tenminutesaday | Member Posts

I'm pretty rusty at drawing but I made this in like half an hour while watching Riku VA play Kingdom Hearts 1.

( Just so you don't get jumpscared XD )

Sora, we're really in it now.

hermenoodle

So, it's been awhile since I've made a post here.

A lot has happened in my life, yet I can still say that God is faithful. Even when I am afraid in my circumstances, I will still trust Him (Psalm 56:3). I pray to continue trusting in Him for the promises He's given and what to anticipate for in the future, come what may.

Regardless, I can still count what I have with joy. He has not failed and will never do so.

I pray practice joy daily, especially during Lent. Knowing that I am but dust on borrowed time, yet redeemed by the blood of Jesus makes me think of life differently in a good way, to make life count more than just taking care of one's daily needs.

witchpoetdreamer

"Leave/to poets a moment of happiness,/Otherwise your world will perish." - In Warsaw

The first time I heard of Czeslaw Milosz was while watching Under The Tuscan Sun starring Diane Lane. I've been a little bit obsessed ever since, looking for him at the library but always coming short, not because his books aren't there, but because every time I read one of his poems, all I want to do is sit down with them one by one and write down in the margins the meaning of his references, his words, the context of when it was written, dive into his poetry the way a detective would follow clues at the heart of a murder scene. Borrowing from the library isn't enough.

I first wrote poetry when I was a child, around 12 or 13 years old. Two of them in particular my grandmother kept for me, neatly transcribed on her typewriter and put in the pages of her binder somewhere between recipes and short stories she found in magazines. I don't have access to them anymore, never thought to take them with me when I cut ties with my family.

The first of these two poems was something you would expect a young girl to write: an imaginary telling of what my first kiss would be like, aptly titled "Mon Premier Baiser" (My First Kiss). The second one though surprised me when I reread it somewhere in my twenties. The story of an emperor looking at his subjects from his palace, gently observing as they help the city grow in prosperity. The ending of the poem revealed that the emperor was a tree, a weeping willow, suddenly witnessing war intruding on its land. I don't remember what it was titled.

I also have vague recollections of writing a poem about a spider being killed for being at the wrong place, wrong time? Sounds somewhat right.

The poetry I wrote later on during my teenage years I managed to salvage through an old blog of mine. Most of it was in French, but I was also experimenting in English, much to my father's displeasure about it. I might share those here at one point.

I don't remember when, but somewhere during my early 20's, I was certain I didn't like poetry. Must have to do with the mandatory French literature classes I had to take during my first try at college. I am not a fan of French poetry, especially not the early French kind, which are of course the first ones we have to learn about. Prior to college, I never read any poetry besides song lyrics (my high school is still known to this day as amongst the 20 worst high schools in my home province, that gives you an idea of the level of education we received there). It's only during my second try at uni, choosing to study English literature, that I came into contact with English poetry and, this time, it clicked. I've loved poetry ever since.

When reading poets, I tend to navigate towards more contemporary authors (20th century to now), although I have a lot of love for the Romantics and others before their time. I love Button Poetry, they have published amazing poets and they have a Youtube channel where you can hear their poems in their own voices as well. I particularly like Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair by William Evans and Olivia Gatwood's poems.

I love how poetry allows to write stories with a minimal amount of words, each of them important to the whole. I see poems as enigmas, codes to decrypt and understand a person, a time and space, or myself. Most often all of these at the same time. Not all poem hit the same, sometimes I go through most of an anthology without feeling a thing, and then I am hit with a single one that make me shed tears and it makes it all worth it.

Poetry is also one of the tools I use to create spells. The attention I put in creating poetry in general is the exact same I need for spells to feel like they're going to do something. Poetry can be powerful given the right words.

I really love poetry.

squidgiepdx

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

kay_brooke

First books post of the year! Sorry it's so late. I finished seven books in January, no DNFs. It was a fairly good reading month, with no books that I absolutely hated.

For new people, this is the general format of the books post: each individual book is under a cut, which is for length and not for spoilers. Any spoilers will be warned for outside of the cut. Under the cut I'll have a quick summary of the book's premise followed by a short review. Some of the reviews will be longer, especially if I'm ranting about a book I didn't like.

