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maru_feed Jun. 14th, 2026 06:09 am)
maru_feed Jun. 14th, 2026 06:09 am)朝のはなみり。朝ごはんの準備ができると姿を消すみり！ Morning Hana&Miri. Miri disappears when breakfast is ready!
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“save our troubles for another day / go with me we’ve got it made / let me take you on an escapade”
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larryhammer Jun. 13th, 2026 11:12 am)
larryhammer Jun. 13th, 2026 11:12 am)A book meme swiped from muccamukk:
My favorite book of all time is: Always Coming Home, Ursula Le Guin.
My current favorite book (read or re-read in the last 3 months): Persuasion, Jane Austen, which also contends for the previous. (The book I most recently reread, if that’s what this is asking, is Sage Empress, Sherwood Smith.)
The last book I bought was: The October Horse, Colleen McCullough
The first book I bought with my own money: Too long ago, no idea.
The first book I received as a gift: Too long ago, no idea. I cannot remember not having/receiving many books.
The last book I received as a gift was: There were a handful all at once this past holiday season, the one I remember is The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar
The last book I borrowed from the library: The Trouble with Magic, Ruth Chew
The book physically closest to me right now: A Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese, rev ed., Paul W. Kroll
Do you read bookfic, and if so what is your favorite bookshop fic? I mostly only read bookfic, as I understand the term, but not very many fics set, either by canon or AU, in bookshops. Am I misreading this question?
Physical book or e-book: Yes.
Used or new: Yes.
Fiction or non-fiction: Yes.
Read at a coffee shop or at the park: Yes.
Paperback or hardcover: Paperback, says my wrists.
Romance or Crime: Romance.
Stream of consciousness? Rarely.
Poetry? Hard yes.
Memoirs? Rarely.
Philosophy? Sometimes.
Thrillers? Hard no.
Chronicles? Sometimes.
Dialogue heavy? This is so orthogonal to my reading choices it’s a meaningless question.
---L.
Subject quote from Escapade, Janet Jackson.
muccamukk:General Questions
This week I’m reading: The Grass Crown, Colleen McCullough, a reread by way of reading through the Masters of Rome series, which I previously left off after book 4.My favorite book of all time is: Always Coming Home, Ursula Le Guin.
My current favorite book (read or re-read in the last 3 months): Persuasion, Jane Austen, which also contends for the previous. (The book I most recently reread, if that’s what this is asking, is Sage Empress, Sherwood Smith.)
The last book I bought was: The October Horse, Colleen McCullough
The first book I bought with my own money: Too long ago, no idea.
The first book I received as a gift: Too long ago, no idea. I cannot remember not having/receiving many books.
The last book I received as a gift was: There were a handful all at once this past holiday season, the one I remember is The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar
The last book I borrowed from the library: The Trouble with Magic, Ruth Chew
The book physically closest to me right now: A Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese, rev ed., Paul W. Kroll
Do you read bookfic, and if so what is your favorite bookshop fic? I mostly only read bookfic, as I understand the term, but not very many fics set, either by canon or AU, in bookshops. Am I misreading this question?
This or That
[aka the false binaries section, imposition of dichotomies division]Physical book or e-book: Yes.
Used or new: Yes.
Fiction or non-fiction: Yes.
Read at a coffee shop or at the park: Yes.
Paperback or hardcover: Paperback, says my wrists.
Romance or Crime: Romance.
Yes or No
[aka the other false binaries section, denial of continuums division]Stream of consciousness? Rarely.
Poetry? Hard yes.
Memoirs? Rarely.
Philosophy? Sometimes.
Thrillers? Hard no.
Chronicles? Sometimes.
Dialogue heavy? This is so orthogonal to my reading choices it’s a meaningless question.
---L.
Subject quote from Escapade, Janet Jackson.
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Ban Shu Legend - Wei Ying and Ban Shu
Word of Honor - Liu Qianqiao and Yu Qiufeng
Cosmetology High - Pei Yuntian
Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Red Moon Pact - Dongfang Yuechu
Ban Shu Legend - Wei Ying and Ban Shu
Word of Honor - Liu Qianqiao and Yu Qiufeng
Cosmetology High - Pei Yuntian
Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Red Moon Pact - Dongfang Yuechu
The weekly chat posts are intended for just that, chatting among each other. What are you currently watching? Reading? What actor/idol are you currently following? What are you looking forward to? Are you busy writing, creating art? Or did you have no time at all for anything, and are bemoaning that fact?
Whatever it is, talk to us about it here. Tell us what you liked or didn't like, and if you want to talk about spoilery things, please hide them under either of these codes:
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Whatever it is, talk to us about it here. Tell us what you liked or didn't like, and if you want to talk about spoilery things, please hide them under either of these codes:
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Because next week's prompt will be the solstice, we're doing the prompt for Duanwu/Dragon Boat Festival a week early. Duanwu occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, traditionally held to be the most poisonous day of the year. The focus of the festival is rituals for good luck and banishing misfortune, as well as the commemoration of the death of Qu Yuan, a legendary and beloved minister in the Chu Warring States government who took his own life after he was slandered by jealous rivals.
This is one of our recurring annual prompts, which means that drabble sequences and drabble series are allowed, since these prompts have multiple or more complex concepts associated with them that warrant exploration in these longer formats. These formats are explained in this post, while the standard drabble formats are explained in the community rules.
