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This turned up in response to

bleodswean's excellent prompt for a poem re cherished plot bunnies/characters who have not made it into fic yet.

I never plan anything I write. It appears in my head. This is why I like blank screens, no company, no music, no noise when I write. The writing just comes to me, and very often, almost always, characters are there who start to tell me what happened to them, or I just know it, write it out of the muddle, and afterwards go back to fill in holes and details.

They just appear.
Waving to me across the road.
The plot never arrives ahead
They drag that stuff behind, saying
'Whatever you thought it was, it's something else.
Whoever you thought I was, that wasn't me.
I was waiting here in the flood
I was hanging in the water
And some say I drowned but you,
you saw me when I looked up.
Yes you saw me and that's why
I'm here, we're all here.'

Now the boy I never made
was a doll of roots and powders
Hurricane Katrina took him
But his soul was not for leaving.
Pen down, you're not mine I said.
His words; 'you'll find me in that hospital.'
I told him I wasn't looking.
His words, 'you'll find me on that street.'
I told him I wasn't walking.
He said 'I'll come to you then.'
And here I am
And here he is too.

poliphilo

So here, by popular (?) request is a picture of me in my hoodie.

The hoodie is made by Saltrock- a company founded in the 80s by surfer dudes for surfer dudes. It started with two South African brothers selling T shirts from the back of a van in Penzance. It grew, it went into administration, it came out of administration. There are shops across the South of England, with two in Sussex- one in Worthing and one here in Eastbourne.

The label says, "Designed in England, Made in Bangladesh". Well, we all know what that's about.

Entrepreneurship is cool, capitalism less so.

The hoodie is made by Saltrock- a company founded in the 80s by surfer dudes for surfer dudes. It started with two South African brothers selling T shirts from the back of a van in Penzance. It grew, it went into administration, it came out of administration. There are shops across the South of England, with two in Sussex- one in Worthing and one here in Eastbourne.

The label says, "Designed in England, Made in Bangladesh". Well, we all know what that's about.

Entrepreneurship is cool, capitalism less so.

poliphilo

I've read that most of the imagery coming out of the war in the middle east is AI.

Well, yes, it would be.

Alexander Gardner, who documented the battlefields of the American Civil War, wasn't above rearranging corpses for effect- or even transporting them from one location to another. I have stereographs from the Great War which were shot in situ but with the participants posed (and in comparative safety.) The famous, statuesque photograph of the marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima was a posed reenactment of something that had happened earlier in the day.

Ever since photography was invented it has been lying to us. And before photography there was a guy with a pencil.....

AI is just another tool in the hands of the image-makers and propagandists.

AI gets better and better, of course, more and more convincing. You have to get pretty forensic on a good AI image to prove it a fake.

I came across a cool Latin tag the other day that means something like "Don't take anything on trust" and now I can't find it again. Bother, bang goes an opportunity to impress! I asked Google and it directed me to site after site listing Latin phrases you might want to have inked on your skin- and really I didn't have the patience, the stickability to scroll through them all.

So, please take it on trust that the Romans recognised the problem. You see that triumphal column? Don't believe everything that's carved on it!

sonofgodzilla

Iwasaki Moeka passed the Team 8 auditions in 2014 alongside her peers, Abe Mei, Okabe Rin, Okubora Chinatsu, Nagano Serika, Fujimura Natsuki, Onishi Momoka, Kuranoo Narumi, Shitao Miu, Cho Kurena, Hamamatsu Riona, Fukuchi Rena, Honda Hitomi, Yokomichi Yuri, the other Yokoyama Yui, Yoshino Miyu, Oda Erina, Oguri Yui, Yoshikawa Nanase, Hayasaka Tsumugi, Hirose Natsuki, and Yaguchi Moka. Unlike so many of the members we have covered already who saw their debut at the SKE48 or HKT48 theatres, Moetan's first appearance was actually in Akihabara, in the famous theatre at the top of the Don Quijote store and the two floors of arcades sandwiched in-between them... though I can't actually remember if those arcades would have been there in 2014. I get the feeling that at that time the building was all still Don Quijote all the way up, but I can't say for sure. I digress! Moetan debuted! The Team 8 revival of PARTY ga Hajumaru yo was the stage! Two years to the day after, she graduated!

Wait, what?

Moetan!

