Incest Bingo 7x7 Card

Jul. 19th, 2025 11:57 pm
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Grooming Obsessive/Needy codependence Family gathering Disguised/mistaken identity Non-con Estranged/separated relatives Character is beard for incestuous relationship
Accused of incest/relationship becomes public Eager for approval/praise Can't keep hands off each other Hypnosis/Altered mental states Codependency Mommy/Daddy issues Well it's not *not* incest...
Incest for bloodline/inheritance reasons Shota/Lolita character Incest/Selfcest - With descendant or reincarnation (of self or other) Seduction Selfcest - With a clone Selfcest - With other part/side of self No one can have you except me
Spite Incest Fighting becomes sex Status differences within household/Golden child & scapegoat You're the other half of me/One soul in two bodies OT3 - with selfcest Guilt Incest by proxy
Gothic incest Unexpectedly encountering family member in a sexual context OT3 - two related + one unrelated character Vampire incest Undercover as dating/married Moment of weakness Fantastical/Supernatural Incest
Anonymous/Blind Relationship/Sex Temptation Matched on dating app Mutual obsession Family members on opposite sides of a conflict Seduction/pursuit by younger character Selfcest - With dark version of self
Mutual desire/attraction Size difference Traveling together Who knows you better than me? Us against the world Repressed attraction Possessiveness

New layout!

Jul. 19th, 2025 10:01 pm
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Updated my layout since I should actually post my icons here when I'm making so many. Watch as I change the sidebar a million times
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Journaling prompt: Be a carnival barker for your favorite movie, book, or show! Write a post that showcases the best your chosen title has to offer and entices passersby to check it out.

Is it lazy to just link to my Snowflake Challenge post about Dog Soldiers?

Probably.

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Creative prompt: Write a fic or original story about a character reluctantly doing something they are hesitant about.

Title:
Delay
Author: Evandar
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Rating: G
Pairing: Legolas/Gimli
Disclaimer: I do not own The Lord of the Rings and I am making no profit from this story.
Summary: Legolas and Gimli take the long road home.

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Burnout recovery take two (three?)

Jul. 15th, 2025 05:36 pm
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Had to utterly disappear from the Internet and a number of events and hobbies to have the energy to complete my final work weeks, but now I've had a week of vacation time and am starting to feel human again, huzzah!

I've been extra bad at keeping up with DW, so anything posted after the start of June I'm still catching up on. But catch-up I shall 😊

My burnout got reeeeaaally bad (panic-attack-levels bad) but I'm recovering now that I'm off work and no longer in charge of hosting huge events. My plan for the rest of the year is to Chill The Fuck Out and take on 0 responsibilities outside of work, because I want to live past the age of 60...

On that note, I already feel much better 💖 I've had the energy to both finish playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (beautiful game, highly recommend!) and MANAGE TO WRITE SOMETHING AND POST IT!!!! I binged the TV adaptation of The Muderbot Diaries together with my sister yesterday and she gave me a story idea that I've now actually written 💜💜💜 (set in book canon; I'm also working on a TV-canon fic~)

Travel Notes (794 words) by Nonesensed
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Humor, POV Outsider, Social Media, Chatlogs
Summary:

The consequences of Murderbot sharing media with bot-pilots all across the galaxy.

Sunshine Challenge - Day 4

Jul. 13th, 2025 09:46 pm
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Fun House
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.


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Murderbot News!

Jul. 11th, 2025 10:53 pm
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‘Murderbot’ Renewed for Season 2 at Apple TV+

The news comes ahead of the Season 1 finale on July 11. Based on “All Systems Red,” the first novella in Martha Wells’ series “The Murderbot Diaries,” the season stars Alexander Skarsgård as “a self-hacking security construct who is horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable clients” that “must hide its free will and complete a dangerous assignment when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic soap operas and figure out its place in the universe,” per the official logline ... .

2025 sweater #1: Thorn & Embers

Jul. 11th, 2025 01:02 pm
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I promised y'all a post about making my first sweater this year. Here it is!

tldr: Finished in all its glory:

a hand-knitted sweater with a complex pattern: something kind of like a black houndstooth on a background of shifting burnt umber / purple-ish brown / golden brown, with black knitted cuffs and crew neck collar.

(Though I have to say, the colors in this sweater do *not* photograph properly with my phone. It's a lot more brick than yellow, and there's a gradient from the bottom to the top. The digital editor in my camera is determined to edit this like there's no tomorrow.)

more process nattering and photos under the cut )

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Jul. 11th, 2025 07:46 am
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July is half gone already, and just yesterday I got a flyer from the town hall about "summer events in [my locale]".

Me: But summer is almost over???

