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This year during Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I'm writing about reading as a way of becoming an expert in a given subject. Read Part 1: Introduction to Becoming an Expert, Part 2: Architecture, Part 3: Dance, Part 4: Music, Part 5: Painting, Part 6: Poetry, Part 7: Sculpture, Part 8: Conflict Resolution, Part 9: Cooking, Part 10: Coping Skills, Part 11: Gardening, Part 12: Relationship Skills, Part 13: Repairing, Part 14: Survival Skills, Part 15: Archaeology, Part 16: Biology.

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth Part 17: Chemistry

Chemistry is the science of studying matter, particularly how different substances interact with each other. Its subfields include astrochemistry, biochemistry, environmental chemistry, and geochemistry among others. At home, kitchen chemistry is both amusing and useful. Aspects of chemistry include history, famous people, and famous discoveries. Here on Dreamwidth, check out

common_nature,

environment,

naturaldyes,

science, and

scienceworld.

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth April 25-May 15

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Title: Mermaid Blues

Artist: leecetheartist

Rating: G

Fandom: n/a

Characters/Pairings: n/a

Content Notes:

I enjoyed getting the Akkerman bottle out again and using it with the Kakimori nib. Something has profoundly upset this mermaid. Poor thing. She was fun to draw though. She'll pull through, don't worry, the ocean is on her side.

Current Mood: thoughtful

dine

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ysabetwordsmith

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Economics
Birdfeeding
Artificial Intelligence
Poem: "How Great You Really Are"
Space Exploration
Birdfeeding
Books
Climate Change
Books
Philosophical Questions: World
Poem: "Restoring Them to Their Former Glory"
Buffalo
Birdfeeding
Follow Friday 5-8-26: Muse
Wildlife
Birdfeeding
Moment of Silence: Ted Turner
Low Tech
Community Thursdays
Space Exploration
Birdfeeding

Poem: "Walnut Park" has 46 comments. Early Humans has 22 comments. Philosophical Questions: Pregnancy has 80 comments. Safety has 83 comments.

Last week's Poetry Fishbowl went well. I am still writing.

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth is running April 25-May 15. People aim to make a new post each day, or participate in various activities to celebrate the platform.

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth April 25-May 15

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Introduction to Becoming an Expert
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Architecture
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Dance
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Music
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Painting
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Poetry
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Sculpture
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Conflict Resolution
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Cooking
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Coping Skills
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Gardening
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Relationship Skills
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Repairing
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Survival Skills
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Anthropology
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Biology

"The Worst Thing in Life" opened and closed within a few days. Quain tries calling his friends to talk about recent accomplishments, but the only person willing to talk with him is someone he hasn't contacted in a couple of years.

"No Faster or Firmer Friendships" has 50 new verses. It belongs to Polychrome Heroics and needs $35 to be complete. Josué reads a funny poem to Maria-Vera.

The weather has been variable here. We got some rain the other day. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a pair of cardinals, a male and a female rose-breasted grosbeak separately, a male Baltimore oriole, a brown thrasher, a blue jay, a gray catbird, and a fox squirrel. Currently blooming: pansies, violas, sweet alyssum, alliums, marigolds, honeysuckle, snapdragons, lantana, million bells, blue lobelia, petunias, portulaca, nemesia, wild chives, wood hyacinths, columbine, peonies, irises, mock orange. Green fruit: mulberries, raspberries.

Current Mood: busy

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Part 94b of 105. Warning for NSFW content that looks wilder than it is.

Last time out, we saw the mid-Nineties WLW affair that wasn’t, in the final, waning days of the title once known as Justice League International. Short version:

🔥 🧊 = ⚢?
🔥 🧊 = 💜⚢💜??!!
🔥 🧊 = ⚢ 👅🌮💦?!?!?!
… ❌!!!
🤪 🤪 🤪 🤪 🤪

( Readers: 😡 )

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260510.html

Orion never had a sword like this.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260510.html

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Title: Happy Merther's Day
Artist: leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: n/a
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Content Notes:

Mermay the Tenth - Yesterday in Australia it was Mother's Day, so I'm catching up after a lovely day out with my Mum.

So there'll be another drawing later today so I can catch up.

This mermum and merbaby were drawn with Van Diemen's Ink Rainbow Scarab. I am not sure if the shimmer has come up in these photos but the sheen certainly has!

Gotta say this Life Noble Note book has really come to the sheen party.

Current Mood: happy

lupine_dreaming

Hello, friends! I come to you with a weird movie recommendation.

A year or two ago, I watched a low-budget crime/horror movie called Grimm Love. It is heavily inspired by the real-life case of consensual cannibalism committed by Armin Meiwes. I’m still thinking about this film.

