Today's Adventures

Jun. 13th, 2025 09:54 pm
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Today we went to the Marshall Farmer's Market. It's an evening market from 6-8 PM, followed by a band concert, which is way better than a morning one.

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Swap Station 230 - Special Round

Jun. 13th, 2025 10:48 pm
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Hey! You over there! Can you help me practice my shooting? If you do, I'll give you some meat!

Oh, you don't want any meat? You prefer cards? Who would choose cards over meat?

That's okay, we can still help each other! You just throw some of your cards for my target practice, and I'll swap them out with new ones when I'm done. Everybody wins! And then we can all eat some meat together.

Rules:
- You can play up to eight cards and two crayons per weekly round. You'll lose these cards & crayons.
- Ochette will replace the cards with other cards of the same deck but with a different number.
- Ochette will replace your crayon with another of a different color.
- Please list the card names and crayon color so I can swap them easily.
- There's no special criteria that'll decide the replacements. Everything's going to be randomized. You're only guaranteed to not get the same exact things in return.
- If you have a reward coupon that guarantees you more cards from answering a round, you can use it to get more plays.

This round ends on Friday, June 20th.

Puzzle Chains 369

Jun. 13th, 2025 10:46 pm
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Kotomi is the smartest student at Hikarizaka Highschool, and one of the smartest in Japan, but she has a difficult time making smalltalk and opening up to new people. Reading is her usual hobby, but she won't say no to Rubik's cubes or a game of chess. What better way to make some new friends than to work together on a challenging jigsaw puzzle! Though these ones aren't quite the 10,000 piece puzzles you hang up on your wall.

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This round closes on Friday, June 20th.
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Ahoy there, adventure gamers! [community profile] monkeyisland is a community for the beloved classic game series Monkey Island, featuring the comedic swashbuckling adventures of the improbably-named Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate™. Anything about Monkey Island is fair game: your own fanworks (art, fic, videos, games, music, cosplay, memes/silliness, whatever), recs of others' fanworks, livestreams/let's-plays, discussions, news and articles, tips for messing about in the game resources or scripting, requests for hints, screenshots, all that good stuff. If Monkey Island is your jam rum rum and jam (it's an old pirate favorite, everybody knows that), then come on over and have a grog.

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Ibuki's Songs 113

Jun. 14th, 2025 12:46 am
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Last round's song was Blood on the Keys by Motoi Sakuraba from Star Ocean: The Last Hope!

Hiyaaa! Ibuki has some really cool songs for you to listen, so enjoy! Unfortunately the mods didn't let Ibuki perform her own songs but hey, video game covers are nice too! The stage is ready so LET'S GOOOO!

Enter the Titty Typhoon )
This round closes on 21st June, Central European Time!

Comment Bingo Round 7

Jun. 13th, 2025 03:22 pm
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[community profile] comment_bingo is a bingo challenge that is focused on using the provided prompts to comment on other people's works rather than creating your own.

Click on the banner below to go to sign-ups or you can also go HERE.

Sign-ups will remain open until the round closes.

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This round will end up on October 31st, 2025.

New Communities

Jun. 13th, 2025 04:21 pm
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[community profile] musicianships 
We Are The Scene.
This Community is for everyone who is involved in music in any way.
[Found via [personal profile] gothfvck]

Question thread #142

Jun. 13th, 2025 11:14 pm
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It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.
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A friend tipped me to this campaign: Take Us North is a video game about migrants trying to cross the border into the United States of America. If you're interested and jump fast, you may be able to catch the Early Bird reward in the first 24 hours at $25, after that it jumps to $35 minimum. I backed it because I want to project to exist -- tell ALL the stories, and poke a bigot in the eye!

Take Us North description
A narrative adventure/survival game that follows the journeys of migrants and asylum seekers on their way to cross the US-Mexico border

$6,056 pledged of $30,000 goal
95 backers
29 days to go

🎮 [Early Bird] Take Us North!
$25
Backers 52
Estimated delivery Dec 2026
🚨FIRST 24 HOURS DISCOUNT!🚨 Receive a digital copy of Take Us North (PC/Steam) and digital wallpapers!
3 items included
Digital Copy of the Game Quantity: 1
High-Resolution Digital Wallpapers Quantity: 1
Invitation to Virtual Community Launch Party Quantity: 1

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Russian Losses

Jun. 13th, 2025 03:21 pm
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This cartoon is true, as far as it goes.

