Shifting focus to another conlang
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selenicseasI've decided to set Dauvonic to the side for now. It requires a little more work than I'm willing to put into it at the moment, and there's another conlang that will take a lot less effort to clean up: Alvàpurrinu.
Alvàpurrinu's grammar was mostly completed back in 2017. There are a couple of sections that will no doubt require some rework, but I had a much clearer idea of what I wanted this conlang to be than I did with Dauvonic. It shouldn't take too long to clean up. I might actually be done with it by the end of the month.
Alvàpurrinu's grammar was mostly completed back in 2017. There are a couple of sections that will no doubt require some rework, but I had a much clearer idea of what I wanted this conlang to be than I did with Dauvonic. It shouldn't take too long to clean up. I might actually be done with it by the end of the month.
It's Not a Typical Animal, Chapter 4
Jul. 10th, 2025 02:29 pmlaridianIt's Not a Typical Animal (3270 words) by laridian
Chapters: 4/9
Fandom: Fallout 76
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Beckett (Fallout 76)
Additional Tags: Art
Series: Part 4 of The Accidental Raider
Summary: When a thrill ride at Nuka-World On Tour goes awry, it awakes a monster from the depths. It goes on a rampage, and it appears nothing can stop it.
Accidental Raider Rowan Dane has something of a "Disney Princess" way with animals. But will that work on an ultracite titan?
This chapter: Willow was swept into the crater, down into the bowels of the earth by a landslide of mine tailings, while trying to look for survivors. He couldn't have survived that...
Fallout New Vegas: Capgras Syndrome
Jul. 8th, 2025 11:56 amlaridianCapgras Syndrome (924 words) by laridian
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fallout: New Vegas
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Courier (Fallout: New Vegas), Arcade Gannon, Craig Boone, Veronica Santangelo, Rose of Sharon Cassidy
Additional Tags: The Enclave (Fallout), Alternate Universe - Shapeshifters
Summary:
The Courier and companions tell scary stories around the campfire; Arcade is there to point out how they couldn't be real.
Entry for 2025 AU Roulette, prompt "Shapeshifters".ack, sorry I forgot to post
Jul. 7th, 2025 06:03 pmunicorndukeHey all, if you'd like to join the crafting hangout, it is tonight from 6-8pm ET!
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It's Not a Typical Animal, Chapter 3
Jul. 7th, 2025 02:10 pmlaridianIt's Not a Typical Animal (2302 words) by laridian
Chapters: 3/9
Fandom: Fallout 76
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Beckett (Fallout 76)
Additional Tags: Art
Series: Part 4 of The Accidental Raider
Summary: When a thrill ride at Nuka-World On Tour goes awry, it awakes a monster from the depths. It goes on a rampage, and it appears nothing can stop it.
Accidental Raider Rowan Dane has something of a "Disney Princess" way with animals. But will that work on an ultracite titan?
This chapter: Things continue to go wrong.
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Jul. 7th, 2025 01:42 pmunicorndukewhen I was working at my previous job, I had been worried I had lost my work ethic, I didn't like working long hours and I didn't really feel motivated or like I was working that hard.
good news is that I was wrong. I do still have a work ethic and can work hard. bad news is that I'm working very hard.
today is technically my day off, we aren't open, we don't have groups out, we don't have workers so we can really be off work. I sprayed weeds in the blueberries all this morning with the backpack sprayer which is sweaty irritating work. I have to walk up and down each row of blueberries on both sides and carefully spot spray each weed (horsenettles were the big one to hit right now, but milkweed, knotweed, bindweed, ground elder are also big). the perennials are hard to get when we're open for customers because of re-entry intervals, so we're closed tomorrow too.
Then I went down to the creek, took some lunch and sat in the water for an hour. read a book. enjoyed the cool
We got a lot of stuff done this past week and had an enjoyable family party where I stayed up until midnight around the campfire chatting with my cousin, my gay cousin, gousin who is a delight and also a soil scientist. good stuff. also got some vegetables planted in extra plastic we laid for squash, so I'm pleased I'll have some stuff. I will plant some more things since there's still another 100 feet open.
I'm spending this afternoon goofing off and doing fun stuff, then groceries first thing tomorrow then back to work work. Thursday night, I have dinner planned with a friend.
