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crypsis (noun)
cryp·sis
• The ability of an organism to conceal itself especially from a predator by having a color, pattern, and shape that allows it to blend into the surrounding environment
etymology: 1956; cryp(tic) + -sis, or borrowed from Greek krýpsis "hiding, concealment," from kryp- (stem of krýptein "to hide, conceal") + -sis -sis
Crypsis in action!
from Wikipedia entry
cryp·sis
• The ability of an organism to conceal itself especially from a predator by having a color, pattern, and shape that allows it to blend into the surrounding environment
etymology: 1956; cryp(tic) + -sis, or borrowed from Greek krýpsis "hiding, concealment," from kryp- (stem of krýptein "to hide, conceal") + -sis -sis
Crypsis in action!
from Wikipedia entry
This week's word is...
foolish
How to play: Find the word in any WIP and comment with the sentence containing it. Just the one, ideally! The less context, the more hilarious & interesting it can be.
Rules:
- All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome
- Give a head's up for disturbing/distressing content
- If you share a sentence, please read some left by other writers and drop at least one person a comment. (If you leave the first comment, thanks for starting us off and please stop back later!)
foolish
How to play: Find the word in any WIP and comment with the sentence containing it. Just the one, ideally! The less context, the more hilarious & interesting it can be.
Rules:
- All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome
- Give a head's up for disturbing/distressing content
- If you share a sentence, please read some left by other writers and drop at least one person a comment. (If you leave the first comment, thanks for starting us off and please stop back later!)
I wrote about the different effects of creating a GIF (moving image) or a collage (compilation of multiple images into one static image out of frames from the same scene, which I thought might interest other photo editors. While writing it, I came across the Fanlore entry on the picspam that likens picspams to fanart. It's a first for me to see picspams described that way!
The Chronicles of Narnia: Narnia Fic Exchange 2026
Jul. 8th, 2026 17:33snacky posting in fandomcalendarTuesday, July 7, 2026
Doff (verb, noun)
doff [dof, dawf]
verb (used with object), doffs, doffed, doffing
1. to remove or take off, as clothing.
2. to remove or tip (the hat), as in greeting.
3. to throw off; get rid of: Doff your stupid ideas and join our side!
4. Textiles.
a. to strip (carded fiber) from a carding machine.
b. to remove (full bobbins, material, etc.) from a textile machine.
noun
5. Textiles.
a. the act of removing bobbins, material, etc., and stripping fibers from a textile machine.
b. the material so doffed.
See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com
Origin: 1300–50; Middle English, contraction of do off; cf. don
Example Sentences
"Long before the civil wars, men and boys were expected to doff their hats, indoors or out, whenever they met a superior," he says.
From Science Daily • May 7, 2026
The sellout crowd, which had long been on its feet, continuing cheering, eventually drawing Kershaw back out onto the field to doff his cap in appreciation.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025
When they arrive, there is a ceremonial greeting, where the Lords doff their black bicorn hats and the Commons representatives acknowledge this by bowing.
From BBC • May 25, 2024
“Courage Hats” wants a little too forcefully to guide us into “deep” places where we will doff our hidey-hats to reveal our true selves — abstract concepts for the literalizing peewee set.
From New York Times • May 20, 2022
We were required to doff our hats as the warder walked by.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Doff (verb, noun)
doff [dof, dawf]
verb (used with object), doffs, doffed, doffing
1. to remove or take off, as clothing.
2. to remove or tip (the hat), as in greeting.
3. to throw off; get rid of: Doff your stupid ideas and join our side!
4. Textiles.
a. to strip (carded fiber) from a carding machine.
b. to remove (full bobbins, material, etc.) from a textile machine.
noun
5. Textiles.
a. the act of removing bobbins, material, etc., and stripping fibers from a textile machine.
b. the material so doffed.
See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com
Origin: 1300–50; Middle English, contraction of do off; cf. don
Example Sentences
"Long before the civil wars, men and boys were expected to doff their hats, indoors or out, whenever they met a superior," he says.
