I had almost everything else. I'd been working on this project to do these specific legendaries for a year, and just finished the last one. How much materials and currencies is that? It took me 2 hours to combine them all, switching between menus and crafting stations. I don't play much, but I was doing a few things every day towards this and it's nice to complete it all.
The final one I crafted is a Gen3, so it's basically a 6 in 1. Tyria has 6 Elder Dragons, and the Gen3 set comes in Aurene colors and with Aurene effects. But, when you bind it to your account, it unlocks quests to re-spec it to any other dragon. So, you can make it match your character's vibe/colors. Different legendary effects and footfalls for each version. So, it's basically a choice of 6 leggies. I mean, it's a longbow, but it's a choice of 6 longbows
The good news? Project accomplished.
The bad news? I've been playing this game 13 years and I now only have 8 gold and my crafting materials bank is in a tragic state. I ate equipment on my alts to get currencies. But, I've made sure the Tyria Pride events are well supplied.
I'll have to wait until after tomorrow's big announcement to plan out what to work on for next year.
Title: Honeysuckle Fandom: Bartimaeus, Hogwarts Legacy Rating: G Length: 650 words Content notes: — Author notes: Finally, I'm not missing the deadline! I think I might incorporate this ficlet into my longfic one day. Summary: The scent of honeysuckle does not surprise Sebastian, but Nathaniel's words do.
The Witness, a limited series (3 episodes) is available now on Netflix. It's about the 1992 brutal stabbing of Rachel Nickell while walking on Wimbledon Common during the day with her two-year-old son, Alex.
Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.
This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)
(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)
So what cool fics/fanvids/fancrafts/fanart/other kinds of fanworks/podfics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.
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Title: Wild at Heart Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians Rating: General Audiences Notes: I'm finally reading the Percy Jackson books, currently on The Lightning Thief - when this drabble is set. I know they've been out for a long time, but in any comments, please avoid spoiling the later books!
Title: The Obvious Aside Fandom: ST: Voyager Rating: G Pairing: Janeway/Chakotay Summary: She nods, not quite trusting what else she'll do with her mouth, and they head towards the exit of the museum. Notes: Set early on. 2,931
I don't think any of the Disney YA novels are particularly big except in certain circles, but I guess the Twisted Tales series has been doing well enough that it's justified some spin-offs. Even so, there's something like two dozen books in the series now, so I was not expecting that the "Part of Your World" TLM AU novel, which already got a graphic novel adaptation a few years ago, would also get a manga adaptation? Isn't that same thing, for the same market (since they're both English-language publications), just in different styles?
I just managed to get my hands on the two volumes of the manga and I think if the graphic novel didn't already exist, I would probably like it better. It's the same story but with some changes to make it more exciting (there's a whole fight sequence Ariel gets to do) but Ariel cries so much and although Ariel, Vanessa and Ursula look great, Eric doesn't look like Eric at all and it keeps throwing me out.
Title: A Simple Flower Fandom: The Fantastic Journey Author: badly_knitted Characters: Varian, Gwenith, Willaway. Rating: PG Spoilers/Setting: An Act of Love, and after the series. Summary: Gwenith had given Varian a flower when they first met… Word Count: 624 Content Notes: Nada. Written For: Challenge 517: Flower. Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
Title: flowers Fandom: none Rating: Content notes: Artist notes: Also for the genprompt_bingo prompt plants/trees/flowers and all stock images used for these icons are from publicdomainpictures.net, freeimageslive.co.uk and pickpic.com Summary: 15 icons
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Since my laptop computer is nine years old and its fan cooling pad was only feeling lukewarm, I bought a new cooling pad to hopefully extend my computer's life. Plus, summer's coming.
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Previously, I thought my area's local birds were rock pigeons, mourning doves, sparrows, American robins, starlings, the occasional northern cardinal and blue jay, a woodpecker I can hear but have yet to see, and the very occasional hawk, but the sound ID function on my phone's Merlin app has let me know that within three miles of my Queens home in the last two weeks there have also been American redstart, gray catbird, chimney swift, northern mockingbird, barn swallow, and Carolina wren. I had no idea.
