Fandom: SVSSS
Summary: Shen Yuan tries bringing Luo Binghe to a karaoke bar; it doesn't go well.
Mirrors: On AO3
Wordcount: 100
Ships: BingQiu
Notes: If I were to make a BingQiu FST, this song would be on it
Updated notes: Now with podfic?!?! (To explain my shock, the podfic went up less than four hours after the fic did. Fastest podfic in the west!)
Fic: ( Modern Day Date Night )
Summary: Shen Yuan tries bringing Luo Binghe to a karaoke bar; it doesn't go well.
Mirrors: On AO3
Wordcount: 100
Ships: BingQiu
Notes: If I were to make a BingQiu FST, this song would be on it
Updated notes: Now with podfic?!?! (To explain my shock, the podfic went up less than four hours after the fic did. Fastest podfic in the west!)
Fic: ( Modern Day Date Night )
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Since there are a decent number of fanbinders here, if you know anyone who is BIPoC and interested in a bookbinding scholarship, please feel free to spread the word. I am reading the announcement as open without restriction to guild members only since winning the scholarship includes getting a membership in the guild. This was the announcement on the book-arts listserv I read:
In partnership with the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation, the Guild of Book Workers is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity for any individuals who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) within the Book Arts community.
The scholarship is designed to help expand funding opportunities in the area of Book Arts to support creative projects, education and research.
Individual grants will be awarded in the full sum of $1,000 and a complimentary Guild of Book Workers membership for 1 year. Awarded funds will be payable to individuals with a US tax ID.
Awardees will be required to submit a brief write-up for the Guild of Book Workers Newsletter summarizing the experience and impact of the grant.
This fiscal year’s grant money must be expended by June 30, 2026. Submit your application by April 20, 2026.
Project proposals may include but are not limited to:
- Taking a class offered through a book arts institution
- Materials fees for a university class
- Private study with a bookbinder
- For the purchase of materials necessary to teach a class, etc.
- Costs of travel for research related to Book History, Book Arts, etc.
- Materials to purchase supplies for an individual book project or develop an entry for an exhibition
- Press time for printing
- Support the purchase of big ticket bookbinding equipment
Beginning March 5, you can find the application to apply here: (link)
Thank you for helping us spread the word!
Membership Outreach Committee
Guild of Book Workers
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Someone pointed out that the Crocker-McMillin Mansion in New Jersey might be a good model for Wayne Manor. There aren't many good pictures of it that don't come from real estate listings, but I really like what we see and the mix of "classic Edwardian Mansion Stately Home" and also "modernized for current living". So here it is.
Details: built between 1903 and 1907. Three stories, 75 rooms, 50k square feet, on 12.5 acres. Of those 75 rooms, 21 are bedrooms, and 29 are bathrooms. When it was built, there were a lot of other buildings on the estate: greenhouses, barns, stables, a dairy, gatehouse, garage, workshops, and bathhouses on the river. There were nine single houses and four duplexes for employees, and a two-story house for the head gardener. I think most of those other buildings have either been torn down or sold off--the estate was originally around 1k acres, and now you can tell there are a lot of other buildings around.
( Pics of the interior )
Details: built between 1903 and 1907. Three stories, 75 rooms, 50k square feet, on 12.5 acres. Of those 75 rooms, 21 are bedrooms, and 29 are bathrooms. When it was built, there were a lot of other buildings on the estate: greenhouses, barns, stables, a dairy, gatehouse, garage, workshops, and bathhouses on the river. There were nine single houses and four duplexes for employees, and a two-story house for the head gardener. I think most of those other buildings have either been torn down or sold off--the estate was originally around 1k acres, and now you can tell there are a lot of other buildings around.
( Pics of the interior )
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Finally actually playing this after a brief stint where I was too annoyed to look at it. (The fact that you can't turn off auto-save in the game pisses me off.)
I'm not very far in yet; only made it to my first advancement match. I'm liking the story and the characters so far, but the gameplay... Look, I like turn-based gameplay. I'll probably at least try to knuckle through to the end of this, but I do miss that from the other games. Add to it the fact that the 3D camera is making me kinda dizzy, and, well.
Honestly, a replay of Fire Red and/or Leaf Green and watching the cut scenes/a Let's Play on YouTube is looking pretty appealing by comparison.
I'm not very far in yet; only made it to my first advancement match. I'm liking the story and the characters so far, but the gameplay... Look, I like turn-based gameplay. I'll probably at least try to knuckle through to the end of this, but I do miss that from the other games. Add to it the fact that the 3D camera is making me kinda dizzy, and, well.
