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Apophenia, or the tendency to make patterns out of unconnected things, originating in the fear of a random and disorderly universe.
Despite much hand waving by everyone on this side of the hippie/science divide (which I am trying to straddle), I think that when you approach divination you have to be very careful that you aren’t displaying symptoms.
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Our March creator panel, available to all our Patrons at the $7/month, $10/month, and $25/month levels, is coming up this Sunday, March 29th, at 4 p.m. Eastern time (converter)! Join Sebastian Marie, Puck Malamud, Rhosyn Goodfellow, Lucy K. R., and D. A. Hernández as we have a chat about collaborative creation: types that exist, methods we’ve used, great collaborations we’ve had, and what elements go into brewing the perfect group work of fiction!
Title: Approaches to Creating Collaboratively
Description: When we imagine writers, we often picture an individual toiling in solitude, leaning over a notebook and writing rapidly or with keys clattering away on a keyboard. However, this image neglects to consider the many ways there are for writers to collaborate with each other, and with artists, musicians, and other creators. Some writing activities, such as screenwriting, are routinely done by groups. There are many ways to collaborate on fiction writing, too – such as co-authors working together on a book or short story authors coming together on an anthology – and even more so when doing fanwriting. Storytelling approaches such as round-robins, bangs and reverse bangs, zines, collaboratively developed and written ‘verses, and other fandom activities are design with collaboration specifically in mind. In this panel, we’ll discuss types of collaborative writing, how we’ve found collaborators to work with, our own collaborative writing experiences and how they’ve gone, successes we’ve had and issues we’ve run into (and how we did, or didn’t, solve them), systems we’ve put in place to keep our collaborative writing projects “on the rails,” and other related topics.
duckprintspress1. What are you currently reading?
2. What have you recently finished reading?
3. What will you read next?
Novels: next on my pile is Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell. It's for reading club. I'm like 6 weeks late. Oops. After that are the three volumes of Dawning, a danmei by ICE.
Physical Graphic Novels (from the library): Motherlover by Lindsay Ishihiro is next on my pile.
Digital Graphic Novels (on Libby): other than my current Libby read (Just Like Mona Lisa vol. 2), the only other one I've got due within the next week is Yuri Espoir vol. 2 by Mai Naoi.
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cakewrecks_feedWhat's that? You want more "Missed Marks" wrecks?
AS YOU WISH.
First up, Randee C. ordered this simple zebra-stripe cake from her local bakery:
... and ended up with something only a finger-painting preschooler could love:
Zebras of unusual stripes?
I don't think they exist.
Next, Tahneea made two notable discoveries: first, this gorgeous cake:
There's a shortage of perfect ruffles in the world. 'Twould be a pity to damage yours.
And second, a use for leftover coffee filters!
"I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six hundred coffee filters on hand?"
"Do you always begin conversations this way?"
"YUP."
And finally, Mel D. ordered this beauty for her wedding:
She tells me her baker showed her an impressive portfolio of gorgeous cakes, which made the final reveal on her big day that much more, well, you know ...
And ... EMBIGGIFY!
On the plus side, that silver glitter really clumps together nicely.
Bye bye, brides! Have fun ordering your cakes!
("Think they'll be wrecks?"
"If not, it'll be a miracle.")
BYEEE!
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P.S. Forget the cakes, this month has left my house wrecked. I'm so ready for a big purge and organizing blitz - and eyeballing nifty little turntables like this:
7-Layer Rotating Makeup Organizer
Ohhh, look at this beauty. Don't you just want to take her for a spin? It's on sale with a $4 off coupon on Amazon right now, so about $17 Prime. Not bad!
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And from my other blog, Epbot:
messynessychic_feed
By the middle of the 1930s Joséphine Baker was firmly established as one of France’s brightest stars, and she had high hopes of furthering the great success she’d experienced with the French when she was engaged to be in the starry cast of the 1936 revival of the “Ziegfeld Follies” on Broadway. She sailed on the Normandie to New York in August of 1935 in order to begin rehearsals. But right from the beginning, she had to fight the sort of racism she rarely encountered in Europe; she was turned away from the hotel where she had reserved rooms, as the management didn’t want to offend their Southern clientele.
fred_mouseI'm a week post radiation; I'm still very red, and I have some raw patches in my armpit / outer edge of the breast. I assume this is mostly because I did not do the same prevention there, because I did not realise I needed to.
This means I am doing a lot of going topless; it is fortunately still warm enough to be doing that (although it is down to 22°C at the moment, and even with the door shut I'm a tad cold). I ran out of the ointment the hospital gave me, then the healing gel i was using, and the replacement artisanat found isn't as good.
I have found a couple more books to fit the reading for the fiction part of my project, so I'm going gung ho on that. Am a little frustrated that I keep finding books from the USA, rather than anywhere else.
I have not been keeping up with DW. I've just opened about 20 posts and I think I'm going to end up closing them having skimmed. I have, instead, fallen face first into Heated Rivalry fandom, and very much appreciate chaosmanor sharing their sources for fic. (I have not seen the show, nor read the books. This is unlikely to change. Youngest has been reporting back on the show).
dialecticdreamersiliconshaman, and posted for everyone to enjoy, with my thanks! ::
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