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merricatb ([personal profile] merricatb) wrote2026-04-25 08:11 am

Getting to Know Me Meme

Borrowing this meme from [personal profile] maevedarcy.

Getting to know me


origin of your username:
Mary Catherine Blackwood from We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. Merricat as she's known affectionately. 
i always order this food: Usually Pad See Ew with tofu from my local Thai place. I have Celiac so I don't eat out very much because of the risk of cross-contamination but this place is safe for me. 
current overused emoji: Probably crying laughing. I'm a millennial so I use lol a lot.
current favorite show: Sense8
current favorite book: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. Read that on my living room floor in one sitting and I've never related more to a book in my life.
current favorite video game: Does Candy Crush count? I don't really play video games, and have a love/hate relationship with the one I do lol
song on repeat: Lately it's been Kittens by Underworld
last thing you really got into: Sense8. Also, IWTV and I cannot wait for the upcoming The Vampire Lestat.
oddly specific thing that brings you joy: Small dogs running. Their little legs just lkjasdfl;kadsjlkf
phone wallpaper: Just some art I found on tumblr and really liked
what smell makes you happy: Rain. Despite how much of it we get where I am, it rarely smells like rain. I miss that from when I lived in the desert
morning, night, or other type: Mornings definitely. Get up and get things done. My sleep is not great though. 
what’s your work/profession: I'm in the banking industry. Don't hold it against me.

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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2026-04-26 10:49 am

God, I hate talking about overnight shifts

Don't get me wrong, I love doing them - five hours of reading, three hours of work, what's not to love? - but talking about them? Don't get me started. Every single time it's a back and forth to confirm the actual day the shift starts.

I got a shift through the staffing agency, and I say "So, to confirm, I go to work at midnight Monday?" and he goes "No, Sunday". "So, I leave my house at 11:30 today...?"

No, he meant midnight Monday to 8am Monday.

Every time I look at the schedule at the usual place I find myself momentarily baffled by the fact that the overnight shift is at the top, as the first shift of the day.

Also, literally as I typed that last sentence a spam text came in with the word "lpuuuu", which seems low effort even for a spam text. I get that their business model depends on weeding out everybody smart enough to say "Seems fake!", but seriously?
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sad voice freaky clown ([personal profile] feurioo) wrote in [community profile] tv_talk2026-04-25 03:52 pm

Speak Up Saturday

Assortment of black and white speech bubbles

Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?
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calzephyr ([personal profile] calzephyr) wrote in [community profile] 1word1day2026-04-24 06:47 am

Friday Phrase: Spit the dummy

Spit the dummy

An Austrlian idiom to describe someone who is overreacting or acting wildly childish.



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kimaracretak ([personal profile] fiachairecht) wrote2026-04-25 11:45 am

three weeks for dreamwdith: a gen horror prompt fest

It is [community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth time and I am celebrating the same way I always do by bringing a mini version of my old beloved [livejournal.com profile] sharp_teeth to Dreamwidth! The fest is open to everyone and runs here for the full three weeks (until it's no longer May 15th in any timezone).

(no fancy promo banner yet because my photoshop skills are ass and I'm late to meet a friend at the farmer's market, but check back later maybe)

Rules

☠ This is a comment meme for creating works focussed on horror for any fictional canon, including original works and crossovers. [personal profile] summerofhorrorexchange has a list of horror subgenres for your inspiration, and you can also re-post prompts from the 2024 round.

☠ RPF is not allowed. Fictionalised versions of real people (e.g. prompts for Gentleman Jack) are allowed, provided they are not in extremely bad taste (war criminals, serial killers, etc). I determine what extremely bad taste is. This rule does not apply to fictional canons.

☠ This is a comment meme for gen (in the relationship sense, i.e. not focussed on romance or sex) fanworks. Background pairings are allowed, but should not be the focus of the work.

☠ This is a comment meme for Dreamwidth. Works should be Dreamwidth-exclusive for the duration of the event, to the extent possible (e.g. artists and podficcers obviously need to host somewhere, but fic should not be posted to AO3 or other sites until after the 15th). You can crosspost anywhere on Dreamwidth (your own journal or fic comm, other thematically relevant comms) at any point during the event, and anywhere else after May 15th.