But if you think Russia is likely to blink at those losses, think again.

Poetry Fishbowl Themes for Late 2025

Jun. 13th, 2025 03:16 pm
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This poll covers the ideas proposed in the recent call for themes. Everyone is eligible to vote in this poll. I will keep it open until at least Saturday night. If there are clear answers then, I'll close it. Otherwise I may leave it open a little longer. If you don't have a Dreamwidth account, you can vote in an anonymous comment or email to me, but include some kind of handle to distinguish yourself.

For this poll, you can vote for as many themes as you find appealing. I recommend that you don't vote for all of them, since that makes it harder to whittle down the list. The themes are arranged in alphabetical order.

Here are your options ...

Poll #33248 Poetry Fishbowl Themes for Late 2025
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12


Which of these themes do you want featured in future fishbowls?

View Answers

Angels and Demons
4 (33.3%)

Apocalyptic Visions
1 (8.3%)

Books and Learning
8 (66.7%)

Building Mental Linkages
2 (16.7%)

Changing Personality One Habit at a Time
4 (33.3%)

Communication Styles
7 (58.3%)

Dealing with Frustration
4 (33.3%)

Emotional Regulation
4 (33.3%)

Empathy and Understanding
2 (16.7%)

Empowering Language
5 (41.7%)

Ergonomics
0 (0.0%)

Exercise and Stretching
0 (0.0%)

Faeries and Fey
5 (41.7%)

False Economy
1 (8.3%)

Fixing Loneliness or Overwhelm
4 (33.3%)

Fixit
3 (25.0%)

Goddesses and Divas
4 (33.3%)

Immigrants and Refugees
4 (33.3%)

"Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil."
5 (41.7%)

Knowledge Webs
2 (16.7%)

Language as Power and Power as a Language
3 (25.0%)

Leadership in Unusual Situations
4 (33.3%)

Managing Change and Disruption
0 (0.0%)

Non-Book Learning and Knowledge
5 (41.7%)

Ordinary Characters in Epic Stories
4 (33.3%)

Overlooked Key Moments
1 (8.3%)

Patterns and Patterning
6 (50.0%)

Personhood
4 (33.3%)

Pirates, Rascals, and Rogues
3 (25.0%)

Putting Traumatic Memories in Context
2 (16.7%)

Recognition and Recollection
2 (16.7%)

Sentient and Self-Aware Machines
5 (41.7%)

Strength in Numbers or Alone
3 (25.0%)

Time Travel Twists
7 (58.3%)

Unexpected Leadership
4 (33.3%)

Unlikely or Unwieldy Weapons
4 (33.3%)

Weaponized Incompetence and Malicious Compliance
6 (50.0%)

Westerns
2 (16.7%)

Work, Leisure, and Hobbies
4 (33.3%)

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A friend tipped me to this campaign: Take Us North is a video game about migrants trying to cross the border into the United States of America. If you're interested and jump fast, you may be able to catch the Early Bird reward in the first 24 hours at $25, after that it jumps to $35 minimum. I backed it because I want to project to exist -- tell ALL the stories, and poke a bigot in the eye!

Take Us North description
A narrative adventure/survival game that follows the journeys of migrants and asylum seekers on their way to cross the US-Mexico border

$6,056 pledged of $30,000 goal
95 backers
29 days to go

🎮 [Early Bird] Take Us North!
$25
Backers 52
Estimated delivery Dec 2026
🚨FIRST 24 HOURS DISCOUNT!🚨 Receive a digital copy of Take Us North (PC/Steam) and digital wallpapers!
3 items included
Digital Copy of the Game Quantity: 1
High-Resolution Digital Wallpapers Quantity: 1
Invitation to Virtual Community Launch Party Quantity: 1

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Birdfeeding

Jun. 13th, 2025 02:28 pm
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Today is cloudy and steamy.  It rained last night.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 6/13/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

It started mizzling.