Before we get wildly busy with fall stuff, I want to take a trip away, maybe late august when everyone will be getting back to school. I'm thinking somewhere cooler, like the adirondacks or maine or something. maybe see if my sister wants to come along. This needs to be planned between my parents hopefully going somewhere and the open house they're going to have with the event business. As I checked my calendar, it looks like there's an SCA event I wanted to go to late in August, so maybe I'll roll that in somehow. Might be the wrong direction but worth a look.
good news is that I was wrong. I do still have a work ethic and can work hard. bad news is that I'm working very hard.
today is technically my day off, we aren't open, we don't have groups out, we don't have workers so we can really be off work. I sprayed weeds in the blueberries all this morning with the backpack sprayer which is sweaty irritating work. I have to walk up and down each row of blueberries on both sides and carefully spot spray each weed (horsenettles were the big one to hit right now, but milkweed, knotweed, bindweed, ground elder are also big). the perennials are hard to get when we're open for customers because of re-entry intervals, so we're closed tomorrow too.
Then I went down to the creek, took some lunch and sat in the water for an hour. read a book. enjoyed the cool
We got a lot of stuff done this past week and had an enjoyable family party where I stayed up until midnight around the campfire chatting with my cousin, my gay cousin, gousin who is a delight and also a soil scientist. good stuff. also got some vegetables planted in extra plastic we laid for squash, so I'm pleased I'll have some stuff. I will plant some more things since there's still another 100 feet open.
I'm spending this afternoon goofing off and doing fun stuff, then groceries first thing tomorrow then back to work work. Thursday night, I have dinner planned with a friend.
Before we get wildly busy with fall stuff, I want to take a trip away, maybe late august when everyone will be getting back to school. I'm thinking somewhere cooler, like the adirondacks or maine or something. maybe see if my sister wants to come along. This needs to be planned between my parents hopefully going somewhere and the open house they're going to have with the event business. As I checked my calendar, it looks like there's an SCA event I wanted to go to late in August, so maybe I'll roll that in somehow. Might be the wrong direction but worth a look.
Crepuscular Rays
Jul. 6th, 2025 01:20 pmselenicseas
An attempt at figuring out how to draw clouds and light shining through those clouds in pixel art form. This took a little over an hour.
It's Not a Typical Animal, Chapter 2
Jul. 3rd, 2025 09:25 amlaridianIt's Not a Typical Animal (1537 words) by laridian
Chapters: 2/9
Fandom: Fallout 76
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Beckett (Fallout 76)
Additional Tags: Art
Series: Part 4 of The Accidental Raider
Summary: When a thrill ride at Nuka-World On Tour goes awry, it awakes a monster from the depths. It goes on a rampage, and it appears nothing can stop it.
Accidental Raider Rowan Dane has something of a "Disney Princess" way with animals. But will that work on an ultracite titan?
A shift in reading priority
Jul. 4th, 2025 07:00 amselenicseasI've read eight books this year, which is actually more books than I've read in the past three years total. Remember how I said I was switching my reading time to before I went to bed? I've actually finished reading five books since then.
This has corresponded with a drop in me reading short fiction. It's not a time conflict, as I never spent any time reading short fiction before bed. I think it may be a shift in priority on what I want to read. I've been telling myself for years that I need to get back into reading actual books as the stack of books in my physical to-be-read pile kept on growing, but I was never able to get around to doing something about that stack of books until now.
It does feel great to make progress on reading physical books, but I think I'm neglecting reading stories a little too much. I only managed to read 6 in June when I wanted to read at least 9. The priority shift from short fiction to books is fine, but this? Not so much.
What We Weading Wednesday
Jul. 2nd, 2025 02:46 pmwhite_asterNot...dead...yet.
Forget where I was, but here's what I've finished lately.
- Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes - I liked this! I liked Dead Silence (great vibes) and HaTEd Ghost Station (because so much of it didn't make sense to me, plotwise). I felt this was also in the "fun creepy vibes" category. The resolution was kind of simple, but hey, solid space horror.