( 1. Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey - 3 stars - Maybe spoilers, but I prefer to think of them as trigger warnings, because the book certainly doesn't give you any )

( 2. I is for Innocent by Sue Grafton - 4 stars )

( 3. The Carnival of Ash by Tom Beckerlegge - 4 stars )

( 4. Lone Women by Victor LaValle - 3.5 stars )

( 5. A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham - 3.5 stars )

( 6. The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller - 4 stars )

( 7. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King - 4.5 stars )

romanajo123

Can you please keep my family in your thoughts and prayers?

We need it now. Thanks.

witchpoetdreamer

My wife and I just finished playing Kingdom Hearts 2 and wow. What an experience! The first one was fun, Chains of Memories we only watched the cut scenes because the game play is apparently not great, but the story was interesting. KH2? There's just something about it that makes me feel like this is going to be my next big fandom. I LOVE Sora and Riku together, I LOVE Axel, going into Birth by Sleep I'm gaining a deeper appreciation for Roxas and I'm already thinking of theories as to why Ventus looks like Roxas and just. Aaaaaah!

(If you guys played the whole series, please no spoilers, I'm really enjoying this!)

I've been hesitating between playing Birth By Sleep or watching the cut scenes of 358/2 and after seeing the after credits of KH2, I just HAD to go right away in Birth By Sleep, cause WTF??! Seriously, wtf was that! Anyway, I'm just super excited about it all and it makes me so happy, I love that feeling brewing in my chest, that knowledge that I'm about to be hyperfixated on something real soon, I just need to get through the learning process and the replaying and all! It's going to be SO FUN!

lupine_dreaming

I’m not sure how to discuss this without sounding like a gatekeeper or a hipster, but … well. Here I am talking about it anyway.

There’s this feeling I experience where I wish a character or a piece of media was a bit more popular or relevant so that I could have a few more people to talk to about it. But when said character or media becomes too popular, I feel annoyed and frustrated.

It doesn’t make sense!! More popularity means more fan works, which I’m not going to complain about.

But it can also mean a fan atmosphere changing to one that I don’t recognize.

The example example I’m thinking about most here is the Riddler. When I first got into Batman/DC stuff in 2014/2015, the fandom for this character was a reasonable size. After Matt Reeves’ Batman film came out, which featured Riddler as the main villain came out, the fandom for the character grew a lot.

Somehow, it felt harder to find like-minded people even though there were more people who enjoyed the character!! And it’s weird for me to be frustrated by this because that’s actually one of my fav Batman adaptations, and I’ve really come to appreciate this version of the Riddler over time.

But I digress.

For me, there is some undefinable sweet spot between “tiny, mostly dead fandom” and “fandom that’s large and hard to navigate that I feel lost in.”

The explosion of interest in this character shrank a little bit due to the modern habit fandom quickly moving on. But the fandom for this character still feels more difficult to navigate than it did 10 years ago, and I feel kind of out of place. Or maybe left behind? I’m not sure.

Anyway … I don’t know if I’m kind of alone in feeling weird, mixed emotions when something I like gets more popular, but this is how I tend to feel when this sort of thing happens.

Current Mood: thoughtful

linky

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has marked as possibly inappropriate for anyone under the age of 18. )

Current Mood: contemplative

snow_lotus

I just changed my username from ghislaine to

snow_lotus because…yeah!

Current Mood: relieved

scifirenegade

Having a panic attack while your friend is also having a very shitty time and having to help (while trying to not seem like you yourself are having a bad time) is sure an experience. Been trying to get over it with movies.

Zootopia's message is still a little muddy, but "Didney" would never do something like this now (Zootopia 2 not withstanding, no idea how good that one is). Goldeneye made me feel like a kid again. I always forget I enjoy James Bond movies. The difference is I'm an adult now, and can think of them critically.

As for new watches... 8½ is... overrated? I guess? It feels like a dream, it plays with its medium so darn well, but alas, I cared not for our director character. Maybe on a rewatch it's better, but I have no desire to do so. Sleeping Car though? Very very silly. Always nice seeing Madeleine Carroll in a not-drama. I have seen four talkies with Ivor Novello and in half of them he's the most obnoxious rascal (good, he plays them well). Lots of moving camera, not enough trains. I still enjoyed I Lived With You more, but somehow believed Carroll and Novello's romance more than Jeans and Novello.

