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As I was working on the LJ project, I came across various icon resources that were hosted on DA (textures, brushes, etc.). And of course, all the pretty icons are making me want to play around with icon making once again, so I decided to start collecting them (since I only have a smattering of things from 20 years ago when I last made icons).

However, I found that in order to download, not only are accounts required - but they recently implemented a ridiculously restrictive limit of 10 free downloads a week (though that number goes up to 150 *if* you pay for Core+). The comments on the news post about it are absolutely scathing, and blow apart any idea that the new rules are for anything but a money grab. (They blame users downloading thousands and thousands of downloads, but there are LOTS of other and better ways to thwart AI scraping, and large numbers of active users naturally download larger amounts than 10 in a single week, despite their claim that this won't affect people.)

While right-clicking still works for any actual artwork (though you'll only get the original full-size if the artist set it to display), and gallery-dl can handle that sort of thing in bulk, the side effect of this limit is that anyone looking to download packs of images - like sprite packs, folder images, or (like me) icon making resources - is now extremely hampered in what we can get. A single artist with over a hundred resource packs will now take several months to download all their work.

I've tried reaching out to some artists, and the one that responded was happy to upload all their stuff to my MegaDrop folder, but others may not check their email, have lost access to the email in question, have passed away, etc.

Which brings me to my question: Does anyone reading this know of anywhere that people are pooling their DA stashes? Or collaborating to save art they're mutually interested in? If two users want the same 20 zips, for instance, they can split them up and each download 10, then share their copies with each other to maximize what they can get. Add a few more in the pool and the potential really goes up.

I'd love to work on something like that but don't know where to start, and I'd first like to find out if someone is already doing it. I'm told that sort of discussion is likely to happen on Tumblr but as I don't use Tumblr… can't really ask there. Anyone?

EDIT: I'm starting to reach out for help at least with the resources I'd like to get. If you'd like to help me, comment and let me know. Anonymous comments on this entry are screened so you can leave an email address to contact; otherwise I'll DM you. It's literally 5 minutes a week of your time, and not difficult at all.

EDIT #2: A very kind and helpful volunteer gifted me Core so I now have the 150 downloads per week. Still going to run out of it easily, with everything I'm running across - but the point of this is to also help anyone who wants them but has no download slots left, so that means I'll now have more I can share with others.

sanguinity

Back in 2014 I published a fusion of Elementary and Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century called "Persistence of Memory." It was always meant to be a longer story, but because of the urgency of due dates (it was written for the

holmestice exchange), it was necessary to publish the first chapter as a stand-alone.

Which worked fine. Over the next little while I wrote a second chapter, and bits and bobs of a third, before laying it aside for other writing projects. Except for some excerpts on tumblr, I never published any of the continuation, wanting to wait until the whole thing was finished.

Now, twelve years later, it seems silly to have that second chapter just sitting in my WIP file, unavailable to people who might care about it.

Perseverance

Elementary x Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
Joan, Sherlock, Robo!Watson
Fusion, Angst, Wrong Watson Feelings
~9000 words, Gen, No warnings apply.

Joan Watson has had her life ripped out from under her, a kidnapping and cryosleep marooning her in the twenty-second century. At least Sherlock is here—and, due to some blackly humorous twist of fate, so is Jamie Moriarty.

And so is a compudroid that calls itself Watson.

Joan rebuilds her life from the ashes. And maybe catches an international criminal mastermind along the way.

A couple of notes:

This will not make sense without having read "Persistence of Memory" first.
This is very much a work in progress: updates will happen whenever they happen, and I make no guarantees of completion.

That said, most nights I'm watching a double feature of a SH22C episode and an Elementary episode, and in the last couple of weeks I've written new words on chapter three (or what will be chapter two of Perseverance). The main obstacle to finishing this was my main obstacle twelve years ago: I've got to work out a bloody casefic for it. That said, I've written a handful of casefic in the last decade, so I know more now about how to do that than I did then. So we'll see how it goes!

desertvixen

The final placeholder :(

ysobel

just haven't had much to say :)

I've been loving everything about Artemis II. The photos are gorgeous, the crew seems awesome, and the whole thing is so ding-dang wholesome.

Ear continues healing; I have no idea what it will look like in the end. Or whether the ear canal will go back to holding earbuds in, or if I have to figure out an alternative. (Right now earbuds go in fine but slide out within ten minutes.)

Migraines are stupid and I hate them.

desertvixen

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beatrice_otter

I use the same name everywhere so I am

beatrice_otter on AO3. Treats are awesome.

