Reality Bites – DORK TOWER 06.04.26
Apr. 6th, 2026 05:00 am
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Beam: Miss Marple: Fanfic: From Dust to Thimbles
Apr. 6th, 2026 05:08 pmTitle: From Dust to Thimbles
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: G
Length: 3 x 100 word drabbles
Summary: Miss Marple finds dust, a lot thimble, and the solution to a problem
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: G
Length: 3 x 100 word drabbles
Summary: Miss Marple finds dust, a lot thimble, and the solution to a problem
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Apr. 6th, 2026 11:47 amI still have a bunch of sections I'm ??? about, but I think I've figured out the start and ending sections of the ClaireBell fanvid I've been working on!
Just one thing: 6 April 2026
Apr. 6th, 2026 06:44 amIt's challenge time!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!
Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!
Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
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Apr. 6th, 2026 06:57 amupadhi (Sanskrit: उपाधि)
noun
In Hindu philosophy and Vedanta, a factor that appears to condition or limit something else without actually altering its true nature.
example
1. The duality of life as we experience it is not a feature of life as it is; it is imposed by the makeup of the mind itself. It is an upadhi, an apparent limitation imposed on reality by each level of the mind. "Our Real Nature." Blue Mountain Center of Meditation Journal. Spring 2025. Eknath Easwaran.
origin
The term is derived from "upa" (near) and "dhi" (transfers), indicating that an upadhi transfers its apparent qualities to another entity due to proximity, creating a false identification. It is often described as a colored glass placed before a clear crystal: the crystal (representing the Self or pure Awareness) seems colored, but in reality, it remains unchanged.

noun
In Hindu philosophy and Vedanta, a factor that appears to condition or limit something else without actually altering its true nature.
example
1. The duality of life as we experience it is not a feature of life as it is; it is imposed by the makeup of the mind itself. It is an upadhi, an apparent limitation imposed on reality by each level of the mind. "Our Real Nature." Blue Mountain Center of Meditation Journal. Spring 2025. Eknath Easwaran.
origin
The term is derived from "upa" (near) and "dhi" (transfers), indicating that an upadhi transfers its apparent qualities to another entity due to proximity, creating a false identification. It is often described as a colored glass placed before a clear crystal: the crystal (representing the Self or pure Awareness) seems colored, but in reality, it remains unchanged.
2026 April AO3 Hits Meme
Apr. 5th, 2026 07:35 pm2011; 2012; 2013; 2014; 2015; 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2020; 2021; 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Once again I used
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Apr. 5th, 2026 07:56 pmI remember my grandparents having gorgeous marbleized looking dyed Easter Eggs and I kinda want to see if I can recreate that sometime. I wasn't there for the dying process, so I'm not sure it it involved dying them in stages, or if was more similar to marbleizing paper (with different dyes floating on the surface of water/oil).
第五年第八十五天
Apr. 6th, 2026 08:38 am部首
水 parts 12-17
泪, tears; 泰, safe/Thailand; 泳, to swim; 泵, pump; 洁, clean; 洋, ocean; 洗, to wash; 洞, cave; 洪, flood; 活, to live/work; 派, group/to send/pie; 流, to flow; 浅, shallow; 测, to measure; 浑, muddy/all over; 浓, concentrated/dense; 浪, wave; 浮, to float
( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=85
语法
3.17 part 2 Rhetorical questions with question words
3.18 part 1: Directional complements
3.18 part 2 Directional complements, non-literal: 下去,上去,出来,过来
https://www.digmandarin.com/hsk-3-grammar
词汇
耳机, earphones
二手, second-hand
发挥, to develop; 发票, invoice; 发烧, to run a fever
法, law/method/rule; 法官, judge; 法律, law; 法院, court; 没法(儿), no way; 无法, cannot; 语法, grammar
翻, to turn; 翻译, to translate
烦, bother
( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/
玩玩
起舞吧 (十个勤天), in case anyone else could use some extra energy; 告一段落 (Bai Yu), because I thought of it the other day; and初醒 (Zhou Shen).
