Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

Today when I was doing the laundry, the two year old wanted to help, which means, of course, that it takes three times as long to do the laundry as it would if he didn't help. There are many little side diversions we have to discuss as we do the laundry, as he looks around the basement and notices more things he wants to hear words about, so that he can learn about the world.

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So yesterday I got caught uncomfortably close to what the weather service tells me was a tornado. Me and 5 behavior disordered kids between the ages of 10 and 14 were in the van with my tornado preparedness knowledge, which is like what I've gathered from watching the Wizard of Oz. There weren't any storm cellars around, so, visibility quickly approaching zero, I pulled over and waited it out. I didn't know if we would be safer out of the van, which was rocking alarmingly, but I didn't want to panic the kids, and I was worried about keeping track of them all in the storm if we got out.

It took a while to get home what with all the downed wires and telephone poles and all the debris on the roads after the storm passed, but by the time I got back to town, it just looked like there had been a heavy rain.

Then last night I dreamt that I slept with reynolds wrap and sandwich bags. At least they didn't try to molest me or anything, they just stayed there in their boxes quietly sleeping. Maybe it's a subtle dig about being unprepared, hahaha, IDEK.

One more thing about the finale

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Just a little historical embroidery picspam

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Just a few random thoughts about last night's episode.

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Title: The Troubles that We Used to Know
Fandom: Supernatural
Author: erda
Rating: R
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Word Count: ~2000
Written for salt_burn_porn
Summary: Episode tag for 5.16, so spoilers. Dean doesn't get it back.

Prompt:
You're scouring everybody's face
For some small flicker of the truth
To what it is that you are going through, my boy

( The Troubles that We Used to Know )

I just made a Supernatural community for posting and reading episode related fanfiction. It's for all Supernatural episode related stories, missing scenes and episode tags. All genres and ratings, all pairings as well as gen, are welcome. Please post your older fic, as well as new material. If you have a desire to read more after seeing an episode, you will be able to search for related stories by episode tag.

There is a similar community on lj, but that one is a Wincest free zone, and I like Wincest.

The comm is called episodic_supernatural

I have 14,000 words of first time Wincest, in which Sam and Dean adopt a bunch of dogs, in need of a beta. I'd like to get this turned around fairly quickly as I'm about to be very busy with the three weeks for Dreamwidth fest, and I want to use this as my content contribution. Since I told my beta the whole story as I was writing it, it's impossible for her to step back and read it from a distance. I need someone not familiar with the story to give it a read through for continuity and to make sure it makes sense.

As most of you already know, we are approaching the first year anniversary of Dreamwidth's open beta. To celebrate that event, I am thinking about creating a community to oversee a festival which would generate content for our home.

This is not about trying to coerce people into joining Dreamwidth, it's not about posting on lj or any other service about Dreamwidth. It's about making content here, for the people already here, because we have a group of talented people already gathered here and we should have a party for ourselves. If some live journal only people get curious about what's happening over here, they're welcome to come join the fun, of course, but I'm envisioning a party that is by and for people who already love Dreamwidth. Because Dreamwidth is awesome.

I have some ideas about how this might work, but right now it's all still fluid, and I'm open to suggestions. Here's what I have in mind so far:

A central community which I've tentatively called "Six Weeks for Dreamwidth" where people would probably post links, though posting actual content there is not out of the question. Six weeks for Dreamwidth means that participants agree to post their content only on Dreamwidth for six weeks, that is six weeks from the date it is posted. After the six week period is over authors/artists/vidders are free to take their content and post it anywhere they want.

Starting at the beginning of April, as many people as we can interest will start posting content on Dreamwidth comms, or wherever they want on Dreamwidth, and link it on the main comm. Also, as many people as we can interest would start comment fic memes in their personal journals. I would personally like to see some pairing specific memes, because I suspect the percentage of monofannish people on some other journaling services is higher than on dw, and those people might not be so interested in combing through a multifandom thing looking for their pairing, whereas if they should happen to hear there is a meme with just their otp available only on dw, it might make our home more interesting to them, and spark more discussion here.

I'd also love to see a prompting community where people can post prompts without any formal sign ups or obligation to write. I'd like to keep this whole thing as low stress as possible. No real sign ups, just people trying to participate as much as they can given that we are all busy people with lots of other projects. It's a party, not a duty, you see.

ETA: To clarify things a little: I am not saying that participants would restrict their posting of all content to DW for six weeks, or for any period of time. This six week period would only be for works that the participant decided to use for this fest. That would include any comment fic the participant chooses to write for memes which are designated as Six Weeks for Dreamwidth memes. Participants would continue to post other works not written for this fest wherever they liked.

Sooooooooooo

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Input, suggestions, signal boosting welcomed.