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Jan. 1st, 2026 05:42 pm
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Name: Lots of them. Mainly Saros, Venus, Maggie, Andi, or Sewa. Pick your favorite. Or just call me sewagelag00n. 

Age: 20 

I mostly post about: My daily life, some stuff about my hexperiences regarding "mental health"/Madness. Occasionally I'll talk about media I've been into. 

My hobbies are: Selfshipping! DIY alternative fashion, customizing clothes & making jewelry. Ballet. Writing & art. Doll collecting. Soft toys. 

My fandoms are: Some Sword/Some Play (18+)! A very obscure little game that I love so much I've basically adopted one of the characters as my OC. Please I am so abnormal about these lesbians. Longtime Vocaloid fan, I think I'm coming up on 9 years now. I love Hatsune Miku (she's literally me) and recently Teto SynthV has captured my heart. Recently got back into FNaF (my favorite is Mangle!). Very normal about Neon Genesis Evangelion. Huge music nerd: love digital hardcore like Ada Rook, but also into stuff under the goth umbrella, industrial, shoegaze, new wave... I like a little bit of everything. 

I'm looking to meet people who: Honestly, just looking for more interaction. People who post regularly and will comment on my posts. 

My posting schedule tends to be: Usually every couple of days, but can be more sporadic. 

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Those who follow Abrahamic religions. I am a staunch antitheist and do not think highly of religious people. Other religious/spiritual people are on thin ice. Transmisogynists, racists, sanists, homophobes, other bigots. 

Before adding me, you should know: My blog is very much 18+ and viewer discretion advised because I am into a lot of dark and sexual things. I am Mad and hexperience things like plurality (one of my alters sometimes posts on this account too) and self-harm and intense mood swings. I am very critical of the psychiatric system. I am actually not a lesbian. I really want my URL to be sewagelag00n instead but I don't want to pay $15 for a rename token. I am polyamorous and have 3 real-life partners and a whole host of fictional ones. 

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"Imagine the Angels of Bread" by Martín Espada

This is the year that squatters evict landlords,
gazing like admirals from the rail
of the roofdeck
or levitating hands in praise
of steam in the shower;
this is the year
that shawled refugees deport judges,
who stare at the floor
and their swollen feet
as files are stamped
with their destination;
this is the year that police revolvers,
stove-hot, blister the fingers
of raging cops,
and nightsticks splinter
in their palms;
this is the year that darkskinned men
lynched a century ago
return to sip coffee quietly
with the apologizing descendants
of their executioners.

This is the year that those
who swim the border's undertow
and shiver in boxcars
are greeted with trumpets and drums
at the first railroad crossing
on the other side;
this is the year that the hands
pulling tomatoes from the vine
uproot the deed to the earth that sprouts the vine,
the hands canning tomatoes
are named in the will
that owns the bedlam of the cannery;
this is the year that the eyes
stinging from the poison that purifies toilets
awaken at last to the sight of a rooster-loud hillside,
pilgrimage of immigrant birth;
this is the year that cockroaches
become extinct, that no doctor
finds a roach embedded
in the ear of an infant;
this is the year that the food stamps
of adolescent mothers
are auctioned like gold doubloons,
and no coin is given to buy machetes
for the next bouquet of severed heads
in coffee plantation country.

If the abolition of slave-manacles
began as a vision of hands without manacles,
then this is the year;
if the shutdown of extermination camps
began as imagination of a land
without barbed wire or the crematorium,
then this is the year;
if every rebellion begins with the idea
that conquerors on horseback
are not many-legged gods, that they too drown
if plunged in the river,
then this is the year.

So may every humiliated mouth,
teeth like desecrated headstones,
fill with the angels of bread.

Snowflake Challenge 2026: Prompt 1

Jan. 1st, 2026 05:27 pm
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Snowflake Challenge: A mug of coffee or hot chocolate with a snowflake shaped gingerbread cookie perched on the rim sits nestled amidst a softly bunched blanket. A few dried orange slices sit next to it.