You have until midnight your time on Friday, June 19, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.
As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.
Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.
This is one of our recurring annual prompts, which means that drabble sequences and drabble series are allowed, since these prompts have multiple or more complex concepts associated with them that warrant exploration in these longer formats. These formats are explained in this post, while the standard drabble formats are explained in the community rules.
You have until midnight your time on Friday, June 19, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.
As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.
Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.
Two fics in two weeks, gosh.
The first one is simultaneously not really fic and extremely fic: it's a smutty sequel to faites-lui mes aveux, a somewhat chaste I wrote for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
femslashex... getting on for eight years ago now, good grief. I'm not sure it makes much sense without the original original, but never mind.
ardentes, folles, enfiévrées
(Neither of them are actually in French, and I translated pretty much everything I quoted, too.)
The second one is part of the magnificent weirdness that isintoabar. Harriet Vane goes into a bar and meets Mercutio.
through the long horror of that piteous night
I have a third fic in the works but it's been that way for a long time and I don't know when I'll get it finished. 11000 words and counting. I've also been working on some original original stuff, which again I am not sure that anyone else is going to want to read, and again, I don't care, I'm just glad to be writing.
The first one is simultaneously not really fic and extremely fic: it's a smutty sequel to faites-lui mes aveux, a somewhat chaste I wrote for
femslashex... getting on for eight years ago now, good grief. I'm not sure it makes much sense without the original original, but never mind.ardentes, folles, enfiévrées
(Neither of them are actually in French, and I translated pretty much everything I quoted, too.)
The second one is part of the magnificent weirdness that is
intoabar. Harriet Vane goes into a bar and meets Mercutio.through the long horror of that piteous night
I have a third fic in the works but it's been that way for a long time and I don't know when I'll get it finished. 11000 words and counting. I've also been working on some original original stuff, which again I am not sure that anyone else is going to want to read, and again, I don't care, I'm just glad to be writing.
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orthopraxy (awr-thuh-PRAK-see) - n., correct (religious) practice.
That is, correct conduct in both ethical and liturgical senses. Contrast with orthodoxy, correct belief/faith -- and indeed was coined around 1850 on the model of orthdoxy, replacing Ancient Greek doxía, belief, with prâxis, action/practice. Note that this is also sometimes used as an alternative form of orthopraxia, the correction of physical deformities using mechanical appliances aka orthopedics.
---L.
That is, correct conduct in both ethical and liturgical senses. Contrast with orthodoxy, correct belief/faith -- and indeed was coined around 1850 on the model of orthdoxy, replacing Ancient Greek doxía, belief, with prâxis, action/practice. Note that this is also sometimes used as an alternative form of orthopraxia, the correction of physical deformities using mechanical appliances aka orthopedics.
---L.
(languagelog_feed Jun. 12th, 2026 11:59 am)
languagelog_feed Jun. 12th, 2026 11:59 am)Today's SMBC presents a new take on Moravec's Paradox:
Mouseover title: "Once I realized this, all those inept AI laundry-folding videos became hilarious."
The AfterComic:
This may also help explain HR AI's work-to-rule "efficiency"…
(maru_feed Jun. 11th, 2026 11:00 pm)
maru_feed Jun. 11th, 2026 11:00 pm)籠りたいみりのために、隠れ家を作ってあげました。 I made a hideout for Miri who wants to hide away. どう？ How about? みり：「いいと思う。」 Miri:[So […]
hornblende (HAWRN-blend) - n., a green-black to black mineral in the amphibole group, general formula (Ca,Na)2−3(Mg,Fe,Al)5(Al,Si)8O22(OH,F)2, found in igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Not a single mineral but rather a group, specifically the dark types of amphiboles ("any of a group of complex silicate minerals with like crystal structures that contain calcium, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, or iron ions or a combination of them"). The dark part of this:
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Thanks, WikiMedia!
(Personal note: not to be confused with pitchblende, which is a uranium ore, and was totally safe to store in a box under my bed when I was a teenager. (No, really, it was -- it emitted low-energy alpha particles only, which couldn't even escape the box let alone get through a mattress.)) We got the word in the 1760s from German Hornblende, from Horn, horn + Blende, pose/deception (from blenden, to deceive, metaphorical extension of original meaning to blind), because apparently some hornblendes can separate into thin layers (much like mica) that can be mistaken for animal horn.
---L.
Not a single mineral but rather a group, specifically the dark types of amphiboles ("any of a group of complex silicate minerals with like crystal structures that contain calcium, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, or iron ions or a combination of them"). The dark part of this:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
(Personal note: not to be confused with pitchblende, which is a uranium ore, and was totally safe to store in a box under my bed when I was a teenager. (No, really, it was -- it emitted low-energy alpha particles only, which couldn't even escape the box let alone get through a mattress.)) We got the word in the 1760s from German Hornblende, from Horn, horn + Blende, pose/deception (from blenden, to deceive, metaphorical extension of original meaning to blind), because apparently some hornblendes can separate into thin layers (much like mica) that can be mistaken for animal horn.
---L.
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(maru_feed Jun. 10th, 2026 11:00 pm)
maru_feed Jun. 10th, 2026 11:00 pm)午前中、雷に似た音が空から聞こえると、こたつに避難するみり。 午前中はいつもこたつ布団を上に巻くって、端に避けてあるので、こたつ布団の中に隠れます。 In the morning, Miri hears a sound […]
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