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Name: Mary Cuntrarian or Kat, my real nickname. She/They

Age: near 40

I mostly post about: Right now my journal is new so I'm not exactly sure but I haven't written anything since about 2015. I'm mostly posting stream of consciousness thoughts and things that won't leave my brain like themes in fiction and in life. I might make my journal friends-only soon since that's a thing I can do and write things that are more personal because my life is sort of a mess at the moment and I need to write it out. I'm an artist and I've been putting a lot of effort into my art career recently so I know I'll be writing about my process and struggles there.

My hobbies are: I dabble in all kinds of painting and crafts, but mostly watercolor and ink. I crochet, do some embroidery, I'm relearning web design and have started making web pages as art and for fun. I used to play more video games but nothing has caught my interest lately but I have played Disco Elysium, Fallout 76, Stardew Valley, Breath of the Wild, some GTA Online, Animal Crossing (Pocket Camp, but it counts!) and other random rpgish games. I also have been playing a lot of Dungeons and Dragons lately, and I love coming up with characters! Trying to get back into writing, right now just blogging but maybe fiction and poetry soon. I don't know if I'll write fanfic, I have started making icons again and I think I'll have fully regressed into my old LJer self if I write fanfic again. Which might not be BAD.

My fandoms are: Currently I have some hyperfixations but I hesitate to call them fandoms in the old fashioned way. I'm less obsessed with things than I used to be but I will say my old fangirl tendencies have popped up a little again.

Right now I'm into The Matrix movies including Resurrections, Neo/Trinity might make me read fic again and I'm also watching Sense8 for the first time and I'm really liking it so I'm in a Wachowski Sisters kinda mood.

I love AEW wrestling and I'll list my favorite wrestlers for you if you care. lol

I'm also watching Legends of Tomorrow and almost done with it, pretty into it and I love Constantine.

I recently read the Southern Reach series and could talk about those books forever. Jeff Vandermeer and Edward Carey are my favorite living authors with Shirley Jackson being my favorite classic writer.

Music I'm fannish about is Lord Huron and Tyler the Creator. I'm into indie hip hop and I've gotten into riot grrrl music for the first time recently.

I'm looking to meet people who: Just want to talk and connect? No bullshit, just sharing random cool thoughts and ideas. I'm a stoner, can we start an internet blunt rotation? lol

I've seen a lot of people saying this online recently but I'm looking for that old internet feeling again. I made a Neocities page, I want to talk to people about shit again and not just tweet a few sentences and hope it gets likes.

My posting schedule tends to be: Sporadic as of late but I'm going to post more now that I'm here. I was posting on tumblr here and there but I felt like there were no conversations to be had there. I'm aiming for once a week at least.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: No bigotry, no terfs, no AI worshippers, MAGA-heads or generally fuckery. I'm basically a dirty commie and I'm not too afraid to talk about it so if that makes you uncomfortable oh well.

Before adding me, you should know: I'm currently struggling quite a bit in life, lost a lot of my agency and control because of lack of money, lost my apartment, and my general sense of self so I might talk about that at times. I'm disabled and queer, neurodivergent and cannot find a job to save my life and currently live with my partner and their family which is rough. If you don't want to hear about my personal bullshit from time to time, I'm probably not the person to follow.
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Photograph of steel spoons and spices in a dramatic setting with added text that gives it the look of a gourmet magazine cover: September 2025. Food & Cooking, at Fancake. Steel teaspoons are arranged in an elogated oval to suggest a fish, with the bowls acting as scales and some of the handles left visible to create the fins and tail, giving the creature a spiky appearance. The concave bowls are dusted with a powdery orange spice for color and one spoon at the front of the fish is filled with a coarse black spice to create an eye. The fish is on a black surface with a rough texture and around it are three skinny green peppers, a mound of salt, a mound of orange spice, and a dipping bowl filled with a clear amber liquid.
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haven't done this in a long time

Sep. 2nd, 2025 10:56 pm
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Name: Jack/Jackdaw

Age:44

I mostly post about: writing, life, parenting, school, work, sometimes politics, sometimes other hobbies

My hobbies are: writing, drawing, web stuff, reading, misc fiber arts

My fandoms are: at the moment, Fourth Wing with a side of the Untamed and All For the Game

I'm looking to meet people who: do interesting things, share interesting facts, recommend interesting books, etc... mostly I'm just looking to add some people to my friends page.

My posting schedule tends to be: sporadic. sometimes it can be multiple times a week, and sometimes I will absolutely forget dreamwidth exists.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: life is too short to deal with people who just want to argue with me. I'm trans and neurodivergent and pagan and a parent and if any of those would bother you, well, now you know.

Before adding me, you should know: two unrelated but occasionally controversial things: we're a plural system and we still mask in crowded public spaces. Neither comes up often on the blog but both have turned out to be dealbreakers for other people before.

we were lightning from the start

Sep. 3rd, 2025 12:04 am
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To say Rumi is displeased to be in Darrow would be a vast understatement. It helps more than she can say to have Mira here, too, even if they've yet to find any sign that Zoey is in the city with them. It would just be a lot nicer if they could simply... go home. As far as she can tell, though, everything she was told is true. Until this city lets them go, they're stuck here.

