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I am up to 3 section summaries done. It's been a real trial getting some of these scene properly planned out, instead of just vague "and then this happens".
But i need the summaries so I have better anchors for when it's time to actually write out the scripts.

I've also jumped ahead to start work on section 6, because section 4 is currently a black hole of "it needs to happen for the plot, but I don't know what happens in it".
And much like a black hole, when I get too close I start spinning in circles but don't really get anywhere.
I can't dawdle forever though. Eventually I have to face it.

More details and spoilers behind the cut.

( Cut for significant plot spoilers )

I actually wanted to go even more in detail on the spoilers here and talk about the areas I'm working on, but I've starting to fucking fall asleep.
I actually closed my eyes and drowzed for a bit there with this text box open and partially written.

But I wanted to give y'all an update on the progress, so there you go.

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basfa

Minutes of Meeting #1851
Monday, March 9, 2026

Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
meeting held online AND meeting live at Parktown Pizza [at Meridian & Hillsdale in SJ]
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Called to order at 8 pm
4live/8online beings attended the meeting

The minutes of meeting 1850 were accepted as 'splat'

Proxy Treasurer's report = Regular: $15,805.32
Party: $230.58
Money can be sent to salve guilt via PayPal - sent to: dwgallaher@gmail.com
Though we have accrued $165.34 since the resumption of live meetings.

the VP had nothing fannish to report, but said he will not be here at next week's meeting

the President had nothing fannish to report

There were no committee reports

no old or new business

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Yochanan announced that 3Below Theater will have a play called 'The Bardy Bunch' March 28 thru April 26
see = https://3belowtheaters.com/the-bardy-bunch/

Ken announced that Cinequest starts tomorrow
see = https://www.cinequest.org/
& Ken announced that the Oscars are being given out this Sunday
& Ken announced that his show this Sunday on KFJC will have a pre-recorded music special 'The Traitors and Other Backstabbers' 7-10pm.
see = https://kfjc.org/listen/

Lisa announced that Consonance will be held March 27-29 in Newark, Calif & hotel reservations close March 12
see = https://consonance.org/

Valerie announced that the LA Worldcon hotel reservations are currently open
see = https://www.lacon.org/
& Valerie announced that Early Bird registration for Clockwork Alchemy 2026 ends on March 15, 2026. This year's convention will be held Friday through Sunday, October 16-18, 2026 & will be returning to the awesome Grand Bay Hotel SF in Redwood City, CA.
see = https://www.clockworkalchemy.com/archives/4312

Lynn announced that there is a Festival of the Living Rooms this weekend, March 13-15
see = https://www.facebook.com/groups/1606369249486666/
& Lynn announced that Diana Koivunen is in El Camino Hospital. She’s expected to be on the 4th floor, but hasn’t been given a room assignment as of this moment.

Reviews:

The secretary reviewed losing a tooth as quite painful - but the quality of dental care received was fantastic

Yochanan reviewed 'Dracula: a Love Tale' as a Gothic romantic horror fantasy. He found it visually stunning but it also has some really weird & distracting scenes. He found it uneven and rates it as worth matinee.
see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(2025_French_film)
Yochanan also reviewed 'Send Help' as a thriller comedy adventure with a lot of jump-scares. He found it darkly funny & highly entertaining, rating it as worth full price.
see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_Help

Valerie reviewed the 7-book 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' series as fun & popular. She says it's Hitchhiker's Guide meets D&D & is full of wacky adventures. She finds all 7 books to be page-turners & highly recommends them.
see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Crawler_Carl

Lisa reviewed the latest episode of 'Starfleet Academy' as it ended on a cliff-hanger. She's all caught up on the series so far & finds it interesting. Yochanan has also been enjoying the show & considered there is good character development. Rick also enjoyed the episode but thinks they are trying to put too much in the episodes & reacts 'yay'.
see = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Starfleet_Academy_(TV_series)

we adjourned at = 8:26 pm

Rumor of the Week: 'Earth is being watched by the planets on parade because they can't believe what they are seeing'

there were some auctions

torachan

1. I walked up to Whole Foods tonight and dropped off my Amazon return and got an email saying the money was credited back to my account while I was on the walk home.

