairing: Janeway/Chakotay
Summary: She nods, not quite trusting what else she'll do with her mouth, and they head towards the exit of the museum.
Notes: Set early on. 2,931

Link to A03

tidbits cross time

Jun. 3rd, 2026 03:38 pm
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Connecticut was the first American colony to regulate branding animals.

Frontinus, writing a treatise on the aqueducts of Rome, dared anyone to compare the useless Pyramids to them.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the allied opponents of France spoke in their common language: French.
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June is here!

Jun. 2nd, 2026 12:40 pm
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Yay!

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Linux Art Programs

Jun. 3rd, 2026 10:19 am
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Rogan: okay, so it looks like Clip Studio Paint is no longer a program I can rely on, because I can’t get it to work reliably on Linux and my Windows 7 partition looks like it can no longer be activated. At this point, I think I’d rather just find a new Linux-native art program than stay in Microsoft’s clutches.

I already have GIMP but it’s like drawing with a blunt ballpoint pen. And sometimes that’s what I need, but I loved Clip Studio Paint for its lush brush pen and pencil brushes; I loved not having to erase line ends to make them pointy, I loved being able to lock individual layers or insta-colorize or screentone them. Those were the primary features I used.

I overwhelmingly draw in black and white, maybe four layers tops. I hand-letter everything. Any recommendations?

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Jun. 3rd, 2026 02:19 pm
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Today is Cleaner Day and I am doing so good at making things Cleaner.
I have got things ready for the cleaner and she made it cleaner as per my list.
... also I ran the dishwasher once and the laundry twice, and currently it is drying.

Some of it is drying hanging on the door because I forgot that particular layer was in the bottom of the laundry basket for reasons of awkward, but in the recent weather that'll work out okays.

I was washing things I won't need for a while because I am trying out new laundry capsules. The ones I have been using are New and Improved into making so much stinky I had to ask mum to get them out of my house for me, because you can't leave laundry capsules lying around and they aren't meant to go in the bin anyway. She took them and donated them. But now I have to try new makes until I find one that doesn't make me ill or annoyed. Ecover may be okays, but I have tried it on winter clothes first because I'll have a long time to fix them if it don't work out.

There are shapes you only try to be when you are changing the fitted sheets on a bed up against a wall, and my back is reminding me of this in Several places. I had to take a break in the middle of remaking the bed to just lie on my front for a bit. It was fine.

My days are not especially fascinating lately so I keep not telling the internet about them.



I did rewatch an episode of Legends of Tomorrow just now, and I have listened to 3/4 of the Big Finish Charley and 8 'Further Adventuress'
... I keep stopping and getting distracted. I think I have had enough of Charley by the end of her story arc and effectively popping back to the beginning to fill in some more adventure isn't working for me.
I also played some more Wrath of the Righteous but it is getting harder instead of easier because I have used up more resources and time than I am used to. I am getting Daeran next and hopefully he can keep us alive a bit longer.

I guess if I actually finish a thing or talk about individual episodes as I go along I get more interesting things to say.

My Legends rewatch just saw Nora and Ray trying to get cold fusion. It's interesting how they make Damien Dark get that one tiny glimmer of a second thought and he's suddenly much more fun to watch. A guy who wants to end the world is boring, a guy who wants to giftwrap a perfect world for his daughter and is just absolutely terrible at figuring out how badly that is going is interesting.

Think I shall watch a second episode while I wait for the laundry.

... I have so much laundry needs done but I saw in passing an old journal entry that said the difference between drowning in laundry argh argh and huh this is achievable laundry is like four loads. I can do four loads. I did weird bits and a blue wash, that leaves black and grey and white and the fiddly rainbows stuff I never know what to do with. That's finite laundry. Onwards...

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Jun. 1st, 2026 10:56 pm
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Quick note that post-by-email and comment-by-email is (sometimes?) failing silently without actually posting right now! I'm pretty sure this is related to last night's shenanigans and will be fixed once Mark can finish the full fix for it, which he's working on, but if you've posted or replied by email in the last 24 hours, fish it out of your sent folder to check if it posted!

EDIT: This should be fixed as of around 7AM EDT! We *believe* everything that was stuck in the plumbing has been sent along to your journal or the comment thread it was meant for; it's definitely not where it was stuck anymore, at least.

2026 June Fan Poll

Jun. 1st, 2026 10:09 pm
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Hey everybody, it's that time again: time to vote for which stuff gets the LiberaPay/Patreon money this month!

As always, anyone can vote (please do!), but LiberaPay and Patreon patrons get double weight for their votes.  (Due to Patreon's porn purges, I really encourage you to use LiberaPay, if you get a choice.) If you want to see the blurbs for any of these works, those are here!  (You can also leave your requests there; requesting a story or essay is always free!) If you don't have a DW and so can't do the poll, that's okay; just leave your vote in the comments below; anon comments are turned on.

Which works gets the money, and thus posted this month?  YOU CHOOSE, readers!

Poll #34678 2026 June Fan Poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20


Did you toss LiberaPay/Patreon money my way last month?

View Answers

Yes (my votes count double)
5 (100.0%)

What writing gets posted this month?

View Answers

Infinity Smashed: Born Lucky
4 (20.0%)

Crazy Boys Surf Couches (Crazy Boys)
10 (50.0%)

Henchwench for Hire (F/F supervillainy)
1 (5.0%)

Rutless (trans omegaverse porno)
1 (5.0%)

Kayfabe in the Coliseum (psuedo-Greco-Roman gladiator fights)
1 (5.0%)

What If Someone Masturbates To That?: Forbidden Fiction (essay)
6 (30.0%)

The Golem Always Dies At The End (essay)
6 (30.0%)

Cross-Ethnic Headmates (essay)
8 (40.0%)

What art/comic/zine gets posted this month?

View Answers

Cult Comix (doodle strips of Cultiples BS)
4 (23.5%)

Death Watch (bony lady comic)
6 (35.3%)

Protection (one-page dark side of protector duty)
3 (17.6%)

Thrown Away
3 (17.6%)

The Anatomy Lesson (Mori/Rawlin fluff)
9 (52.9%)

Possessions (text-only poetry zine of haunting incompetently)
5 (29.4%)

Dr. Frankenstein vs. the Queerborgs (book spine poetry)
2 (11.8%)

Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Jun. 1st, 2026 07:02 pm
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We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable—
But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;
And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.

We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;
And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;
And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.

We were very tired, we were very merry,
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
We hailed, “Good morrow, mother!” to a shawl-covered head,
And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;
And she wept, “God bless you!” for the apples and pears,
And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.


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Link

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May. 31st, 2026 10:00 pm
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[staff profile] denise posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance

Robby has managed to put in a temporary fix for the site errors and things failing to refresh or not showing up where they should! The permanent fix is going to need Mark's experience, and unfortunately -- seriously, this literally never fails -- Mark has been on an international flight all day, because of course he has. (Never. Fails. He and I are not allowed to both take vacation at once.)

The site will work just fine with the temporary fix in place, things just might be a little slow here and there. We'll keep you updated.

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May. 31st, 2026 08:59 pm
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We're aware of site traffic issues and are working to fix them for the people who are having problems! (The tactics the damn bot traffic uses are endlessly shifting, and they're really good at looking like real traffic, sigh.)

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