Check In: Day 19
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writethisfanficHello, one and all! Happy Friday!
How did writing go today? Did you hit any goals?
How did writing go today? Did you hit any goals?
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week 3 of RTW
Sep. 19th, 2025 11:01 pmtielanHad a good time in Amalfi - the scenery is gorgeous. The people were pretty nice, a much younger crowd of women, but with only about half the time together, it was harder to make connections. We all took each others insta accounts and will follow on that way.
Now in London for a couple of days, thence to Derbyshire.
Now in London for a couple of days, thence to Derbyshire.
Hooray For Online Piracy!
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cakewrecks_feedARRRRRR, me mateys! Today be Talk Like a Pirate Day! So let's get starrrrted by going over arrr vocabularrrry with a quick pop quiz:
Q: Where are we going tonight?
A: To a BARRRRR.
Q: And what will we drink?
A. StARRRRla's Sangria!
Q. How will we get to the bar?
A. In a cARRRRR!
Q. What will we play during Karaoke?
A. Air guitARRRRR.
Q. What do we call this ugly golf ball cake?
A. SubpARRRRR
Q. What do dinosaurs say?
A. RARRRRRR!
Q. And finally, who's on our pirate flag?
A. The Jolly RogARRRRR - but this scalawag looks like an impostARRRRR!
Thanks to Suzanne S., Beth C., Rock, John M., Kelly H., Adrienne D., and Paul & Storm, who I blatantly ripped off honored with today's post.
Ow.
Sep. 18th, 2025 01:00 pmcakewrecks_feedPresenting the world's most painful landing:
Or perhaps the world's most unfortunately shaped, colored, and placed mat logo.
Either way, I'm sure it made a real splash on the audience.
Beth C., would you care to join me in a casual crossing-of-the-legs?
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Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
Sep. 17th, 2025 10:49 pmmarycatelli posting in booksJeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse
Another Jeeves novel. Spoilers ahead for the earlier ones.
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Another Jeeves novel. Spoilers ahead for the earlier ones.
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Check In: Day 17
Sep. 17th, 2025 08:22 pmglitteringstars posting in writethisfanficGood (insert your local time of day)! Hope all is doing well!
How has writing gone today?
Do you have a piece of fiction you've written 10+ years ago that you want to revisit? It doesn't necessarily need to be in the sense of wanting to rewrite it or write a sequel.
How has writing gone today?
Do you have a piece of fiction you've written 10+ years ago that you want to revisit? It doesn't necessarily need to be in the sense of wanting to rewrite it or write a sequel.
Multi fandom icons
Sep. 18th, 2025 08:33 ammulhollands posting in fandom_icons |
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Sherlock (mostly of Moriarty), Fleabag, Andrew Scott in Hamlet, Andrew Scott, Winona Ryder, Gillian Anderson, Little Mermaid, Moonstruck, Alice in Wonderland.
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Recent Reading: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Sep. 17th, 2025 12:15 pmrocky41_7 posting in booksLast night I finished Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, a sci-fi book about a motley crew of spacefarers who "drill" wormholes to enable rapid travel across space for the diverse galactic alliance known as the GC. At the start of the book, they are offered a bid on a particularly difficult, lucrative job, and can't resist taking the bait.
This should be (another) lesson to me in not going all-in on a creator because I've enjoyed one of their works. I loved Chambers' To Be Taught, if Fortunate, and I've heard plenty of internet praise for The Long Way, so when I saw it at the bookstore recently, I dropped $20 on it readily. If I hadn't, I probably wouldn't have bothered finishing it.
First - if you picked up this book looking for the femslash, it's barely there, and it's a lot more friends-with-benefits than romance. The other two romances in the book get a lot more attention. This isn't a complaint from me, but if what you really want is F/F romance, it's not really here.