☠ To participate in the meme, all you have to do is leave a prompt or reply to a prompt with a fill.

☠ Post your prompt as a comment to this post, one prompt per comment. Prompt comment subject lines should follow the format Fandom, Character(s), short description of prompt, for example Zone Blanche, Camille, came back wrong.

☠ 'Any fandom' and 'Specific fandom, any character' prompts are allowed.

☠ If you want to use an image or video as a prompt that's fine, but please link to it with a description rather than putting it directly in the comment.

☠ Post your fills as replies to the prompt comment. Fill comment subject lines should follow the format FILL: title, rating.

☠ If filling an 'Any' prompt, fandom and/or ship names in the fill titles are appreciated but not mandatory

☠ Warnings at the start of fills are appreciated but not mandatory. In fact, the entire comments section is a choose not to warn-friendly space.

☠ Link your fills in the fills thread below. I'll collect them in a masterpost after the event ends. (I mean it this year.)

☠ Multiple fills and self-fills are allowed.

☠ You can use fills you create for this event to fill prompts in other events, as long as those events are also hosted on Dreamwidth and their mods are fine with cross-fills.

☠ Be 18+ and don't be a fuckwit. Complaining that you don't like a prompt, character-bashing, and other wankery will get you banned from my journal. If you're one of the tiny handful of people banned from my journal, you're also banned from this particular event.

Dreamwidth With Friends

Gen horror not your thing? There are other prompt fests ongoing! If you're running one as well, drop the link in the Questions/Etc thread and I'll add it here.
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courtney ([personal profile] sonofgodzilla) wrote2026-04-25 09:08 am

Fushigi na STORY: a Three Weeks for Dreamwidth prompt box that I refuse to tag properly!

1984!

flash prompt box logo by the lovely [personal profile] luckyzukky


Hello, friends! [community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth is officially happening from to-day until 15th May, and, as promised, I thought it would be nice to run a little event mostly for my own amusement in order to celebrate that. As previously established, my entire life revolves around inventing excuses to make things, so I've been sitting on my hands all this week getting excited for this and now here we are and I don't really know to word this post so, ah, let's get straight to the point, shall we?

AKC Courtneyyyyyy Culture Festival
For the next three weeks, pick the members of our weekly Wednesday column! Make sure your oshimen gets the attention she deserves! Pick a member from AKB48, Nogizaka46 or any of their sister groups, or, if you will, any core Hello! Project group, and if I haven't written about your oshi before, I will ensure they get their time to shine! If I have written about them before, I will merrily redirect you. It would be really nice if I made some kind of master list post for this, wouldn't it?

Who's that Pokémon?
Pick your favourite little guy from the pokédex of Red/Blue or Gold/Silver and leave a prompt pertaining to them and I will write a little fic between 100, ~500 words! No promises that I won't keep my favourite trainers out of said fic, be warned!

Kamen Rider (Showa)
Kamen Rider fights Shocker for humanity's freedom! Pick one of the 10 Kamen Riders and/or Black/RX and leave a prompt and I will write something for them! Yes, Mikazuki Nayuta is Hongo Takeshi's adopted daughter. Yes, the first Kamen Riders in antiquity came to us from the Dreamlands. Yes, Kudo Fuga will have met many of these men during his pre-show Ikari Gendo arc.

Kamen Rider (Reiwa)
This exists here purely as an excuse for me to talk about Harima Shiori.

Their choice of matter and their scream of chatter
A young lady and a prompt from a series of your choice, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Strawberry Panic, Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club, Gakuen Idolm@ster, or Mayu/Yuki from Wonderful Precure! Short fics about school life, freindships in bloom, rose gardens and falling snow. Only the most elegant of prompters need apply.

Fushigi Comedy
Have you, dear friends, ever wanted to get into Toei's Fushigi Comedy Series but don't know where to start? Ask me! I'll probably just recommend Shushutorian as I definitely haven't watched all of these shows, but Shushutorian is really good! You should probably watch Shushutorian.