四月都来了…我都加了一岁…时间如箭呀。大家过得怎么样?好好照顾自己啊。
水 parts 12-17
泪, tears; 泰, safe/Thailand; 泳, to swim; 泵, pump; 洁, clean; 洋, ocean; 洗, to wash; 洞, cave; 洪, flood; 活, to live/work; 派, group/to send/pie; 流, to flow; 浅, shallow; 测, to measure; 浑, muddy/all over; 浓, concentrated/dense; 浪, wave; 浮, to float
( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=85
语法
3.17 part 2 Rhetorical questions with question words
3.18 part 1: Directional complements
3.18 part 2 Directional complements, non-literal: 下去,上去,出来,过来
https://www.digmandarin.com/hsk-3-grammar
词汇
耳机, earphones
二手, second-hand
发挥, to develop; 发票, invoice; 发烧, to run a fever
法, law/method/rule; 法官, judge; 法律, law; 法院, court; 没法(儿), no way; 无法, cannot; 语法, grammar
翻, to turn; 翻译, to translate
烦, bother
( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/
玩玩
起舞吧 (十个勤天), in case anyone else could use some extra energy; 告一段落 (Bai Yu), because I thought of it the other day; and初醒 (Zhou Shen).
四月都来了…我都加了一岁…时间如箭呀。大家过得怎么样?好好照顾自己啊。
[ SECRET POST #7030 ]
Apr. 5th, 2026 05:37 pm⌈ Secret Post #7030 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 35 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1004.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
fic authors, stop telling me things, I don't want to know them. apparently.
Apr. 5th, 2026 03:09 pmA fic I'm subscribed to updated for the first time in a over a year. I read the update. I notice there is no lengthly author's note explaining the absense. The person posts another chapter. No note.
I discover, to my surprise, a deep feeling of relief. How nice, how truly refreshing, not to have this. To just treat it normally and update the fic.
Especially because a lot of times I'll read a fic and there will be all these notes apologizing for not updating "on time" (no schedule has ever been mentioned), or being "late" (ditto). And long apologies for plenty of things. And I'm reading the fic after it was finished, all in one go. These notes are not relevant anymore.
And all sites have their own customs regarding author's notes, and ao3 gets to have its own because of its own dedicated author's notes section, which unlike ffn, is a seperate part of the page. So ao3 notes tend to get long. And that is the custom of the website.
So to see someone not engage in that, and just post the fic and not flagellate to the audience. That was nice. I was very glad to see that. It felt restful.
Then I catch up on the newly posted chapters, and behold, there is the lengthly explanation of why there was no update for a year, and then in another chapter is an argument about people saying things in the comments (and I feel like some of the people the author is annoyed with are spambots), and you know at least in ffn, when you wanted to respond to commenters you did it by name. Was that better? No it was not. But if you want to respond to commenters, you can just respond to them. Most people reading a fic do not dip into reading other people's commenters. So you're just highlighting something people would not otherwise see.
But ugh. It really was so nice not to have an author feel they need to apologize to me for posting fanfiction, in a timeline of their own choosing, which is their hobby. You don't owe me an apology! You don't owe me an explanation! It's your fic, not your job.
Slo-Mo Rewatch: schedule update
Apr. 5th, 2026 08:39 pmYou may have noticed that we've taken a break from the rewatch for a bit longer than originally planned, but we're ready to get back in the saddle!
The Slo-Mo Rewatch will continue next week with the second half of episode 13. Upcoming:
(I'm so looking forward to revisiting this episode! :D)
Here is our updated schedule - please consider hosting a post if you can:
Weekend of 10 April - episode 13 from 21:43
Weekend of 17 April - episode 14 up to 21:05
Weekend of 24 April - episode 14 from 21:05
Weekend of 1 May - episode 15 up to 23:56
Weekend of 8 May - episode 15 from 23:56
The Slo-Mo Rewatch will continue next week with the second half of episode 13. Upcoming:
- Ying Chun and Ya Qing!
- "I thought we were friends."
- ENVOY REVEAL :D
(I'm so looking forward to revisiting this episode! :D)
Here is our updated schedule - please consider hosting a post if you can:
Weekend of 10 April - episode 13 from 21:43
Weekend of 17 April - episode 14 up to 21:05
Weekend of 24 April - episode 14 from 21:05
Weekend of 1 May - episode 15 up to 23:56
Weekend of 8 May - episode 15 from 23:56
GOTH: Fanfic: beams of silence which is (the skin)
Apr. 5th, 2026 09:19 amFandom: GOTH - Otsuichi
Rating: T
Length: 100 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: The title is from The house and the birds by Sonia Bueno, translated by James Womack.
Summary: Kamiyama thinks that other teenaged boys have no taste.
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Rating: T
Length: 100 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: The title is from The house and the birds by Sonia Bueno, translated by James Womack.
Summary: Kamiyama thinks that other teenaged boys have no taste.
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Spring 2026 Round Signups Open!
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