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Brainstorming fashion for LLG

Mar. 22nd, 2026 07:45 am
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Okay, so I had basics before, but now that I'm shifting further from masc/fem associations with sky/sea/land, I want fashion to be more gender-neutral from a real world perspective, but still distinct in-world.

The basics remain the same.

Everyone wears undergarments of a snug undershirt (knit or woven) and woolen leggings/hose. When it is cold, people will wear a sweater over this as well.

The outer garments everyone wears are a sweater of varying thickness and a pair of loose trousers that can be buckled or drawn to gather at the cuff when it is windy/cold.

Sky silhouettes, I've decided, emphasize movement and so the preference is for draped garments and loose garments. Something like an arisaid is popular. If the airsaid is covering enough, they may forgo the trousers and/or sweater of the base outfit. They also prefer cloaks over coats, but may forgo both.

Land silhouettes, in contrast, emphasize structure and so the emphasis is on fitted jackets (rather than cardigans or sweaters) and felted hats. They prefer coats over cloaks.

Sea silhouettes emphasize volume and so their sweaters tend to be looser and thicker and their trousers look more like tobi pants or knickerbockers. They'll wear either coats or cloaks. Or maybe something like a cloak with sleeves (a mantle?).

So all three wear the same basics, but each has something extra. 

The Lamplighters are very active and don't tend to be super wealthy, so their outfits cleave more to the basics, but you'll see the variation in coat vs cloak and Sea-called with a greater bell to their trousers or comfier looking sweaters. 

...I'm going to have to go through and adjust all clothing descriptions now. But, this has been bugging me for a while. I've been avoiding clothing descriptions for the most part because I didn't have good answers.

I think children tend to wear cloaks, too, because those can last through size changes better. 

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Disaster Otter

Mar. 22nd, 2026 11:18 am
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You can’t tell me this doesn’t have the same energy as this old meme - and more so when you know the mischief behind it! Via MTSOfan:

Piper was torn. As I squatted on the other side of the window, she wanted to interact with me. On the other hand, she'd had a quarrel with her roommate, Luani. She wanted to watch what he was doing.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, March 21

Mar. 22nd, 2026 12:04 am
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Mar. 22nd, 2026 12:00 am
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"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."

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Mar. 22nd, 2026 12:00 am
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"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days."

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P. G. Wodehouse

Mar. 22nd, 2026 12:00 am
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"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun."

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Mar. 22nd, 2026 12:00 am
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"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."

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Project Hail Mary movie

Mar. 21st, 2026 10:57 pm
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We went and saw Project Hail Mary this afternoon. It was terrific. I loved it.

You can read my (positive and spoilery) reactions to the Project Hail Mary book at this post from 2024.

If spoilers matter to you, I recommend very strongly going in as unspoiled as possible, including not watching the trailer.

( Talking about the movie some more, and movie vs book )
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Sharing my planner

Mar. 22nd, 2026 06:03 am
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Hi! I'm new here! A little late but sharing pics of my planner, it's a custom pre-printed from So Typical Me (as I said in a comment here, I'm a creative person trapped in a body that can't draw for s*** so I like preprinted, though I'm sad at the same layout EVERY week. Oh well)

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Select Seeds Order

Mar. 21st, 2026 11:42 pm
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My seeds arrived from Select Seeds.


Painted Tongue 'Select Superbissima Mix' (seeds)

Yarrow 'Flowerburst Red Shades' (seeds)

Coreopsis 'Corusco Cream-Red' (seeds)
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Prairie Moon Order

Mar. 21st, 2026 11:37 pm
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My Prairie Moon seed order arrived today. :D


Early Figwort (seed)

Late Figwort (seed)

Common Ironweed (seed)

Purple Love Grass (seed)

Lead Plant (seed)
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"Dum superbit impius" [music, pols]

Mar. 22nd, 2026 12:31 am
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[requires both audio and video]

Jonasquin on YT (previously) has written a wholly original motet in the 16th century style after Desprez upon the cantus firmus "Seven Nations Army", for the words of Psalm 10, verses 2, 3, 7-11.

Comment would be superfluous.

2026 Mar 20: Jonasquin YT: "A 16th century motet for the US President"



Click through to the video on YT to see the translation in the description.
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tangent from the ballet questions

Mar. 21st, 2026 09:30 pm
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Is there a retelling of Sleeping Beauty (the general plotline, not the ballet specifically) in any media that deals with the whole castle being asleep for a hundred years?

Like, I assume that A Castle is a significant economic unit, and having it fuck off behind a hedge for five generations, and then pop back into life has some effects on the surrounding countryside? (I guess in the ballet they put the whole kingdom to sleep? WHICH I ALSO HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT!)

Like your daughter is a maid in the castle, then poof! behind a hedge! But then she's back to meet her great grand nieces?

