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NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula
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NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a
Portrait of NGC 1055
Nov. 28th, 2025 06:26 amapod_feed
Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1055 is a dominant member of
Girl Genius for Friday, November 28, 2025
Nov. 28th, 2025 05:00 amgirlgenius_main_feedThe Girl Genius comic for Friday, November 28, 2025 has been posted.
Bragging Rights: A Bond Stronger Than a String (The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System)
Nov. 27th, 2025 10:12 pmpenaltywaltz posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
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Project Title: A Bond Stronger Than a String
Fandom: Scum Villain
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/74876726
Summary: Shen Jiu wakes up able to see a red string on his finger and memories of many lives which ended horribly. Now he needs to decide how he will live this life.
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Shen Jiu | Original Shen QingqiuTianlang-junOriginal Luo BingheYue Qingyuan
Pairings: Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu/Tianlang-jun
When I Started: Mid 2024.
How I Lost My Shit: Lots I wanted in the story and kept thinking rather than writing.
How I Finished My Shit: Deadline helped me.
Project Title: A Bond Stronger Than a String
Fandom: Scum Villain
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/74876726
Summary: Shen Jiu wakes up able to see a red string on his finger and memories of many lives which ended horribly. Now he needs to decide how he will live this life.
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Shen Jiu | Original Shen QingqiuTianlang-junOriginal Luo BingheYue Qingyuan
Pairings: Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu/Tianlang-jun
When I Started: Mid 2024.
How I Lost My Shit: Lots I wanted in the story and kept thinking rather than writing.
How I Finished My Shit: Deadline helped me.
Late spring - lush garden
Nov. 28th, 2025 06:03 pmmificI was up early yesterday and it was lovely, so I decided to take some pics. It's all very lush as we've had a fair bit of rain, mixed with sunny days as hot as midsummer. I think it's going to be a hot one, this year. I tried to include slightly more panoramic shots this time to give you some idea of my small garden which is almost all in pots and wheelibeds, as my rented unit has largely concrete and asphalt around it. Click on each pic for full size.
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I'd marry her this minute if she only would agree
Nov. 27th, 2025 10:48 pmsovayI had a small but very successful Thanksgiving with my parents, with both of my husbands, and with nineweaving. I have been supplied with all the ingredients for a turkey terrific and a whole lot of apple crumble that doesn't need to be reconstructed into anything except me. My mother taped the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I leaned back into rushthatspeaks while we talked books and movies and theatrical stories. The photo was taken by spatch for selkie in condolence for the stressors of her holiday for which she was not the responsible party. The Sallust is from 1886, but I work with what I've got.
nineweaving. I have been supplied with all the ingredients for a turkey terrific and a whole lot of apple crumble that doesn't need to be reconstructed into anything except me. My mother taped the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I leaned back into rushthatspeaks while we talked books and movies and theatrical stories. The photo was taken by spatch for selkie in condolence for the stressors of her holiday for which she was not the responsible party. The Sallust is from 1886, but I work with what I've got.
Fic: Final chapter of Reverie
Nov. 27th, 2025 07:33 pmgwynI made it! I don't know how I did considering the amazing disaster that my life has been this year (I keep tempting fate by thinking things can't get worse and then they do!), especially the past couple months. (Perfect example was yesterday, where I was sweating like a pig from putting up some decorations and wiped out from fatigue and also couldn't get my new replacement laptop to work and so I was sitting there sweating and crying from frustration. My life, man. Sweating and crying. What.)
Anyways, I finally finished the WIP I started five freaking years ago, posting as a WIP because in the past, that kept me on track and I was worried about finishing so I wouldn't let things slide. And then I did anyways! But it is now done, and just in time for my annual birthday fic posting. I don't imagine anyone reading this at this point, but in case one person does, well, here you go.
