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communal_creators is a creative challenge where you pledge to be creative for a certain amount of time daily OR to finish projects of varying size. We have writers, yarn artists, vidders, bakers, someone making music - if it's creative, it counts. The current round ended last night, so here is a recap of what I did during the month.

I had pledged Time Tier II, to average 30 minutes a day of creative activity. I didn't pledge to finish any projects, because most of projects were massive things that I likely couldn't complete in a month's time.

[Image Description: A screenshot of a spreadsheet, showing I averaged over an hour of creative activity daily during Communal Creators.]

Crochet saw the most activity, with Smallweb coming second. I crocheted on 20 days and touched 5 different projects. The majority of the work went to my Motion Picture Mosaic Cardi, which saw 13 hours of activity.

"Smallweb" was my moniker for work on my Neocities site. This saw a LOT of work in September because

smallweb September was happening and double-dipping on challenges? {Yes, please.} I did smallweb work on 12 days, with 8 of those being in September for 10 hours. Another 3.5 hours happened in October. This was the area that saw most success, I feel; I finished copying over files from Dreamwidth which meant FFBE season 1 is DONE. I also completed documentation for FFXI:Rise of the Zilart and started Chains of Promathia. I'm quite pleased with the work I did, though I need to get back to it if I ever want to finish the site.

Knitting was my third most active category. I knitted on 13 days, on 5 different projects. Most active was the Central Park Hoodie, which saw ~5 hours 40 minutes.

I am VERY PLEASED that some of my creative activity took the shape of writing, and that's thanks to

ladiesbingo. I worked on THREE different fics for it! That's so exciting to me! Alas, it quickly fell off, and I didn't touch the writing in the last two weeks. I'd really like to get back to it sometime, but finding time is the problem. Also, I need to do some canon review.

I feel this round of

communal_creators was a qualified success. I'm very pleased with my output. Thanks to

senmut for hosting!

Current Mood: creative

ysabetwordsmith

This cozy game replaces doom-scrolling with ocean exploring. Every creature you spot trains underwater robots in real time

A new cozy game, created by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, invites people to trade doom-scrolling for mini-games driven by ocean exploration.

Using underwater footage, FathomVerse trains players to spot and classify marine animals through a variety of minigames.

“The images you see in FathomVerse are real photos collected by ocean researchers,” the creators note on the game’s website.

This seems like an effective way to learn a lot about marine biology.

It reminds me very much of educational / science games in Terramagne. Can you imagine Aida Finn with this? Especially on a day when the weather wasn't conducive to diving in person.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

The German media show a systematic bias against the Palestinian struggle

In Germany today, as in many mediatized societies, our worldview is filtered through the media. But the media are not simply mirrors of reality. They are actors embedded in power structures, shaping what counts as truth, what can be said, and what must remain unspoken. As Herman and Chomsky taught decades ago, the media manufacture consent. And in the German case, when it comes to Palestine, that consent has for years helped consolidate Israel’s central objective: to secure as much land as possible with as few Palestinians as possible.

Current Mood: busy

conuly

I'm meh on the lyrics and music, but the video...! So here it is, with a couple of other videos that inexplicably got skipped last time I posted a lot of videos.

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( Fate of Ophelia )

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( Two covers of the same song )

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( Guinea pigs exit and enter the tube )

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( Ghost waltz )

ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy and warm.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches. Yesterday we saw a small flock of geese heading south.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/15/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 10/15/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 10/15/25 -- I planted 12 'Delft Blue Mix' grape hyacinths along the log garden in the house yard.

EDIT 10/15/25 -- I planted 25 iris reticulata around the house yard.

EDIT 10/15/25 -- I hauled out the hose to water the new picnic table and septic gardens.

EDIT 10/15/25 -- I watered the house yard plants and the old picnic table garden.

EDIT 10/15/25 -- I watered the telephone pole garden and savanna seedlings.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

conuly

Also, another one of our furnace pipes has developed a leak. Every time we fix one, the next one goes. I've patched this one, so with any luck (and with our keeping the heat pretty low) it should last until we can call in a plumber.

(Does anybody know a plumber who will accept payment in semi-feral kittens? There's a batch around the corner, very adorable, very healthy, and willing to warm up to anybody who feeds them! They do need to be just a little bit neutered, defleaed, and probably dewormed as well, not to mention vaxxed, but that's surely no big deal for the right family! Actually, I think it's two litters, so that should be ample payment for a little bit of plumbing work.)

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An age of joy – An interview with Charlie Toledo

Arwen Spicer: Based on your experience, how can an individual have an impact on healing our world?

