I dreamed I was trying to lead Keith Richards into the paths of virtue by demonstrating in my own person that being clean and continent was cool. We found ourselves in some bad situations- one of which had more than a whiff of Epstein about it- but I knew I'd succeeded when I caught him fending off a young woman who was coming on to him by explaining that he'd made some "mistakes" in his younger days but was no longer that guy.....
Titre : Pas vraiment de l'amitié
Auteur : Nelja
Fandom : Nevermore
Persos : Will->Montresor
Genre : Angst
Résumé : La première rencontre entre Will et Montresor dans le labyrinthe.
Rating : PG
Disclaimer : Tout appartient à Red et Flynn
Nombre de mots : ~2000
Avertissements : Homophobie internalisée, serpents
Notes : Ecrit d'après un prompt de Vaudelune : Will → Montresor character study centré sur Will, relation impossible mais il ne peut pas s’empêcher d’aimer Montresor, angst et problèmes d’estime de soi
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Auteur : Nelja
Fandom : Nevermore
Persos : Will->Montresor
Genre : Angst
Résumé : La première rencontre entre Will et Montresor dans le labyrinthe.
Rating : PG
Disclaimer : Tout appartient à Red et Flynn
Nombre de mots : ~2000
Avertissements : Homophobie internalisée, serpents
Notes : Ecrit d'après un prompt de Vaudelune : Will → Montresor character study centré sur Will, relation impossible mais il ne peut pas s’empêcher d’aimer Montresor, angst et problèmes d’estime de soi
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flo_nelja Sep. 7th, 2025 08:16 am)Catégorie : Les songes maudits de Carmilla (Vampire - Manoir - Nuit - Surnaturel - Gothique - Horreur - Nouvelle)
Fenlands raconte l'histoire d'Aisling, jeune femme irlandaise accompagnée de son chat, qui trouve avec grande difficulté un travail de servant dans une maison sinistre. Là, elle va devoir se rappeler les occurences surnaturelles de son passé pour comprendre ce qui se passe ici.
C'est une histoire assez courte (68 pages, format bande dessinée). C'est bien tourné, le côté horreur et le côté mystère marchent bien tous les deux. C'est un peu trop court pour s'attacher aux personnages même s'ils sont sympathiques. Je n'ai aucun reproche à faire mais rien ne m'a semvké incroyablement original non plus. J'étais partie pour lire le tome 2 et en apprendre plus, mais il n'est pas disponible sur Internet.
Fenlands raconte l'histoire d'Aisling, jeune femme irlandaise accompagnée de son chat, qui trouve avec grande difficulté un travail de servant dans une maison sinistre. Là, elle va devoir se rappeler les occurences surnaturelles de son passé pour comprendre ce qui se passe ici.
C'est une histoire assez courte (68 pages, format bande dessinée). C'est bien tourné, le côté horreur et le côté mystère marchent bien tous les deux. C'est un peu trop court pour s'attacher aux personnages même s'ils sont sympathiques. Je n'ai aucun reproche à faire mais rien ne m'a semvké incroyablement original non plus. J'étais partie pour lire le tome 2 et en apprendre plus, mais il n'est pas disponible sur Internet.
Um, hi! Accidentally slipped away from DW again, as one does when the brain decides it's time to visit slump-town. And then it's always tricky to pick back up! But I'm here, having been lured back by a friend request (❤️).
+ Currently working, yay!
+ Currently sick and voice-less, boo!
+ This is a double-shift as I swapped it around to attend my dad's wedding in November. It's in Thailand, and I'll be there a full month. I plan to get absolutely kneaded into oblivion, my body will be jelly by the end of it. Just good food, swimming, and massages.
+ If I can actually manage to Get The Thing Done at home, instead of avoiding and courting disaster, it's sure to be a relaxing time. So I need to get on that, Monday morning *stern glare at self*.
+ Started reading The Archive Undying. It dropped me face first into weirdness, and I'm loving the writing. All very much appreciated.
+ We're at the tail end of the general election here in Norway, and it's looking plausible we could get a RedGreen coalition! I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but it could happen.
+ Really enjoying Haley Williams' Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party and CMAT's EURO-COUNTRY. If you're looking for an absolute banger about grief, Lord, Let That Tesla Crash is at your service.
+ Working my way through Apple this trip, with Foundation being my weekly download. I'd say overall the weakest season of the three, but Demerzel is holding my interest.
+ Tonight should have a red full moon, so I'm hoping it won't be cloudy here.
+ Currently working, yay!
+ Currently sick and voice-less, boo!