Reverie (58115 words) by gwyneth rhys
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Black Panther (2018), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Shuri
Characters: Steve Rogers, Shuri (Marvel), James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson, Natasha Romanov, T'Challa (Marvel), Ramonda (Marvel), Ayo (Marvel), Nakia (Black Panther), Okoye (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Virtual Reality, Dreamscapes, Dreamsharing, of sorts if you squint hard, Wakandan Technology, Wakanda (Marvel), Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Post-Captain America: Civil War (Movie), Post-Black Panther (2018), Friendship, Family, Bucky Barnes Recovering, Protective Steve Rogers, Action/Adventure
Summary:
Anyways, I finally finished the WIP I started five freaking years ago, posting as a WIP because in the past, that kept me on track and I was worried about finishing so I wouldn't let things slide. And then I did anyways! But it is now done, and just in time for my annual birthday fic posting. I don't imagine anyone reading this at this point, but in case one person does, well, here you go.
Reverie (58115 words) by gwyneth rhys
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Black Panther (2018), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Shuri
Characters: Steve Rogers, Shuri (Marvel), James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson, Natasha Romanov, T'Challa (Marvel), Ramonda (Marvel), Ayo (Marvel), Nakia (Black Panther), Okoye (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Virtual Reality, Dreamscapes, Dreamsharing, of sorts if you squint hard, Wakandan Technology, Wakanda (Marvel), Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Post-Captain America: Civil War (Movie), Post-Black Panther (2018), Friendship, Family, Bucky Barnes Recovering, Protective Steve Rogers, Action/Adventure
Summary:
“Exitus!” Steve shouted, slamming his hand against the door where the mandala should have been, and suddenly he was on the chair in his room, gasping. In this world.
Steve lowered the glass to his lap and looked up at Shuri. His heart was beating way too hard and fast. “You were right,” he said, sitting up. “He’s glitching. I don’t know if I can get him out.”
Welp!
Nov. 27th, 2025 08:47 pmjulianThis is a Long Post because I have Thoughts, but the short version is, "Hey, my mom had a stroke, and isn't just sedated to the gills! Though she is that, too."
Less telegraphic version: My mom (who just turned 86!) has progressed, in her dementia, from anxious and logical to anxious and tangential, in both technical and non-technical senses. That is to say, to people who don't know her, it seems as if she says basically random stuff, whereas to people who know her, it's clear she's saying stuff that has connections in her brain but she doesn't seem to recognize that she needs to provide the connective tissue to make it explicable to people outside herself.
Mostly, up until now, if she's not tired, she's quite audible and quite understandable. When tired, she gets a little blurry, but not *very*. (Also, and this is irrelevant except for med issues, she gets delusions. All of which are quite harmless, so far, and seem to mostly involve expecting visitors for dinner and the like. My dad says there's like, consistent expectations/background to this, and things.)
She and my dad are both very wary of assisted living and don't want anything to do with it, in part because of a friend of theirs who they felt had basically been stuck into a facility by her daughter. (Mind you, this friend had dementia and kept falling down, so, warranted.)
My mom's also wandering, or, rather, taking walks and then getting lost in her own neighborhood, which isn't *quite* the same thing, but kind of similar. One can ask why my dad lets her do that, to which the answer is, he sometimes needs to pay a bill or something and she gets impatient. She otherwise seems to not have many interests -- she's not reading much (or, I suppose, able to read), she's not watching movies, she's not... doing things. Other than taking walks.
So the point is, yesterday, she was taking her third walk of the day, alone, and someone called 911 because she was apparently walking in the middle of High St, aka, a very busy street with a *lot* of rush hour traffic. (When I heard this I had an actual chill run down my actual spine. Things that happen in real life! Who knew!) A police officer stopped by, and she was apparently combative and/or belligerent, so he brought her to the hospital. (The same one I volunteered at when I was a teenager, let us timewarp now.) It seemed odd to me that since she was *registered* as a wanderer, he'd take her to the hospital rather than home, but there's a few possibilities, some of which are stroke-related, some of which are dementia-related.
( More details about various visits. )
Anyway, so, clearly, what we need to do is get her into a rehab facility and get the support system set up for getting her back home, hopefully. We've got a "light housekeeping" person coming in starting about a week from now, and I can call some nursing folks her doctor recommended, so, we have Planz.
