my opinion about the Quad Debate is basically, if someone is able to skate well with good skating skills, strong spins and stsq and performance ability, AND land clean quads, then of course they should score higher than someone without quads, they're doing more difficult content. BUT—

Eight Days is a fantastic, Hugo-winning podcast, & this episode features me as special guest! Becca and Emily are the smartest people around, & kindly invited me to talk about my fave, The Lives of Christopher Chant, & also bureaucracy, & colonisation of mind, & a bit about cricket. do check it out.

Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones@eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · 10mo ago

we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC

literally I had this image screenshotted to be able to send to my partner lol

bingge meowmeowifier@kitschlet.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Without downloading any new pics, what's it like to date you

Speaking of SVSSS extras!! Here's an EDITED and TRANSLATED version of the new SVSSS short by Jin. New sections will be added as it gets translated. This was shared with permission (thank you @teamune on discord!!)❤️ just wanted to spread the word! docs.google.com/document/d/1... #svsssspoilers

System-Enslaved to Translate for Tea (a.k.a. Tea before my deadlines, svsss extras over my essay)

T/N: translating one chapter a day… Progress: Part 1: Reality! 一、现代！ Part 2: Binghe! 二、冰河！ Part 3: Daily Life! 三、日常！ Part 4: Proud Immortal! 四、狂傲！ Part 5: Meeting! 五、开会！ Part 6: Origin! 六、起源！ Part 7: ...

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because to bingzu, /that wouldn't be him./ a child named luo binghe, no matter how pitiful his childhood, would not be the person bingzu wanted to save without going through the endless abyss. that's why it's a fixed plot point. because without that ordeal to shape him, it's not really binghe.

when you're a birder in autumn, you spend a lot of time having your eye caught by falling leaves, bc some of them look a lot like a bird in flight, then being disappointed but I've grown to kind of enjoy it? bc it means I spend far more time admiring the beauty of a leaf drifting in the air!

it just occurred to me to repost this here since i deleted twitter, so anyway it's kinda like this

welp that was an unintentionally long break from bsky. what'd I miss?

start using "fanworks" again instead of "content" let's go people

hua cheng and luo binghe are handshake meme on being like "you didn't respond to my last text for twenty minutes and i just want to make sure we're okay." lan wangji isn't like that bc wwx has never once taken twenty minutes to respond to his text

Furthest I've been: North: Gdańsk, Poland South: somewhere along the south shore of South Africa, further south than Cape of Good Hope, but I don't recall our exact route East: Taipei, Taiwan West: on the waters off the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada

Iona@singlecrow.bsky.social · last yr.

Furthest I’ve been: N: Utqiaġvik S: Aoraki Mt Cook E: Wellington W: Utqiaġvik

#Rec #VidRec #DungeonMeshi #Farcille Time in a Bottle, by aguntoaknifefight ao3.org/works/61999351 ➜ dunmeshi vid, Marcille's pov on Falin ➜ gorgeous achy-sweet vid; slow but never tedious, as it brings out their bond ➜ Length: 2:30 ➜ Music: Time in a Bottle, Jim Croce. No other audio mixed in

#Rec #VidRec #Climbing [vid] Wanna Be Her, by suzanne_f ao3.org/works/62675200 ➜ vid about women's rock climbing & bouldering ➜ such good energy and excellent editing! ➜ Length: 2:33 ➜ Music: "Boys Wanna Be Her" by Peaches. No other audio mixed in.

#Rec #FicRec #NirvanaInFire #NiF meanwhile the world goes on, by Nemainofthewater ao3.org/works/65708527 ➜ short post-canon NiF fic ➜ Jingyan and Lin Chen drink & talk about Mei Changsu ➜ I love their complexities of grief, and their previous mutual envy/dislike ➜ I LOVE THEMMMM ➜ 2k words

@eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social I wonder if the Wizard Howl is DWJ taking a second try at the Chrestomanci type, like, "I don't think you all are properly appreciating how ridiculous this man is. I need you to really appreciate it."

My favourite thing I learned for this episode is that DWJ had a mental image for Howl and it was Andre Agassi. 1980s Andre Agassi with the blond mullet and the tiny shorts. PLEASE look up photos you will not be disappointed.

Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones@eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · last yr.

through dangers untold (sleeping infants) and hardships unnumbered (three wildly incompatible timezones) we have managed to successfully kidnap brilliant romance expert @freyamarske.bsky.social to discuss DWJ's most romantic novel with us. Happy Howl's Moving Castle Day! zencastr.com/z/r0LaZYob

wife.. #svsss

I AM HOLDING A FANART RAFFLE and i will match the first $100 donate for a chance to make me draw whatever you want* see form for details: forms.gle/zk8t3bP8YKCJ...

"Lots Of Starlings Keep Stuff Safe" -- my very funny wife @epbirdsall.bsky.social who has heard me give the basic digipres spiel far too many times

Megan Fox@glassbottommeg.bsky.social · last yr.

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

"the personal is political" yes and it's amazing how many opinions I came up with that I'm not adding to that thread because it's connected to something that is politicised in some way or another. hell, even the ones I AM posting, most of them I could connect to politics in some way!

yes let's do this

Casaubon@zas.bsky.social · last yr.

For every like, I will post one non-political opinion

8 days of dwj released their episode about fire and hemlock today, and I finally understand why people talk about that one as being her magnum opus. and also why I bounced off it the one time I tried to read it, when I was a kid! I think it was actually even a dnf for me.

Really like this project by Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek. Titled Exactitudes, it's a series of portraits stretching back 20 years that shows how people style themselves to signal they're part of a group and unique individuals within that group. exactitudes.com

#Rec #StoryRec #Novelette His Greatest Adversary Yet, by architeuthis ao3.org/works/29080227 ➜ original m/m novelette about a guy who got into supervillainy as a post-retirement hobby [1/3]

one sees lightning bugs and one doesn't NEED to believe in magic, because our natural world is astonishingly marvelous just as it is 🥹

if you're intrigued by making a free neocities site or the like, but have felt intimidated to try, I'd def recommend this resource!! having your own website is SO fun and rewarding, and easier than you might think! htmlforpeople.com

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#Rec #FicRec #TGCF #hualian swallow my fable (that I was not enough) by darkestmagic ao3.org/works/67197469 ➜ post-canon xie lian wakes up in the past; hua cheng hasn't yet met him the 3rd time ➜ I love this xl & hc, what their priorities are & reactions to things would be ➜ a great fic ➜ 5k

I wish more sff short fiction publishers gave story summaries, so I can know the kind of story to expect! - Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies: On the story page, nothing. On the issue page, a brief quote, prob intended to provide the flavour, but the chosen excerpts tell me nothing [1/3]

both tgcf and mdzs are stories with protagonists with compromised agency, bound by social obligations and/or manipulated by forces they cannot control. scum villain is the story of a guy who makes a lot of decisions while yelling I'M NOT THE ONE DECIDING TO DO THIS

#Rec #FicRec #Transformers Reap the Whirlwind by @rolameny.bsky.social ao3.org/works/65492404 ➜ fun little sex pollen MegOp fic ➜ so delightful! I was grinning to myself throughout. the pacing, humour, fun little details, the familiarity these two clearly have w/ each other...a great time ➜ 3k