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I forgot I was doing this. Well, here's part 4 of

maevedarcy's 72 Multifandom questions to ask a fangirl

Favorites and Preferences

1. Who is your favorite character or member within your fandom, and why?
When it comes to Smallville, well, Superman has always been my favorite hero and even SV Clark had my heart early on and then Lois once she showed up. I think as I got older, I somehow got more sympathetic towards him. He's so young and tried his best, even when he made mistakes. With the MCU, it's Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson. Again, the "boy scout" characters tend to have my heart, especially when they're more complex than on paper. With my current fandom, 9-1-1, that would be Eddie Diaz. I was really drawn to him from the first episode he was in and he just kept growing on me. He's just fun and snarky and competent and such a good dad.

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2. What is your favorite installment, episode, or album from your fandom?
I do like the early seasons of Smallville, specifically 3, but even though it's wacky, for a long time, 4 was my favorite. Probably because it leaned into the really weird and I kinda enjoyed the cracky moments. I don't love the doom and gloom all the time. The first half of s8 was strong and then it weakened. 9 was my favorite after that.

I don't love the handling of SHIELD but CA: TWS is probably my favorite MCU movie.

Season 3 and season 4 are tied for my favorite 9-1-1 seasons.

3. Do you have a favorite quote, lyric, or saying from your fandom?
Clark's "I stand for truth, justice, and ... other stuff" does still make me laugh, because of the delivery.

Athena's voice over in the s2 finale of 9-1-1 (I miss the voice overs), specifically, "This is how we save ourselves, by saving each other, because nobody, not anybody, has ever been saved alone."

4. What’s your favorite fan-created content (art, music, video, story) related to your fandom?
Yeah, there's no chance I can narrow it down to one or even five for any fandom. :D

5. Who is your favorite pair or group within the fandom in terms of chemistry or dynamics?
I've always been drawn to Clois in most versions of Superman and Smallville wasn't an exception. I did start writing fic for Clark/Oliver, a ship that snuck up on me and then inspired me to join fandom because barely anyone else was writing them and I figured I would give it a shot. I love a bit of a push/pull dynamic with ships so Steve/Tony after The Avengers and Sam/Bucky post CACW. With 9-1-1, it's Buck/Eddie. I actually didn't expect to ship them when I started watching the show. As much as I like friends to lovers, the best friend ships rarely appeal to me and I tend to prefer them as just friends, and my brain can be a little contradictory in general when it comes to the juggernaut, but this one really stuck.

6. Do you have a preferred genre when it comes to fan fiction or fan works in your fandom?
Probably romance/drama. I like canon level action fics (can't handle anything too violent), and while I enjoy fluff, if it is longer than a couple of thousand words, I need some sort of plot.

7. What’s your favorite piece of lore or backstory within your fandom’s universe?
With Smallville, I've read that Lois's nickname for Clark (calling him "Smallville") was an accidental slip by Erica Durance and it just stuck, which I love. I also like that it was her idea to nix the kiss in 8.15 "Infamous" and to jump on Clark after the secret reveal in 10.05 'Isis'.

When it comes to 9-1-1, the fact that Ryan Guzman and Oliver Stark seemed to have a hand in naming "Buddie" is my favorite. I wasn't in the fandom/watching back then, but I found a screencap of an old post from the official 9-1-1 account asking people if they were on "Team Buck or Team Eddie". And I think Oliver Stark must've called them "Beddie" because RG's replied, correcting it to Buddie, and OStark agreed that they can go with that. So if that was the first showing of the ship name, that's pretty great.

8. Is there a particular scene, moment, or episode that always makes you emotional or excited?
With Smallville, Clark & Ryan always gets me emotional, especially in the hot air balloon moment. There are a ton of Clois moments I love, but one of my favorites will always be the Dunk Tank scene because Clark & Lois have such good chemistry already and it's just a few episodes in. Plus she is a pro at getting him to smile, even when he tries to be annoyed with her. Even Tom Welling had said that Lois brings out a different side of Clark. It's true, she does. The Piggy Bank conversation also gets to me because she understands him so well even without knowing his secret, and isn't afraid to be firm while being sympathetic at the same time (which is something I love about her). There was also a moment toward the end of 9.04 "Echo" with Clark & Oliver talking on the balcony and the way Clark told Oliver he still believed in him was so good, even if they handled Oliver's very real suicide attempt badly. s8 was such a rough go for their relationship and I was frustrated. To see them have a moment like this in s9 really gave me hope.

In 9-1-1, all the Tsunami scenes in early season 3 get to me, especially the one where Buck is explaining to Eddie that he lost Christopher. It's so painful to watch Buck try to explain and the resignation, moving on to grieving look on Eddie's face, before Chris is found. Of course Eddie telling Buck about his will remains a top moment too.

