#DAYBOOK

[garethschweitzer]

Anne Truitt on selling art

[joshbales]

Daybook 04mar24

Back home. We traveled all day yesterday, getting in late last night. It was a smooth drive: no calamities or misfortunes otherwise befell us. I took today off work to catch up on things and generally try to get my life in order, which includes humbly paying for the sins of last week. So: visiting the dentist and spectacle shop to get my sleep apnea mouth appliance and glasses repaired,…

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

The first time Brooke Rhapsody’s daybook appears on screen,

there’s virtually not a single entry in it, because she’s yet to spend time with the Inspector.

[devonellington]

Tues. Feb. 28, 2023: Yup, It's Snowing

image courtesy of Alain Audet  via pixabay.com Tuesday, February 28, 2023 Waxing Moon Snow and cold I hope you had a lovely weekend. We can curl up and have a nice natter now. The February wrap-up is posted over on the GDR site. I ran out of ink again on Friday morning. I really need to get the laser printer fixed. Finding someone who is qualified to repair it AND who will come to the house…

[tranquilbusinesssolutions]

What is a cash book? How to use a cash book in accounting? It is a financial journal that contains complete details of all cash transactions. A cash account is an account within a general ledger. Check out the detailed guide regarding both.

[betasuppe]

One of my fave Tron & Rinz drawings together♡ really shows how sad the floop in Rinz's hair is & how much of a stark diff there is between them.

Anyways, the bOYS♡♡♡

[el3ctraaa]

A web weaving but it's actually just excerpts from my diary when I was in highschool.

[whatithinkaboutdarkshadows]

Episode 450: That man who says he is Barnabas

Haughty overlord Joshua Collins and his long-term house-guest the Countess DuPrés have summoned good witch Bathia Mapes to lift the curse that has made Joshua’s son Barnabas a vampire. Meanwhile, Barnabas has bitten his second cousin Millicent and gone to the waterfront to find another victim. Bloggers Danny Horn, Patrick McCray, and John and Christine Scoleri have said so much so well about this…

[bookwyrminspiration]

got miffed thinking about vespera's signature again, so decided to try and figure out some kind of writing system that looked similar but could. theoretically. maybe work

however. did it very informally and neglected to include r in the bank of sounds I was using. so I had to transcribe it vespewa

[garethschweitzer]

Anne Truitt- Daybook

[primatechnosynthpop]

Currently at the stage of my creative writing class where I'm largely putting fanfic-adjacent stuff in my daybook but hiding behind plausible deniability by not using any characters' names

[broodhollowan]

The shared Ichor Falls/Broodhollow forest, the Stillwood.

Later expeditions into the Stillwood showed that the forest floor is incredibly thick with vegetation, with tall, rail-thin trees making most passage exceedingly difficult. Add to this three similarly-curving creeks and streams flowing off the Erytheia, the natural sound-dampening of the trees, and foliage sometimes so thick that it blocks the sky, and you have a recipe for losing one’s way quite easily.

In 1806, settler Elijah Brown became lost for two days in what would later be named the Stillwood Forest, a deceptively-small wooded area southwest of Ichor Falls proper. When he returned to the town, Brown was gaunt, dehydrated and starving to the point of near death, and insisted that he was lost not for two days but nine. He also had carefully kept journal entries with the rise and set of the sun, and indeed he had made nine of them. Exhaustion and confusion clearly played a factor in augmenting Brown’s story — and of course, after a hard winter, there’s no record of how dehydrated and starved Brown may have been before getting lost.

However, the Stillwood still carries the stigma of being invisibly endless. The legend of the Stillwood King started, interestingly enough, almost immediately after Brown’s return.

Contrary to popular belief, it was not Brown’s story that evolved him into the spooky figure of legend as time passed, but his experience probably did inspire it. Historians believe either teachers at a schoolhouse bordering the Stillwood, or parents of the attending children, cooked up the legend to keep kids from wandering into the dangerous woods and getting lost.

The legend says that Brown was not the first person to get lost in the Stillwood, but another man entered its wooded labyrinth hundreds of years before. Time doesn’t work in the Stillwood the same way it does outside of it, and the longer you’re trapped, the longer it seems, even if you’ve only been gone a few days in the real world.

That first victim became a permanent part of the Stillwood. He never found his way back home and should have starved to death, but the Stillwood wouldn’t let its King die — so it slowed his heart to a crawl along with the rest of him. They say it beats once per day, and that he can’t move more than a foot in an hour.

When he’s alone, that is.

His clothes are ragged and torn, and he looks more like a bone-white cadaver than a man. He screams and cries for help, but no one outside can hear him, and over the centuries, his screams have become silent. And as he stalks among the dead leaves in exhaustion, praying for death to come, the Stillwood becomes a little more a part of him. His blood is creek-water and moss, and his skin is the color of mushroom caps.

