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bookblather ([personal profile] bookblather) wrote in [community profile] rainbowlounge2025-08-22 02:12 am

Lilith Faire: Day 5

Hello, everyone, and welcome to our annual Lilith Faire challenge!

Every day, I will post links to three songs by female or nonbinary artists. Write a story based on one of those songs. You may write three stories every day, if all three songs catch your fancy or spark something. One to 500 words will get you one novelty bead, and so on for each additional 500 words. There may also be special bonus novelty beads for completing all three stories each day and for completing all stories.

Stories are due one week after the songs are posted, from whatever the timestamp on the post is. I'll try to get them up as close to midnight EST as possible.

Any questions? Ask them here!


Today's songs:

Main Stage: I Try, Macy Gray
Second Stage: Obsessed, Mariah Carey
Village Stage: Made It This Far, Katelyn Tarver
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Socchan ([personal profile] soc_puppet) wrote in [community profile] queerly_beloved2025-08-21 08:45 pm

Thursday Recs

You know what time it is? Thursday Recs time!


Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!

Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!
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yourlibrarian ([personal profile] yourlibrarian) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2025-08-21 03:21 pm
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Shorelines



A nearby beach had lots of surfers out. I liked the look of this tree high above them.

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anais_pf ([personal profile] anais_pf) wrote in [community profile] thefridayfive2025-08-21 02:12 pm

The Friday Five for 22 August 2025

This week's questions were suggested by [livejournal.com profile] canuckfetish

1. Have you ever stayed in a hostel? If so, where? Did you like it? If you haven't stayed in a hostel, would you?

2. What is your favo(u)rite airport that you've been to? Why?

3. What is the best museum you have visited on vacation?

4. Have you ever made friends while traveling whom you keep in touch with on a regular basis?

5. Have you ever had a conversation with a seatmate on a plane?

Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!
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bookblather ([personal profile] bookblather) wrote in [community profile] rainbowlounge2025-08-21 12:06 am

Lilith Faire: Day 4

Hello, everyone, and welcome to our annual Lilith Faire challenge!

Every day, I will post links to three songs by female or nonbinary artists. Write a story based on one of those songs. You may write three stories every day, if all three songs catch your fancy or spark something. One to 500 words will get you one novelty bead, and so on for each additional 500 words. There may also be special bonus novelty beads for completing all three stories each day and for completing all stories.

Stories are due one week after the songs are posted, from whatever the timestamp on the post is. I'll try to get them up as close to midnight EST as possible.

Any questions? Ask them here!


Today's songs:

Main Stage: Make Me Feel, Janelle Monae
Second Stage: Sidelines, Phoebe Bridgers
Village Stage: New Strings, Miranda Lambert
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bookblather ([personal profile] bookblather) wrote in [community profile] rainbowlounge2025-08-20 12:09 am

Lilith Faire: Day 3

Hello, everyone, and welcome to our annual Lilith Faire challenge!

Every day, I will post links to three songs by female or nonbinary artists. Write a story based on one of those songs. You may write three stories every day, if all three songs catch your fancy or spark something. One to 500 words will get you one novelty bead, and so on for each additional 500 words. There may also be special bonus novelty beads for completing all three stories each day and for completing all stories.

Stories are due one week after the songs are posted, from whatever the timestamp on the post is. I'll try to get them up as close to midnight EST as possible.

Any questions? Ask them here!


Today's songs:

Main Stage: Last Dance, Donna Summer
Second Stage: You Build a Wall, Grace Petrie
Village Stage: Heartstrings, Leighton Meester
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bookblather ([personal profile] bookblather) wrote in [community profile] rainbowlounge2025-08-18 11:58 pm

Lilith Faire: Day 2

Hello, everyone, and welcome to our annual Lilith Faire challenge!

Every day, I will post links to three songs by female or nonbinary artists. Write a story based on one of those songs. You may write three stories every day, if all three songs catch your fancy or spark something. One to 500 words will get you one novelty bead, and so on for each additional 500 words. There may also be special bonus novelty beads for completing all three stories each day and for completing all stories.

Stories are due one week after the songs are posted, from whatever the timestamp on the post is. I'll try to get them up as close to midnight EST as possible.

Any questions? Ask them here!