9. What’s your preferred platform for engaging with fellow fans and content (forums, social media, etc.)?
I've always preferred journal based sites, probably because I was mostly on fandom in the peak LJ days, so I still love Dreamwidth best, but I do like Tumblr for the gifs, and it is nice to chat on Discord from time to time, even if I can't really keep up with any of the servers.

10. Can you name a favorite moment when the community came together to support the fandom or a cause?
I've seen a lot of works created for a 9-1-1 for Gaza event but I can't say I know the origins, but that was awesome. I generally think it's great when fandom does that kind of thing. Whether it's the

sunflower_auction or Marvel Trumps Hate or Fandom Trumps Hate.

11. What’s your favorite way to show your fandom pride (cosplay, apparel, tattoos, etc.)?
I don't know if I really have a way. I don't really go out searching for fandom merch, mostly because I know it will collect dust somewhere and I'm so bad about being organized already. The only time I actively went out for something was Tom Welling & Erica Durance were featured on the TV Guide cover. I still have that issue.

12. Who’s your favorite content creator, artist, or writer within the fandom, and what do you love about their work?
Fanfic is hard to narrow down, but I've enjoyed watching fanvids again once I got to 9-1-1/Buddie so a couple of vidders I like are:

butchdiaz

JuliGrisel

akapotatogirl

ysabetwordsmith

I made apple cider caramel sauce to put over vanilla ice cream. :D

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ysabetwordsmith

In new heist video game, players return museum artifacts stolen from African countries

Set in the late 21st century, the game follows Nomali, a fast-thinking, acrobatic leader who assembles a crew of ordinary citizens-turned-thieves.

Their mission: to reclaim 70 real-life African artifacts from Western institutions and return them to their rightful homelands.

I am amused. :D And there are so many other cultures that could design similar games to retrieve their own artifacts. See, this is what we get from diverse game developers: new game plots instead of rehashes.

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ysabetwordsmith

This set of questions comes from

thefridayfive community...

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Today is partly sunny and sweltering.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/3/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 10/3/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 10/3/25 -- I watered the old picnic table and new picnic table.

I heard a squirrel chattering but didn't see it.

As it is almost suppertime, I am done for the night.

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amphobet

Video Games

Dead Cells: 4 hours

Video

Donald Trump Announced That We're all Terrorists - EVEN MORE NEWS 36 min

Vs. Susie (Nintendo Switch 2 Version) - Deltarune 4 min

Don't Forget X Bad Apple!! - (Deltarune Chapter 1&2 x Touhou) 1 min

Twilight Reverie (deltarune x bad apple mini-cover) 1 min

bad apple strike back 3 min

Don't Forget (Extended Mix) - Deltarune 1 min

BAD APPLE!! || METAL COVER by RichaadEB ft. Cristina Vee 5 min

Bad Apple!! (English Remaster) 5 min

Total Video: 56 min

ysabetwordsmith

Recently I posted about the importance of how small actions can change the future. Here's an example: the Grapefruit Ladies.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today's theme is Japan / Japanese.

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If I hadn't grown numb from all the fascism months ago, I'd probably be screaming and crying right now.

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ysabetwordsmith

The Downside of Fertility

The fertility decline is everywhere in the world today. Moreover, the decline goes decades back in the histories of rich countries.

While not universal, this is a widespread trend. At the moment, it's great that fertility is falling because the human population is ravaging the planet. At some point, however, the population will need to stabilize. So it's good to think about factors that influence the number of births.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is mostly sunny and hot.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/2/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 10/2/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 10/2/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 10/2/25 -- I watered the irises and the patio plants.

EDIT 10/2/25 -- I watered the telephone pole garden, savanna seedlings, and old picnic table.

EDIT 10/2/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

As it is time for supper, I am done for the night.

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tielan

So, the tour I went on in the UK was a Pride-and-Prejudice pilgrimage, where we were going to study the text, in-depth. It was operated by the people who do the podcast 'Harry Potter and the Sacred Text', a company called 'Common Ground' which does pilgrimages based around literary texts (and may have been influenced or created by the podcast creators), and was hosted by Sarah Stewart-Holland of the Pantsuit Politics podcast, who was my initial point of interest in the pilgrimage.

In the course of the pilgrimage, we would wander the fields of Derbyshire, visit Chatsworth House (which substituted as Pemberley in the 2005 Pride And Prejudice movie), walk past a number of influences in the English literature of the era, and explore the characters while ruminating on the text.

Over the week, we climbed hills and hiked fields, climbed over stiles, and skirted rivers.