+ This is a double-shift as I swapped it around to attend my dad's wedding in November. It's in Thailand, and I'll be there a full month. I plan to get absolutely kneaded into oblivion, my body will be jelly by the end of it. Just good food, swimming, and massages.
+ If I can actually manage to Get The Thing Done at home, instead of avoiding and courting disaster, it's sure to be a relaxing time. So I need to get on that, Monday morning *stern glare at self*.
+ Started reading The Archive Undying. It dropped me face first into weirdness, and I'm loving the writing. All very much appreciated.
+ We're at the tail end of the general election here in Norway, and it's looking plausible we could get a RedGreen coalition! I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but it could happen.
+ Really enjoying Haley Williams' Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party and CMAT's EURO-COUNTRY. If you're looking for an absolute banger about grief, Lord, Let That Tesla Crash is at your service.
+ Working my way through Apple this trip, with Foundation being my weekly download. I'd say overall the weakest season of the three, but Demerzel is holding my interest.
+ Tonight should have a red full moon, so I'm hoping it won't be cloudy here.
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I think I may have figured out why my sporadic projects to write down and collect the poems I have memorized (before the enshittification makes it even more impossible to google them -- it's already pretty bad) always fail out. I write them down as I think of them or find them, but I can never get an indexing method going that I like, so I start forgetting what I've already written out.
So I am trying again. This time I'm getting a three-ring binder and some notebook paper; I usually try in bound composition books because, you know, a bound book feels like a better choice for something I'm trying to plan to keep, but I am going to see if it will work better for my brain if I write each poem on a separate set of sheets of paper so I can put them in some sort of alphabetical order. (I would say on a separate sheet, but we're talking Paul Revere's Ride and the collected poems of JRR Tolkien, these are not necessarily one-page poems.)
So I am trying again. This time I'm getting a three-ring binder and some notebook paper; I usually try in bound composition books because, you know, a bound book feels like a better choice for something I'm trying to plan to keep, but I am going to see if it will work better for my brain if I write each poem on a separate set of sheets of paper so I can put them in some sort of alphabetical order. (I would say on a separate sheet, but we're talking Paul Revere's Ride and the collected poems of JRR Tolkien, these are not necessarily one-page poems.)
1. It was still overcast this morning when I took my first walk and then the sun came out just when I got home. It was still muggy when I was out, but I'd much rather have overcast and muggy than the sun beating down on me, too.
2. There have been a couple new stalls at the farmers market recently, including a guy who makes some sort of raw granola bars. I got some a couple weeks ago and he was back again this week (I think he said he's only doing every other week right now) so I got some more.
3. We had a nice dinner at Disneyland and met up with a friend of Carla's who's here from out of town.
4. I passed through the living room and just happened to notice Molly on the lower shelf of this end table. So cute!
2. There have been a couple new stalls at the farmers market recently, including a guy who makes some sort of raw granola bars. I got some a couple weeks ago and he was back again this week (I think he said he's only doing every other week right now) so I got some more.
3. We had a nice dinner at Disneyland and met up with a friend of Carla's who's here from out of town.
4. I passed through the living room and just happened to notice Molly on the lower shelf of this end table. So cute!
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oneiric [oh-nahy-rik]
adjective:
of, relating to, or characteristic of dreams
Examples:
Then there's Jake Messing's selection as Best Artist, whose dense and powerful images seem to peer into the oneiric heart of Healdsburg, that dream state between what we think we know and what we can barely imagine. (Best of Arts and Entertainment 2024, The Healdsburg Tribune, November 2024)
Set to a haunting score by the director's brother Giorgi, this melancholic mystery presents Georgia's open plains and mountain regions in alien, oneiric contexts. (Christian Zilko, NYFF Reveals 2025 Currents Lineup, Including New Films by Tsai Ming-liang and Radu Jude, The Guardian, August 2025)
In 'A Boy Named Isamu,' James Yang imagines an ideal, almost oneiric day in the life of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi as a young child. (Sergio Ruzzier, Portraits of Three Artists as Young Children, New York Times, November 2021)
More practically, and from a totally different point of view, M Chabaneix, having studied the continuous subconscious, divides it into nocturnal and waking subconsciousness. If the former be a question of sleep or of the moments preceding sleep, it is oneiric or pre-oneiric. (Remy de Gourmont, Decadence, and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas)
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me. (Will Self, How I Write)
He is at once a stratum of the earth and a streamer in the air, no painted dragon but a figure of real oneiric power. (Seamus Heaney, Beowulf)
As George Orr slipped into another oneiric state, the fabric of reality trembled. His dreams, potent and uncontrolled, reshaped the world with each passing thought, blurring the lines between imagination and actuality. (Ursula K Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven)
Origin:
'of or pertaining to dreams', 1859, from Greek oneiros 'a dream' + -ic. (Online Etymology Dictionary)
The notion of using the Greek noun oneiros (meaning 'dream') to form the English adjective oneiric wasn't dreamed up until the mid-19th century. But back in the late 1500s and early 1600s, linguistic dreamers came up with a few oneiros spin-offs, giving English oneirocriticism, oneirocritical, and oneirocritic (each having to do with dream interpreters or dream interpretation). The surge in oneiros derivatives at that time may have been fueled by the interest then among English-speaking scholars in Oneirocritica, a book about dream interpretation by 2nd-century Greek soothsayer Artemidorus Daldianus. In the 17th century, English speakers also melded Greek oneiros with the combining form -mancy ('divination') to create oneiromancy, meaning 'divination by means of dreams'. (Merriam-Webster)
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A Letter to the Luminous Deep is a book that should have been so far up my alley it was knocking on my back door ready to come in for a cup of tea, and instead it didn't work for me at all. I'm writing it up partly because I think the ways it (imo) failed are interesting, and partly because tastes differ and I suspect some of you may enjoy it very much.
