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My dad was an elementary school principal for about 30 years. He got along very well with almost everyone teachers, parents, students, staff, and other school principals as well. He was respected and asked to speak at conventions and other gatherings. The one exception to all this was his boss, the superintendent of schools for […]

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How long ago did you join LJ (or DW)?

I joined LJ in 2001 and DW in 2009. I stopped paying for an LJ account some time ago, but I don’t want to abandon the community I still have there. So I still cross-post to both, manually since automatic cross-posting hasn’t been possible for some years.
How did you find out about LJ (or DW)?

I believe I was introduced to LJ by victorine. I can’t remember who introduced me to DW: apologies if this was you!
If someone introduced you to LJ (or DW), is s/he still on your friends list?

If they’re still active, either as a poster or a commenter, then yes. I don’t remove people until they’ve been inactive for years and are clearly not coming back.
Have you introduced anyone to LJ (or DW)?

A few people, but I can’t remember their identities. It was mostly a long time ago, when there was more chance of recruiting people to blogging / journaling sites. Most people just use social media apps these days, so it feels pretty pointless trying to compete with that. I’m also really fond of my stable, long-running communities on these sites, and as long as there are a few empathetic folks left to commune with, I’m happy.
Is your LJ (or DW) public or friends only, and why?

They used to be mostly public, but these days almost everything personal or with photos of me and/or my children is locked. Back in the early days of journaling, it was easy to feel optimistic about the internet being used for peace and love and bringing together global communities. With social media being used so frequently to amplify hate and fear, terrorise minority groups, and shield trolls and creeps from consequences, I don’t feel quite so confident about sharing my life openly.

kalloway

Bit of everything...

The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter 1 (Kazuki Irodori/Yatsuki Wakatsu/Kikka Ohashi) - manga, read before and why I ended up getting the novels. I still have the last novel to finish (or, probably, a re-read of the whole series; it's only three books) and then maybe I'll get back to picking up the manga? BL isekai-gone-wrong series, does start off rather dubious.

Land of the Blindfolded 1-9 (Sakura Tsukuba) - from the box of manga I dragged home to read last November and then, uh, just put in the stacks. This is some vintage shoujo where the leads have supernatural powers. (In this case, being able to see the future/past at times.) A nice romance, and all the side bits with the puppy and turtle are cute. I'm debating keeping this one; I suppose I have a month to decide.

Disgaea 1-3 DVDs - the Disgaea anime is okay. It's certainly an adaptation, and it's enjoyable on its own but it also has moments perpendicular to the game but... (It kinda makes me want to replay the game, really?) I think this was out, originally, because my mother had wanted to watch it back before she decided she did not actually like the Prinny plush she'd adored for more than a decade. Anyway, she also did not like the anime and I suspect that was the beginning of the end for the plush, which I rescued.)

The Perilous Void (Jason Lutes/Keny Widjaja) - this is a TTRPG book to use for generating basically everything you need for Space Adventures. It's a joy to even skim through. I don't really have a dedicated tabletop shelf right now (or shelves, at this point) and need to rectify that somehow.

Mobile Suit Gundam Movie Trilogy - I think this was out because the boycritter isn't actually familiar with much Gundam/Universal Century.

Try Knights - I bounced off this the first time but enjoyed it on try no. 2 (lol). This is a sports anime about rugby, which I have no knowledge of and the series expects that of its audience and does its best to teach along the way. (I cannot say I understand much more, but-) Lots of pretty boys, lots of ship bait.

A pile of keepers this time (and debating for a bit on Land of the Blindfolded), surprisingly.

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Title: Propped up
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Rating: G
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
Character: Charles Rowland (my most beloved muse atm)
Content Notes: Pentel brush pen, Sakura Koi markers in light warm and light cold grey, blender

Title: Daydream
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Rating: G
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
Character: Crystal Palace Surname Van Hovercraft (it's ridiculous, I know)
Content Notes: Pentel brush pen, watercolours, Kuretake starry colours, white gel pen for highlights, Wearingeul ink "From the Earth to the Moon" for some sparkle in her hair.

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I must have been around five or six years old. I was given a few nickels or dimes here and there by my parents and I was returning bottles I found in the trash or on the ground near where I lived to get the deposit back. I did not have a piggy bank or […]

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Doodle4Doodle - an art for art exchange

The community with info is shere:

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Oh, and in case you were wondering:

"Images that are wholly or in part generated by genAI models such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, etc are not eligible to be posted to the collection. Use of generative AI is banned."

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1) Going to an Art Event for Palestine, to raise money for the good cause.

2) I’ll probably watch some Downton Abbey episodes thus evening, I’m all in the mood after the film yesterday

3) Clean bedlinen for tonight

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I had been bullied quite a bit in school. For context, I was the cliché intelligent introverted loner kid who everyone thought was weird (and to some extent, I was – still am) and had only a few friends. My self-esteem was already low and I had it pretty bad. One Games lesson in the […]

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cosmolinguist

My heart is warmed by the photos from protests: the huge crowds in big cities, the animal costumes, the clever signs, but especially the groups in small towns. I really wish I could have been there with them.

But instead I've had a quiet day, conscious that tomorrow D and I'll be Being Boring at bussed-in fash again who are trying to intimidate my neighbors, and then going to see New Model Army.

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I very very much appreciate everyone who has been leaving me questions and comments here, and if anyone would like to add more they would still be extremely welcome.