She dragged her feet through the first week or so of her stay, but reuniting with Mira has at least helped her accept that they're going to be here a while. It doesn't keep her from resenting the very idea of it, but there's no point living like they're on tour or something. If she has her way, their time here will be brief, but refusing to settle in won't help her. She has money from the city and there's no reason not to use it for whatever little things she needs — clothes, groceries, notebooks and pens.

Though she initially tries to talk herself out of anything bigger, she gives up in short order, stopping by a little music store to buy a used guitar. She can live on ramyeon for a week or however long, but if she has to go another two weeks without making any kind of music, she'll probably go insane, so this, too, counts as a necessity.

Truthfully, when it comes to being an idol, she's been incredibly lucky. She recognizes that she's had it way easier than most. With Celine raising her, her mom's legacy, the knowledge that her place in a group was guaranteed, she never had to contend with the stress other trainees felt, wondering whether or not she'd ever get signed. It was always just a matter of waiting until Celine had the right trio, that's all. She knows people talked about her because of it, that there are still plenty of antis who call her a dozen, but she doesn't let that bother her much. She knows the truth of her talent; she's seen it for herself in lines of shimmering blue and gold written across Seoul. Her voice is one thing Rumi is confident about.

Because her place in Huntr/x was sealed before the group even had a name, let alone other members, and because Celine was so focused on shooting them straight to the top, they skipped a lot of the coming-of-age rites other rookie groups go through. And Rumi's not going to pretend she wishes they'd struggled. She's thankful their path was a flower road from the start. Even so, the fact that they never had to do busking was a little disappointing. The closest she ever came was an episode of Begin Again. It's not the same.

She sets up on the boardwalk, just her and her new-old guitar, a cheap mic clipped to her hoodie. She just wants to keep it simple: a folding chair, set up in as shady a place as she can find on the old wooden path. There are a couple bottles of water tucked behind the chair so she can stay hydrated and a speaker behind her guitar case where it's laid on the ground. Other than that, it's just the way the strings feel under her fingers as she starts playing familiar songs.

Back home, she rarely even got to do covers. Celine was so precious about their image. Here, there's no one to remind her to go over her choices with the team and strategize, picking songs that won't cause any negative sentiments or comparisons, steering her away from music by her contemporaries or hoobaes. It's just Rumi, singing what she likes, though she carefully chose a handful of songs in English, since that seems to be the language most Darrow residents speak.

Ooh, no matter what, you got me,
I got you, and I wouldn't want it any other way
Ooh, no drop of doubt, I know deep down that
We'll make it through
Just like we always do


She focuses on the music, her eyes almost closed at first, but she knows by now — call it instinct or training — how to work a crowd, and a crowd is undeniably beginning to form. She stops playing long enough to get them clapping rhythmically along, diving back into the warm notes of the chorus, her voice rising sweetly over the sounds of the crowd and the waves. One song becomes another and another, and for the first time in longer than she cares to think about, the music is just... music, stripped of all the responsibility it's had to carry for so long. That she's had to carry. By the time she finishes up, the sun is starting to set, and Rumi feels lighter than she has in a long, long time.

[ Come find Rumi somewhere on the Darrow Boardwalk! Either find her playing or wrapping up or say she took a break to get a snack, whatever strikes your fancy/is most accessible. I threw together a playlist of some songs that she might play, so feel free to say it's any of these in a very stripped down acoustic rendition. The one used in the post is "I Got You" by Twice, but anything goes, so if you'd rather your pup come across her playing, e.g., Taylor Swift's "Cruel Summer" instead, have at it. And if you haven't yet heard her sing, here's a link to "Golden," one of her group's singles in canon. Set to any point on Wednesday. Open until this says otherwise. ]
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Name: Keplers_angels. I answer to Trudy, but it's not my name.

Age: 46



I mostly post about: I mostly write to make myself real. And to stun people with my wordery. To give consolation. (or wound) And to figure it out.... Been journaling a long time so there are shifts in topic climate but generally it's a lot of poetry and poeticity on sex and angst with smatterings of perimenopause, breastlessness, and feminism, interpersonal relationships... what to do with my life?! existential and metaphysical drama.... I don't shy away from much-- I come to confess. There will be adult content. There may be mathematics, politics, pain, complaints and exhortations, poems and poems and poems and lots of complaining that it hasn't rained. (In general though, my posts are usually much more readable than this is.)



My hobbies are: This. This is my hobby. Outside of work, which is a whole thing, this. I write. I try to make myself submit poems to stuff. I read books, I waste untold hours on fb, I'm learning to sext, I practice yoga, I over analyze things and am pretentious and arrogant except when I'm in joyful denial or drowning in insecurity. In short, I tell the truth about myself -brutally- but I'm not a very reliable narrator.... what was the question again?



My fandoms are: I don't fandom here. But I lived very happily in Man From UNCLE fandom for most of a decade. It saved my life. Sometimes I'll still do an erotic little fandom vignette but fandom's not why I'm here.