2. I did two store visits in Orange County today and Carla came with me and went shopping (one of the stores is right next to a Book Off) while I worked, so we could just go straight to Disneyland on the way home. We haven't been doing midweek trips as much this year, but a friend of hers is in town for work and this was the best time to meet up. (But since the Food and Wine Festival just started, there's a ton of new menu items to try, so it works out in that regard as well.)

3. Tomorrow I am just doing a store visit at the store near home and then WFH in the afternoon for meetings, so no long drives, which will be nice (especially with gas prices as they are, though I do get reimbursed for the store visits).

4. The weather was about 15 degrees cooler today than yesterday at home and around 20 degrees cooler down in OC. Much nicer than yesterday!

5. Molly has been really into the old cardboard cat house lately for some reason.

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fan_flashworks

Title: waiting for someone else
Fandom: Ponies (TV 2026)
Rating: Mature
Length: 1031
Content notes: n/a
Author notes: I guess this is loosely about anticipating, in that it is about waiting? Anyway, my first fan_flashworks entry! And also the only fic I have ever written for this fandom. Is it the only fic I ever will write? Unclear
Summary: Ivanna and Twila understand each other, but they both know Twila would rather be with someone else. A specific someone else.

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gardening

Finally started some seeds this past weekend! A little later than I intended, but given that last year I started them a whole 2 months sooner than I ought to have, I'll take it as a win. More seeds than I had realized need to be stratified first, so those are now chilling in the fridge and I'll get them in pots next month instead.

I'm hoping this week it'll be warm enough out that I can get some compost into the garden so it's all prepped when plants are ready to go in. We've already had crocuses and daffodils up for a few weeks, but we also had a frost this morning, so it's still a little early for most things. Unpredictable March! I've got big plans for some of the space this year, but we'll see how much I actually manage to get done. So far I'm mostly working on clearing out the cabinets so I have space for harvests later in the season. I made some tincture blends on Saturday to consolidate some jars, and used up some oils for salve yesterday. I'll have to spend a lot of time over the next couple of months drinking tea to work through my stash of dried herbs. There are worse fates!

The community garden has gotten started too, and I spent some time there today weeding and clearing out dead plants. I took an extra parsley and some stray borage home with me. I've never gotten borage to take in my garden, but I've tried putting it in a different location this time and maybe it'll settle in.

jazzfish

*mindblown.gif*

Okay, so, clefs. If you've seen piano music you know how it's got two staffs, one for the right hand / high notes and one for the left / low notes. The staffs have a squiggle on the left end of them: the high one has a sort of loopy thing and the low one has a sort of 7 or 2 with a couple of dots. These are clefs, specifically treble clef and bass clef. They tell you what pitch the notes on the staff represent.

Technically the symbols are a G clef and an F clef: the spiral at the centre of the treble squiggle is always on a note that's a G, and the two dots on the bass are always on a note that's an F. Technically if you put the symbols on other lines you'd indicate different pitches. In practice, these days nobody does that, and 'G clef' and 'treble clef' are synonymous, as are 'F clef' and 'bass clef.'

Violin music is written in treble clef. Cello music is (mostly) written in bass clef. The range of notes you can easily play on those instruments more or less coincides with what you can easily write in those clefs without egregious use of extra ledger lines for notes above/below the staff.

There's also another clef symbol. The C clef symbol looks like a capital B, and the middle of the two humps is always on a note that's a C. It's used to indicate two uncommon clefs. Alto clef gets used for viola music and nothing else as far as I know, and tenor clef gets used for cello music that's off in the upper registers of the cello. Alto clef is... honestly I don't know what its relation to treble clef is, other than "lower," I think it's a sixth lower? Maybe a seventh? I don't read treble clef very well so I don't really know.

Tenor clef is a fifth higher than bass clef. This makes it really convenient for cello music. The strings on a cello (or violin or viola) are a fifth apart, so if you're used to reading bass clef for cello then tenor is the same thing just one string up.

A viola is a fifth lower than a violin, and an octave higher than a cello. If you put 'octave strings' on a viola, it plays the same notes as a cello. A tenor viola is an octave lower than a violin, and a fifth higher than a cello.

Which means it can natively play music in tenor clef. Hence the names.

Here endeth the classical music neepery for the day.

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torachan

We went down to DCA again today for dinner to meet up with a friend of Carla's who's in town for work but also spending all his downtime at Disneyland.