How do we know this event will stay exclusive to dreamwidth, Courtney? you may ask. Aha! Have faith in me friends and my absolute inability to hardly ever crosspost. Trying to update the Shiori post alone is a nightmare of jumbled comment thread links, and yet, at the same time, I secretly love making it this frustrating for anyone who might make the mistake of attempting to engage with the nonsense I make. At this point in life, I am almost certain that I will not change.

Other events to visit:
👻 - gen horror prompt fest, hosted by the lovely [personal profile] fiachairecht.
⚡🐁 - Chemy Card Spring Silly!! over at [community profile] precuretokuprompt.
🤼 -Tokusatsu drabble prompt meme, hosted on [community profile] toku100challenge by the equally lovely [personal profile] linky.
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cyberghostface ([personal profile] cyberghostface) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2026-04-25 06:30 am

Batman #1



"Everyone loves a deeply flawed character with a dark sense of humor… and The Joker’s always been a crowd-pleaser. Happy anniversary to one of the Caped Crusader’s greatest rogues, who made his comic debut in BATMAN #1. Written by Bill Finger, with pencils by Bob Kane, and inks by Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson." -- James Gunn

Scans under the cut... )
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m_findlow ([personal profile] m_findlow) wrote2026-04-25 07:42 pm

Drabble_weekly Challenge 498 - Dangerous words

Title: Dangerous words
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto, Jack
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 300 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 498 - Remember at [community profile] drabble_zone
Summary: Jack expected a different reaction to Ianto having his diary discovered. A triple drabble.

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pattrose ([personal profile] pattrose) wrote2026-04-25 01:55 am
Entry tags:

Hi everyone

I had to have an EkG today, before Thursday. That's the big day of my Broncoscopy. The girl that did my ekg said it was a little off. What a dumb thing to tell me. If no one calls me, I'll know its still on. I can't seem to focus right now. I hope to start posting soon. Take care of yourselves. Hugs.🌹🌹🌹🌹
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] newcomers2026-04-25 03:13 am

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Introduction

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth is a celebration of the platform's anniversary, running April 25-May 15. During this time, people post content only visible on Dreamwidth (although it can be reposted elsewhere after the event ends). There's usually a flurry of activity as bloggers share anchor posts, new fiction, icons, banners, questionnaires, friending fests, memes, and other goodies. Community hosts often hold special activities in their communities too. Watch your reading page for more festivities.

Are you posting about your experiences coming into Dreamwidth, or anything useful to newcomers on the platform? You can crosspost those entries here. Are you doing anything for Three Weeks in your blog or other community? Post a comment about that to attract more readers. Follow the Threeweeks feed. See my 2024 Questionnaire and a list of other thematic questionnaires. See the Introduction / Friending Meme for this community's questionnaire about new bloggers, and the Introduction tag.


Three Weeks for Dreamwidth April 25-May 15
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] goals_on_dw2026-04-25 03:04 am

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Introduction

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth is a celebration of the platform's anniversary, running April 25-May 15. During this time, people post content only visible on Dreamwidth (although it can be reposted elsewhere after the event ends). There's usually a flurry of activity as bloggers share anchor posts, new fiction, icons, banners, questionnaires, friending fests, memes, and other goodies. Community hosts often hold special activities in their communities too. Watch your reading page for more festivities.

Are you doing a post a day for Three Weeks in your blog or other community, or some other activity? Post a comment about your goal to attract more readers. Follow the Threeweeks feed. The 2025 set featured goal-setting frameworks. See my 2024 Questionnaire and a list of other thematic questionnaires. See the Introduction / Friending Meme for this community's questionnaire about new bloggers, and the Introduction tag.


Three Weeks for Dreamwidth April 25-May 15

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Oliver Moss ([personal profile] olivermoss) wrote2026-04-24 11:31 pm

(no subject)



Yup, some 90s edgecore vibes in this Chilis tonight
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Vriddy ([personal profile] vriddy) wrote2026-04-25 07:25 am

Event: Three Weeks For Dreamwidth, starting today!


