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musesfoolHoly forking shirtballs, The Good Place isn't on Netflix anymore! And when I tried to cue it up on Prime, it wouldn't play - I got an error. So I ordered the dvds. I can't be having with this bs anymore. I also need to buy Leverage at some point, and The Expanse. Maybe I will for Christmas this year, as long as I'm not furloughed or anything.
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muladharaI also just bought 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (also second-hand), because I've been listening to the soundtrack, as Hitoshi Sakimoto worked on it, and my bias is showing, and also I've really enjoyed what I've heard so far! And I thought I might prefer to play it myself rather than watch someone else (I did find a longplay, but I wasn't in the mood for it at the time).
No spoilers, please! I don't even really know what it's about because I didn't really get that far with the longplay.
No spoilers, please! I don't even really know what it's about because I didn't really get that far with the longplay.
musesfoolAs seen all around these parts, the AO3 alphabet meme:
Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.
A - Another Gravity (Firefly, Mal/Zoe)
B - The Boys of Summer (Hot Corner Rag) (SPN, Sam & Dean)
C - Courtship Rituals of the World's Most Awkward Superheroes (Avengers/Amazing Spider-Man, Steve/Peter)
D - the dream of flight persists (Star Wars/Firefly, Anakin/Kaylee)
E - Eight the Hard Way (Ocean's 8, Amita/Daphne)
F - The Forces Ranged Within Us and Against Us (SPN, Sam/Dean)
G - Girl, You're Like a Weird Vacation (Blue Beetle, Brenda/Paco)
H - The Hubbert Peak (Dark Angel, Max/Alec)
I - The Injurious Internet Meme Incursion (The Middleman, Wendy, MM, & Ida)
J - Joy has he whom she embraces (Amelia Peabody, Peabody/Emerson)
K - Katie, Bar the Door (DCU, Jason, ensemble)
L - A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action (Ocean's 11, Danny/Rusty)
M - Mother Is the Name for God (Star Wars, Leia & Padme)
N - No Exit (Star Wars; Darth Vader/Ahsoka)
O - Only where love and need are one (L'Engleverse, Adam/Joshua)
P - Paint a thank-you on my palm (Six of Crows, Inej, ensemble)
Q - Quality (LotR, Faramir)
R - Retail Therapy (DCU, Cass, ensemble)
S - Stuck in the Middle with You (Star Wars, Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka)
T - There's Still Time to Change the Road You're On (Star Wars, Anakin, Luke, Leia)
U - Until the Sea Shall Free Them (The Iliad, Achilles/Patroclus)
V - Visiting Hours (DCU, Alfred & Jason)
W - with our way lit only by stars (Earthsea, Ged/Tenar)
X - Xue Bai, Xue Hong (Firefly, Mal/River/Simon)
Y - you and your high top sneakers and your sailor tattoos (Avengers, Steve/Darcy)
Z - The Zombie Love Bug Concatenation (SPN/The Middleman, Dean/Wendy)
26/26, out of 950 stories on AO3. I ignored the ones that start with parentheticals and numbers. I also went mostly on vibes, so it's not a real overview of my stuff, but it is one title for every letter of the alphabet.
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Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.
