Mt. Ibuki in Snow
Goyo Hashiguchi

It is kind of sad when "working on mental health" requires so much in the way of pulling back from and attempting to sever the tendrils of others that have wrapped themselves around your life. I begin to get the state of mind of hermits and monks.

I realize that I have been noodling around with this semi-public form of expression for a couple of decades now. The hobby wouldn't be possible without the internet and would be a cheaply-bound book somewhere if the internet didn't exist.

But ever since my typing class in the eighth grade (approx 1968) I have relied on keyboards to do my writing. Oh I took notes in class longhand, but anything turned in got turned in from a typewriter. So this hobby/affectation/habit is more of an offshoot of habit than anything else.

I get more suspicious of the "big players" of the internet every single day. I am just beginning to understand just how insidious their actions regarding browsers and emails are becoming. I am trying to stay out of that rabbit hole by trying to find avenues that minimize corporate monitoring/salesmanship in my day to day activities.

It isn't as easy as you would think. I need to figure out how much of this is real and how much of it is a function of my personal paranoia and how much of it is just my loathing of the mores of the corporate world.

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I have been spending my days noodling around with odds and ends of things that just appeal to me right now and have no real meaning in the grand scheme of things.

Oddly enough, it is a minor, minor thing that has been irritating me the most. It is an essential that everyone has to deal with but everyone at best "grits their teeth" and does it. Laundry.

Now, when I was raising two boys and working full time, this was much more of a chore and I needed all the help that I could get. I actually owned a washer and a dryer and didn't give shit one about the cost in energy (active use and imbedded) and the shit I was sending to the treatment plant in the way for dirt and chemical in tide pods. There was just too much to do and I grabbed anything that would get me through the process.

But now I am retired and in a studio. My clothes are predominantly cargo shorts, t-shirts, and sandals. So I am making the transition to hand washing and drying the clothes on a rack on the front porch. Washing solution is a smidge of borax and a smidge of pine sol. Clothes are clean, smell good and cost is minimal. Time used is around 10 minutes twice a week. I have a feeling that they might last longer too, I am very suspicious about dryer lint, it seems it consists of material that probably should be left on the peice of clothing instead of being scraped out of a lint trap.

Current Music: Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92 Beethoven, Ludwig van

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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 fanvids/fanart/podfics/other kinds of fanworks/fics/fancrafts have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

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Hey, y’all, it’s Weird Wednesday! Where on some Wednesdays, I blog about weird stuff and give writing prompts.

Today: Vanished in Mid Air: D. B. Cooper

Welcome on this Weird Wednesday! Today we’re going to take off in a plane, but land without one…somewhere over the vast Pacific Northwest. Sound fun? Then put those tray tables up, because we’re heading out.

It’s a strange phenomenon to have a person who’s famous for being unidentified. Everybody knows who they are, precisely because nobody knows who they are. “Dan Cooper” is one of those people. The name was an alias, and was further misreported by the press as D. B. Cooper. So who was he? Well, let’s take a look.

On Nov 24, 1971, the day before Thanksgiving, a man boarded Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 for a short hop between Portland, OR, and Seattle, WA. This man, holding a ticket under the name “Dan Cooper,” passed a flight attendant a note saying he had a bomb, and asking for what today would be $1.6 million and four parachutes. (Why four? Possibly Cooper wanted to be sure he was given working parachutes, by insinuating he was going to take a hostage with him—a main and a backup parachute for each of them.)

Cooper proved a gentleman highjacker: when the plane landed in Seattle, and the $200,000 ransom was paid, Cooper let the passengers go. He then asked the flight crew to take him to Mexico City. But partway through that second flight, after ordering all crew to the cockpit, Cooper opened a door and extended an airstair.

Around 8 p.m., in the dark of night, Cooper parachuted out somewhere over Washington, with the vast Pacific Northwest forest below him. And from there, he vanished.

Check out the blog post for the whole story and some writing prompts, such as:

Murder most foul. What if D. B. Cooper vanished because he was murdered? Say he landed safely and started making his way out of the forest with the money. Maybe he had an accomplice who was hungry for the cash. Maybe he randomly met someone who noticed he was carrying $200,000 in a bag. Or maybe the killer didn’t even know about the money—the PNW has its share of serial killers who pick up hitchhikers on the road. You could write a story where the hijacker’s luck only holds out long enough for him to put his feet on the ground—after that, he’s in more danger than he was jumping out of the plane.

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Author: StarSpray

Title: What If?

Characters: Maedhros, Maglor

Pairing: n/a

Text type / Format: drabble and a half

Source / Fandom: Silmarillion

Rating: G

Warnings: n/a

Word Count: 150

Summary: "What if we just left?"
Author notes: Written for the SWG July instadrabbles, and for Tolkien Gen Week on tumblr.

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Omens of Death: From Broken Clocks to Butterflies

On this day in 1822, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died. A few weeks earlier, he reported he’d seen an omen of his own death: his doppelganger, or double. Strangely enough, the double was seen by someone else as well.

People like to know what’s coming, even (especially) if it’s bad. It’s said no one wants to know the hour of their death, but if that were true, we wouldn’t have a whole list of death omens. Traditionally, signs of impending doom are found in two places: the natural and the supernatural. So come have a seat by the fire, and let’s hope we don’t cast headless shadows. (No, really.)

Check out the blog post for the whole story and some ominous writing prompts, such as:

And then there were none. How about this for a mystery? A family has received death omens, but they don’t know who they’re for. Maybe they’re having a family reunion, so there were about 10 people in the room when they heard the death knocks, eight when a bird flew into the house, and twelve when Grandma Janine dropped the scissors and the blade stuck into the floor. So it’s a process of elimination. And what if Aunt Grizelda with her fortune is one of the possibilities? Might someone want to bump her off and say it was meant to be?