In more emotional aspects of stuff, this now starts another kind of slippery slope toward possibilities like pneumonia and other things. And I don't want my mom to *die*, but on the other hand she's been telling my dad she's unhappy and doesn't want to exist anymore (though doesn't have any kind of inclination to kill herself), so I mean. If this starts that faster downhill slope, I'll be *sad*, but I'm not going to cling if she's wanting to slowly go that direction. Just. I'll be sad. I *am* sad. Sadness is.
Less telegraphic version: My mom (who just turned 86!) has progressed, in her dementia, from anxious and logical to anxious and tangential, in both technical and non-technical senses. That is to say, to people who don't know her, it seems as if she says basically random stuff, whereas to people who know her, it's clear she's saying stuff that has connections in her brain but she doesn't seem to recognize that she needs to provide the connective tissue to make it explicable to people outside herself.
Mostly, up until now, if she's not tired, she's quite audible and quite understandable. When tired, she gets a little blurry, but not *very*. (Also, and this is irrelevant except for med issues, she gets delusions. All of which are quite harmless, so far, and seem to mostly involve expecting visitors for dinner and the like. My dad says there's like, consistent expectations/background to this, and things.)
She and my dad are both very wary of assisted living and don't want anything to do with it, in part because of a friend of theirs who they felt had basically been stuck into a facility by her daughter. (Mind you, this friend had dementia and kept falling down, so, warranted.)
My mom's also wandering, or, rather, taking walks and then getting lost in her own neighborhood, which isn't *quite* the same thing, but kind of similar. One can ask why my dad lets her do that, to which the answer is, he sometimes needs to pay a bill or something and she gets impatient. She otherwise seems to not have many interests -- she's not reading much (or, I suppose, able to read), she's not watching movies, she's not... doing things. Other than taking walks.
So the point is, yesterday, she was taking her third walk of the day, alone, and someone called 911 because she was apparently walking in the middle of High St, aka, a very busy street with a *lot* of rush hour traffic. (When I heard this I had an actual chill run down my actual spine. Things that happen in real life! Who knew!) A police officer stopped by, and she was apparently combative and/or belligerent, so he brought her to the hospital. (The same one I volunteered at when I was a teenager, let us timewarp now.) It seemed odd to me that since she was *registered* as a wanderer, he'd take her to the hospital rather than home, but there's a few possibilities, some of which are stroke-related, some of which are dementia-related.
( More details about various visits. )
Anyway, so, clearly, what we need to do is get her into a rehab facility and get the support system set up for getting her back home, hopefully. We've got a "light housekeeping" person coming in starting about a week from now, and I can call some nursing folks her doctor recommended, so, we have Planz.
In more emotional aspects of stuff, this now starts another kind of slippery slope toward possibilities like pneumonia and other things. And I don't want my mom to *die*, but on the other hand she's been telling my dad she's unhappy and doesn't want to exist anymore (though doesn't have any kind of inclination to kill herself), so I mean. If this starts that faster downhill slope, I'll be *sad*, but I'm not going to cling if she's wanting to slowly go that direction. Just. I'll be sad. I *am* sad. Sadness is.
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, November 26 - Thursday, November 27
Nov. 27th, 2025 09:54 pmfancyflautist posting in su_herald
Buffy : You know what? I should have my own thanksgiving. I can cook the meal, just like my mom does, have all you guys over. It'll be great.
Willow : Buffy, earlier you agreed with me about Thanksgiving. It's a sham. It's all about death.
Buffy : It is a sham, but it's a sham with yams. It's a yam sham.
Willow : Buffy, earlier you agreed with me about Thanksgiving. It's a sham. It's all about death.
Buffy : It is a sham, but it's a sham with yams. It's a yam sham.
