stormyseasons

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:12:16 GMT

I should try and figure out how to mirror some of my tumblr posts onto dreamwidth. Ah well... Also in personal business: There's nothing like being ill in ways which puzzle the doctors to really give the... sucking sense of exhaustion in everything kind of feeling.

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Sat, 15 Jul 2023 13:01:42 GMT

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Went on pen crawl with local fountain pen appreciation group today. Wallet thinner, but got some good things on discount. Very good.

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Sat, 08 Jul 2023 12:10:54 GMT

I would like my jaw to stop hurting now. Dental surgery is really no joke.

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Sat, 17 Jun 2023 02:39:48 GMT

I wake up and I check AO3 to see if any of my favourite authors have updated while trying not to think too hard about the trashfire of AO3/OTW administration that I cannot affect very much personally [only by communicating, or maybe voting at the most]

and what do I see but more asscovering so that certain people in the organisation don't have to come to terms with the possibility that maybe They are the problem, or a big chunk of the problem. More lying and accusations and so on.

Truly, those people should leave fandom [which has relatively little money] and go into politics, they'd fit in perfectly into that Flaming Trashfire Heap.

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Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:27:48 GMT

magencubed.substack.com/p/thieves-in-the-temple/comments

A very good and sobering read.

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Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:53:55 GMT

[reads expose on OTW]

Oh my god.

.... I mean I heard it was bad but there's bad and then there's BAD

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Sat, 10 Jun 2023 03:20:31 GMT

most current writing archive is here: AO3 archive

followed by Squidgeworld archive

Am slowly backing up everything. Very slowly.

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Wed, 31 May 2023 13:03:50 GMT

Ran across a discussion on twitter that linked to a discussion on one of the anon-memes here that related what might well be a disaster of organisation management in the OTW [and hence affecting all other projects/services like the AO3]

... seriously, what the hell. I am so glad that the day job is consuming enough that I never went and actually volunteered there, insofar as it might be feasible or not across the ocean. But really, what the hell? Thankfully there's squidge, still, and they've started some kind of continuity planning. And I do have some time to do back up posts. But honestly. This is so fucked.

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Fri, 05 Aug 2022 13:18:54 GMT

some days the most uneasy thing about some of the.... ao3 and otw shenanigans, is not that there are many committees and they are all very busy and arguably overstretched.

It's that sometimes it seems like committee A doesn't know what committee B is doing, even when committee B is busy building up all.... kinds of .... promises... or... implications... on their behalf. [personal offense aside... this degree of siloing... when combined with their alleged volunteer attrition level...]

Well. At least the communication and siloing related problem has FINALLY made it up to their actual priority list...

It reminds me somewhat, actually, of actual work related problems when the organisation got very large -- at least in terms of responsibilities -- and the working teams and tools/aids available didn't get scaled up at the same time. Which. Hm. As many things as the Organisation for Transformative Works is working on... I'm not surprised, but I wish I was.

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Impulse part 2

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 09:03:58 GMT

Tags: not canon compliant, dubious consent, dom/sub, porn with plot, no aftercare, forced orgasm, internalised dehumanisation, bondage, subdrop, service kink/praise kink, shapechanging, overstimulation

Notes: darker au. Features a Morax who is... not terribly emotionally adept with people who are not able to be upfront about how they feel. Who on some levels mostly cares about people who are ‘his’.
Originally written as a response to certain Discord prompts [hence the title].

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genshin fic, impulse. Part 1

Wed, 03 Aug 2022 09:29:51 GMT

Impulse

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No Mere Stone, part 5 and final

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 10:22:56 GMT

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Notes:

*note: [ 钟离(zhongli) - in chinese, 钟 (zhong) can mean clock, and together with other words it forms words like hour 【钟头】。离 (li) - means leave. He said, in effect, something where the word 钟 zhong was followed by the word 离 li, and the person he was talking to thought he’d said ‘Zhongli’)]

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No Mere Stone, part 4

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 10:22:16 GMT

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No Mere Stone, part 3

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 10:19:38 GMT

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No Mere Stone, part 2

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 10:14:41 GMT

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Genshin fic - No Mere Stone, Part 1

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 09:59:35 GMT

Here for archival purposes: No Mere Stone, a Azhdaha/Zhongli fic I wrote, set in the Genshin Impact setting. Part of a series - The 'In Season' verses.

First posted in its entirety on AO3.

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Tue, 02 Aug 2022 08:03:42 GMT

I haven't used this for ages. The interface is nostalgic. Well, if nothing else I can set up a spare backup archive...

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Here we go again...

Sun, 09 Dec 2018 01:01:16 GMT

Well. It's been a very long time, but here I am, back again on Dreamwidth. Once more because censorship and the like are sweeping fandom here and there like collateral damage. I shan't waste my own time repeating what others have said with more eloquence about the tumblr mess, but at least these days there's Dreamwidth and the AO3. Thank God for them.

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what I did after work...

Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:54:07 GMT

Had tea with family, then sat down to bead when I got home. Managed to remind myself how much faster than off-loom square stitch working on a loom can be - a 2/3 around my neck strip of beaded fabric worked up, in essentially 2 afternoons, with the only slow down at the adding and tying in of thread, and the weaving in of the warps. If I use my beading looms more often, I think I'll try the methods of laying in warps which don't result in having to weave in many many strands of warp threads after I'm done with the weaving.

Result: a totally used up 10g tube of cream coloured short Toho bugles, used up for the main strip of my new choker necklace. 14 picasso finish 2 - hole bar beads, and 40 8/0 cream coloured Toho seed beads, and one vine pattern anti-tarnish brass toggle-loop clasp, used to lengthen necklace strap and clasp it. Cream coloured 15/0 Toho seed beads, 4mm fire polished czech crystal, czech pressed glass bellflowers, both in a partly translucent pale gold-mauve colour, used as accents along with some 2-hole light mauve and black Toho superduos I've been meaning to find some good ideas for.

I think I'll wear it a while and let the necklace design percolate in my head a little before embellishing further. It's been quite a while since I've tried to add netting embellishments...

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beading... czech pressed glass daggers and st petersburg stitch

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:51:25 GMT

Had a stressful day at the day job. Staring at bead stash when I got home, randomly thinking of what to do. Flipped through some of my beading reference material.... saw some interesting ideas on how to use Miyuki Tilas, but I just got those and I'd like to make some headway on turning my stash into pretty and potentially useful objects of art. So, no, not using Tilas.... and then I see this project that uses St Petersburd stitch, where the thread path is printed out in a cross-section diagram.. and it's like a bell goes ding in my head. Of course. St Petersburg stitch even has that obligatory turn around that would go very nicely for threading on daggers.

Out comes the bead mat, the seed beads, the needles, the size D nymo in neutral colours, the scissors... the several packets of daggers waiting for a good idea. Off to bead something interesting!

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beading, selling of beading, artfire, the look of joy on someone's face at a surprise gift

Mon, 10 Mar 2014 01:26:36 GMT

Gifted a necklace crafted entirely on whimsy to use up a shell feather-shaped focal I got a while back to a colleague. Who wasn't expecting to get it, but hey, pleased to see it anyway. It's enough to make me wonder if I could get started on ArtFire. Just enough to at least cover the monthly costs of being on Artfire, with whatever extra being counted towards returns on my rather large bead stash. . . and to let others enjoy the pleasure of a unique handcrafted item. I certainly can't wear everything I could craft myself.

Of course, if I take this step, aside from having to bead more often in order to have stock, I'd have to actually try to do things like blog about it more often. Not a hardship, considering my own habits, but definitely something to keep in mind. Definitely a thought to pursue further.

And I'd have to find out what the international shipping costs are, and list prices and shipping policies accordingly... Maybe I really will take that plunge this year. After beading a bit more frenetically anyway.

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destash... sort of

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:59:16 GMT

Raided my bead stash to donate to school art project. Sort of. Not really willing to cut down on some of those items...

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hunting the internets for Good Omens fic

Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:03:39 GMT

Specifically, one particular fic whose title and author I've forgotten. But not the highlights of the content. Aziraphale and Crowley, but not constantly explicitly on screen, with Crowley being inexplicably attractive to others will he nil he owing to side effects the relationship with Aziraphale. Culminating in a attempted sexual assault on Crowley by a 'colleague' that gets interrupted by Aziraphale getting his smite on. Which Crowley survives, owing to said side effects, and in the aftermath there's a faintly amusing mention of how he's now considered Aziraphale's by his 'colleagues' by right of combat, etc etc.

Funny how I can remember the plot, the highlights, the funny bits, but not who wrote it under what pen name and on what platform and where to find it. Argh.

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beading

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:55:20 GMT

I admit it at last. For many years I've been bitten by the crafter's bug. My stash of beads, thread, needles, and findings used to fit into one small sewing bag. Now it overflows a large, sturdy cloth bag, and every few months the stash just gets bigger. On the other hand, nowadays I bead more often and at a higher level of quality than when I started. Good points and bad points both, I suppose.

If I ever make enough of pretty things when my fingers start to itch to create beauty, maybe I'll even take the plunge to actually making the effort to sell them. I certainly have the stash for it...

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Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:08:31 GMT

its kind of sad, how, when playing ac 4, when James Kid reveala hirself as being a her.. and contemplating the .. set up between her and Edward Kenway, i had 5he sinking feeling she was going to die before game end. but that might have been my awareness of the historical fate of historical female pirates in the west indies talking...

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stormyseasons

Impulse part 2

genshin fic, impulse. Part 1

No Mere Stone, part 5 and final

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Notes:

No Mere Stone, part 4

No Mere Stone, part 3

No Mere Stone, part 2

Summary:

Chapter Text

Genshin fic - No Mere Stone, Part 1

Here we go again...

what I did after work...

beading... czech pressed glass daggers and st petersburg stitch

beading, selling of beading, artfire, the look of joy on someone's face at a surprise gift

destash... sort of

hunting the internets for Good Omens fic

beading