From Science Daily • May 7, 2026
The sellout crowd, which had long been on its feet, continuing cheering, eventually drawing Kershaw back out onto the field to doff his cap in appreciation.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025
When they arrive, there is a ceremonial greeting, where the Lords doff their black bicorn hats and the Commons representatives acknowledge this by bowing.
From BBC • May 25, 2024
“Courage Hats” wants a little too forcefully to guide us into “deep” places where we will doff our hidey-hats to reveal our true selves — abstract concepts for the literalizing peewee set.
From New York Times • May 20, 2022
We were required to doff our hats as the warder walked by.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Let's get the fun stuff out of the way first. With thanks to the 53 distinct donors so far, Squidge's Hot Fic Summer Fundraiser is nearly there! So far we have raised $2,269.82 out of our goal of $2,500. Hitting our goal means keeping the lights on for another year. So if you've been sitting on the fence about donating and can spare a few dollars, it would be awesome if you could donate. But remember - if you're struggling, take care of yourself first. There's a reason flight attendants always say, "Put your own mask on first before helping others." While we'd welcome all of you as donors, we're glad to have you as Squidge users and visitors.
Second is discussion over on SquidgeWorld about possibly disabling guest comments from here on out. This is due to a commission spammer feeding fics into ChatGPT and then having ChatGPT spit out questions that might engage the creator(s). While we can try and prevent AI from scraping our works, we can't prevent someone copy & pasting said works into an AI engine for their own use.
But disabling guest comments is a big step toward that.
There's a whole discussion on SquidgeWorld if you'd like to read there. If you have an account, you can comment there, or you may comment here as you like. I'd like people to be a part of this conversation as opposed to telling people what can and can't be done as part of their access to the open Internet.
Second is discussion over on SquidgeWorld about possibly disabling guest comments from here on out. This is due to a commission spammer feeding fics into ChatGPT and then having ChatGPT spit out questions that might engage the creator(s). While we can try and prevent AI from scraping our works, we can't prevent someone copy & pasting said works into an AI engine for their own use.
But disabling guest comments is a big step toward that.
There's a whole discussion on SquidgeWorld if you'd like to read there. If you have an account, you can comment there, or you may comment here as you like. I'd like people to be a part of this conversation as opposed to telling people what can and can't be done as part of their access to the open Internet.
Event: Fandom5K is a multi-fandom gift exchange for fic with a 5,000-word minimum and comics with a 5-page minimum.
Event link:fandom5k
Pinch hit link: On DW
Due date: 17 July
These pinch hits are due on 17 July, though I will consider offers for later dates. The exchange is currently scheduled to go live on 18 July.
Please see individual requests for details on mediums (comics vs fic) and relationships requested.
PDPH 10 (fic only) - Gran Hotel (TV), 무빙 | Moving (TV), 설강화 | Snowdrop (TV)
PDPH 11 (medium varies by relationship) - The Amazing World of Gumball, Osmosis Jones (2001), Dandy's World (Roblox)
PDPH 21 (comic or fanfic) - Mononoke-hime | Princess Mononoke, Soul Eater (Anime & Manga), ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon, ちはやふる | Chihayafuru (Anime & Manga), 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney, Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
Event link:
fandom5k Pinch hit link: On DW
Due date: 17 July
These pinch hits are due on 17 July, though I will consider offers for later dates. The exchange is currently scheduled to go live on 18 July.
Please see individual requests for details on mediums (comics vs fic) and relationships requested.
PDPH 10 (fic only) - Gran Hotel (TV), 무빙 | Moving (TV), 설강화 | Snowdrop (TV)
PDPH 11 (medium varies by relationship) - The Amazing World of Gumball, Osmosis Jones (2001), Dandy's World (Roblox)
PDPH 21 (comic or fanfic) - Mononoke-hime | Princess Mononoke, Soul Eater (Anime & Manga), ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon, ちはやふる | Chihayafuru (Anime & Manga), 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney, Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
Hikyō eki 秘境駅 | A JJK Dead Dove Zine | PRE-ORDERS OPEN!
