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1 Dec 2025 19:41
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Discussion: We're in the final month of the year (how?) are you planning to keep the pace you've worked at all year or are you winding down for the year?

Peasina's Wishes

1 Dec 2025 13:35
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Hello friends,

I’m pea, a 30-something podficcer, Pokémon-fan, and craft-lover from the UK 👋 This is my eighth time participating in Holiday Wishes, and I look forward to the kind, wholesome interactions this event encourages all year. Thank you so much to anyone who grants any of my below wishes. You’re amazing!

1. DW Points – This was my first year having a paid DW account, and I love having access to extra icons, polls, and the search function! Any number of points you’d be kind enough to gift me would be extremely appreciated.

2. Female YouTuber recs – It’s always lovely to find a new YouTuber to binge, and I’d love to support more women making videos about topics I enjoy such as crafts, hobbies, LGBTQ+ themes, video games, and Pokémon. Some of my current favourites are: brattyxbre (zines), Emma Thorne (religion, LGBTQ+ rights, conspiracy theories), Karen Puzzles (jigsaw puzzles), Kyra/Strawberry Pokémon (Pokémon TCG collecting), Memoria (video games), Royalty Soaps (soap and candle making), and Shiny Catherine (Pokémon shiny hunting).

3. Paid Discord things – If you have any of those free trials of Discord Nitro to give out, I’d love to be the lucky recipient of one, especially from 22 Dec onward (when I’m taking part in a Discord-based fan event that’s always easier with Nitro.) My Discord username is ‘alittlesunshine’ – feel free to friend me. I also have a wishlist associated with my account with two cute profile add-ons I’d love to have, if you’re feeling extra generous.

4. Comments on any works in the PokePodProject collections — I co-mod [community profile] pokepodproject, an event that aims to create a fic and podfic for every Pokémon, and I would be delighted if the participants got more attention on their works. I’d appreciate it so, so, so much if you showed them (fic and/or podfic) some love. All are under 1k/10 mins. Here are some links to help you navigate:
Gen one: AO3 Collection | Spreadsheet of Works | Audiobook Anthology Downloads
Gen two: AO3 Collection | Spreadsheet of Works | Audiobook Anthology Downloads

5. Something to open for Christmas – I don’t really get gifts at Christmas, and not to sound shallow, but I do really enjoy having something to open. If you’d like to send me a little surprise, I’d be so grateful and will probably cry happy tears. Here’s a few things I like, if it helps: purple, pink, wax melts (citrus, coffee, sugary scents), stickers, sweets/candy, beads, handmade items (I LOVE crafts!! anything you made will excite me), Pokémon (especially steel and fairy types and any gen one Pokemon), and fruit-themed items. Please DM me for my address 💖

Thank you for looking at my wish list, and thank you again in advance for your kindness if you grant any of my wishes. Happy Holidays!

season's greasons

1 Dec 2025 09:01
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[personal profile] yarnofariadne posting in [community profile] holiday_wishes
Hello and happy holidays! May whatever your celebrations are be joyous, restorative, and blessed if they are religious.

1. Craft supplies donations for schools. Of course check with your local schools to see if this is something they really need, but I was until recently a TA in a special school and we were absolutely desperate for craft supplies that no one was donating. Fabric, even just in scraps, is especially valuable this time of year. Anything you have in your stash that you're not using, please see if you have a local school (particularly a special school) that could make use of it!

2. High quality, durable cat toys. My little guy is joyously destroying every toy he gets, and I simply don't have enough money to be replacing them at the speed he goes through them. I'd happily take recommendations (not Kong), or if you want to send me physical items, I'll have contact info at the bottom of this post.

3. Stickers. I'm long distance with one of my partners and we write lots of physical letters. I like to decorate the envelopes with stickers but my stash is running low and I'm having trouble finding cool stickers I like - most shops I find on Ko-fi and such are based in the US, and getting anything sent from the US is a very hit-or-miss prospect these days. I will again take recs - UK-based shops preferred, since I know most of the EU (understandably) won't ship to us either - or if you have spares you'd like to get rid of, contact info is at the bottom of this post. Themes I like: cats, mythology, folklore and folk art, vintage florals, spooky/witchy/Halloween things, hearts.

4. Washi tape. Same note as with the stickers - I keep finding local artists listing washi tape on their website and it must be going out of stock within minutes! No one seems to be able to keep it in stock, unless there is some vast washi tape-making supply shortage of which I'm unaware. If you have recs or any physical items you'd like to get rid of, I'm happy to take either.

5. Dreamwidth points. Always appreciated!

6. One more player for Vampire Heist. I'm running a homebrew D&D mini campaign on StartPlayingGames and we're one player short of starting. If you'd like to (fictionally) force the British Museum to repatriate some stuff, come play with us!