In this movie, a grad student in Germany is researching the lives of Oliver and Simon. Oliver has been put in prison for killing and eating Simon, a victim who willingly offered himself up to be eaten.

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dustbunny105

Well, today's mission was partly accomplished.

I slept a little longer than I meant to but still got started at about the time I wanted to. Which is not to say I had quite the energy going in that I hoped I would. There was a lot of little stuff that needed moved before I could get to the furniture and I got struck with analysis paralysis a few times. Using the fifteen minute method/clockwise method combo helped but I had sort of thought I could be quicker about it. Ah, well. It got done.

When I had the room mostly empty, I remembered that I don't have carpet cleaner or even baking soda. Which was a bit of a problem since I wanted to have a go at the carpet between vacuuming. So, I decided to take a break and go to the dollar store. Aaand they didn't have any baking soda. Naturally. I tried the slightly further away dollar store and they had some, though, so that was cool.

Unfortunately, I had misremembered when my mom was coming home and therefore how long I had the house to myself. See, the thing about taking everything out of a room is that stuff still has to go somewhere. And since I thought I'd be alone for a few more hours, I wasn't being especially mindful of how I was placing it. Oops. The upshot of it was that my trip to procure baking soda ended up being moot, because I couldn't take the expected time on the carpet. Such is life!

Anyway, I realize as I'm writing this out that I don't have anything of any real interest to say, lol, so long story short: I vacuumed and got the furniture where I want it. That took longer than expected because I wore myself out with my ultimately pointless walk through the heat to the store and so the room is still not totally put back together. Bed isn't made, toy shelves aren't set, books are stacked in front of the bookcase and I didn't even bring everything back into the room yet. I'm going to bed soon in hopes of waking up early to get some more done but I'll have to work on this as the week goes along. As usual, I underestimated how many little things there are to do to put the place back together and of course those all add up.

Still, I'm pleased by what I got done. It'll take some getting used to, as I expected, but I really like it already. The enhanced under-bed access is especially nice, considered how much of it I utilize. For a long time I thought the room would look smaller if I pulled the bed out but it actually kinda looks bigger, funny enough, and not in a way I think bringing everything else back in will diminish. I came up with ideas for more changes as I went along but nothing I'm interested in implementing right away. Main goal right now is to put everything to rights. With it all being arranged into a roughly organized mess, that should be fairly easy. I guess we'll see!

beatrice_otter

For

highadrenalineexchange I got this absolutely delightful Fandom for Robots fic that was everything I wanted! Go read it.

Farther Adventures of Robot and Human (10233 words) by BardicRaven
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Fandom For Robots - Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: bjornruffian & Computron (Fandom for Robots), Computron & Hexode (Fandom for Robots)
Characters: bjornruffian (Fandom For Robots), Computron (Fandom for Robots), Hexode (Fandom For Robots)
Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, Canonical Abuse, Friendship, Robots, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Canon
Summary:

Computron is well aware that he exists on sufferance.

conuly

Fic one: Protagonist very recently, like, last week, left home to live with a friend. Protagonist wonders how his newly estranged family found him, then reflects that "the internet still exists". Technically a true statement in 1994, however, it's perhaps a bit more likely that they just used the phone book.

Fic two: Protagonist is touristing in NYC, casually stops in a bodega, buys a flip phone so he can text people. Not in 1992 he didn't - texting via phones was only just invented that year and phones were bricks!

You gotta laugh. Kindly and gently, but still - you gotta laugh!

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silver_chipmunk

to any and all mothers of any type.

I didn't sleep too well last night, don't know why. Got up at 10:00 anyway, and had breakfast and coffee.

mashfanficchick called to touch base and we talked awhile. Then I took a shower and washed my hair, and dressed for going to see the Kid.

She called and wished me happy Mother's Day and finally told me where we were eating. A restaurant called Off the Hook. Seafood, mostly.

I went to the Starsky and Hutch creative work session and had a good time chatting, and also got some writing done. I left at 4:00 in order to get to Astoria on time. I stopped at the two discount stores on the way to look for a birthday card for the Kid, and got something.

When I got to the bus stop, I ended up waiting about 15 minutes for the bus, longer than I should have. But I got there on time anyway, even a bit early.

It was just starting to rain when I got off the bus, so I made the decision right then to Uber home.

The restaurant was very good. I had shrimp cocktail, and a warm lobster roll. They were both delicious, as was the Island Punch I had to drink.

After we finished dinner, we walked up a block to an ice cream shop called Ample Hills. I had two scoops of a flavor that I don't remember the name of, but that was coffee and cinnamon. Awfully good.

The rain had pretty much stopped, but I called an Uber anyway, and took that home.

