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Duck Prints Press is back with another of our convention-style panels. This month, we’ll be spending an hour talking about The Care and Feeding of Creators. Ask a creator why they create, and most will answer with some variation of “I can’t not create.” However, creating is labor intensive and mentally taxing, and often leaves us exhausted and drained. Creatives engaging in self-care behaviors is therefore essential, yet many of us struggle to be kind to ourselves, celebrate our successes, and forgive ourselves our failures. In this panel, we will discuss our own struggles with showing kindness to ourselves, how we motivate ourselves, how we nourish and encourage our creativity, how we celebrate our accomplishments, how we avoid burnout and deal with falling into creative slumps, and will perhaps touch on our views of “the tortured artist” as a persistent description of creators.

Panelists: Alex Bauer, Shea Sullivan, Rachael L. Young, and Dei Walker. Nina Waters will serve as moderator.

Date: Saturday, July 26th
Time: 5 p.m. Eastern (converter)

This panel is available live to all our Patreon backers at the $7/month level and higher. Backers can also view recordings of our past panels. Become a backer of the Duck Prints Press Patreon today!

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sabotabby

The news in general is pretty awful so I hope you can enjoy this little story from Toronto. Our transit system, the TTC, has been getting progressively more awful in the almost 30 years I've lived here. Whenever you need to travel by TTC, you have to give yourself an extra 30 minutes to an hour just in case it breaks down. Despite this reduction in service, fares continue to increase well beyond what an ordinary working class person can afford. This in turn forces more people to rely on personal vehicles, fuelling far-right politics.

With this background on mind, what did the TTC do with their paltry budget this year? Improve vehicles so that they don't stop working when they get wet? Fix the signal issues they have multiple times a day? Reduce the fare to match the reduced service?

Nah, this is Toronto. They rebranded the fare inspectors, which shall henceforth be known as...

...drumroll...

Provincial Offences Officers!

I swear I saw like 3 people post about this before I clicked the link and realized it wasn't parody. Anyway. People reacted exactly how you'd expect, and the TTC's response, rather than saying "oopsie!" (or "poopsie!") was to chide its own customer base for being so childish.

Personally I think POO is a lateral move from what most people I know call them, which is "fare pig," and probably that money could have been better spent on almost literally anything else.

james_davis_nicoll

In this ERB pastiche, unremarkable academic Tarl Cabot reinvents himself as a man of action on the counter-Earth, Gor. There's much less BDSM than the series' reputation would lead one to expect.

Tarnsman of Gor (Gor, volume 1) by John Norman

javert

We are around 20 minutes away from the Pokémon Presents and so I'm making a Dreamwidth post to occupy my mind and not be needlessly anxious about it (also it's longer than the video I was watching so I can't keep watching it until I've seen the Presents </3)

What are the news?

I finished making a new, fancier (and proper) index page for my website! This was one of my goals for a while now, and with Rentry finally starting to put ads everywhere, I decided to focus on it at long last. I followed the vision I showed in my response to the first

sunshine_revival challenge here, except I ended up not having everything stuck inside a centered div because I wanted to try something else out for once. I'm really happy with the result! In the process I also discovered Victor Mono and kind of fell in love with it, lol. I love that it's two fonts at once, so handy! Speaking of, I need to switch my Google Fonts on Lysandre Labs to Bunny Fonts instead...

Webdev has been rotting my brain from the inside out hard at this point, because I'm up to three different layouts I've worked on in like a week, lol. The latest entry is a layout for a fanlistings/shrines/etc collective! I have so many ideas for those, I thought it'd be fun to work on a place to display them all (once they've been created...) and also to have a place to display all the ones I'd like to join in the future. There are so many...

Here's what it looks like so far:

Speaking of

sunshine_revival, I started working on something for the creative prompt of Challenge 5 but haven't managed to finish it yet. T_T To be honest I'm kind of tempted to discard it and go for the journaling one, even though I'm not sure what to talk about... I don't know. I guess I'll see how I feel post Presents. (Less than 15 minutes now... I have DJ Pikachu up on the TV to keep an eye on it, lol.)

My next immediate project is to finish my creepypasta page just so that's out of the way, and then I want to at least come up with a layout for my personal website. It's probably going to be the trickiest to design because I expect I'll be extremely picky about how it looks and displays, especially if I end up using it for everything... We'll see how it goes.