It was...pretty good.

In essence, it's doing what fandom often does - picking apart the characters and their motivations, their thoughts, and internalities, and reading into the canon. Sometimes more than the canon allows for.

We were headquartered at the Rutland Arms in Bakewell, a small town in Derbyshire, about 50 minutes from the town of Chesterfield. Ever heard of 'Bakewell tarts'? Welp, this is apparently the town.

The Rutland Arms is an old hotel, which is divided into two parts with a road running between. I suspect one was the stables and the other was the main house/hostel - and they've done both up with rooms in which to stay. I was in the 'old stables' part, sharing a room with another woman, and we got along pretty well.

They've done a great job of keeping it in a certain style, and it's warm. So warm. I can sit around in my sleeping stuff in the evening, instead of having to rug up. That's something I'm going to sincerely resent next winter.

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Day 1 was meeting and greeting, a brief explanation of how the next few days was going to work, and then a brief class before we had a little free time and dinner.

Day 2: Chatsworth House & Darcy

Day 2 was a 4 mile walk up hill and over dale to Chatsworth House (the externals were used for Pemberley in the 2005 movie version of P&P). The participants were warned about fitness and about walking capability, and given advice on what to pack, and pretty much everyone was ready and able for it. One person struggled a little bit - she was older, and I don't think she'd really considered how much strain the walks would put on her body, but she got through the entire week.

Chatsworth House is pretty impressive, no matter what you think of the 2005 P&P movie. That said, thinking about the degree of wealth that allowed people to build (rebuild, renovate, decorate, develop) places like this boggles the brain.

Everything gleams with artistry and skill, whether the portraits, art, or sculpture through the house, or the design of the rooms or gardens.

Notable things: a portrait of Elizabeth Spencer, portrayed as Diana emerging from the clouds. Leaves from an Australian tree to furnish an artwork by a Sydney artist. The Cascade and Fountain, both of which are gravity fed from a natural reservoir in the hills above the estate.

And then there was THE ROCKERY. I don't have words for how amazing this was, so have a couple of pictures:

Our study topic the first day was Darcy. Who he was and who he became. The weight of what had happened the summer previous to the story, and the underlying reasons (but not excuses) for his behaviour and sense of pride. Going to the location used as Pemberley for the 2005 movie gave us insight into the kind of family the Darcys might have been, and into how Elizabeth might have felt marrying into such a family.

Day 3: the Long Walk

I started the day with a full breakfast. The hotel offered a hot breakfast as part of our package and rather to my susrprise, given how much I'd eaten the previous day, I was hungry enough to eat it all.

Since it was still before we were due to leave for the day's walk, I headed up to see the church on the hill: All Saints Bakewell. The next day, I discovered there were old Celtic cross stones discovered in the foundations, suggesting its been a place of worship since before the middle ages.

Some of the headstones, though... Multiple children dying before they reached 5, and even those that did teach adolescence of adulthood could be cut off in the prime of life so easily. There was also a set of what looked like coffins, with Human-shaped carvings out of them and a hole in the bottom. Somewhat macabrely, I realised they were probably morgue boxes, made to keep corpses cold, with the hole in the bottom to drain the fluids...

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Our class contemplation today was on Lizzie Bennett, on the kind of heroine she was, on the choice she made to refuse Mr Collins, and how it came before they learned that Bingley had quit Netherfield (for until that point, it was half-expected that Jane would have married him). With a pilgrimage theme of "status" and a consideration of the precarity of a woman's situation in past eras, there were a lot of thoughts being aired, and we continued to discuss them as we hiked across the countryside with a fantastic local guide, Chris.

There were some lovely oddities along the way: a rubber chicken and a toy t-rex eyeballing us along a laneway, a call to deliver a household of excess appleage, and pears growing over a garden wall. A heifer cow grazed on a hill rather as a goat does, before we walked in silent contemplation by the river swelling past us, while the ducks use it like a roller coaster!

The hike was long and they warned up - 5-6 miles over the course of the day - and up hill and down dale! But also in the realm of so much beauty and wilderness (and also sheep shit and cow shit), an ancient Roman settlement, and several weirs and cascades.

It ended up being closer to 8 miles! WHEW.

And after dinner, there was the P&P 2005 rewatch, which I skipped and regretted skipping as per an earlier post.

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Day 4 and 5 of Derbyshire

Our character studies were Mrs Bennett, and Charlotte Lucas, with a little bit of time spent on the sisters. It was an interesting conversation, not least for the variety of opinions given about their motives, their extrapolated history, and the choices they had vs the choices they made.