7. Anything off my Giftful wishlist. The wishlist is here and contact info's at the bottom of this post.

8. Commissions. I recently left my job because for a number of reasons it was killing me, and while I'm very happy with having given myself the gift of mental and physical health, I could use some work! I offer both writing and editing commissions, and I especially love editing, so if you've got some writing you'd like eyes on - anything from fic to novels - I'd be happy to help.

9. Eyes on my writing. It's really a struggle out there for writers trying to keep scrapers from stealing their work, and I've had to lower the visibility of my writing past what I would ideally have. All my writing is available for free on [community profile] yarnofariadne_writes, though you do have to join the community (I'll swiftly approve - I'm just trying to keep out the bots). I'm in the process of cross-posting to my website as well. My books are also available for very low prices, and I'm happy to send out review copies for reviewers.

10. Word of mouth. Following on from the above, if you enjoy what I write, please tell someone! Writing reviews on Goodreads/Storygraph/Pagebound is always a kindness, and even just telling a friend you think would be into what I write would be very much appreciated.

You can DM me here on Dreamwidth, or send me an email at victoriacaroline at tuta dot com.
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It's a busy month with seasonal projects and challenges. The seasonal card exchange is underway, and we're extending the fanartist rec challenge across this month as well.

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Art Rec Challenge: Rec a Fanartist

Pick a fanartist you like and tell us why you enjoy their works - and link us to a few examples, and to their main site or sites.

Any fandom, but only fanartists please, not professional artists (it's okay if they're fanartists who do commissions or have a buy-me-a-coffee, though, as that's fairly common these days.) They can be from any era - from early Star Trek vintage to artists posting currently.

Tell us about just one artist per post, please - you can make more than one post if you want to rec two or three artists!

A round-up post for this recs challenge will be done at the end of December. Happy reccing!

[admin post] Admin Post: Monthly Challenges: December prompt amnesty

1 Dec 2025 12:26
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Thank you for your engagement with this community during the past month!

December is, as usual, our month for a prompt amnesty (not that an amnesty is strictly needed).

You are invited to complete any challenge you started working on or were tempted by.
You can combine prompts freely or respond to them singly.

There is a brief overview of all the challenges and prompts here:
https://tolkienshortfanworks.dreamwidth.org/9584.html

If you want to look at the challenge entries in more detail, you can scroll through the tag here:

https://tolkienshortfanworks.dreamwidth.org/tag/prompt

Usual reminder that in order to post the fill to this community or to the related collection on AO3 (linked in a sticky post at the top), the fanwork can only have a word count up to 1000 words and must be linked to a Tolkien fandom.
Rec lists and podfics can be posted as fills for thematic prompts, as long as the fanworks concerned meet those conditions.

Also we continue to welcome other pieces unrelated to any challenge, of course, including cross-posts and older stories, as long as they meet the criteria!
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Hello, all. There are 13 days remaining for this round to end on 14th December, 2025. 
Check out more information on this round here.

Participants who need to enter their sets:
1.tinny
2.chocolatefrogs

 
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A dinoszaurusztól az űrhajóig – megérteti a múltat és a jelent a 25 éves Élet és Tudomány

graf.: Kemény György, 1971

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Reading Wrap-up 11/25

1 Dec 2025 07:28
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In hindsight, it seems my November was horror-reading month. I swear, I hadn't planned it this way, but I won't complain. 

Purcell, Laura: Bone China. Bloomsbury. 2019.
I've been reading her books for a few years now, picking one up every autumn. She's a contemporary author, but she writes in the vein of gothic fiction - there are a lot of remote mansions and haunted castles in her books. Bone China features a remote manor on a cliff, an unreliable narrator and the question of what is truly happening and what is actually only taking place in the protagonist's head. Purcell is really good with the psychological horror. If that's your kind of thing you should definitely check her out.

Moreno-Garcia, Silvia: Mexican Gothic. Del Rey. 2020.
This was my first time with a novel by Moreno-Garcia. I felt that thematically, this was all over the place. Apart from the fact that it's horror it also tried to tackle themes like racism, classism, eugenics and mysoginy, but it didn't spend enough time on any of these themes to make it worthwhile. Additionally, this has a historical setting (the 1950/1960s) even though this is never fully realised and you wonder why the author chose to take this route (probably only to constantly talk about the dress the protagonist was wearing, I don't know). And when we got to the bottom of why the house was "haunted" I basically got off the plane - this is a personal thing of course, but I found this rather silly instead of terrifying. What I really liked was the gothic vibes she managed to evoke while describing the house. The atmosphere and the creepy dreams (that only get creepier as the story progresses) were my highlights.

Tremblay, Paul: Horror Movie. HarperAudio. 2024.
Tremblay simply has the best audiobook productions and this was top-notch as well. If you want to give this novel a try, do yourself a favour and consider the audiobook! I can't say that I fully bought into the "haunted set" idea and most of the characters felt flat and hardly realised, but Tremblay is really good with mixed media. There are several POVs and a screenplay in this. But the novel wasn't overly scary or frightening.

