Daily Check-in

Aug. 27th, 2025 06:01 pm
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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, August 27, to midnight on Thursday, August 28. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33542 Daily Check-in
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 9

How are you doing?

I am OK.
6 (66.7%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
3 (33.3%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
3 (33.3%)

One other person.
3 (33.3%)

More than one other person.
3 (33.3%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
 

[ SECRET POST #6809 ]

Aug. 27th, 2025 07:15 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6809 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Pen Person Questions

Aug. 27th, 2025 05:01 pm
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[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith posting in [community profile] journalsandplanners
My reply wouldn't post, so I'm putting it here.


If you consider the different ways you can engage with pens and stationery—as a user, a collector, a hobbyist, a creator, a maker, a vendor—which roles fit best and what percentage of 100% would you assign to each? Are you happy with the balance?

I am primarily a user and content with that.


What is something you want to understand better or develop more informed opinions about?

I generally do that if I have a need for it or stumble across something that looks interesting, but I have no active searching for such at this time.


In the pen community, what's something someone has said or done that stuck with you?

I like tests and comparisons. This year I have one going about which of three pens lasts longest on outdoor labels. The Sharpie Oil Paint pen is winning by a landslide. Sometimes people post pictures of swatch tests for different colors, which is fun to see.


There are now 25 hours in a day, a bonus hour is available to use however you like as long as pens or stationery are involved—how do you spend your hour?

Writing.


In the pen community yearbook, what would your superlative be? (i.e. "Best ______", "Most _______" "Most likely to _______")

Most likely to make a photo-essay.


How do you feel about your handwriting?

It reflects my personality, my history as an activist, and my journey through various languages.


What is something you are proud of doing, achieving, or overcoming?

Writing a huge amount of crowdfunded content.


You're going on a writing retreat anywhere in the world—where would you go, what would you write, and what would you write with?

If I rule out the places where I could use a computer, my usual writing method ... that leaves a nature hike and writing with a pencil on a spiralbound notebook. If I planned to go somewhere especially soggy, I would likely invest in a waterproof fieldbook and its attached writing implement.


What's a current or favorite creative outlet?

Writing. The September 2 Poetry Fishbowl will be on "Communication Styles."

With pens in particular, I sometimes use them for scrapbooking.

A recent thing I did was write an inspiring quote on watercolor paper, which then had a decorative seal applied to it -- there was a booth selling this activity at the Oddities Market. So that was super fun.


What's something that causes you benign envy—the kind of admiration and desire that leads to inspiration or motivation?

I admire calligraphy and fountain pens. My experiments with them suggest that these are not skills I could readily acquire. About the best I can do is decent little flourishes under a name on a holiday card or similar.


What's a comfort item, material, or color?

Certain modern plush or microfiber blankets are worlds above other blankets in terms of comfort and energy restoration. My favorite color is blue.

Regarding pens, I like one with just a little weight, enough that it feels solid without feeling heavy. Some have a really nice grip too. I've got a whole pile of pens I collected from a trade show -- I will always check the swag at events -- and I gravitate to using the prettiest ones with the nicest feel. Some are just cheap flat sticks. Others have little rubber grip pads. Several have metallic copper parts. It's interesting to see how, at the same event, people made very different choices about their swag -- and that's not even getting into the high-end swag like the tape measures. :D

I also like pens with different colored ink. I use those for color-coding some things, like writing deadlines in red on my desktop calendar.


What would be a dream collaboration, project, or partnership?

Worldbuilding a shared world. I would adore being part of a worldbuilding project with a mix of artists, writers, and other skills. It would be fun with a pen maven talking about the respective levels of literacy and writing technology in different cultures. I was part of the Torn World collective while it ran, and that was awesome.
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Subtitle 50 irresistibly nostalgic sweet treats and comforting classics... featuring "Trinity burnt cream":

Also known as crème brûlée, old recipes for versions of this pudding are found in various parts of Britain and Europe. Its association with Trinity College, Cambridge goes back to at least the nineteenth century.

Despite my documented interest in crème brûlée and, you know, having grown up in Cambridge, I had somehow never come across this before?! And yet it's inexplicably clearly attested on Wikipedia. Nominally this means I should probably be indexing the "Ethnicity" of the dish as "English" as well as "French" but, frankly, je refuse, and even Trinity have the grace to say:

The story that crème brûlée itself was invented at the College almost certainly has no basis in fact.

It's not even like the National Trust is making a point of having all the recipes in this book be of British origin! Clearly-identified non-British culinary sources include Italy, Latvia, and Russia! (... the Welsh- and Scottish-origin puddings have headnotes mysteriously quiet on said origins, though.) AND YET. Crème brûlée! Trinity! Really.

#12PenPersonQuestions

Aug. 27th, 2025 02:45 pm
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Blogger Olive Octopus put together a list of 12 questions for stationery fans that I thought would make a fun discussion here. They primarily blog about fountain pens and inks, so that’s the focus, but I think that most of the specific questions adapt quite well to any sort of stationery that you use. Questions below in both list and HTML-copyable format!