Even during the Team 8 era, it's sometimes tempting to think of AKB48 during these years as mandatory military service, yet if we entertain the idea that someone can become a ghost whilst still living, then to this day, Moetan is definitely haunting the AKB theatre. Maybe. Born in 2000, a true Millennial, Moetan was also the first ever member of AKB48 to be born in Nagasaki Prefecture, a testament to how far reaching the popularity of AKB had become at the moment, the group being a true national institution at this point. In keeping with the idea of AKB being so all encompassing at the time, Moetan never actually planned to audition at all, but rather her mother and sister sent in an application for her and she only discovered two days before the big event! It's kind of cute imagining Moetan being completely oblivious to everything, sitting there talking about her admiration for Watanabe Mayu and then suddenly finding herself thrust on stage with a real shot of following in Mayuyu's footsteps.

If there's one thing I like about Moetan, it's how enthusiastic she was regarding the members that were important to her. She was always talking about how much she loved Mayuyu and fellow Team 8 member, Shimoaoki Karin, how much she loved HKT48's Moriyasu Madoka, also from Nagasaki Prefecture. You don't need me to explain to you how adorable Moetan was during her time in AKB, she's more than capable of conveying that herself:

Moetan!

The gap between the idea of AKB48 as this coming-of-age-rite-of-passage and the pressure of real life is never more telling than in Moetan's story, however. In early April of 2016, Moetan announced that she had been accepted for her first choice of high school and really wanted to push forward towards her dream of one day become a doctor. To make this all the more tragic though, a day after this announcement, she was hospitalised with influenza and was unable to graduate properly, her name being quietly removed from the books without her ever being able to properly say good-bye. Ah, physician heal thyself, eh, Moetan? And yet, at the same time, it's easy to imagine how Moetan might want to haunt the theatre for the rest of her days. Good news though! In 2019, in Osaka, Moetan came back even if only for that concert! Joining Nacchan and Pena, Moetan finally got to say her good-byes.

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Current Music: Twilight - A Flood of Eyes

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March 23-27 is Lonely Prompts Week and it will be a challenge week!

In the past, we used to have a "winner" who completed the most fills every day, and at the end of the week, we'd announce an overall winner. But this time around, we're doing things differently! There are no winners or “losers”, just prompts that have been filled. At the end of the week, we'll be sharing a round-up post of all the lonely prompts that have been filled.

Wednesday’s Theme: 10 sentence fills

More Information: All fills must be 10 sentences.

Please number your fills when leaving more than one in a comment. This helps me when I'm ready to count them up.

To find those elusive Lonely Prompts, you can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].

While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

To get things going, a few rules that I ask you all to follow.

1. You can only request five prompts to be filled.
2. You can request no more than three prompts from the same fandom.
3. You can, however, fill as many prompts as you'd like!
4. In the subject line, be sure to say whether this is a request or a fill!
5. You must link back to whatever the prompt is in the community logs (whether filling or requesting it be filled), and, if you're filling the prompt, please complete the fill as a response to the original prompt.
6. If you are filling an "any/any" prompt, please let us know what fandom (or, if original, say so!) you're using for the response.
7. If you filled any lonely prompts earlier this week, this is the place to share them!
8. Finally, we now have a community at AO3. If you have an AO3 account, please post your fills there. More information on how to do this is located at this link.

How to link:

[a href="http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/449155.html?thread=70682755#t70682755">MCU, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, She's wearing daisy dukes and one of his button-down shirts.[/a]
(change the brackets to "<" and ">" respectively)

or:

http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/139897.html?thread=30155641#t30155641
Burn Notice, Sam/Michael/Fi, "It's always been you. And it's always gonna be you."

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All I did yesterday was hem pants. I finished the last pair just before bed. Whew. They are all now in the wash. A totally done deal. Yeah.

Today it will be back to knitting. And yeah for that.

The pool was back to normal warm this morning which was delightful. Tomorrow's laps will be way better than yesterday's for sure. Two of our regular players are out for a few games so there weren't so many of us but we had a good time anyway.

I got the text yesterday to refill my Wegovy for the last time. Last time, that is, before my doctor check in. And then we decide whether to up the dosage or not. Honestly, I can go either way. I'm not sure I need a higher dose but then I wasn't at all sure I needed this in the first place and I was sure wrong there. So, whatever the doctor wants to do is fine by me.

I think I'll make a quick trip to Trader Joe's today. I have 3 things on my TJ list. Also it's house cleaning day.

Ok, laundry done. Everything put away. No newspapers today. I don't know if that's a newspaper issue or a Timber Ridge issue. It would annoy me if I were a regular but I'm not so whatever.

Oh Biggie is up here to cause trouble which means he wants something to eat. Guess I'll get going on the rest of my day.

