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Australian Songs I like

(posted by

alias_sqbr on Jun. 24th, 2025 05:36 pm)

Local radio station triple J is doing a Hottest 100 of Australian Songs, and I thought it would be fun to make a playlist of Australian songs, in roughly descending order of how much I like them, and then compile my ten votes from there. My actual vote included less white dudes/took into account what was already in the system etc. And I am sure if I made this list on a different day it'd have been different songs!

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UCC General Synod - Banned Books

(posted by

hermionesviolin on Jun. 23rd, 2025 08:14 pm)

I am skeptical about the utility of the Synod service project this year -- like, how effective is it necessarily to build a Banned Books Library in a church? (Last year's project -- putting together packs of menstrual hygiene products -- felt to me much more like we were doing something actually helpful.)

But am I gonna seed this service project by donating some banned books written by trans people? Probably.

(Speaking of supporting trans authors: The Transfeminine Review's Pride Month mutual aid drive)

There was a webinar this afternoon:

Join us to learn more about our General Synod service project this year focusing on creating Banned Book libraries in Kansas City and across our wider Church! We'll dive deeper into why banned book libraries matter, how to participate in this year's service project and how to create a banned book library in your congregation.

Synod this year is in Kansas City -- co-hosted by the Kansas-Oklahoma Conference and the Missouri Mid-South Conference (Missouri; Arkansas; and Memphis, Tennessee) -- and one of the panelists on the webinar (who's on the staff of the Missouri Mid-South Conference) said that Missouri is the #3 state in the country for the most banned books. I'm not sure where that stat comes from -- and if it means number of books banned or number of book bans (so, like, if Book A gets banned 10 times, does that count as 1 or 10), and if this is a cumulative total or for the last year or what -- but it does help suggest why this issue is so big for the Synod organizers. [Interestingly, I had just been on this banned book list from the project's toolkit, and Kansas is not on it at all. In fairness, it's a September 2023 article that says, "Reproduced here, the PEN list covers books that were banned or challenged during the first half of the 2022 school year—the most recent data available." So it's not the most comprehensive list. But still.]

On the subject of, "how effective is doing a Banned Book Library in your church?" excerpts from the chat during the webinar: ( Read more... )

Kakotheres

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minoanmiss on Jun. 23rd, 2025 08:12 pm)

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Winding down.

(posted by

hannah on Jun. 23rd, 2025 07:14 pm)

Putting myself to bed several hours early tonight to aim for enough sleep to be functional and present tomorrow. I'm going to pull out as many stops as possible to try to be asleep before 10PM. A long cold shower, a farmer's market tonic, everything I can manage.

Possibly even the AC for a little while.

It's made most of the afternoon and evening into a waiting game where I know I can't commit to much, and it's made it difficult to focus on small things - more than usual, at least. Most of my Wednesday plans are cooking and planning out the Andor panel discussion topics, and that's at least a little more pleasant to look forward to.

Team Nether: so many treasures

(posted by

schneefink on Jun. 23rd, 2025 06:34 pm)

The main gameplay phase of

mcytblraufest Battleship is over. Team Nether! *raises fist in triumph* We finished third (out of five teams), and we fully cleared all three boards, before work reveals even. I had such a great time on my team, with our two strider mascots Dirk Slow and Aragorn Steady. Massive props to the mods, everything ran very smoothly. In the first board every field had very cool flavor text even, and the bosses were very cool (we defeated the Wither Storm!)

I ended up with ten (!!!) gifts!
And I'm proud to say that despite that I reached my semi-serious goal of creating more gifts than I received. ~~Though if I get more treats after this I'll give up.~~ I've never received so many comments on one day as I did yesterday, it was great.

My wonderful gifts:
Sharp teeth and spring rain, Hermitcraft SMP
3.4k, Mumbo & Etho, fantasy AU, platonic kink
Summary: That anticipation, now cooled, mingled with fresh dread as the blank, flat space on the horizon tore open.
A thousand-year old dragon emerged from the void and blocked out the sun with his wings.
Mumbo gulped.
“Oh, Gem!” he fretted. “You expect me to dom that?”
Why I love it: Excellent premise, very cool worldbuilding, great character voices and development of their relationship.

