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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-12-11 12:51 pm
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-12-11 12:51 pm
John Varley (1947 - 2025)
Multiple sources report the death of SF author John Varley.
james_davis_nicoll (james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-12-11 09:20 am
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james_davis_nicoll (james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-12-11 08:28 am
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-12-11 08:28 amEntry tags:
Summer of Love (Zhu Wong, volume 1) by Lisa Mason
A 2567 blueblood travels back to the Summer of Love to save one very special 16-year-old.
Summer of Love (Zhu Wong, volume 1) by Lisa Mason
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Mood Theme in a Year Returns!
moodthemeinayear is coming back in 2026 with a new twist: Creating a custom mood theme can now earn you Dreamwidth points!Mood Theme in a Year is a community that takes a laid-back approach to creating a custom mood theme. If you've always wanted to create your own mood theme (those little images that pop up when you select something from the drop-down "Mood" menu when posting), this is a great place to do it! Take your time creating graphics for anywhere between 15 and 132 moods, either following the community's suggested schedule or going at your own pace. (Though you need to make a minimum of 18 graphics to earn any paid time.)
The "official" schedule starts again from the beginning on January 1st, but you can jump in at any time during the year; feel free to challenge yourself as well with Bingo cards or the Mood Theme in a Month calendars! Learn more in the community pinned post or profile.
I hope to see you there!
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questionable_content_feed) wrote2025-12-10 09:00 pm
questionable_content_feed) wrote2025-12-10 09:00 pmQC Rerun Time 2025 #44
It's hard to believe the first Cubetown visit was like 800 friggin' comics ago, holy crap. Time does weird things when you draw a comic every day for 20-odd years. As I recall, at this point I was still trying to figure out if QC would switch solely to focus on Marten and Claire's Cubetown adventures, or if I'd split the focus between Cubetown and Northampton. I ended up doing the latter, which I think was the right choice. Too many fun characters to just leave behind like that! And of course then I immediately added like four new ones, and then Anh basically took over the comic for a year. Is Sam still going through her goth phase? IS it just a phase? ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT (I will do whatever seems funniest at the time)
james_davis_nicoll (james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-12-10 02:13 pm
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-12-10 02:13 pmEntry tags:
Bundle of Holding: Magical Kitties
Magical Kitties Save the Day, the all-ages introductory storytelling game from Atlas Games.
Bundle of Holding: Magical Kitties
The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman (theoatmeal_feed) wrote2025-12-10 05:39 pm
theoatmeal_feed) wrote2025-12-10 05:39 pm
devinwolfi (devinwolfi) wrote in fictional_fans2025-12-10 09:42 am
devinwolfi) wrote in fictional_fans2025-12-10 09:42 amEntry tags:
EVENT: Be A Goldfish: A Multifandom Multimedia Microbang
There are no sign-ups, check-ins, or discord servers. This is all very low-stakes, go-at-your-own-pace fun. For anyone interested in a bit of structure, there will be a completely optional punch card that you can mark off weekly if you leave a comment on a work or share one of your own. Additionally, we have provided an optional series of weekly prompts in the hopes of inspiring you to experiment creatively and find new fannish heights!
All fandoms are allowed: From megafandoms like Star Trek and Tolkien to that one canceled-too-soon series from the 80s that only you and your closest mutual know about because you're the one who told them about it in the first place, everything that has ever given you that fannish itch is both allowed and highly encouraged (RPF included).
All mediums are allowed: fic, art, meta, web weaves, gifs, playlists, food, fiber or paper crafts, etc. Very multi, very media, very wow!
All text-based entries must be 1,000 words or less, hence the micro aspect of this “bang.” We’re especially encouraging things like drabbles, poetry, ficlets, and of course, non-fic fanworks.
Schedule: 1 January - 28 February 2026
Links:
beagoldfish, Come join our community and/or drop us a follow on tumblr and, if you feel so inspired, ring in the new year with your fellow fans!
( Our poster! )
james_davis_nicoll (james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-12-10 08:54 am
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-12-10 08:54 amEntry tags:
To The Warm Horizon by Choi Jin-Young (Translated by Soje)
Could safety from the global pandemic be found in desperate flight towards a land of banditry and violence?