This is a character-driven book with barely a plot, which wouldn't be a problem if the characters were interesting. As it is, they are functionally interchangeable: a crew of people who are all optimistic, friendly, emotionally open, painstakingly polite, and obsessively well-intentioned (except for the one guy who's a Jerk, who exists to be a jerk whenever the scene calls for someone who needs to be less-than-fanatically-polite or there's a chance for Chambers to squeeze in another instance of his being a jerk, even when he's technically right). There is no character growth to speak of; none of these characters changes at all between the start of the book and the end. There's no complexity to anyone.
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This should be (another) lesson to me in not going all-in on a creator because I've enjoyed one of their works. I loved Chambers' To Be Taught, if Fortunate, and I've heard plenty of internet praise for The Long Way, so when I saw it at the bookstore recently, I dropped $20 on it readily. If I hadn't, I probably wouldn't have bothered finishing it.
First - if you picked up this book looking for the femslash, it's barely there, and it's a lot more friends-with-benefits than romance. The other two romances in the book get a lot more attention. This isn't a complaint from me, but if what you really want is F/F romance, it's not really here.
This is a character-driven book with barely a plot, which wouldn't be a problem if the characters were interesting. As it is, they are functionally interchangeable: a crew of people who are all optimistic, friendly, emotionally open, painstakingly polite, and obsessively well-intentioned (except for the one guy who's a Jerk, who exists to be a jerk whenever the scene calls for someone who needs to be less-than-fanatically-polite or there's a chance for Chambers to squeeze in another instance of his being a jerk, even when he's technically right). There is no character growth to speak of; none of these characters changes at all between the start of the book and the end. There's no complexity to anyone.
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You Might Be A Wreckerator If...
Sep. 17th, 2025 01:00 pmcakewrecks_feedBakers, do you worry that you, too, might be a wreckerator?
Well, have no fear, pastry pros! There are plenty of warning signs to look for:
You Might Be A Wreckerator If....
- ...you consider "happy" a four-letter word.
- ...your cakes have more plastic on them than frosting.
- ...when you say, "I could just eat you up!" to a baby, you really mean it.
"It's...looking at me."
"Ugly little spud, isn't it?"
"I think it can hear you, Ray."
- ...cupcake cakes are your "specialty."
- ...your family crest says, "Spell check is for loosers."
- ...you not only know what this is, you think it's well done:
- ...you're frequently asked what time the earthquake hit.
- ...you pride yourself on following customer requests to the letter:
And finally, you might be a wreckerator if...
...you have to ban photography in your bakery to stop your cakes from showing up on Cake Wrecks.
(I get the e-mails, folks; I know you're out there!)
Thanks to Kimber, Amy S., Lori M., Carrie M., Whitney, Mary Rose, Liz, Stephanie B., Lisa R., & JR, who think it'd make more sense to just hire better bakers, but that's why they're not "good" management material.
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P.S. In case this post wasn't painful enough:
Exceptionally Bad Dad Jokes
There are a lot of "dad joke" books out there, but this one has awesome ratings AND the word "spiffing" on the cover, so it's a clear winner.
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And from my other blog, Epbot:
Check In: Day 16
Sep. 16th, 2025 06:45 pmglitteringstars posting in writethisfanficHello, hello, hello!
How did writing go today?
Do you have rituals related to writing? Do you like to make a cup of tea before writing? Reread the last couple hundred words of your WIP? Read a few pages of a book?
How did writing go today?
Do you have rituals related to writing? Do you like to make a cup of tea before writing? Reread the last couple hundred words of your WIP? Read a few pages of a book?
Fee Fi Fo Fana!
Sep. 16th, 2025 01:00 pmcakewrecks_feedYesterday we learned that writing names on cake can result in some pretty unfortunate nicknames.
But what if you already have an adorable nickname? Like "Briana Banana?" How do you wreck that up?
Well, in that case, I suppose the baker could always misspell it.
But that's kind of boring, right? So, let's see... what if - hypothetically - the baker misspelled "banana", but then also, instead of drawing a banana on the cake, she tossed a real, unpeeled banana on top?
