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May. 29th, 2025 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
musycA couple of times a year I go through my social media and prune down my following list on each site. When I realize that I'm avoiding looking at a particular page because it's TOO MUCH, it's time.
This past week I've gone through Tumblr, Twitter, and Dreamwidth (removing comms I always skip past). Instagram, I basically don't look at anyway but I'm removing the app later. Facebook is ... well, I only follow five things there so it's not like it's a trial. XD And Bluesky I haven't yet reached the point where I don't ever want to look at it.
I'm very rigid about keeping all my socmeds (minus DW) below fifty follows wherever possible, and moving what I can to my RSS reader. It helps the mental clutter, and eases the FOMO.
This past week I've gone through Tumblr, Twitter, and Dreamwidth (removing comms I always skip past). Instagram, I basically don't look at anyway but I'm removing the app later. Facebook is ... well, I only follow five things there so it's not like it's a trial. XD And Bluesky I haven't yet reached the point where I don't ever want to look at it.
I'm very rigid about keeping all my socmeds (minus DW) below fifty follows wherever possible, and moving what I can to my RSS reader. It helps the mental clutter, and eases the FOMO.
Not long 'til posting
May. 28th, 2025 03:35 pmliadt posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
unconventionalcourtshipPosting starts in June! I hope all is going well and for the undecided sign ups don't close until the 10th June.
Mary Oliver: "Red Bird", "Invitation"
May. 28th, 2025 11:56 amhalfcactus posting in poetry2 poems from Mary Oliver's Red Bird collection.
Red bird came all winter
firing up the landscape
as nothing else could.
Of course I love the sparrows,
those dun-colored darlings,
so hungry and so many.
I am a God-fearing feeder of birds.
I know He has many children,
not all of them bold in spirit.
Still, for whatever reason—
perhaps, because the winter is so long
and the sky so black-blue
or perhaps because the heart narrows
as often as it opens—
I am grateful
that red bird comes all winter
firing up the landscape
as nothing can do.
Oh do you have time
to linger
for just a little while
out of your busy
and very important day
for the goldfinches
that have gathered
in a field of thistle
for a musical battle,
to see who can sing
the highest note,
or the lowest,
or the most expressive of mirth,
or the most tender?
Their strong, blunt beaks
drink the air
as they strive
melodiously
not for your sake
and not for mine
and not for the sake of winning
but for the sheer delight and gratitude—
believe us, they say,
it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in this broken world.
I beg of you,
do not walk by
without pausing
to attend to this
rather ridiculous performance.
It could mean something.
It could mean everything.
It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote:
You must change your life.
Red Bird
Red bird came all winter
firing up the landscape
as nothing else could.
Of course I love the sparrows,
those dun-colored darlings,
so hungry and so many.
I am a God-fearing feeder of birds.
I know He has many children,
not all of them bold in spirit.
Still, for whatever reason—
perhaps, because the winter is so long
and the sky so black-blue
or perhaps because the heart narrows
as often as it opens—
I am grateful
that red bird comes all winter
firing up the landscape
as nothing can do.
Invitation
Oh do you have time
to linger
for just a little while
out of your busy
and very important day
for the goldfinches
that have gathered
in a field of thistle
for a musical battle,
to see who can sing
the highest note,
or the lowest,
or the most expressive of mirth,
or the most tender?
Their strong, blunt beaks
drink the air
as they strive
melodiously
not for your sake
and not for mine
and not for the sake of winning
but for the sheer delight and gratitude—
believe us, they say,
it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in this broken world.
I beg of you,
do not walk by
without pausing
to attend to this
rather ridiculous performance.
It could mean something.
It could mean everything.
It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote:
You must change your life.
Signups Open
May. 25th, 2025 10:08 pmjamez posting in epidemficSignups are open for the 2025 round. For more information about requests, offers, and matching, please see the Rules and FAQ post.
Requested and offered tags must come from the Relationships Tagset and the Freeforms Tagset. If a tag doesn't appear in the dropdown menus in the signup form, but does appear in the tagset, please copy and paste it over from the tagset.
Thank you to our tagmods for helping out with nominations!
Requested and offered tags must come from the Relationships Tagset and the Freeforms Tagset. If a tag doesn't appear in the dropdown menus in the signup form, but does appear in the tagset, please copy and paste it over from the tagset.
Thank you to our tagmods for helping out with nominations!
Just Married 2025 Schedule
May. 25th, 2025 04:47 pmjustmarriedmod posting in justmarriedexchange
Just Married is a marriage-themed multifandom exchange for marriage tropes of all kinds: convenient, accidental, undercover, arranged, forced, and so on.
Participants will write a complete fic of least 1500 words and receive a complete fic of at least 1500 words in return. Fanart is also accepted in this exchange, and the minimum requirement is clean lineart on unlined paper. Podfic requirements are a complete recording of 1500 words or 10 minutes in length. Matching will be done on fandom, relationship, medium, and marriage trope freeforms.
Exchange updates will be posted to this community. To contact the mods, please email marriageex@gmail.com, or PM the mod DW account
justmarriedmod.Links: Rules and FAQ | AO3 Collection | Tagset
Tagset update for 2025: By request, the A/B/O category has been renamed Omegaverse. One tag had to be shortened to fit the character limit (A/B/O - Alpha/Alpha mating bond assumed impossible but A&B accidentally do it; considered married -> Omegaverse - Alpha/Alpha mating bond assumed impossible; A&B accidentally do it; considered married.) All other tags remain the same aside from the category change.
2025 Schedule:
Nominations: Jun 1 - Jun 10
Signups: Jun 12 - Jun 22
Assignments out by: Jun 24
Creations Due: Aug 17
Works revealed: Aug 24
Creators revealed: Aug 31
Please note that all schedule deadlines are 11:59pm UTC time. To convert UTC to your time zone, click here, adjust the date as necessary, and click “add a city or time zone.”