I would rather get a story you were happy with than "well, she said she liked x, so I guess I have to do x even though I don't like x and/or am not inspired that way." This letter is long with lots of suggestions and preferences if you find it helpful, but feel free to ignore it if it is not helpful. I'm fairly easy to please; I've been doing ficathons for a long time and am usually very happy with my gifts.

The most important thing for me in a fic is that the characters are well-written and recognizably themselves. Even when I don't like a character, I don't go in for character-bashing. If nothing else, if the rest of this letter is too much or my kinks don't fit yours, just concentrate on writing a story with everyone in character and good spelling and grammar and I will almost certainly love what you come up with.

I have an embarrassment squick, which makes humor kind of hit-or-miss sometimes. The kind of humor where someone does something embarrassing and the audience is laughing at them makes me uncomfortable. On the other hand, the kind of humor where the audience is laughing with the characters I really enjoy.

( General Likes and Dislikes )

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jadelennox

So! Some people went around the moon! And are on their way back!

I know the live video feed was super compressed and low-res intentionally, but I hope there is high-res eclipse footage when they land.

Also I know returning to the moon is not necessarily the best use of limited resources from a science perspective, but (one) I want people to feel aspirational about people doing science in space again, so we're not just getting press about billionaire assholes who want to, I dunno, put a casino in orbit around venus; and (two) this was all a mission by and for The People. This isn't a damn SpaceX or Blue Origins launch, this is NASA (with an assist from ESA and CSA).

I am going to love good things when they happen and space is a good thing.

Current Music: Pink Floyd, Brain Damage

seekingferret

Revenge Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

The second movie comes out next month... The Devil Wears Prada 2: Maybe This One is Jewish?

I mean, scriptwriter Aline Brosh McKenna said in an interview a decade ago that she had wanted to make the first movie Jewish but in early 2000s Hollywood that was unthinkable. So maybe this time is different? lololol of course not.

Anyway in preparation, I checked out Weisberger's sequel, which is set 10 years after the first one and is even more subliminally Jewish because Andy has made herself even more subliminally Jewish. She has dumped her Jewish boyfriend Alex from the first book and marries Max, a WASP millionaire who went to Duke and Harvard Business school.

Andy is a culinary Jew and one of the quiet coded ways Weisberger suggests marrying Max is a mistake is with very subtle culinary signifiers. When she is hanging with Jewish BFF Lily they eat rugelach, when she is commiserating with her mother they talk about the Federation luncheon in the City. But her first date with Max is eating steamers. And when she is in Max's world there are shrimp and crabs galore. Weisberger never uses the word Jewish in Revenge Wears Prada, but at some deep inchoate level culinary Jews are still Jews. They feel the wrongness of the shrimp in their bones even as they eat them by the pound.

Max does step on a glass at their wedding, but it's buried in the middle of a paragraph that starts "The rest of the ceremony was a blur". It's a signifier that in marrying a non-Jew she is drifting further away from her authentic self.

They have a fight over an insistence that she change her last name from Sachs to Harrison upon marriage. She likes the idea of sharing a name with her husband, but Sachs *means* something to Andy in a way she cannot put words to. The final compromise is that she will change her name but continue to use Sachs professionally. Her body physically rebels against the idea of losing her Jewish name; her mind tells her she's being irrational but her body wins. Of course, Miranda waged the same battle decades earlier and rejected her Jewish name... the whole point of Revenge in the book's title is not quite Revenge, but it is a sort of repetition. Andy will once again get the opportunity to work for Miranda and she will have to decide if she is the same person she was a decade earlier, or if she has become a better, stronger, more moral person.

And in the end, her Jewishness wins. She divorces the WASP after he betrays her ambitions for his own (and she frames it in generational tribal terms: what Max has truly betrayed is Andy's ability to transmit her values to her daughter) and the final chapter is swathed in the signifiers of her return to the fold: all of the food of her grandmother's shiva, to start, as a hint that she is finally ready to return to Alex, her Jewish ex-boyfriend and true love.

mkrobinson

spring_renewal is open for prompting from now until April 10th. The prompting post can be found here. Join me!

duskpeterson

ONLINE E-BOOK (html, epub, mobi, pdf, and xhtml)

Free at my website.

The Motley Crew (The Thousand Nations). When a young man named Dolan flees from the north, he faces danger on all sides. The Northern Army wants him back. The Empire of Emor wants him dead. His native homeland of Koretia may not want him at all. And his only protection is a man with motives that are mysterious and possibly deadly.

New installment:

Side story | Dangerous Games. Dangerous games benefit dangerous men . . . unless those games are played with leaders of dangerous men.

