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aliensamba ([personal profile] aliensamba) wrote2025-07-13 03:00 am

082 - 1 picspam; 25.02 - jujutsu kaisen

Medium: film
Addtional: team challenge (alpha)
Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Characters: Gojo Satoru, Geto Suguru
Prompt: Sunset
Notes: 1 picspam for week 9 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire. It's the SatoSugu sunset scene.

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aliensamba ([personal profile] aliensamba) wrote2025-07-12 07:13 pm

081 - 1 picspam; 25.02 - the one

Medium: film
Fandom: The One
Character: Gabriel Yulaw
Prompt: Parallel Universe
Notes: 1 picspam for week 9 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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Stephanie ([personal profile] flareonfury) wrote2025-07-11 08:30 pm

Fanfic Reading Meme

[personal profile] atlantablack had this on their journal.... and I haven't filled one of these out in ages so I figured why not, also figured I could join in on the [community profile] goals_on_dw's Fannish 50 (or at least try to)


20 fanfic reading questions.... )
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Liz ([personal profile] yarnandglue) wrote2025-07-11 12:14 pm

Friday

I took yesterday off to just dick around and enjoy some time out of the office.

I started by finishing up a puzzle. This one was called "Iceland Sunset." I was worried all the color gradients would make it difficult but it was actually pretty intuitive. 


I also hit up 3 thrift stores but got skunked at 2 of them. At the one successful visit I got a wishlist Beanie Baby - Swirly the Snail - and three bracelets. Everything was a dollar apiece!
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aliensamba ([personal profile] aliensamba) wrote2025-07-11 06:19 pm

080 - 2 gifs; challenge 1 - sunshine revival

Fandom: Youthful Glory
Characters: Wang Dingbei, Ming Tan
Notes: 2 gifs. This is my entry for challenge 1 at Sunshine Revival.


Challenge #1

Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.
Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community.


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Liz ([personal profile] yarnandglue) wrote2025-07-09 11:17 am
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The Big 4

I don't know how I missed this but apparently the Big 4 sewing pattern companies (Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue Patterns) have been sold to Hilco Capital, who liquidated Joann. It's been a while since I've used a Big 4 pattern but damn, what a history they have. They're how I learned to sew garments.

If you're interested in learning more of their history, I really recommend browsing around the Commercial Pattern Archive. They also have a companion book, The History of the Paper Pattern Industry.

I've been trying to remember all the patterns I've sewed from Big 4 patterns. When I was smaller in 2018-2020 my daily uniform was a vintage me-made skirt, a knit shirt/turtleneck, some kind of funky vintage jewelry, and combat boots. I would potentially still dress this way except at my current size I have a B-belly and skirts just...don't sit the way I'd like them to. This loss of my "uniform" is part of why I am having such trouble deciding how to dress myself right now. :( I am DEFINITELY forgetting some but to the best of my recollection (and Etsy purchase history) I've made:


I also remember making myself shift dresses, kimono sleeve tops, and a skirt with a ruffled hem in the late 2000s/early 2010s but I can't figure out which patterns they were...
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Liz ([personal profile] yarnandglue) wrote2025-07-08 12:12 pm
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Snip

The first time I tried to get a pixie cut was in 2006~ish. I asked the hair dresser if she could give me one and she laughed and said no. Boo. Then in 2017 my kidneys went bad and my hair was falling out at an alarming rate. I was pretty sure no one was going to tell me I couldn't have a pixie cut when I shedding clouds of loose hair everywhere I went. I ended up loving it so I kept the pixie going from 2017-2020 when the lockdowns happened. I decided to let my hair grow until I got sick of it but I was pretty sure I'd go back to the pixie eventually. I made it 5 years bouncing around between collar bone length and armpit length. Last week I woke up in a sweaty fury, half-awake and enraged at the hair sticking to my neck. Time for a chop! I got my hair cut last night and I am back to the pixie again :) 

(I should update my personalized icons...)

EDIT: My personalized icons are updated! I even added my grey streak to the default one :)
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aliensamba ([personal profile] aliensamba) wrote2025-07-06 10:33 pm

079 - picspam; 25.02 - labyrinth

Medium: film
Fandom: Labyrinth
Characters: Sarah Williams, Jareth
Prompt: Ticking Clock
Notes: 1 picspam for week 8 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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aliensamba ([personal profile] aliensamba) wrote2025-07-06 12:04 pm

078 - picspam; 25.02 - jujutsu kaisen

Medium: anime
Additional: team challenge (alpha)
Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen
Character: Geto Suguru
Prompt: Shower
Warnings: Spoiler warning for Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 episode 5 ("Premature Death"). Slight nudity.
Notes: 1 picspam for week 8 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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Liz ([personal profile] yarnandglue) wrote2025-07-03 02:28 pm
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First steps towards a declutter

Yesterday was pretty busy so I wasn't able to get much done in the way of decluttering but I did establish a tote bag of things that will eventually be taken to Half Price Books and a tote bag that will eventually be taken to Greener Good. I spent some time thinking about my nail polishes and their storage. I had been using a 3d printed tray to hold them all but I was only 1 bottle short of filling the whole thing up. My question to myself was - do I want to find a different way to store them or do I want to start doing one-in-one-out? I ultimately decided I want to upgrade my storage. I have some friends who I like to do nail stuff with, nail polish doesn't really expire, and it's something I can enjoy regardless of weight changes. So I'd like to have a slightly larger collection than what I've limited myself to right now. So I ordered this organizer! Now I've got some more breathing room before I have to start thinking about one-in-one-out and it doesn't take up a whole lot of room in my closet :)
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aliensamba ([personal profile] aliensamba) wrote2025-07-02 02:13 pm