Wow, I read a lot of books in May. However, most of them were short, so it's actually not like I read more than I normally do. It just seems that way.
Mann, Thomas: Death in Venice. Penguin. 1991 After Buddenbrooks, this was my second Mann. It was not as addictive as Buddenbrooks, but certainly still a very good novella. I feel like Mann is so very good at describing the "summer vibe" - that very distinct feeling when you're on vacation and time seems somehow suspended. He does that both in Buddenbrooks and in Death in Venice. I've never seen that particular feeling described anywhere else so poignantly.
Taylor, Peter: A Summons to Memphis. Vintage. 1999. Not a very successful outing as I felt I should have gotten more out of this book than I actually did. There is lot going on under the surface, but somehow I didn't connect with that subtext.
DeLillo, Don: The Silence. Scribner. 2020. Mhm, no. This is only 100 pages long and tries to be philosophical and dystopian, but it never spends enough time with any of the many topics and themes that get mentioned to feel in any way rewarding. And the dialogues were just ... baaaaaad. Oh, my.
Richardson, Kim Michele: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Sourcebook Landmarks. 2019. After Jojo Moyes' The Bringer of Stars my second novel about the Kentucky Pack Horse Library, which is an absolutely fascinating topic, but apparently no one is able to put that into a good novel. Any Americans here who could recommend something worthwhile on the subject of the Pack Horse Library? Is there a good non-fiction book where I could learn more about it? Novels don't seem to cut it.
Kopetzky, Steffen: Damenopfer. Rowohlt. 2023 (German) Kopetzky writes interesting historical novels that are a little off the beaten path. This one is about an actual historical figure (Larissa Reissner), but most importantly it's about the cultural and political shift in Europe (Soviet Russia and Germany in particular) that took place in the 1920s. Very interesting if you like a good panorama - lots of name-dropping from Stalin to Nabokov included!
Lewis, Herbert Clyde: Gentleman Overboard. Boiler Press. 2021. This was the highlight of the month, I enjoyed this a lot! It's a short novel about a gentleman (that detail is important) who goes on a sea voyage and falls off the ship. Instead of screaming for help he decides instead to not inconvenience anyone. Things will sort themselves out ... yeah, sure. This was half satire, half psychoanalysis. And the authorial voice was to-die-for.
Forster, E. M.: The Longest Journey. Penguin. 2006. Apperently, this was Forster's favourite amongst his novels. However, it feels a bit disjointed and never turned into a cohesive narrative for me. It had strong moments and scenes, but it smelled a little of Hardy to me in the sense that the plot was so terribly ill-fated. But again: Forster has a knack for really strong endings!
Mina, Denise: Rizzio. Polygon. 2021. Not worth your time if you have even a passing knowledge of the Mary Stuart and Rizzio story. Denise Mina doesn't add anything new (apart from alluding to something going on between Rizzio and Darnley, because apparently we can't do without a queer angle nowadays). This read like barely fictionalised non-fiction. Or it read like gapfiller fanfic from someone just starting out in a fandom and trying something safe. Forgettable.
Brautigan, Richard: The Hawkline Monster. Canongate. 2017. Absurd and funny. Quite possibly written while the author was either drunk or high or even both. But I was amused and laughed out loud several times, so that was a win. Also, it's short and therefore doesn't overstay its welcome. (Always a problem with humour - oftentimes it simply goes on for too long, which sucks the fun out of it.)
oh my flist it is so cold in the ugly building where i work that i brought slipper socks into work today to keep my feet from freezing off. i complained about it during lunch - yesterday i even had to put on a jacket at my desk - and admin p offered me his space heater. bliss. ^_^ i went from feeling like a bag of frozen peas to feeling like a rotisserie chicken.
i still had to take a walk in the afternoon in order to defrost. i mean, seriously.