[community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth is celebrating Dreamwidth's anniversary!
Come join in for fun, memes, activities, and more ♥


The three weeks event celebrating Dreamwidth is starting today!! \o/ There's already a fresh friending meme posted over the comm thanks to [personal profile] matsushima!

Over at [community profile] bnha_fans, we're running a Rec Fest again, and I posted the announcement on the first day for the first time in what feels like 70 years ;v; XD Sadly, it seems like the bug in which, if a journal or comm is set to default to nsfw/18+, it won't show up on the Latest Page feed for the event even if the post itself is marked "No Ages Restriction". Sad that the comm contributions won't show up there, but since this post will be, hey! Boku no Hero Academia/My Hero Academia fans out there, we're running a Rec Fest if you're looking for new fanworks or have some you'd like to rec! :D

Looking forward to see the various ways people participate this year! :D If this is your first time (or not, for that matter), you might enjoy the blogging questionnaire [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith shared a few years ago. That was a good time, replying to a question a day and reading people's answers!
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2026-04-25 12:56 am

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Introduction to Becoming an Expert

This year during Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I'm writing about reading as a way of becoming an expert in a given subject.


Part 1: Introduction to Becoming an Expert

Previously I posted about "How to Get Good at Anything." That touched on "The 3 Book Rule to Become An Expert." The premise is that, if you have read just three books on a subject, you know more about it than the general level of knowledge. You don't know as much as a professional should, but you know enough to answer about 80% of questions on the matter. This is enough to be useful to most people regarding most issues in that area. The really complicated or difficult stuff can be left to the professional level of experts.


Three Weeks for Dreamwidth April 25-May 15

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2026-04-25 12:07 am

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth runs April 25-May 15. During this time, people post content only visible on Dreamwidth (although it can be reposted elsewhere after the event ends). There's usually a flurry of activity as bloggers share anchor posts, new fiction, icons, banners, questionnaires, friending fests, memes, and other goodies. Community hosts often hold special activities in their communities too. Watch your reading page for more festivities. (See the introductory posts from 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.) To find posts for this event, follow the Threeweeks feed.

This year I plan to post about becoming an expert by reading three books on a subject. See "My Blog Is About..." for an overview of my blogging in general.


I have also posted about this event in my communities. See the entries:

* THREE WEEKS FOR DREAMWIDTH: INTRODUCTION in [community profile] allbingo
THREE WEEKS FOR DREAMWIDTH: SHARE YOUR CARDS

* Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Introduction in [community profile] birdfeeding

* Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Introduction in [community profile] crowdfunding

* Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Introduction in [community profile] goals_on_dw

* Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Introduction in [community profile] newcomers

* Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Introduction in [community profile] reddit_refugees


Three Weeks for Dreamwidth April 25-May 15

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hamsterwoman ([personal profile] hamsterwoman) wrote2026-04-24 09:39 pm

Watching and reading roundup: Hadestown, Taskmaster, Cinder House, Hugos

I ended up going to see Hadestown with L while it was touring SF. I heard from her last year that she wanted to see it, so as soon as dates in SF popped up – I apparently get all these live performances ads now on Insta, after getting Ed Gamble tickets – I texted her, and she got two tickets, intending it to be for RH and herself. But I told her that if it did not work out for him to go (because at the time he lived in Napa, and it would’ve been a long drive on a weeknight), I was happy to be her plan B, and that’s what happened. The show and the experience, with marked spoilers )

So, I’m glad I ended up going to see it with L. I would not have bestirred myself on my own, but listening to / watching my favorite songs from the show on YouTube, I can tell I got stuff out of the live experience that I would not have gotten otherwise, and also, I’m glad I got to see this particular Hades. And L is the perfect musical theater buddy – she likes discussing stuff and knows more than me, and in this case there was also the shared interest in Greek myth (which is what we had with the Harry Potter play, too). B would’ve absolutely hated every aspect of it, from the crowd to the jazz to the singing, which all three of us agreed on, heh.

Oh, right, and when we came home, since we were talking about how much I like bass voices, I showed L some Tim Foust videos (which [personal profile] aletheiafelinea introduced me to back in the day), like Champagne Taste (On a Beer Budget) and Long Black Train , and the Home Free sea shanties.