A - Another Gravity (Firefly, Mal/Zoe)
B - The Boys of Summer (Hot Corner Rag) (SPN, Sam & Dean)
C - Courtship Rituals of the World's Most Awkward Superheroes (Avengers/Amazing Spider-Man, Steve/Peter)
D - the dream of flight persists (Star Wars/Firefly, Anakin/Kaylee)
E - Eight the Hard Way (Ocean's 8, Amita/Daphne)
F - The Forces Ranged Within Us and Against Us (SPN, Sam/Dean)
G - Girl, You're Like a Weird Vacation (Blue Beetle, Brenda/Paco)
H - The Hubbert Peak (Dark Angel, Max/Alec)
I - The Injurious Internet Meme Incursion (The Middleman, Wendy, MM, & Ida)
J - Joy has he whom she embraces (Amelia Peabody, Peabody/Emerson)
K - Katie, Bar the Door (DCU, Jason, ensemble)
L - A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action (Ocean's 11, Danny/Rusty)
M - Mother Is the Name for God (Star Wars, Leia & Padme)
N - No Exit (Star Wars; Darth Vader/Ahsoka)
O - Only where love and need are one (L'Engleverse, Adam/Joshua)
P - Paint a thank-you on my palm (Six of Crows, Inej, ensemble)
Q - Quality (LotR, Faramir)
R - Retail Therapy (DCU, Cass, ensemble)
S - Stuck in the Middle with You (Star Wars, Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka)
T - There's Still Time to Change the Road You're On (Star Wars, Anakin, Luke, Leia)
U - Until the Sea Shall Free Them (The Iliad, Achilles/Patroclus)
V - Visiting Hours (DCU, Alfred & Jason)
W - with our way lit only by stars (Earthsea, Ged/Tenar)
X - Xue Bai, Xue Hong (Firefly, Mal/River/Simon)
Y - you and your high top sneakers and your sailor tattoos (Avengers, Steve/Darcy)
Z - The Zombie Love Bug Concatenation (SPN/The Middleman, Dean/Wendy)
26/26, out of 950 stories on AO3. I ignored the ones that start with parentheticals and numbers. I also went mostly on vibes, so it's not a real overview of my stuff, but it is one title for every letter of the alphabet.
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musesfoolI made this apple cider doughnut holes recipe today and meh. I didn't even like them enough plain to make the glaze. They just tasted so strongly of nutmeg to me and nothing of apple cider or even cinnamon.
I was also going to make char siu today and then pork buns with the leftovers tomorrow, but I forgot the meat has to marinate overnight so now I will make the ribs tomorrow, freeze the leftovers, and try to make the buns next weekend. Or maybe I'll just make pork fried rice. Idk. I used to always order pork buns but I don't see them on menus anymore (lemon chicken, another Chinese restaurant fave, has also seemed to disappear, at least from the places around here), so it would be fantastic if I could make them myself. It doesn't seem too hard. I mean, the hardest part for me will probably be rolling and sealing them. *hands* Eventually we'll see!
In other news, Baby Miss L has settled on being a witch for Halloween and her costume is ADORABLE. But she also has a secondary costume, as she has quite the busy social schedule, which is a cow, which doubles as pajamas, for those nights where she's out past bedtime. SO CUTE. I also got some pictures of her pumpkin picking while wearing a jack o'lantern t-shirt and she remains the cutest and best dressed kid around. 😍😍😍😍😍😍
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I was also going to make char siu today and then pork buns with the leftovers tomorrow, but I forgot the meat has to marinate overnight so now I will make the ribs tomorrow, freeze the leftovers, and try to make the buns next weekend. Or maybe I'll just make pork fried rice. Idk. I used to always order pork buns but I don't see them on menus anymore (lemon chicken, another Chinese restaurant fave, has also seemed to disappear, at least from the places around here), so it would be fantastic if I could make them myself. It doesn't seem too hard. I mean, the hardest part for me will probably be rolling and sealing them. *hands* Eventually we'll see!
In other news, Baby Miss L has settled on being a witch for Halloween and her costume is ADORABLE. But she also has a secondary costume, as she has quite the busy social schedule, which is a cow, which doubles as pajamas, for those nights where she's out past bedtime. SO CUTE. I also got some pictures of her pumpkin picking while wearing a jack o'lantern t-shirt and she remains the cutest and best dressed kid around. 😍😍😍😍😍😍
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muladharaSo I have just spent fifty quid on three second-hand games.
FFVII Remake, because listening to the soundtrack has given me a craving to play it, finally. I want to hear the music in situ! And also Bravely Default and Bravely the Second, because I want to play them and they were just there and...I dunno. I've got the money to get them, so why not.