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Stannage Edge is a ridge of rock in the Peak District, and is best visually known from the 2005 P&P movie with Keira Knightly standing atop it while the wind swirls her dress around her. I'm sure people have dome the hike in delicate regency-style dresses, but all I had was my emerald green raincoat and Daniel.

Oh, and clinging to the rock at the top of a hike is a small family joke, c/o B1 who did something like this when she ascended a massive hill in Wales.

There was an old church where Little John was claimed to be buried, which was still locally used. It had a full setup for kids down one side of the church, including toys and books to keep them entertained during the service. So I went to look at the music on the organ to work out what kind of stuff they sang. It was a hymn that I knew, and I checked the tune by humming it.

Several people (mostly from my tour group) gave me slightly shocked looks. And I pointed out (in a normal volume voice) that this is an actively used church because of the 'nursery' space which would be very noisy during the course of a standard church service in which there were families.

It was kind of funny, but also a bit sad. They might have just dismissed it as 'that irreverent Aussie', which is also fair. But my faith isn't in a distant, serious God, but a God who made cats and octopus to slide through ridiculously small spaces, stuck gold and steel and carborundum in rocks, and electricity in frogs' legs (okay, that's where they started to realise it could be harnessed), and created the wide and starry universe, but incarnated to the limitations of a human being.

That's not the norm of religious upbringing, I know. But damn, it's a fun one.

Finally, as we left the church area, I noticed some gentlemen maintaining a local cricket pitch... I suspect this passed the Americans by entirely.

The final dinner was quite good. For once, they set the tables up with nametags, picking people to go into groups rather than letting everyone choose for themselves. There were topical questions, and I think they'd done a careful job of making sure there were introverts and extroverts mixed together so there was no one person stuck trying to manage all the conversation at a table.

Overall, the pilgrimage was enjoyable.

And there's another one organised by the same group (and featuring Sarah Stewart Holland) happening on Emma next year. Which I can't afford, because it's in May which is only 9 months away, and I don't even know if I'll be working then. I surely can't afford as long a holiday as I did this time either. Which is a bummer, because I like Emma rather more than I do Pride and Prejudice and I suspect the profile of the people who go is going to be distinctly different from the P&P group...

But the UK! In May! Again! GRARGH.

fayanora

Human beings are extremely good at finding patterns like faces and animals and other images in random things like clouds, a phenomenon called pareidolia. I am convinced that most sightings of ghosts, orbs, invisible beings, etc are just pareidolia This is especially true of small children, who don't have the experience needed to recognize that what they're seeing is just their brain's natural pattern-seeking software glitching out. Over time, we gain that experience, and so we "see spirits" less often because most of us have the sense to realize that what we're seeing isn't real.

Emphasis on "most." There are definitely a lot of times when multiple people are seeing the same thing. And while some of even those might still be pareidolia, others might be something else.

ysabetwordsmith

Folks have mentioned an interest in questions and conversations that make them think. So I've decided to offer more of those. This batch features hobbies.

Seatweaving is a practical hobby of creating seats, backs, and other furniture parts from various materials. Among its branches are caning, strapping, and rope / rush weaving. These traditional crafts span a wide range of time, location, and materials. It's especially useful if you like upcycling old chairs with broken or missing parts.

On Dreamwidth, consider communities like

crafty,

everykindofcraft,

get_knitted, and

justcreate.

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fayanora

Trying to say "highway robbery," I accidentally said "highway library," & now I'm wondering what a highway library would even look like. I'm picturing a 100 mile long road lined with bookshelves, manned by librarians riding motorcycles with cargo trailers for the books.

ysabetwordsmith

Here is my card for the Fall Festival Bingo over in

allbingo. The fest runs from October 1-31. (See all my 2025 bingo cards.)

If you'd like to sponsor a particular square, especially if you have an idea for what character, series, or situation it would fit -- talk to me and we'll work something out. I've had a few requests for this and the results have been awesome so far. This is a good opportunity for those of you with favorites that don't always mesh well with the themes of my monthly projects. I may still post some of the fills for free, because I'm using this to attract new readers; but if it brings in money, that means I can do more of it. That's part of why I'm crossing some of the bingo prompts with other projects, such as the Poetry Fishbowl.

Underlined prompts have been filled.

FALL FESTIVAL BINGO CARD

Wizards	Autumn	"I wasn’t afraid of you."	Alone in the Woods	Mystery
Black / Orange	Herbs	Werewolves	Transformation	Talking Dog
Magic	Dark Side	WILD CARD	Moon Bathing	Someone Touched the Thing
Witches	Candles	Cats	Destroy It with Fire	"That felt weird."
Unstable	Broken	"What are you?"	Books the Best Weapon in the World	"Do you trust me?"