~~Pangs~~
[Drabbles & Short Fiction]
- Stolen Peace (Buffy, PG) by badly_knitted
- The Annual Ritual (Buffy/Giles, E) by Skyson
- Then Another Horse Came Out (Fiery Red) (Crossover with Sons of Anarchy, G) by Viwiel
[Chaptered Fiction]
- The Dark Willow SagaChapter 9 (Buffy/Spike, E) by TheLightdancer
- You Make Slaying Fun, Chapter 26 (Buffy/Spike, E) by cosplayermadness
- Tig Trager's Guide to Losing the Plot (One Incident at a Time), Chapter 5 (Crossover with Sons of Anarchy, G) by Viwiel
- The Stark-Summers Equation, Chapter 4 (Multiple crossings, G) by Viwiel
- Grace, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, M) by Soulburnt
- FOR SCIENCE!, Chapter 6 (Multiple crossings, NR) by TjinTur
- In the Dark, Chapter 6 (Buffy/Spike, AO) by NotYourGrave
- Made For You, Chapter 46 (Buffy/Spike, R) by missambermarie
- Something Borrowed, Chapter 23 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Geliot99
- Essence, Chapter 11 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Soulburnt
- Xanadu, Chapter 12 (Buffy/Spike, AO) by violettathepiratequeen
- A Case of You, Chapter 15 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by cheshire
- Aftermath: the Möbius Curve, Chapter 6 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Joan963z
- If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck..., Chapter 19 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by zinjadu
- Mile Markers and Blood Moons, Chapter 37 (Buffy/Spike, R) by JamesMFan
- Aegis, Chapter 56 (Crossover with DC Comics, FR15) by dogbertcarroll
- When Hecate Met Xander, Chapter 7 (Multiple crossings, FR18) by Balder
- Store Brand Jimmies, Chapter 14 (Multiple crossings, FR15) by jarinmyheartinmyjar
- A Slayer's Fortune, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, R) by VoronaFiernan
[Images, Audio & Video]
- Papercraft template:Spike + Buffy via Xioisbbg
- Artwork:[Kendra] by aa-arttss
- Artwork:garbage-pretty Faith and depresso-girl Buffy by moldingman99
- Artwork:slayer vs slayer by saevity
- Artwork:some fuffy by skeletalruckus
- Icons: S3E05 by gellaricons
- Icons:S3E03 by gellaricons
- Manip:Forever Isn't Long Enough [Bangel] by just-turned-aesthetic
- Manip:3x05, Homecoming by bufyedit
- Manip:[Buffy x Giles] by buffyannegiles
- Gifset:Best of BTVS: Anya Jenkins - Season Three by clarkgriffon
- Gifset: Juliet Landau as Drusilla, Fool for Love by shesnake
- Gifset: Angel + Outfits by clarkgriffon
- Gifset: Best of BTVS: Wesley Wyndam-Pryce by clarkgriffon
- Gif: [Stranger Things Giles edit] by thecrazyknight
- Meme: Weslah + Text Posts // Part 4 by welcometocaritas
[Reviews & Recaps]
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer Rewatch - "Pangs" with Emma Caulfield by Boys Watching Buffy
- Podcast: Episode 117: Blood Ties by Gym Was Cancelled
[Recs & In Search Of]
- Retail Therapy by Taaroko recced by iwillrememberyoumarathon
- The Fall of it All by aboutafox recced by iwillrememberyoumarathon
- What are your favourite Buffy edit accounts? by Antxzyo
- [ISO Willow brain-sucked instead of Tara fics] by Virtual_Text6914
- [ISO archived Czech fic] by Sure-Result152
[Community Announcements]
- Planned Timeline of Events! by buffyfanzine
[Fandom Discussions]
- [funniest Spike lore] by warden-anders
- [Angel is just toxic masculinity] by morgueinlefay
- [Ship antis] by liliitth
- [Anti S6-7 ask] by goblins-riddles-or-frocks
- [Buffy S4 vs later seasons] by floralgreenery
- [Spuffel feasibility] by xaeyrnofnbe
- [Spuffy defense] by
- giles in ‘witch’ by
- [veronica mars crossover crackship] by selkiemaidenfae
- [inaccurate book blurbs] by villainous-queen
- [Xander redemption] by liltreestar
- I honestly think that one of the most important things Tara represents skates by a lot of people by
- [Spike + Drusilla ask] by etherealspacejelly and floralgreenery
- Poll: Most Beloved Queer Ship Tournament - Round 1 by mostbelovedqueer
- Poll: Buffy viewers, who was your favorite Big Bad? by peppermintquartz
- Poll: What did you think of S2E10? by btvs-weekly-group-rewatch
- Would Spike name his horse after Buffy? (Setting is several hundred years after her death) by angelusfangs
- [Chosen + Aro!Buffy] by thelesbianthespianposts