last week clover (my favorite local chain and makers of the best pita bread) announced they were closing - like all of their restaurants - and apparently the outpouring of love and distraught wailing was enough to... i have no idea what but they're not closing after all. someone wrote a tribute song and someone else drew memorial art and another local place posted something really nice. i'm super curious what happened but also very excited that there are still delicious pita sandwiches in my future.
and two things that really only matter to new yorkers: the baklava guy and his baklavan going around selling baklava in brooklyn parks. (no, seriously, he calls his van the baklavan and i think that is adorable.)
as a way to help support the knicks in their quest for the nba championship, mayor mamdani has temporarily repealed bedtimes for the knicks' smallest fans. the executive order is printed in comic sans, in case you were wondering how official it is. how cute is that? so cute.
This is not an admin post, in the sense that it is not going into the rules. Nor is it meant to diminish anyone's enjoyment of the community. But since I am unable to respond directly to a former community member because I have no avenues to do so, I will talk about community involvement and commenting in 100words.
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In 100words, your creative works, however you write them, are your own. But when you choose to share your work in this community, it is meant to be a communal activity. That is why AI works are not permitted here; they do not represent your words, and as the moderator I do not feel that it is fair to readers to post AI works here and pretend that they are your words.
Likewise, the communal aspect here requires that when you post here, you do not turn off comments. Perhaps I should have made that clear before, but it has never come up in the past. When it did come up today, I added it to the guidelines and made a post about it. I also did not delete any posts that transgressed a rule that had not formerly been elucidated. I attempted to reach out to relevant community members and, when that was not possible, I set a reminder for myself to give anyone who needed to change their posts 24 hours the opportunity to do so. I should have made that clear in my admin post today.
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That being said, written communication is imperfect. Without tone of voice, without facial expressions, without the many indicators of a person's intent, and without knowing the concerns or triggers or history of the person consuming your written communication, it is impossible to perfectly transfer meaning.
Is there a perfect way to transmit meaning? Probably not. But behaving "in a civilized manner" in this particular community means accepting that when you participate here, you act politely and assume a general level of good intent. If you don't like someone's response to your creative work, perhaps you are misunderstanding their comment. Perhaps they did not express themselves well. It really does not matter as long as you all behave in a mature fashion.
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So as you may have surmised from my posts over the years, I've been a sports fan all my life. I'm pretty well versed in baseball, football, hockey, and used to follow tennis as well, but I've only ever been a playoffs basketball fan, though since the Knicks have been in the playoffs the last couple of years, I've become more familiar with them (I was pretty familiar with the Ewing-era Knicks, because all my college friends were into basketball, and the spring/summer of 1994 when both the Rangers and the Knicks were in the playoffs was pretty memorable), so I didn't actually need this, but I did think it was pretty funny: The Knicks Are in the Finals. Act Like You've Been Here Before. #Go New York go New York go!
From Russell T Davies comes Tip Toe, a gripping new suburban thriller set in Manchester, where neighbours Leo (Alan Cumming) and Clive (David Morrissey) find their lives pulled apart as prejudice, paranoia and radicalisation begin to poison everything around them.
On my latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment on the StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 780), I discuss the books of Frank Tallis, the series Vienna Blood, and the phenomenon of Sigmund Freud in genre fiction. Come for the science fiction (and the history of science), and stay for the mystery and crime — and, of course, Jürgen Maurer and Matthew Beard.
Title: A Bouquet for Bucky Author:lucy_roman Rating: Teen and up Summary: Tony is buying anniversary flowers Pairing: Tony Stark/Bucky Barnes Word Count: 250
I put about 45 new window display photos up. (I still have more Saks Fifth Avenue to go, but I gotta take a rest.) You can see them at my Flickr.
Unlike the deeply disappointing run I did May 1, late May netted me some good stuff, even if Bloomingdale's is still using the same sets and concept in its window displays as it did in the middle of March. I start my night trips with Bloomingdale's, so I was worried I'd be seeing an early May rerun with all my stores.