I think I deserve them because of how flattened I have been by migraines and tooth pain this last week. (Thankfully, the tooth pain had nothing to do with the filling I had to have a couple of days ago, but ugh, I would prefer not to have it at all! The pain, that is. The filling was a necessary evil).
I think I'm going to have to go back to the doctor about the amitriptyline - but I've just refilled my prescription, so I'm going to see if it was an unfortunate combo of some other meds I'm on wearing off instead, before I go asking for my dosage to upped. I was able to fend off the migraines with painkillers earlier in the week, although today's is proving to be an absolute bastard. Luckily I'm not in work, so I can curl up in bed if needs be (and I am absolutely going to do that once I've finished typing this).
It's really a good job I didn't really have anything planned for today, because I just wouldn't have felt like doing it, and then I would have felt guilty about not doing it. I know I shouldn't, and I am better at being nice to myself, but sometimes habit gets the better of me.
Anyway! New games! I don't know if I will play them any time soon, but at least I will own them, should I want to!
FFVII Remake, because listening to the soundtrack has given me a craving to play it, finally. I want to hear the music in situ! And also Bravely Default and Bravely the Second, because I want to play them and they were just there and...I dunno. I've got the money to get them, so why not.
I think I deserve them because of how flattened I have been by migraines and tooth pain this last week. (Thankfully, the tooth pain had nothing to do with the filling I had to have a couple of days ago, but ugh, I would prefer not to have it at all! The pain, that is. The filling was a necessary evil).
I think I'm going to have to go back to the doctor about the amitriptyline - but I've just refilled my prescription, so I'm going to see if it was an unfortunate combo of some other meds I'm on wearing off instead, before I go asking for my dosage to upped. I was able to fend off the migraines with painkillers earlier in the week, although today's is proving to be an absolute bastard. Luckily I'm not in work, so I can curl up in bed if needs be (and I am absolutely going to do that once I've finished typing this).
It's really a good job I didn't really have anything planned for today, because I just wouldn't have felt like doing it, and then I would have felt guilty about not doing it. I know I shouldn't, and I am better at being nice to myself, but sometimes habit gets the better of me.
Anyway! New games! I don't know if I will play them any time soon, but at least I will own them, should I want to!
musesfoolI'm off work today because I had to go get a tooth crowned. They've streamlined the process since early last year, when I had to go one week for the preparation and then back again a week later for the installation - they did it all in one day today, with about a 30 minute break between parts 1 and 2, where I just sat in the exam chair and read my book on my phone. This time I had to stop them a couple of times during the first part because they just spray water everywhere without sufficient suction so I felt like I was drowning a couple of times. The dentist warned me about it ahead of time and was apologetic about it, so I didn't feel like I was too much of a problem patient for stopping so I could, you know, breathe. One of the things I like about this particular dentist (there's a bunch of them at the practice and I've seen most of them over the last 5 years) is that he tells you what he's going to go ahead of time and answers questions, and then he tells you each thing he's going to do during the process right before he does it, and he gives you a heads up as to how far along in the process you are/how much more time it's going to take. Because it's unpleasant, at best. I mean, I was all numbed up for it (so numbed that my right EYE was feeling numb - the tooth being crowned is on the top right way in the back - which is a real fucking weird feeling), but ugh. I'm sure there are probably other crowns in the future - they want to get out all those old, old silver fillings, and he said this tooth did crack while he was removing it, so we caught it before it happened on its own.
I'm glad I didn't get new glasses this year - that left $950 in my FSA, which I had to supplement to pick up the rest of the cost, because I do not know what my insurance will cover as the dentist is out of network. I know I should find someone in network (and preferably near my apartment instead of in Manhattan), but as mentioned above, I like this guy and I think that is an important factor with any medical practitioner if you can get it.
So I came home and took a 3 hour nap because I didn't sleep much last night due to anxiety over all of this. Oh, and I mailed my ballot for Mamdani. I'm very curious to see if his lead in the polls translates to winning the election or if all the people who are scared because he's Muslim will turn out for Cuomo (or Sliwa, I guess, but I cannot take him seriously as a candidate). We have tended to pick terrible mayors recently, so it'll be interesting to see how this all turns out.