Feito, Virginia: Victorian Psycho. Audible Audio. 2025.
As a project this is very well done and successful, but as a book on its own I find it forgettable. As the title says this marries American Psycho to a Jane Eyre-like plot. The language was the most interesting thing about this, because just like in American Psycho the narration starts off very tame and proper only to get more unhinged as the story progresses. I think that progression was the highlight of the novel and very well done. On the other hand, it was riffing off what Ellis has already done decades ago, so I'm not sure how much of the credit (besides the idea of the Victorian setting) can really go to Feito. In the end, mostly a fanfiction remix even if it's executed extremely well.

Kröger, Lisa & Anderson, Melanie R.: Monster, She wrote! The Women Who Prioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction. Quirk Books. 2018.
Let's start this by saying that this is a beautifully done book. It was quite obviously typeset before the pandemic and before paper became scarce and expensive - there's a lot of free and waste of space here and it's wonderful to see a book "breathe" like that. Happens rarely enough. Sadly, this nonfiction read didn't fully give me what I had expected. Yes, I filled up my TBR because the authors truly manage to find a lot of hidden gems. But I had definitely expected more literary criticism, more in-depth analysis. In the end, this was pretty much snorkeling just below the surface.

Doerr, Anthony: Cloud Cuckoo Land. Scribner. 2021.
I only read this because Ben from Ben reads good gave this a glowing review. Half an hour into the (German) audiobook of 16 hours I thought this would be 16 hours of pure torture. In the end, it wasn't quite that bad, but I can't say that the book and I had a successful time with each other. The "hook" - the Greek epic connecting all the different timelines was as silly as the title suggests and had I known that this would fully be shouldered by kid and teenage protagonists I would have opted out before I even started. I just didn't care for any of it. Okay, that's not true. I cared for the poor beasts of burden who died somewhere in the middle - but even that was mostly the author emotionally manipulating the reader, so I don't know what to make of this.

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emotionalsupportgoblin420:

If I see one more misrepresentation of colorblindness in media I am going to crash out. So many times I will be watching a cartoon of some kind and it will be revealed that a character is colorblind but instead of it being an accurate representation it’s always the usual “Oh they see the world in black and white” bullshit. Stop! Stop doing that! Educate yourself on the different kinds of colorblindness!!! The most recent example of this is Abaddon from Haunted Hotel. He is revealed to be colorblind when he says “Now you will face the bitter grit of the GRAY chips!” Note he said GRAY. So he sees the world in black and white. This would mean he has Achromatopsia. It is one of the rarest forms of colorblindness. But there’s a problem. Achromatopsia comes with Photophobia which is a sensitivity to light. Abaddon does not display this symptom making it impossible for him to have Achromatopsia and yet the world is black and white to him making it obvious the creator has no idea what colorblindness actually looks like. This is so frustrating to me. Let me educate the masses on what colorblindness ACTUALLY looks like.

As you can see there are 3 main kinds of colorblindness. Deuteranomly, Protanopia, and Tritanopia. I will also talk about Achromatopsia but let’s start with the big three.

Deuteranomly: This colorblindness is mostly caused by a genetic mutation that affects the green cone cells in the retina making is hard for a person to distinguish between red and green colors. This means the person mainly sees yellows and blues.

Protanopia: This colorblindness is similar to deuteranomly in that it is a genetic mutation that affects the red cone cells in the retina making the person inable to detect red. But they can still see green though not as vibrantly.

Tritanopia: This colorblindness is rare but still more common than Achromatopsia. Tritanopia affects the ability to perceive blue and green colors. This colorblindness, like the others, is caused by a genetic mutation that affects the blue-sensitive cones in the retina.

Achromatopsia: This is among the rarest forms of colorblindness and causes a person to see the world in only black and white. Achromatopsia is an inherited disorder caused by problems with the cone cells in the retina. But unlike the other colorblindness conditions I listed before, Achromatopsia has a couple other symptoms. Photophobia: Extreme sensitivity to bright light and glare, Nystagmus: Involuntary, back-and-forth eye movements, and Central blind spot (scotoma): A small blind spot in the center of the visual field.

This is the bare minimum of information on these conditions and I do believe there are more forms of colorblindness. I am not an expert. I’m just someone with a Google account. Please, please, PLEASE do your own research when creating an oc with some form of disability and take constructive criticism to make your oc more accurate to the disability you’re representing.

Image description:

Infographic titled “What is colorblindness?”. It features four versions of the same photo of M&Ms, labeled “normal vision”, “deuteranomaly”, “protanopia”, and “tritanopia” respectively.

The remaining images showcase the same differences between the aforementioned types of colorblindness using different images.

Round 156 Had Ended!

30 Nov 2025 18:07
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Your Fic_Rush is in another castle!