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The Grinder
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

One of the oddest things about leaning toward the idea that things are going to shit (read here: entropy) is that one can spend a good deal of time and effort trying to minimize the effects on day-to-day life.

Right in front of my ancient (2017) laptop, sits my music system. While the good times last, I have a little thingy that plays music coming in over the wire from a data center somewhere. It cost me $33.00 to purchase and runs around $7.00 a month for the subscription and truthfully it may be the best sounding of my music. But it does connect to one of the sort of evil middlemen so it will be the first to go should the fewmets hit the fan.

My favorite is the radio that sits next to the semi-evil thingy described in the above paragraph. I have three great radio stations here (probably four, but I hate giving OPB any credit because of their near-rabid adherence to whatever what the furthest left opinion is here in Portland), It is a Tivoli model one and I really think that you can't do any better when you buy a radio. It does depend on the stations here broadcasting, but the chances of that happening are so slim that I think I can discount the idea. This is my daily driver. Classic on All Classical, Jazz on Mount Hood, weirdo music on KBOO.

The last backup is my CD collection (currently held by eldest son) that is ripped onto my hard drive (god bless the linux operation system and whoever wrote the OGG Vorbis music protocol) and played through a bluetooth speaker sitting on top of the Tivoli one. I suppose this is a tie for my favorite because I know everything on the drive but the Tivoli still comes in first place because it plays stuff I don't know.

I suppose that this all comes around to me over-addressing the idea that entropy occurs. But I like backups to backups and along with a full pantry and a decent bookshelf I really have everything I need

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On our Saturday post

solenne mentioned the upcoming loss of TV Time, which is used for tracking shows to watch. Given all the networks or streamers in use, this has become complicated to do.

What method(s) or service(s) work for you? How transferable is your data? Have your tools/habits changed over time? What problems have you run into?

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Author: StarSpray

Title: Ashes

Characters: Finrod

Pairing: n/a

Text type / Format: drabble

Source / Fandom: Silmarillion

Rating: T

Warnings: reference to canonical character death

Word Count: 100

Summary: Finrod stood atop a hill, not far from the Narog, and watched the red glow on the northern horizon.
Author notes: Written for the SWG July instadrabbles, and for Tolkien Gen Week on tumblr.

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A free, downloadable spreadsheet for querying a novel

I’ve spent a year in the query trenches for a queer romance novel, and I’ve learned so much about querying! So here is the fruit of my labor: a spreadsheet for querying authors.

From Manuscript Wishlist to comps to how many agents you can query from a single agency.

Happy writing and good luck!

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Albert Maignan
L'Insulte aux prisonniers Episode de la croisade contre les Albigeois en 1211

Been pondering of late the condition of the world. Mostly I am coming to believe that everyone, and I do mean everyone to include me, is just "talking their book".

I am coming to the unwelcome conclusion that all men are not created equal. Some of my friends seem to be going through some serious mental gyrations to create a set of mental models that apply across the human experience and establish a right/wrong way of organizing the "blooming, buzzing confusion".(1) I applaud their efforts, but I am at the end of the time I am willing to spend on this process, I have come to the opinion (not fact) that everything related to this kind of thing is opinion and there are no facts that are common to all humans.

That is where the sad problem lies with philosophy or religion or whatever you want to call it when you try to create a model inside your own head for how us hoomanz go about the infrequent bit of irresponsibility that we call thinking and/or perceiving.

Each and every one of us is unique. Oh, granted, there are parallels where we seemingly run on the same track, but trying to say that there is a common thread other than there is the similarity produced a thrown together set of extremely variable DNA strands that follow the orgasm of one or two extremely disparate individuals is a bit too big an assumption for yours truly.

This organization is so arbitrary that I can't really say that it is actually "organization" per se.  People are individuals. The models that they use to look out upon a set of physical events are defined by some level of society and are thus arbitrary.

This is kind of a ramble. I have spent a year reading and thinking about this kind of thing and have decided at the end of that misspent time that the attempt to come up with or at least agree with one of the main threads of argument is that it has been wasted time.

But even coming to that conclusion is a win for me. I think an acknowledgement that I can't/won't/don't understand what the problem is is a clear win.
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Author: Silvertrails
Title: Darkness
Text type / Format: Fixed format
Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 150
Summary: What If Fingon cannot rescue Maedhros. I am posting it for the July Challenge.

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Today: Vanished in Mid Air: D. B. Cooper

Welcome on this Weird Wednesday! Today we’re going to take off in a plane, but land without one…somewhere over the vast Pacific Northwest. Sound fun? Then put those tray tables up, because we’re heading out.

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Omens of Death: From Broken Clocks to Butterflies

On this day in 1822, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died. A few weeks earlier, he reported he’d seen an omen of his own death: his doppelganger, or double. Strangely enough, the double was seen by someone else as well.

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Welcome on this Weird Wednesday! Today we’re going to take off in a plane, but land without one…somewhere over the vast Pacific Northwest. Sound fun? Then put those tray tables up, because we’re heading out.

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Omens of Death: From Broken Clocks to ButterfliesOn this day in 1822, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died. A few weeks earlier, he reported he’d seen an omen of his own death: his doppelganger, or double. Strangely enough, the double was seen by someone else as well.

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On this day in 1822, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died. A few weeks earlier, he reported he’d seen an omen of his own death: his doppelganger, or double. Strangely enough, the double was seen by someone else as well.