Featured Article: Sussex Retirement

Jun. 2nd, 2026 04:04 pm
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Our Featured Article this week is Sussex Retirement!

A popular trope in Sherlock Holmes fandom, Sussex Retirement imagines what happens after the great detective leaves Baker Street behind. Inspired by canon references to Holmes retiring to the Sussex countryside, fans have spent decades reimagining his post-detective life, often with Dr. John Watson by his side. Whether Watson retires with Holmes, joins him later, or reunites with him for one last case, Sussex Retirement stories blend domesticity, nostalgia, romance, and mystery.

The trope appears across countless adaptations, from the original stories to Sherlock Holmes (2009), BBC Sherlock, and more. For many fans, Sussex Retirement represents the ultimate happy ending: a chance for Holmes and Watson to find peace together after years of adventures. The setting has inspired everything from emotional reunions to late-life love stories, making it one of the most enduring concepts in Holmes fandom history.

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It's my day off. My most open free day of the week. I had planned to hike Silver Star mountain with Tyler. See some beloved bear grass. Inhale its indescribably perfect scent.

But my foot hurts too much. I can't walk without a lot of pain, sometimes a limp. There will be no hiking today, alas. I had tried to trick myself into believing wearing softer shoes would make it okay, but even my recovery slippers are painful.

I can try again next week. It won't be so hot.

I have a beautiful cozy home and part of me just wants to curl up in bed and not do anything.

But I will try to do a gentle bike ride, and finish cleaning, do vacuum and catch up on laundry, hang some art.

I desperately need to catch up on ordering, too, and my website could use some love. Things that would be worth doing on a hot day.

I could also try to grab one more bin out of the garage, maybe donate something. Eric wants to come get the window unit a/c today, that'll be helpful, one more thing not taking up space.

I need to pay rent and get quarterlies situation and I just found a $500 bill from the doctor appt for my high risk breast cancer intake appt. So I have lots to keep me occupied and not bored.

I wonder if Karissa might be up for mid-week happy hour or something, it might be nice to have a little cheering up.

It's so frustrating that I've made such an indescribably beautiful life for myself and I feel so so so so so so sad. I keep eating "elevate" gummies to try to fix it, but I think it's just candy. Which maybe is okay.

I could try swimming today, hm. Or even soaking, I love soaking on hot days. (I'm weird.)

I think my anemia is kicking in from going veg. Today is elk burger day. It's been a while. It's overdue.

I could try to go back to supplementing floradix. It's maybe better than meat eating. As much as I (and my tummy) dislike it.

So many things are going right.

The jasmine is so fragrant, I am delighted. There are flowers and swallowtail butterflies.

Maybe a visit to the coffee shop is in order, I miss that place. I rarely drink my precious almond milk lattes anymore, I miss them. I had one last week and it was absolute heaven.

I think I can find some happiness; maybe I do have more control of this than I am leading myself to believe.

There is so much weighing me down from my past, but the past is not here. I am a different person. My therapist says I have to let the old person die, but that doesn't resonate with me. More like, she deserves a good retirement, with a lot of rest and cozy blankets and comfort movies and music, and I can take over the job of running my life, going forward.

round #25 - results.

Jun. 2nd, 2026 05:55 pm
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Thanks to everyone who voted, here are the results from the 25th round.
Congrats everyone! =)

1st Place2nd Place 3rd Place
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Best ColorBest CropBest Composition
[personal profile] abyss_valkyrie [personal profile] abyss_valkyrie[personal profile] wickedgame

♦ The next color is GREEN

Random Check-in

Jun. 2nd, 2026 09:44 pm
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It's been some months since we've had one of these posts, so I hope everyone is doing okay.

How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?

Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.

Congratulations to everyone who has found and/or disposed on any clutter in the last weekthree months!!

Checkin!

Jun. 2nd, 2026 09:26 pm
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Thanks everyone on your comments on the last checkin; fabulous to see so many people making small progress. I do not have the oomph to reply individually, but I wish I did.

Instead! It has been a little over a week since the last checkin, and time for another one. What is one small win you have had in the last week in making your house a home?

UK people: trans rights

Jun. 2nd, 2026 02:11 pm
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At the time of writing, 41 42 46 MPs have signed the early day motion to reject the EHRC's new guidance:

https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/65938

Write to your MP to tell them to sign it! Praise them if they already have!

If you have Bsky, Trans+ Solidarity Alliance have a skeet about it you can boost:

https://bsky.app/profile/transsolidarity.bsky.social/post/3mnb3wyefxc2g

Scottish Trans (in collaboration with Trans+ Solidarity Alliance and TransActual, because the collaborative work going on here is so phenomenal) have an "email your MP to reject the EHRC code of practice" template form:

https://equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

The Hansard transcript of the response to Seema Malhotra's statement on the EHRC guidance yesterday is blistering:

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026-06-01/debates/CE610C68-7093-454F-B897-AF008EE7E7A0/EqualityAct2010CodeOfPractice
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Merchantship Loki is retired war criminal Bet Yeager's ticket off Thule Station and away from murder charges... but Loki offers hazards of its own.