Since we'd just been to the park a couple days ago and also had had kind of a long day today before getting to the park, we didn't really do much other than have dinner and chat, and then walk around the park and chat, but it was a nice visit.

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ysabetwordsmith

This video looks at magic in worldbuilding. It lays out four points ...

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Current Mood: busy

but_can_i_be_trusted posting in

vocab_drabbles

Title: 'Fatal Feasts'
Fandom: Original Fiction
Author:

but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairings: None
Warnings: Disturbing imagery; mentions of warfare and mass death
Notes: Crossposted to

ficlet_zone and

anythingdrabbles
Summary: ...life itself's become chorelike.

( Fatal Feasts )

passingbuzzards

Two recent things, Vorkosigan Saga and Fallen London:

it’s like connecting the dots — 7,900 words, Vorkosigan Saga, Gregor Vorbarra/Byerly Vorrutyer, porn with a dash of plot (interrupted under-desk cock warming, ft. politics and a little romance).

By could think and suck cock at the same time; he wouldn’t have been much good at his job if he couldn’t.

In which Byerly solves political problems while in a compromising position.

Obligatory language comment about this fic: I managed to work in a translated Russian movie quotation that’s often used colloquially, in a way which is both a) accurate to how it can be used in Russian (which is why I wanted it there, I was writing the dialogue and was like, actually, you know, the most proper reply here would be «Птица Говорун отличается умом и сообразительностью»—) AND b) makes sense in the context of the English conversation, despite lacking the memetic frame of reference that makes it usable in Russian. The ultimate bilingual win, may some Russian-speaker someday run across it and have a laugh:

…
When they parted from the kiss By said, “My word,” rather breathlessly. “Was that my reward for helping to uncover potential embezzlement of Imperial funds?”

“Something like that.” They were still standing very close together, Gregor’s hands framing By’s waist. The edge of Gregor’s mouth quirked up. “You do such a fine job of playing the strutting peacock, one could almost forget you’re not just a pretty face.”

“Oh, no. The talking bird is set apart by its wit and reasoning skills, don’t you know.”

“I’d say you’re a very high-maintenance talking bird, but you do appear to be earning your keep.” By was thoroughly charmed to discover that viewed at close range the corners of Gregor’s eyes creased when he smiled, for all that his habitually stern face had no laugh lines. […]

Also, the real-world scandal my friend suggested to me when I was like “I need something to knock off for this fic because my ability to come up with an embezzlement scandal from scratch is in the negatives” was the Crédit Mobilier scandal concerning the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1860s, which I don’t think I’d ever heard about before (or else it may have been mentioned in passing in a history class and then forgotten). What a wild ride of a Wikipedia entry!

You will leave Irem. — 1,200 words, Fallen London, The Player & The Youthful Naturalist, major spoilers for all three endings of Evolution.

Three ways of departing Irem.

(Or: whatever choice you make at the crossroads, you make it out of love.)

I rarely do anything so short-form so it was an interesting challenge to do this little coda, where every sentence really must absolutely count and sound exactly right! (Not that that’s actually any different from my approach to anything else, but in this instance it did feel almost nearer to assembling a poem, or something.) The Julian of Norwich quotation that Fallen London is so fond of using—all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well—made for the perfect double-meaning at the end, most satisfying.

My no. 1 comment to Azie as I was writing this was, how I love that English allows you to say things like, “you will have done what you will do”! Russian with its three total tenses simply cannot compete, you just can’t attain this level of specificity in that language. Not that Russian (or indeed English) strictly needs it, obviously, but I do absolutely love that English allows it, and it’s highly appropriate in this fic: in Fallen London everything that takes place in Irem is written in the future tense, so the fic’s “present” is in the future, but it also looks to a further future wherein you’re looking back towards that “present” in retrospect… People can complain about English being a horrible zombie language all they like, it remains a source of unending delight TO ME, etc.

petra posting in

thisfinecrew

A friend let me know about a new Bureau of Prisons guideline for treatment of inmates with gender dysphoria, which you can read in its entirety here. The short form is that they're denying trans inmates gender-affirming care despite medical consensus, and substituting conversion therapy, which has been proven to be harmful and does not in any way "cure" gender dysphoria.