Honestly, a replay of Fire Red and/or Leaf Green and watching the cut scenes/a Let's Play on YouTube is looking pretty appealing by comparison.
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I think I may have walked five miles today in while playing Pokémon Go, and my legs are not going to be happy about it tomorrow.
I am trying desperately not to care about the shameless money-grab that is special backgrounds, but alas, it's not working very well.
Anyway, Happy Pokémon Day/Weekend/What-have-you, the trailer for Pokémon Winds and Waves also got to me more than I wanted it to, Nintendo clearly has my number on speed-dial.
I am trying desperately not to care about the shameless money-grab that is special backgrounds, but alas, it's not working very well.
Anyway, Happy Pokémon Day/Weekend/What-have-you, the trailer for Pokémon Winds and Waves also got to me more than I wanted it to, Nintendo clearly has my number on speed-dial.
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I never actually posted my Yuletide fic here, and it's almost March. Way behind. But anyway, I had fun with it, so enjoy!
Title: What Abigail And Ione Did That January
Author:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
beatrice_otter
Fandom: Rivers of London
Characters: Abigail Kamara/Ione Seaton, Thomas Nightingale, Peter Grant
Written For: Chrome in Yuletide 2025
Summary: Ione comes down for a visit after Christmas. But a quiet visit is not in the cards when there is a missing persons case to be solved.
I am standing in Euston Station, and it's even worse of a madhouse than I expected it to be. But I'm so excited I'm not even bothered by the crush of tourists with roller bags who seem determined to run me over as they dash to catch their trains. Ione is coming, and though we've talked on the phone almost every day, it's been months since we said goodbye in Scotland.
I want to know if she smells as good as I remember. I want to know if her skin feels as good as I remember. I'm almost afraid I've built her up, in my head, to such a peak of perfection, that I'll be disappointed to see her again and find she's just a girl.
( But if I were going to let my fear control me, I wouldn't be a wizard now. I'd never have survived the house on Hampstead Heath, or the Robinette kidnapping, or the wyvern up in Glasgow. And I'd never have gotten to kiss Ione. )
Title: What Abigail And Ione Did That January
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beatrice_otter Fandom: Rivers of London
Characters: Abigail Kamara/Ione Seaton, Thomas Nightingale, Peter Grant
Written For: Chrome in Yuletide 2025
Summary: Ione comes down for a visit after Christmas. But a quiet visit is not in the cards when there is a missing persons case to be solved.
I am standing in Euston Station, and it's even worse of a madhouse than I expected it to be. But I'm so excited I'm not even bothered by the crush of tourists with roller bags who seem determined to run me over as they dash to catch their trains. Ione is coming, and though we've talked on the phone almost every day, it's been months since we said goodbye in Scotland.
I want to know if she smells as good as I remember. I want to know if her skin feels as good as I remember. I'm almost afraid I've built her up, in my head, to such a peak of perfection, that I'll be disappointed to see her again and find she's just a girl.
( But if I were going to let my fear control me, I wouldn't be a wizard now. I'd never have survived the house on Hampstead Heath, or the Robinette kidnapping, or the wyvern up in Glasgow. And I'd never have gotten to kiss Ione. )
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It's been ten days since I updated here?!?! Aaaaaaack!
Er. Well. Nothing significant to report, really. Oh, aside from giving a signal boost to this post on![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png)
dw_dev, about Dreamwidth's stance on "AI"/Machine Learning/what-have-you. There's even more detail in this thread on dw_dev on the post just before it, both of which really shed light on some of the actual good uses of Applied Statistics Machines.
Anyway, as a result of Dreamwidth's public stance that they won't accept any AI generated art for anything site supported (styles, mood themes, etc), I went ahead and made a statement of my own on![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
moodthemeinayear. Shortest version: AI generated mood themes will not be eligible for the Dreamwidth points giveaway.
Time for bed readiness now, I think!
Er. Well. Nothing significant to report, really. Oh, aside from giving a signal boost to this post on
dw_dev, about Dreamwidth's stance on "AI"/Machine Learning/what-have-you. There's even more detail in this thread on dw_dev on the post just before it, both of which really shed light on some of the actual good uses of Applied Statistics Machines.Anyway, as a result of Dreamwidth's public stance that they won't accept any AI generated art for anything site supported (styles, mood themes, etc), I went ahead and made a statement of my own on
moodthemeinayear. Shortest version: AI generated mood themes will not be eligible for the Dreamwidth points giveaway.Time for bed readiness now, I think!
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