Check-In Post - June 9th 2026

Jun. 9th, 2026 07:09 pm
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: What kinds of organizers do you like to hold your arts and crafts supplies?


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



TV Tuesday: Style of Gab

Jun. 9th, 2026 11:38 am
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Laptop-TV combo with DVDs on top and smartphone on the desk



An article last month credited social media with exposing viewers to regional accents that may have been erased on TV. How do you feel about shows that feature accents/dialects different from your own?

Do you sometimes find it difficult to follow the dialogue/story? Does it make a difference depending on the genre of the show?

Magpie Monday

Jun. 9th, 2026 01:57 am
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[personal profile] dialecticdreamer is doing Magpie Monday with a theme of "Kitchen Fixes."  Leave prompts, get ficlets!

Top Five Songs & This or That

Jun. 8th, 2026 08:25 pm
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šŸŽ™ļøI was tagged on tumblr to list my five current favorite songs. These are the ones I've been listening to non-stop lately. šŸŽ§ I'm not really seeing a pattern among them.

Dear Diary - We Three
What This Could Be - Joe Jonas OR Heart by Heart. I go back and forth.
Evolve - 5 Seconds of Summer
Not at This Party - Dasha
Sorry I'm Here for Someone Else - Benson Boone
*Honorable Mention: The Weather - All Time Low

And here's the This or That: Tropes addition. Feel free to copy/paste if you want to play!

slow burn or love at first sight // fake dating or secret dating // enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers // there’s only one bed or long-distance correspondence // hurt/comfort or amnesia // fantasy au or modern au // mutual pining or domestic bliss // smut or fluff // canon-compliant or fix-it // reincarnation or character death// one-shot or multi-chapter // kid fic or road trip fic // arranged marriage or accidental marriage // high-school romance or middle-age romance // time travel or isolated together // neighbors or roommates // sci-fi au or magic au // body swap or gender bent // angst or crack // apocalyptic or mundane

Time travel & isolated together - far too hard to pick! I love them both. With the others, I liked one slightly above the other in most cases.

Firmament of Glass by Vievee Francis

Jun. 8th, 2026 11:11 pm
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Morning, the glistening
grass draws me into the day,
as if new meant separate
from the day before—

and I, having that human part
that can be transfixed by bauble or blade,
limp out again, a believer,
into memory’s emerald glint.


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Link
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is that it was too big for the planter, and now it's broken the pot and we may not be able to save the plant :(

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So excited!

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Thrill rides.

Jun. 8th, 2026 09:45 pm
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There's an elegance to a pristine film print, whether it's new or kept in good condition, where you can lean in and see the grain and take in the depth and breadth of the color. There's also a wonder to an older print that's been seen many times before, where you see the scratches and the flecks and the flickers, and when it hits just right, it's almost a living thing breathing in the dark with you - and because you see the film stock itself, you understand it's all the more real because you know it's a story, and it's easy to fall in love with a story.

Miracle Mile was playing as part of Bleak Week at a local theater. I knew what kicked off the plot, so taking that with it being Bleak Week, I had a good idea of where the movie was going, but not how it'd get there. I'd had one too many cups of coffee today and took an electric bike over to the theater, which unintentionally put me in exactly the right kind of excited state to focus and let myself be carried along by a very tightly told story that knew how to keep me engaged the whole time.

There was still a bit of light in the west when I left the theater. I took a regular bike back, enjoying the smooth ride. On my way there, I'd passed by the Lincoln Center premiere of Disclosure Day, and some of the installations were still there hours later. I'm seeing that one later this week, too. I expect it'll make for a curious double feature. I don't think it'll be a Killer of Sheep/Sinners experience, but it looks like there's enough in common to work as a conversation.
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Today in Jazz tells me this was recorded today in 1939.

June 8 - movie time!

Jun. 8th, 2026 06:44 pm
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What's the first movie you actually know you saw in theater?

As possibly a warning to all parents out there, unexpected runaway hit sci-fi movies can imprint themselves on toddlers brains.

Star Wars, retroactively Star Wars: A New Hope, was the first movie that I formed conscious memories around. This was tested at a re-release, when I began telling my dad what was going to happen next. Granted, I was also 'helpfully' translating for Artoo, as I imprinted strongest on him.

I was not quite 2. I know it was not the first I saw in theater; my mother bemoaned the fact that I slept through a re-release of Sleeping Beauty EXCEPT for the dragon.

I do not have the memory of seeing SW in theater myself NOW. But it was family lore that I did know the full plot and character names at that re-release, so I accept it as the first I formed memories of.

Economics

Jun. 8th, 2026 05:07 pm
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SpaceX rejected in attempt to get listed in the S&P 500 index! Bodes ill for AI IPOs...

As you may have heard, SpaceX has filed to do an IPO (initial public offering [of stock shares]) and go on the stock market. Lots and lots of people are salivating, perhaps Leon Muskbrat most of all. They also filed with the New York Stock Exchange for a quick listing on the Standard & Poor 500 stock market index.

And they were rejected to get listed on that index.
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The AI company Anthropic has also filed for an IPO. It's sealed, so details are not much available, like what percentage of shares will be let loose. But like all AI companies, it is not profitable.


I'm glad that some people still have standards.

So much of the tech industry and AI is just ... hype. People want it to be valuable and profitable. But that doesn't actually make it so. That's before counting the fact that AI value is stolen from other people's work, not creating new worth.

