lannamichaels: Brachos 2a, caption: "There's a debate about that" (daf yomi)
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A good time! Some nice stuff where you can really see the development of halacha over time about a lot of relevant kashrus stuff (bread, cheese, wine, milk, fish, grasshoppers, prepared foods, etc). But not much to note about specifics. But it is amusing that grocery fraud is such a constant: yes, you do have to be concerned that someone who is claiming to sell something has actually substituted something cheaper instead, and also people will absolutely pass off fish as being another kind of fish. You gotta know what you're eating!

My notes behind cut.

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aliensamba: yuuji from jujutsu kaisen (s)
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Medium: film
Additional: team challenge (alpha)
Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Characters: Okkotsu Yuuta, Geto Suguru
Prompt: Lost and Found
Notes: 2 gifs for week 11 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.


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aliensamba: yuuji from jujutsu kaisen (s)
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Medium: film
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Characters: Theoden, Aragorn, Legolas, Orc Army
Prompt: Overwhelming
Notes: 1 tumblr graphic for week 11 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.


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aliensamba: vash the stampede (k)
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Fandom: The Summer Hikaru Died
Characters: Indou Hikaru, Tsujinaka Yoshiki
Notes: 1 tumblr graphic. This is my entry for challenge 2 at Sunshine Revival.



Challenge #2 Tunnel of Love
Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.
Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like.


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aliensamba: nanami from jujutsu kaisen (t)
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Medium: film
Fandom: Enola Holmes, The Witcher, Man of Steel
Character: Sherlock Holmes, Geralt of Rivia, Clark Kent
Notes: 3 picspams for Hide and Seek Final Round at Land of Art.


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aliensamba: mikey from tokyo revengers (m)
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Medium: tv series
Additional: team challenge (alpha)
Fandom: Cinderella Closet
Characters: Fukunaga Haruka, Kamiyama Hikaru
Prompt: Face
Notes: 2 gifs from the promo video for week 11 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.


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The future has candy

Jul. 22nd, 2025 08:35 pm
lannamichaels: Astronaut Dale Gardner holds up For Sale sign after EVA. (Default)
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Back in the bygone days of last millennium, I would read a children's book series, and I think it was in Baby Sitter's Club that this happened but frankly I don't remember, where the characters would do something called sucking the filling out of a twinkie.

I had no idea what a twinkie was. The only candy I knew that was hollow and you could suck things out of was twizzlers, because we'd do things like bite the ends off of twizzlers and then use them as straws for ginger ale and then eat the twizzler. So I assumed twinkies were some kind of filled twizzlers.

Many years later -- I was about 16? -- I saw twinkies for the first time and discovered that they're nothing like twizzlers. The betrayal. The confusion. Etc.

Anyway turns out we're in the future and they now make twizzlers with a filling inside.

I haven't eaten them. They seem to be a different, softer formulation of twizzler to make it work, and I don't feel the need to explore this at this juncture.

But.

This is exactly what I thought twinkies were.

aliensamba: vash the stampede (k)
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Medium: film
Fandom: Captain America: The First Avenger
Characters: Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers
Prompt: Left Behind
Notes: 1 picspam for week 11 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.


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[Vorkosigan] Six Sentence Sunday

Jul. 20th, 2025 04:57 pm
lannamichaels: Astronaut Dale Gardner holds up For Sale sign after EVA. (Default)
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I've picked up Isekai Cordelia again, which is great fun, taking it from ~11K to ~18K.

My sheer glee and joy in this fic may require a bit of backstory. The first fic I ever did anything with, I submitted to Star Wars Chicks, they were having some kind of competition or submittal or something, this was back when you got there via IP address and not a domain name. Obviously my fic did not win whatever it was, as you would expect. There was another fic that was submitted during that time, it was about an OFC, who Luke falls in love with, and I loved her and the descriptions of her dress at the end, and I will never find this fic again, I am aware of that, and it was probably meant to be a 1/?, and who knows. But it was so great.

There are problems dating this story. My FFN join date was Oct 1998. Star Wars Chicks, according to fanlore, didn't exist until March 1999. I distinctly recall already being head-deep into OT Star Wars, especially the Luke side of things, in 1998-1999. I think I think this story happens a lot earlier in 1999 than it probably did. I used to write fic in notepad and save as .txt, despite many computer changes since then, the earlist date modified on a txt file in my old Star Wars folder is July 1999. There are also problems with that. Also on this deep dive I discovered some school assignments from 1997 and also what might be the address list for invitations to my bat mitzvah, I can think of no other reason for me to have this list of names and addresses, nor why I have it even with that reason for me to have it. At one point, I think around 2003/2004, I had a massive computer failure and had to get everything out through DOS and so that capped file names to be like "ALITTL~1.DOC" and no I never renamed any of them back to their full names, so this is a journey of discovery. -- okay I've got some Q-the-star-wars-character in my homework folder, last modified date December 1998, yeah, who the hell knows. But this does work, I know I was heavily on StarTrek.com and various Star Trek sites before I got into Star Wars.


Later on, I discovered that kind of fic was disparaged as being a Mary Sue, and one of the reasons I was never too het up about Mary Sues is whenever someone would complain about it, I'd be like "you mean that fic I loved?"

So writing an OFC transmigrates into a sci-fi series and fixes everything -- the kind of fic that would get mocked as being Mary Sue -- is so satisfying.


So the next time I'm in the district, I track down Vasily Petrov at a warehouse right outside of Hassadar. There are machines in there that simulate a ski environment. There are Space TV Screens on the wall that show scenic scenery. There are--

--a fully created, fully funded business plan for opening a ski resort in the Dendarii Mountains, which will employ only people who have lived on the mountain since the Cetagandans left.

"I told you to leave it to me," Vasily says, smiling.
aliensamba: gawain the green knight (g)
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Medium: film
Fandom: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Character: Nancy Thompson
Prompt: Nightmares
Lucky Color: green
Warnings: Horror. Blood. Viewer discretion is advised.
Notes: 1 picspam for week 10 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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088 - 2 gifs; 25.02 - jujutsu kaisen

Jul. 17th, 2025 02:46 pm
aliensamba: nanami from jujutsu kaisen (t)
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Medium: anime
Additional: team challenge (alpha)
Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen; Yashahime Princess Half-Demon
Characters: Geto Suguru, Gojo Satoru
Prompt: Ghost
Warnings: Canon-Typical Violence. Spoilers for season 2 episode 10 ("Pandemonium"). Spoilers for Yashahime Princess Half-Demon (some concepts and scene analysis).
Notes: 2 gifs for week 10 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.


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