No, wait - first she should shrink-wrap the banana and draw a smiley face on it with a Sharpie. Eh? And then tie a bunch of curly ribbon around the banana stem. Totally.
And then - THEN - just because all of that makes way too much sense, the baker could sprinkle something really ridiculous all around the shrink wrapped smiley-face banana with curly ribbon tied on its stem. Something like...I dunno...little tiny dog bones.
Yeah. That would be one AWESOME wreck. Hypothetically speaking, of course.
Right, April A.?
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And from my other blog, Epbot:
impressions of Amalfi
Sep. 16th, 2025 06:49 amtielanA quiet humidity, a breeze off the sea. The quiet in the middle of the night. The ripple of the water and the way the currents swirl across the ocean. The distant smudge on the horizon of what must be Sicily. Clouds that hover over the mountains, over the sea.
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My tour companions here seems pretty nice. There's a few groupings already formed - several women who already know each other and some groups forming. A very energetic Puerto Rican whose personality bounces the whole group along, and
I ended up in a single room, because my intended room-mate came down with COVID and ended up going home. Which, ugh, it sucks for her, and I'm so lucky to have been able to take those three extra days in HK before joining the Georgia trip, hale and healthy. And I'm so relieved I took the extra time to recover in HK, and feel a lot better now, although still not an unthinking 100%.
Anyway, I have two women from the tour group in the room next to mine, and they're chatty and their voices carry, so I'm a bit jealous in spite of the solo room 'cos I hear them talking! I know, I know, hand in my 'introvert' card. I'm only 60% introvert, though.
Pictures in the next day.
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My tour companions here seems pretty nice. There's a few groupings already formed - several women who already know each other and some groups forming. A very energetic Puerto Rican whose personality bounces the whole group along, and
I ended up in a single room, because my intended room-mate came down with COVID and ended up going home. Which, ugh, it sucks for her, and I'm so lucky to have been able to take those three extra days in HK before joining the Georgia trip, hale and healthy. And I'm so relieved I took the extra time to recover in HK, and feel a lot better now, although still not an unthinking 100%.
Anyway, I have two women from the tour group in the room next to mine, and they're chatty and their voices carry, so I'm a bit jealous in spite of the solo room 'cos I hear them talking! I know, I know, hand in my 'introvert' card. I'm only 60% introvert, though.
Pictures in the next day.
Check In: Day 15
Sep. 15th, 2025 05:48 pmglitteringstars posting in writethisfanficHi all! Happy Monday!
How is writing going today? Any goals for this week?
How is writing going today? Any goals for this week?
9 Accidental Nicknames
Sep. 15th, 2025 01:00 pmcakewrecks_feedNames are tough - there are just so many weird ones out there - so I tend to cut bakers a lot of slack when it comes to misspelling them.
But I'm pretty sure these birthday kids weren't so understanding:
"...and that's how Bobby got his nickname! Now, you two kids get going, and have a nice prom!"
I'm guessing something about this cake is going to rub little Chase the wrong way:
Ooh. BURN.
Clap your hands if you believe Tink's gonna be ticked.
This remains one of my all-time favorite name wrecks:
"Look, Stetson! It's almost like you're part of the family!"
Of all the times to mix up your "u"s and "a"s...
And this is what we call a Freudian piping slip:
It was a bittersweet parting.
Of course, not every name goof results in an insult. Some people even come out ahead:
Way, WAY ahead.
It's doubly unfortunate that these polka dots look a lot more "Turdi" than "Trudi":
What a way to go.
Let's hope Violet doesn't live up to her new nick name.
This "cookie bouquet" was for a baby shower. I'll let you spot the problem:
"Well, I SHOULD HOPE SO."
Thanks to Brian C., Elizabeth B., Beth, Natalie B., Melissa R., Lacey C., Jennifer S., Kirsten H., Addy L., & Jennie C. for not naming any names.
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P.S. If you're bad with names, why not plaster their faces all over a pair of socks?
Though I have to admit it's way cuter with pets.
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And from my other blog, Epbot:
