Linaewen's Lake of Small Birds

challenge #4 - Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.

Creative: Write from the perspective of a house or other location.

journal prompt 10 fairly random things that make me happy :) the first two are technically joined first place but doing my list that way maked my brain hurty.

1 - music. I am always listening to music and I often fall into holes where a band or singer I like does a collabaration and I end up with even more music to listen to. Oddly enough I rarely do music posts and I'm not even sure why, well, apart from YouTube been a shit with ad blockers (again.)

2 - rugby league. I lose entire weekends to watching NRL and Super League, I tend to record all of the games each week to watch back later if I'm out or working. I got hooked on when I was 8 and here I am years later still loving it. I try to go to games when I can but it's a fairly long journey from Aberdeen to Leeds just to go to Headingley, not like when I lived in Leeds and went to every game, worked at the ground on matchdays too.

3 - lego. I have a lot of LEGO in several storage bricks and some sets still to build. When I'm in Glasgow I tend to buy at least one of the smaller sets that are under £10 from the store there and those are the sets that take maybe half an hour to do all of the builds. My favourites are classic and city although I'm less keen on the branded/franchise tie-ins I did enjoy building twirling Ariel and also because BlueBrixx (German brand) have (had?) licenses for a lot of excellent looking Star Trek and Stargate sets unfortunately postage costs from Germany to Scotland were more expensive than the sets were and my trips to Germany to buy instore were unsuccessful because I found out instore that it was online order only which is frustrating but I got excellent adventures on city breaks out of it.

4 - days out. I'll either go for a long walk to one of our many parks in Aberdeen, the beach or Torry Battery and I'll also get on a bus or a train and go somewhere in the shire or elsewhere in Scotland depending on what I feel like doing. Sometimes I book day trips through local companies selected photos this way from old days out.

5 - audiobooks. My favourite way to read. I'm severely dyslexic and so ridiculously slow with books that when I started getting audiobooks in the post from RNIB it was a game changer for me because I could read a book in a few hours rather than spending weeks reading one sentence. It has taken me almost three months to hit 50 pages of Jeri Taylor's Mosaic and that is for fic research purposes more than a casual read but even with notetaking I expected to be further into it and unfortunately as much as I love Kate, I bounced hard off of the audiobook of it.

6 - one clue crossword. I play this game on my iPad but I have to limit myself to one puzzle a day or I run out very quickly and the developers aren't the quickest at updating this game or their other puzzle games.

7 - working in a pub. Until last summer I'd worked in adult social care for 25 years (give or take) and done everything and after been off for ages (fractured ankle and toe), when I went back there was incidents and unpleasantness so I finally bailed for reasons. Also SSSC and Care Inspectorate want scrapped and restarted from scratch but with input from those who actually do the work and not somebody in Holyrood who has never set foot into a social care setting in their life. *ahem* after I got out I had a couple of months doing absolutely nothing which was great because I felt very burned out for obvious reasons then I got cracking on the job applications and at the beginning of this year I got offered a job in a pub and I really enjoy it more than I thought I would.

8 - Star Trek: Voyager. Show has been my *favourite Star Trek since it started on BBC2 when I was in high school (year 7 or year 8 I think) and I watched it all, then I dipped in and out whenever it got repeated over the years on various telly channels. Two years ago when I was getting sick a lot (aka chest infections hell!) I fell back in to this show so hard and have barely come back up for air since, this time around I'm finally shipping Janeway/Chakotay after years of being "yeah, I see it, not really feeling it" and now it's like "yeah, feeling it all" :) maybe it's an old age thing (not that 41 is old but some days...) and on the back of falling hard into it I've got an ongoing series that I update whenever a new fic or meta is ready and most of my fic, wallpapers and icons are Voyager with some Prodigy thrown in too because it is a natural successor to Voyager and I'm still mad about it's second time cancellation and there are not enough middle fingers on my hands for Paramount.
*I've watched almost all of them although I need to go back to Discovery, Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks at some point because previous attempts to watch those were not successful.

9 - cinema. I got to the cinema a lot and with Sky offering two tickets each month I try to use those codes up first then pay for at least one more film so that I get to see three films each month and Vue are excellent value with £5 tickets. I also keep an eye out for the eventually reopening Belmont Cinema offering free film events at Cowdray Hall because that is an excellent choice for these things, I watched It's A Wonderful Life there just before Christmas and it was such a good way to spend part of the afternoon.

10 - rhinos. My precious babies. They have been my favourite animals for so long that I legit cannot remember when I got all obsessed with them. I have a little collection of Rhino cuddly todays and other trinkets but space and storage are a major issue in my home (bedsits are too small even for one person!) so I have to quite selective with what I add to the collection. One of my rhino cuddly toys travels all over the world with me and those rare times I forget him, my travels feel wrong somehow.

creative prompt

hmm, can't think of anything just yet :)

Challenge #3 - Journaling prompt: What are your favourite summer-associated foods?

Creative prompt: Draw art of or make graphics of summer foods, or post your favourite summer recipes. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

journal prompt:
During summer I'm partial to a solero especially the exotic flavour. I'm not all that keen on ice cream so it's quite a thing for me to actually like one, I prefer ice pops and ice lollys.

While I make it more during the summer mushroom and leek spaghetti is something that I tend to eat year round because it's so quick and easy to make which is always a bonus for someone with my disabilities and I can use pre-slice frozen veg to make too.

creative prompt:

I'm pretty sure I made summery/seasonal icons of foods during the old sunshine and I'm also quite sure I've done some for fan_flashworks too. I'll look throuhg my icons tag and stock tag later on and come back with some linkys.

I wasn't really planning on doing things for sunshine_revival but I am for now :)

Challenge #1 - Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.

Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community.. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

journal prompt:

I'm quite active on DW and post most days, under f-lock because that's what I've always done form my earliest days on LJ in 2002 or so and haven't really wanted to changed that other the years either. Basically, the windows are open and doors on the snib so just come in for a bit if you want to :)
There is a handfull of public posts and the one's tagged welcome to cat's dw are probably the main ones to read with it having the intro post and my sort of but not quite policy on public posts too. I think those are some of stickys too actually, been a while since I looked logged out.

creative prompt:

I'm severely dyslexic and I write fan fic, make icons and wallpapers, occasionally I'll make videos and fanmixes/fic playlists. All of these can be found over at alittleimprobable and if you want a specific fandom, character or whatever then the tags list is the place to look but I do not tag by pairings because those took up way too much space and more so for the one and done fandoms than the fandoms I write in more frequently. As always, feel free to subscribe to any tags that are of interest to you and of course posting frequency varies from several times a week to maybe one or two a month. I do also crosspost to Squidge and AO3 but tend to be slower at that and not everything I create ends up getting posted to the archives anyway.

During an early round of communal_creators one of my chosen projects was to work on a dolls wardrobe for Sam, one of my two Barbie dolls and I recently got around to posting the photos and doing a bit of a write up of the project more generally. I do have enough left over to make a wardrobe for Daniel but I haven't got around to it as yet because the first one was quite time consuming. It's this way :)