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I am now on holiday from work! I have no concrete plans, except sleeping a lot and maybe actually playing some danged video games! I've got some sort of cold (I am snotty and have a sore throat), and it's been that way since last week. At least now I can rest myself when I need to.

Work has not been a fun time lately. Last week, I covered two shifts for someone who was off ill, so ended up doing almost forty hours over six days. Come Sunday, I was pretty much dead on my feet and fed up of everything. This week just gone wasn't as bad, and nobody was off sick. Though had I been asked to do any cover, I would have straight up said no. But it wasn't an issue, so it was fine, thankfully.

~

Other stuff is bullet points?

# I bought some more Ohuhu markers, even though I haven't been drawing much lately. I bought the 48 set of pastel colours. Because I was feeling sad and I knew I wanted them anyway.

# I've just splurged on a set of gemstone beads from Hobbycraft. I was legitimately getting other things, and then I saw this set in similar items and I was like, you know what? I want that! I am sort of thinking about doing stuff with beads - not necessarily jewellery, although I was inspired by a customer at work who was wearing a bracelet made from rainbow coloured multifaceted beads. They were probably plastic, but the bracelet looked really nice, and it evidently caught my eye when I saw it. Though as I keep telling everyone who'll listen, I think I was a magpie in a past life because oh boy do I like my shiny shit.

# A while back I bought myself a foldaway walking stick, just in case I need it. I bought it after this incident when I left work and felt like all my joints had seized up. It is teal green and it looks amazing. I feel "guilty" about having it, but that is a whole bunch of internalised ableism (and also some ageism) that I need to work through.

# I can't remember if I have anything else to say, though no doubt I'll remember five more things after I've closed my computer down.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Kiss Me Goodbye - Angela Aki

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The Oscars just happened and so I am wounding…

What feat would you’re character get an award for?

erinptah

Two offers:

1) Anybody want a small postage scale?

Works on items up to 5 pounds. I used it on Leif & Thorn shipments for a few years, but packages with the full backlist weigh 11+ pounds at this point. (The scale I use now works up to 90 pounds. It'll last me a while.)

~~If you're in the US, I'll mail it to you for free. Just DM me a shipping address.~~ ETA: It's been claimed!

2) Anybody want a paid Dreamwidth account?

Comment and say so. No other requirements. I'll send 350 DW points (enough to buy all the Paid Account extra features for 1 year) to the first 10 commenters who ask.

Every time a news story comes out about other social-media sites kicking their users in the shins, I appreciate DW a little more. Right now, I want to show that appreciation with money. Help me out by giving me something to spend it on.

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O hay, guess who remembered about the DE for once?? (Late still counts!)

A little while ago, there was some discussion in Crackchat about getting back into playing.

If, like me, you haven't been playing recently, what do you miss about the game? What plots, stories etc. would you like to tell in the bar? Are there any new characters you'd like to bring in?

Use the comments to plan and plot -- and maybe even rope other people in too!

erinptah

Down to 1034 fandoms wrangled. Almost exactly 100 dropped since last check-in.

I did a big “invitation to all wranglers, look through my list and grab any webcomics you want” post, and managed to hand off 80+ that way. The rest are from dropping more A’s and B’s.

Only 39 of these have any tags that need wrangling. Higher than usual. I didn’t wrangle as much last week…tbh, I was low-key hoping some of the lightly-active webcomics would get claimed in the big invitation post.

(By “lightly” I mean “there are 1-5 new tags.” It’s still not an overwhelming burden, here. Just a mild annoyance to check lots of individual tag bins.)

While I’m at it, AMT updates: My “please combine the redundant Frosty the Snowman fandoms” request was approved, so my count will go down by 1 when that gets processed. The Madoka Magica requests I mentioned last month…are still on the waiting-for-approvals list.

I haven’t actually made the request to restructure the Fake News tree. The wranglers of other fandoms involved have all signed off on it — but now I’m waiting on a response to a different question. Which I kinda suspect has been forgotten at this point. Maybe I’ll just go forward, on the premise of “since nobody has responded to say [thing] is a roadblock for the tree, that means [thing] is not a roadblock for the tree, and I won’t worry about it.”

erinptah

Finally got around to reading the What If…? book that has Moon Knight in it.

It’s good!

Age of MoonKnight over on Tumblr did a chapter-by-chapter liveblog, which I enjoyed. Check that out if you want a more beat-by-beat coverage of the plot (and lots of quotes). This is more of an overall post-game reflection.

Some short, spoiler-free reactions:

Based on the title, I expected “a canon-divergence AU where Marc meets Venom instead of Khonshu.” Instead, it starts in a universe that’s pretty close to 616, Khonshu and all. That gets crashed by an AU Marc who did get Venom’d…but it’s not a long-term divergence for him either, it basically happened that day. So, not the story I expected to see, but it’s good at being the story it wanted to tell
Jake and Steven get a very satisfying amount of page time. Haven’t counted, but I bet there’s a similar amount of chapters for all 4 POV characters (Local Marc, Import Steven, Import Jake, and Venom)
There are lots of fun deep-cut references to all kinds of random comics stuff. You can tell the author had a good time finding things to add in, and asking their MK-fan friends for suggestions
The author has good takes on Marlene! It’s one of their breakup eras, she helps out when the plot demands it and clearly still loves them, but she’s sticking to her boundaries and Marc is wistfully respectful about it
There’s an ongoing plot through all the What If…? books, which I mostly wasn’t interested in. Very authentic to the experience of “reading a Moon Knight tie-in with a Comics Event”

Longer, full-of-spoilers analysis and reaction follows.

( Two big things I look for in a Moon Knight installment are “making clear that Steven and Jake are just as valid/important/worthwhile as Marc” and “good takes on Marlene (or whoever else the love interest is)”. This nails it on both counts )

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Welcome to the 152nd Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, March 14-Sunday, March 15. The theme is "Opportunity."

Crowdfunding Creative Jam

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Prompt responses may also be treated as prompts and used for further inspiration. For example, a prompt may lead to a sketch which leads to a story, and so on. This kind of cascading inspiration is one of the most fun things about a collective jam session.

Everyone is eligible to use prompts, and everyone who wants to use a given prompt may do so, for maximum flexibility of creator choice in inspiration. You do not have to post a "Claim" reply when you decide to use a prompt, but this does help indicate what is going on so that other prompters can spread out their choice of prompts if they wish.

Creators are encouraged, but not required, to post at least one item free. Likewise, sharing a private copy of material with the prompter is encouraged but not required. Creative material resulting from prompts should be indicated in a reply to the prompt, with a link to the full content elsewhere on the creator's site (if desired); a brief excerpt and/or description of the material may be included in the reply (if desired). It helps to title your comment "Prompt Filled" or something like that so these are easy to identify. There is no time limit on responding to prompts. However, creators are encouraged to post replies sooner rather than later, as the attention of prompters will be highest during and shortly after the session.

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Boost the signal! The more people who participate, the more fun this will be. Hopefully we'll see activity from a lot of folks who regularly mention their projects in this community, but new people are always welcome. You can link to this session post or to individual items created from prompts, whatever you think is awesome enough to recommend to your friends.

Current Mood: busy

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Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.

erinptah

Wrapping up volume 2 of Seven Seas’ new print edition of PSOH! Sometimes with comparisons to volume 3 of the original Tokyopop translation.

I’m posting the individual reactions on Mastodon and Bluesky, then rounding them up in the blog. Previous roundups in my PSOH fandom tag. You can pick up the books with my affiliate links here.

I made myself so hungry looking up the desserts named in this one, and I don’t think any of them are sold in my area. Boo.

( ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?! Were you waiting for him to sprinkle soy sauce on you?! )

erinptah

Continued liveblog as I read Seven Seas’ new print edition of PSOH, and sometimes make comparisons to the original Tokyopop translation.

I’m posting the individual reactions on Mastodon and Bluesky, then rounding them up in the blog. Previous roundups in my PSOH fandom tag. You can pick up the books with my affiliate links here.

When rounding up this post, I expected it to be shorter than the last one…then I actually checked the word count, and it’s almost exactly the same. Commented about fewer panels, but I carried on for longer, so it balanced out.

( This is directly after the “meditation at the museum of extinct animals” chapter, and it showcases a nice shift in their relationship if this is when D starts dropping pointed comments about “humans, like you, Detective, but not like me, hint hint.” )

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