Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 21: Postal Mail from Fen
Jul. 12th, 2025 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
June postal mail from fen brought me a beautiful card from
elayna. It's colored by hand and she indicated that it was done in pencil -- must be some very special kind of pencil -- there's a depth of color and a shine to it that doesn't look like other pencil-work I've seen. And she pointed out that with one of the images being a compass and one of the images being a wolf or wolf-dog it made her think of due South. Also, she put a wolf sticker on it and used a maple-leaf postage stamp. I <3 everything about this card very much!
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Murderbot, no spoilers
Jul. 11th, 2025 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Extremely good finale for Murderbot! I'm feeling pleasantly melancholic now the series has finished, but at least I get to watch it all again. Also, it's been renewed for a second season!
Writing technique comms on DW?
Jul. 11th, 2025 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Does anyone know of any (currently active) comms on DW focussed on writing craft or technique?
troyswann was asking and all I can think of are writing challenge comms like https://getyourwordsout.dreamwidth.org which are about producing words, not the craft of writing.
I also have a bunch of links saved, mostly from tumblr, on things like "worldbuilding" and "how to write fight scenes" etc. It's here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cMbhguAkJxfS9eJcacre7RpPutUo8qkx/view?usp=sharing
What other writing technique or info resources or posts do you like?
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I also have a bunch of links saved, mostly from tumblr, on things like "worldbuilding" and "how to write fight scenes" etc. It's here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cMbhguAkJxfS9eJcacre7RpPutUo8qkx/view?usp=sharing
What other writing technique or info resources or posts do you like?
Allan Hawco & PG over time
Jul. 7th, 2025 08:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Collecting a series of images for the Paul x Hawco timeline (soon to follow)
( Paul & Allan through 25+ gotdang years )
( Paul & Allan through 25+ gotdang years )
Small successes and mixed-up veggies
Jul. 6th, 2025 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I'm very much in winter mode here as although some days are sunny, it's cold, and a lot of days are very wet. So not going outside much and not doing gardening, which I don't feel great about. I seem a bit beset by inertia in terms of things physical, possibly a mid-winter slump, but I'm doing indoors things just fine - well, the things I like doing, anyway. Not cleaning or organising! I do tidy up once a week before Fionna comes to vacuum, and occasionally the dishes get washed, but that's about it.
I've started another longer podfic - this one for the due South Big Bang. Am also continuing to add lots of new podfics to the Audiofic Archive (we got inundated by >600 short ones from a recent Voiceteam challenge). And I finished a personal project with the Audiofic Archive of adding streaming links to all the SGA podfics there so they can be enjoyed easily with no need to download zip files. That's 138 pages of SGA podfics! - and increasing each week, as we make more. Next fandom to complete is due South.
In the process I stumbled on Lim's old Fanvid page on Wayback, and the vid downloads still worked. Lim made avant garde vids with lots of altered graphics. Some are on AO3 but a lot of the SGA ones aren't. The Wayback page is here (with additional info and credits), and I downloaded the SGA ones and converted them to mp4 format here. CW for flashing, fast cuts, loud music in some of them. One, Mission Report, (lyrics) is a multimedia podvid where Lim created the lyrics, music, and vid, and sang it for the SGA flashfic comm.
In "first world problem" news, a grocery mix-up. My online delivery packer needs help with alliums! Ordered a bunch of spring (green) onions:

And got a giant leek. Size matters! (in terms of making salads, anyway)

Finally, I saw this amazing poem on tumblr, apparently written by nine-for-a-kiss as a teenager. It's very Dark-is-Rising-ish.
I've started another longer podfic - this one for the due South Big Bang. Am also continuing to add lots of new podfics to the Audiofic Archive (we got inundated by >600 short ones from a recent Voiceteam challenge). And I finished a personal project with the Audiofic Archive of adding streaming links to all the SGA podfics there so they can be enjoyed easily with no need to download zip files. That's 138 pages of SGA podfics! - and increasing each week, as we make more. Next fandom to complete is due South.
In the process I stumbled on Lim's old Fanvid page on Wayback, and the vid downloads still worked. Lim made avant garde vids with lots of altered graphics. Some are on AO3 but a lot of the SGA ones aren't. The Wayback page is here (with additional info and credits), and I downloaded the SGA ones and converted them to mp4 format here. CW for flashing, fast cuts, loud music in some of them. One, Mission Report, (lyrics) is a multimedia podvid where Lim created the lyrics, music, and vid, and sang it for the SGA flashfic comm.
In "first world problem" news, a grocery mix-up. My online delivery packer needs help with alliums! Ordered a bunch of spring (green) onions:

And got a giant leek. Size matters! (in terms of making salads, anyway)

Finally, I saw this amazing poem on tumblr, apparently written by nine-for-a-kiss as a teenager. It's very Dark-is-Rising-ish.
Caught Premiere / Getty images
Jul. 3rd, 2025 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
AKA where Hawco looks like the most Just Some Guy he has ever been and Paul looks gorgeous as per usual.


Whoever this Getty photographer is, he does not disappoint.
( PiCSPAM FOLLOWS -> )


Whoever this Getty photographer is, he does not disappoint.
( PiCSPAM FOLLOWS -> )
PSA: The People's Union USA economic boycotts for July
Jul. 2nd, 2025 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The economic boycotts led by The People's Union USA for the month of July: Amazon, Home Depot, Starbucks.
For more details, see this Newsweek article.
For more details, see this Newsweek article.