Challenge #1: The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

Happy New Year, Dreamwidth! Here's to being a little more active here in 2026. :D

I'm Riella, and I've been doing Snowflake Challenge since...2019, according to my tags! Which seems like it should be just 1-2 years ago, but apparently not. What is time.

I have a mostly up-to-date intro post over here, but the short version: I'm in Transformers and Ace Attorney fandoms (mostly Ace Attorney this last year, because Klavier/Daryan and variations consumed my brain), I have two cats named Mirage and Springs (yes, after the Transformers), and I like sharks. So if you're here from [community profile] snowflake_challenge, that's most of what you'll see here: cats, robots, lawyers, and sharks, usually not all at the same time. And if you happen to be seeing this for the first time on my blog, come join us! It's a good time.

I really enjoy Snowflake as a good way to kick off the year; it gets me to post regularly and talk about my fandoms, and sometimes I make friends along the way! Some of my favorite posts have come out of past Snowflake prompts - shout-out to the Klavier/Daryan/Apollo ship manifesto from last year - so I'm looking forward to seeing what we've got this year. Last year I didn't manage to keep up with all of the posts (which is fine, it happens), but this year I'm optimistic I'll be able to do most of them!
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Description: A fest aimed to celebrate Getou Suguru's character from Jujutsu Kaisen. The fest allows all ships and headcanons and interpretations and is open for gen and platonic works too. The prompting period has been over already however the claiming period is open and we have crowdsourced 28 prompts to choose from. The claiming period has no deadline and it is open until the last day. 
Schedule: Claiming open: 01/01/2026  | Works Due: 15/02/2026  | Work Reveals: 17/02/2026 | Creators Reveal: 24/02/2026
Links:  Tumblr | AO3 Collection | Rules & FAQ

The Friday Five for 2 January 2026

Jan. 1st, 2026 02:13 pm
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These questions were written by [livejournal.com profile] tabular_rasa.

1. Do you mostly drink tap, filtered, or bottled water?

2. Is it safe/recommended to drink tap water where you live? If not, why?

3. What does the tap water taste/smell like where you live?

4. Do you collect rainwater? If so, what do you use it for?

5. Do you/have you ever had restrictions on water use where you live? What did you have to change about your lifestyle?

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!

**Remember that we rely on you, our members, to help keep the community going. Also, please remember to play nice. We are all here to answer the questions and have fun each week. We repost the questions exactly as the original posters submitted them and request that all questions be checked for spelling and grammatical errors before they're submitted. Comments re: the spelling and grammatical nature of the questions are not necessary. Honestly, any hostile, rude, petty, or unnecessary comments need not be posted, either.**

On the Topic of Mary Sue

Jan. 1st, 2026 10:23 am
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I started my internet day off with my hackles up apparently.

Reference material: Mary Sue at Fanlore & Mary Sue at Wikipedia.

Language evolves, meanings drift, and there will be variation, especially once you add in geo-location, age, gender, etc to the use of language.

I personally will never take well to seeing a writer use Mary Sue or its equivalent concepts to disparage their own writing. As I came to online fandom a bit late, the meaning for Mary Sue that I was quickly seeing was "this character is the main character and stands out but oh it is a girl and therefore is a Mary Sue".

Folks, have you read mythology from around the world? The main characters are nearly always bigger than life in some fashion. The best or worst at so many things, and they are MEANT to stand out and take your mind into imagination and wonder. All too often I see the accusation of Mary Sue used not at a badly written character but at one who is meant to be the push-pull point of the story! One who is crafted to be the Main Character.

And the biggest example I have of it is Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Specifically to that movie, Rey is set up to parallel Luke Skywalker pretty intensely. And she was HATED or mocked until people latched onto the concept of leashing her to the villain of the story. Rey was NOT poorly written. She is almost beat for beat Luke Skywalker from the very first movie in her journey. And in both cases, they ARE MEANT TO BE THE SPECIALIST LITTLE SNOWFLAKES because it is THEIR STORY.

Mary Sue and her cousins DO exist. A lot of people will start out experimenting with a self-insert crafted to fit the narrative they want to explore. They are great beginnings for many people.