I've also been contemplating signing up for

enemiestoloversex for real this year, but I think my energy is better saved up for

ficinabox, to be honest... So I probably won't. I was pleasantly surprised by how many requests I could create for though, heh. Maybe I should get into treating :P

Well, there's less than 10 minutes left, so that'll probably be all for now. Maybe I'll edit this post later with my Pokémon Presents thoughts... It'd be funny if there ended up not being that much for me to be excited about in the end. At least I got to enjoy (?) the anticipation!

(I don't think this post is long enough to warrant a cut, but feel free to let me know if you disagree and I'll add one. I've been subscribing to more people, especially people I see around small web circles; if you read this, hi! Nice to meet you!)

( ETA, under cut to not spoil the Presents )

Current Mood: anxious

howlingmoonrise

i should make a different post about it because i have SO many things to gush about lately, from going on a martial retreat to buying a sword to kicking out my boss to!!!!!! getting!!!!!!! the world's cutest!!!!!!!!!! fanbinding!!!!!!!!!!! for one of my fics!!!!!!!!!!!

but today i got a HUGE headache when i realized my beloved portable bluetooth keyboard wasn't connecting to my mobile so i could sneakily write fic at work, and it turned out HP removed the user manual from the website. luckily i still had the manual around (small as it is) so below is the relevant information (paraphrased from PT) in case anyone ~~namely me~~ needs it in the future.

lack of HP support manual aside, i cannot recommend this kind of thing enough to write fic and handle documents on the go when you don't want to take a whole-ass laptop with you!

HP 350 Compact Multi-Device Bluetooth Keyboard instructions:

Battery light status	Description
Steady white light (5s)	Turned on
Slowly blinking in amber colour	Low battery
Bluetooth light status
Steady white light (5s)	Bluetooth device paired and connected
Blinking rapidly in white (180s)	The illuminated Bluetooth channel is currently selected
Blinking slowly in white (180s)	The illuminated Bluetooth channel is in pairing mode
Bluetooth Key
Press quickly once (1s)	Pairing of a device or Bluetooth channel identification
Press quickly twice	Switching of the Bluetooth channel
Press slowly once (3s)	Pairing of a device again

Current Mood: optimistic
Current Music: Neon Trees - Everybody Talks

space_writes

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scifirenegade

Turns out watching Sex in Chains after my country is being even more overt with its patting the fashos on the back wasn't a good idea.

I had a heart attack, as the film is endorsed by the German League of Human Rights, which is fine, they're a peace organisation. But the name is very similar to Friedrich Radszuweit's Bund für Menschenrecht (literally Human Rights League). I could go on a rant as to why that fasho arsehole should go and eat shit, but I'll leave it.

The title cards are gorgeous! Honestly the whole film is a looker, very in line with the great late-stage silent German productions. The camera moves freely, zooms in and out, pans left and right. Extreme close-ups are plenty and ethereal. Equally ethereal is the use of superposition.

It's an Aufklärungsfilm! Yeah, we really do need some prison reform. Although the biggest struggle we see the inmates going through is blue balls (this is me trying to be funny with a serious topic). At least we have intimate visits now, but there's still a long way to go.

The queer themes are subtle, and only appear at the second half, but oh, my heart. It's all very sweet (bittersweet really). I too will declare my love to my crush by writing our names in a circle. If I had a crush. When Alfred (that's von Twardowski, Franz is the main character and he's played by Dieterle) leaves prison, his (boy)friend from outside suggests he blackmails Franz. Loved Alfred's reaction of "dude, wtf!" and then he left.

The longing and sensuality (and the lack thereof) are very well represented here.

Wilhelm "William" Dieterle directed and starred in this. He made plenty of biopics in America during the 1930s, plus that 30s The Hunchback of Notre Dame film that seems lovely. He also played Marquis Posa in Carlos und Elisabeth and the main guy in Waxworks, making him the tallest person Conrad Veidt has shared a screen with. Sorry, again, but I had to do it. H.H. von Twardowski was a surprise, and I wonder if his casting was a lucky accident, or was on purpose. He's great at playing sweet men, isn't he? Shame is career during WW2 pivoted to those roles. Ya know, the ones every German/Austrian actor plays. (If von Twardowski was born today, he would've been Polish.)

"Oh, the acring is over the top!" It wouldn't be a German film if it wasn't. And there are some nice, quiet moments too. "The ending is too extreme!" It's a German film. Somebody has to die in a dramaric fashion.

