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Colossal Biosciences is planning to bring back the giant moa, a 3m (10 foot) tall flightless bird that went extinct around 600 years ago, shortly after humans arrived in New Zealand. Peter Jackson is one of the major investors. Considering the difficulties the Australians had when dealing with emus, which are only 2/3 the size of the great moa, they really need to consider that there was probably very good reason that the early New Zealanders wiped them out.

neonvincent

This had the wrong proportions to work as part of the preview image for 'Severance' leads Science Fiction/Fantasy Series but could lose to 'Andor' at the Super Awards .

Current Mood: hungry
Current Location: House in the woods at the edge of town
Current Music: Star Wars: The Old Republic

renfys

Some dragons I drew and coloured using alcohol markers on alcohol marker paper which I have never used before. I realised I hadn't finished yellow before I printed him and I don't have a lot of variations in red but that feels like a colour problem not a me problem.

Close ups

Current Mood: creative

travelswithkuma

Bears is worries, mores thens thats. Girls is soooos lows. cans nots cheers hers ups.

Current Mood: worries

letzan

High-level stats for week of 2025-07-01 - 2025-07-07

Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10015 (-299 from last week)

Works I classified F/F: 5659 (-332 from last week) (2524 new, 3135 continued)

0.62% of all 906236 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

KPop Demon Hunters jumps to rank 2 in its second week on the chart, beating out everything except still-thriving League of Legends.
Criminal Minds and Honkai: Star Rail return to the chart, replacing Murder Drones, and Once Upon a Time (the latter of which ends an 11-consecutive-week chart run, out of 666 all-time chart appearances).
Addams Family celebrates 140 consecutive weeks on the chart. Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! reaches 160.
Recently-revealed exchanges: the Terrible Temperature Troubles Flash Exchange has 11 F/F works from various fandoms.

( Full top-20 table and description of methodology after the jump )

james_davis_nicoll

An intelligent ship crisscrosses space-time to track the progress of the colonies it established

A Maze of Stars by John Brunner

conuly

Gosh it's thunderstorming out there!

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rionaleonhart

doreyg reminded me of a detail in the first Danganronpa that means, if you do certain Free Time events, Naegi's probably going to end up blaming himself for the events of the second chapter. This fic grew out of that thought!

I really struggled with which names to use for this fic! Naegi has always been Naegi in my head, but there are other characters heavily involved who I think of by their given names, rather than their family names. I ended up going with the conventions of the official English release, referring to everyone by given name, but I can't tell you how many times I accidentally wrote 'Naegi' instead of 'Makoto'.

Title: a little too late
Fandom: Danganronpa
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 2,200
Summary: It's the second case. Makoto pieces some things together.

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malurette

Title: Father Christmas' fake beard
Author: Terry Pratchett
Language: English
Type: children's novellas
Genre: humour

1st release: 1968-89, collected 2017
Publisher: Doubleday
Length: 11 novellas, 175 pages total

(i think i got this one from the import bookstore?)

11 novellas, more or less about Christmas folklore, or at least midwinter shenanigans

Most of it was funny, yeah: it's pTerry.
Some ideas were later reused on the Disc?
But it was a younger pTerry, and for younger readers, so it's not as polished as the Disc.

And personally I'm not very fond of Christmas folklore so it wasn't *hilarious* to me.

james_davis_nicoll

May the prison you liberate have more than seven prisoners.

brithistorian

I love YouTube Music — it's a great streaming system and gives me access to music that I could only have dreamed of when I was younger. But there's one thing about it — a small thing really, but still big enough that it bothers me: When you have a playlist, it should be a trivial thing for the software to add up the running times of all the songs in the playlist and give you a runtime for the playlist, and this works for shorter playlists, but once a playlist reaches 5 hours or more in length, the program gets lazy and anything over 5 hours is either "5+ hours" or "5 hours [XX] minutes," where [XX] isn't the actual number of minutes past 5 hours, instead the point after 5 hours where the software got lazy and decided to stop adding. Not a deal killer, not even that big of a deal, really, but it's annoying.

dialecticdreamer

I am, at the moment, dragging around by sheer willpower and the two or three individual muscles that don’t ache.

The whole day caught me by surprise, so the fatigue is also an unexpected and unwelcome surprise.

Which is oddly fitting, as that is the theme that I’d chosen for this month. Let’s call it surprises and celebrations.
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Current Mood: amused

rocky41_7

Hello Americans

I have another thing to contact your representatives and most importantly the White House about. Today Temporary Protected Status was ended for Afghans in the US--this means many Afghans will now be at risk of being deported back to Afghanistan, where they may face persecution or death for their association with the US (among other things). The government has said that the security situation in Afghanistan is improving (it is not) at the same time it has cut off foreign aid to Afghanistan on the grounds that it is run by a terrorist organization.

