Posting will start March 14!

Mar. 1st, 2026 09:06 pm
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Come join [community profile] hp_bunintheoven's FINAL Pregnancy Fest!


Posting for the final Pregnancy Fest will begin Saturday, March 14. We should have eight entries altogether. Unless anyone wants to add anything else? Which I would not object to! XD

Seriously, though, I want to say thank you to everyone who has taken the time to participate this year. We're going out with a bigger fest than we've had in years. :)

The Friday Five on a Sunday

Mar. 1st, 2026 10:05 am
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  1. What made you happy this week?

    Notification of winning a small summer research grant.

  2. What made you sad?

    I was disappointed in a colleague for trying to conceal some serious underperformance when it could have been dealt with easily much earlier on. As it is, now another colleague and I are going to have to put in a lot of effort to attempt to rectify the situation before a deadline next week.

  3. What made you angry?

    An academic colleague being outrageously disrespectful to a professional services colleague.

  4. What are you looking forward to in the next week?

    Getting that sad piece of work, which should not have been mine in the first place, off my desk at the end of the week.

  5. What are you not looking forward to?

    I have to be off-campus for two days next week. I'm not looking forward to the amount of meetings I've had to ram into the other three days of the working week.

Small Fandoms!

Mar. 1st, 2026 04:16 am
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[community profile] small_fandoms has finished up its annual Drabblethon, with more than 140 drabbles posted.

The community is open all year for any sort of creations for small, tiny, and dead fandoms. Post your stories, art, icons, meta, and everything else.

Hey there, Smallweb! Let's Chatter!

Mar. 1st, 2026 03:43 am
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Whaaat?! It's March already?!

What have you been working on and how are things going? Found any cool resources to share? Or just want to say hi?

Topics for talk March

Mar. 1st, 2026 01:06 am
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Ways To Make a Difference

There are so many different ways to volunteer. I don't volunteer as much as I used to because I'm not as healthy. So now I help out mostly by donating to worthy causes. I give monthly to my food bank near our house. We also give to St. Jude's Hospital monthly. Two more, and then I'm done. I give monthly to PBS and to the library near us. I hope that it helps. I used to volunteer at the food bank, but it got harder and harder to do. I believe that the donations make a difference, even if I feel like I'm letting them down.

Recipe. Lemon cream dump cake

Mar. 1st, 2026 01:39 am
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Lemon cream dump cake double this for 9x13 pan. This one is super good and easy.

* 1 (16 oz.) can lemon pie filling
* 1 (15 oz.) package yellow cake mix
* 4 oz. cream cheese, cubed
* 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, thinly sliced

1. Preheat your oven to 350º F and generously grease a square baking dish with butter or non-stick spray. This simple step ensures that your cake will effortlessly release from the pan, leaving you with a picture-perfect dessert.
2. Now, let’s lay the foundation of our Lemon Cream Cheese Dump Cake. Gently pour the lemon pie filling into the bottom of the greased baking dish, taking care to spread it evenly across the surface. This vibrant layer sets the stage for the tangy explosion of flavor that awaits.
3. Next, it’s time to add the irresistible allure of cream cheese. Take the cubed cream cheese and distribute it evenly over the lemon pie filling, ensuring that every bite is infused with velvety smoothness.
4. Now, let’s sprinkle on the magic of the yellow cake mix. Cover the cream cheese layer with half of the cake mix, allowing it to form a tantalizing blanket that will envelop the creamy lemon goodness beneath.
5. To elevate the texture and taste of our creation, thinly slice the unsalted butter and arrange the slices in a single layer over the cake mix. This final touch adds a decadent richness that will leave your taste buds craving more.
6. With our masterpiece assembled, it’s time to let the oven work its magic. Place the baking dish in the preheated oven and bake for 35-40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. As the aroma of freshly baked cake fills your kitchen, anticipation builds for the moment of indulgence that lies ahead.
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This is the March 1st Weekly Megapost & Chat!

Things you can do in the comments-

- trade friend codes
- ask about games
- post about in-game events
- anything you don't want to make an individual post about
- share how the RNG is treating you

2026 60 questions meme

Mar. 1st, 2026 01:22 am
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In what ways can you practice kindness, both toward yourself and others, more intentionally?