I'm looking to meet people who: write similar, or completely different, kinds of things. Mostly I'm looking for my early aughts LJ experience back. I want people who write with emotion and who will read and comment on my posts as I will read and comment on theirs. If you're not going to read your friends page then I don't want you on mine.



My posting schedule tends to be: In 2025 it's been pretty every-day-ish. (at least weekly, usually more) Which pleases me and I hope it will last. I am not *as* punctual with my friends page and comments but I always catch up-- weekly give-or-take.



When I add people, my dealbreakers are: stalking. violating my privacy or anonymity. I'm not opposed in principle to friends of different belief systems to mine but of course, we all have limits, and I'm not going to censor my own posts to avoid those kinds of things. Content wise, if you post something I can't abide, I'll unfriend. But I don't like my echo-chamber to be too constrictive.

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Sep. 2nd, 2025 06:46 am
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Name: Katie

Age: In my 40s.



I mostly post about: I mostly post about life, work, going to school, my writing, concerts, music, the sims, graphics, and book reviews.


My hobbies are:reading, writing, the sims, hiking, concerts, hanging with family and friends


My fandoms are: I am not in any fandoms. I used to be in LOST. I am more into music which is Jamie Cullum, Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Britney Spears, Fall Out Boy and a lot more.


I'm looking to meet people who: Those with similar interest


My posting schedule tends to be: I don't have a schedule.


When I add people, my deal breakers are: People who aren't nice to others, racists, fascist, bigots


Before adding me, you should know:I do not add minors.

Batman: Say Uncle by Megaerakles

Sep. 1st, 2025 11:43 pm
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Fandom: Batman
Pairings/Characters: Jason Todd, Tim Drake
Rating: teen
Length: 46k
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] Megaerakles 
Theme: food, fork in the road AU, domestic, family, fixit, gen, happy endings, secret identity reveal,

Summary: Tim is prepared to take the steps necessary to ensure that Bruce will not feel obligated to adopt Tim when a comatose Jack Drake inevitably dies. But what could be better than preventing Bruce from ending up with a son he doesn't want? Bringing back the one he does.

Jason agrees to the Replacement's stupid, stupid plan to invite some strange adult man he's never met to come live with him, if only to keep the idiot alive long enough for him to serve his purpose in the Great Red Hood Revenge Scheme.

Might this new roommate situation have an impact on either of their worldviews? Surely not...

Reccer's Notes: Both Tim and Jason are oblivious idiots in the best way in this. And Jason shows love through cooking (and teaching how to cook).

Fanwork Links: Say Uncle
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Fandom: MCU
Pairings/Characters: Steve Rogers/Maria Hill
Rating: Gen
Length: 3107 words
Creator Links: [personal profile] tielan 
Theme: food, working together, friends with benefits, female characters,

Summary: Maria can manage professional colleagues with Rogers, but she values her place in S.H.I.E.L.D more.

Reccer's Notes: Tielan's specialty is female characters who get overlooked by the rest of fandom, and I love the way she writes Maria Hill: a complex woman doing a difficult job in a world that doesn't respect her. And I love the way she writes Steve: a man who deeply and sincerely respects (and falls for) competent women.

Fanwork Links: Dinner In Other Languages

September Monthly Post

Sep. 1st, 2025 07:54 pm
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What are your planned crowdfunding projects for September? What did you accomplish during August?

The September [community profile] crowdfunding Creative Jam will run Saturday 20-Sunday 21 with a theme of "Journalism."

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Sep. 1st, 2025 02:35 pm
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It's a lovely day on the cusp of autumn, warm but not quite hot, a cool breeze, the sun bright.

A perfect day, Luther decides, for some antiquing. Real, deep antiquing like he hasn't engaged in since-- well, he's not sure. Timeline fuckery and all.

Plenty of finds pop up at a local flea market, which just happens to be steps from an actual antique shop. A couple of cool lamps with stained glass depicting various colored bees, an old and military-looking footlocker, a mirror with a jet black surface, all of it very tempting.

He's not really looking for anything in particular, so much as he wants to examine it all, when he finds a sconce. The sconce, the one he'd been holding when their little Christmas road trip literally got shot to hell.

The same sconce that has dozens of identical brothers and sisters back at the house, dropped behind as they'd fled that day.

It looks undamaged, at least. That's good, only-- only he's not so sure he's undamaged. Luther takes a few shaky steps and then drops down on a bench that reverberates with the sudden weight.

"Haven't see you in a while," Luther murmurs, turning the sconce over in his hands. "You know, some people get boats," he adds, looking up briefly at the sky.

"Sorry," he says to the sconce. "You're just awfully heavy with old memories that may or may not have happened." The academy, sure, but what he's thinking about is those years squatting at the house, trying to rebuild.

Alone.

Luther's pulled from the little storm cloud of hurt and resentments by a voice.

"There it is! That suspiciously large man has it right ever there!" He glances up to see the woman, white-haired and decked out in one hell of a housedress, glaring. "You there, you! I had that picked out last Sunday--"

And it goes on for a while, Luther holding the sconce protectively to his chest, the woman yelling, and a harried sell coming to stand helpless nearby.


[Stop by and help Luther out, or don't! But please do. Open to all, a good time to meet him.]

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