REISSUE

Already available free at my website, this omnibus is now also available at AO3, SqWA, Ream, and online bookstores.

Blood Vow (The Three Lands). He has taken a blood vow to the Jackal God to bring freedom to his land by killing Koretia's greatest enemy. But what will he do when the enemy becomes his friend?

BLOG FICTION

Tempestuous Tours (Crossing Worlds: A Visitor's Guide to the Three Lands #2). A whirlwind tour of the sites in the Three Lands that are most steeped in history, culture, and the occasional pickpocket.

New installments:

History of the Chara's palace.

The Chara's court.

Enthronement of the Chara.

REVIEWS OF MY FICTION

Speculative fiction writer Jennifer R. Povey posted reviews of all six of my Three Lands novels in the space of less than three weeks. Occasional spoilers.

UPCOMING FICTION

Some of you may have noticed that I updated my website early this time. That was because I was uncertain when I would regain the ability to upload web pages, after my transfer to a new webhost. Thankfully, the transfer went smoothly, with no downtime for my website.

Also, I'm posting this update a day early because I'll be watching Artemis II tomorrow afternoon. :)

My next release will be the final part of the novel The Motley Crew: "Apprehended Ambassador."

My fiction announcements are also available by e-mail and feeds.

desertvixen

Prevention of usurpation while I finish errands!

Report in on your words!

fawatson

FRANK SIDNEY WATSON

Born in 1911, he died in 1999, just short of his 88th birthday. Unremembered now by anyone except family; most of his contemporaries died before him and all the rest have died since. He was an exceptional person, who knew many other exceptional people, all better known than he was.

( Read )

dhampyresa

What's the proportion of sluts vs non-sluts in Hamlet?

Call that the ho ratio.

suzy_queue

My nerves are shottttttttttt, ha. Last night I noticed a drip from my freezer, but it seemed fine. A few hours later I went to grab an ice cream sandwich, and it was MUSH. And so was everything else in my freezer. I tested a cup of water from my pitcher in the fridge, which seemed cool enough, but that was not the case this morning. So I had to take the afternoon off, throw out three bags of food, including yesterday's delivery, and put in an ASAP ticket for a new fridge. It is possible that it's something fixable, but honestly--it's from February 1986. It's older than my brother. It has celebrated its 40th birthday. It's time.

But the stress means I haven't eaten a lot today, plus the fact that the food I wanted to eat has been thrown out, and my desk partner called out sick again. So I am solo on desk until 9 and I am super overstimulated and half a beat from bursting into tears. yay.

I had already hit a wall Tuesday afternoon after surprise being on the desk solo for 3 hours during a rainy spring break morning, and would have taken yesterday off if I hadn't had a program. So I was already on edge. I stopped at Walgreens before work to get birthday cards for my dad, coffee to drink at work in the morning, and a frozen dinner, but because I am solo, I don't have a break, so I keep having to sneak back there--to heat it up, now it's cooling down, and then eventually I'll sneak back to eat it.

Last weekend was c2e2, which was fun but a lot. I haven't had the energy or motivation to put together a cosplay for the first time in ten years, but I got great comments on the Rozanov jersey and Read Romance Fight Patriarchy shirts I wore, so that was nice. I also knew walking was going to be a challenge--I've still only walked to work maybe five times in the last 14 months, and the last time I walked at lunch, I went less than a mile and still came back fatigued and sore. But I think I did well--I took Tylenol before going both days, and after we got back on day 2. Instead of walking each aisle and crisscrossing back and forth several times, usually around 6 miles, I only did the aisles once on Friday, 3 miles, and only hit a few specific booths on Saturday. So while I was tired on Sunday, it wasn't egregious.

Not as much cosplay or cosplay that I recognized this year, but I did enjoy seeing a resurgence of Squirrel Girls, and several varieties of Peggy/Captain Carter. I was really surprised to only see a handful of K-Pop Demon Hunters, and there wasn't really a standout fandom of the year. There were several of us in Heated Rivalry related shirts, but no one tried a cosplay. I think Ilya's red flowered shirt would be a fun one, ha.

I did stress buy a fair amount of HR merch, but half of what was there was very anime style. I like my big, hot, muscular hockey players, and don't really want them looking like tiny twinks, so that limited things. But I got some art, a shirt and sweatshirt, some charms to hang on my fandom tree, a coaster, and stickers, plus some non-fandom tea, Robin Buckley perfume, and a Sexy Girls Read notebook, so a pretty great haul overall.

Last week I had a check in with my doctor, where I was going to talk to her about how my meds feel off and my Vyvanse isn't helping like it used to (I think the dose is too high, actually), and we had to reschedule because she was sick. Sad frowny faces. My mood has been low, my energy lower, and it's been a rough few months. The time change did help, at least.

