Monday Update 4-3-23

[ysabetwordsmith]

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Review: The Elven Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by the Elves of Tolkien
Today's Adventures
New Crowdfunding Project: "The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development"
Birdfeeding
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth
Story: "Something About Her Scent"
Today's Adventures
Gothic Bingo Card 4-1-23
Birthday
Philosophical Questions: Contributions
Today's Smoothie
Bingo
Listen to "ABCDEFU"
Birdfeeding
Indigenous Poetry
New Community: Sweetandshort
Vocabulary: Uhtceare
Follow Friday 3-31-23: Art
Birdfeeding
Hobbies: Introduction
Birdfeeding
Spring Planting
Good News


There will be a Poetry Fishbowl here on Tuesday, April 4 with a them of "Non-standard Identities." Please mark your calendars accordingly, and I hope to see you then.


I completed two of the three meta projects that I had in mind for marchmetamatterschallenge. \o/ I did not finish the one about Thing, because the other two ran longer than I expected. I'm still working on that one and hope to finish it eventually.

Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 1: Introduction
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 2: Ethnicity & Linguistics
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 3: An Outcast
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 4: Thoughts and Feelings
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 5: Relationships
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 6: Solitary Accomplishments
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 7: Trust and Betrayal
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 8: Connected Characters
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 9: Enid Sinclair
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 10: Eugene & Morticia
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 11: Thing
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 12: Tyler Galpin
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 13: Xavier Thorpe
Meta: "Why I Love Wednesday Addams" Part 14: Wednesday's Quirks

Wednesday TV Series (The Addams Family)
* Overview
* Interesting Aspects
* Episodes
* Promising Crossovers
* Relevant Dreamwidth Communities
* Memorable Fanworks
* Wednesday Prompts

The last of that, the prompts, I used to create the Gothic Bingo Fest over on allbingo for April, so you're welcome to join that if you wish. While it was largely inspired by Wednesday, it has plenty of general Gothic stuff that adapts well to any "dark" content you like. There is also a Gothic Meet and Greet where folks can squee about all their favorite Gothic things, and maybe make a few new friends interested in similar stuff.


There are two open epics at present.

"The Heart's Best Tenant" belongs to the Steamsmith. Charlotte has good ideas.

"Within the Souls of Men" belongs to Shiv. Shiv thinks like a cat to assess wildlife conservation techniques.


The weather has been eclectic here. Some sunny days, some rain, some howling winds -- Spring has an arteest's temper. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a flock of sparrows, a flock of mourning doves, several starlings, a pair of house finches, two robins, a dark-eyed junco, a brown-headed cowbird, a male downy woodpecker, and two fox squirrels. Crocus, miniature irises, daffodils, blue grape hyacinths, forsythia, violets, apricot, and a few other spring bulbs are blooming. Snowdrops and winter aconite are winding down but still have a few blooms. Some other spring bulbs, sedum, naked ladies, daylilies, tulips, and peonies are sprouting. Lilacs are starting to leaf out.

Comments

[see_also_friend]

Just PM'd you the notes and prompts for that idea we were discussing the other day (advance prompt for the Fishbowl). I hope they are coherent/interesting/not too fussy!

If you could reply to this confirming the messages went through, that would be helpful. (I need to take my computer Out of Order for about 24hrs because maintenance, and I want to be sure you have the file first because it will be difficult to resend without the computer.)

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I got the two messages with notes and have saved them. Ironically I can't print anything out right now because I have the printer unplugged so it doesn't crash my computer like it did a couple days ago. >_

Re: Yes ...

[see_also_friend]

Good, thanks.

Hope I didn't send too many notes; I had a lot of ideas. I'm excited to see what you come up with!

And good luck with your computer troubles.