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Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Keyla Detmer & Joann Owosekun
Content Notes/Warnings: Star Wars Fusion, i.e. Keyla and Joann as Jedis
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: [personal profile] laughingpineapple
Artist Website/Gallery: https://archiveofourown.org/users/laughingpineapple/profile

Why this piece is awesome: Really fun art style! I love their back-to-back fighting poses, the warm colour palette, and the design choices for their clothes and hair.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29159499
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Blackened Mushroom Tacos with Collard Green Slaw
Yield: 8 tacos Prep Time: 30 minutes Cook Time: 5 minutes Total Time: 35 minutes

Ingredients:

For the Blackened Mushroom Tacos
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil (or avocado oil)
1lb shiitake mushrooms, thinly sliced (oyster mushrooms or portobello would also work)
2 teaspoons smoked paprika
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4-1/2 teaspoon cayenne
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 corn tortillas, warmed
rice and black beans, for serving

For the Avocado Cream
1 large ripe avocado, pitted
juice of 1-2 limes (about 3 tablespoons)
1/4 cup cilantro
water to thin

For the Collard Green Slaw
2 cups thinly sliced collard greens (about 1 small bunch)
1 cup thinly sliced red cabbage (about 1/2 small head)
1/2 cup thinly sliced red onion (about 1/2 small)
1/2 cup radishes (about 4 radishes)
1/4 cup fresh cilantro
zest and juice of 1 lime
1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions:
For the Collard Green Slaw: In a large bowl, combine the collard greens, cabbage, red onion, radishes, cilantro, lime zest, lime juice and salt. Using your hands, massage the juice into the greens then stir to combine. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Fort the Avocado Cream: In a blender or food processor, combine the avocado, lime juice, cilantro, a pinch of salt and a few tablespoons of water. Blend until smooth. Add more water to thin, as needed. The texture should be thick and creamy.
For the Blackened Mushrooms: In a large skillet, warm the oil over medium heat. Add the mushrooms and the seasonings then stir until evenly coated. Cook for about 5 minutes, just until mushrooms are softened.
Spread each tortilla with avocado cream then top with cooked mushrooms and collard slaw. Serve warm and enjoy!

Just One Thing (15 October 2025)

Oct. 15th, 2025 08:27 am
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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Review: Fall Baking

Oct. 14th, 2025 10:04 pm
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[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith posting in [community profile] book_love
Taste of Home Fall Baking: 275+ Breads, Pies, Cookies and More!
Paperback – September 13, 2022
by Taste of Home (Editor)

We finished reading this cookbook today. It's the inspiring kind that makes me want to hole up in the kitchen and bake until the whole house smells like fall. It uses a lot of autumn ingredients such as apples, pears, sweet potatoes, and warming spices. The recipes range from simple to elaborate. In addition to the classics there are some with twists and others that are more unusual. We found this cookbook at Ollie's, so if you have that store in your locale, look for it there.

Read more... )

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Oct. 14th, 2025 06:32 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6857 ⌋

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01.


More! )


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Yuletide 2025 Sign-Ups Open

Oct. 14th, 2025 02:21 pm
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[personal profile] yuletidemods posting in [community profile] yuletide_admin
Please read this post even if you have signed up before!

After reading this post, please look at the tag set to see what fandoms are available this year, and make a shortlist of what you plan to offer and request. (The same fandoms can be on both lists, if you want.)

Then sign up at the collection. We recommend you allow at least half an hour to sign up. While you can edit your sign-up over the next week, you will not be able to make any changes after sign-ups close at 9pm UTC 24 October.

If you would like to avoid matching to up to three other participants, with limitations discussed here, you may do so by filling out a Google Form from a link within the AO3 form. If you want to use this feature but cannot use Google Forms, please email the mods. Do Not Match requests will close at the same time as signups.


Requests

  • You can request 3-8 fandoms

  • Each fandom must be different

  • You can request 0*-4 characters in each fandom

  • *Requesting 0 characters means "I am happy to receive any nominated character for this fandom. My author gets to choose which one(s)". That includes Worldbuilding for fandoms where Worldbuilding is nominated as a character tag. If no characters are nominated for the fandom, requesting 0 characters means “I am happy to receive any character or worldbuilding for this fandom.”

  • "AND" matching means your writer must include every character you select. If you are happy with a subset of your selected characters, indicate this with Additional Tags, and clarify any exceptions in your optional details.

  • You can only request characters from the tag set, though your optional prompts may mention other characters to appear too.

  • In some fandoms, you can request Worldbuilding as a character. You can find guidance on that here.


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If you requested 0 characters, or you want all the characters you selected to appear, you will tick the first Additional Tag option, which says "My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)". If you think your situation might be different, please read last year’s post about additional tags and select additional tags that are right for your requests. This information is also in the sign-up form.


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Optional details are optional (ODAO)! Your writer doesn't have to follow your prompts, though they must avoid your DNWs. You don't have to give prompts here, either - though prompts and ideas may be a more inspiring first impression than a list of DNWs on its own. Prompts may be particularly useful if you are requesting a Worldbuilding tag.

See this 2020 post for some considerations when writing your DNWs. Last year, we also clarified our rules and guidance about DNWs.

The Optional Details section of your AO3 requests is especially relevant if you have selected option two of the additional tags, "My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form". In that case, please use this section of the form for explaining how and when your writer is allowed to leave out some of the characters you selected.

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Please also note in the form if you're able to receive treats - or if you don't want them! Yuletide has a long-established culture of extra gifts, but if you created your account recently, you may have extra gifts turned off by default. Please check your AO3 preferences, and then state in your sign-up form whether you do or do not accept treats.