Rimrunners (Rimrunners, volume 5) by C J Cherryh
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Here I start with 2024's fics! Beginning with the ones I wrote for the Three Sentence Ficathon.

Title: took ill on thursday.
Fandom: DC comics (Batman, War Games/Under the Hood).
Character/Pairing: Gotham City & Jason Todd (& Stephanie Brown).
Rating/Warnings: T, referenced character death.
Summary: For the prompt: "dc comics, any, never could get the hang of thursdays".
Word count: 100.

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“Took ill on Thursday,” is how Solomon Grundy’s nursery rhyme goes.

An imposing figure stops in front of a store’s window, sleek red helmet reflecting the lights of the television screens on display; it’s another program retelling Black Mask’s ascension in the city’s underbelly on the never-ending news circle, Stephanie Brown’s publicized death at his hands nothing more than a mere footnote on the story of yet one more sadist with a gimmick.

Jason returns to Gotham on a Thursday, but he is under no delusion: he knows his city to have been sick for far, far longer than that.




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Jun. 2nd, 2026 01:34 pm
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It was our wedding anniversary yesterday. I posted three photos on Instagram, the first photo taken of me and James as a couple when he was 17 and I was 18. Our actual wedding day, and us at the theatre a few weeks ago here. A lot has happened between the first and last, both bad and good but we're still solid, love each other lots and are plugging along.

James had taken the day off as annual leave, but we didn't do much. First it was exercise only class in the morning and I didn't want to miss that. I did suggest James could join me but he wasn't that keen. He did pick me up though and we drove to Sunderland to drop off one of his commissions, and the plan was to go to the beach and have lunch at Preggo, the Italian restaurant we like. Got there, and the place was closed until July to be refurbished. In the end we ended up at The Italian Kitchen, and the food there was very tasty, and I got to bring home my leftover pizza meaning tea was covered, too.

After eating it was home to pick up Kevin as he had an appointment at the vets. He's been coughing a bit lately and I was worried his usual congestion was changing into an actual infection; but he's fine. Because he's such a loud purr'ey cat it's really hard to hear his chest and heart, but the vet said if it was an infection she would have been able to hear the crackles over his purr so thinks it's just the humid weather and allergies making his congestion worse so it's draining into his throat. So, more powders for Kev's food and told to keep an eye on him.

At which point we went home as I was hot and sweaty and a bath was calling my name.

Well, that happened after I'd sorted out the rose bush that had toppled again. In the end I had to do a drastic prune of one of the side branches, which was much needed but I was hoping I could wait until the roses had finished flowering. But, I guess, on the plus side, I now have a vase full of beautiful yellow roses plus a standing upright rose bush.

Once Upon A Time...in Hollywood

Jun. 2nd, 2026 05:34 am
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It's been raining cats and dogs and horses and cows since Sunday, so we caught up on Quentin Tarantino movies. We still have to watch a few, but Once Upon A Time...in Hollywood seemed the right kind of movie as opposed to Django Unchained or Inglorious Basterds.

It's been a while since we watched something so cinematic--and it was hard not to be drawn into this version of 1969 Hollywood. There was so much to look at, and most importantly feel from the bonds of friendship, to humour, to drama, and even some horror elements.

Is it a historical document? Heck no. The film does, however, provide an access point to changing tastes through Rick Dalton's character and his struggle to cope with the times as a has-been. As the title implies, it's also a fairytale with a lot of what-ifs. The penultimate scenes are absolutely a revenge fantasy of some sort.



Good Omens 3

Jun. 2nd, 2026 01:37 pm
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I meant to write a proper review but I don't even know. It was okay I guess.

I liked it less than season 1, which I loved, and more than season 2, which I found tremendously boring (you can really tell which season was based on a Terry Pratchett novel and which was not).

It's good to have any kind of conclusion at all and not be forever left on an awkward cliffhanger meant to set up a season 3 that never came. But that's a damn low bar.

I liked the Jesus character, and the scene of him handing out endless pizza was fun. The show didn't actually do anything with him, though. I don't know why he was there other than to point and say 'look we have Jesus!'.

I also liked the ending.
SpoilersRestarting the universe to create an in-universe AU that is actually our real world is a fun twist. Crowley and Aziraphael meeting again in another world is timelessly romantic.


...and everything else in between was pretty boring. Like, the main story arc. Hmm.