They say if you ever find yourself in the Stillwood, you have to be careful where you look. You see, the fact that no one sees him is what disconnected the Stillwood King from the normal passage of time. He is as slow and silent as the Stillwood itself — that is, until your eyes fall upon him.

You may catch a sliver of white through a stand of trees, thinking it to be a crop of mushrooms growing up the side of an old oak. But if it’s the King, you’ll see that white shape spin around instantly, revealing two sunken black eyes and a saw-edged mouth locked in a scream. Now you will hear him.

And now, now he will be quick, and loud, and all the things he can’t be when no one else is there. He has been waiting for this for a long time, and while you are looking at him, he’ll move with all the pent-up time the Stillwood has stolen from him, has saved for him, and he will be upon you almost faster than you can blink.

Almost, the legend says. So if you see what looks like a crop of mushrooms as tall as a man in the distance, don’t stop to think, don’t run, do nothing except shut your eyes. The Stillwood King already knows you’re there, and the forest is no obstacle to him when he’s fast. He may now be only inches from you — but if you’ve shut your eyes in time, that’s where he’ll stay. Turn completely around, with your eyes still shut tight, and pray that he wasn’t fast enough to run behind you in that blink.

Now. Feel your way through the forest, around the thin, close, brittle trees, and over the dead leaves, which will seem oddly quiet. In case he has positioned himself for you to come to him, change direction just once. Don’t open your eyes until you’ve gone at least the same distance as the King was from you, when you first saw him.

With luck, you’ll leave him trapped again, his heart beating once a day, his movement only a foot an hour.

But if, with your eyes shut, you slowly press against a wet, shambling thing that smells like moss and creek-water, and feels like mushroom caps, open your eyes.

So it will be quick.

Although there was no other evidence to support strange goings-on other than a host of tall tales involving secret villages and mythical creatures, settlers avoided the Stillwood for generations. Even when mass logging began in the 1870s, the Stillwood was spared. It remains the oldest growth of all surrounding forests, although much of the other treeline has returned to Ichor Falls today, due to the halting of the logging trade and town evacuation in the late 1940s.

[devonellington]

Fri. Feb. 24, 2023: More Bad Weather

image courtesy of Nile via pixabay.com Friday, February 24, 2023 Waxing Moon Snowy and cold I baked bread yesterday, and, to my delight, it turned out well. It’s one of my favorite recipes, but sometimes it doesn’t work. This time it did, and it was wonderful. The yeast bloomed well, the crumb is good, the taste is delightful. Worked on Legerdemain. Revised the next set of episodes to be…

[nonconformityhub]

Aroace Experiences We Don't Talk About Enough (Infographic)

(If you're interested in a blog where aspecs can talk about experiences like this, I've since made an aspec venting space!)

Icon Credits: hands with hearts - @blackholemojis face holding flag - @sammywammyclone paw - @paw-pride hug - @eldritch-emojis gem - @genderdoomed

Some @'s for reach: @our-aroace-experience @gray-ace-space @aroaceculture @acespec-ed @acexualien @cordwaner @asexualadvice @aromantic-diaries @aroacespecsafeplace @arospec-daybook

[nalsardaybook]

sept. 18th, 2023

— D-02: feeling a little alive, reaching out to people i held off on

waves flow, workflow

to work on family law (and finish yest's target !)

same with moot work in the afternoon, working on a draft at least for issue A and contrasting it with the facts (at least 2 hrs focused on it)

finally, contracts - starting on A.S. Agency + partnership digest (this in the evening since it's not heavy heavy)

and then some eco depending on my brain

and DEFINITELY a walk today evening, ask about the library (?)

did you look at the ocean today? i dream of it. i feel alive. a little lost but stumbling towards direction.

closing up the lighthouse (thoughts)

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Book

beautiful words with "book" to try to include in your poem/story

Bookbag - a bag or sack (such as a knapsack) often with a handle or strap that is used for holding books and other items

Bookbinding - the art or trade of binding books

Bookend - a support placed at the end of a row of books

Bookery - archaic: library; bookstore

Booketeria - a self-service bookstore

Bookish - fond of books and reading; inclined to rely on book knowledge

Bookless - without books; having no books; unlearned, unscholarly

Booklist - a reading list of books having some unifying feature

Booklore - book learning

Bookplate - a book owner's identification label that is usually pasted to the inside front cover of a book

Booksy - affectedly or pretentiously intellectual

Bookwork - the manufacture of books as distinct from newspaper or magazine printing or from job work; work that involves the use of books

Bookworm - a person unusually devoted to reading and study

Daybook - diary, journal

Matchbook - a small folder containing rows of paper matches

Nonbook - being something other than a book

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or leave a link in the replies. I would love to read them!

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