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In an interview, Seth MacFarlane said that he created The Orville because “the dishes that we are serving up are so dystopian and so pessimistic.”

Do we need hopeful television? Can dystopian television be hopeful? Which shows are hopeful to you?

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For All Mankind's fifth season starts on Friday, March 27. Just announced is that the show has been renewed for a 6th and final season. This will allow it to catch up to its version of the present day.

Info from Reactor Magazine

Note -- the article says the 5th season lands on March 29. That is incorrect -- it's the 27th.

summersgate

These might be my next art-a-days. Drying in front of a fan. I printed them off and brushed clear acrylic over them. Now I'm actually liking that the clear acrylic picks up and smears the ink. I'm thinking it adds more blurring and artifacts so it's already not just a photo anymore.

I always keep the gate to my studio room closed to animals. They can come in by invitation only. I had to start that after Milo was using this room as a bathroom. I didn't know it for a while and the carpet was soaked by the time I discovered it. Anyway Skye was at the gate this morning asking to come in. She hasn't done that for a long time. She used to like to get up on the table at the window and watch the bird feeder. But she's become so weak she can't get up by herself anymore. I needed to lift her up and take her down. But our silent communications seem better now. When I heard her mewing at the gate this morning I knew exactly what she wanted (to be on the table) and she understood that I was going to lift her (no avoidance of that). Another instance is when I need to give her a pill before mealtimes. That has become a solid routine that she accepts now. Sitting on my lap and having me pop a pill down her throat. When I do it right and put it far enough back we're both pleased and look at each other in satisfaction for a long moment before I put her back down on the floor.

smokingboot

Well gosh. That got difficult.

Watching Landman which we've been thoroughly enjoying. And then in season 2 something happens which immediately caused a problem.

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There's probably some useful lessons in there somewhere.

Maybe I wouldn't have been as easily shaken had I not been in this odd not-quite-hypnogogic state recently. However, this is the second PTSD experience I have had this year, so I need to be careful. It is better, almost healed, but I mustn't push it.

Anyway, leaving that aside, Landman is fun, so much fun it wouldn't surprise me if it contributes towards R's interest in visiting Texas. I know he's up for Austin, but he wants lots of live music while I'm a bit more interested in the amazing book festival mentioned by

mallorys_camera. Places of interest include Austin, San Antonio, Amarillo and surrounds, Palo Duro or maybe even Big Bend with the Rio Grande. I almost want to see Marfa, but if the lights don't turn up I can't imagine it would interest R at all. I don't think he's seen a James Dean film in his life.

Anyway, maybe now is not the best time for that plan. Let's see how the world and the West settles.

poliphilo

I wanted a jacket. Or possibly a blazer.

We went through several shops. They had very little in the way of jackets or blazers. Mainly they had jackets that were the top half of suits. And mostly these were in shades of grey....

So where are all the striped blazers like they wore in the 1920s?

Erm, maybe they went out of fashion 100 years ago....

Out on the street I looked at what men were wearing. Mostly they were wearing hoodies. I just hadn't noticed before.

(Guess I just don't look that closely at men)

So I went into another shop thinking, "hoodies, hoodies, hoodies....." and came out with two.

The one I'm wearing right now is green and has a viper on the front....

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March 23-27 is Lonely Prompts Week and it will be a challenge week!

In the past, we used to have a "winner" who completed the most fills every day, and at the end of the week, we'd announce an overall winner. But this time around, we're doing things differently! There are no winners or “losers”, just prompts that have been filled. At the end of the week, we'll be sharing a round-up post of all the lonely prompts that have been filled.

Tuesday’s Theme: Write a fill that features a communal meal.

More Information: A communal meal is never just about food; it’s about the people who gather, the stories shared, and the unspoken bonds that form across the table. For this prompt, write a fic that centers on a shared meal where multiple characters come together, whether for celebration, comfort, tradition, or necessity. The meal can be carefully planned or thrown together last-minute, joyful or tense, familiar or filled with strangers.

Please number your fills when leaving more than one in a comment. This helps me when I'm ready to count them up.

To find those elusive Lonely Prompts, you can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].

While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

To get things going, a few rules that I ask you all to follow.

1. You can only request five prompts to be filled.
2. You can request no more than three prompts from the same fandom.
3. You can, however, fill as many prompts as you'd like!
4. In the subject line, be sure to say whether this is a request or a fill!
5. You must link back to whatever the prompt is in the community logs (whether filling or requesting it be filled), and, if you're filling the prompt, please complete the fill as a response to the original prompt.
6. If you are filling an "any/any" prompt, please let us know what fandom (or, if original, say so!) you're using for the response.
7. If you filled any lonely prompts earlier this week, this is the place to share them!
8. Finally, we now have a community at AO3. If you have an AO3 account, please post your fills there. More information on how to do this is located at this link.