~~(And I would believe his romance with me even more *cough*)~~

I have to thirst somewhere. My friends can't handle it, and it's not even as scandalous as Cairns's for Veidt's tight clothing :P

EDIT: Ah! Almost forgot!

bethefirst is having its (optional) signups!

tardis_remix is also having (obligatory) signups and prompt claiming!

Current Mood: beer

svgurl

candyheartsex had creator reveals and this is what I wrote. :)

Title: i don't want anybody (but you)
Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV)
Pairing/Characters: Buck/Eddie
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 1821
Summary: The real reason Eddie doesn't date.

Title: not an ending (just a new beginning)
Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV)
Pairing/Characters: Buck/Eddie, Christopher
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 1565
Summary: When Buck watches Abby leave, he doesn't expect to immediately run into the two people who will be his future.

saxbrightwell

It’s a difficult winter, harder than last year. I haven’t broken any bones, but that also means I’ve been working a lot. Current World Affairs have stayed bleak as shit and started hitting closer to home. Efforts to keep hyperfixation roots sunk into my own writing have not shown much success. I’m dogless.

Into this grim era came the same ray of queer sunshine that so many other people needed as much as me or more: Heated Rivalry. A beautiful love story told by men who powerlifted their way to C-cups in order to deliver more pining-while-fucking than I’ve ever seen outside of top-shelf fanfiction. With a happy ending! I’ve lost several weeks to cycling between rewatches of the show, reading fanfic, and trawling the tumblr tag for the funniest shitposts. But are those weeks really lost? I don’t think so, not when I’m immersing myself in the exact frequency of emotional M/M smut that is my lifeblood.

Like Interview With The Vampire, I don’t foresee myself developing the urge to write fanfic of my own. I rarely do, in megafandoms, because everything I could possibly want to read is already available a dozen times over. I’m just there to get hydrated in the tsunami of enthusiasm brought on by Connor Storrie’s perfectly round buttocks and Hudson Williams’ big brown eyes, and go back to my own writing once I’m replenished.

Current Mood: mellow

witchpoetdreamer

My wife and I are now playing Kingdom Hearts 2 (we're doing a bit of a marathon whenever time allows), and since this is my first time ever playing this series, here are some of my thoughts:

1 - I absolutely ship Leon and Aerith. They just make sense together. I love them.
2 - Sora is such a cute character! I like him better in KH2 than in KH1 though, I like his sass XD
3 - I like the KH specific story part than the Disney story parts. Both are fun to play, but I have much more fun discovering a new part of the story rather than bits of story I'm already familiar with.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I started the process of actually writing the vampire novel and it's *painful*. I'm so rusty when it comes to writing! It feels like I've never written anything at all, so right now, I'm writing in more of a movie script way, with very basic descriptions and a focus on dialogues (and even for those I'm rusty AF). Most of my problem comes from how difficult it is to visualize what I'm trying to depict since I still have so much research to do about France's nobility system before the French Revolution and all. Basically, this is just me wanting to write something else than just world building and I think I'm putting the cart before the horses here. I might actually take care of my writing itch through fanfics for the time being, because that world building is so, so important to do before I can finally write something that will make sense to me.

I also am probably going to change my female main character's name. The current name I have for her is Louise Gabrielle, but I've been toying around with Gisele and Genevieve as well. G seems like a constant at the very least.

