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haven't done this in a long time
2 September 2025 10:56 pmfinch posting in addmeName: Jack/Jackdaw
Age:44
I mostly post about: writing, life, parenting, school, work, sometimes politics, sometimes other hobbies
My hobbies are: writing, drawing, web stuff, reading, misc fiber arts
My fandoms are: at the moment, Fourth Wing with a side of the Untamed and All For the Game
I'm looking to meet people who: do interesting things, share interesting facts, recommend interesting books, etc... mostly I'm just looking to add some people to my friends page.
My posting schedule tends to be: sporadic. sometimes it can be multiple times a week, and sometimes I will absolutely forget dreamwidth exists.
When I add people, my dealbreakers are: life is too short to deal with people who just want to argue with me. I'm trans and neurodivergent and pagan and a parent and if any of those would bother you, well, now you know.
Before adding me, you should know: two unrelated but occasionally controversial things: we're a plural system and we still mask in crowded public spaces. Neither comes up often on the blog but both have turned out to be dealbreakers for other people before.
Tuesday word: Oubliette
2 September 2025 01:44 pmsimplyn2deep posting in 1word1dayTuesday, Sept. 2, 2025
Oubliette (noun)
oubliette [oo-blee-et]
noun
1. a secret dungeon with an opening only in the ceiling, as in certain old castles.
Related Words
torture chamber
See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com
Origin: 1810–20; < French, Middle French, equivalent to oubli ( er ) to forget, Old French oblider < Vulgar Latin *oblītāre, derivative of Latin oblītus (past participle of oblīvīscī to forget; oblivion ) + Middle French -ette -ette
Example Sentences
He was not in the oubliette for long.
From The Guardian
A Morris oubliette means restraint into perfect immobility.
From New York Times
Let the novel open like an oubliette under your feet.
From New York Times
I let myself have a brief fantasy of Prince Dain’s coronation, of me dancing with a grinning Locke while Cardan is dragged away and thrown in a dark oubliette.
From Literature
Of our prejudices against the Puritans, she writes: “Stigma is a vast oubliette.”
From New York Times
Oubliette (noun)
oubliette [oo-blee-et]
noun
1. a secret dungeon with an opening only in the ceiling, as in certain old castles.
Related Words
torture chamber
See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com
Origin: 1810–20; < French, Middle French, equivalent to oubli ( er ) to forget, Old French oblider < Vulgar Latin *oblītāre, derivative of Latin oblītus (past participle of oblīvīscī to forget; oblivion ) + Middle French -ette -ette
Example Sentences
He was not in the oubliette for long.
From The Guardian
A Morris oubliette means restraint into perfect immobility.
From New York Times
Let the novel open like an oubliette under your feet.
From New York Times
I let myself have a brief fantasy of Prince Dain’s coronation, of me dancing with a grinning Locke while Cardan is dragged away and thrown in a dark oubliette.
From Literature
Of our prejudices against the Puritans, she writes: “Stigma is a vast oubliette.”
From New York Times
i mean lots of complaining that it hasn't rained
2 September 2025 12:58 pmkeplers_angels posting in addmeName: Keplers_angels. I answer to Trudy, but it's not my name.
Age: 46
I mostly post about: I mostly write to make myself real. And to stun people with my wordery. To give consolation. (or wound) And to figure it out.... Been journaling a long time so there are shifts in topic climate but generally it's a lot of poetry and poeticity on sex and angst with smatterings of perimenopause, breastlessness, and feminism, interpersonal relationships... what to do with my life?! existential and metaphysical drama.... I don't shy away from much-- I come to confess. There will be adult content. There may be mathematics, politics, pain, complaints and exhortations, poems and poems and poems and lots of complaining that it hasn't rained. (In general though, my posts are usually much more readable than this is.)
My hobbies are: This. This is my hobby. Outside of work, which is a whole thing, this. I write. I try to make myself submit poems to stuff. I read books, I waste untold hours on fb, I'm learning to sext, I practice yoga, I over analyze things and am pretentious and arrogant except when I'm in joyful denial or drowning in insecurity. In short, I tell the truth about myself -brutally- but I'm not a very reliable narrator.... what was the question again?
My fandoms are: I don't fandom here. But I lived very happily in Man From UNCLE fandom for most of a decade. It saved my life. Sometimes I'll still do an erotic little fandom vignette but fandom's not why I'm here.
I'm looking to meet people who: write similar, or completely different, kinds of things. Mostly I'm looking for my early aughts LJ experience back. I want people who write with emotion and who will read and comment on my posts as I will read and comment on theirs. If you're not going to read your friends page then I don't want you on mine.
My posting schedule tends to be: In 2025 it's been pretty every-day-ish. (at least weekly, usually more) Which pleases me and I hope it will last. I am not *as* punctual with my friends page and comments but I always catch up-- weekly give-or-take.
When I add people, my dealbreakers are: stalking. violating my privacy or anonymity. I'm not opposed in principle to friends of different belief systems to mine but of course, we all have limits, and I'm not going to censor my own posts to avoid those kinds of things. Content wise, if you post something I can't abide, I'll unfriend. But I don't like my echo-chamber to be too constrictive.
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2 September 2025 06:46 amrevelunaire posting in addmeName: Katie
Age: In my 40s.
I mostly post about: I mostly post about life, work, going to school, my writing, concerts, music, the sims, graphics, and book reviews.
My hobbies are:reading, writing, the sims, hiking, concerts, hanging with family and friends
My fandoms are: I am not in any fandoms. I used to be in LOST. I am more into music which is Jamie Cullum, Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Britney Spears, Fall Out Boy and a lot more.