Charlie Toledo: I think the most important thing is to focus on what you want to do. When you’re doing what you think you should do, that’s never going to be as successful as what you want to do, what you freely choose to do.

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tjs_whatnot

AHHHHHHHHHHH! I'M SO EXCITED! This is a placeholder! I will be back shortly!

ysabetwordsmith

Life is full of things which are hard or tedious or otherwise unpleasant that need doing anyhow. They help make the world go 'round, they improve skills, and they boost your sense of self-respect. But doing them still kinda sucks. It's all the more difficult to do those things when nobody appreciates it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our accomplishments and pat each other on the back.

What are some of the hard things you've done recently? What are some hard things you haven't gotten to yet, but need to do? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your hard things a little easier?

Current Mood: busy

andersenmom

Title: Steam(y) Reunion
Rating: T
Type: Fic
Size/length/word count etc.: 660
Prompt: 024: Ember
Fandom/Ship: Oneus; Kim Youngjo | Ravn / Yeo Hwanwoong
Notes/Warnings: None
Summary Youngjo wanted some time alone in the sauna. Turned out he welcomed the disruption.

( Youngjo just wanted something to make his brain stop )

Find the table with the list of fics here

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Rock - Stray Kids

andersenmom

Weekly Score: 59.4% (58/143)

Goal 1: Do Physical Therapy Exercises. 63% (70/111)

Review: The week started out really well. I didn't end up doing my physical therapy for the second half. I'm not even sure why, but it felt... like it was pointless, sort of. I treated Sunday as a reset, and am going to start over on Monday.

Goal 2: Take Care of Myself. 50% (12/24)

Review: I'm getting better at this. Sort of. In some ways. I'm still working on it.

Goal 3: Finish GYWO Build-a-Bingo and 100Ships. 38% (3/8)

Review: I really had a hard time with this. I couldn't write, and getting anything posted was even worse. I'll keep trying again this week.

Intentions for the future: G1: Doing my physical therapy doesn't seem to be helping, although it is, I know it is, I just have to keep remembering that. G2: This is the hardest one, and I'm still working on the whole self-sabotage I keep doing - like staying up late the night before I have something important scheduled. G3: I'm going to try to do at least one pom every day on writing.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Rock - Stray Kids

ysabetwordsmith

fuzzyred is running a pool for the half-price sale in Polychrome Heroics. Initial targets are the shorter poems in Shiv, but she's also interested in the Finn Family poems if anyone else is into that. If you're interested, comment on the pool page.

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Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Taste of Home Fall Baking: 275+ Breads, Pies, Cookies and More!
Paperback – September 13, 2022
by Taste of Home (Editor)

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randomarceus

Gotta admit, I'm not too keen on a world where every company ever attempts to shove AI into their products. "Google AI mode" "just ask chatGPT" "[x chatbot] knows the answer!" this is killing people's ability to research things for themselves.

Current Mood: frustrated

donutsweeper

( All Souls (TV), Vampire Gastelbrau (2011), 看見愛 | See Your Love (TV),雪迷宫 | The First Shot (TV) )

ysabetwordsmith

Today we went up to Champaign.

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estirose

I requested 5 and offered 12 fandoms. Had to bucket offer some.

I might add more fandoms/shift things around - I'm waiting for the Interactive Fiction post to see if there's any fandoms that appeal for IF before signups close. I had fun the first time doing IF and I'm hoping to stretch my wings with the IF stuff this year.

kaberett

did eventually get myself out to the plot (after aborting the first attempt and going back to bed when I realised I'd made it almost to the main road without my bike helmet). successfully acquired More Saffron.
cooked a lot of beetroot, most of which I grew, for dinner -- one of the books I acquired from Oxfam just for interest, The Modern Vegetarian, has a "textures of beetroot": keftedes, tzatziki, a bulgur pilaf and a salad using the greens. I had a mix of colours, and the ombre gold-to-pink were very pretty in the salad. (and picking over the leaves very, very carefully yielded a tiny snail! who is now in the viv.)
I am continuing very slowly on the mend from the probably-a-cold from nearly a month ago: today I didn't get any active minutes walking up and down inside the house to hit step goal.
the post brought Fancy Chocolate. even some of it is Fancy Chocolate in my preferred flavour of same!
I have somehow achieved having my accounts almost agree with reality about how much cash is in my wallet! and I think I've found the remains of at least one Missing Receipt in the back pocket of a set of trousers, which does at least provide an explanation. it is very satisfying when I actually manage this.

dhampyresa

*plays La Marseillaise on the kazoo*

ysabetwordsmith

Today is mostly sunny and warm.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches. I heard a squirrel chattering but didn't see it.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/14/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

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