I made five icons for fandom_empire. I had a lot of fun with the rainbow theme! The Paul Baker icon is probably my favourite.

Adults is such a fun show, very re-watchable.

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I have done these quests in their entirety five times - Khlip is the sixth. Everytime I watch every cutscene and I love them just as much as I did then.

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Challenge #8

Talk about your creative process.



I probably haven't written enough to have a process. The one thing that usually happens is that I have the first line and then the last line will come to me. So I only have to fill in the gap, don't I? Lol. The same thing would sometimes happen in a drabble.

If I'm writing I can only listen to classical music, nothing with words. I usually start at the beginning and add one thing after another. Though I will get inspired for paragraphs that I can fit in later. I have a working on version and a final one, the latter so I can keep track of how far I've gone.

I am getting ready to delete my Livejournal. I haven't posted anything there since 2022, and all of the news about the data being sold off is making me super uncomfortable. I loved that website for such a long time, but maybe it's really time to say goodbye.

This Snowflake Challenge inspired me to go back through my memories/saved entries on LJ and pull out some notable ones.

•This is a list of all of the originals songs used in Roswell put together by Sweet_honeygirl. I think songs were changed/swapped when Roswell was put on Netflix. Originally posted 11-03-2007.

•Fic: A Love Like the Sea by andrealyn in four parts. Originally posted at camp_toccoa on 5-21-2009. WARNING for attempted suicide & suicidal ideation. I recced this fic and bookmarked it. I'm rereading it and I don't have the same love for it as I once did, but It's still worth noting how much the characterization of this fic likely influenced my future webgott fics.

Pairing: Liebgott/Webster
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 6,015
ETA This fic was posted on AO3.

•And then this is an html guide by inkvoices that is still usable if you use HTML on DW. I remember learning a lot from this post! I decided to copy/paste it under this cut so that I'd have it if the site went down. Originally posted 10-08-2012.

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He Had More Than a Dream

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had grit and determination, and strength and righteous anger that he controlled in the name of peaceful progress, and pride that he wanted Black Americans to recognize and adopt for themselves. He believed in this country - god knows why, given how much hell America put Black people through, all the way from 1615 to the then-current day - and he worked like hell to make it a better one. 

He risked himself and his family, with constant death threats and a firebombing at his home in 1958. He almost died after being stabbed in the same year. He risked his reputation and his legacy, surviving several arrests and jailings. He risked those who believed in him and in what he had to say, because he knew those who hated him would hate those who believed in him.

He fought for what he shouldn't have had to fight for; true understanding of what Black Americans deserve, and what White America has resolutely refused to admit was required.

He fought against nasty, petty, and powerful men like J. Edgar Hoover, who spread filth and lies about Dr. King. Why? Because he was afraid of Dr. King. He hated what Dr. King stood for, so he tried to erase the man. He wasn't the only one. 

After his stabbing, Dr. King had one more decade to shake the foundations of this country, to start the Poor People's Campaign and to oppose the Vietnam War. And then White America killed him. 

Who called for the assassination? Did someone pay James Earl Ray?  All of that kind of misses the point. Ultimately, the real conspiracy is what people in this country have insisted on doing ever since that April morning at the Lorraine Motel.

For more than 57 years America has worked tirelessly to erase his truth. America wants everyone to remember him only as he spoke during the March on Washington, choosing to turn those powerful words into an anodyne formula they want to speed the erasure of real history. Some of them manage to listen to Dr. King's "I've Been to the Mountain Top" speech and cry tears about his unnervingly prophetic commentary. 

But they don't like reading his letter from a Birmingham jail. They can't stand his anti-war stance. They loathe his pro-union beliefs, his support of poor people of all colors. 

It's still White America that fears him the most; rich white Americans, anti-union white Americans, pro-capitalism white Americans, the people who understand that he had grown so much larger and more dangerous to their power than they'd thought he would be. 

Let's remember him for what he was. A warrior.

And I'll try not to be part of the problem, but part of the solution, as difficult as that will be.

Fashion/outfits
Cats text
Fashion art
Yoga
Vampire Diaries cast




My biggest batch so far. I hope you all like these! In total 36 icons! I made some of them weeks ago but also made new ones. It was fun to make. I loved making all the fashion and cats icons! Enjoy if taking <3 Credit yellowrosess.

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I made a post about this on Tumblr, but not here yet. Here goes.

I started a GoFundMe for dental expenses.