Okay, so. The premise, which is what hooked me initially, is that this is an epistolary story about fantasy deep sea exploration and sibling bonds. It's set in a world in which there is no land except a single atoll; long ago, people lived in sky cities, but some kind of cataclysm ended that, and now everyone lives either on the atoll, on floating residences of various sorts, or (fairly recently) in underwater habitations. One of these is the Deep House, the deepest underwater home yet made.
A year before the start of the book, reclusive E. Cidnosin began writing to shy scholar Henery Clel; E. lives in the Deep House, which her mother built, and Henery is fascinated by the Deep House and the largely unexplored depths of the ocean. The two of them grow increasingly close, and then, at some point and in some way, die or vanish -- it's not initially clear which. Whatever it was, a year later, E.'s sister Sophy and Henerey's brother Vyerin strike up a correspondence and begin to trade their siblings' letters and journal entries and so on, along with their own letters, bonding as they try to discover what happened to their beloved siblings. The story thus unfolds in two timelines, as Sophy and Vyerin go through E. and Henerey's writings sequentially and share their own thoughts and reactions. Some of the letters they're sharing are their own from a year ago, written to their siblings at the time, so for Sophy in particular we get past and present events intertwined. (In the one-year-ago timeline, Sophy was on a scientific expedition to a deep marine trench, though busily writing letters to E. about it.)
It's a really cool conceit! Other things I like: ( very mild spoilers )
...And unfortunately, that's pretty much where it stops, in terms of what worked for me. ( from here on out this gets more negative, with some vague but not detailed spoilers )
I think part of my problem here is that I love domestic stories, and I love books with very low, personal-level stakes, and I love books about ordinary people having everyday struggles, and I love books about hope and the restorative power of kindness... but I also believe in the power of misunderstandings and petty frustrations and supply chain logistics and all the bits of sand in the gears of life, and so I absolutely bounce hard off a lot of the books currently being written as "cozy," and this is another victim of that. I wanted a domestic epistolary story about siblings and the material culture and scientific inquiries of an ocean world; I got coziness that, unfortunately, felt like cloying cotton candy to me. I suspect that some of you would react similarly, and for others, what I found cloying would be charming and relaxing coziness. And that's clearly what the book is aiming for, so if you're in the latter camp, I hope you have a great time with it!
Me, I'll just spend a moment pining for the book I wanted it to be, which is not the same as the book Sylvie Cathrall wanted to write.
Okay, so. The premise, which is what hooked me initially, is that this is an epistolary story about fantasy deep sea exploration and sibling bonds. It's set in a world in which there is no land except a single atoll; long ago, people lived in sky cities, but some kind of cataclysm ended that, and now everyone lives either on the atoll, on floating residences of various sorts, or (fairly recently) in underwater habitations. One of these is the Deep House, the deepest underwater home yet made.
A year before the start of the book, reclusive E. Cidnosin began writing to shy scholar Henery Clel; E. lives in the Deep House, which her mother built, and Henery is fascinated by the Deep House and the largely unexplored depths of the ocean. The two of them grow increasingly close, and then, at some point and in some way, die or vanish -- it's not initially clear which. Whatever it was, a year later, E.'s sister Sophy and Henerey's brother Vyerin strike up a correspondence and begin to trade their siblings' letters and journal entries and so on, along with their own letters, bonding as they try to discover what happened to their beloved siblings. The story thus unfolds in two timelines, as Sophy and Vyerin go through E. and Henerey's writings sequentially and share their own thoughts and reactions. Some of the letters they're sharing are their own from a year ago, written to their siblings at the time, so for Sophy in particular we get past and present events intertwined. (In the one-year-ago timeline, Sophy was on a scientific expedition to a deep marine trench, though busily writing letters to E. about it.)