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Title: No.19 Flutter

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Rating: G

Fandom: original work

Content Notes: Dip pen and nib, the ink is Diamine's Cinnabun which is warm and very good to work with - smooth and rich. Usual, no pencil, no rubbing out. These psuedodragons are inspired by the real life Draco volans that has extended rib structures that enable it to glide.
One of the creatures has caught a dragonfly, and is unwilling to share with its companion.

A small dragon like creature defending its catch from another

Current Mood: amused

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Current Mood: creative

bluapapilio

Episode 1: I'm still sad it's not male!MC but whatever. ...Wth is that opening?? Is it English? I mean, pretty visuals at least.

"Great Sages follow orders just as well as cats" ...so not at all then? Hah.

Shylock comforting Heathcluff, and the soldiers reactions to the smoke!

Lmao the old guy getting turned into a mouse and squeaking.

Episode 2: Amusing to hear old men speak from two seemingly young boys. =P

I felt like they did a good job interspersing hints and info to make you curious about the story. There might be some foreshadowing too but I don't know since I haven't read too far into the story.

Episode 3: MC was just reading the journal, why didn't she read about the summoning before they were literally about to do it;; Or was that supposed to be a flashback?

Episode 4: Why did MC get completely changed just to talk to Heathcliff?? What she was wearing was fine. It was honestly pretty comical.

The newbies show up. Shino is Heathcliff's childhood friend, and Arthur is the prince of Central Country.

Asking Arthur to choose humans when humans can be just as bad if not worse. *smh*

Lmao the youngest new wizard pissing off all the Northern wizards in one blow. Shino at least deserved it, calling the Eastern wizards weak when they're so nice. :|

Episode 5: Why are Heathcliff and Shino not getting along...

Riquet looks cute but he's in the whole 'God' business so meeh. "They lock wizards up inside their churches and have them assist with their religious activities." He sees the mark as tainted. 🙁

Arthur tells them how is mother abandoned him at 4 years old in the snowy mountain because he was a wizard and there were rumors going around about her. Oz found him and raised him until he was 13 when the castle people came and took him. Seems Arthur misses Oz.

Wait, Oz is mad at Arthur?? And now he's not happy Arthur has the mark.

chanter1944

15,000+, probably closer to 20, on the square at Madison, WI today. 0 arrests, and the only police presence was a cluster of officers there just in case someone got lost, tripped over a curb, or got a little too rowdy in an unsafe way (which no one that we saw did).

( Amusing/thought-provoking signage back here. )

I'm a little hoarse. Comes of chanting and cheering up a storm. And now, I'm going the heck to bed.

bluapapilio

Chapter 161: Funniest zombie story I've ever seen. 🤭🍿

Allen had a vision(?) of Krory and he doesn't look so good. T_T That lady is definitely the perpetrator.

Chapter 162: Allen seducing Komlin EX ahaha!

Chapter 163: Okay that ghost's backstory was awful. Experimented on until she died...

Allen got bit twice and managed to hold it off for so long!

Poor Johnny...

Chapter 164: Wow, Komui memorized all the names of the sacrificed.

Aww Krory is so sweet. Man, what a story.

Chapter 165-166: And suddenly...dead dog and creepy clown!

What was that flashback?? The clown was Mana! He was The Fourteenth/The Pianist's older brother who stuck with him when he betrayed the Noah. Aaand Allen is somehow 'The Fourteenth' who promised to come back to Mana's side. Mana implanted Fourteenth's memories into him as a boy.

fred_mouse

My personal seasonal shift has happened. It was raining earlier, and is overcast, and I'm feeling whingey about being cold. Apparently it is 20°C, a temperature I have considered to be perfectly acceptable through the cooler seasons.

This means that I'd better remember a jumper or other warm clothing tomorrow. Last week I was being lazy and was perfectly fine in 3/4 sleeve work t-shirts; I have a blanket in the office that solves most of the slight being cool that come from being in the bottom floor where the ground is one floor up to the north.

sovay

Having somewhat wiped out my reserves with the glories of Corporation Beach, I only made it out to the salt marsh for about an hour between low tide and sunset, which was still great. I saw the copper-glaze glint of fiddler crabs in their burrows in the crenellated banks of mud. I saw the dark-fringed silhouette of an osprey sailing over the green-rusted brushes of cordgrass and salt hay, where they nest with the encouragement of the Callery Darling Conservation Area which includes the wetlands around the Bass Hole Boardwalk. The engine noise floating over from Chapin Beach turned out to belong to a powered paraglider who so annoyed me by effectively buzzing the boardwalk that I let all the other sunset viewers with their phones out enthusiastically take pictures of him. The long-billed, long-legged, unfamiliarly tuxedo-patterned shorebird stalking the deeper edges of a sandbar looks to have been a vagrant black-necked stilt. With the tide so far out, I am afraid there was little chance of another seal.

( Take a little comfort from the little you've done. )

After which I ate dinner, read a little, and passed out for about an hour and a half. Family and friends have been sending me pictures of No Kings, the necessity of which I hate and the turnout of which I cheer. My mother told me about her favorite sign she did not carry: a photograph of the butterfly, the only orange monarch we need. I loved everything about the spare, specific exploration of marginalized languages and historical queerness in Carys Davies' Clear (2024) until the slingshot of the ending as if the author had lost a chapter somewhere over the side in the North Sea. Since the Cape is still autumnal New England, I am drinking mulled cider.

Current Music: No Hero, "Comfort"

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In slightly surreal events, artisanat got an email from livejournal to tell them that their account is 19 years old. I haven't had a livejournal account since I committed fully to dreamwidth and decided I didn't care for crossposting, but I guess it would be heading up to 20 years old.

Which, huh.

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