3W4DW Day 6 Check-in: a day late (but not a dollar short)
May. 1st, 2026 02:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
althea_valaraWhoops I forgot to do this yesterday, so here's my answers now:
1. one creative thing I did
I worked on a Divine Hat, hoping to finish it for a Nerdopolis challenge. I could have finished it in time had I stuck with it, but I changed projects because I really wanted to fill the Love What You Do challenge, where teams pick their own themes.
I started a knitting pattern for the challenge, but this was pretty late in the afternoon, and it soon became apparent I wouldn't finish in time. So back to crochet I went, where I freehanded a pocket tissue cozy. It's not great, but it's recognizable for what it is, so hey! And I got to fulfill the challenge, which made me happy!
Here's my write-up for my submission:
I spent a large part of my afternoon listening to and supporting a friend. I'm not always the best at being a friend, so I definitely want to give myself a pat on the back for this one.
I logged into Windy and did an alliance roulette on her. I got first Dawntrail raid AGAIN, for the second day in a row. I didn't mind all that much though, because it gave me a coin.
Windy's gear was at ilevel 745. She needs to be at least i755 to do the new patch content. I had previously ran the 7.4 dungeon with Duty Support, which dropped casting body for her. SCORE! I also spent some of her meager stash of gil on the crafted SMN book - and since there was a pentamelded one up for just a bit more than the regular HQ ones, I opted for that one. Her wallet hurts, but that was a big help in her ilevel.
After running the raid, I looked at getting more tomestone gear for her. She already had Historia hands; I picked up a Historia necklace and ring, too, because I had enough Mathematics for them.
I had an inkling that augmenting some of the Historia would be enough--did I have enough coins? I DID! So I augmented the hands and choker, and that put me at exactly 755. So she's good for content!
If I have time, I might do some hunt trains or something on her to see if I can't get the newer tomestone gear (Historia is kinda outdated at this point), but I'm not going to worry too much if I can't.
1. one creative thing I did today on Thursday
I worked on a Divine Hat, hoping to finish it for a Nerdopolis challenge. I could have finished it in time had I stuck with it, but I changed projects because I really wanted to fill the Love What You Do challenge, where teams pick their own themes.
I started a knitting pattern for the challenge, but this was pretty late in the afternoon, and it soon became apparent I wouldn't finish in time. So back to crochet I went, where I freehanded a pocket tissue cozy. It's not great, but it's recognizable for what it is, so hey! And I got to fulfill the challenge, which made me happy!
Here's my write-up for my submission:
Co-op’s theme this month is Favorite Streamer. Mine is Colin Ryan, who along with being a Final Fantasy XIV streamer, also happens to be the English voice of Alphinaud in the game! Colin’s streams are fun, wholesome, and chill, and I just adore watching his reactions as he experiences the full breadth of the game’s story for the first time.
Players in FFXIV are referred to in the game as the Warrior of Light. The WoL has a special ability called the Echo, which allows them to glimpse scenes from people’s pasts. When the Echo kicks in, the Warrior holds their hand up to their face, as if experiencing a sudden headache, and squints in pain. Well, when Colin first saw the Echo, he thought his character was sneezing! Henceforth, the Echo is called The Sneeze on his streams. In honor of this, I made a Pocket Tissue Cozy so I’d never be without my tissues should The Sneeze strike!
Team shout out for Nerd Cred: Colin is not only a streamer of FFXIV but an actual voice artist from it as well, and thus fits into my team’s scope! I can’t resist sharing this clip from his stream - here is Colin hearing himself in game for the first time. IT’S ADORABLE!
2. one thing I'm proud
I spent a large part of my afternoon listening to and supporting a friend. I'm not always the best at being a friend, so I definitely want to give myself a pat on the back for this one.
3. video game progress
I logged into Windy and did an alliance roulette on her. I got first Dawntrail raid AGAIN, for the second day in a row. I didn't mind all that much though, because it gave me a coin.