This one is a little bit easier than the one I was supposed to use. It doesn't take much to be kind, and sometimes someone needs it in the worst way.

When I go grocery shopping, I watch for customers using electric carts. They have a hard time reaching for something on the top shelf, and I ask them before they ask me for help. You can also smile at everyone you pass. I always say, " Have a good day. “

No matter where you are, remember that someone might have lost a family member that week, and your smile might have helped them in a small way. I am not usually rude for this reason. Just remember that someday you might be the one who loses a family member. We all need those smiles or kind words.

Topics for talk March

Mar. 1st, 2026 01:06 am
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Ways To Make a Difference

There are so many different ways to volunteer. I don't volunteer as much as I used to because I'm not as healthy. So now I help out mostly by donating to worthy causes. I give monthly to my food bank near our house. We also give to St. Jude's Hospital monthly. Two more, and then I'm done. I give monthly to PBS and to the library near us. I hope that it helps. I used to volunteer at the food bank, but it got harder and harder to do. I believe that the donations make a difference, even if I feel like I'm letting them down.

Not quite 365 questions March

Mar. 1st, 2026 01:04 am
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March
1. Since 1990, Clean Up Australia Limited has sponsored a yearly Clean Up Australia Day. Have you ever taken part in a ‘clean up’ initiative where you live?

Every three months, Arizona has bulk pickup. You clean up your yard, help clean your street, clean out your garage, clean out your closets, get rid of old appliances, and anything else you want to get rid of. Everything goes on the curbs in front of your house. It's a big deal and our street always looks great once everything is picked up. It also helps people out that were looking for work. It takes a lot of people to pull this off.

To-read pile, 2026, February

Mar. 1st, 2026 08:00 am
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Books on pre-order:

  1. Platform Decay (Murderbot 8) by Martha Wells (5 May)
  2. Radiant Star (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie (12 May)
  3. Unrivaled (Game Changers 7) by Rachel Reid (1 Jun 2027)

The release of the third Heated Rivalry book - which was only announced in January after the TV adaptation got wildly popular - is pushed back by eight months. I'm assuming this is to allow Rachel Reid more time to finish it and/or engage with the adaptation of the second book, The Long Game.

Books acquired in February: none (wow)

Borrowed books read in February:

  1. The Hidden Oracle (Trials of Apollo 1) by Rick Riordan [3]
  2. Camp Half-Blood Confidential by Rick Riordan [3]
  3. The Dark Prophecy (Trials of Apollo 2) by Rick Riordan [3]
  4. The Burning Maze (Trials of Apollo 3) by Rick Riordan [3]
  5. The Tyrant's Tomb (Trials of Apollo 4) by Rick Riordan [3]
  6. Camp Jupiter Confidential by Rick Riordan [3]
  7. The Tower of Nero (Trials of Apollo 5) by Rick Riordan [3]
  8. The Singer of Apollo (Percy Jackson and the Olympians 5.5) by Rick Riordan

It's been a really intense month, mostly with ice hockey commitments, so what reading I have managed has been entirely the ongoing Riordan read-through. Trials of Apollo successfully grows Apollo from intensely irritating in the first few chapters of the first book to someone I cried over in the last book. Plus I have now watched both seasons of the Disney+ adaptation of Percy Jackson and the Olympians and oh boy do I have Opinions, especially on the second season. They get a lot of details right, the casting is excellent, and yet they get the heart of the story so so wrong. (Will I still watch season 3 when it comes out? Probably! Maybe they won't mess it up as badly?)

Anyway. Onward into March.

[3] Physical book

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I feel like we need to start with this, because I'm runnning into situations where people have clearly not internalized one of the most important things to remember about stochastic parrots that they are calling Avian Intelligence. It's all based on vector maths and probabilities. It does not know what is true, nor what is accurate, when it is constructing what word to select next. That it manages to get things correct is by accident, and by the providence of having training data that contains the correct information in it. When it constructs sentences and so on, it does so based only on what the training data and the vector math, with some fuzz factor built in, says the next word is, regardless of whether that's the right word or not. (Admittedly, being able to do the vector math is helpful, because it allows for a certain amount of synonym substitution and can make a search engine more robust at finding relevant answers if you don't hit the exact keywords. There's an aside here about how many engines are transforming your queries so that you search for things that will serve you ads or that will steer the results to prioritize those who have paid for top search engine ranking, such that even things that are good that come from machine learning are then transformed to evil purposes by capital and their priorities.)