So in conclusion, I'm glad we got this but I don't need to rewatch.

Status buttons?

Jun. 2nd, 2026 12:37 pm
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To my delight, some participants have linked to the marathon on their collective to declare what they're up to. In one case, that has even directly led to a sign-up! (Thanks, [personal profile] ichiharas!)

That got me thinking: In the fansite sphere, event buttons such as the ones currently up on the site are typically uploaded as a badge of honour after submitting your site, to show that you participated in an event (which may even have inspired the site/design in the first place) and made it to the finish line, and to direct visitors to fellow event creations. Naturally, such buttons can just as well be used to inform about your current activity (and to advertise the event), as in the case mentioned above… But what if we had fun lil graphics specifically for that?

I don't know about the future, but it so happens that there are Neo-Queen Serenity sprites (from the game Sailor Moon: Another Story!) that would make nice status buttons for the current event. :D I think it unlikely that I'll have time to make pixel buttons, blinkies etc., but I'm posting the sprites here in case anyone would like to make some. They could say something like: current status: our kingdoms eternal marathon.



The sprites are from The Spriters Resource if you need the original files or want to browse other elements. Any status buttons without Sailor Moon theme are most welcome too!

If you make any buttons and share them here, I'll upload them to the event site – and the more, the merrier. :) That aside, I'd love to hear if there's any interest in such buttons in general (namely for future shrine events).

First

Jun. 2nd, 2026 05:53 am
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Firsts to Share
HOW TO PLAY

• Nothing novel here. Drop them muses, get some tags.
• Respect preferences. Be as chill as the frost our rooftops.

PROMPTS
  1. ANGRY: ( a ) is angry at ( b ) for the first time
  2. BED: ( a ) and ( b ) share a bed for the first time
  3. CAR: ( a ) shares a ride with ( b ) for the first time
  4. COOKING: ( a ) cooks for ( b ) for the first time
  5. CRYING: ( a ) sees ( b ) crying for the first time
  6. DATE: ( a ) asks ( b ) out on a date for the first time
  7. DRUNK: ( a ) drunk calls/texts ( b ) for the first time
  8. FLOWERS: ( a ) gives ( b ) flowers for the first time
  9. HAND: ( a ) touches/holds ( b )’s hand for the first time
  10. HEARTFELT: ( a ) sends ( b ) a heartfelt text/audio for the first time
  11. HUG: ( a ) hugs ( b ) for the first time
  12. HURT: ( a ) sees ( b ) hurt for the first time
  13. HOME: ( a ) goes to ( b )’s home for the first time MESS ( a ) sees ( b ) in a messy state for the first time
  14. JOURNAL: ( a ) writes about ( b ) in their journal for the first time
  15. SAFE: ( a ) feels safe around ( b ) for the first time
  16. SEEN: ( a ) sees ( b ) for the first time
  17. SICK: ( a ) sees ( b ) sick for the first time
  18. SNOOZE: ( a ) falls asleep on ( b ) for the first time
  19. SUN: ( a ) and ( b ) watch the sunrise together for the first time
  20. TEXT: ( a ) texts ( b ) first after a long silence for the first time
  21. UPSET: ( a ) sends ( b ) an upset text/audio for the first time


+ MIX IT UP. SEND A SYMBOL IN RESPONSE TO MY TOP-LEVEL FOR MY CHARACTER TO:
  • 😘 kiss your character for the first time
  • 🤗 hug your character for the first time
  • 😢 cry in front of your character for the first time
  • 👫 hold your character’s hand for the first time
  • 👊 hit your character for the first time
  • 🍔 cook for your character for the first time
  • 🍻 get drunk with/in front of your character for the first time
  • 🎤 sing in front of your character for the first time
  • 🎨 show your character a special talent for the first time
  • 🏡 go to your character’s house for the first time
  • ✈️ travel with your character for the first time
  • 🛌 sleep with your character for the first time
  • ❤️ tell your character "I love you" for the first time
  • 🖤 tell your character "I hate you" for the first time
  • 🩹 be injured in front of your character for the first time
  • 🚑 go to the hospital with/for your character for the first time
  • 🎁 give your character a gift for the first time

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Welcome to challenge Ninety. Masquerade:A social gathering, such as a dance or ball, where guests wear masks and elaborate costumes to conceal their identities.
Make icons of characters in a masquerade ball or wearing masquerade masks.
Below are some examples to inspire you.


