The Friday Five for 27 June 2025

Jun. 26th, 2025 06:25 pm
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This week's questions were suggested by [livejournal.com profile] bindyree

1. Who was your favorite teacher?

2. Why was that teacher so special?

3. Do you think teachers get paid enough?

4. Do you have a favorite year of school?

5. If you could travel back in time and tell yourself something now that would have helped you get through school, what would you say?

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Title: From All The Spaces Between Times
Chapter: Chapter 50 - Let Us Remember the Things We Hold On To
Author: [personal profile] elrhiarhodan / [tumblr.com profile] elrhiarhodan / [archiveofourown.org profile] elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars — Obi Wan Kenobi (TV), Star Wars — Jedi Apprentice Books
Characters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Shmi Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, Watto, Quinlan Vos, Padmé Amidala, Sabé, Darth Maul, Yoda, Mace Windu, Adi Gallia, Quinlan Vos, Professor Huyang, The Force, Plo Koon, Vokara Che, Siri Tachi, Aayla Secura, Bant Eerin, Bruck Chun, Xanatos du Crion, Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Hego Damask II | Darth Plagueis, Komari Vosa, Bail Prestor Organa, Bail Antilles Prestor, Rael Averross, Nim Piana, Original Characters, Other Characters To Be Added
Pairings: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Shmi Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Qui-Gon Jinn, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, eventual Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon Jinn (we’re arrived)
Word Count: ~ 5000 this chapter
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Graphic depictions of extreme sexual encounters between original characters. Angry Obi-Wan to the rescue.

Summary: Obi-Wan Kenobi has never known it, but he has always been the Force’s Champion, destined to suffer infinite sadness in defense of the Light. On his last turn on the wheel, responsibility for The Chosen One, the false child of prophecy, had been thrust upon him with no warning, and Darkness held the upper hand.

But this time, the Force has marshaled its power and will protect its Champion until the time is right, no matter how long Obi-Wan has to wait and how much he has to suffer.

Or,

Obi-Wan is reborn as a twelve-year old.

He wakes up on a slavers’ ship, with all of his prior life’s memories intact, and he’s bound for Tatooine with a Force-inhibitor collar around his neck, a bomb implanted in his spine, and no way of knowing what state of the Galaxy is in.

Just another day in the life of the Force’s Champion.

Chapter Summary: Obi-Wan goes to visit Bruck, who drops a bombshell on him.

And half a galaxy away, Dooku gets a comm message from someone he doesn’t expect.



From All The Spaces Between Times —Chapter 50 - Let Us Remember the Things We Hold On To (On AO3)


Meta — Chapter 50 - Let Us Remember the Things We Hold On To )

Grilling Time

Jun. 26th, 2025 02:23 pm
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I finally tackled cleaning up the smallish patio. ("Patio" by virtue of having a concrete floor and a roof, though otherwise it's just a space behind the garage.) Standard distribution patterns of yard debris mean that winter deposits a layer of dead leaves, and my inattention to the calendar means that I never remember to put a winter dust-cover on the grill and smoker, so they need to get a thorough wash-down, as do the shelves and the patio furniture.

But a couple of work sessions took care of all those factors and earlier this week a fired up the grill just for the heck of it. (Corn on the cob, grilled eggplant from the garden, grilled lamb chops marinated in lemon juice.) It's one of those pieces of equipment where my desire to own it seriously overwhelms the actual amount I use it. (I own it for the fantasy life in which I have friends over regularly.)

Next job is cleaning out the fuel feed of the smoker (which I made the mistake of not emptying at the end of the season). Maybe it's baked enough that the pellets have un-concreted. I previously made a stab at disassembling it to clean out the stuck pellets, but balked at how much disassembly that seemed to require.

Fannish Fifty 2025 #24 Escapade 35.5

Jun. 26th, 2025 02:20 pm
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The online zoom convention of Escapade 35.5 is this weekend! If you feel like mingling with fellow fans and discussing fannish issues, join in! It snuck up on me, so I'm not sure I'll be attending (Friday and Saturday are out but I might join for a couple of panels on Sunday).

