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Three Weeks for Dreamwidth is coming up! If you don't know what that is, it's basically 3 weeks of making Dreamwidth-only content to create more activity and love for the site. If possible, it's encouraged to link to Dreamwidth posts/communities/etc. on other sites to make people more interested in the place :] But you don't have to do that, or really anything if you don't want to, obviously. It runs from April 25th to May 15th. You can see what other people plan on doing @

3weeks4dreamwidth.

As for me, among other things, I plan on encouraging more activity in my communities. So if you like visual kei or Japanese rock music or really edgy aesthetics or your demon hand that thirsts for blood, you should join

vkotd if you haven't already. I'm going to be holding a new challenge soon :3 And by the end of it you may be... rewarded. Or not. Depends.

Also I made

joseimuke on impulse the other day, which is completely unasked for and blank, but if you like shoujo and josei animanga or otome games or a little BL or some yuri or those phone games where the cast is 99% bishounen/seinen or etc. feel free to join early and see what I'm cooking. Everything you see there right now is very provisional.

Join my comms 🙏🏾 Make your friends join my comms 🙏🏾 Make your friends' friends join my comms 🙏🏾 Or don't, it's all good. I just want more activity on Dreamwidth -- so if you want to start a community, you should! Now's a pretty good time to start making one. Anyone else got plans for 3w4dw?

Current Music: friend playing minecraft

lea_hazel

Last-minute siren, maybe an hour before the ceasefire was officially declared. But this morning, everyone in the household slept late.

I am still trying to get some work done, even through the holiday and the war. We'll see how well this one holds. Previous ceasefires haven't been very promising.

Current Mood: tired

adore

I've talked here about moving away from Gmail after it started shoving Gemini in my face. It's been a while since I left Google Docs after breaking out in metaphorical hives at the revelation that they were using docs to train their AI. No you don't! My writing is MINE!

I was watching AuthorTube and recently came to know of Skrib. It seems like a browser-based Scrivener, with the ability to split your screen to look at your notes and organise things. I like that it's staunchly against generative AI. It's stated on the website that they'll never use your writing to train AI. And that they'll never have tools that generate writing or write for you.

They have what they call an assistive AI that helps you refer to your own work. It can search through your research, notes or previous writing and pull up something for you if you need to find something real quick. I have writing friends on here who write long series with sustained worldbuilding, including one friend who writes historical fiction and tracks timelines and research. I thought y'all might be interested. Skrib's in closed beta and I'm on the waiting list, but I have an invite link: https://skrib.spot/599079c9

I'm waiting to try it. In the meantime I'm happy with Ellipsus, which is also against generative AI and which has a very soothing dark mode. I wish the interface was slightly different though: I like being able to have my chapters lined up on the sidebar so I can move between them quickly and easily within a project, like the interface of 4thewords.

I don't think anyone in this cosy corner of the internet would argue with me about generative AI but just in case anyone's wondering:

If I wanted to publish something I didn't write myself, I'd become a publisher who publishes other people's writing.

As it is, I want to write my stories myself and publish them myself, too. That's what being an indie author is all about!

What are your recommendations for writing software/word processors?

Current Mood: curious

haunted_cherries

Some things I did today that I am very happy about:

-installed Linux Mint on a computer I got from a coworker and started learning Linux again

-made elotes breakfast tacos (I would've taken a pic but I am sadly in the process of eating them HDJSHDJKS)

-FINALLY vacuumed all the dirt and grime out of my car (that's been LONG overdue, DEAR GOD xD)

Also working on some yapping posts (HOLY SHIT I AM WRITING LET'S GOOOOOO) about some cool things I encountered recently as well as my thoughts from my Final Destination movie marathon I did a while back ^ o^)/

Current Mood: accomplished

captaincassidy

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elyusion

Having a fun time with this website on classical Chinese for people who are studying it or are just really nosy. I'm glad to say I'm the latter and I'm having a blast ^o^ I really love using the little Chinese I know, plus sometimes the Japanese, plus obviously my English knowledge to read the translation and reverse-engineer how classical Chinese grammar probably works. Hope you enjoy the site too!!