Also up top, Dreamwidth is recruiting volunteers who would be willing to file documents in United States courts talking about the chilling effects on your speech and online activity that various state laws trying to curb social site use by teens would have, and especially from parents who would be willing to detail the way those laws would interfere with your parenting decisions. Comments screened, signing up is not committing to writing such declarations. Also, risks involve things like having to use your wallet name, and possibly having your wallet name and your Dreamwidth identity linked in publicly-available court materials or at least materials available to the state and the court.

(Because South Carolina is the latest entity to join the circus, South Carolina users are especially helpful right now, but all kinds of states have legislation that's looking to join the circus. Why South Carolina? Well, they're charging people with "contributing to the delinquency of a minor" by being an identified adult in a teen-focused anti-ICE school walkout planning chat and expressing support for the walkout. Among other things they're trying to do to supposedly protect teens from the corrupting influence of adults.)

The worry about the presence of new media is perennial and perpetual, but it's not the new medium, or the new screen, that is the issue, it's the way that content is designed and presented that's trying to fragment attention and deep thinking. Accessibility and multimodality are awesome things, but there's a lot of design work that's been put into keeping us scrolling and viewing ads rather than using our tools to think and engage deeply.

Dr. Gladys West, whose precise measurements of the planet made it possible for the Global Positioning System network to come into existence, and therefore commercial (and military) satellite navigation, has died at 95 years of age. Another contribution of painstaking measurment and mathematics that undergirds so very much of the technological world today.

The Reverend Jesse Jackson, civil rights activist and occasional punchline of a joke, has finished his ministry at 84 years of age.

What Have the Fools, Grifters, and Bigots Been Up To This Time? )

Last for tonight, twenty-five years of a very popular early-Internet meme, matching visuals to the "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by the Laziest Men on Mars, who would also give us the Pusher and Shover robots in a different viral video.

(Materials via [personal profile] adrian_turtle, [personal profile] azurelunatic, [personal profile] boxofdelights, [personal profile] cmcmck, [personal profile] conuly, [personal profile] cosmolinguist, [personal profile] elf, [personal profile] finch, [personal profile] firecat, [personal profile] jadelennox, [personal profile] jenett, [personal profile] jjhunter, [personal profile] kaberett, [personal profile] lilysea, [personal profile] oursin, [personal profile] rydra_wong, [personal profile] snowynight, [personal profile] sonia, [personal profile] the_future_modernes, [personal profile] thewayne, [personal profile] umadoshi, [personal profile] vass, the [community profile] meta_warehouse community, [community profile] little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)

March Buddy Assigments

Mar. 1st, 2026 08:21 am
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The themes for March are:
THRILLER // FANTASY // LGBTQ // CONTEMPORARY // FEMALE AUTHOR
You must choose books with these genres and themes for your buddy. If you think you might not have books in your TBR pile that fits this month's choices, please let your buddy know.

You can find your buddy's TBR lists here.

[personal profile] yourivy & [personal profile] monkiainen

[personal profile] dancesontrains & [personal profile] spaciireth

[personal profile] colls & [personal profile] miscuartosamores

[personal profile] fred_mouse & [personal profile] royalblue31

You have until the 5th to choose your partner's books.

I will post about this again, but...

Feb. 28th, 2026 11:02 pm
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I signed up to do work for [community profile] fandomtrumpshate this year. So, er.

Two different auctions, one for writing (obvs) and one for fan labor.

Writing auction is here — 20-50k words, up to E rating, original work. There's more details at the link, but basically, if you want a bespoke romance novel, you get a bespoke romance novel. Or, you know, SFF action-adventure or whatnot, it's really up to you.