So does DnD! Last week was absolutely AMAZING. We learned a ton of lore about the world and my character--like her mom is at least 2000 years old and her brother was the knight of the main angel in the creation story of our world. And we rescued my best friend!! Which was the mission, but there's still a few days left until the adventure is over. Which could be a few months of playing, ha. I think I will be continuing on after my arc is done--the GM really likes having a character who dives into things and asks blunt questions and doesn't overthink everything, and likes BE specifically. But we also have 9 players now, so I know that that's a lot for them to handle! But it's still so much fun for me, and if it's fun for them then why not, I think.

I'm glad it's been going so well and is so much fun, because it's also the only creativity I currently seem capable of, ha. I really want to write, but the rare times I have the energy/motivation/dopamine to sit at the computer, my mind goes blank. I think I really need a full mental and physical reset, and I'm not sure how or when that will be possible. I hope I can figure it out soon.

And that I have a working fridge sooner rather than later.

Current Mood: exhausted

tellshannon815

Graphic novel or comic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232479447-fate
No sex/romance: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77661.The_Daughter_of_Time
Novella: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201750645-queen-b
First person POV: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60556912-the-housemaid
YA/Children's: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244215822-the-obsession
Figures without facial features on the cover: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58601515-lies-like-wildfire
Book made into a film or TV series: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49078674-playing-nice
Job/profession in the title: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198218463-the-teacher
Main character over the age of 30: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410445.T_is_for_Trespass
An author's debut/first book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205650368-the-ministry-of-time

Substitution list:
*Over 300 Pages
*Book in Series
*LGBTQ+
*Recommended - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27864449-his-dark-materials
*POC Author - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223955096-cursed-daughters
*Multiple POVs - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81307313-the-birthday-reunion
*Classic/Retelling
*Sci-fi/Fantasy
*Free Space
*Anthology/Collection
*Biography/Memoir
*Friendship
*Name in the Title
*Movie/TV Tie-in
*With a Woman Protagonist
*From the Library
*Thriller/Suspense
*Set Somewhere You've Been
*Non-Human POV
*Fairy Tale or Fairy Tale Retelling
*Under 100 Pages - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230824619-death-row
*Romance Plot or Sub-plot - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83994697-the-seven-year-slip
*Translated
*With a Blue Cover - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213713209-the-wasp-trap
*Horror or Paranormal - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203578707-what-the-woods-took
*Colour in the Title
*Seasonal Read
*Number in title - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58385688-nine-lives
*Three word title - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40126622-the-great-believers
*Craft, Hobby or Cookbook
*Written by an author from your state or country
*Animal on the cover
*Disability or Mental health
*Read a book from the year you were born
*Mythology
*Title begins with first letter of your name - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217991744-hamnet
*Dystopian
*Book mentioned in another book
*Diverse reads
*One word title
*Award Winning/Bestseller
*Disabled Author
*Non-western Setting
*Set in your state/country
*Title is at Least Five Words Long
*Indigenous author
*Has illustrations (but not a comic or graphic novel)
*Re-read

sanguinity

Hare, hare! (Does it work like that? We can but try...)

I wish you all joy, this Day of Fools! And to aid in that joy, I bring gifts! I took up a dare to write smut in words of just one sound:

'Sex' is a Word of One Sound

My Jet Now Air

Word Games, The Game Where Speech Must Be Kept Down to Words of One Sound, Smut

Doug and Car are both too good at the game of words of one sound. But Herc has a plan: if the two of them bonk their brains out, one of them might win the game at last…

Huge thanks to

phoenixfalls and

grrlpup —

grrlpup read the whole thing out loud from back to front, one word at a time, to find the spots where I messed up!

I've not read the whole fest yet, but let me rec some good tales:

It's not all about your corazón by Petra (Jane Who Has Not Had Sex, Ro/Xo) — a gift for meeeeeeeeee, yay!
Hear Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me by Iwantthatcoat (John/Sherl—)
Herc and Sir Sext with Words of One Sound by ChrisCalledMeSweetie (My Jet Now Air, Herc/Car)
Xenk and Ed in the Yard by phoenixfalls (what it says on the tin!)

Have a great Day of Fools, and stay safe out there!

sanguinity

Sandra Lamouche (illus. Azby Whitecalf), We Belong to the Drum (2023)

Children's picture book about a Plains Cree boy who, after spending his first summer attending the powwow circuit, goes to daycare for the first time and is inconsolable about it. Until his mother brings in a CD of powwow music! Which leads to an integration of his cultural identity into the daycare's activities, thus making daycare a safe and affirming place for him.