Jul. 6th, 2026 08:48hikyoekizine posting in fandomcalendarkarst [kahrst]
noun:
an irregular limestone region with sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns
examples:
1. Plentiful rain falling on porous karst geology collects and feeds groundwater to more than 300 artesian springs. Robert Knight, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
2. Soaring above picturesque Yangshuo and its tall karsts and verdant valleys is an electrifying way to sightsee. "Love a heart-stopping adventure? This is where to go in China to thrill yourself silly." Catherine Garcia. This Week. 28 April 2026.
origin:
German, from Slovene dialect or Croatian dialect kras, kars, type of rock, region composed of such rock
noun:
an irregular limestone region with sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns
examples:
1. Plentiful rain falling on porous karst geology collects and feeds groundwater to more than 300 artesian springs. Robert Knight, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
2. Soaring above picturesque Yangshuo and its tall karsts and verdant valleys is an electrifying way to sightsee. "Love a heart-stopping adventure? This is where to go in China to thrill yourself silly." Catherine Garcia. This Week. 28 April 2026.
origin:
German, from Slovene dialect or Croatian dialect kras, kars, type of rock, region composed of such rock
Title: Perfectly Balanced
Credit to:vuvuzela
Base style: Practicality
Type: CSS
Best resolution: Built in 1912x1074 – Mobile responsive
Tested in: Built in Firefox. Tested in Chrome & Opera on Windows OS. Tested in Android OS with Firefox.
Features: Mobile Responsive! Intended for "navigation panel" splash page style layouts.. Perfectly centers journal content vertically. Uses base dreamwidth CSS to prevent "navigation panel" codes from shifting.
Credit to:
vuvuzelaBase style: Practicality
Type: CSS
Best resolution: Built in 1912x1074 – Mobile responsive
Tested in: Built in Firefox. Tested in Chrome & Opera on Windows OS. Tested in Android OS with Firefox.
Features: Mobile Responsive! Intended for "navigation panel" splash page style layouts.. Perfectly centers journal content vertically. Uses base dreamwidth CSS to prevent "navigation panel" codes from shifting.
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Harry Potter fandom challenges can be found at PotterFests
The Vocab Drabbles Community does weekly challenges
The AU Challenge Community offers multiple AU challenges with no deadlines
The Froday Flash Fiction Challenge has weekly & other challenges
The Fic Promptly Community has daily prompts
The MCU100 Community offers weekly drabble challenges for the MCU fandom
The XMEN100 Community offers weekly drabble challenges for the X-Men fandom
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bibulous [bib-yuh-luh s]
adjective:
1 fond of alcoholic beverages; of, relating to, or marked by the consumption of alcoholic beverages
2 absorbent; spongy
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Examples:
adjective:
1 fond of alcoholic beverages; of, relating to, or marked by the consumption of alcoholic beverages
2 absorbent; spongy
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Examples:
John Higgs begins his foray into the long-standing BBC television science fiction series Doctor Who with a personal anecdote about going to the pub with Tom Baker, the notoriously bibulous actor who played the part of the Doctor from 1975 to 1981 - still longer than anyone else. (Travis Elborough, Doctor, Doctor: the genesis of a national folk hero, Spectator Australia, April 2025)
It’s part of a two-year campaign to reduce food waste that company executives in this famously bibulous country decided to call 'happy hour' in the hopes of drawing in regulars, like any decent bar. (David Segal, The World Wastes Tons of Food. A Grocery ‘Happy Hour’ Is One Answer., The New York Times, September 2019)
Moldovans are the most bibulous nation in the world, gulping more than 18 liters per person every year, according to a new report from the WHO. The world of alcoholism in a sentence is: Europeans drink a lot of booze, and the Arab-Islamic world does not. (Derek Thompson, Map of the Day: This Is What Global Alcohol Consumption Looks Like, The Atlantic, February 2011)
Large numbers should not be thrown into a killing bottle together, and plenty of bibulous paper should be kept in the bottle to prevent moisture from accumulating and wetting and ruining the specimens. (C V Riley, Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects)
There was Vasily, of course, who wore thick glasses, the most scholarly-looking of the lot and certainly the most bibulous - Simon came to think of Vasily as the Vodka Breather. (Fritz Leiber, Pipe Dream)
Origin:
1670s, 'spongy, absorbent,' from Latin bibulus 'drinking readily, given to drink;' of things, 'absorbent; moistened,' from bibere 'to drink' (from PIE root po(i)- 'to drink'). The meaning 'fond of drink' is attested in English by 1861. (Online Etymology Dictionary)
Rivellino - noun.