- [On Buffy's choices in Chosen] by toxicphangirl15
- I am surprised by “teenager Angel” in S4E6 by multiple authors
- More Angel and Faith Season 10 Covers and Art by multiple authors
- What kind of opening titles do you want for the new Buffy show? by multiple authors
- If they showed the “Immortal” in Angel, who do you picture playing him? by multiple authors
- What is your favourite scene from the whole show? by multiple authors
- I hate that they tweaked the intro theme in Season 3 onwards.. Why change what's already perfect? by multiple authors
- What happened to Miss Kitty Fantastico? by multiple authors
- What's the closest speech/soliloquy/monologue in Buffy to this one in Angel? by multiple authors
- buffy board game!! by multiple authors
- If Angelina Jolie played a new character on Buffy, who would you want it to be? by multiple authors
- which angel character had the best personal growth? by multiple authors
- Thanksgiving Season 3 by multiple authors
- We will get an official Buffy announcement before the end of the year?? by multiple authors
- Do people still listen to/watch the commentaries? by multiple authors
- How many times has Spike been tied/locked up? by multiple authors
- Giles sparing Buffy/asking Faith to kill a slayer by multiple authors
- Love the writers for this by multiple authors
- "Him" is one of the funniest episodes I've seen - what do you guys think? by multiple authors
- Buffy aging mid-fight by multiple authors
- Who will be the S1 ‘Big Bad’? by multiple authors
[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]
- Publication: Buffy: Chloé Zhao is Team Spike; Had "The Prom" Surprise For Gellar via Bleeding Cool
- Publication: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 1's Limited Budget Led To Some Inventive Filming Choices via Yahoo
Daily Check-In
Nov. 27th, 2025 09:38 pmmecurtin posting in fandom_checkinThis is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Thursday, November 27, to midnight on Friday, November 28 (8pm Eastern Time).
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
Poll #33886 Daily check-in poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 10
How are you doing?
I am OK
6 (60.0%)
I am not OK, but don't need help right now
4 (40.0%)
I could use some help
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans live with you?
I am living single
3 (30.0%)
One other person
4 (40.0%)
More than one other person
3 (30.0%)
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
Gaming Update
Nov. 28th, 2025 03:35 pmcyphomandraI ploughed onward through FFVII Remake and ultimately platinumed it, woo hoo, although it’s definitely thanks to Optinoob’s combat guides. His strategy for the final Sephiroth boss fight (which comes after a series of other fights, so you have to manage your characters very carefully to have enough MP etc left) boiled to down to block, counter stance, block, with Cloud, switch briefly to another character once they show up for heals and barrier etc, then back to Cloud (as Sephiroth will instantly target the character you’re playing) and keep blocking/countering until you can get him with a limit break before he unkindly drops Meteor on you - Optinoob when describing this started imitating Sephiroth going “Cloud, why won’t you attack me?” :D
After that I played chunks of FFVII Intergrade (the Yuffie DLC) on hard mode and I haven’t finished it but I jumped back into FFVII Rebirth. I’m still on chapter 12 of this in hard mode, which is exactly where I was storywise in March, but I have now gone back and done all the side quests I’d missed earlier that you have to repeat on hard mode to unlock more character progression, as well as some of the mini games (aargh the mini games. There are too many and I don’t know if I’m ever going to get through some of them, like the pirate’s gallery shooting one and the gambit & gears hard mode games and, omg, the PIANO). Where I am now, though, I really need to unlock Götterdammerung to be able to make it through the next fights, and it’s locked behind a series of excessively tricky boss fights - the six Brutal Challenges. I have done four, again heavily relying on Optinooob, and they were painful slogs.