People who are familiar with The Road Through the Mountains or In the Lord's Manor: YEAH, YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT I LIKE TO WRITE, AND IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT, I'M FUCKING THRILLED.

(People that liked the House Ilizana stuff in particular — you know who you are — I have a planned-but-not-written longfic about Jastira and her lady's maid and what they got up to prior to her marriage to Mal's dad that I have been itching for an excuse to write, so if you look at this and go, "man, $5, that's pretty reasonable, I wonder if she'd be willing to...", the answer is YES.)

Genuinely, though, if there's anything I've done that you've liked and wanted more of, bids start at $5! It goes to charity! I will write basically anything as long as it doesn't hit my DNWs!

Bidder's choice as to which charity stuff goes to, please bid on me? Ha ♥


The fan labor action is here, and it's the one I imagine more people will be interested in. Ever wanted to play one of my campaigns but not had a chance to because of timing, wanting to play solely with people you know, or similar? GOOD NEWS. I'm offering a bespoke ttrpg one-shot. Limited in system (D&D 5e, Monster of the Week, Blades in the Dark), but 3-4 hours depending on players and what people want, I will work with the bidder on what themes they want present, etc. Again, details are at the link, but if you've ever been like, "the games you run sound cool, I want to play with you", good news!

Bidding for that starts at $20, again bidder's choice as to which charity you donate to. ♥ Please note that $20 for tabletop for up to 6 people for $20 is a fucking steal, for most DMs/GMs it's more like $15-20 per person at the table, on the low end, so!

Bidding will open on March 3rd (and you bet your sweet bippy that I'm going to advertise again, so!).


I really doubt there'll be much competition for bids, so! Keep an eye out, if you want to bid, please do so, or if you know someone who would be interested in what I'm offering, point 'em at the auctions, yeah? :D

Fanfic Master List

Mar. 1st, 2026 07:41 am
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One of my goals this year is to crosspost all my fics to dreamwidth (and, while I'm at it, edit and polish the old ones). During February I did that with the ones I posted in 2026, and in March I will continue with previous years.
 
The fics can be found via the tags: a general fanfic tag, one more tag separating them by fandom, and another by year. But I also wanted to post a separate master list as a second sticky post, ordering them by fandom. It'll be updated as I go along and continue to crosspost.

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Bridgerton

  • true thirst. Eloise Bridgerton. 200 words, T. "Bridgerton, Eloise, sneaking off to science and philosophy lectures" Eloise x Academia OTP.

Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu

  • hating me through death and after. Carmilla/Laura. 900 words, M. Much as she might try fighting it, Carmilla's absence in the aftermath of her death impregnates Laura's life. Sexual fantasies.

DCU

  • replica. Diana/Donna Troy. M, 100 words. "Any, Any F/F selfcest, i just touch myself and say / 'i'll make my own damn way.'" Dom/sub undertones.
  • better than being the prey. Mia Dearden. M, 200 words. "Any, Any, Heart of a hunter." Parricide.
  • hearsay. Tara Markov. 100 words, M. "Teen Titans (Any Media Type), Tara Markov, and they’d all be so disappointed / ‘cause who am I, if not exploited?" Character study.

Monstress (Comics)

  • bloodless. Maika Halfwolf/Tuya. M, 100 words. "any, any, i may think of you softly from time to time but i'll cut off my hand before i ever reach for you again." Lovers to Enemies.

Pluribus

  • communion. Carol Sturka/The Hivemind. M, 100 words. "any, any F/F, i want to fucking tear you apart." Obsession.

Severance (TV)

  • clean hands. Helena Eagan & Helly R. & Jame Eagan. M, 200 words. "any, any female character, every woman is allowed to commit patricide."

Stranger Things

  • her arms, a fortress. Holly Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler, Holly Wheeler & Henry Creel. M, 200 words. "Stranger Things Holly & Nancy Wheeler, nightmares." Abuse undertones.
  • bat-man and robins. Dustin Henderson & Steve Harrington. . It's 2005 and Dustin wants to watch Batman Begins. Over Steve Harrington's death body. Gen or pre-slash.

