Mid-Week Community Posts Round Up: 2026 May 27
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i_like_the_starsHere's all the posts I made in communities the past two weeks:
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*Hoshino Ichika playing guitar
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*Operator, Operator
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*Lily Pads on the Water, View from Bridge
fanart_recs *Hoshino Ichika playing guitar
vsynthrecs *Operator, Operator
common_nature *Lily Pads on the Water, View from Bridge
OrigFic: A Gardener
May. 27th, 2026 06:55 pmsenmutDW Link | A Gardener (100 words), Original Works - Short Form Prose, General Audiences, New Consciousness & The World
June 2026 Events, Challenges, Etc
May. 26th, 2026 11:05 pmi_like_the_starsMostly just making this for myself. Here's a list of all the events, challenges, etc, I'm keeping an eye on for the month of June.
*Personal challenge: Month of the Magical Girl. All month. Info here.
*beagoldfish. Microbang from June 1 to August 31.
*fourormore 2026 Pride event. All month. Info post here.
*![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
nonacearo-week from June 1 to June 7. Prompts and info here.
*polyamships has their monthly Polyam Shipping Day on June 14. Prompt and info here.
*sonicfemslashweek from June 15 to June 21. Prompts and info here. Yes, I am breaking my self-imposed challenge for this. It's for the yuri.
*aggressivelyarospec is hosting Aggressively Arospec Week from June 21 to June 28. Prompts and info here.
*Personal challenge: Month of the Magical Girl. All month. Info here.
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beagoldfish. Microbang from June 1 to August 31.*
fourormore 2026 Pride event. All month. Info post here.*
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polyamships has their monthly Polyam Shipping Day on June 14. Prompt and info here.*
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Reading Monday #6
May. 25th, 2026 09:12 pmi_like_the_stars1. What have you recently finished reading?
Sailor Moon...Volumes 2-5.
2. What are you currently reading?
Severance by Ling Ma... hoping to get it done TONIGHT. Also reading Sailor Moon...Volume 6. The lesbians are here! Yaaaay!!
3. What will you be reading next?
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Looks like I'll have to speed-read it! I'll be continuing Sailor Moon. I'd like to read something from my main library, since I have a whole list and it's nice to have a backlog for Staff Picks displays.
Sailor Moon...Volumes 2-5.
2. What are you currently reading?
Severance by Ling Ma... hoping to get it done TONIGHT. Also reading Sailor Moon...Volume 6. The lesbians are here! Yaaaay!!
3. What will you be reading next?
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Looks like I'll have to speed-read it! I'll be continuing Sailor Moon. I'd like to read something from my main library, since I have a whole list and it's nice to have a backlog for Staff Picks displays.
Non-Ace Aro Week 2026
May. 25th, 2026 07:22 pmi_like_the_starsBit of a last minute promo here, but nonacearo-week is from June 1 to June 7. You can find the prompts here.
The prompts were posted May 19 to give participants time to create fanworks. I'm thinking of making more visual works as opposed to written ones--not just to get me back in the groove of it, but also because it's only the beginning of Month of the Magical Girl and asking me to do anything beyond surface-level analysis will make me shit my pants I'm not gonna lie. Give me at least a week!
now, for the good part, last year we had a lot of people just doin' whatever, and to be frank yeah i really fucked with that energy even if it was a byproduct of the event being rushed. so that said, if for [what]ever reason you cannot follow the prompts due to limitations of media being used (drawing, analysis, crochet, graphical edits, video edits, poetry, moodboards, etc), just go for it!
The prompts were posted May 19 to give participants time to create fanworks. I'm thinking of making more visual works as opposed to written ones--not just to get me back in the groove of it, but also because it's only the beginning of Month of the Magical Girl and asking me to do anything beyond surface-level analysis will make me shit my pants I'm not gonna lie. Give me at least a week!
meme time!
May. 24th, 2026 08:28 pmsenmutTell me one of the three following, and I will reciprocate:
1. A favorite fandom with what calls you to it
2. A favorite character and why they get your love
3. A song that you have strong positive feelings about
1. A favorite fandom with what calls you to it
2. A favorite character and why they get your love
3. A song that you have strong positive feelings about
meme time!
May. 23rd, 2026 10:32 pmsenmutTell me a favorite trope you have, and I will tell you if I embrace it, reject it, or subvert it... and possibly why.
fic: words i cannot say (shane/ilya)
May. 23rd, 2026 05:57 pmsvgurlThis is what I wrote for the unsent_letters_exchange. :)
Title: words i cannot say
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Pairing/Characters: Shane/Ilya
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 3122
Summary: Irina loved to write letters. Ilya followed in her footsteps. It was easier, after all, to write than telling Shane Hollander how he felt.
unsent_letters_exchange. :)Title: words i cannot say
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Pairing/Characters: Shane/Ilya
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 3122
Summary: Irina loved to write letters. Ilya followed in her footsteps. It was easier, after all, to write than telling Shane Hollander how he felt.
June is Month of the Magical Girl
May. 23rd, 2026 07:00 pmi_like_the_starsBefore I begin, I'd like to apologize for my inactivity, though I know I don't truly owe that to anyone, especially here. Still, I'd like to leave an apology here, if not for an audience then for myself. I truly do enjoy it here.
Moving on, you can also find this post on Tumblr. I imagine this challenge will be massively cross-posted between here and there.
