A heartbreaking program, one that he was practically compelled to compete with knee injury to fight for the 3 Olympic spots for Japan’s mens.
Just a few months before, he was booed on the podium and received a lot of death threats + insults for winning against a seasoned skater in JNats. Yet he does not feel hatred towards them, and embraced the expectations and responsibilities of a JNats champion. He fought till the very end, and together, they succeeded in securing 3 spots for the JPN mens.
Here’s some Hanukkah-themed prompts for the Tolkien fandom! Feel free to create for as many as you want to, whether it’s one or all eight, in any mode of fannish expression– fic, meta, art, fanmix, etc.
You do not have to be Jewish to create for them nor do you have to post your fanwork(s) during Hanukkah.
1. Victory against difficult odds 2. Gambling games 3. Candlelight 4. Oil and/or fried foods 5. Minority cultures or subcultures 6. Strength and resilience 7. Miracle(s) 8. Different people but all one nation
I missed this before. Looks like fun.
Encouraging people to follow me on Dreamwidth (https://heartofoshun.dreamwidth.org/). Although it’s mostly locked there is perhaps enough there to give you an idea of whom I am. I’m a liberal friender. You can take a look. Although, it’s mainly locked for bad grammar and the occasional unflattering whining about my personal life–I don’t have much of a filter. I am friendly and post often. I do not want to lose Tumblr friends!!
FANDOM WRITING: Silmarillion fiction, Tolkien meta/non-fiction; other fiction includes Lord of the Rings, Mary Renault (both Ancient Greece and modern novels), Shakespeare (especially the history plays), Goblin Emperor, Ellen Kushner/Swordspoint-Riverside novels, Captive Prince, Queen’s Thief novels and lots of other things. Writing a Yuletide fic at the moment and am up to my eyebrows in a figure skating RPF; also have a handful of published and unpublished other long WIPs mainly Silm fic. (Check for my assorted fiction on AO3Oshun). My goal in fanfiction is to publish all my unfinished fics—it’s a race against time and sloth.
Other interests: writing and talking about it, living in Brooklyn/New York City, history, medievalism, history of the English language, figure skating (especially Yuzuru Hanyu), travel writing, fantasy art, fanart (!). Read much more widely than I write. Love Yuri on Ice and history of science, archeology, dance, and Netflix. An addictive reader and re-reader. I spend more time reading than my grandson spends playing Fortnite. Read cookbooks like they were novels—generally cook a lot, without recipes. Post food pictures! Talk about my daughter and my grandson and post pictures of my personal life. I might post about anything. I will comment on your posts also.
From a recent post by the people behind Dreamwidth. Remember that DW are anti-censorship and even stopped using Paypal for paid features because Paypal demanded censorship that DW couldn’t tolerate. Also there are many image hosting sites now, including google photos, imgur, cloudinary, instagram, etc. Bolding is mine.
With the new update to Tumblr’s community guidelines announcing that they will no longer permit adult content on their site, we’d like to take a moment to reassure all y’all that we have your backs. With a very few exceptions (such as spam and the like), if it’s legal under US law, it’s okay to post here. We’re 100% user-supported, with no advertisers and no venture capitalists to please, and that means we’re here for you, not for shady conglomerates that buy up your data and use it in nefarious ways.
Tumblr’s definition of “adult content” seems to be inherently visual, and I also wanted to remind people that we do have basic image hosting. (It’s definitely not as slick and easy to use as Tumblr’s, I won’t lie, but it does exist.) If you want to include images in your posts, you can upload them and the site will give you HTML that you can paste into your entry. Or, if you have post-by-email set up, just attach the image to the end of your email and it’ll be posted. All users have a 500MB image hosting quota right now. I know that’s small for people looking for a place to host NSFW image blogs, but we are reviewing usage statistics to see if we can increase it, or at least make it possible for people to pay for more quota like you can for more icons.
For those asking whether we have a mobile app: we don’t at the moment! There are many (soooooo many) prerequisites that we have to do first, which we’ve been working on but haven’t yet finished, because we’re dealing with a lot of systems and architecture decisions that were made nearly 20 years ago by now. (A mobile app would also be subject to the same censorship pressure Tumblr faced – it’s looking pretty good that Apple taking the Tumblr app out of the App Store was the proximate cause of Tumblr’s content guidelines change, and Apple is notoriously strict on apps for sites that allow user-generated content – so even once we have one, it’s even odds on how long it’ll be able to stay available for certain platforms.) We’ve been trying to improve the website’s experience on small screens in the meantime, and that’s an ongoing project that we’ll do our best to devote some more attention to over the next few months.
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Encouraging people to follow me on Dreamwidth (https://heartofoshun.dreamwidth.org/). Although it’s mostly locked there is perhaps enough there to give you an idea of whom I am. I’m a liberal friender. You can take a look. Although, it’s mainly locked for bad grammar and the occasional unflattering whining about my personal life–I don’t have much of a filter. I am friendly and post often. I do not want to lose Tumblr friends!!
FANDOM WRITING: Silmarillion fiction, Tolkien meta/non-fiction; other fiction includes Lord of the Rings, Mary Renault (both Ancient Greece and modern novels), Shakespeare (especially the history plays), Goblin Emperor, Ellen Kushner/Swordspoint-Riverside novels, Captive Prince, Queen’s Thief novels and lots of other things. Writing a Yuletide fic at the moment and am up to my eyebrows in an figure skating RPF; also have a handful of published and unpublished other long WIPs mainly Silm fic. (Check for my assorted fiction on AO3Oshun). My goal in fanfiction is to publish all my unfinished fics—it’s a race against time and sloth.
Other interests: writing and talking about it, living in Brooklyn/New York City, history, medievalism, history of the English language, figure skating (especially Yuzuru Hanyu), travel writing, fantasy art, fanart (!). Read much more widely than I write. Love Yuri on Ice and history of science, archeology, dance, and Netflix. An addictive reader and re-reader. I spend more time reading than my grandson spends playing Fortnite. Read cookbooks like they were novels—generally cook a lot, without recipes. Post food pictures! Talk about my daughter and my grandson and post pictures of my personal life. I might post about anything. I will comment on your posts also.
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