It's a really cool conceit! Other things I like: ( very mild spoilers )
...And unfortunately, that's pretty much where it stops, in terms of what worked for me. ( from here on out this gets more negative, with some vague but not detailed spoilers )
I think part of my problem here is that I love domestic stories, and I love books with very low, personal-level stakes, and I love books about ordinary people having everyday struggles, and I love books about hope and the restorative power of kindness... but I also believe in the power of misunderstandings and petty frustrations and supply chain logistics and all the bits of sand in the gears of life, and so I absolutely bounce hard off a lot of the books currently being written as "cozy," and this is another victim of that. I wanted a domestic epistolary story about siblings and the material culture and scientific inquiries of an ocean world; I got coziness that, unfortunately, felt like cloying cotton candy to me. I suspect that some of you would react similarly, and for others, what I found cloying would be charming and relaxing coziness. And that's clearly what the book is aiming for, so if you're in the latter camp, I hope you have a great time with it!
Me, I'll just spend a moment pining for the book I wanted it to be, which is not the same as the book Sylvie Cathrall wanted to write.
(delphi Sep. 6th, 2025 08:53 pm)
delphi Sep. 6th, 2025 08:53 pm)I have been SUPER sore lately which means I've had to put pretty much all creative things on hold and I am BORED. So here, have some half assed reviews off the top of my head.
Squeakross, Roots of Pacha, Silksong, Chants of Sennar, Blue Prince, A Little to the Left
KPop Demon Hunters
The Murderbot Diaries
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Squeakross, Roots of Pacha, Silksong, Chants of Sennar, Blue Prince, A Little to the Left
KPop Demon Hunters
The Murderbot Diaries
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I've rather dropped the ball on check in posts. I'd like to claim that I'm going to be doing weekly posts (and I'm going to put it back in my reminders, so maybe!).
With that said: what have you achieved in the declutter sphere? Have you done a tiny thing? Something marvellous and magical that has transformed your life? Made a plan but haven't yet carried it out? Tell us, tell us!
Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.
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Holy shit: university library access. It's probably good that I'm not in a historical fandom right now, because guess what I'd be doing instead of homework.
*remembers doing a bunch of Afghan War reading for Sherlock Holmes fandom last time around*
*remembers doing a bunch of Afghan War reading for Sherlock Holmes fandom last time around*
Total lunar eclipse of the full Corn Moon September 7, 2025
On September 7, 2025, a total lunar eclipse of the full Corn Moon will sweep across Antarctica, Australia, Asia, the western Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, Europe, the eastern Atlantic Ocean and Africa. Total lunar eclipses can turn a deep shade of red and are often called a Blood Moon. How dark will the September 2025 total lunar eclipse be?
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On September 7, 2025, a total lunar eclipse of the full Corn Moon will sweep across Antarctica, Australia, Asia, the western Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, Europe, the eastern Atlantic Ocean and Africa. Total lunar eclipses can turn a deep shade of red and are often called a Blood Moon. How dark will the September 2025 total lunar eclipse be?
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ao3_news_feed Sep. 6th, 2025 01:34 pm)
September 5 is the OTW's birthday and this year, we are turning 18 years old! To celebrate this event, let's look back at some of the milestones the OTW's projects - AO3, TWC, Open Doors, Fanlore, and Legal Advocacy - have achieved over the years:
- As the first OTW Project, Legal Advocacy was launched in 2007, the same year as the organization itself.
- In February of 2008, TWC released its first call for papers! Shortly after, in June, Fanlore was launched.
- In late 2009, AO3 first went live. Roughly one year later, AO3 reached 10,000 users, with growth of the community accelerating ever since.
- In 2011, Open Doors was launched, and began importing archives in 2012.
- In 2015, the first ever International Fanworks Day was observed.
Since then, our projects have only continued to flourish and grow. AO3 has more than 9 million users and 15,730,000 works. Fanlore has nearly 80,000 pages and has seen over 1,657,000 edits. TWC is on its 45th issue. Open Doors has imported more than 100 archives, containing over 164,000 fanworks. Legal Advocacy fights hard for the rights of fans each and every day, responding to dozens of questions every year, filing Amicus Curiae briefs, joining coalitions, and more. All this and more is thanks to the support of fans worldwide; it wouldn't be possible without you!