Terminator

  • carnal idolatry. Kyle Reese/Sarah Connor. 300 words, M. Kyle would think he must be dreaming —except for how he's never felt so present in his body, so keenly aware of the nerve endings in each of his fingertips. So exultant, and at once, fearful. Canon-compliant.

The 100 (TV)

  • pillage. Clarke Griffin/Josephine Lightborne. 100 words, M. "Any, any, who left the blue veins of your throat unkissed?" Body-snatching.

The Locked Tomb Series - Tamsyn Muir

  • mimicry. Camilla Hect/Nona. 100 words, T. "The Locked Tomb, Nona, Like Humans Do." Unrequited crush.

The Pitt

  • ace in the hole. Trinity Santos/Victoria Javadi. 200 words, T. Santos has a proposition. Javadi is itching for a fight. Humour, miscommunication.

Monthly Round-Up

Mar. 1st, 2026 07:29 am
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This is the monthly round-up for February 2026.


If 2025 was the Year of the Hydra Cypress…

Help with translating some phrases/lines from a historical Cdrama?

Fanvid for: Multifandom - 'I'm a one woman army'

Picspam for: 恭喜發財! (Chinese New Year Picspam)

Fanfic for: Eldest Prince Above

Shanghai Film Park

Promo/Rec for: 双姝美探 | Duet of Shadows (2026)

Promo/Rec for: 暗处 | The Unseen (2026)

Did You Make a Thing?


And of course we had the monthly round-up for January 2026 and our weekly chats on the 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th - our current one, come and join in!


Did you discover an entry you missed? Come on over and take a look/comment!

March Monthly Post

Mar. 1st, 2026 12:08 am
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What are your planned crowdfunding projects for March? What did you accomplish during February?

The March [community profile] crowdfunding Creative Jam will run Saturday 14-Sunday 15 with a theme of "Opportunity."

2026 Disneyland Trip #11 (2/28/26)

Feb. 28th, 2026 10:05 pm
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It was hot today, so we decided to go down for dinner instead of earlier in the day and that was the right choice. By the time we got down there around five, it was really quite pleasant and it wasn't long until the sun started going down.

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Brief discussion of current geopolitics )My fiance and I spent the morning doing yard/beautification work at our fabulous local trans org's new community center, which is still a fixer upper. I moved a giant load of downed branches and picked up two bags' worth of trash, and my fiance assembled a trampoline someone had recently donated. Later we agreed that doing that work was the only reason we felt even remotely sane for the rest of the day. The org we worked with does exemplary work for local queer folks and immigrants. It's good to spend time with the other people in our community who care about seeing that work done, and doing something positive with my hands was a great way to burn off the fear/anger energy. A little group of teenagers showed up and did some raking. It was really lovely to see them.

In the afternoon, while alternately obsessing over the news and resolutely trying to think of other things, we went to a dear friend's surprise birthday party. When she first came in, ~30 of us were packed into a back room waiting to leap out. One of our number was her two year old nephew, who predictably started wailing just as everyone shushed. One of his parents hustled him out a back door, and my friend was none the wiser until our cue. The party was a roaring success. I only knew a handful of people there, but her husband had done a wonderful job with the guest list and everyone got along excellently. And there was prosciutto at the buffet.

We stopped by the pet store to get crickets for our housemate's tarantula, then ate a quick dinner and headed out to an indie wrestling show at a local bar. It was my first time attending a show at that venue, and I had even more fun than I expected. The highlight was a comedy match between a time-displaced caveman attempting to become our ruler through combat prowess and a gentleman billed as "the world's deadliest talking mime." There were a great deal of invisible walls, lassos, and other props, which couldn't be ruled against because the ref couldn't see them. 

I'm glad my day was already booked full, because seeing all the normal people who inhabit the world around me is a great antidote to the dull feeling you get when you spend too long reading headlines without going outside. It is that bad, and it's not going to get better soon. It is that bad, and also today a group of semi-strangers and I made our community space nicer. So many people in my circle of friends and family have early voted because I talked to them about it. It's always humbling and disconcerting to experience such joy at the same time as I'm feeling so much anger, sorrow, and fear. But we need that joy. That's how we keep showing up for each other tomorrow.

I hope you and your loved ones are safe and secure. Good night.

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