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Deadline: 17th June, 2026

  • Create up to 5 icons.
  • When posting, tag it with challenge 90: masquerade & your username. Ask for a username tag if you don't have one.
  • Post the URLs of your icons.
  • Fandoms can include drama, movies, animation, historical, fantasy etc. that can be considered as a period piece.
  • Characters in modern shows dressed up in period clothing do not count unless they have time travelled to the past or are under any similar circumstances.
  • Icons submitted must be NEW and never posted before.
  • Icons MUST be 100px by 100px. Animation will only be allowed when included in a challenge.
  • Each fortnight a challenge post WILL be put up with a theme.
  • Participants will have TWO WEEKS to make and submit their icons.
  • Got any questions? Ask them below.
 
Don't forget to vote for Challenge Eighty Nine: Letter C characters here.

Bingo card

Jun. 2nd, 2026 10:55 am
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There are two challenges on [community profile] allbingo this month, but realistically I don't have time for both, so I've decided to go for the Hazbin Hotel Challenge, using Places prompts, but going with a Pride theme.


HellCity
ClubTower

How to avoid being spirited away

Jun. 2nd, 2026 05:46 pm
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1. Stay home in foggy or rainy days. Be quiet during the new moon. Remember the constellation until you imprint it in your heart. It's the first tell you're on the wrong path.
2. Pay respect to shrines before crossing any bridges. Bring a torch no matter day or night. My neighbour once crossed the bridge in hurry - no one has ever seen them again.
3. Don't pick up money or food on the streets. The spirits use these as bait to abduct unsuspected people.
4. If you see graffiti or notes with strange wordings no in any known languages, close your eyes, turn away and forget about them. Don't try to copy them.
5. Block your ears when crossing the forest. Don't try to listen its sound, no matter what they promise. 
6. Don't make any sudden movement in the meadow. Sing and hitting a bell when crossing it. Surprised spirits have a bad temper.
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Absolutely Certain

[God says:] I will return again to My place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face, and in their distress earnestly seek Me. “Come, let us return to the Lord; for He has torn us, that He may heal us; He has struck us down, and He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live before Him. Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; His going out is sure as the dawn; He will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hosea 5:15-6:3)

You can hear the frustration in God’s voice. What is He to do with His stubborn people?

He has sent them prophets, and the prophets have not been gentle; God uses words like “hewn” and “slain” to describe how painful their message to God’s people has been. And the people themselves use that kind of language, when they say, “Come, let us return to the Lord; for He has torn us, that He may heal us; He has struck us down, and He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live before Him.”

That sounds painful! And yet, God’s message has succeeded, right? Because look at what else the people are saying! They say, “He has torn us, that He may heal us.” That means God’s whole purpose in tearing them was to heal them in the end. They say, “He will bind us up,” and “He will revive us … He will raise us up, that we may live before Him.” I don’t hear any uncertainty in those words. They are convinced that this God, their own God, whom they deserted, still loves them so much that He will do a miracle and restore them to life and health.

And they’re right. Even though they have deserted the Lord, even though they have gone after other gods and brought the Lord’s discipline upon them—even though they are driving Him nuts!—He still loves them, loves them dearly. He will do all the things that they say. He will heal them, He will raise them. And He will do the same for us.

Because we, too, sometimes fall into sin that we can’t get out of, and we worry what the Lord thinks of us—will He give up on us? Is this the last straw? Have we pushed Him too far?

And God makes it clear: He will take us back and restore us, no matter how far away we’ve been or what we’ve done. Even if we’ve fallen into the same sin a hundred million times, He will patiently and lovingly restore us and raise us from the dead, so that we may live before Him in peace and joy. This is why Jesus came—to bring us home to God, again and again and again, until that final day when He brings us home forever, and sin is nothing but an old, bad memory. He suffered, died, and rose again so that He could make you—you personally—His own forever. He’s not going to give up on you now.

WE PRAY: Dear Savior, strengthen my trust in You, especially when I’ve sinned and feel terrible. Amen.

This Daily Devotion was written by Dr. Kari Vo.

bats and faeries at the post office

Jun. 1st, 2026 09:31 pm
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I have a little side of my business for mostly fed by my youtube channel (where I post videos about how to do fairy hair), selling hair sparkles and starter kits and tools and such for those learning or practicing or professionally sparkling. It's not a very substantial amount of sales, less than what I would consider a microbusiness, but I do make post office runs a few times a week with my little caringly packaged boxes.

It's fun to pass other creatives shipping their own unique offerings in their own little boxes in the pre-pay drop-off area of the post office. Sometimes they have grocery bags full of various sizes, sometimes they have fancy colors or patterns or designs, sometimes they just have an armload like me of all the same size and shape.

today a girl said, "I just noticed your EARS" when I passed her in my work clothes (wings and ears and face paint and pants that look like leaves, etc.) - she was covered in tattoos and had just dropped off about the same amount of packages I did, but smaller - I imagine she's making jewelry but who knows - and she had the cutest little bat trucker hat I've ever seen, so I complimented her bat hat delightedly. Kindred spirits :)

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