I got so excited that the Gucci windows had mannequins with hair and makeup in them. Alas, I think a lot of the hair and makeup wasn't done well. Look at the hairlines on a lot of these girls! (Also, look at how one mannequin has no lighting on her whatsoever, wtf.) But given how rarely anyone does it anymore, maybe it's becoming a lost art.
It's named after a song, like many of my fics. My go-to when I'm stuck for titles is song lyrics/titles. I go for a long drive or walk with Shuffle on and see what the universe throws at me. My funniest Shuffle run for one WIP where the setting is "apocalypse in NYC due to (murderous) aliens landing" (A Quiet Place: Day One) included “Subterranean Homesick Alien,” “Rx 4 the Damned,” or “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.” I ended up going with a Sade song from the run, finding out that a lot of the Soldier of Love album actually applies pretty well for that canon.
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The last three times I went to the Plainview Trader Joe's, the music selection wasn't the elite, often deep-cut alternative songs I'd loved in my previous visits, just some rap, Whitney Houston, and 70s classic rock. I hope the person who gave me the music I loved gets another chance in a future visit I make.
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The stiff-soled sneakers I bought late August by my podiatrist's demand are starting to come apart already, and when I asked the salesperson and my podiatrist's office about it, I was told that six to eight months is standard for mesh sneakers! I paid $80 for these Easy Spirits but some of the shoes I looked at ranged to about $200, and they have about the same life length! I'm currently Krazy gluing my Easy Spirits as I decide whether to go for more of the same or spring for a pair of New Balance that would be $150 that their salesman said could last five months to a year. I don't have the option to go back to my sturdy but flexible SAS Free Time walking shoes because these stiff soled sneakers have seriously saved my ankles a few times. Like the night I shot these window displays, when my left foot went into a hole in the street I didn't see. A lot of Manhattan's streets and sidewalks are trash.
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I'm still waiting for news on my Medicaid recertification, nerve-wracking given our current administration and the fact that I mailed my recertification paperwork a week and a half before the May 10 deadline. I know the office got my paperwork May 5 by checking with their phone system, so????
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I've been informed that I have to start using a new Medicare ID number and card June 17 due to "problems" with my current ones. What did somebody do?
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I have somehow messed up the pairing between my iPhone 17's Bluetooth and my 2020 car. Before, they paired automatically, now I have to laboriously manually pair them back up every time after I turn off my car or use the USB cord. Like, stopping to get gas with my car turned off is long enough to break the connection. Help!
Madness Level:blah
Voices In My Head Sing:"As Alive as You Need Me to Be" by Nine Inch Noize
The hours of videos it would take to get on top of the Lego situation is too much for anyone. A prominent ex-Mormon creator I follow actually did a livestream that I did not have time to watch, but I peeked at it and she seemed to be 'yup, this in-group protectionism is familiar!'
At some point in the future this will be a killer video essay or ten, but right now still just too much
[edits to add] I don't think BAM gets what's going on there. Internet users in 2026 have been told 'here's a problem that can be solved, justice that can be served, just by bringing attention to it'. People are hungry for any problem that can be solved, especially if just helping it go viral helps
This is going to cost BAM so much money when it's all said and done
There is a cheap*, mostly second run theater that already has The Backrooms film. (*Cheap by current standards, expensive by the standard of days not too long past) I'd never been in Cinema 21 because it looks sketch as hell from the outside, I never see a line there even for popular showings and the block it's on is also rough. It's in a nice area, but that one specific block is markedly different.
Anyway, I went in and it was nice, clean. Old seats and old movie posters. The concessions area had people working there who seemed to be enjoying their jobs. I was kind of digging the idea of going to a rough, run down theater to watch The Backrooms, but the vibe was opposite. It was all well cared for with a sense of history. They ran ads for local businesses and showed trailers mostly for horror movies before a horror movie.
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I put about 45 new window display photos up. (I still have more Saks Fifth Avenue to go, but I gotta take a rest.) You can see them at my Flickr.