( My friend's letter, posted with permission )

agoodwinsmith

Starfleet Academy - Season One; Episode 9 - 300th Night

SPOILER

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Well, this is a two-parter season finaleeee, so on it's own it is unsatisfying because unresolved. And we also know that even though a second season has already finished filming, the show-runners are going to leave us dangling over the void at the end of Episode 10.

AND - just before I get into episode 9, I want to comment on the name of the final episode: Rubicon. Erm. I know Star Trek has a hard on for Rome, but um. There was a prophecy that Rome would be safe until the Rubicon (a strategic river) was crossed. All Roman armies returning to Rome stopped on the appropriate side of the Rubicon. Caesar brought his legions across the Rubicon, and the republic fell and became an empire (with an emperor in charge). Who, at the Academy is Caesar (I would vote for Lura Thok but this metaphor means she gets stabbed by her buds - although that means that Jett Reno is the grieving widow, and that I would like to see)? What is the sacred river in this context? Was the Federation a republic, and who will become emperor? And so on. I may regret this paragraph but this wouldn't be the first time that a cool name gets co-opted for a screamingly unrelated concept. There. I feel better.

So.. Once a fangirl has accepted Warp Drive and Transporters and Magic Snackie-Snack Windows[1], a fangirl has to just cover her ears and say "lah lah lah" every time whacko-banana technology is used. And besides which, I have excusium for how a lethal net of mines was so quickly cast around Federation space.[2]

So. I'm onboard for the idea of emotional overflow at the end of the school year, whether that is bonding rituals (Jay-Den), or efforts to start anew (SAM). I'm not up for unsupported character twists. Yes, SAM has probably had a change of heart since, for her, it has been 17 years since she last saw Genesis, but certainly she could recall that Genesis welcomed her openly. I am not happy that SAM might be turning into a type of person that does harsh things and glides by on their quirky charm.[3]

Also, I have mentioned that I was worried that Genesis was becoming the "mother" of the group because she welcomes, and accepts, and helps every time we see her. She welcomed SAM. She assisted and saved Derem while he did his heroic walk outside. She did not rat on Caleb when she found him accessing a forbidden comm panel. She watched over SAM in the pub. She helps Tarima through her drunken off-rail excursion. And blah de blah de blah. We watch her skills blossom on the bridge, and she saves her team's face in the games competition, and then admits Derem back into the team's scheme for revenge pranking. Huh. And now I am supposed to believe that the other cadets find her selfish and fearful? Guys, guys - do you even read what you write?

Mostly I am dissatisfied because episode 9 was mostly setting the stage for episode 10. Anyhoo.

[1] - I have always been disappointed that the Magic Snackie-Snack Window wasn't envisaged as the Magic Snackie-Snack Table Cloth as per my favourite fairytales. It would have been emotionally satisfying. :)
[2] - (a) replicator technology means that fully functionally super boomy mines can be made rapidly; (b) transporter technology means that such mines can be placed by ships travelling at warp; since we saw Caleb and team leave a warp travelling ship without becoming Khionian glitter barf, then it's possible; (c) the mine-bombs are so hugely destructive that they only need to be close enough that the expanding explosive corona reaches other mines.
[3] - I have a friend that I and others have forgiven and forgiven for over 50 years, and we will do it again because he/she has charm/charisma that we cannot explain or resist. Yes, we talk about it; yes, we still love him/her.

x95 posting in

fan_flashworks

Title: in the digital rain
Fandom: Crash Fever
Rating: G / General Audiences
Content notes: Embedded images.
Artist notes: Drawn with Krita, page/canvas templates via Electric Zine Maker.
Summary: Foucault and Helmholtz wait for the rain to stop.
Challenge: 508 - Anticipation

( in the digital rain )

lannamichaels

I guess I cannot do the necessary suspension of disbelief/price of admission be in Workplace Fandoms anymore because what I've osmosised of The Pitt Season 2 is a lot of "should characters X, Y, and Z forgive Character A who was abusive and also stole patient medications and -- this part I'm unclear on but it sounds likely -- also practiced medicine in an ER while under the influence? It's very important question on if his apologies were good enough or if people should forgive him or be his friend again" and I'm like "that person should be fired from the hospital, this is not a buddy sitcom where they're all over at each other's apartments and dating each other and their warm opinions of each other matter, this is an emergency room, they are coworkers in a high-pressure high-stakes environment, not friends, he should be fired and they should never see him again and get to decide if they want to invite him to their bookclubs or poker nights or whatever, but the question of 'should they forgive him, has he done enough' is irrelevant because he should lose his medical license."