Not being much of a sports fan, I had no idea now many soccer moves were named after players!
First, you make your opponent think you're going to kick the ball.
Then, while the ball is running in front of you, you throw your foot over the ball to look like you're going to kick in one direction.
But, you're going to quickly take the ball in the opposite direction using the outside of the foot from the previous step.
Not being much of a sports fan, I had no idea now many soccer moves were named after players!
First, you make your opponent think you're going to kick the ball.
Then, while the ball is running in front of you, you throw your foot over the ball to look like you're going to kick in one direction.
But, you're going to quickly take the ball in the opposite direction using the outside of the foot from the previous step.
Sometime during the middle of the night, there was a power blurp here in the Pacific Northwest that took out our little datacenter. Things started coming back up around 5am Pacific Time (12:00 UTC) and all services but SquidgeWorld are now up. SquidgeWorld takes about 2 hours to process everything and finish coming up, so we anticipate everything to be operational around 7:30am (14:30 UTC).
If you have questions, please let us know. And if you see any service that's down, also let us know. Thanks!
If you have questions, please let us know. And if you see any service that's down, also let us know. Thanks!
Today's word is brought to you by amaebi --many thanks!
~~~
palinode
noun
pal·in·ode ˈpa-lə-ˌnōd
1: an ode or song recanting or retracting something in an earlier poem
2: a formal retraction
Did you know?
Does singing someone's praises in a palinode pay off? It did in the case of Stesichorus, a Greek poet of the 6th century B.C. According to Plato, old Stesichorus was struck blind after writing a poem insulting Helen of Troy, but his sight was restored after he wrote an apologetic palinode. That poet was only too glad to apply the Greek word palinōidia (a compound of palin, meaning "back" or "again," and aeidein, meaning "to sing"). So were 16th-century English poets, who borrowed and modified the Greek term to refer to odes of their own.
Etymology
Greek palinōidia, from palin + aeidein to sing
First Known Use
1579, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Example:
Gelett Burgess’ "The Purple Cow":
The American humorist penned a famously catchy quatrain in 1895:
"I never saw a purple cow
I never hope to see one
But I can tell you, anyhow
I'd rather see than be one."
It became so overwhelmingly popular that it annoyed him, leading him to write this unapologetic palinode several years later:
amaebi --many thanks!~~~
palinode
noun
pal·in·ode ˈpa-lə-ˌnōd
1: an ode or song recanting or retracting something in an earlier poem
2: a formal retraction
Did you know?
Does singing someone's praises in a palinode pay off? It did in the case of Stesichorus, a Greek poet of the 6th century B.C. According to Plato, old Stesichorus was struck blind after writing a poem insulting Helen of Troy, but his sight was restored after he wrote an apologetic palinode. That poet was only too glad to apply the Greek word palinōidia (a compound of palin, meaning "back" or "again," and aeidein, meaning "to sing"). So were 16th-century English poets, who borrowed and modified the Greek term to refer to odes of their own.
Etymology
Greek palinōidia, from palin + aeidein to sing
First Known Use
1579, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Example:
Gelett Burgess’ "The Purple Cow":
The American humorist penned a famously catchy quatrain in 1895:
"I never saw a purple cow
I never hope to see one
But I can tell you, anyhow
I'd rather see than be one."
It became so overwhelmingly popular that it annoyed him, leading him to write this unapologetic palinode several years later:
Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow,"
I'm sorry now I wrote it!
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'll kill you if you quote it!