As for fanfics, I've been in a big OC mood lately. I've always loved writing OCs in fanfics, but early on I discovered that people don't like them much because they might be too Mary Sue/self-inserts, but honestly, I just love creating characters and putting them in familiar worlds, it's a great way to explore character creation and writing techniques in general. Also, I'm 35, I don't have time anymore for feeling any shame about what I enjoy creating (easier said than done honestly, but it all starts with words of affirmation). I am cringe but I am free!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I've really been enjoying reading everyone's posts and commenting on them. It's like my daily newspaper but better!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I've gotten gel pens this week! I've been interested in trying them because I write mostly by hand and my fountain and ballpoint pens have cramped my hand muscle a lot. So far, gel pens have been kind of a life saver for that. I'm currently testing out Pilot G-2 (I wanna know exactly how long it lasts for me) and Pentel Energel (because pretty colours, I got the lesbian colours pack XD) and so far, I like the Pentel better because it doesn't smudge at all! I can make a blob and a microsecond later try to spread it with my hand and nothing. The Pilot G-2 is only really safe after a full line of writing. Also, not gonna lie but those colourful Pentel are just making me really happy! And they're more affordable than fountain pen ink (I've gotten into fountain pens a few years ago, and what I've considered mainly for ecological reasons ended up being a bit of a consumption thing with pretty inks I ended up rarely using and beautiful fountain pens that I gave away to friends instead. The fountain pens I kept were actually on the cheaper side (Platinum) and I've kept just three different pretty inks that I use exclusively for letter writing with a dip pen. That and just a permanent black that I use mostly for inking drawings... Now that I think about it, I kinda wanna write a post about fountain pens in general XD But like, make it anti-consumption rather than "here's a list of the best of the best out there, spend your money!". I might just do that XD).

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

That's it for today's random thoughts ❤️

Current Mood: content

linky

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has marked as possibly inappropriate for anyone under the age of 18. )

Current Mood: calm

witchpoetdreamer

Once upon a time, I had a Medium account. Once upon a time, I had a Substack. The former actually brought in some money before I deleted my account (75$, definitely a really good amount for only 2 posts, like what??), the latter I deleted after an hour trying to figure it out to realize it's not for me (it's also weirdly fascist nowadays apparently).

The reason why I made those account was because, well, isn't being able to sell your writing any writers dream and desire? Isn't it the thing writers should do when they want to be known? Aren't writers supposed to be out there at all, growing their audience for their upcoming novel or collection of essay or something? Truth is, seeing that money appear in my account felt... off. Partly because I felt I didn't deserve that much for two posts I wrote in less than 3 hours (which, why am I like this? XD), partly because that money felt like it came with strings attached. Suddenly, I would need to post regularly to maintain and grow followers, I would need to keep writing things that would get people hooked and interested, I would need to play the social media game. But I don't like the social media game. I don't like feeling pressured to create following a specific schedule or in a way that is pleasing to the algorithm. I'm not opposed to eventually sell what I write, but I also want to do it in a way that feels organic to me. I don't really know yet what that's like, but I have images of an art convention booth, or something of the likes, in my late 40's, 50's, 60's, offering stories and poems and artworks and home made notebooks and possibly spells and tarot readings, and business cards that lead people to my own indie website and this space too if it still exists and just. The way I approach writing in general and art as a whole is something closer to an personal exchange between people rather than numbers on social media or on a paycheck. It definitely makes me feel like I'm not quite built for the way the world works nowadays, but I don't think it means I'll never find my audience because of it. I think quite the opposite in fact. Because one day, there will be people who enjoy what I make all the more for me not being online much, or online following my own rules. And I think that will make for a wonderful life experience.

Current Mood: pensive

lupine_dreaming

A (non-comprehensive list) of types of characters I tend to like. Some of these are oddly specific, and some of these crossover with each other:
— Sweet nerd

— Mildly off putting at first but kind

— A Feral Creature of some sort

— Whimsical trickster whose true motives are difficult to discern

— Trickster character: Bastard Edition (™)

— Sad, tragic man who is morally gray or outright villainous

— A weirdo who wears a mask

— A weirdo who wears a fedora

— Beautiful British woman who is fun and kinda morally ambiguous, but who also has an underlying nature of tragedy to her

— Wide eyed ingenue

— Big Hair ‘80s horror lady protagonist

— Insufferably arrogant but inarguably charismatic

— Pathetic wet cat loser

— Obsessive creepy stalker who needs love

— Suave villain — may have an accent or a generally cool voice

— Woman who was badly treated by the narrative (and maybe fans) who deserved better

— Character who is emotionally distant and confused by humanity — may be an alien or a robot
— Man who is down SO HORRENDOUSLY bad for his S/O

lucy_roman

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has marked as possibly inappropriate for anyone under the age of 18. )

linky

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has marked as possibly inappropriate for anyone under the age of 18. )

winterfirelight

Well... I guess I kind of fell off the posting wagon again at the end of January. I enjoyed the Snowflake Challenges that I got to, but ultimately life took over and I just haven't had the time. I've been making a concerted effort in February to cut back on some of the things I do so I can feel like I have any amount of breathing room again, with varying success.