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Taskmaster s21e03 – I like Kumail’s shirt, with the white o white design. And Amy’s polka dot pinafore thing is very cute, too. Spoilers )

Joanna is the podcast guest, and she talks at the same density and speed as on the show, with Ed just sort of occasionally putting in a sentence or two XD Slight spoilers? ) Anyway, that was a ton of fun, and that was one I made a point of watching on YouTube rather than listening to, because I wanted to watch Joanna light up with laughter, and Ed’s expression as she just kept talking over him. What an absolute delight she is XD

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Hugo nominations are out! Category by category thoughts )

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And I should take this opportunity to finally write down my Cinder House thoughts. I read it, what, during my trip to Arizona, I think, and that’s been 6 weeks.

4. Freya Marske, Cinder House – I liked it a lot! I was not super swayed when I heard the premise – I have no particular devotion to Cinderella retellings, and ghost stories aren’t really my genre, and I wasn’t sure how this premise would play to what I’ve heretofore seen of Freya’s strengths as a writer in both pro and fanfic, but it’s just a really good book. More, with spoilers )

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At some point I should also catch up on another 6 months of Elis & John Radio X shows, and a ~2 months worth of current E&J and adjacent things like How Do You Cope (newly returned) and John making appearances on other podcasts to promote Thirst, but that'll need to wait. (I have preordered a signed copy of Thirst, but how I'm going to get to read it before I see [personal profile] cafemassolit whose house it's being shipped to is still unclear...
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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2026-04-24 08:35 pm

Another Day, another embalming

So today's embalming fluid accident was my fault. I caught the bag on the packing staple and that fluid shot out of the bag like a fire hose. Everywhere. But most especially all over me. Whee. No fresh shirt this time. At least it was only a half day.

And the other exciting thing that happened was late tonight. I'm on the phone with [personal profile] evil_little_dog who might join me for 1 night during the Bourbon City steampunk thing. So I was looking at the schedule to be sure the writing thing wasn't at night because they have NOT gotten back to me at all about my story. I didn't want to say we can go on this or that ghost tour or bar or whatever shenanigans we'll get up to so I check the schedule.

At first all I can find is the guests and found out two friends I didn't even know were going to be there are there. Yea! Nothing about the writing thing. Boo. So I click around and find the daily schedule and there is nothing about the writing contest. There IS however MY DAMN NAME up there as a presenter Saturday and Sunday. NO ONE told me this!!!!

No wonder my friend PQ gave me that look and asked me if I were sure I wasn't presenting. What the actual hell? My only thought is maybe, somehow it went to the other gmail that my phone uses (and I don't have access too) but there should be no reason for that. I know what email I gave them.

I am presenting in two weeks. I DO NOT HAVE ONE OF THE TALKS. When I never heard back I didn't make it up since I wouldn't need it til Gettysburg in August. Now I have to come up with this talk on Victorian/Edwardian wacky medicine that's 1 hour long from out my ass during finals. Kill me.

That said it should be fun.

cut for dissection details )

Have your Friday Fannish 50 fandom recs



the break Prodigal Son

God Of Coffee Torchwood

Acceptance Stargate SG-1

Consent is key Hazbin Hotel

Angel Enchanted Hazbin Hotel

Moonless Night Torchwood

Worlds Apart The Fantastic Journey

The Long Road Home The Amazing Digital Circus

Family Tree Merlin

Learn To Piece My Parts Together The Amazing Digital Circus


Gentle Hazbin Hotel

Perfect Inspector George Gently

Whoopsies Hazbin Hotel

Blood And Death Torchwood

be yourself along the way 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜

Blood Ties Hazbin Hotel

Afterlife of the party Hazbin Hotel

Paternity Testing Stargate Atlantis

First Hazbin Hotel

Close the Distance, Lock Us In 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)

Spice of Life 9-1-1

Before Breakfast Inspector George Gently

Birthright The Amazing Digital Circus

Building Alliances Teen Wolf

Secondhand Knowledge Merlin