077 - gifs; 25.02 - interview with the vampire (1994)

Medium: film
Additional: team challenge (alpha)
Fandom: Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Character: Louis de Pointe du Lac
Prompt: New Life
Notes: 2 gifs for week 8 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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aliensamba ([personal profile] aliensamba) wrote2025-07-01 02:20 pm

076 - gifs; 25.02 - the chronicles of riddick

Medium: film
Fandom: The Chronicles of Riddick
Character: Richard B. Riddick
Prompt: Reluctant Hero
Lucky Color: green
Notes: 2 gifs for week 8 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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Liz ([personal profile] yarnandglue) wrote2025-06-30 09:55 am
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c.2000 Revlon CitrusZING

I like to keep an eye out for old cosmetics when I'm at thrift stores or estate sales, mostly because I like to look at old "everyday" objects. I've been watching Vintage Dusties content and (according to her) nail polishes made after the 1980s should be safe to use since that's when the most toxic chemicals were banned for use in cosmetics. I don't really come across vintage nail polishes in the wild but I figured, what the heck, if I see something I think is pretty I'll get it and use it.

Well, this weekend one of the thrift stores near me got a TON of 1990s-2010s nail polishes. I grabbed a little mini collection out of the colors I like best and will be having fun trying them out over the next few months :)

The first one I tried is from Revlon's Winter 2000 Color Zing collection. Here's an ad for the collection from the December 12, 1999 Springfield News-Sun of Springfield, Ohio:


This is CitrusZING, as modeled on my fingers, using my cat as the backdrop LOL.


It's hard to capture the colors accurately. The base is kind of a goldy-bronzey color and there's yellow gold/rose gold duochrome glitter. You can kind of see the rose gold on my index finger in the direct light photo on the right? It really only appears at extreme angles. I think this color would probably look a bit more interesting if I had a tan but I still think it's neat :)

Cross posted to [community profile] lacquerfumes
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aliensamba ([personal profile] aliensamba) wrote2025-06-30 11:11 am

075 - icons; 24.03 - nodame cantabile, hana kimi, etc.

Medium: anime, tv series, film
Fandoms: Nodame Cantabile, Hanazakari no Kimitachi e: Ikemen Paradaisu, Cells at Work (2024), The Lord of the Rings, Suzume
Characters: Noda Megumi, Chiaki Shinichi; Ashiya Mizuki, Sano Izumi, Nakatsu Shuichi; White Blood Cell;
Notes: 10 icons for "Hide and Seek" round 4 at Land of Art.


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Stephanie ([personal profile] flareonfury) wrote2025-06-29 02:28 pm

Some new communities...

Ok so I wake up this morning with like an inbox of 18 posts for dreamwidth, and I'm astonished. I haven't had that experience in a long time. So I posted about [community profile] uc_xmen 's prompts request at [community profile] fandom_on_dw  and [community profile] fandomcalendar  and it seemed to have worked! Yay! Now hopefully more people will join in once the prompting is over as well. So if you have any X-Men unconventional pairings you've wanted to see for awhile, add prompts!

In other news, I joined [community profile] seasons_of_fandom under the Winter Court because why not? I used to love the land communities at LJ so I figured I'd try it. Plus if it gets me active again with fandom, maybe it'll distract from RL shit? Plus I miss it. 

Also I'm signing up for [community profile] 100ships (table) and [community profile] 100fandoms (table) - because again, why not? Also I need something to inspire me to write again. I miss writing. It might take me 100 years, but I figured I could combine them with claims that I've had for awhile. I do still need to move my fanfiction to my community though from LJ, plus add stuff that's been on AO3 only.

Created [community profile] tvfanfiction again here since there was only a [community profile] bookfanfiction and [community profile] moviefanfiction. I'm going to probably go through my other communities at LJ and add them here as well. Also imported posts from tv_fanfiction and [community profile] alicehatter  from LJ. So I think I officially know how to do that which is good.

OOh and I created [community profile] darcyland !! (Not a land community) - just darcylewis was being used and I completely forgot that I used chloe_otp as the formula for all the ships, but technically the Darcy Lewis fandom is called Darcyland.

Anyway I'm sure there are more to come!

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Stephanie ([personal profile] flareonfury) wrote2025-06-29 07:26 pm

Signatures for seasons_of_fandom

Random Signature Credit

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aliensamba ([personal profile] aliensamba) wrote2025-06-29 06:39 pm

074 - picspam; 25.02 - jujutsu kaisen

Medium: anime
Additional: team alpha
Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen
Character:Gojo Satoru
Prompt: Glasses
Notes: 1 picspam for week 7 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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aliensamba ([personal profile] aliensamba) wrote2025-06-29 02:56 pm

073 - gifs; 25.02 - love and deepspace

Medium: game
(Additional): team alpha
Fandom: Love and Deepspace
Characters/Pairings: Sylus (Qin Che), Miss Hunter
Prompt: Wedding
Warnings: Spoiler warning for upcoming event ("Witnessed by Deepspace" - July 3, 2025).
Notes: 2 gifs for week 7 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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aliensamba ([personal profile] aliensamba) wrote2025-06-29 01:50 pm

072 - gifs; 25.02 - jujutsu kaisen

Medium: anime
Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen
Characters: Gojo Satoru, Fushiguro Toji
Prompt: Injury
Lucky Color: green
Warnings: Graphic Violence, Fatal Injury, Blood, Spoilers for season 2 episode 3 ("Hidden Inventory 3").
Notes: 2 gifs for week 7 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

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