Jan. 5th, 2025 07:25 pm

[sticky entry] Sticky: Hi there!

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This is Marti. You may remember me as [personal profile] texelations, both here and on AO3 & tumblr.

I haven't posted on this journal in a couple of years, and the entries I did post back then were so raw and detailed I've privated them since. I'm going to post some updates on me shortly, but those will be access-locked. If you'd like to reconnect and read those entries make sure to comment here.

Other places you can find me:
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The other day I shared a book bingo card created by [tumblr.com profile] batmanisagatewaydrug. I finalized my list of fills and created a document where I can write down my reviews. Here's that list:

  1. Literary Fiction: Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
  2. Short story collection: After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
  3. Sequel: The Girl in the Spider's Web – David Lagercrantz
  4. Childhood Favorite: Saturday, the Twelfth of October – Norma Fox Mazer
  5. 20th century speculative fiction: How Few Remain – Harry Turtledove
  6. Fantasy: Beowulf: A New Translation – Maria Dahvana Headley
  7. Published before 1950: The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
  8. Independent publisher: Bury Your Gays – Chuck Tingle
  9. Graphic novel: Brave New World: A Graphic Novel – Aldous Huxley with Fred Fordham
  10. Animal on the cover: The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
  11. Set in a country you have never visited: The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  12. Science fiction: The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu
  13. 2025 Debut Author: Greenteeth – Molly O’Neill
  14. Memoir: Escape – Carolyn Jessop
  15. Read a zine, make a zine: helping your friends who sometimes wanna die maybe not die – Carly Boyce
  16. Essay collection: All About Love – bell hooks
  17. 2024 Award winner: I Am The Law – Michael Molcher
  18. Nonfiction: The Poisoner's Handbook – Deborah Blum
  19. Social justice and activism: Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? – Beverly Daniel Tatum
  20. Romance novel: Trade Me – Courtney Milan
  21. Read and make a recipe: something from Baking Yesteryear – B. Dylan Hollis
  22. Horror: Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
  23. Published in the aughts: Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  24. Historical fiction: The White Company – Arthur Conan Doyle
  25. Bookseller or librarian recommendation: To Build A Fire – Jack London


I have a question for those of you who write reviews for books: what do you keep in mind when you're writing them, and how do you gauge what your rating should be? I want to start leaving reviews on Storygraph and Likewise for the books I read.
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Here are the intended fills I've gathered so far for [tumblr.com profile] batmanisagatewaydrug's 2025 book bingo card! I'm participating in The Storygraph's Challenge version, which means I'm endeavoring to fill the entire card.



I'm planning to head to the library tomorrow for a few suggestions! What do you all think so far?
Feb. 1st, 2025 01:01 am

allrecipes

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I decided to make an allrecipes account a while back to get my recipes on a site where people might find them. At the time, they were having a bug where you couldn't edit your public profile, so I added one recipe and let it sit at that. Now, public profiles are working, and I wanted to edit the recipe I'd submitted to include a picture, so I went there to poke around.

And as far as I can tell you can't edit the recipes you add. Nor even delete them to repost.

That really grinds my gears and makes me want to post them elsewhere. I can't decide where that might be, though. Or rather, I just don't know what other options I might have. Does anyone have a suggestion?
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I'm behind on things, please forgive me. I feel I have more energy today and I plan to go back through the last couple of days of entries and comments to reply.

In the meantime don't forget I have been working on drumming up activity at [community profile] starlightchallenge (a writing prompt challenge comm) and [community profile] paganpolypals. I want to make an entry at the latter about dream interpretation sometime this morning.
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I decided to bring back [community profile] starlightchallenge and posted a poll for people to answer about when I should post prompts. If you're a writer or artist and enjoy the kinds of prompts I post there, make sure to tick a box for me!
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I've founded a community with my friend [personal profile] lordandrei at [community profile] paganpolypals. You don't have to be pagan and you don't have to be polyamorous to join - just be a person friendly to both and enjoy socializing with like-minded people!

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