I liked it. But I had to cheer myself up with some silliness.

Current Mood: drained

nonesensed

Going to be quite offline for one more week because it is now time for my and my sister's yearly bonding ritual: NärCon

We'll be meeting up with D&D-friends, cosplaying, playing games and just having a fun, chill time 💖💖💖

Cosplay schedule for the convention:

Thursday we're Pokémon themed! I'm going as a pokémon linguist and my sister will be a pokémon photographer. I'm super curious to see what the rest of the group has come up with for their cosplays.
Friday I'm going as Persephone from the game Hades in full queen regalia, while my sister teams up with a friend for some Minecraft cosplay (she'll be BadBoyHalo and her friend will be going as Philza).
Saturday we're doing Mononoke (the series, not Princess Mononoke). I'm going as Medicine Seller of Ri/Li and my sister is going as Noppera-bō/Man with the Fox Mask/Faceless Spirit. She's working on Medicine Seller of Kon/Kun but it won't be done until next year.
Sunday we'll be doing some light Clair Obscur semi-closet-cosplaying, as NPCs making ready for our Gommage. My sister has made wonderful flower necklaces for us 😁🖤

Will try to remember to take some pictures to share afterward (though will "friends lock" that post).

Current Mood: giddy
Current Music: Our "NärCon playlist"

alias_sqbr

As tagged by

anghraine. Last time I tagged the last five people in my tumblr notifications, so this time let's see who's in my dreamwidth inbox:

fred_mouse

winterbird

got_quiet

lilacsigil and

alephnul. Absolutely no pressure though! Just if it seems fun! And everyone else is free to do it too.
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fan_writers is a community for meta about writing.

everykindofcraft is a community for sharing information, advice and images about all sorts of crafts projects, old or new

enemiestoloversex, a multifandom gift exchange focused on the "enemies to lovers" trope (including ships that don't have that dynamic in canon), is open for sign-ups until July 23rd, 10PM UTC.

relationshipping, a fic/art/podfic incest exchange, has opened sign-ups until July 25th, 9:59PM EDT.

austenexchange, an exchange for all things Jane Austen, has opened sign-ups until July 27th, 10PM UTC.

sedoretuex, an exchange dedicated to celebrating the sedoretu (a specific organization of a poly marriage created by Ursula K. Le Guin), is open for sign-ups until July 27th, 11:59PM EDT.

classicfilmex, an exchange for fandoms in movies released before 1/1/1980,is open for sign-ups until July 29th, 10PM UTC + 2.

spookybang is a Big Bang focused on crossing over characters from different supernatural, paranormal and horror fandoms. Author Sign-Ups are open until August 10th and Artist Sign-Ups are open until November 30th.

fairyniamh

Quote:

"Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream."

"You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow."

~ Oscar de la Renta

Facts: Scary

1.) Scaphism was an ancient form of torture and execution where you’d cover someone with honey, stick them in a hollowed log, and let nature run its course. (Can we bring this back? It can be the punishment for anyone proven *100% proven* guilty of extreme child abuse or murder. Yes, I am vicious.

2.) You could be trapped in a coma-like state and be aware of it. Locked-in Syndrome might just be the most terrifying medical condition. It’s when you’re stuck between being asleep and awake. You know you’re awake and can hear and see things around you. However, can’t talk and can only move your eyes, so you’re unable to respond to anything. (I have been trapped in that state after my first seizure. It was frustrating and terrifying. I was in tears trying to answer. I was hospitalized a day before I could talk and a week for walking.)

Crossposts: https://fairyniamh.insanejournal.com/386807.html

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ysabetwordsmith

Scientists invent 'living' concrete that heals its own cracks with sunlight

Jin and fellow researchers used two key materials: Cyanobacteria, which turns air and sunlight into food, and filamentous fungi, which produce minerals that seal the cracks.

The microbes survive on just air, light, and water, and when paired together, are able to grow and produce crack-filling minerals in concrete. At least, that’s what Jin’s latest research, published in Materials Today Communications, concluded.

Current Mood: busy

grayestofghosts

I just saw this and thought you all needed to see it immediately:

Ernest Hemingway Visits Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club by Amy Estes, at McSweeny's

Current Music: "Pink Pony Club," Chappel Roan

kiya

Miria

A mirror
Is a harrowing thing
And I hid from them
For years,
Flinching back
From the memories of monsters
Peering around the jamb
Of duplicated doors,
Hungry for thought.