Careful People, Hermitcraft SMP
1.3k, Cleo/Etho, cyberpunk AU post-divorce
Summary: "We'll be careful," says Etho.
"We're not careful people," Cleo reminds him.
"Maybe we know better now!"
Why I love it: I love the banter. Them. So divorced and yet.

( seven more shorter ones and one piece of art under the cut because this got long )

The three weeks of the event were very intense. Multifandom Battleship starts soon and I don't think I'll sign up for it even though I had a great time last year, but that'd be a bit too much.

And now, off to read more from the collections! All Ages and 18 Plus, almost 1.200 works in total already, and there are still almost two weeks of the anon period.

Oh Mickey You're So Fine

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minoanmiss on Jun. 22nd, 2025 11:05 pm)

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Uterus: yeeted

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bironic on Jun. 22nd, 2025 10:31 am)

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I took off work ’til the end of the month. My mom came for a week, my sister for almost a week, and now it’s “vacation” with daily-ish friend visits. I’m hoping my brain will permit playing around with a vid for some of the time. I have ideas for a show and a movie, neither of which I had any plans to vid until compelling songs presented themselves.

Music: Exit Music (For A Film) · Radiohead

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alias_sqbr on Jun. 22nd, 2025 08:07 pm)

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Cookery

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minoanmiss on Jun. 22nd, 2025 03:31 am)

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Poor Poor Pitiful Me

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minoanmiss on Jun. 22nd, 2025 04:15 am)

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Pet Peeve No More

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minoanmiss on Jun. 22nd, 2025 03:30 am)

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US Politics: John McCain finally gets his wish

(posted by

petra on Jun. 21st, 2025 11:38 pm)

If only the US gave more of a shit about separation of powers, which gives Congress the power to declare war. Congress.

Seems pretty straightforward to me as a thing the Constitution says POTUS can't fucking do.

I hope you didn't find out about the unprovoked attack on Iran by the US from a Destiel news meme.

Recommendation: sandbox environment by shamoosh (Murderbot books)

(posted by

petra on Jun. 21st, 2025 08:54 pm)

I devoured [Bad username or site: shamoosh @ archiveofourownorg]'s sandbox environment series, which is grade-A Murderbot/ART set post-System Collapse. I love the way they both need and achieve intimacy. The SecUnit voice is perfection; the ART is scheming and satisfactorily aware of so many things. The technology usage is excellent.

And SecUnit bluescreens over being asked to choose its own clothing.

Come for the great characterizations! Stay for the hysterically funny plot beats!

Vids that will never be: It's loud with the shopvac on

(posted by

petra on Jun. 21st, 2025 03:53 pm)

seascribble recommended a brilliant Murderbot series, shamoosh's sandbox environment, in which ART and Murderbot have all the Romantic feelings about each other. I got partway through it, flailing at the author and Sea the whole time, till I ran into:

My code didn’t literally hide me from ART’s sensors, not the way I edited myself out of security footage and erased my trail in lesser systems. ART was too complicated and too powerful for that to work for long. Instead I’d gotten my drones to emit basically white noise for all of ART’s sensors. It knew where I was because that was obvious, but everything else was just junk data, erratic nonsense. It didn’t need to be convincing, it just needed to not be—whatever I was feeling/doing at the time. My code had worked perfectly. Maybe too perfectly.

And then I started singing Jonathan Coulton's Shop Vac song (animated text video | lyrics).

Sea: There’s a vid there

Petra Lemaitre: I -- ack.
I'm not sure I WANT that song vidded for any fandom

Sea: It’s so catchy. It’s giving Obikin au

Petra Lemaitre: oh nooooo

Sea: Or honestly for the Anakin/padmé shippers who aren’t delusional
It’s very apt.