(But for real, people taking their summer vacations in August feels so wrong, like wishing someone Merry Christmas in February. Summer is over! Schools are starting! Except here they aren't. Also the sun has kept setting, so emotionally I've had a May that's three months long.)

Also I'm about to disappear into [community profile] battleshipex for two-three weeks. Good luck everyone, have fun, sign-ups are over but you can still drop a prompt or twenty if you want.

Goblin Emperor and Midsummer

Jul. 10th, 2025 01:24 am
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 Given that Edrehasiver VII became known as the Winter Emperor, I’m not shocked that we don’t have much info about how Midsummer is celebrated in the Ethuveraz (Elflands) in the first book.

But after some searching, I’m saddened to report that there’s nothing in the entire Cemeteries of Amalo on the subject either.  In fact, The Grief of Stones has not a single mention of the word “summer,” and the other two only mention it in reference to things like the summer homes of the nobility.

I’m trying to come up with something for a project, and so far I’ve only come up with fireworks and summer fruits like strawberries and plums.   I imagine that there are various agriculture-related  activities in rural areas among commoners (for example, bonfires rather than fireworks), but does anyone else have any inspirations for Summernight activities among the nobility?

This Is the Hour (Feuchtwanger)

Jul. 9th, 2025 08:49 pm
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Via [personal profile] selenak, of course :) This was a very interesting and somewhat odd historical fiction book about Francisco Goya, the painter, and his life and times in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (the book begins with the Spanish court talking about Marie Antoinette's recent death -- so ~1793 -- and ends around 1800). I must admit that Spain is a big hole in my already-very-spotty knowledge of Europe, although opera fandom and salon helped a lot by filling in at least a couple of gaps about Philip II, the Escorial, and the Duke of Alba (and Philip V who thought he was a frog, but who does not appear in this book at all). Now, of course, Philip II was a couple of centuries too soon for this book (even I knew that!) but he's namechecked a couple of times, as is Fernando Álvarez de Toledo (Third Duke of Alba), again centuries too early but the forerunner of the Duchess of Alba in this book, who is a major character (María Cayetana de Silva; her husband Don José Álvarez de Toledo is a minor character).

Goya I knew absolutely nothing about, except that I knew he was a painter, and I knew (hilariously, from a Snoopy cartoon) he'd painted a kid with a dog (Google tells me this is his famous "Red Boy" painting). One of the really cool things about the book is the way it functions as an art guide (and one with a whole lot more context than usual art guides) to some of Goya's famous paintings. I only started following along with the wikipedia list of his paintings once I hit the middle or so (I read the first half on a plane and during a retreat), but I wish I'd done that the whole time! I know so little about art that it was helpful to have the "interpretation" of it right there (Feuchtwanger often includes the reaction of various people to the art piece, as well as Goya's feelings about it).

Indeed the book is dictated by the art, to a certain extent: if you look at Goya's pictures in chronological order (as I have now done), he does these sort of nice standard pictures until... about 1793, when the pictures start getting more interesting (and indeed the book starts with Goya making a breakthrough in his art). And then around 1800 is when he starts doing these crazy engravings that start looking much more modern -- like, you can totally see them as an artistic bridge between Bosch (namechecked in the book) and Dali (who obviously was yet to come far in the future) -- his book of engravings, Los Caprichos, is what the book ends on (and the title is taken from that of the last Caprichos engraving, Ya es hora).

It is curiously missing in any real sort of character arc -- I mean, Goya keeps talking about how he's progressed in life and thinks about things so differently now, but really he seems to me to be pretty much the same at the end as the beginning, except more battered by life. It's his art that has progressed, though. Instead of a character arc we have an art arc, I guess!

The book also cheerfully uses all the most sensational theories about Goya and the Spanish court possible, with the effect that it is quite compelling but does veer a bit into "wow, this is Very Soap Opera" at times. Basically, everyone is having torrid love affairs with everyone else, and all of that becomes totally relevant to all the politics that's going on. Some of this is attested historically, and some of it is less so. On one hand, Manuel Godoy, the Secretary of State, does appear to have had a close relationship with Queen Maria Luisa (Wikipedia, at least, does not think that there is any direct evidence they were lovers, but at least it's clear there were rumors). But as far as I can tell from Google, Maria Cayetana, Duchess of Alba, did die mysteriously, buuuuut there isn't any evidence at all that she died as a result of a botched abortion of Goya's baby. (Did I mention Very Soap Opera?? Yeah.)

It's sort of shocking to me that the book ends before any of the War of Spanish Independence, which happens just a few years later (which again, since I know zero Spanish history I just found out about while reading various wiki articles after reading this) or Goya's resulting engravings on The Disasters of War (ditto), although I guess all the signs are there as to what's going to happen -- it's not that different from what Feuchtwanger did in Proud Destiny, where even I know that the French Revolution is going to happen, but he doesn't show it in the book.