And I guess I mentioned reading up there, so yes, I am in the middle of a reread of Blue Lily, Lily Blue, which I am enjoying! ♥BLUE♥ remains my favorite.
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I'm glad I didn't get new glasses this year - that left $950 in my FSA, which I had to supplement to pick up the rest of the cost, because I do not know what my insurance will cover as the dentist is out of network. I know I should find someone in network (and preferably near my apartment instead of in Manhattan), but as mentioned above, I like this guy and I think that is an important factor with any medical practitioner if you can get it.
So I came home and took a 3 hour nap because I didn't sleep much last night due to anxiety over all of this. Oh, and I mailed my ballot for Mamdani. I'm very curious to see if his lead in the polls translates to winning the election or if all the people who are scared because he's Muslim will turn out for Cuomo (or Sliwa, I guess, but I cannot take him seriously as a candidate). We have tended to pick terrible mayors recently, so it'll be interesting to see how this all turns out.
And I guess I mentioned reading up there, so yes, I am in the middle of a reread of Blue Lily, Lily Blue, which I am enjoying! ♥BLUE♥ remains my favorite.
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musesfoolI made some chicken thighs in the slow cooker today with hoisin sauce, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, garlic, and some tomato paste. The chicken shredded nicely, but mostly what I tasted was salt - it was low sodium soy sauce too, so I'm not sure why. Maybe the balsamic? But that was only 2 tsps. Kind of a disappointment, though now at least I have some room in my freezer for other things. *hands*
Finished my reread of The Dream Thieves and now it's onto Blue Lily, Lily Blue. Still enjoying myself. I guess at some point I'll read something new to me again, but not just yet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In other news, man, the Giants looked good for 3 whole quarters before completely unravelling and losing. the fact that they led for so long, and even came back to retake the lead once they fell behind, and still lost just makes it worse. At least the Rangers finally won last night.
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Finished my reread of The Dream Thieves and now it's onto Blue Lily, Lily Blue. Still enjoying myself. I guess at some point I'll read something new to me again, but not just yet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In other news, man, the Giants looked good for 3 whole quarters before completely unravelling and losing. the fact that they led for so long, and even came back to retake the lead once they fell behind, and still lost just makes it worse. At least the Rangers finally won last night.
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ruugerSo I've suddenly started getting quite a lot of comments to my old Doggett/Reyes fics lately - I'm guessing people are binging X-Files on Disney+ (and/or have rediscovered Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish thanks to Peacemaker and Flanaganverse) - but I just got the best/worst comment to a fic I posted in 2004:
this fic is older than me lmao but i really like it. you’ve captured doggett’s voice so well
I am ded.
this fic is older than me lmao but i really like it. you’ve captured doggett’s voice so well
I am ded.
hmpfAnybody here read the comic Die by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans?
Anybody here have strong feelings about Ash and Sol? No? Just me? Oh well. (The one time in my life that I turn into a veritable shipper, haha... Of course it had to be in a fandom that doesn't exist.)
Started writing a longfic, my first real sustained one, about these two, plus Ash's wife Sophie, two and a half years ago. It's set in the first few days after the end of the comic and just... tries to make Ash (and Sol; and Sophie) have a bunch of deeply necessary conversations. It's not finished yet, but four chapters plus a prologue are up, total words ca. 19,400, and I am still actively working on more.
There's an official sequel to the comic coming out in mid November, so all of this is going to be extremely AU and out of character in about... three weeks, haha. (I had to make "my" Sophie up almost from whole cloth because there is so little of her in the original comic; she seems to be a main character in the new series, though, so she's going to get Official Characterisation now, which is likely to be different from mine. My Sol is also very much an extrapolation from rather limited data.)