How to link:

[a href="http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/449155.html?thread=70682755#t70682755">MCU, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, She's wearing daisy dukes and one of his button-down shirts.[/a]
(change the brackets to "<" and ">" respectively)

or:

http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/139897.html?thread=30155641#t30155641
Burn Notice, Sam/Michael/Fi, "It's always been you. And it's always gonna be you."

HAPPY REQUESTING/WRITING/FILLING!

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Hi all! Since we only have two fills this week, we won't hold a voting round. Instead, feel free to post any last-minute fills you might happen to come up with! Your next challenge will be up at the usual time on Wednesday.

summersgate

Feeding Time. Just now finished dabbing some acrylic markers on this one when I got home from the trip to see Candy's brother in law Pat in Olean. Pat was glad to hear about the idea of using his own photos and markers to overpaint the photos. He'd tried Bob Ross painting but was frustrated and had given up. He had problems controlling the brush (the Bob Ross way) and liked the idea of using markers instead. It made me feel good that I could promote an alternative method.

A cold day today. There was freezing rain encasing the tops of the trees as we crossed the mountain just before we got to Olean but the roads were good. It's a 2 and a half hour trip but beautiful scenery most the time. Allegheny National Forest and the Allegheny River. I was remembering how Dad always used to take us on a Kinzua Dam trip every year after John got hurt just as a way to have a nice drive. Though I think we probably went by way of Tionesta rather than Titusville like Candy went today. Another regular trip was to Cooks Forest every summer.

I'm planning a trip to Pittsburgh to pick up Hazel on Wednesday morning. I'm going to drive myself this time. Usually Jules drives and we go on the weekend or in the evening. Possibly Dave might want to drive, if he doesn't decide to go fishing instead. That's what he was talking about before. I hate interstate driving and big city driving, especially Pittsburgh with its hills and roads like spaghetti. I'll be working on braving myself up.

I had a long crazy dream last night about taking a refrigerator to Pittsburgh on my electric bike. Dave had bought the fridge but it didn't work and he wanted me to return it. Somehow he was able to fold the fridge into a a little package the size of a book and I put it in the basket that was behind my seat on the bike. I also took Chloe with me. She was a little girl and sat in the basket too. We had to go through town where there was a big crowd of people blocking the main street. Traffic was directed to go around but I thought that since I had a bike I would be able to thread through the people. And I did. We continued our trip to Pittsburgh. There was a steep snow covered mountain that I needed to go up and the tires were slipping so I was pushing the bike up. As we were nearing the top I saw that there was an avalanche of snow falling off the top of the mountain and going down the other side. There was a hole through the mountain and I could see the snow fall into a big lake. I could hear it too - it made a big kerspush sound. There was snow and tires and people who were injured floating in the lake. A bunch of people were on the shore with doctors and nurses helping them. The hole I was looking through to the other side of the mountain was weird in that it was about 2 feet in diameter (like a window) and the other side of the mountain was only a few feet away. A person on the other side said that they needed people who knew how to remove stitches. I knew that I could do this but I didn't want to so I said that I didn't know how. I didn't want to go any farther on this trip. I turned the bike around and we sped down the hill home. I knew Dave could take the fridge back later himself.

I think I was able to remember so many details because when I woke up I got my phone and dictated all this stuff into an email that I sent to myself. I didn't have time to write it down at the time but just by dictating I was able to remember better. Dave just now asked me who I was talking to this morning. I told him I was telling this dream to my phone.

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* crazy xbone hardening / hacking talk to listen to ... so much of the tech stack went over my head but i had an awesome time listening to this at a work lunch break. i'm a lil' more familiar with the "red team" circles here but the amount of detail it takes to harden a machine in "assumed" malicious hands is awe inspiring.

* persona (former discord ID contractor) surveilance whistleblower has an interesting writeup of the fallout of the leak. also interesting to see how the various players handled said fallout, whether poorly or decently.

* "the biggest difference between a dog and a wolf is the way they look at you." cool af blog post musing.

* technically a gaming issue but a very very thoughtful rundown / experience on what it was like to face a copyright troll (and win)

* ez android adblocker without having to download any extra apps/stuff (been using it for the last few weeks)

* https://delphi.tools/ neat grab bag of common tools every machine/designer should have; says they're privacy focused. file converter software, background remover, vectorizer, gradient generator, etc.

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