If you're interested in how you can help, there are many ways for you to support us and our fannish community, and you can learn about some of them today by participating in our 18th Anniversary Bingo! On the card below you can see sixteen ways to contribute to the OTW or one of its projects. Some of these you might already have done, or are doing. You can cross those off!
Once you have a Bingo, we'd love for you to tell us what you did to get it! Tag us on social media using #18YearsOTW or comment below, and let us know. We're excited to hear from you!
If you're looking for other ways you can support the OTW, check out How You Can Help for more ideas!
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fictional_fans Sep. 7th, 2025 08:55 am)
g_uava posting in fictional_fans Sep. 7th, 2025 08:55 am)(cross-posted from newcomers)
Sharing my method for saving unpublished posts on Dreamwidth since I haven't seen it mentioned before:
It's basically just creating a community for yourself with all posts set to private (here's how). That'll serve as a repository for posts only visible to you that you can organise with tags exclusive to the community. I also use my private community to store post templates with code and put in a sticky post a bunch of often used emoji along with other symbols to copy and paste when I'm on my PC.
Does anyone know of any other less known methods for saving drafts on Dreamwidth? ☺️
Guy came around with "the government wants you to have a free phone because you're on benefits"
and my roommate who is aggressive with solicitors wasn't home
and so I said sure (thinking maybe I could use it to try swapping the sim card from mom's old untextable phone)
even though I know better
so now I have a phone I don't really need, that may or may not be a scam, that I regretted accepting like five minutes later
(they didn't take cc info so maybe the worst they can do is harass me)
...fml
and my roommate who is aggressive with solicitors wasn't home
and so I said sure (thinking maybe I could use it to try swapping the sim card from mom's old untextable phone)
even though I know better
so now I have a phone I don't really need, that may or may not be a scam, that I regretted accepting like five minutes later
(they didn't take cc info so maybe the worst they can do is harass me)
...fml
(pivot_to_ai_feed Sep. 6th, 2025 10:47 pm)
pivot_to_ai_feed Sep. 6th, 2025 10:47 pm)Edward Saatchi, who brought you the totally-not-South Park generator AI, has announced his latest wizard motion picture jape. He’s totally gonna finish the Orson Welles classic The Magnificent Ambersons from 1942 — the way Orson would have wanted it!
The Magnificent Ambersons was, in fact, finished and released at the time. It was a hit. It’s considered one of Welles’ greatest films.
But the studio, RKO, pushed Welles out of the production and completely remade the ending. Welles was deeply annoyed by this. The unused footage was destroyed to save space in the vaults. Welles had sent RKO a rough cut of his original version — but that’s lost too.
Saatchi’s pitch is that he’ll reconstruct the lost version of the film — with AI!
AI video generators don’t work. In the Veo Fails series, we saw how AI video makes eight-second clips with no continuity and cannot follow directions. You’re pressing the button on a random-MPEG-generating loot box game. It’s a toy at best.
But our boy Ed is touting this amazing scheme to the movie press. He is making out he can do forty minutes of film with AI, to an Orson Welles level of quality. And the press are taking him seriously in the slightest.
Here’s Ed’s pitch, reprinted by the Hollywood Reporter as if it isn’t just hot air: [Hollywood Reporter]
… a new AI model designed to generate long, complex narratives — ultimately building toward feature film length, live action films … Over the next two years, it’ll be utilized to re-create Welles’ follow-up to Citizen Kane.
Two years is long enough that Saatchi won’t have to produce results cos everyone will have long forgotten.
There’s other minor little details. Saatchi can’t release his version, because he didn’t bother getting the rights from the studios. The Orson Welles estate hates the whole idea too. He’s touting film fan fiction at best. [NBC]
Ed’s not saying he’ll do this with the nonexistent movie-generating AI model he talks up earlier in the article:
a fusion of AI and traditional film techniques to reconstruct the lost footage. This includes shooting some sequences with live actors, with plans to use face and pose transfer techniques with AI tools to preserve the likenesses of the original actors in the movie.
Saatchi’s getting a headline with “AI” the marketing term, and the actual “AI” will, at most, be what we already call “CGI”.
There have been multiple attempts to recreate the Welles cut of The Magnificent Ambersons. One fan, Brian Rose, has spent the last five years trying to construct his unauthorised version, frame by frame. Saatchi says he’ll be starting from Rose’s version. [Wellesnet, 2019]
This project is so obviously vaporware if you think about it for two seconds. But this is the AI bubble, so nobody’s got two seconds.
CNBC Squawkbox must have had space to fill, so they invited Ed on. What’s the Saatchi vision of the future of AI in cinema? [YouTube, 3:50 on]
It’s, you know, potentially the end of human creativity.
And if anyone can end human creativity, it’s Ed Saatchi.
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