Last year, I broke one of my teeth, and since it's a front tooth, there's more to it than just pulling it out the way my insurance wants (and that's the only way they will pay for it, just if I have them yank it out). I went to a dentist I'm comfortable with (big deal for my anxiety and agoraphobia) and had an exam and got a treatment plan, but I haven't been back since I couldn't actually afford it. I thought I had time to save up, but then there were holidays and I did not save at all. Except now the tooth is infected, and I need to get it taken care of very soon.

I've been having some very lean months. Everything is so expensive. I don't know what to do, really, except ask for help yet again.

The GFM is specifically for the tooth (which is going to cost me about $2600 over 3 visits), but I also have a cashapp ($beingagreenmother) and ko-fi for grocery and bill money.

Thank you for listening.

Challenge #9

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

Honestly, trope doesn't entirely resonate. I can remember years ago, seeing something about tropes and just not relating to any of all that forced to share a bed/enemies to lovers/coffee shop AU stuff. But I do have a theme, which is alternate timelines. What if So and so never died? What if the villain made the obvious choice that the original writers seem to have somehow totally missed? What if Character X was the one to move from his cancelled spinoff to the main show? I have done them all.

The first series I ever saw to completion was Once Upon a Time, where Jafar was the one to move across from the Wonderland spinoff to the main show (imagine his lamp ending up in Gold's shop and Zelena accidentally letting him out). Another one was The Flash, where Eobard manipulated Nora into giving Barry the metahuman cure and the finale showed a dystopian 2049 that resulted from this (at the time I started that, I was convinced that was the route canon was going to take; to this day, I still don't get why the writers wasted time on Cicada rather than pursuing this route and just letting Eobard be the bad guy). I've saved Sun, Jin and Sayid on Lost several times over (and after a prompt in last year's three sentence ficathon, I was even tempted to expand on my attempt at Smokey McSmokeFace going back to the classical Roman era to get off the island while he was still human).

And yes, I have a few ongoing such works which I'm determined to finish. The School Spirits one where Mr Martin chooses to possess Emilio instead and the impact this has on Charley and Yuri is barely started (the upcoming new season may help with that), and I am determined I will push past my mental block on a) the Lost series where Sun joined the others in 1977 (I lost heart after the decision in canon to kill her off, which I still strongly disagree with 15 years on) and b) the Dark series where Ulrich successfully rescues Mikkel from 1986 (at this rate, I think I'm actually going to end up going down the Choose Your Own Adventure route, one where Ulrich and Mikkel get their happy ending and the minimum of characters are erased from existence, and one where Claudia gets hers.)

Talk about your favourite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

Where to start? Let's start with swashbuckling. That's a nice easy one. Really, I think my fannish id was formed by The Prisoner of Zenda at an early age (I am still very fond of The Prisoner of Zenda).

See also: Ruritania. I love a good fictional society, and the deeper we go into the government departments and the transport infrastructure, the happier I am.

And love and duty. I don't necessarily mind which triumphs, so long as both are taken seriously. I also love it when one of the arts - or sports, or whatever - is the third party in a relationship, particularly when the partners are both very enthusiastic about that. Not to mention the creator. (This was why I enjoyed Yuri!!! on Ice so much: it was very much about the skating.)

I like relationships between women, romantic or otherwise. And friendships between men and women where it's never going to become romantic.

And then I always enjoy a good description:
Food. Chalet School breakfasts. The Marseille chapter in Madam Will You Talk.
Clothes. Annoyingly, I can't think of a good example at this moment. Probably Eva Ibbotson.
Landscape. A John Buchan evening. Can't beat an apple-green twilight.

Finally, something that I write more often than I read is the situation where you will never be able either to clean up Dodge or to get out of Dodge, you have to live in Dodge, but nevertheless you can find a way to carve out a happy and/or meaningful life there. And maybe you find you've made it slightly less grubby.

 I am feeling sad and frustrated and ridiculous tonight, and also not like myself, which is perhaps the most annoying part of all of this.

So. The planner.

I got a new planner. It’s good. The layout is right, the paper feels right, my brain went oh, yes, this will work. I’ve got a whole bunch of new planner stickers. I am, objectively, very close to planner peace. I even have more sticker orders arriving this week, because apparently hope is my dominant personality trait.

And the thing is — most of what I use fits fine.

I mostly plan with icon stickers. Script stickers. Little visual cues. Those are perfect. No issues. They sit exactly where they’re meant to. They behave. They understand the assignment.

But this week I had some big things going on. Capital-B Big. The kind of things where I wanted to block out space and make it very clear, at a glance, that Shit Was Going On Here.

So I used some flags and half boxes and quarter boxes from older kits.

And those are all just ever so slightly too wide.

Not unusably so. Just enough. Enough that my eye keeps snagging on them. Enough that I now know — with horrible clarity — that most sticker kits are designed for 1.5" columns, and my planner columns are 1.25".