Windy's gear was at ilevel 745. She needs to be at least i755 to do the new patch content. I had previously ran the 7.4 dungeon with Duty Support, which dropped casting body for her. SCORE! I also spent some of her meager stash of gil on the crafted SMN book - and since there was a pentamelded one up for just a bit more than the regular HQ ones, I opted for that one. Her wallet hurts, but that was a big help in her ilevel.
After running the raid, I looked at getting more tomestone gear for her. She already had Historia hands; I picked up a Historia necklace and ring, too, because I had enough Mathematics for them.
I had an inkling that augmenting some of the Historia would be enough--did I have enough coins? I DID! So I augmented the hands and choker, and that put me at exactly 755. So she's good for content!
If I have time, I might do some hunt trains or something on her to see if I can't get the newer tomestone gear (Historia is kinda outdated at this point), but I'm not going to worry too much if I can't.
10 TV Shows To Watch If You Like Netflix's Beef
May. 1st, 2026 07:02 pm![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
tvline_sytycd_feedFans of Beef know how rare its blend of tension, dark humor, and character drama is, but there are a handful of shows capture a similar tone in their own way.
tvline_sytycd_feed9-1-1 fans are fearing the worst for Athena after this week's episode. Here's what Angela Bassett has to say about her character's fate in the season finale.
Creepshow 2 (1987) - The Final 2 scene - Directed by Michael Gornick
May. 1st, 2026 06:47 pm
sorry can’t hangout tonight i have a garden in another dimension to tend to
May. 1st, 2026 12:49 pmassimbyachthonictum_feedsorry can’t hangout tonight i have a garden in another dimension to tend to
Check-In Post - May 1st 2026
May. 1st, 2026 07:47 pmbadly_knitted posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
get_knittedHello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.
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There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.
This Week's Question: What do you wish you could get right first time, every time?
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Oscar Isaac Visits the Criterion Closet
May. 1st, 2026 05:28 pmmoviessubreddit_feed  | submitted by /u/BunyipPouch [link] [comments] |
you don't have to tell a tidy story
May. 1st, 2026 02:22 pmmusesfoolSo I haven't written anything fictional since about January 2024 and mostly haven't even had any ideas, and then one morning last week (maybe the week before? I'm not sure - what even is time?), I woke up and was like, I could write a short DCC story set pre-collapse where Carl posts to AITA about breaking up with Bea and potentially stealing Donut. I told ![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
angelgazing about it and she was of course, very encouraging, and all, you should totally write that! But alas, I did not, though I did think about it longer than most ~ideas~ I've had over the last 2 years.
This morning, she texted me a link and someone wrote it! In a brief post on Threads of all places, but it was exactly that. And she was like, I only recognized it because you'd already told me about it! And I was like, see, I don't even have to write it because someone else already did!
Nice to know that even without writing anything, I am still tapped into the fannish hive mind. *wry*
In other fannish news: Ted Lasso season 4 trailer!!!! August 5th!!! I AM EXCITE!!!
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This morning, she texted me a link and someone wrote it! In a brief post on Threads of all places, but it was exactly that. And she was like, I only recognized it because you'd already told me about it! And I was like, see, I don't even have to write it because someone else already did!
Nice to know that even without writing anything, I am still tapped into the fannish hive mind. *wry*
In other fannish news: Ted Lasso season 4 trailer!!!! August 5th!!! I AM EXCITE!!!
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May. 1st, 2026 02:10 pmashelterofpagesThings I've watched over the past couple of months:
( A few movies and a TV show )
Anyway, besides that I'm here to report that I think my current meds change is doing really well for me. I'm getting normal stuff done, as well as writing related things, which is great, and even things like doing DW stuff and other bits of social media I keep meaning to try and check in on. It's kind of great.
I have some tarot related stuff to do over the next little wile because of 3WFDW, but I'll be doing them piecemeal while I let my foot heal up. Sadly, being in pain messes with everything else, so having brain to do things is hard.
(I hurt my foot in such a silly way. I was coming out of the shower and smacked it into a box while I was trying not to trip on something. I didn't know I'd really hurt it at first, but by the evening, I was really struggling to walk, so I had to call someone to help me do things like bring in groceries. I'm now at my normal house because moving is Very COmplicated right now.)