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Important: You cannot add a letter after sign-ups close.

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  • "Worldbuilding" can also be selected as a character for many fandoms. Please check here to see how we're using it.

  • Offers are secret! Please don't declare openly what you're offering.


If you have several fandoms in which you want to offer to write Any nominated characters, you can make your last offer a "Bucket Offer". You can read about bucket offers in the Sign-ups section of the AO3 FAQ. This older tutorial has pictures!

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Oct. 14th, 2025 09:09 am
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[personal profile] stardust_rifle
I am fine with buses. I am fine on trains. I am fine on boats. I have taken 10-hour long plane rides and been completely fine next morning.

However, for some interminable reason, every time I take a car ride lasting longer than 30 minutes, there is a 50/50 chance I will spend the next few days with a pounding headache sick to my stomach. God only know why.

Just one thing: 14 October

Oct. 14th, 2025 06:31 am
[personal profile] jazzyjj posting in [community profile] awesomeers
It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!
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[personal profile] yuletidemods posting in [community profile] yuletide_admin
Tagset corrections are in, and signups are opening soon! It’s just about time to decide what you’ll be requesting and offering.

This year, you can request eight fandoms! Previously, it was six. Because of that, we're reviewing our process for sending author questions.

Each year, we receive questions from authors about their recipient’s requests. These might include clarification on prompts or requests to understand how a DNW applies to a specific fandom–for example, does a DNW for character death include discussion of deaths that occur in canon?

We’re always happy to pass these questions along! Please always contact the mods directly rather than reaching out to the recipient yourself.

Traditionally, when we send these questions to recipients, we try to disguise the fandom the author plans to write for, so the gift is still a surprise. If the question is generic and applies to all fandoms, we can pass it along as-is. If the question is specific to one fandom, our team of volunteers writes decoy questions for the other fandoms and sends along the whole set.

This is fun for us to do, but it takes time. It's also extra work for the recipients to read and respond to multiple questions. This year, as we’re allowing up to 8 requested fandoms (which could mean up to 7 mod-created questions), it seems like a good time to check in and see if our participants find it helpful.

So, a poll! Going forward, which would you prefer mods do?

Poll #33725 Author Questions Poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 232


Going forward, which would you prefer mods do with author questions?

View Answers

Mods should continue to send decoy questions for all fandoms, along with the author’s actual question, to maximize the mystery of which fandom a recipient will receive. (This is how things work currently.)
39 (16.8%)

Mods should send questions for several fandoms, including the author’s actual question, but possibly not all–even though that could narrow down which fandom a recipient may receive.
183 (78.9%)

Something else (Please let us know in comments!)
10 (4.3%)



Keep in mind the question may be from a potential treat writer, so receiving questions for a particular set of fandoms isn’t a guarantee that your final gift will be in one of those fandoms.

We may not necessarily change our process this year based on community feedback, but it will be helpful in making our decision!

We'd also love to hear from you if you'd like to share a past experience with sending or receiving questions! If that has never happened to you, we hope you enjoy this peek behind the administrative curtain.


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[ SECRET POST #6856 ]

Oct. 13th, 2025 05:13 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6856 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.



More! )


Notes:

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no-glue pamphlets

Oct. 13th, 2025 08:01 pm
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[personal profile] nerakrose posting in [community profile] renegadepublishing
this is a repost of a tutorial I posted on tumblr in response to an ask from a friend - it broke containment, as it were, and became more popular than I anticipated.

[tumblr.com profile] thebeautifulsoup asked: Do you have any quick-and-dirty book/fic binding methods a terrified-of-failure novice could use to bang something out to get over the first collywobbling step of Actually Doing The Thing? (this may be something I've been meaning to ask for ages)

yes! I absolutely do! )

Just one thing: 13 October 2025

Oct. 13th, 2025 06:00 am
[personal profile] jazzyjj posting in [community profile] awesomeers
It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!
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Fandom: Tolkien: Lord of the Rings
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Frodo
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: lycazart on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: This is a rather angsty portrait of Frodo, as is only right. I like the movement, and the emotion in his face.
Link: I wish the ring had never come to me

Sanders' High School Reader

Oct. 12th, 2025 11:48 pm
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Sanders' High School Reader by Charles Walton Sanders

The final reading program with more elocution exercises. The standards by which the choices were made are laid out in the preface.

So again the interesting thing to the modern reader is probably the choices. Scientific, religious, political, historical -- poems, speeches, essays --

The religious is sometimes generically theistic, sometimes Christian, sometimes specifically Protestant (in a passage where it is explicitly stated that the contemplative vocation is non-existent).

(no subject)

Oct. 12th, 2025 04:01 pm
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[personal profile] stardust_rifle
my dream plush of the black carpet (m’s new favorite cryptid/creepypasta monster) would just be like a giant weighted blanket plush? if such a thing is possible? with like little baby moe eyes poking out from under a little hood on the surface? and also the tentacles. big enough to cover one’s entire bed and like function as a weighted blanket, like it has weights inside, but it also has stuffing so you can like gather up a bit in your arms and squeeze it. and also a little nubby texture to represent tentacles. and like little marine life skeletons embroidered on. now that i’m thinking about it it would probably have to be like a one-of-a-kind piece, i don’t know if such a thing would be ethical to mass produce

LGBT Rainbow Promo.

Oct. 12th, 2025 08:37 pm
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Join LGBT Rainbow, a rainbow pass-it-on icon challenge focused on LGBTQ+ characters from any media.

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