As a change of pace from repeated party wipes, I picked up Blue Prince, which is a puzzle-solving rogue-like centred around a mysterious mansion, and not only is it great but I have not yet died even once. You are the presumptive heir to the mansion, but to prove you deserve it, you have to find room 46 - the house is a 9 by 5 grid, every day you start in the entrance hall on the middle of the bottom row, and when you open a door you get a choice of possible floor plans to fill the next space - some of the rooms are dead ends, some have items or hints you need, some require specific resources to select them, some interact with other rooms, and some actively punish you by removing resources or limiting your subsequent choices. When I first got a PC, the game I totally fell for was Myst, a puzzle-solving world-building lore-heavy game with (for the time) amazing graphics, and I spent hours on it, not least because this was largely before the WWW and I had no easy way of finding out puzzle solutions. The creators of Blue Prince credit Cyan (who made Myst), and it brings back that same feeling - there’s a massive amount going on here, with intriguing hints of story as well as fantastic puzzles, and it’s very satisfying when something finally works. Last night I entered room 46 (on day 28 of game time) but there’s a surprising amount left to do! It is a terrible game for the “just one more day” because a day can be over in 20 minutes if you have bad luck drafting rooms or can take nearly two hours if you find a lot of stuff, and I also now have all these notes about hints and clues and possible solutions to pore over. Recommended.
After that I played chunks of FFVII Intergrade (the Yuffie DLC) on hard mode and I haven’t finished it but I jumped back into FFVII Rebirth. I’m still on chapter 12 of this in hard mode, which is exactly where I was storywise in March, but I have now gone back and done all the side quests I’d missed earlier that you have to repeat on hard mode to unlock more character progression, as well as some of the mini games (aargh the mini games. There are too many and I don’t know if I’m ever going to get through some of them, like the pirate’s gallery shooting one and the gambit & gears hard mode games and, omg, the PIANO). Where I am now, though, I really need to unlock Götterdammerung to be able to make it through the next fights, and it’s locked behind a series of excessively tricky boss fights - the six Brutal Challenges. I have done four, again heavily relying on Optinooob, and they were painful slogs.
As a change of pace from repeated party wipes, I picked up Blue Prince, which is a puzzle-solving rogue-like centred around a mysterious mansion, and not only is it great but I have not yet died even once. You are the presumptive heir to the mansion, but to prove you deserve it, you have to find room 46 - the house is a 9 by 5 grid, every day you start in the entrance hall on the middle of the bottom row, and when you open a door you get a choice of possible floor plans to fill the next space - some of the rooms are dead ends, some have items or hints you need, some require specific resources to select them, some interact with other rooms, and some actively punish you by removing resources or limiting your subsequent choices. When I first got a PC, the game I totally fell for was Myst, a puzzle-solving world-building lore-heavy game with (for the time) amazing graphics, and I spent hours on it, not least because this was largely before the WWW and I had no easy way of finding out puzzle solutions. The creators of Blue Prince credit Cyan (who made Myst), and it brings back that same feeling - there’s a massive amount going on here, with intriguing hints of story as well as fantastic puzzles, and it’s very satisfying when something finally works. Last night I entered room 46 (on day 28 of game time) but there’s a surprising amount left to do! It is a terrible game for the “just one more day” because a day can be over in 20 minutes if you have bad luck drafting rooms or can take nearly two hours if you find a lot of stuff, and I also now have all these notes about hints and clues and possible solutions to pore over. Recommended.
