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Name: 20 Years Later
Story: Tales From the Neighborhood
Plot Thread: Bishop-Curtis Family
Colors: Light Black #9: Knock
Styles and Supplies: Silhouette, Chiaroscuro, Gesso, Acrylics (June 21 2025: "If I didn't love you, this would be easy"), Stain ("Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." - Desmond Tutu), Novelty Bead ("Deep breath. Fresh horrors. Let's go." - Elanor Janega, given here)
Word Count: 2555
Rating: T
Warnings: Past character death and undeath, and associated trauma; Implied vampire attack; Implied minor mind control and vampire-related domestic abuse
Characters: Bonnie Bishop/Alex Upsnott Curtis, Edith Curtis, Joanna Curtis
Summary: Bonnie returns to her home after a long absence.
Notes: Tales From the Neighborhood is going to be a completely different Sims story from Crimes Against Romance, about my current Sims 2 neighborhood, that I've been playing on and off since 2013. This is not so much a single long-form story as a collection of loosely-related short stories about a community of approximately 200 people who are all related in probably confusing ways. They are assembled into (currently) six different plot threads that follow the same sets of characters. The purpose of these mainly is to use up prompts that didn't fit into my long-form fics, and will be sprinkled in between major parts of the long-form fics. Most of the prompts I need to use up in this way are from the Warm Heart list, so there won't be more of these until after I pick up that list later on.

These are going to actually be somewhat more closely related to things that actually happened in my game, and should be more silly and less serious business than Crimes Against Romance. As I type this, I realize that this one kind of is serious business, actually, so I guess this is more of a promise that most of the rest of them won't be.

20 Years Later )

Gesso Notes (819 words) )

Sim Pictures and Notes (1243 words) )
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Candidates Announcement

The Organization for Transformative Works is pleased to announce the following candidates for the 2025 Election (in alphabetical order by given name):

  • C. Ryan S.
  • Elizabeth W.
  • Harlan L.B.

Because we have 2 seats to be filled and 3 candidates, the 2025 election will be contested – that is, the members of the OTW will vote on which candidates fill the seats.

The Elections Committee is excited to introduce the candidates to all of the members of the OTW! Included in this post are links to short Bios and Platforms written by the candidates. This post also marks the beginning of our Q&A period, during which we invite the public to submit questions for the candidates. Additionally, we will be holding a series of live chats – dates and times for those are to be announced based on candidate availability. Information on the voting period and how to vote will also be posted shortly.

In the meantime, there is a timeline of Elections events available here for your reference. Read on to learn more about our candidates and how you can submit questions for them!

Platforms and Bios

We asked each candidate to provide us with a Bio that sums up their professional and fannish experience, as well as to write a Platform about their goals for their term on the Board by answering the following questions:

  • Why did you decide to run for election to the Board?
  • What skills and/or experience would you bring to the Board?
  • Choose one or two goals for the OTW that are important to you and that you would be interested in working on during your term. Why do you value these goals? How would you work with others to achieve them?
  • What is your experience with the OTW’s projects and how would you collaborate with the relevant committees to support and strengthen them? Try to include a range of projects, though feel free to emphasize particular ones you have experience with.
  • How would you balance your Board work with other roles in the OTW, or how do you plan to hand over your current roles to focus on Board work?

You can read both the candidates’ answers to these questions and their bios by following the links below.

Question & Answer (Q&A)

To better accommodate the time constraints of the election and the workload for candidates, we are asking voters to limit to one question per message. Additional questions in the same message will be discarded. Limit of three questions per person.

Anyone may submit questions via the Elections form. Please submit all questions by 11:59pm UTC on June 29 (what time is that where I live?). All candidates will answer each question submitted, subject to the following restrictions:

  • Questions must be a maximum of 50 words long.
  • Any submitted questions repeating what is already addressed on Platforms will be ignored. This is to allow candidates to dedicate more time to answering new questions.
  • Similar questions will be grouped together to avoid candidates giving repetitive answers. Elections volunteers will decide which questions are similar enough to group.
  • If you have a follow-up to a Platform question, please specifically mention it is a follow-up so Elections volunteers know not to treat it as a repeat.
  • One question per message. Additional questions in the same message will be discarded.
  • Maximum of three questions per person.

The posting date for answers will be chosen depending on the number of questions received. Posts will be spread out, arranged by topic, to make it easier for voters to read all the answers.

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Title: The Search for Potter Manor
Author: [personal profile] goddess47
Character(s): Harry Potter, Severus Snape
Pairing(s): Harry/Severus
Rating: PG
Length: 500


Summary:

They stood on the grounds of what should be Potter Manor.



Notes:

For [community profile] harry100 prompt #520 - again

For [community profile] writer's choice prompt #120 - barrier

For Sweet and Short June 2025 prompt - power



The Search for Potter Manor on AO3

 

2025 Disneyland Trip #43 (6/22/25)

Jun. 22nd, 2025 05:18 pm
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Set the alarm and got up early this morning so we could get down there when the parks opened as it was supposed to be a pretty warm and sunny day.

Read more... )
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I posted a while ago about how I'd been really getting into pottery this year. That remains true, and shows no signs of stopping. It's just so fun! I still take a 3-hour class once a week at a member-owned studio near me; I think wistfully about spending more time on it too, but for various reasons including but not limited to the busyness of my life in general, that dedicated weekly slot is what works right now.