TFC: Dark Gardens

Jun. 13th, 2025 12:55 pm
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[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith wrote an entry in [community profile] thefreaksclub entitled Photos: Dark Gardening you guys might be interested in!
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I put what I thought was 6 drops of Vitamin D on my spoon, put it in my mouth and started swallowing it. The taste was unexpected; strong and sweet instead of mild and oily. Realizing it was iodine drops instead of Vitamin D, I spit out as much as possible into the sink. I don't want to overdose on iodine. Per that article, 6 drops would still have been under the recommended upper limit, but it would have been half-way there.

I don't take either of those supplements on a frequent or regular basis; I also take chewable children's multivitamins. Both bottles are quite old; I suspect the D may have lost potency so I'm less worried about taking more of it. But iodine is a mineral which I imagine is less likely to lose potency, and its dosage is a single drop per day to get 100% of the recommended amount.

Most people don't need to supplement with iodine, but I had read that vegans often have low levels of it.

Colors TCG 15th Anniversary - Day 13

Jun. 13th, 2025 12:10 pm
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Each year's anniversary deck shows off our players with incredible artistic talent, and that's great! I, personally, have zero artistic skill whatsoever. So when I want to make pretty pictures of characters I like, I turn to Picrew or Neka.

Make a picture of a character you want in Picrew or Neka, or any other dollmaker website, and post it here. We're not grading on accuracy, so have fun with it - if you want to make Gothic Lolita Suguru Geto, go right ahead.

For posting an image, you'll receive three choice cards from that character's deck, plus cher15hed13. Please list which cards you're taking.

cher15hed13

Like the other anniversary posts, this game will close on July 1st at noon GMT!

Twenty Questions 047

Jun. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm
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LAST WEEK'S DECK: obsessed - Creed Diskenth, Black Cat



John and Sherlock are chasing down a criminal for one of the latest cases that Sherlock has taken on, and they would like your help, dear Colors player! Hidden in one of the Colors decks is a clue that will eventually lead the detective duo to our culprit, and if everyone puts their brains together, ask questions and share information, there's no way they won't be able to find that missing clue! Can you help them, Colors players? John will give you some cards for your trouble!


GAMEPLAY AND RULES
☆ There will be 2 parts to this game - asking questions and guessing a deck!
☆ Players are able to ask questions on this post to narrow down the identity of the deck selected for the round.
☆ While the name of the game is twenty questions, you can absolutely ask more than twenty questions total :P
☆ You can ask multiple questions, but please ensure that at least three people have asked questions OR 24 hours have passed in between your questions! Please limit yourself to two questions a day per person and no more than five questions a week. Please wait for the reset comment before posting more questions if you have maxed out your limits!
☆ Questions should be yes/no only, as far as possible! In the event that a question is valid but does not apply to the deck (EX. "Is this character male?" for a character with no gender), the question will still count. Using mod discretion, the question will sometimes be answered with "sort of", "neither", etc.
☆ EXAMPLE QUESTIONS: "Is the deck name a verb?" "Is the deck Special?" "Does it feature a human character?" "Does the deck name have an odd number of letters?" "Does the character in the deck have glasses?"
☆ If you are confident that you have picked out the correct deck, you may post a guess to the GUESSES toplevel, which will always be the first comment on each weekly post!
☆ Players are limited to two guesses per week. You can guess the same as someone else, if you think they are correct. This is to prevent people from blindly and magically guessing a deck before we've even gotten off the ground!
☆ Submit your guesses using the following code:


☆ Each deck will get two weeks (1 biweekly round) for guesses - although if the deck is guessed early, a new round will go up with a new card on Fridays!

♪ I will be responding to questions and passing out rewards once a day. Guesses will be responded to at the end of the round/before the next round goes up to make it fair for everyone!

PRIZES
You will receive:
3 random cards for every valid question posted and answered
3 random cards for an incorrect guess attempt
5 random character cards + 2 random special cards if you managed to guess the correct deck!
☆ A bonus of 2 random crayons if you happen to be the first person to guess the correct deck!

This round will reset on June 20th and end on June 27th.

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