If you consider the different ways you can engage with pens and stationery—as a user, a collector, a hobbyist, a creator, a maker, a vendor—which roles fit best and what percentage of 100% would you assign to each? Are you happy with the balance?

What is something you want to understand better or develop more informed opinions about?

In the pen community, what's something someone has said or done that stuck with you?

There are now 25 hours in a day, a bonus hour is available to use however you like as long as pens or stationery are involved—how do you spend your hour?

In the pen community yearbook, what would your superlative be? (i.e. "Best ______", "Most _______" "Most likely to _______")

How do you feel about your handwriting?

What is something you are proud of doing, achieving, or overcoming?

You're going on a writing retreat anywhere in the world—where would you go, what would you write, and what would you write with?

What's a current or favorite creative outlet?

What's something that causes you benign envy—the kind of admiration and desire that leads to inspiration or motivation?

What's a comfort item, material, or color?

What would be a dream collaboration, project, or partnership?

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Today marks twelve years since Jinksy and Claudia came to live with us. Twelve! (I mean, this should be easier to believe, it having been Jinksy's twelfth birthday three months ago.) *selects icon* Look how little they once were!

We've decided to give ourselves a four-and-a-half-day weekend (I'm going to work only a half day tomorrow to match [personal profile] scruloose's schedule), and a good chunk of that has to be focused on freelance work--the volume of Pet Shop of Horrors I'm working on is due in just over two weeks, and they're hefty books. (IIRC this edition is seven omnibus volumes and the series originally came out as ten standard volumes.)

There, we'll call that an update.
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What I read

Finished A World to Win, and decided not to go straight on to next.

Read Anthony Powell, The Soldier's Art (Dance to the Music of Time #8) (1966), which is a very different angle on WW2 as Nick Jenkins is stuck in a backwater with Widmerpool. A particularly grim episode in its much quieter register.

Started Elaine Castillo, Moderation (2025) which started out fairly strongly, then hit a saggy point, and then I discovered I'd been a bit misled over its genre position, and anyway didn't feel much like continuing.

Picked off the shelf Susan Kelly, And Soon I'll Come to Kill You (Liz Connors #5) (1991), from the period when I was reading a lot more crime novels like this. It's not bad - at least Our Heroine has a plausible reason for getting mixed up in criminal matters, as a journalist specialising in crime reporting, but she has the almost obigatory for period/genre cop boyfriend. This one was probably a bit atypical of the series as a whole as it involved someone with a grudge against her (there are several suspects for Reasons to do with past reporting etc) stalking her with malign intent.

Andrea Long Chu, Females (2025), because I'd found Authority interesting and read something about this but while I am all for rediscovery of the out-there voices of the 'second wave', riffing off V Solanas was just a bit niche.

Laurie R King, Knave of Diamonds (Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes, #19) (2025) - Kobo deal at the weekend - seriously phoning it in - scraping the bottom of the barrel -

On the go

Val McDermid, A Darker Domain (Inspector Karen Pirie #2) (2008) for some reason Kobo were doing a serious promotional deal on the McDermid Pirie series at the weekend so I thought, why not?

Up next

New Slightly Foxed perhaps.

Fantastic Four #394

Aug. 27th, 2025 05:10 pm
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Plot: Tom DeFalco

Script: Mike Lackey

Pencils: Paul Ryan

Inks: Danny Bulanadi


In which I make good on my threats of continuing with the DeFalco/Ryan run.


Read more... )

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Extreme Justice #1

Aug. 27th, 2025 02:56 pm
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Writer: Dan Vado

Pencils: Marc Campos

Inks: Ken Branch


The heroes try to explore their new headquarters, only to get attacked by more killer robots. At least, I think that’s what is going on. It is hard to tell with this art.


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Doom Patrol (1987) #5

Aug. 27th, 2025 12:16 pm
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Writer: Paul Kupperberg

Pencils: Steve Lightle

Inks: Gary Martin


The Doom Patrol intercepts a message that seems to suggest that Niles Caulder is still alive.


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Reading Wednesday

Aug. 27th, 2025 06:41 am
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Just finished; Nothing, my life has been clown shoes lately.

Currently reading: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams. This is so horrifying. Obviously, the genocide and destruction of the political process is the most horrifying thing about it, but the neat thing about evil is that it's fractal, and the interpersonal stuff is much more visceral. Like Joel Kaplan sexually harassing Sarah shortly after she's almost died in childbirth (because, yeah, you can be one of the top people at Facebook at the height of its success and almost die in childbirth. America!). Or the weird obsession Sheryl Sandberg has with getting women to nap with their heads in her lap on her private jet. These people are so creepy and awful, and nightmarish as you think Mark Zuckerberg is, this memoir depicts him as much worse than that.

Which isn't to say that Sarah is great—she paints herself as a naïve idealist, but the scale of awful at this company is such that after a certain point, you kind of roll your eyes every time she notices that it's bad. But that's storytelling for you. Highly recommended.

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Aug. 27th, 2025 09:53 am
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