I'm looking to meet people who: Those with similar interest
My posting schedule tends to be: I don't have a schedule.
When I add people, my deal breakers are: People who aren't nice to others, racists, fascist, bigots
Before adding me, you should know:I do not add minors.
Graham Greene
2 September 2025 04:25 amnverland posting in lost_too_soonGraham Greene Dies: Oscar-Nominated ‘Dances With Wolves’ Actor Was 73
https://variety.com/2025/film/obituaries-people-news/graham-greene-dead-dances-with-wolves-1236504217/
https://variety.com/2025/film/obituaries-people-news/graham-greene-dead-dances-with-wolves-1236504217/
Word : Velleity
1 September 2025 04:01 pmstonepicnicking_okapi posting in 1word1dayvelleity [vəˈlēədē, veˈlēədē]
noun
1. a wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action
examples
1. We may well say: I would desire to be young; but we do not say: I desire to be young; seeing that this is not possible; and this motion is called a wishing, or as the Scholastics term it a velleity, which is nothing else but a commencement of willing, not followed out, because the will, by reason of impossibility or extreme difficulty, stops her motion, and ends it in this simple affection of a wish. Treatise on the Love of God, Saint Francis de Sales, 1567-1622
2. Ms. Marcus also errantly dismissed the Constitution’s separation of powers, which entrusts “all legislative powers” to Congress, as a mere velleity that should yield to executive legislation when Congress is divided. "The Separations of Powers is not a Suggestion." The Washington Post, Letters to the Editor, 14 Jan 2022.
origins
early 17th century: from medieval Latin velleitas, from Latin velle ‘to wish’.
noun
1. a wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action
examples
1. We may well say: I would desire to be young; but we do not say: I desire to be young; seeing that this is not possible; and this motion is called a wishing, or as the Scholastics term it a velleity, which is nothing else but a commencement of willing, not followed out, because the will, by reason of impossibility or extreme difficulty, stops her motion, and ends it in this simple affection of a wish. Treatise on the Love of God, Saint Francis de Sales, 1567-1622
2. Ms. Marcus also errantly dismissed the Constitution’s separation of powers, which entrusts “all legislative powers” to Congress, as a mere velleity that should yield to executive legislation when Congress is divided. "The Separations of Powers is not a Suggestion." The Washington Post, Letters to the Editor, 14 Jan 2022.
origins
early 17th century: from medieval Latin velleitas, from Latin velle ‘to wish’.
Are you also wondering how it's September 1st?
1 September 2025 11:10 amraptureofthemoon posting in addmeName: Lins
Age: The answer to life, the universe and everything (42)
I post: Snippets of writing, fanfics, ruminations, random thoughts, journal entries, notes about what I'm reading, watching or playing.
Hobbies: Writing, reading, artsy things (sketching, gelli prints, collage, etc.), video games (Minecraft, Fallout, TES, Stardew, Dishonored, and more), hiking, swimming, wandering... I could go on.
Fandoms: Currently: Star Wars (I live in the Clone Wars era for the most part); Skyrim; Fallout; Cyberpunk 2077.
Looking to meet people who: Have similar interests, share their thoughts, ruminations, talk about their passions, can commiserate on how we could do better as a species because *gestures broadly*
My posting schedule is: Sporadic. I've had this journal for years (it's an import of my old LiveJournal which I started in 2001) but I've long been on other social media, much of which I've deleted over the last year. I'm working on getting back into blogging and reducing the time I spend on places like Reddit.
Before adding me, you should know: I'm a lefty. I don't plan to post about politics here (I tend to do that elsewhere) but I reserve the right to vent on occasion.
I'm an atheist. (I don't go out of my way to harsh anyone's personal spirituality but I am critical of religious institutions and this does affect how I navigate the world.)
Reading and posting may be sporadic as I work on parting from other social media and reviving my blogging and creative writing.
Dealbreakers are: The usual -isms and phobias. Trump voters. Nazis. AI devotees. General assholes. (Wheaton's Law, eh?) Tl;dr: We can debate pineapple on pizza (I'm pro), we will not debate human rights and wellbeing.
Age: The answer to life, the universe and everything (42)
I post: Snippets of writing, fanfics, ruminations, random thoughts, journal entries, notes about what I'm reading, watching or playing.
Hobbies: Writing, reading, artsy things (sketching, gelli prints, collage, etc.), video games (Minecraft, Fallout, TES, Stardew, Dishonored, and more), hiking, swimming, wandering... I could go on.
Fandoms: Currently: Star Wars (I live in the Clone Wars era for the most part); Skyrim; Fallout; Cyberpunk 2077.
Looking to meet people who: Have similar interests, share their thoughts, ruminations, talk about their passions, can commiserate on how we could do better as a species because *gestures broadly*
My posting schedule is: Sporadic. I've had this journal for years (it's an import of my old LiveJournal which I started in 2001) but I've long been on other social media, much of which I've deleted over the last year. I'm working on getting back into blogging and reducing the time I spend on places like Reddit.
Before adding me, you should know: I'm a lefty. I don't plan to post about politics here (I tend to do that elsewhere) but I reserve the right to vent on occasion.
I'm an atheist. (I don't go out of my way to harsh anyone's personal spirituality but I am critical of religious institutions and this does affect how I navigate the world.)
Reading and posting may be sporadic as I work on parting from other social media and reviving my blogging and creative writing.
Dealbreakers are: The usual -isms and phobias. Trump voters. Nazis. AI devotees. General assholes. (Wheaton's Law, eh?) Tl;dr: We can debate pineapple on pizza (I'm pro), we will not debate human rights and wellbeing.