Based on the author's son's experiences. Includes a grammar note in the back about how to conjugate the character's names, which are in Cree in the text. The copy I read is in English, but the book is also available in Plains Cree.

Dierdre Havrelock (illus. Azby Whitecalf), Buffalo Wild! (2021)

Declan is wild about buffalo. After his Kokum tells him that the massive buffalo herds that once ranged the prairies now live in the sky, Declan calls them down, freeing them from behind their star gate, whereupon they go buffalo wild, rampaging through the neighborhood...

Published to honour the 2014 Buffalo Treaty, which has signatories from tribal nations across North America and as far away as Aotearoa.

Jesse Wente (illus. Shaikara David), Danger Eagle (2025)

The adventures of a stuffie stunt-penguin so daring and death-defying that "Danger" is his first name: DANGER EAGLE!

Great fun to do the voices for this one, and the illustrations were pretty great, too. Rated PA (Pretty Awesome).

Pamela Allen, Who Sank the Boat? (1982)

A group of domestic animal friends decide to go boating of a lovely summer day. Unfortunately, not a one of them knows a damn thing about boats. The animals survive, but Mr Peffer is gonna be so pissed when he sees what they've done to his lovely boat.

Rachel Poliquin (illus. Clayton Hanmer), The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers: A Tour of Your Useless Parts, Flaws, and Other Weird Bits (2022)

Picture book for older kids that serves as a nice little introduction to evolutionary theory, organized as a tour of vestigial organs and the quirks of ontogeny. Entertaining read and I learned a few things, such as the existence of the "disappearing kidney" (the mesonephros, a kidney structure still in lifelong use by our aquatic relatives, but which in reptiles, birds, and mammals is reabsorbed during fetal development, after our main kidneys come online).

Rachel Poliquin (illus. Clayton Hanmer), The Gland Factory: A Tour of Your Body's Goops, Juices, and Hormones (2025)

Sequel to the former, featuring highlights of the endocrine and exocrine systems. As entertaining and educational as the first, although this one was calibrated to be just that kind of disgusting that delights children of a certain age. (Especially in the first part of the book, I'd be reading along, "Interesting... I didn't know that... oh, cool... how fascinat— EWWWWWWW!"

duskpeterson

Emorian enthronements generally occur every twenty or thirty years, alas. If an enthronement takes place while you are visiting the palace, it is unlikely that you will have been staying at the palace at the time of the previous Chara's death; enthronements take many months to plan and execute. But if you do happen to be in the palace when the Chara dies, be sure to submit a letter of sympathy to the Chara To Be – that is, to the Chara's heir. It is not necessary to personally meet with the Chara To Be; he will be busy with many matters at this time. If your mission requires you to meet with him, be aware that the heir is not actually the Chara until his enthronement. Until that time, the empire is jointly run by the Chara To Be and the Great Council. You may submit your business to either party during that period.

The enthronement of a new Chara is the highest rite in the Empire of Emor. If you are an ambassador or other distinguished guest, you may receive an invitation to the enthronement. Only serious illness or a similar calamity is an acceptable excuse for rejecting the invitation.

As I have mentioned already, it is always wise to dress formally in the Chara's palace, but this is the point at which you should fling forth all your flourishes. If you are a northern mainlander, imagine how you would want to be dressed for your burial. If you are an eastern mainlander, wear all the clothes and adornments you have been hiding because you feared the peninsulareans would find them too formal. Nothing is too formal for an Emorian enthronement.

You may wear a weapon to the enthronement, though that is not required. I recommend tying feathers, ribbons, or green branches around your weapon to make your peaceful intentions clear. All of the Emorian men at the enthronement will be armed, but not because they intend to fight each other; they are armed because they give their oaths to the new Chara upon their swords.

Part of their oath-bound duty is to defend the Chara against his enemies. Do not wave around your weapon.

Enthronements demonstrate Emorian rituals at their most elaborate. If you are an eastern mainlander, you will likely be enthralled by this evidence that Emorians understand the power of rite. If you are a northern mainlander, try not to fall asleep.

After the enthronement, you may be invited to a reception. This will vary in formality, depending on where it is held. If you greet the new Chara, be sure to address him as "Chara," not by his old title. Jokes about the new Chara are traditional, but should not be spoken directly to him. If you've seen the Chara's face transform during the ceremony, you probably won't have the courage to offend him.

[Translator's note: Emorian enthronements take place in Blood Vow, Law of Vengeance, and Breached Boundaries.]

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