BUT NOT EVERY OC IS A MARY SUE. Sometimes, they're just the center of the story that is being told.

January 2026: 10 out of 20

Jan. 1st, 2026 05:07 pm
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to all of you.
And we have reached the year 2026 with hopefully more prompts, works, and lots of fun around here.

Let's start with our first challenge:
10 out of 20

Under the cut, you will find a list with 20 prompts. Your mission is to grab at least 10 of them and create a little something for it. Keep in mind, even if it is not the meaning of the challenge, no one will punish you when you only grab one or two prompts. Every work is welcome.

To complete the challenge, you can create up to ten single works, or combine one or more prompts in one work.

Allowed are fics up to 500 words, small poems, icons (100x100 px), and small graphics up to 500 px width x height. Please stay to the maximum, even if you use more than one prompt in your work.

All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome, as are original works and real-person works.

When posting directly to [community profile] sweetandshort, please use a header of your choice and put bigger works under a cut. You can also post your work elsewhere, but please leave a header and a link here to keep the community running.

When posting your works, please use any appropriate tag. When a tag is missing, use 'tag needed'.

This challenge runs until January 31, midnight in your timezone.

January Prompt List )

Happy New Year!

Jan. 1st, 2026 10:14 am
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 May it be better than the last.
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Title: Night After Night
Fandom: Fire Emblem: Fates
Rating: AA
Notes: Xander/Lucina, Xander's cat
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night after night )

Well, I lived....

18 Jan. 1st, 2026 06:20 am
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Multifandom: Crack the WIP 2026

Jan. 1st, 2026 11:56 am
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Crack the WIP Fest Banner
(Banner by [personal profile] ysilme)


Description: Crack the WIP is back this year! Crack the WIP is a multifandom fest for finishing your WIPs. If you need a deadline to help you finish something, this is the challenge for you! All fanwork media and all fandoms, ships, kinks, ratings, and lengths are welcome. Got a WIP you'd like to make a resolution to finish in the early-ish part of this year? Come join us!

Schedule: Works must be posted by June 30th. Sign-ups are open now and will remain open until the posting deadline.

Links: [community profile] crackthewip | Event rules and sign-up post

come and gone

Dec. 31st, 2025 06:38 pm
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Another December, another Christmas come and gone. Another year about to begin. 

I badly needed this time off. 

And I badly need to keep up, not the momentum, but some of the habits I've been cultivating over the last week and a half. Which is staying off social media more often (largely not a problem, save for the wasted time I spend on Reddit) and reading more, be it in fits and spurts or in a long sitting. 

I actually managed to read 10 books this year, which is more than I read last year, and probably more than I've read in a year since I graduated undergrad in 2006. Something about English degrees just royally fuck up your momentum. 

I gamified my reading for the year by making it a challenge on Good Reads. (My challenge was eight books.) 

Of the 10 books, at least two were "meh." One of them because it was a very easy (simple writing, fairly formulaic) popcorn read. While I have nothing against popcorn, I don't want to read popcorn just to inflate my book count for the year, just to hit a challenge goal. 

I'll keep setting challenges, but I'm going to make it a point to sink my teeth into the somewhat meatier books I have on my list. Maybe I don't finish them quickly, but whatever. I just need to keep up the reading habit. I miss it when I'm not doing it. 

And with those habits increased, I'm hoping they'll lead to an increase in other habits (particularly writing). 

On this New Year's Even, I'm not making any big resolutions apart from building these habits and continuing the ones I've already built. 

Though I am planning a project for this January, and maybe February, which will be writing a haiku a day to get back into wording.

The last two times I've done a month of haiku, I published them on my WordPress blog. This time, I might keep them for myself and see if I can do something else with them at a later date. 


Happy New Year. 

 


Daily Check-In

Dec. 31st, 2025 06:07 pm
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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, December 31, to midnight on Thursday, January 01. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34024 Daily Check-in
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 23

How are you doing?

I am OK.
15 (65.2%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
8 (34.8%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
7 (30.4%)

One other person.
10 (43.5%)

More than one other person.
6 (26.1%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
 

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