What if you had a financial relationship with the castle?

What if the neighbouring duke or whatever wanted your land? I assume he'd just take it, at that point, but then poof! the castle's back?

But also, the fey showing up and doing things seems to be normal and expected in this universe, so maybe people are just used to it, and have contingency plans for people stuck sleeping behind a hedge for five generations?

Anyway, is there like a novel that deals with this? If not Sleeping Beauty directly, then something similar, where it's a whole bunch of people forming a significant political and economic unit essentially yeeted out of time for a hundred years?

(Hard no on anything that involves the rapey version of Sleeping Beauty.)
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Dept. of Rodentia

Mar. 21st, 2026 10:42 pm
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Mice. More Mice, Damnit.

The headline says it all. 

I got up at 5:15 a.m. in order to watch the first BTS concert since all seven of the members got out of the military.  Their last concert was four years ago, and they played this free event at Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul, which is seen as the city's spiritual heart and most prominent gathering space. Thousands of fans watched in person, and millions more watched via Netflix, which is what I did. 

The concert was short, just an hour long; they performed every song on their new album "Arirang" and about four of their earlier most popular songs. They really are a mesmerizing group to watch in full flight, although I was forced to wonder about bad omens; their leader, Kim Nam Joon (stage name RM) badly hurt an ankle during rehearsals, and had to spend much of the concert performing on a stool. 

ARMY didn't mind, and perhaps the joy I saw reflected in the faces of fans watching did, as the young men told those fans, power everything that was happening on stage. With that kind of support, perhaps an injured ankle will be of little import. 

I enjoyed the concert and was about to get up and get my second cup of coffee when I discovered that, having successfully mouse-proofed the south larder closet in our office, the  little monsters fellas had decided that they could come in from the north side larder, closest to our furnace room (which isn't really a room, it's a tiny closet where the furnace is placed, but we call it a room, so there you go).

How do I know? Carter, who's been acting very "I know there are mousies there" for the past day or so, abruptly tried to push his head under the base of one of the northern larders shelving units. As I prepared to look under the shelving unit myself, a tiny grey blur shot out between Carter and me, and disappeared somewhere in the wilds of the office, or perhaps out the office door and into the rest of the house.

At this point, after the initial confrontation, during which I shrieked almost loud and high enough to crack glass, all I could do was shake my head and laugh. Just a tiny laugh, mind you, but what else could I do? Beyond the inevitable cleaning job, I mean.

It's frustrating. Nearly every foodstuff we have in both the north and south larders has been stored in hard plastic bins now, but they will apparently try to feast on anything I hadn't yet gotten into said bins. They also tried to feed on the plastic surrounding some artwork that's in the north larder because there's no room for them elsewhere.

They haven't made too much of a mess, so I can only assume they just discovered the new route over the past couple of days. Cue tremendous sighs, and a wish that I could wave a wand and keep them out for good. I keep a clean place, people, and yet here they are. 

By the end of today, Bob and I had visited one of our favorite hardware stores to get mouse shield foam and yet more steel wool. We've been there so often, at least a few of cashiers can kibbutz with us as they ring us up.

While I was out getting some more plastic storage containers at yet another of our favorite hardware stores, Bob deployed the foam and steel wool all around the furnace, after I'd vacuumed out far too much dust in the cubby. I really do keep a clean house; the problem is that I forget about the furnace cubby. So at least I can thank the mice for reminding me that I need to regularly vacuum around the furnace. 

Positivity, that's the name of the game.

But I'm still looking around for that little grey blur; I just know he or she is lurking somewhere, preparing to scare the living bejesus out of me again. 
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Pizza Party! (part 2 of 2, complete)

Mar. 21st, 2026 09:52 pm
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Pizza Party!
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 2 of 2, complete
Word count (story only): 1137
[Afternoon of Saturday, 4 November of 2017]



:: The larger family and friends gather to make personal pizzas and catch up. The delivery driver throws a spanner into the works, however. Part of the “Lodestar” arc, set in the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::


Back to part one
:: Thanks for reading! ::




The man at the door was about Jules’ age, but his scruffy, unshaven face and sloppily grown out fade hinted at hard times. His caramel skin was blotchy and peeling, but the streaks of off-white sunblock on his throat and the hollows of his jaws implied less care about his appearance. “That kid’s a menace,” the delivery man snarled. “You’ll be sorry you let him in your house!”
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Bienvenidxs a Latam!

Mar. 21st, 2026 09:23 pm
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Mar. 22nd, 2026 12:00 am
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, March 21

Mar. 22nd, 2026 12:58 am
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XANDER: They'll never know how tough it is, Dawnie, to be the one who isn't chosen. To live so near to the spotlight and never step in it. But I know. I see more than anybody realizes because nobody's watching me. I saw you last night. I see you working here today. You're not special. You're extraordinary.

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