( Read more... )
Moving on, you can also find this post on Tumblr. I imagine this challenge will be massively cross-posted between here and there.
( Read more... )
Fic Challenge (Prompt Style)
May. 23rd, 2026 12:34 amsenmutfkficfest is running again this year!details here with the pool of prompts.
I've played off and on since 2010, it looks like. Here's what I've done over the years.
2010: Trials of Conscience
2011: To Not Be Alone
2015: Family from the Ashes
2016: Encounter in the Hills
2017: Flicker of a Memory
2018: A Night's Work
2021: Difficult Lesson
2021: Crisis Response
2021: What He Is
2022: Any Regrets?
2024: To Say Goodbye
meme time!
May. 22nd, 2026 07:05 pmsenmutComment with the name of a woman character (in any show, movie, book, comic, etc that you think I'm familiar with) and I'll tell you one thing I love about her. In return, you can do the same in your journal (if you like!).
gift work (luke/lorelai)
May. 22nd, 2026 09:40 amsvgurlunsent_letters_exchange had its collection reveals last week and this is what I got! :)Title: Sealed with a Kiss
Author:
Fandom: Gilmore Girls
Pairing/Characters: Luke/Lorelai
Rating: G
Word Count: 2535
Summary: Luke discovers that he knew Lorelai much sooner than they thought, though they never actually met back then...
I love the idea of Luke and Lorelai communicating pre-canon and this was so cute and sweet! :D
Kākāpō Cheer
May. 21st, 2026 01:22 pmsheliakAmidst all the terrible things going on right now, I am taking some comfort in kākāpō conservation.
Kākāpō are round flightless nocturnal green parrots from New Zealand, and they are tragically endangered (235 adults). However! Their current breeding season has gone very well so far—all the eggs have hatched now, with 92 living chicks as of the last update.
The babies are born looking rather like little balls of vibrating dryer lint, progress through fluff to vaguely bird-shaped scraggle, and eventually get green feathers poking through the white fluff.
This year there was a nest cam—past tense as those birds haveflown walked out of the nest and the solar energy was getting unreliable anyway, but the highlights are still up.) The mother here is Rakiura (known for reusing her nest every mast year—most kākāpō move around more). Also, she has fanart on tumblr. (Image link just in case that doesn't work.)
Other highlights:
One female, Whetū, nested in a hollow tree, significantly off the ground. The rangers were worried about a clumsy young chick climbing down from there, so they built a ramp. The chick used it to exit safely!
Another, Rimu (named for the tree that triggers breeding years with its masts) nested up at the top of a cliff. Lovely view, but again, the rangers were very worried about her chick, which they couldn't even confirm existed for a long time—her transmitter showed she was probably feeding one, but an entrance directly onto a cliff ledge seemed very dangerous for a clumsy youngster. So the rangers ended up digging into her nest to make a new, safer exit.
Kohengi being very photogenic with eggs and chick.
Mother kākāpō gamely tries to brood chicks that are getting to be about her size.
Male kākāpō Sinbad booming booming (showing off, and looking adorably spherical).
Chicks moved between nests (usually to an island with a better food source). (It is lucky for the conservation team that mother kākāpō do not easily abandon disturbed nests, and also that they don't really have a concept of "a baby that is not mine.")
Kākāpō fertility science in cartoon form.
That time back in 2014 Lisa stepped on her egg and the team carefully patched it up and incubated it and got a living bird out of it (one of six to fledge that year!)
I've been following Biologist Andrew Digby on Bluesky, the Kakapo Files podcast and the Kākāpō Recovery instagram (imginn link in case you don't have an account).
Kākāpō are round flightless nocturnal green parrots from New Zealand, and they are tragically endangered (235 adults). However! Their current breeding season has gone very well so far—all the eggs have hatched now, with 92 living chicks as of the last update.
The babies are born looking rather like little balls of vibrating dryer lint, progress through fluff to vaguely bird-shaped scraggle, and eventually get green feathers poking through the white fluff.
This year there was a nest cam—past tense as those birds have
Other highlights:
One female, Whetū, nested in a hollow tree, significantly off the ground. The rangers were worried about a clumsy young chick climbing down from there, so they built a ramp. The chick used it to exit safely!
Another, Rimu (named for the tree that triggers breeding years with its masts) nested up at the top of a cliff. Lovely view, but again, the rangers were very worried about her chick, which they couldn't even confirm existed for a long time—her transmitter showed she was probably feeding one, but an entrance directly onto a cliff ledge seemed very dangerous for a clumsy youngster. So the rangers ended up digging into her nest to make a new, safer exit.
Kohengi being very photogenic with eggs and chick.
Mother kākāpō gamely tries to brood chicks that are getting to be about her size.
Male kākāpō Sinbad booming booming (showing off, and looking adorably spherical).
Chicks moved between nests (usually to an island with a better food source). (It is lucky for the conservation team that mother kākāpō do not easily abandon disturbed nests, and also that they don't really have a concept of "a baby that is not mine.")
Kākāpō fertility science in cartoon form.
That time back in 2014 Lisa stepped on her egg and the team carefully patched it up and incubated it and got a living bird out of it (one of six to fledge that year!)
I've been following Biologist Andrew Digby on Bluesky, the Kakapo Files podcast and the Kākāpō Recovery instagram (imginn link in case you don't have an account).