Petra Lemaitre: wails It's such a good awful song and now I have lightsabers = shop vac in my head
Padmé is watching the TV (democracy dying to thunderous applause)

Sea: RIPPPPP
I think it would also be a fun Perrin and Mon Mothma vid but you’d have to cut out a verse I think because of limited footage

And Sea suggested that, in lieu of the zillion brand names Star Wars can't be arsed to invent, we can ~~steal~~ borrow with permission the off-brands around us. Canada has its Aggressively Generic Stuff. Iran has its StarBox. Look around you: what a world of wonders!

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marina on Jun. 21st, 2025 09:03 pm)

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Recs

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nomelon on Jun. 21st, 2025 12:39 pm)

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Daylight hours.

(posted by

hannah on Jun. 20th, 2025 10:42 pm)

With Escapade panels going live this Solstice, it gives me room to plan about planning - I've made sure I don't have anything scheduled for this coming Wednesday, for example, so I expect that's when most of it's going to be happening. I'm hosting the Andor panel, so I'll start going through a few Tumblr and Dreamwidth accounts for meta posts, collecting conversation starters, and ask for help making slides if need be.

Much as I'm not looking forward to Tuesday, I'm very much looking forward to Tuesday night and having survived it. Hopefully it'll only be a long day in terms of hours.

Two dreamwidth community posts that may be of interest

(posted by

alias_sqbr on Jun. 21st, 2025 09:42 am)

disability and how it's portrayed in cnovels

2025 Summer Anime Season Preview

i think i need to be resocialized

(posted by

unfinishedidea on Jun. 19th, 2025 10:37 pm)

...hi: I have pretty much not been on any kind of social media at all for the past two years since twitter imploded the first time around. On the one hand, I think it's done wonders for my mental health. On the other hand, I miss being part of a fannish community.

If I'm really being honest with myself, though, I've never been terribly good at building and maintaining close friendships online or being consistently active in fandom, so it's definitely rose-tinted nostalgia.

gateway drugs: I have somehow in the year of our lord 2025 gotten into Generation Kill. Specifically, Brad/Nate. Listen, I don't even fucking know. It was huge among many of my mutuals when the show first came out, and I had zero interest in it at the time. All I can say is that it's The Pitt's fault (speaking of: yes, I did binge all of it; yes, I do ship Robby/Jack; yes, I'm a little appalled that I appear to be in the Old Man Yaoi phase of my fannish life).

I am sure a ton of good fic has either disappeared into the ether (insert obligatory complaint about how whoever said nothing dies on the internet has never tried to find old fic for a long dead fandom) or is in the bowels of LJ, so if anyone has any non-AO3 recs, 👀. I am devouring pretty much everything on AO3.

I still don't really have any interest in watching the show or reading any of the books, so we'll see how long this obsession lasts.

not quite like riding a bike: uhhh, what else. I want to write fic?

In all seriousness, I do, but I never developed healthy methods of writing. Most everything I've written that I've ended up posting has been completed in either bouts of hypomanic productivity or under extreme stress due to deadlines.

I have a bajillion WIPs that I haven't worked on for years. I've been flirting with the idea of posting some 75% completed fics on and off for a while. No promises, though.

and now for something completely different: I've been obsessively watching this dance choreo on repeat. It's enthralling, mostly likely due to some combination of the song, the chemistry between Sean & Kaycee, and Kaycee's performance in general.

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BTS drabble: uno y uno

(posted by

celli on Jun. 19th, 2025 10:33 pm)

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Australian Songs I like

UCC General Synod - Banned Books

Kakotheres

Winding down.

Team Nether: so many treasures

Oh Mickey You're So Fine

Uterus: yeeted

Music: Exit Music (For A Film) · Radiohead

Cookery

Poor Poor Pitiful Me

Pet Peeve No More

US Politics: John McCain finally gets his wish

Recommendation: sandbox environment by shamoosh (Murderbot books)

Vids that will never be: It's loud with the shopvac on

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Recs

Daylight hours.

Two dreamwidth community posts that may be of interest

i think i need to be resocialized

BTS drabble: uno y uno

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