В пост, как в море
Nov. 27th, 2025 08:57 pmmaiorova_feedЯ болею-таки, но в промежутке, когда багровое око поумерилось, а температура ещё не поднялась, успела сходить в универсам и покормить кошку Рибара. Рибар, живущая, как можно догадаться по имени, при рибарнице (рыбном магазине), мне не вышла, и вот почему: вокруг лавок и частного сектора прогуливалась жизнерадостная нарядная компания, в основном женская, и с чувством пела хором. Просто ходят люди и поют. К прохожим не пристают, денег не требуют. Хотя, если их спросят, то охотно пускаются в разговоры. Праздник, что ли, какой-то?
Дома со стены укоризненно смотрит православный календарь. Сегодня же Филипп, заговенье перед Рождественским постом, по-сербски Божићне покладе... Между прочим, в деревнях принято устраивать большой обед, жечь костёр и рядиться, как у нас на масленицу. Видик ряженых с трудом поддаётся описанию. Не дай Бог в тёмном переулке:
Но то в деревнях (я уже планирую турпоход). А в Белграде первый раз вижу, как Филиппа на улице празднуют. Напротив, всё, что я слышу о Филиппе, указывает на несчастность и неудачливость этого дня. Не положено устраивать свадьбы, заручины, кумство, побратимство, брать в долг, давать в долг, ничего строить ни в доме, ни вне дома, потому что все отношения, сложившиеся в этот день, — ненадолго. Некоторые укладываются спать в пижамах и рубашках наизнанку. А кое-кто верит, и это до сих пор, не этнографический курьёз, что сегодня вечером можно на весь год избавиться от ведьм и наносимого ими вреда. Для этого достаточно... перед сном натереть себе пятки чесноком.
А иду/вхожу в пост, как в море — национальная сербская поговорка, иллюстрирующая оасность и непредсказуемость поста.
Дома со стены укоризненно смотрит православный календарь. Сегодня же Филипп, заговенье перед Рождественским постом, по-сербски Божићне покладе... Между прочим, в деревнях принято устраивать большой обед, жечь костёр и рядиться, как у нас на масленицу. Видик ряженых с трудом поддаётся описанию. Не дай Бог в тёмном переулке:
Но то в деревнях (я уже планирую турпоход). А в Белграде первый раз вижу, как Филиппа на улице празднуют. Напротив, всё, что я слышу о Филиппе, указывает на несчастность и неудачливость этого дня. Не положено устраивать свадьбы, заручины, кумство, побратимство, брать в долг, давать в долг, ничего строить ни в доме, ни вне дома, потому что все отношения, сложившиеся в этот день, — ненадолго. Некоторые укладываются спать в пижамах и рубашках наизнанку. А кое-кто верит, и это до сих пор, не этнографический курьёз, что сегодня вечером можно на весь год избавиться от ведьм и наносимого ими вреда. Для этого достаточно... перед сном натереть себе пятки чесноком.
А иду/вхожу в пост, как в море — национальная сербская поговорка, иллюстрирующая оасность и непредсказуемость поста.
Art for "With the Rest I Dispense" (not entirely SFW)
Nov. 28th, 2025 12:10 pmmific posting in wipbigbangComplementary Work Title: Illustrations for "With the Rest I Dispense" by spurious (on AO3)
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: Mature
Warnings: none apply
Characters: Rodney McKay, Samantha Carter, John Sheppard
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Summary: When he’s seven years old, Rodney reads a short story in a pulp sci-fi magazine about a man who uploads his consciousness to a computer. When he’s thirty-eight, he very nearly lives it.
Notes: Art for spurious's amazing story for the WIP Big Bang. The artworks are embedded in the five chapters, and this is a link to the round-up post. It's been a blast!
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: Mature
Warnings: none apply
Characters: Rodney McKay, Samantha Carter, John Sheppard
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Summary: When he’s seven years old, Rodney reads a short story in a pulp sci-fi magazine about a man who uploads his consciousness to a computer. When he’s thirty-eight, he very nearly lives it.
Notes: Art for spurious's amazing story for the WIP Big Bang. The artworks are embedded in the five chapters, and this is a link to the round-up post. It's been a blast!