( A few movies and a TV show )
Anyway, besides that I'm here to report that I think my current meds change is doing really well for me. I'm getting normal stuff done, as well as writing related things, which is great, and even things like doing DW stuff and other bits of social media I keep meaning to try and check in on. It's kind of great.
I have some tarot related stuff to do over the next little wile because of 3WFDW, but I'll be doing them piecemeal while I let my foot heal up. Sadly, being in pain messes with everything else, so having brain to do things is hard.
(I hurt my foot in such a silly way. I was coming out of the shower and smacked it into a box while I was trying not to trip on something. I didn't know I'd really hurt it at first, but by the evening, I was really struggling to walk, so I had to call someone to help me do things like bring in groceries. I'm now at my normal house because moving is Very COmplicated right now.)
umadoshiMay is sweeping in with a significant downpour here, although at least it doesn't feel as chilly as the last couple of days did.
Out of curiosity, yesterday I opened my Scrivener file of Guardian fic and did a rough tally of the various WIPs, which have mostly not been touched since the start of the pandemic. (There are three subfiles of scraps written on my phone in, I think, 2022, 2023, and 2024, which collectively add up to not much. There isn't one for last year, which I guess tells a story on its own.) It all adds up to something like 60,000 words, which is...better? worse?...than I expected. "Better" in the sense that if I never get back to any of them--and I'm open to surprise, but it's been so many years--it's not a terrible number of words to let fall away, even if there are things in there that I'm sad to not have finished, especially the pieces that were meant to link up with the incomplete story cycle that five of the six fics I posted belong to. :/
(I'm also a bit curious about what a similar tally of unposted Newsflesh bits and pieces would add up to, but that's scattered among multiple Scrivener files, all of them divided into multiple sections, so it'd be more of a pain.)
Yesterday and today are days off from Dayjob to work on Yona (ohmyheart), and I'm getting back to that as soon as I finish this post...while also having a first listen to Tori's new album, In Times of Dragons. So that's an odd combination, but I want to just...feel the vibe of the album without trying to immerse myself in it, given my track record of her last several. (All of which I relistened to recently for the first time in a long while, and I like the sound in general, but still had no luck bonding lyrically.)
Glancing back and forth to the lyrics is not going to help with work focus, but oh well. I need to know what she's singing. (Toriphoria already has the lyrics up, fortunately.)
Interview quote following the lyrics for "Veins":
You’re actually hearing it as I heard it for the first time. It was recorded as I wrote it, a direct “download” from the muses. I tried to record it again afterward and could never replicate it. I was sitting with arranger John Philip Shenale, the tape was running, and that was the moment. Just like when I recorded the song “Marianne” back in 1996. Some things only happen once.
Out of curiosity, yesterday I opened my Scrivener file of Guardian fic and did a rough tally of the various WIPs, which have mostly not been touched since the start of the pandemic. (There are three subfiles of scraps written on my phone in, I think, 2022, 2023, and 2024, which collectively add up to not much. There isn't one for last year, which I guess tells a story on its own.) It all adds up to something like 60,000 words, which is...better? worse?...than I expected. "Better" in the sense that if I never get back to any of them--and I'm open to surprise, but it's been so many years--it's not a terrible number of words to let fall away, even if there are things in there that I'm sad to not have finished, especially the pieces that were meant to link up with the incomplete story cycle that five of the six fics I posted belong to. :/
(I'm also a bit curious about what a similar tally of unposted Newsflesh bits and pieces would add up to, but that's scattered among multiple Scrivener files, all of them divided into multiple sections, so it'd be more of a pain.)
Yesterday and today are days off from Dayjob to work on Yona (ohmyheart), and I'm getting back to that as soon as I finish this post...while also having a first listen to Tori's new album, In Times of Dragons. So that's an odd combination, but I want to just...feel the vibe of the album without trying to immerse myself in it, given my track record of her last several. (All of which I relistened to recently for the first time in a long while, and I like the sound in general, but still had no luck bonding lyrically.)