When I got here I Teamed the FWiB. It was close to 7:30 by then, so we were still talking at 8:30 when I had him wait and called Middle Brother. Hes fine, but hasn't done anything interesting. He is looking forward to Memorial Day through.

Talked to the FWiB some more til 9:00, then putter online for a bit. Then went and lay down and played solitaire til pet feeding time.

Fed the pets and started here.

Earlier in the day Pieter started a group chat to wish some of the cousins happy Mother's Day and he included me, so that was nice.

All in all a very nice Mother's Day.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The Kid. (The best Mother's day gift I ever got... her birthday was two days after Mother's day that year)

3. The Starsky and Hutch fandom.

4. My extended family.

5. Good dinner, and ice cream.

6. Middle Brother is well.

Current Mood: good

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awesomeers

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

dialecticdreamer

Evening Update
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1b of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1113
[Late Sunday night, 12 November of 2017]

:: On the way home, chasing the last minutes of Sunday, Jules runs into Cold Cash on the way to pick up something from the grocery. Both end up at Bennett’s tattoo parlor. Part of the Lodestar story arc in the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::

“You look like a man trying to untangle a problem,” Cash declared. When Jules reached for the seat belt, he frowned at the shape of it, with the buckle sitting higher than in a standard truck. An extra section descended toward the floorboards, but Jules couldn’t tell much about where it was anchored. “Five point harness, with a crotch strap to keep you from submarining.”

“Sub-what?” Jules waved the question off. “Talk me through getting this fastened, then tell me what submarining is? I can tell by your tone that it’s bad, at least.”
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Current Mood: amused

conuly

Watch on YouTube

I was introduced to this piece - specifically Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity - via Wolf 359, the Christmas episode, aka the one where things go from "comedically dark" to "shit just got real".

beatrice_otter

highadrenalineexchange has revealed authors, and I can reveal what I wrote! I had a lot of fun with a Vedero-focused Goblin Emperor fic.

Title: The Obloquy of Newness
Author: Beatrice_otter
Fandom: Goblin Emperor
Characters: Vedero Drazhin
Written for: DontStopHerNow in High Adrenaline 2026
Summary: Vedero would like nothing more than to study the stars. If only court politics and gossip did not get in her way ...

Author's Note: Betaed by Irina. Title from The Old Astronomer by Sarah Williams.

On AO3. On Squidgeworld. On Dreamwidth. On tumblr. On Pillowfort.

Vedero could barely see her hands as they worked.

That was alright; they knew their business. They did not need to see more than the ghostly outlines of the white tubs in the sink to fish around in the sodium sulfite solution with rubber-coated tongs and grab the edge of the paper and hold it up so that some of the fluid would drip off, before settling it gently in the tub of acetic acid that would stop the silver halide crystals from continuing to develop. She counted the seconds, and then moved the paper to the sodium thiosulfate that would wash away the excess silver from the paper, so that when she took the images out into the light, they would not be re-exposed.

( On the whole, it was a very meditative process. )

scrubjayspeaks

Work was particularly A Lot. I ended up having to go in after hours to do repairs to a tool. This is because I somehow have ended up being the on-call person for the tool room despite notably not working in the tool room. That’s in addition to staying late repeatedly for assorted reasons. I was also covering for one of the mechanical engineers on vacation, despite, again, not being on the mechanical engineer team and not being warned in advance that I would need to pick up his projects. And I still had to do the robot work for the automation team I’m also not on.

After a week of work stress, lost sleep, and feeling guilty for not being able to help out at home like I normally would, I finally ended up triggering a lupus flare. Major body pain and fatigue and swelling.

So I had to start dropping things. Too much pain to work out. Too tired to write, even if there had been waking hours to do it. Basically everything that was even remotely optional. And I still got less sleep than I needed.

Feel like I need to apologize for being a downer. The garden club post is up now. Peace offering?

Lewisia: 3 new pieces written, May posts queued

Day job: 48.75 hours, holy fuck...

Cooking: falafel and tahini sauce to make wraps

Cleaning: fixed the damaged sprinkler head

Gardening: planted three salvias, planted pumpkin patch

Reading: Escape from Incel Island by Margaret Killjoy (pfft, funny and silly and weird)

Watching: the 1996 Kenneth Branagh production of Hamlet, which I felt an unexpected compulsion to watch again for the first time since I saw it in high school, Stranger Things season 3 episode 1 (finally into never-watched-yet territory)

Listening: ABBA Gold Greatest Hits (I was planning to spread this almost 4-hour album out across a few weeks, but I had a very weird and unpleasant day at work in which I just locked in and repaired machines while listening to the whole thing in one shot, a strange experience)

Clock Mouse: 29 minutes of planning work, plus 474 words written, probably will be taking some time off

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⌈ Secret Post #7065 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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