I am
No longer
An extracted reflection
But changed:

At last

I saw me
Instead
Of you

And I am not afraid.

( I actually wanna explain the literary reference here. Not the Feri mythology bit, that can just sit. )

Current Mood: thoughtful

apachefirecat

Sorry this is late, guys. We've suddenly had A LOT going on -- A LOT of bad but some seriously good things too. This is going to be the last post for a little while, but please know I love you all!!! Also, if you want, pm me and I'll give you my number for texting.

Didn't get to finish this post, but just sharing what I had brought together in the hopes that it will/can help at least one soul out there. :)

Please do continue with your learning/therapy/sermons while I'm gone, and hey, if you find something really good, don't hesitate to share it! Much love and hugs hugs to you all!!!

Also, those vision boards, guys, like Steve Harvey and others talk about, really DO work!!! Our way of getting things done, though, is not always the good Lord's way, but in the end, it all works out according to His plan -- and thereby for our good!

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006.	home	007.	key	008.	star	009.	dust	010.	shadows
011.	old	012.	new	013.	borrowed	014.	blue	015.	promise
016.	dishonour	017.	wreck	018.	fix	019.	crack	020.	discover
021.	fiddle	022.	fire	023.	water	024.	waves	025.	salt
026.	balm	027.	fear	028.	wear	029.	mask	030.	truth
031.	courage	032.	hope	033.	raised	034.	fall	035.	spring
036.	birth	037.	morning	038.	welcome	039.	belong	040.	share
041.	count	042.	mean	043.	teasing	044.	fantasy	045.	game
046.	work	047.	bed	048.	turn	049.	swing	050.	kitchen
051.	cull	052.	quell	053.	arrested	054.	inside	055.	chance
056.	alive	057.	sleeping	058.	late	059.	rain	060.	bottle
061.	steal	062.	brilliant	063.	theory	064.	practice	065.	war
066.	storm	067.	voyage	068.	swim	069.	wallow	070.	settle
071.	ground	072.	space	073.	silence	074.	screech	075.	snap
076.	scratch	077.	bug	078.	lighting	079.	faded	080.	ghost
081.	history	082.	time	083.	mirror	084.	drawing	085.	trailed
086.	way	087.	run	088.	here	089.	heart	090.	perfection
091.	right	092.	sanction	093.	can	094.	collection	095.	crowd
096.	oversight	097.	graduate	098.	laughing	099.	unless	100.	final

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duckprintspress - July Patreon Panel: The Care and Feeding of Creators
used_songs - Good morning! Here's a mash-up for you :)
sabotabby - POO
james_davis_nicoll - Tarnsman of Gor (Gor, volume 1) by John Norman
javert - bracing for impact (normal way)
howlingmoonrise - many news but mostly. HP 350 Keyboard "manual"
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scifirenegade - Probably Not the Best Choice
nonesensed - Prepping for convention~!
alias_sqbr - Catch-up game
leecetheartist - Art in the park
alias_sqbr - Some music!
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fairyniamh - Quote & Fact...
malurette - [film] The piano-tuner of earthquakes
ysabetwordsmith - Green Building
grayestofghosts - Ernest Hemingway Visits Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club by Amy Estes
kiya - [ poetry ] This is a fascinating literary collision
apachefirecat - (Belated) Sunday Motivational Post
exit_tome - 100 multifandom challenge prompt table

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July Patreon Panel: The Care and Feeding of Creators

This panel is available live to all our Patreon backers at the $7/month level and higher. Backers can also view recordings of our past panels. Become a backer of the Duck Prints Press Patreon today!

Good morning! Here's a mash-up for you :)

POO

Tarnsman of Gor (Gor, volume 1) by John Norman

bracing for impact (normal way)

What are the news?

many news but mostly. HP 350 Keyboard "manual"

(no subject)

Probably Not the Best Choice

Prepping for convention~!

Catch-up game

Art in the park

Some music!

current fandom comms/events

Quote & Fact...

[film] The piano-tuner of earthquakes

Green Building

Ernest Hemingway Visits Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club by Amy Estes

[ poetry ] This is a fascinating literary collision

Miria

(Belated) Sunday Motivational Post

100 multifandom challenge prompt table

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