Requisite Feuchtwanger things: 1) protagonist is irresistable to the ladies and has multiple women who are crazy about him, check 2) small child dies, check.

Ranking in Feuchtwangers: I think the Josephus trilogy is still my favorite, and Jud SĂŒĂŸ is still the one I'm most impressed by, but I did like this quite a bit, especially when I had the visuals to go with it.

What Am I Reading Wednesday - July 9

Jul. 9th, 2025 09:33 pm
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The first six months of this year really tanked my standard reading pace, but as it seems to be picking back up in recent weeks, let's get back into the swing of:

What I Finished Reading This Week

The Twelfth of Never – Ciaran Carson
Although I'm much more of a lyrics person, I will read Ciaran Carson's poetry any day of the week. The 77 linked sonnets in The Twelfth of Never are as trippy and beautifully written as anything he's ever penned, and I'll definitely need to read this once more to get a handle on everything that's going. As a bonus, the volume also contains some vintage 80s "Japan is just so weird" goggling, apparently occasioned by a junket Carson took to Tokyo.

The Party and the People – Bruce Dickson
The first half of this book is excellent: Dickson's writing is crisp and informative. Unfortunately, the quality—in terms of proofreading, thoroughness, and argumentation—drops precipitously in the later chapters, as if Dickson was forced to rush through them, or possibly even author them.

Scotland's Forgotten Past – Alistair Moffat
I was worried this book would be superficial listicle-style content. My concerns were misplaced. Scotland's Forgotten Past is engaging and informative. Moffat touches on geography, politics, culture, and more, focusing on both the good (e.g., the Scottish Enlightenment) and the bad (e.g., antisemitism) with a deft and objective touch. I'll definitely read this one again and look for more by this author.


What I Am Currently Reading

How To Dodge a Cannonball – Dennard Dayle
It took about 100 pages for this book to find its footing, but it's pretty enjoyable now that it has.

The Third Revolution – Elizabeth Economy
Economy also has a wonderfully crisp and informative style; I'll probably finish this book by the end of next week.

Under the Nuclear Shadow – Fiona Cunningham
Cunningham, by contrast, does not. There's some thought-provoking stuff in here, but dear god are her sentences convoluted.

The Woman's Day Book of House Plants – Jean Hersey
It's interesting (and occasionally perplexing) to compare Hersey's notes on plant care with the guidance circulating in the 21st century.

Mother, Creature, Kin – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
In a month of extreme weather (both locally and in the news), this book is hitting hard.


What I'm Reading Next

This week I picked up Zen at Daitoku-ji by Jon Covell and Yamada Sƍbin, and Recorder Technique by Anthony Rowland-Jones.


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Incest Bingo Card

Jul. 9th, 2025 09:30 pm
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Dream Smarm Unexpectedly encountering family member in a sexual context Seduction/pursuit by younger character Taboo
Serial incest Rarepair Mythology/The Classics Offspring enters world as adult/rapidly ages to adulthood after being born Age difference/Age gap
Time Travel - sleeping with self Incest to characters but not audience FREE SPACE Estranged/separated relatives It's not incest if you're not in love
MILF/DILF character Multiple generations of incest Disguised/mistaken identity Incest to audience but not characters It's not sex if...
Flaunting taboos Relaxation Not talking about it Seduction Contact with estranged family member forbidden/discouraged

Sunshine Challenge - Day 3

Jul. 9th, 2025 09:03 pm
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Journaling prompt: What are your favorite summer-associated foods?

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Creative prompt: Draw art of or make graphics of summer foods, or post your favorite summer recipes.

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Today in sweater-knitting news

Jul. 6th, 2025 06:34 pm
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I am knitting the simplest possible* bottom-up sweater, and today I reached two simultaneous milestones:

1. I finished the main torso of the sweater to the point where I divide for the armholes.

2. I finished exactly one third of my total yarn.

Is that an appropriate amount of yarn to have used to this point? Will there be enough to knit the entire sweater? I HAVE NO IDEA!! One of my reasons for knitting a simple sweater is to give myself an idea of a yarn baseline. I want to find out what is the least amount of yarn I can use and make a sweater.

*Simplest possible for me, and yes, I am aware of the irony there. But it's stockinette, in the round, I'm really very close to the stitch and row gauge called for in the pattern, and I'm only making really very very few modifications as I go. (Just the ribbing depth and the body shaping and the total length and the sleeve-cap type and probably the sleeve shaping as well.) Practically no modifications at all!

I'm very happy with it so far, and am looking forward to seeing what happens with the rest of it. :D
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