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The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women (from pudding.cool)

https://pudding.cool/2026/02/womens-sizing/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

james_davis_nicoll

Canada Roles Awards seeks to celebrate the games and art created by the Canadian tabletop Roleplaying Game Industry.

2026 Canada Roles Awards

glitteringstars posting in

writethisfanfic

Hi everyone! Hope all is going well!

Did you write today?

Also, what are thing you do to help with writer's block?

beccaelizabeth

From a certain point of view, since my last entry, I have triumphed over the forces of gravity and geometry and slightly wonky shelving.

From another point of view I am a muppet who knocked a book down behind the book case and, after several not great ideas did not pan out, finally had to empty the shelves and try and lift the whole case out.
Which did not actually work.
So I have retrieved the book by tipping it as far out and forwards as it would deign to go and using the grabby stick.

I think the cover will even go flat again once I leave it under a bunch of other books for a while, which by this point is a best case scenario.
... it's fiiiiine, just believe it is a perfectly ordinary book that you wouldn't personally miss if it did that...

After a quick google, as it turns out, I could get a brand new copy right now for a maximum of £11
which next time I may try to search Before all the shenanigans.

... I think possibly I did the thing where I can see the next step to try and lose sight of if I personally at quarter to midnight need to try it.

*sigh*

Is okay, is all done now, bar the refilling...

nnozomi posting in

guardian_learning

部首
手 part 40
摄, to capture images/to act for; 摆, to arrange/pendulum; 摇, to shake ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=64

语法
3.10 除了 (except/besides)
https://www.digmandarin.com/hsk-3-grammar

词汇
典型, typical; 经典, classics ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/

Guardian:
名，利，读者的崇拜，都摆到你面前了, fame, profits, your readers' worship, it was all laid out in front of you
除了你，从来没有人试着想要去了解我, except for you, no one has ever tried to understand me
这是典型的解离失忆症, typical amnesia

Me:
他喜欢玩摇滚。
除了水果以外我还想吃冰淇淋。

olivermoss

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1word1day

Iblis [ib-lis]

noun

an evil spirit or devil, the chief of the wicked jinn (Isalmic).

examples

1. But Satan, or Iblis in his Muslim incarnation, a redheaded wisecracker who claims to be Jacob’s dearest friend, argues for a radical intervention that can open Jacob’s “strictured heart”, allowing him to feel and heal. "Rabih Alameddine’s new novel explores the ordeal of remembering." The Economist. 29 Nov 2016.

2. Al-Hijr also repeats the story of Iblis, the devil, who refuses to bow to human beings, and since they are made of mud, tempts them with the material distractions of a muddy world. "American Quran is an Old/New Masterpiece." The Washington Post. 21 Jan 2016.

origin
Arabic, إِبْلِيس

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I discovered this recently when I happened upon this funny Islamic cat Youtube channel.

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kaberett

( tada )

stonepicnicking_okapi

greghousesgf

Had some Assam tea. For the past few days I've had this pain in my side that's really bothering me, I made a doctor's appointment for tomorrow. I just hope whatever it is isn't something that is going to fuck up things to the degree that the business with my leg has. Walking and carrying things is just so fucking hard now. I had to do laundry, take out the garbage and go to the drugstore and pick up only a few things at the grocery and it wipes me out, and getting lots of groceries messes me up even more.

Current Music: Zuco 103

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Theme Prompt: 291 - safe harbour
Title: a swim and a skim
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Rating/Warnings: T
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 991
Summary: Luo Binghe will win the battle, one way or another

( birds flying high above you )

stonepicnicking_okapi

It's Agust D day! And I love him.

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Where's the Watcher's sister's slayer who can never lose?
Isn't there a princess upon a unicorn?
To save the captured Prince Third-Born
From darkest fates forlorn?

I'm holding out for a True Sue!
Accept no substitutes!
Because Your Name's not the one
To get the job done when dragons need to be slain!
We need a True Sue!
A Mary fit for the fight!
She's got to have violet eyes
And wow all the guys
And sparkle like stars all the night! 🎶

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