- Into the Broken Lands by Tanya Huff - I...am glad I read this. Unsure if I "liked" it, but it was kind of a strange book. Imagine...Murderbot in a fantasy setting, with mages who broke part of the world and left it a reality-challenged wasteland, but not before they left behind a lot of very powerful mage-engineered devices, including some humanoid engineered "weapons". That was the part I liked, because it did have some interesting (though kind of overwrought) things to say about defining personhood, and the "weapon" got much more POV than it usually does (Murderbot notwithstanding). There was also one of the most delicately done and interesting corruption arcs I've ever seen done, and that got it up out of 2-star territory for me, but overall it sat around 3 or 3.5. I felt it touched on things I liked but consistently didn't quite hit the beats square enough to get to 4 stars. It wasn't helped by having a very, very annoying set of characters that I hated having to see so much of.
- The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong. I liked this a lot. Cozy, but not too cozy in my view: there was tension and problems and emotions and yes, everything worked out, but that's why I'm over reading cozy anyway, so I felt that was fine.
- The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher. Solid ending to this duology, though it felt very slow for most of it. The ending was a banger, though, and raised it back up into solid 3.5 star territory for me.
Currently I'm reading Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove, and after a wobble at the start where I was kind of unsure if I was going to like the main AI character, it GRABBED me and I've loved it ever since.
Sunshine Revival Post
Jul. 2nd, 2025 01:23 pmyourlibrarian1) As part of ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sunshine_revival's first challenge: "Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community."
I just shared some necklaces I made a few months back over ateverykindofcraft. I did a lot of beading in the first 13 years after I took it up, but things have been rather start and stop in the last 10. A craft store closeout + a challenge from a relative got me making some new things in the last few months. That probably also contributed to my starting everykindofcraft here, because I saw various people posting wonderful stuff that not many people were seeing, whereas on Pillowfort some general craft communities there are always getting posts.
Hopefully we can get more crafters sharing here!
2) Have been watching a slew of Apple+ shows as our subscription cutoff nears. The miniseries Disclaimer was framed in an interesting way, one which I suspect had a lot more clarity in multimedia than in the book, but perhaps not. It uses multiple narrative voices and POV for the narration, including second person, first person, and some omniscient narrative. This was pretty relevant because of who was being framed (literally) and who actually got to have their voice(s) heard. ( Read more... )
3) Surface is a story told in a much more straightforward manner even though it also involves an unreliable narrator of sorts in that our central character had memory loss and is trying to piece together her past which also involves a parental mystery. ( Read more... )
4) Also saw the movie Wolfs, which is fine but largely a vehicle for us to watch Pitt and Clooney do fun stuff. ( Read more... )
5) Finished The Big Conn and Cowboy Cartel, two documentaries about big crime. I found the former much more interesting, even though I'd heard about the case before. What was probably the most striking about both was the role of the media in precipitating change. ( Read more... )
6) Careme was marketed as the story of the first celebrity chef, who served Napoleon, Tallyrand and others. It was certainly about far more than cooking. ( Read more... )
sunshine_revival's first challenge: "Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community."I just shared some necklaces I made a few months back over at
everykindofcraft. I did a lot of beading in the first 13 years after I took it up, but things have been rather start and stop in the last 10. A craft store closeout + a challenge from a relative got me making some new things in the last few months. That probably also contributed to my starting everykindofcraft here, because I saw various people posting wonderful stuff that not many people were seeing, whereas on Pillowfort some general craft communities there are always getting posts. Hopefully we can get more crafters sharing here!
2) Have been watching a slew of Apple+ shows as our subscription cutoff nears. The miniseries Disclaimer was framed in an interesting way, one which I suspect had a lot more clarity in multimedia than in the book, but perhaps not. It uses multiple narrative voices and POV for the narration, including second person, first person, and some omniscient narrative. This was pretty relevant because of who was being framed (literally) and who actually got to have their voice(s) heard. ( Read more... )
3) Surface is a story told in a much more straightforward manner even though it also involves an unreliable narrator of sorts in that our central character had memory loss and is trying to piece together her past which also involves a parental mystery. ( Read more... )
4) Also saw the movie Wolfs, which is fine but largely a vehicle for us to watch Pitt and Clooney do fun stuff. ( Read more... )
5) Finished The Big Conn and Cowboy Cartel, two documentaries about big crime. I found the former much more interesting, even though I'd heard about the case before. What was probably the most striking about both was the role of the media in precipitating change. ( Read more... )
6) Careme was marketed as the story of the first celebrity chef, who served Napoleon, Tallyrand and others. It was certainly about far more than cooking. ( Read more... )
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