Glancing back and forth to the lyrics is not going to help with work focus, but oh well. I need to know what she's singing. (Toriphoria already has the lyrics up, fortunately.)
Interview quote following the lyrics for "Veins":
You’re actually hearing it as I heard it for the first time. It was recorded as I wrote it, a direct “download” from the muses. I tried to record it again afterward and could never replicate it. I was sitting with arranger John Philip Shenale, the tape was running, and that was the moment. Just like when I recorded the song “Marianne” back in 1996. Some things only happen once.
Birdfeeding
May. 1st, 2026 12:33 pmysabetwordsmithToday is cloudy and cool.
I fed the birds. I've heard a squirrel barking but haven't seen it.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 5/1/26 -- I did a bit of work around patio.
I took some pictures around the yard. Columbine, alliums, poppy, wood hyacinth, and others are blooming.
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I fed the birds. I've heard a squirrel barking but haven't seen it.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 5/1/26 -- I did a bit of work around patio.
I took some pictures around the yard. Columbine, alliums, poppy, wood hyacinth, and others are blooming.
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Some books
May. 1st, 2026 01:20 pmaurumcalendulaBallad of Sword and Wine, vol. 7 by Tang Jiu Qing (translated by XiA, Jia, and amixy):
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I've also just started Desmond by Ulysses Grant Dietz and I'm liking it so far.
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I've also just started Desmond by Ulysses Grant Dietz and I'm liking it so far.
Dan Stevens Teases Action-Thriller 'Onslaught' as Spiritual Sequel to 'The Guest'
May. 1st, 2026 05:04 pmmoviessubreddit_feed  | "I'm loving just continuing to collaborate with Adam and with Simon. We've got Onslaught coming out later this year with A24. Adria Arjona is the lead. It's absolutely incredible. It's Wingard back on home turf. Batsh*t action thriller in the desert. It's not a sequel to The Guest, but it is very much, if you liked The Guest, you're probably going to like Onslaught. And it's very much in the same universe of super soldiers gone bad and that kind of thing, which we love." [link] [comments] |
Nicolas Winding Refn's Cannes Title 'Her Private Hell' Sets U.S. Release (July 24)
May. 1st, 2026 04:41 pmmoviessubreddit_feed  | Nicolas Winding Refn‘s first feature directorial in ten years, NEON‘s Her Private Hell, will open in theaters on July 24 in what will be a moderate release in 800 to 1,200 theaters. Refn’s Her Private Hell will make its world premiere at Cannes later this month in the out-of-competition section. The pic stars Sophie Thatcher, Charles Melton, Dougray Scott, Diego Calva, and Kristine Froseth. The movie has myriad storylines, but fires up in a metropolis future where actresses are gathering at a posh hotel where they’re set to make a Barberella-like movie. A heinous killer known as Leather Man is going around the city taking the lives of women. [link] [comments] |
Sleepy Hollow is one of Tim Burton's best films
May. 1st, 2026 04:37 pmmoviessubreddit_feedJust popped it on as was on Netflix and it's really well put together as a film.
I think it performed alright commercially when it came out, but it's rarely thought off as a Burton classic.
Compared to a lot of his other films, although the idea isnt as original as Nightmare Before Christmas or Edward Scissor Hands, it's actually a really good adaption of a children's tale that must have been pretty challenging to conceive.
Plot wise I love the whole murder mystery element interwoven with the kind of hokey (but in a good way) horror.
Depp's character is great, I totally get his motivations and his arc. He seems really fleshed out, and well played. Christina Ricci's not half bad either.
Everything design wise, from the clothes to the set are really on point, everything has that twisted Tim Burton style that works perfectly for the adaption of sleepy hollow. Sort of stylised just enough to sit half way between a cartoonish depiction and a live action horror.
If you're a script/creative writing nerd then goddamn is that script efficient. Nothing seems clunky, everything said has a purpose but also seems to flow naturally.
All in all, I think it should be thought off as one of Burton's best, and it's a shame it's a little bit forgotten these days.
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