Enough success I had a bit of time to do some herb stuff again! So that's nice. It's garden planning season, and I got a number of new exciting things at a seed swap, so one of these days I need to sit down and plot out what's actually getting planted this year. I'm hopeful that some of the things I planted last year have overwintered successfully, but I won't know until it's warmer. I think the valerian will be fine, but the elecampane I'm worried about. It never seemed to like where I put it, so if it's survived, I may try to transplant it elsewhere to see if I can find what it prefers. The angelica is still there and arguably doing better than it did all last year - maybe it's just needed time to settle in. We'll see!

A neighbor gave me some hops that I put in the ground a month or two ago, and I'm just starting to see it come up through the mulch. It's got a small little trellis for now, but if it does well, maybe next year we'll put in something bigger and prettier there. I'd love to get some passionflower somewhere too, and that's a climber as well.

I'm thinking of replacing the old garden bed by the street with a few taller corrugated steels beds. The old one has been there since before we moved in and is slowly rotting away, and being practically at sidewalk-level where dogs pee all the time, I don't love the idea of harvesting from it as-is. It'll never be the best place to grow edibles, but I think if we elevated it by a couple of feet and had steel instead of wood, that would make it more reasonable. With a few pots instead of one big bed, we could grow some of the things that like to take over without risking the rest of the garden. Oregano, lemon balm, maybe motherwort? Feverfew loves it over there, so I should probably reserve it some room, though it tends to wander and may not cooperate well with being given a designated spot.

I keep thinking about what else I can make with the harvest I still have left from years prior. Herbs only stay good for so long, and the poor calendula in the jar is more yellow than orange at this point, so I fear it's past its prime already. Alas. This coming season I'll make oils and tinctures from it early in the season, and then save the later harvests for tea so the dried flowers last longer into the winter. Live and learn. I did finally get around to making some fresh vinegar shrub with the elderberry I got at the farmer's market last fall and froze. I'm really hoping to get some elderberry plants of my own one of these years, but I'm still debating on the best place to put it. They can get sizeable, I understand. We got the backyard clear of brambles last year, but it's still not really set up for gardening beyond that.

In non-garden news, Discord is going the way of age verification, which means I will no longer be there. Which honestly really sucks. My most active online communities have been there, and folks seem to be struggling to figure out where to go. An herbalism server I'm in has been going round and round on different options, and though I've floated Dreamwidth a number of times when folks have expressed a desire for old-school blogging formats like LiveJournal, I don't seem to have gotten any bites on it. Baffling. It's exactly what people are saying they want, but tell them that it actually exists and they really, truly could have the platform of their dreams, and it's crickets. Oh well.

...incidentally, is anyone interested in an herbalism community here on Dreamwidth? Maybe it's an "if you build it, they will come" situation. I'm far from the most qualified person to run something like that, but seeing as I'm about to have a significant amount of my regular internet time freed up without Discord, maybe I could manage to sustain it even with my history as a chronic lurker.

Current Mood: confused

Profile

Let's write!

February 2026

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28

Style Credit

Style: Dreamer for Dusty Foot by timeasmymeasure

Page generated Feb. 24th, 2026 07:23 pm

Let's write!

Member Posts

I made a art

Through It All

Czeslaw Milosz

TV Crap & Looking for an SGA picture

January 2026 Books

RL Things

The Kingdom Hearts Saga Continues

When something you like gets uncomfortably popular

Caught Up With Witch Hat Atelier

The Snow Lotus

(no subject)

candyhearts ex works (2 buck/eddie)

Heal Me, Hockey Gays

Thoughts of no particular consequence

Almost Caught Up With WHA

On this writer's evolution

In which I make a long list of character types I like

Fannish 50:Post 10: Small Fandoms Drabblethon

Girls Remix: Women of Tokusatsu Exchange Letter

Back on the Wagon

Profile

February 2026

Tags

Style Credit