Poem: "Zakkyo"

Jun. 8th, 2026 03:16 pm
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This poem came out of the June 2, 2026 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] greghousesgf. It also fills the "Clothes" square in my 6-1-26 card for the Pride Fest Bingo. It has been sponsored by [personal profile] janetmiles.

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Jun. 8th, 2026 12:24 pm
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Just had some spaghetti for lunch, it was yummy.

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Jun. 8th, 2026 07:32 pm
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The weekend ended up being extremely low energy at the nights so I didn’t do as much as I’d hoped. I pretty much either crashed energy wise or my eyes went achy or both. So I didn’t do the things I was hoping to do on the nights. Ugh. But I did watch an ep of The Pitt on Friday. (How many scrubs has Whittaker gone through already?)

However this weekend was also summer games fest, which was a load of gaming reveals. Summer Game fest itself was Friday but there were other streams over the weekend. There were plenty of interesting games revealed including, but not limited to.

*Star Trek Shadow Frontier, a Star Trek horror game with Ro Laren
*Clockwork Revolution, a cool steampunky time travel game (with a robot dog!)
*Fable, a new trailer revealing Hayley Atwell is playing the villain
*Grace Seasons, a Stardew type farming game… that’s also a murder mystery
*Bad Magpie, a game where you play as a mischievous magpie (giving Untitled Goose Game vibes)
*vivarium, a beautiful looking hand drawn game that gives Ghibli vibes
*Alien Isolation 2 and Control Reaonant (both making me wanna go back the original games)
*Saw Genesis, a Saw game set… 100 years ago which ??

Plus there were new trailers for Star Wars Galactic Racer (ahhh a nautolan!) and Zero Company which both look cool.

(I’m so sure I’ve forgotten so many other cool/interesting games, I know I missed at least two. Showcases cause I didn’t realise they were on).

Plus the wholesome direct has tees with proceeds going to a trans charity.

Nintendo has a direct coming tomorrow so I’m hoping for some good reveals there too. (I still need Hyrule Warriors)

Today was a trip to town which I wasn’t sure would happen (cause of rain and feeling off last night). It was Ocean with David Attenborough and Scary Movie which was a weird contrast, it was also funny both were on the same screen and I was only one seat away from where I sat in each.

The most exciting thing trailers wise was seeing a trailer for Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma because it meant we’ve getting a uk release for it. I didn’t think we would, especially with Leviticus being a no show but it seems we are. I’m so curious about it, it looks so weird. (Plus Gillian Anderson is always a plus)

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The whole trip today ended up being free cause the ticket machines were out of order and the food in Burger King was a points redeem. (I’d gave got a demogorgon figure from smyths but it seems none were there despite the site saying they had 2)

Next cinema trip should be Saturday which’ll be Disclosure Day along with Mandalorian and Grogu, then maybe Angel’s Egg Wednesday (depending on mood, maybe with something else when listings go up, I might rewatch Masters Of The Universe if I can).

When I got back there was a letter and, ugh. It’s another hospital appointment and this time it’s late. But I also noticed it said it’s the exact same test I had when I was there last time. So I’m gonna call up tomorrow after the library stint and a: find out if it’s a mistake and 2: see if there’s a better time. I’m thinking it might be a,test in the same department just another machine, but if so why couldn’t they have done that last time? Ugh it’s so annoying (plus it’s next week which is part good cause momey will be in, but part annoying).

Also apparently there’s a new Poirot series coming from the bbc? Which will be.. interesting.

Tonight I’m gonna rest up for library/call/Nintendo direct.

Poem: "Lichengloss"

Jun. 8th, 2026 01:51 pm
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This poem came out of the June 2, 2026 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "Growth" square in my 6-1-26 card for the Pride Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by [personal profile] janetmiles.


"Lichengloss"
noun: the painfully slow struggle to learn a foreign language


For some learners,
a new language comes
as quickly and easily
as water flowing.

For most, it is not
so simple or swift.

It is a labor of
endless hours
and days, grasping
at ideas that slip
through fingers
like so much mist.

The knowledge is
hard-won yet halting.

Every word learned
must be maintained,
practiced, lest it
fade and be lost.

Every new twist of
grammar seeks
to bind them.

Language lies
over the tongue,
wrinkled and strange,
stretching itself.

It grows as
slowly as lichen
covering a stone

but nevertheless it grows.

Safety

Jun. 8th, 2026 01:49 pm
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3 Teens Win Global Earth Prize for Inventing Tamarind Powder That Easily Removes Microplastics

Their grand prize-winning invention is called Plas-Stick, and used powdered tamarind seed as the base for an all-natural microplastic clumping agent. After a short agitation period, the clumped microplastic-tamarind mass can be removed with nothing more than a magnet.

Notably, Plas-Stick is the first-ever Global Winner of The Earth Prize from India.

Designed for use in shared water containers, the biodegradable powder binds invisible plastic particles into visible clumps that can then be easily removed with a handheld magnet, offering a simple and low-cost alternative to complex filtration systems.



Gizmology for the win! \o/ Extra credit for sustainable ingredients.

Poem: "Ĉiu Kreas Sian Forton"

Jun. 8th, 2026 12:54 pm
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This poem came out of the June 2, 2026 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] fuzzyred. It also fills the "Pin" square in my 6-1-26 card for the Pride Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by [personal profile] janetmiles. It belongs to the Big One and Shiv threads of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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