Which means that the one time I don’t usually plan this way — the one time I actually need big, obvious visual space — is the time everything feels wrong.

And suddenly it feels like I’ve picked the wrong planner. Like I’ve broken some arbitrary but Very Important Planner Rule that everyone else somehow knows. Like I am Doing Planning Incorrectly™, despite the fact that this system works for me 90% of the time.

Never mind that icon and script planning is how I actually function. Never mind that I don’t usually need big boxes. Never mind that stickers are meant to be tools, not tests I can fail.

My brain has latched onto this tiny mismatch and decided it is Evidence.

I know this is not actually about stickers.

It’s about wanting space to acknowledge that things are hard. Wanting a system that can hold big days as well as small ones. Wanting one area of my life to feel contained and legible when the rest of it isn’t.

Tonight that has manifested as 0.25 inches of wrongness and the feeling that I’ve somehow messed up something that was meant to help me.

I’m aware this is absurd. I’m also aware that feelings don’t care about that.

I am once again completing my Year in Books meme! I had so much fun with this meme last year and I really enjoyed going back and reviewing my answers again as I prepared for this year's reflection. So without further ado...

In 2025 I made a New Year's Resolution to commit to rereading favorite books, which you'll see that I was very successful with! Rereads will be marked with a *.

2025 Book List:
1. The Rifter Book One: The Shattered Gates by Ginn Hale *
2. Yield Under Great Persuasion by Alexandra Rowland
3. The More You Do The Better You Feel: How to Overcome Procrastination and Live a Happier Life by David Parker
4. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by J.B. MacKinnon
5. The Rifter Book Two: The Holy Road by Ginn Hale *
6. The Uses of Illicit Art by Wendy Palmer
7. Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat *
8. The Rifter Book Three: His Sacred Bones by Ginn Hale *
9. Prince's Gambit by C.S. Pacat *
10. Halfway Human by Carolyn Ives Gilman *
11. Kings Rising by C.S. Pacat *
12. Westmark by Lloyd Alexander *
13. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien *
14. The Kestrel by Lloyd Alexander *
15. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Beggar Queen by Lloyd Alexander *
17. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy *
18. The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop
19. Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (And Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham
20. How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by KC Davis
21. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner *
22. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner *
23. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner *
24. The Fire's Stone by Tanya Huff
25. A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner *
26. Holes by Louis Sacher *
27. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card *
28. Sunrise On The Reaping by Suzanne Collins
29. Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman
30. Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare

The first book you read in 2025:
Although I started it in December of 2024, the first book I finished was book 1 of the Rifter trilogy by Ginn Hale.

The last book you finished in 2025:
Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare

The first book you will finish (or did finish!) in 2026:
Probably The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. I read like 90% of it over the summer but got distracted and just need to go back and finish it up.

How many books read in 2025
30!

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I'm more depressed at the idea that, at the tender age of [redacted] I'm still into weeb stuff, unmarried, no kids and wondering if I will ever find love, get married, pop out a kid or two and be succesful instead of being... well, me.

Also I hate my melancholic self. Like, holy crap, dude. There is so much sadness I can handle before I want to pop myself ugh. Guess people will have to like me for my personality, now. U_U

God, why did you make me a weeb? Why can't I be a normal person?

Happy birthday to Rosado from Fire Emblem Engage 🩵

I tried to go directly from sketch to coloring and it's a bit messier than I would have liked, but I realized it's probably just because I keep on zooming in and can see how rough the lines look. At a passing glance (which is usually the case on social media feeds), it looks fine. The ribbon on his top stressed me out the most, ngl. I'm happy with how this turned out in the end!

Past R.E.P.O.R.T posts are in this tag :)

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This theme is the perfect opportunity to talk about my three favorite animated horses! I love these three films, and I think the horse companions add a lot - we get to know the characters through their relationship with their horse, the horse advances the plot, and even provides comic relief. Plus the animation itself is gorgeous for all three of these.

03. Altivo from The Road to El Dorado


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He falls into a life of adventure (literally)! His mane falls loose from its tight bindings once he escapes his Spanish master and it's such a lovely metaphor. Just like Miguel and Tulio, he is set free and chooses a life that he actually wants!

02. Khan from Mulan



He follows Mulan into war and stays loyal to her no matter what - he seems to represent Mulan's immediate family in a way that Mushu does not. He's probably the most regal horse on this list.

01. Angus from Brave



Merida is the ultimate horse girl, and Angus is so beautiful and just as adventurous as she is. I'm in awe of the animation.

Honorable mention to Spirit in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron but I wouldn't count him as a pet. He's the main character!