This may be your one chance to see me get seriously shippy! -- "How to Reappear Completely", by Hmpf MacSlow
I'm actually really proud of this one, not just because of the unprecedented length but also because there is so much dialogue and so much... relationship stuff, for lack of a better word, in it. I know this is the most traditional fic terrain of all, but it's not what I usually write, so it's exciting to try writing in this mode. I'm not sure I'll be able to stick the landing - writing a fic in which emotions and relationships are the plot is a new kind of tricky for me. But I love trying to learn it, right now.
You can currently buy all four volumes of Die, plus the entirety of The Wicked & The Divine, and the entirety of Phonogram plus some other stuff, for the very low price of approximately a single TPB, on Humble.
I also wrote a little primer about the most relevant Die plot points if you want to read the fic without having read Die. But really, read Die instead, and don't let my silly primer spoil the ending for you.
Fic sample:
Anybody here have strong feelings about Ash and Sol? No? Just me? Oh well. (The one time in my life that I turn into a veritable shipper, haha... Of course it had to be in a fandom that doesn't exist.)
Started writing a longfic, my first real sustained one, about these two, plus Ash's wife Sophie, two and a half years ago. It's set in the first few days after the end of the comic and just... tries to make Ash (and Sol; and Sophie) have a bunch of deeply necessary conversations. It's not finished yet, but four chapters plus a prologue are up, total words ca. 19,400, and I am still actively working on more.
There's an official sequel to the comic coming out in mid November, so all of this is going to be extremely AU and out of character in about... three weeks, haha. (I had to make "my" Sophie up almost from whole cloth because there is so little of her in the original comic; she seems to be a main character in the new series, though, so she's going to get Official Characterisation now, which is likely to be different from mine. My Sol is also very much an extrapolation from rather limited data.)
This may be your one chance to see me get seriously shippy! -- "How to Reappear Completely", by Hmpf MacSlow
I'm actually really proud of this one, not just because of the unprecedented length but also because there is so much dialogue and so much... relationship stuff, for lack of a better word, in it. I know this is the most traditional fic terrain of all, but it's not what I usually write, so it's exciting to try writing in this mode. I'm not sure I'll be able to stick the landing - writing a fic in which emotions and relationships are the plot is a new kind of tricky for me. But I love trying to learn it, right now.
You can currently buy all four volumes of Die, plus the entirety of The Wicked & The Divine, and the entirety of Phonogram plus some other stuff, for the very low price of approximately a single TPB, on Humble.
I also wrote a little primer about the most relevant Die plot points if you want to read the fic without having read Die. But really, read Die instead, and don't let my silly primer spoil the ending for you.
Fic sample:
I think back on the last time Sol’s mum harassed me, the morning of my birthday, before our second departure, our return.
“There’s a disconnect – between Sol and her; between Sol and everyone, really. She thinks I can get past it. I can, to a degree. She doesn’t like it.”
Sophie’s expression becomes something she doesn’t try to hide. “I used to think she was insane. I was always hoping they’d lock her up, finally. Seeing what she did to you, all those times… But when I imagine it, now – Mia, stolen from me for that long, returning like… that. – I don’t know what I would do.”
I think of Augustus. It’s no comparison: Augustus is doing well, he was doing well, aside from the war wound he’d already mostly healed from when he exiled me. The only person who has hurt my son in ways that may be irreparable is me.
“Have you explained anything to her?” Sophie asks. “Will you?”
“No.”
“Has Sol?”
“No. He thinks it would make things worse for her.”
“You said it might make things harder – for us.”
“Yeah.” I meet her eyes. “I think it does. It has.”
I sense her holding herself apart.
“Because I might not believe you,” she asks, “or because of what it would mean if I did?”
“There’s a disconnect – between Sol and her; between Sol and everyone, really. She thinks I can get past it. I can, to a degree. She doesn’t like it.”
Sophie’s expression becomes something she doesn’t try to hide. “I used to think she was insane. I was always hoping they’d lock her up, finally. Seeing what she did to you, all those times… But when I imagine it, now – Mia, stolen from me for that long, returning like… that. – I don’t know what I would do.”