Here's the panel schedule, if you'd like to check it out:

https://escapadecon.net/virtual-con/schedule/

The rest of this is snagged from Amedia, thanks Amedia!

Here is the link to register:

https://escapadecon.net/escapade-35-5-registration-online/

Keep that link handy, because you'll have to sign into your account (or create one) on the website before you can register. Once you sign into your account, be sure to come back to that registration link.

BTW, when you reach the registration page through that link, and it says to pay for your registration by clicking on "the link above," they mean the two words at the end of this sentence, in the first paragraph under Step 1: The first step is to purchase your registration. It took me a couple of minutes to figure that out, so I'm passing it along. The direct link for payment is: https://escapadecon.net/shop/register-online-escapade-35-5.

But don't forget, after you pay for your registration, you still need to go back to the first link (yes, that registration link again) to sign up for the convention.

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Jun. 26th, 2025 04:07 pm
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1. I got a Surfans F20 for my birthday to replace my dying ipod touch. (It was last hooked up to a computer in 2012 and spent it's life in airplane mode. Battery no longer holds a charge for more than 20 mins and charging is unreliable.) I combed through all the backups on my external to find all my little stashes of music. Now to comb through it all and figure out what of the 263GB (+ because some of it's zipped/rar'd) I want to load.

1b. If you have a suggestion for music organization software, please share. Especially something that can find and replace duplicates.

1c. I should check to see if I've got any podfic that had been lost.

2. I'm going to be in Seattle early July for the My Chemical Romance show on the 11th. If you'll also be going and want to hang out while waiting for doors, I'd love to hang. Siblings, BiL, and Spouse will also be attending.

3. I've been dealing with a ovarian cyst the last few days and I'd like it to be over now, thank you. Pain is finally fading, but the first 24hrs were awful.

edit: I've unzipped everything. 259 GB over 20,819 files in 11,339 folders. The Surfans only sees 15,000 files so I've got to cut 5,819. I guess first pass will be album art. I know I have a lot of fanmixes in there. Second pass will be podfic and audiobooks because it turns out I don't actually like those.

edit2: Found a stash of unzipped fanmixes in a folder. After deleting non-music stuff from the I-tunes folders I've got 107 GB over 21,490 Files, 11,275 Folders. Mostly deleted video I have elsewhere and old copies of podcasts I don't listen to anymore.

Daily Check-In: Day 26

Jun. 26th, 2025 05:04 pm
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 So, have you written today?
  • Yes
  • No
  • I have thought about it.

Five more icons for my 100ships table

Jun. 26th, 2025 09:18 pm
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I have been working on sporadically remembering the [community profile] 100ships table since 2022, and today I felt like making a few more shippy icons.

Here they are:

#14 – Navy #16 – Neon #52 – Salt #72 – Desert #75 – Buff


I realize that Ody3 aren't really in the navy, but I feel like cruise ship / navy, close enough. I really wanted to have an icon of them in their navy blue uniforms, but didn't have a good cap. :/ I made some Spock icons for [community profile] your_favourites today and while I was at it, made two more for the table. And the remaining two are Murderbot and the movie "Good Luck To You, Leo Grande".

The table is here, there are currently 40 icons in it: https://tinny.dreamwidth.org/704185.html

Previous icon posts:

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Chains (957 words) by Wallwalker
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ortus Nigenad/Abigail Pent/Magnus Quinn
Characters: Ortus Nigenad, Abigail Pent, Magnus Quinn
Prompt: 092 - Bone
Series: Part 58 of Fills for 100ships - Jan 2022 to ?
Summary: Abigail and Magnus manage to pull Ortus away from his destruction, but with unexpected results.

 

Count: 58/100 (Table Link)
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A mosaic of three graphics, each labeled as being part of the Pride Book Fair 2025 Bundle on itch.io and pridebookfair.carrd.com. The first is labeled Fantasy Romance, the second Urban & Contemporary Fantasy, and the third Science Fiction. Each graphic features a number of small book covers - 17 on Fantasy Romance; 18 on Urban & Contemporary Fantasy; and 11 on Science Fiction.