Today's songs:

Main Stage: Arms, Christina Perri
Second Stage: Spinning Around the Sun, Martina Sorbara
Village Stage: Dandelion, Kacey Musgraves
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bookblather ([personal profile] bookblather) wrote in [community profile] rainbowlounge2025-08-17 11:56 pm

Lilith Faire: Day 1

Hello, everyone, and welcome to our annual Lilith Faire challenge!

Lilith Faire begins today, Monday, August 18th, and runs through Monday, August 25th. Every day, I will post links to three songs by female or nonbinary artists. Write a story based on one of those songs. You may write three stories every day, if all three songs catch your fancy or spark something. One to 500 words will get you one novelty bead, and so on for each additional 500 words. There may also be special bonus novelty beads for completing all three stories each day and for completing all stories.

Stories are due one week after the songs are posted, from whatever the timestamp on the post is. I'll try to get them up as close to midnight EST as possible.

Any questions? Ask them here!


Today's songs:

Main Stage: Criminal, Fiona Apple
Second Stage: Most Girls, Hailee Steinfeld
Village Stage: Teach Me to Be Bad, Thea Gilmore
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Azure / Bede ★ ([personal profile] bedes) wrote in [community profile] otherkinnews2025-08-17 07:21 pm

Fictionkin Symbol Survey

I'm currently collecting data on a hopeful "universal fictionkin symbol" -- both the community's favorite already-coined symbol, and what the community would want to see in a symbol representing fictionkin. It is intended to be answered by fictionkin (defined as "identifying with fictionkinity") only, is entirely anonymous, and has a very short time demand (around 5-10 minutes). One answer per body, please!


SURVEY
TUMBLR POST (if you'd like to reblog!)


This survey will run for a decent bit of time to try and make sure that a good sample size is collected. It will close on November 20th, and the results will be summarized and shared once it has been completed.

I'd love to have as much input from fictionkin as possible! If you could share this survey to spaces you frequent which might have fictionkin, that would also be very helpful. Thank you!
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yourlibrarian ([personal profile] yourlibrarian) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2025-08-16 05:33 pm

Whale Watching



I should immediately add that although we did see whales, I was not able to get any pics of them! Unfortunately the boat, which was not that large, was rocking too much to focus and the whales came and went too quickly even for the camera phone. Did catch the sea lions on the buoys but not even the ones briefly following us out of the docks as they were there and gone too quickly.

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signoftea ([personal profile] signoftea) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2025-08-15 09:40 pm
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Nature diary

Yesterday I stood on the balcony at half past nine, when it was a little less hot outside then inside my apartment. I listened for bird calls, but there were none. Even the swallows and the seagulls seemed to be asleep already. Instead, there were bats!
They weren't easy to see, but as I was looking at the sky, I noticed those little dark shapes fluttering by. They looked almost like leaves in the wind, but clearly had a mind of their own, flying back and forth in front of me.  
I wonder what species they were. It's impossible to tell. They could have been pipistrelles, given how small they were, but there's no way to be sure. During the day, they probably live in holes in the old trees beyond the lawn, or perhaps in little cracks in the walls of the building.
I hope they caught a lot of mosquitoes.
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Socchan ([personal profile] soc_puppet) wrote in [community profile] queerly_beloved2025-08-14 09:54 pm

Thursday Recs

Shoot, I got caught up in stuff and almost missed Thursday Recs!


Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!

Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!
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anais_pf ([personal profile] anais_pf) wrote in [community profile] thefridayfive2025-08-14 02:53 pm

The Friday Five for 15 August 2025

This week's questions were suggested by [livejournal.com profile] aforkintheroad

1. What is your favorite experience in your life so far?

2. What motivates you to keep going every day?

3. Where do you want to go in life? What do you want to accomplish?

4. Is there anything that you regret? Do you try to change it?

5. What is your most cherished gift you have received? Why do you cherish it so much?

Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!
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yourlibrarian ([personal profile] yourlibrarian) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2025-08-13 01:46 pm

Spring Views



Some months ago now, spotted a baby bunny in a field. So cute!

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yourlibrarian ([personal profile] yourlibrarian) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2025-08-11 10:56 am
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The Devil's Punchbowl



Not far from our hotel was a rock feature that had an interesting look to it. What was especially interesting to me were its walls.

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puddleshark ([personal profile] puddleshark) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2025-08-10 10:56 am

West wind

West wind, Purbeck Hills 3

A walk up onto the Purbeck Hills to watch the west wind blowing...

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