The only way to get any movement on this issue is to show the government that we are watching, that we care about this, and that we want to see TPS restored and continued for Afghans who fled here after the Taliban victory.

Your comments/calls do not have to be long, but stay focused and keep the language civil.

Sources: HIAS explainer, NPR, USCIS website, CBS (video)

For more to do, you may also consider donating to Women for Afghan Women, which, among other things, provides legal support to Afghan women which may help them secure an immigration attorney here in the US to prevent their deportation.

annathepiper

My next playthrough post is going to be another one from Nona’s playthrough, and I am super behind on her in particular. I left off in the middle of running Carved Brink with her.

Y’all may recall that I put up a review post about that mod, as well. But here’s the thing: since I ran Carved Brink originally with Nona, I have since run it a few more times as Tuxborn has continued to develop its builds, and since I’ve been doing playtesting for Tuxborn, that by definition included re-running Carved Brink. This led me to discover some additional things about it that I’d missed the first time, and which honestly made me enjoy playing it more.

So at this point, I’m rather more kindly disposed to it than I was on the first playthrough. And I felt it was appropriate to put up an addendum to the original review.

Most of the commentary I gave in the original review still applies, and I’m not going to recap points where my opinion hasn’t changed. But I do have some additional stuff I like about Carved Brink, and which I want to note here.

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canyonwalker

Recently we passed the 4th anniversary of buying "Ocean", one of our cars. It's a BMW 230 convertible.

We bought the car used from a dealership in San Diego county. Yeah, that's not exactly right next door. The first thing we did after signing for the car was drive nearly 500 miles home.

Here's a pic from when we picked it up:

We finally see the car in person... and buy it! [Jul 2021]

We finally see the car in person... and buy it! [Jul 2021]

We bought the car, a 2018 model, with 24,xxx miles on the odometer. Today it's at 57,xxx. So we've driven it about 33,000 miles in 4 years. That averages out to 8,250 miles/year, well below the US average of 12-15k per year.

How do we like it? We still like it a lot! The car looks great, and a convertible is awesome in this part of California. Mild winters and mild summers mean we can drop the top to enjoy al fresco driving much of the year.

This car has a less powerful drivetrain than the BMW convertible it replaced. It's certainly no slouch with a 0-60 time under 6 seconds, but our previous car was even faster. We almost never miss the extra oomph. The car has all the creature comforts we want, which is way more important than winning stoplight races.

kevin_standlee

I know I've been a touch mysterious about why I went to the UK and why I'm with Cheryl Morgan. Today was the big day, and now that it's done and we've finally made it back to her home in Wales, I can finally reveal what the big deal was and why we could not talk about it.

( It's not clickbait, really! )

They treated us very well, and they took much better professional photos compared to my quick shots here. These two are here just so you who follow me know what happened. I haven't labeled all of my photos, and I hope to go back soon and talk more about how yesterday went. I will say that the university treated both Cheryl and I very well, and I am extremely proud that she asked me to be her +1 with her at this event.

More later when I have had more sleep and time to work on labeling photos. We'll be here at Cheryl's place, with me working on the Day Jobbe tomorrow and Wednesday. I'm taking Thursday and Friday off, and Friday we head back up to London, where we'll stay at a hotel near Heathrow to make it easier for me to take my flight home. I'd love to stay longer, but medical, dental, and fannish commitments during this very busy part of my year are piling up.

Current Mood: happy
Current Location: Ammanford, Wales

conuly

Nonstandard and informal are not synonyms. Dialectal and informal are not synonyms. Regional and informal are not synonyms. You can speak formally even if you're speaking a nonstandard regional dialect.

Everybody needs to stop saying that dialect words are, ipso facto, informal.

Edit: On a different note, omfg this dude.

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annathepiper

I got Ashoshah started as a character on ESO nearly a whole year ago at this point, and have I posted about her more than once since then? No, no I have not. So here’s a post to try to get caught up on what I’ve done with that character.

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brithistorian - You'd think that Peter Jackson would have seen Jurassic Park...
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conuly - Thunderstorms!
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annathepiper - In Which Ashoshah Takes a Contract
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A Maze of Stars by John Brunner

Thunderstorms!

Fanfiction: a little too late (Danganronpa)

[book] Father Christmas' fake beard ~Terry Pratchett

Happy Bastille Day!

Computers, do computer things better!

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Contact Your Representatives

Mod review: Carved Brink, revisited

4 Years with "Ocean" (Our Car)

Now It Can Be Told

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