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scaramouche

I carved out some time to watch Alice in Borderland's season 3, which I've then described to various people as an OVA to the first two seasons, i.e. a shorter (6 episodes, in this case) side story that isn't as necessary to the main story, which is already complete. I didn't enjoy it as much for a couple of reasons, the main one being is that the emotional throughline just isn't strong.

Season 3 uses some of the unused games of the original manga that weren't in s1-2, doesn't use anything from Border Road, but I THINK does use some elements of the short Borderland sequel, which I haven't read but I have osmosed does include Arisu reentering the games while Usagi is pregnant. I might be wrong, but my impression is in the manga sequel, Usagi doesn't reenter the games, and if so, the show's season 3 had to invent their own reasoning to get Usagi into the games, because it's just better that way, plus it changes Arisu's motivation from "survive the games so he can return to Usagi" to IMO the more compelling "find Usagi and get her out".

( Spoilers and so on. )

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althea_valara

Let's dive right in, shall we? (you know you are a knitter when you accidentally typo "shall" as "shawl").

[Image Description: A spreadsheet table showing the various creative things I did in September. I spent 7 hours and 40 minutes on crochet, 3 and a half hours knitting, a whopping 10 hours on my Small Web project, and 4 hours writing fic.]

That was only from September 15th. I also did over 4 hours of knitting from the 1st to the 15th, and numerous hours working on my

smallweb project (I didn't track it for the beginning of the month, but I'm guessing about 7-10 hours?)

Folks, all this creativity has been doing WONDERS for my mood. Usually I mark the "how do you feel about today?" question in Finch as only 2 or 3 stars, but lately it's been consistently 4. I feel better about myself these days, and am starting to feel like maybe, just maybe, I *do* have the oomph to be a productive, organized adult and still do my passion projects. I still have a ways to go on that, but it feels in the realm of possibility, and that's a GOOD thing.

I completed one item this month, and that was a very basic knitted kitty from a kit I picked up at Five Below, which I wouldn't have picked up if there hadn't been a thread on Ravelry in which someone was lamenting that Five Below was selling such a thing. (1) Bwuh? I don't get their logic at ALL; (2) hey cheap craft kits LET ME AT THEM. I bought two for my birthday, the knitted kitty and a crochet Halloween Stitch, which I still need to complete. But I was pleasantly surprised at the quality for the kits! They only cost $4 for the kitty and $5 for the Stitch, and they had everything you need PLUS really good instructions. I mean, the knitting kit had instructions showing you how to do the knit stitch in the English method for both left and right handers. WOW!

smallweb: I did SO MUCH on my Neocities site! I finished porting over the FFBE Season 1 script and all my FFXIV "summaries" to date, and have finished FFXI for Bastok missions up to rank 5 as well as the first expansion, Rise of the Zilart. I'm very pleased! I'm hard at work now on FFXI's Chains of Promathia, but I've exhausted what I have the game logs for, which means I need to go on my documentation alt and play some more, oops.

Writing: FOLKS! It is rare that I write fic. ANY fic writing from me is a cause to celebrate. So the fact that I have THREE fics in the works is astounding, and that doesn't count my

1character stuff. I'm having fun with the fic, but haven't worked on it in a few days. Need to get back to it. But I also need canon review, which might mean replaying some patches in FFXIV/doing a particular job's storyline.

SO yeah, VERY successful month, especially since my contract job has spun up again and I've worked 13.5 hours two weeks ago and 15 hours last week. I did all THIS and also worked? WOW. JUST, WOW.

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ysabetwordsmith

Primate activist Jane Goodall has passed away.

She basically invented the field of chimpanzee primatology, living alongside the chimpanzees at what is now the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. I'm sure they shared with her the entrance to their afterlife and she is now happily reuniting with many old friends.

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Today is mostly sunny and sweltering.

I haven't fed the birds yet, but I saw a wren, possibly a Bewick's wren or Carolina wren, at the hopper feeder. :D

EDIT 10/1/25 -- I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I heard a squirrel chattering but didn't see it.

EDIT 10/1/25 -- I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/1/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 10/1/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 10/1/25 -- The tree guy came! We walked around the yard discussing what needs to be done. Based on a preliminary estimate (we should get solid numbers tomorrow) we should be able to get the branches cleared beside the driveway, the parking lot cleared, the path to the east edge and the orchard path restored, and the tree-sized branch removed from the south lot. Small stuff will be chipped for mulch, large stuff will be cut down for firewood. :D 3q3q3q!!! I really hope it comes together.

I also watered the irises, telephone pole garden, savanna seedlings, and old picnic table.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

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