Back in late February, I spotted a flyer that someone had hung up on the studio bulletin board. It was a call for Boston-area artists to submit art inspired by Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, as part of an art show and book circle event co-organized by two local stores, The Local Hand and JustBook-ish.

I'd been meaning to read Parable of the Sower for ages, and the idea of doing a pottery piece inspired by a book seemed really fun -- like a Yuletide prompt, but for physical objects. Also, if your piece was accepted, you got a $500 stipend and 75% of the sale price if your piece sold, and let's be real, that was also extremely motivating.

And motivation was useful! Because the deadline was just over a month away. Pottery has a lot of built-in wait time while things dry, get fired, etc, so on a once-a-week schedule that was going to be pretty tight.

So I read the book, and loved it -- I'd been told that it was brilliant, which it is, and that it's brutal, which it is, but all of the (accurate!) discussions of its brutality hadn't conveyed the fierce pragmatism and focus of how Butler writes hope and community, and that's what I loved most -- and by the next week, I had a plan.

About my piece, and the process, and also noodling about pottery and art -- this got very long )

第四年第一百六十四天

Jun. 22nd, 2025 07:47 pm
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[personal profile] nnozomi posting in [community profile] guardian_learning
部首
刀 parts 5-9
刚, just now; 创, to create; 利, favorable; 刮, to shave/to blow; 到, until/to arrive; 制, to make/to control; 刷, to paint/to brush; 券, ticket; 刹, to brake; 刺, thorn/to prick; 刻, moment/to engrave; 前, front/forward; 剧, play/opera/drama; 剪, to cut/prune/edit; 剩, to be left over
pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=18
力 part 1
力, power/force; 劝, to encourage; 办, to deal with
pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=19

语法
Chapter 28 quiz: Time expressions
Chapter 29 quiz: Sentence-ending particles
Chapter 30 quiz: Conjunctions
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138651142/quizzes.php

词汇
跳, jump; 跳高, high jump; 跳舞, dance; 跳远, broad jump
铁, iron; 铁路, railroad
听力, listening comprehension; 听众, audience/listeners; 打听, inquire; 收听, listen in
停止, stop
通常, usually; 通信, to communicate/correspond
同意, agree; 共同, common
pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

玩玩
Two sad, or at least wistful, ones, 独处 (Li Hao) and 轻轻 (Jiang Dunhao), and one to cheer up a little, Joysaaa’s 明明 (h/t reshiel).

太热了吧,我最讨厌夏天啊。大家怎么样?好好凉快(南半球朋友们,好好温暖)!
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[personal profile] bitzsoii posting in [community profile] rainbowfic
Name: The Town's Sunset
Story: Love Trapped (can I have a tag for this story please?)
Colors: Dandelion Yellow #2 (locals) Bittersweet #2 (memories) Shocking Pink #3 (smirking) Ember #23 (Sun)
Supplies and Styles: Silhouette
Word Count: 4,625
Rating: G
Warnings: N/A
Summary: While out in the town market, Camilo shows Emeri the best view within it and his memories attached to it.
I made him happy )

A post from the rain

Jun. 22nd, 2025 09:29 pm
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[personal profile] bunn
Goodness, it's been almost two months! I have been reading here and I've even started the odd post, then a cat landed on my keyboard or something and...

Anyway, here I am. What shall I put in a post?

The Shop continues reasonably busy, though less so than last year: it's the first year since it started that turnover is distinctly down on the previous year. Unsurprising given everything that's happening in the world, but a bit concerning on the micro-personal level. 

Here are some things I've done:
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Rules Updates for 2025

Jun. 22nd, 2025 06:52 pm
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[personal profile] blackemporiummod posting in [community profile] black_emporium
We have some additional changes to announce for this year! The first two were driven by all the glorious new Veilguard content; the third is an Ao3-wide change.
  1. We will be allowing up to 40 nominations this year! That's right, you can have twice as many as previous years! Because of the way Ao3 works, you will have to use two different fandoms to get to your 40 nominations. The first fandom, as always, should be Dragon Age -- All Media Types. The second fandom should be Dragon Age (Video Games). Don't worry -- all the nominations will wind up under All Media Types like usual; and we'll be updating the spreadsheet as we approve, like usual!
  2. You may now have up to 40 requests and offers instead of 30.
  3. You may now have up to 150 text characters for your nominations! More space for all the glorious moresomes in the Dragon Age universe.

Also, if you haven't already, please go read our guidelines for how we are handling Rook.

and we always have a story

Jun. 22nd, 2025 09:18 pm
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I was given A Presumption of Death for my birthday. It's the Jill Paton Walsh Lord Peter Wimsey book set in the early years of WWII. It's all right. Mostly it catches the right sort of tone, but there are moments when the vocabulary doesn't seem quite right—would DL Sayers have called a dress 'sexy-looking'? Could do better, I reckon. And the Wimseys seem to be unusually perspicacious about the likely course of the War. I realise that it must be hard to restrict a fictional character's knowledge of what is to come when you are writing in the 21st century, not while the war is actually in progress, but for me, too many hints at the future were irritating.
However. Not bad, for fanfic.

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