To The Warm Horizon by Choi Jin-Young (Translated by Soje)
QC RSS (questionable_content_feed) wrote2025-12-09 09:21 pm
questionable_content_feed) wrote2025-12-09 09:21 pmQC Rerun Time 2025 #3
A Bembo comic! Man I love these. IIRC, the whole idea for Bembo started off on twitter when I went on a bit of a "dumb barbarian but not in the way you'd expect" style of shitposting spree. Then later that year I needed some filler comics for the week between xmas and new year's so I decided to turn some of those posts into actual comics. And then it became a semi-regular thing! They're very fun and I hope to do more in the future. Bembo is obviously heavily indebted to Oglaf, a comic I adore. Go read Oglaf, unless you don't like cartoons with tits and wieners in them I guess.
Every time I see one of these old comics I think "man, remember when QC was about indie rock lol." Also remember when I used to make jokes about the size of Faye's ass but didn't really know how to draw thicker ladies yet so she pretty much looked like every other character, lol.
On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams (dewline) wrote2025-12-09 05:27 pm
dewline) wrote2025-12-09 05:27 pm
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About that "National Security Statement"?
Let me know if this is paywalled?
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/its-becoming-all-too-clear-how-trump-sees-canada-no-wonder-carney-cant-get-a/article_279db437-9900-44e7-8598-300441ec2db7.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/not-the-51st-state-but-a-vassal-state-what-donald-trumps-national-security-strategy-envisions/article_abe71b85-123c-4554-84b6-825d0dcb128f.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=user-share
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/its-becoming-all-too-clear-how-trump-sees-canada-no-wonder-carney-cant-get-a/article_279db437-9900-44e7-8598-300441ec2db7.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/not-the-51st-state-but-a-vassal-state-what-donald-trumps-national-security-strategy-envisions/article_abe71b85-123c-4554-84b6-825d0dcb128f.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=user-share
On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams (dewline) wrote2025-12-09 05:02 pm
dewline) wrote2025-12-09 05:02 pmEntry tags:
About the Trek Writers' Rooms?
A suggestion to the people currently care-taking for the Star Trek franchise, one that Larry and David Ellison may well try to prevent the heeding of: the writing teams need people who have served in military or NGO contexts, or have survived as refugees and/or dissidents.
conuly (conuly) wrote2025-12-13 07:47 am
conuly) wrote2025-12-13 07:47 amBrr, it's cold out.
You'd think we'd get snow, but no. Tomorrow's forecast thus far calls for a "wintery mix". The only wintery mix I want is cocoa and marshmallows, not whatever the hell happens to fall from the sky like soggy doom confetti.
19F, jesus. At least it'll be warmer tomorrow. Warm enough to get a fucking wintery mix instead of snow, which is what we really want.
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19F, jesus. At least it'll be warmer tomorrow. Warm enough to get a fucking wintery mix instead of snow, which is what we really want.
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james_davis_nicoll (james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-12-09 06:35 am
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-12-09 06:35 amEntry tags:
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
A depowered witch discovers she is just one zany scheme away from regaining her power... provided her estranged mentor does not intervene. Which of course he will.
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
conuly (conuly) wrote2025-12-12 10:25 am
conuly) wrote2025-12-12 10:25 amFinished a relisten to Wolf 359
So much awful stuff happens to the protagonists in the last third of the show that I often don't make it all the way through. It's worth it, though - my favorite character suddenly gets enough growth to become my favorite character, and the villain dies in a very satisfying way, allowing me to say ( Read more... )
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conuly (conuly) wrote2025-12-11 04:14 am
conuly) wrote2025-12-11 04:14 amFamous by Naomi Shihab Nye
The river is famous to the fish.
The loud voice is famous to silence,
which knew it would inherit the earth
before anybody said so.
The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse.
The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.
The idea you carry close to your bosom
is famous to your bosom.
The boot is famous to the earth,
more famous than the dress shoe,
which is famous only to floors.
The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it
and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.
I want to be famous to shuffling men
who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.
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The loud voice is famous to silence,
which knew it would inherit the earth
before anybody said so.
The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse.
The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.
The idea you carry close to your bosom
is famous to your bosom.
The boot is famous to the earth,
more famous than the dress shoe,
which is famous only to floors.
The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it
and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.
I want to be famous to shuffling men
who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.
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