The Pride Book Fair has been an awesome, month-long event organized by Claudie Arseneault, Erinn Harper, and Cara Nox. It’s culminating in bundles of stories available, featuring the works of many authors, all queer and all discounted in itch.io! There are 7 genre bundles total, and Duck Prints Press has titles in three of them – the Science Fiction bundle, three in the Urban and Contemporary Fantasy bundle, and one in the Fantasy Romance bundle!

There’s also a big bundle of queer awesomeness, featuring over 100 titles, each by a different author – and again, all queer! – yours for only $100.

Learn more about all the bundles by visiting itch.io now: The Big Bundle of Queer Awesomeness | Contemporary & Historical Fiction | Fantasy | Science Fiction | Fantasy Romance | Urban & Contemporary Fantasy | Dark Fantasy & Horror 1 | Dark Fantasy & Horror 2


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Curtains (766 words) by Wallwalker
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Ocean: The Second Story | Second Evolution
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ashton Anchors/Noel Chandler/Dias Flac/Claude C. Kenny
Characters: Ashton Anchors, Claude C. Kenny, Dias Flac, Noel Chandler
Prompt: 061 - Green
Series: Part 57 of Fills for 100ships - Jan 2022 to ?

Summary:The four found a new home of their own. 

Count: 57/100 (Table Link)

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One in 32 births in 2023 [in the UK] were the result of in vitro fertilisation, up 34% from one in 43 in 2013, according to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)

I admit this sounds rather startling, but then, being a historian of reproductive health among other things, I think of the fact that though we sometimes think our poor ancestresses were popping out progeny pretty much nonstop until death or menopause arrived, in actuality, fertility and subfertility were A Thing, historically. (Let us consider certain famed historical examples and a plethora of folktales on this theme.)

I have remarked heretofore about the assumption that Wo Unto The Sperms of the Modern Man, They Are Weak and In Decline, when I cannot see that there is any sound baseline of what the average male's average sperm count was and whether the little swimmers were even in prime condition at that even a very few decades ago. One assumes that any samples preserved in sperm banks (if they are and supposing they have not themselves deteriorated over time) would have been prime stuff from healthy young specimens. (Though given some of the stories that have come out about dodgy fertility docs, perhaps not.)

So this is not necessarily a story of Wo Wo Fertility B Declining, with side-order of Wymmynz B selfishly waiting Too Long to progenate, but of a problem which used to exist and was at the very least Not At All Easy To Fix (hopes and prayers, mostly, and try to relax....) has some chance of being resolved.

Okay, some percentage is presumably LGBTQ+ couples/constellations forming families.

And some of it is Older Mothers though again, historically, women have gone on Havin Babbyz well into their 40s and (Journal of Anecdotes Told to Me By Committee Members of Reproductive Health Charities) these days a significant % of abortions in the UK involve women who have misleadingly supposed from media myth that At Their Advanced Age their ovaries have shrivelled up and their fertility fallen off a cliff.

Though this is interesting:

The number of women freezing their eggs also increased sharply, with cycles up from 4,700 in 2022 to 6,900 in 2023. Egg freezing increased most among women in their 30s, but the number using their stored frozen eggs remained low, the report said.

Hmmmm.

Superman #30

Jun. 26th, 2025 06:15 pm
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Writer: Roger Stern

Pencils: Kerry Gammill

Inks: Dennis Janke


Superman: Exile.

Superman finds a seemingly idyllic prairie planet just like Kansas. Could he have found somewhere he can finally live in peace?


Read more... )

Starman #8

Jun. 26th, 2025 02:32 pm
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Writer: Roger Stern

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Bob Smith


Starman has to deal with a refugee from the Crisis on Infinite Earths. (Thankfully, it’s not Superboy Prime.)


Read more... )

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