Current Mood: happy
Current Location: i 🖤 bilingual books

stepnix

One of my favorite mecha writers shared [this discussion]https://magicalstage.moe/2026/03/17/how-we-got-into-plot-and-how-to-get-out/] of the possibilities that open when we don't let The Plot be the main focus of our experience with a work, and included some further commentary:

I think that if anything this understates its case. Plot must be less essential to animation than image, because you can have animation without plot but you can't have animation without image. In the same way, plot must be less essential to literature than words, because you can have literature without plot but you can't have literature without words.

Many have adopted 'story' as a way to discuss everything—with their horizons for everything narrowing to exclude anything without a story. Everything is 'media', and all instances of media have a story, which we can apparently assess for its characterisation and its pacing. Heaven forbid we might ever wonder whether a brushstroke is well-placed or a metaphor well-chosen.

...which brought to mind for me some discussions that challenge the notion of tabletop role-playing games as (definitionally) a kind of storytelling. The logic is coherent for me: story is formed by giving order and meaning to events, in a lot of TTRPG play that order and meaning is something visible only in hindsight, not consciously shaped or pursued. Anecdotally: I took an oral storytelling class for a few months in the hopes of improving my GMing skills. It didn't help nearly as much as I had expected.

Unfortunately this decoupling of "storytelling" from "ttrpgs" brings to mind flashbacks of the old "storygames aren't real rpgs" flame wars, and remains pretty popular among the bitter losers of said wars. More reputable defenders of the distinction include Jay Dragon, Unboxed Cereal (I suggest reading "art" in this post as "narrative"), and... was this also a C. Thi Nguyen thing? if i make myself check i won't finish this post. sorry.

You can see my pinned post, you can see that I'm fascinated and compelled by games that do ask for meaning and order to be consciously shaped during play. But I find it helpful to remember that this is not an essential quality of TTRPGs; among other things, it gives me a better appreciation for the games that do contain it.

lea_hazel

The thread I'm hanging by is gossamer-thin, but I'm hanging.

brinkles

Hi, I’m brinkles—and welcome to my journal!

I started this journal really for a few reasons:

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My journal contains a couple of things, but broadly falls in the following categories:

listicles compiling links (by interest)
fic & media reviews
any fic or creative endeavors I happen to be participating in
NSFW content pertaining to points 1-3 (tagged, cut, w/trigger warnings where needed).

The majority of my journal isn’t locked, as I want most of what’s here to be accessible for others. I do however lock more personal entries (nothing super personal, more opinions than anything), as I’d like those interested in knowing these thoughts to be willing to engage with me/them on a deeper level. Odds are if you share my passions and like what’s already here, I’ll grant you access!

I personally value safe spaces, constructive criticism, and compassionate communication—so that’s what you’ll get/see here, and I hope it’s also what you can extend in interacting with me. Also, I’ll try my best to make sure this place is up to snuff accessibility wise, but this is definitely a WIP. I appreciate your patience in advance, but do feel free to lmk if there’s anything I can improve upon :-)

Current Mood: excited

elyusion

Title: Fight Club (1999)
Type: Movie
Poor Summary: Me when I start an underground boxing ring and become a terrorist because I'm bored
Why Did I Watch This??: Because everyone else has 🙂‍↕️ It's part of my journey to become a real human.
Strongest Aspect: Probably not actually the strongest, but I thought the CGI looked really cool.
Favorite Part: Not sure I have one... I just liked the entire movie. The twist reveal?
Least Favorite Part: None, but I suspect that during some rewatches I'll skip the first part of the movie, all the way up to when our protagonist meets Tyler.
Blahblah: These are the most intricate rituals which allow one to touch the skin of other men ever constructed.

Brad Pitt at the end of the movie looks like white Michael B. Jordan. Someone please agree with me.

Anyways, I see now why you might want to avoid a guy who says this is his favorite movie 😭 I would gladly rewatch it though; shit was crazy. And I want to read the book because I'm so curious how some of the things in the movie would work in writing.

Current Music: i watched a whole episode of sailor moon in the middle of writing this

alias_sqbr

Masterlist

I decided to poke my writers block by getting back to this and immediately hit a thick wall of Fear of Failure even though that makes no sense with writing exercises. But I persisted!

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