I think of Augustus. It’s no comparison: Augustus is doing well, he was doing well, aside from the war wound he’d already mostly healed from when he exiled me. The only person who has hurt my son in ways that may be irreparable is me.
“Have you explained anything to her?” Sophie asks. “Will you?”
“No.”
“Has Sol?”
“No. He thinks it would make things worse for her.”
“You said it might make things harder – for us.”
“Yeah.” I meet her eyes. “I think it does. It has.”
I sense her holding herself apart.
“Because I might not believe you,” she asks, “or because of what it would mean if I did?”
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musesfoolrunpunkrun mentioned that there is now a graphic novel of The Raven Boys, which ignited in me a fierce urge to reread the series, so I've started that, and I still love it (♥BLUE♥! ♥RONAN♥! #the same impossible stuff), but I also kind of wish now that I didn't read the Dreamer trilogy (or that Stiefvater had written it differently), since it kind of recontextualizes (and potentially retcons) some stuff that I don't think really needed it.*
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musesfoolThe Rangers haven't scored in almost 8 periods (if this 2nd period in Toronto ends without them scoring in 2 minutes, it will actually be 8 periods) - and it's not even like they've been shut out by top tier goalies! - but Chris Kreider has 5 points in 3 games so far for Anaheim. They definitely sent the wrong Chris away over the summer. Sigh.
[eta] A goal! For the Rangers! Huzzah!
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[eta] A goal! For the Rangers! Huzzah!
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althea_valaraA friend linked to this tumblr: https://bitimdrake.tumblr.com/post/797526051236577280
It's a list of tropes that have been flipped, so for example instead of the "Only one bed" trope, it's "Too many beds" trope. I'm cackling just reading the flipped tropes, and some of them are giving me Ideas, so I thought I'd boost in case others are looking for some good prompts right now.
It's a list of tropes that have been flipped, so for example instead of the "Only one bed" trope, it's "Too many beds" trope. I'm cackling just reading the flipped tropes, and some of them are giving me Ideas, so I thought I'd boost in case others are looking for some good prompts right now.
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communal_creators is a creative challenge where you pledge to be creative for a certain amount of time daily OR to finish projects of varying size. We have writers, yarn artists, vidders, bakers, someone making music - if it's creative, it counts. The current round ended last night, so here is a recap of what I did during the month.I had pledged Time Tier II, to average 30 minutes a day of creative activity. I didn't pledge to finish any projects, because most of projects were massive things that I likely couldn't complete in a month's time.
[Image Description: A screenshot of a spreadsheet, showing I averaged over an hour of creative activity daily during Communal Creators.]
Crochet saw the most activity, with Smallweb coming second. I crocheted on 20 days and touched 5 different projects. The majority of the work went to my Motion Picture Mosaic Cardi, which saw 13 hours of activity.
"Smallweb" was my moniker for work on my Neocities site. This saw a LOT of work in September because
smallweb September was happening and double-dipping on challenges? {Yes, please.} I did smallweb work on 12 days, with 8 of those being in September for 10 hours. Another 3.5 hours happened in October. This was the area that saw most success, I feel; I finished copying over files from Dreamwidth which meant FFBE season 1 is DONE. I also completed documentation for FFXI:Rise of the Zilart and started Chains of Promathia. I'm quite pleased with the work I did, though I need to get back to it if I ever want to finish the site.Knitting was my third most active category. I knitted on 13 days, on 5 different projects. Most active was the Central Park Hoodie, which saw ~5 hours 40 minutes.
I am VERY PLEASED that some of my creative activity took the shape of writing, and that's thanks to
ladiesbingo. I worked on THREE different fics for it! That's so exciting to me! Alas, it quickly fell off, and I didn't touch the writing in the last two weeks. I'd really like to get back to it sometime, but finding time is the problem. Also, I need to do some canon review.I feel this round of
communal_creators was a qualified success. I'm very pleased with my output. Thanks to senmut for hosting!
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