Thursday Recs
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queerly_belovedDo you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!
Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!
The Friday Five for 21 May 2026
May. 21st, 2026 11:12 pmanais_pf posting in thefridayfive2. Based on the lifespans of your grandparents and/or great-grandparents, what is your realistic lifespan?
3. What is the average lifespan of people in your country?
4. At what age do you plan to retire (or did you retire)?
5. What are your plans for retirement?
Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.
If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!
Realgar #1 [The Fulcrum]
May. 21st, 2026 02:58 pmparadoxcase posting in rainbowficStory: The Fulcrum
Colors: Realgar #1: Dissipate
Styles and Supplies: Yarn (this picture), Brushes (May 21, 2026: Lacuna), Glue ("You may have the intellectual side of the equation completely set in your head, Gemini. You've collected all the facts and have all the data worked out in such a way that it's impossible for anyone to fault your calculations. Don't think you're done, because there's one part of the picture left to consider - emotions. Extreme feelings could put a monkey wrench in your plans. Be prepared.")
Word Count: 862
Rating: T
Warnings: Fantasy Drug Abuse
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali
In-Universe Date: 1912.5.5.4
Summary: Qhoroali experiments with Niexxee.
( Breakthrough )
227 one piece live action
May. 21st, 2026 05:53 pmstyletto posting in fandom_iconsx7 shots of cool maps/ships
x128 Nami
x26 Nico Robin
x66 Usopp
all here!
promo: icon_promptly
May. 21st, 2026 10:21 pmtinny posting in icontalkingprisca created a new community:
icon_promptlyThis community is created for icon lovers. It's low-pressure; you can jump in anytime to leave or fill prompts. There is no final date! Sign-up is not necessary, but I would recommend subscribing to the comm.
There will be three main posts every week:
Monday - Fandom/Real Person Icons
Wednesday - Stock Icons
Friday - Make a Wish
If you're curious now, check out the community and maybe start prompting or creating right away.
Activity #106 - Happy Birthday Song
May. 21st, 2026 09:52 pmtinny posting in icontalking
Whenever I'm stumped for new ideas, I remember how much everyone likes color challenges! And since this round will end (almost) on my birthday, I chose a birthday palette with one of my favorite colors in it. I hope you like this one, too! All icons must use at least two colors from this color palette.
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Bonus challenge (optional): In addition to the colors, if you like to incorporate a theme as well, icon something inspired by at least one of these themes:
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themes
cake
time
melody
sunshine
smiles
passage
best friends
hugs and kisses
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( Inspirational icons and textures under here )
* Icons must use at least two colors from this month's palette
* You may use the bonus themes, but you don't have to.
* You can make as many icons as you like (if you need a goal, five is a good number :))
* There is no minimum, 1 icon is enough to enter this activity
* Please submit your icons (and URLs!) to this post, all in one comment (if possible)
* Everyone can participate, you don't have to be a member of this community
* I will collect all the icons from the comments and make a result post
* Everyone can leave comments on the inspiration and activity result posts
* There is no voting
Deadline: Saturday, June 20 2026, your end-of-day
Activity Results for #105 Silhouettes
May. 21st, 2026 08:34 pmtinny posting in icontalking
Thank you all for taking the challenge and making such wonderfully creative icons! \o/
( 34 icons with a variety of silhouettes by 5 makers )
Next round will be coming right up!
Challenge 203: Mermay 2026
May. 21st, 2026 10:52 pmmulhollands posting in iconthatCinderella | Sleeping Beauty | Ouran High School Host Club 2x | Sailor Moon
Option B: Neptunian
The Little Mermaid (used a color from Palette #4)
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Springgggggg Friending Memeeeeeee 🫶🏽
May. 20th, 2026 10:29 pmlove posting in icons
Hello everyone!
Cheers to feel good weather, whether we are indoor or outdoors on our computers. 🌸
ALSO!!!! I am searching for a mod that can help me with this community. 🫶🏽 If you are interested, please comment "Interested" in the comments below. 👇 (MUST BE ACTIVE)
Lets make some new friends, to keep our online journaling aesthetic alive!
Just copy and paste this code below as a comment, and let the friendships begin!
Feel free to reference this Friending Meme to others too!
(you can take out some of the questions to your liking as well.)
but tell me again how LLMs are great for business
May. 20th, 2026 10:30 pmerinptahWebtoon is teaming up with an LLM avatar platform. The plan, for creators who opt in, is to make chatbots based on their characters. None of these bots have actually been made yet! But I’m sure this will go as well as every other company that’s successfully used LLMs for in-character interactions! Like…uhhhh…
“Parasitical SEO companies are buying respected online news outlets in order to harvest their reputations before leaving behind a ruined shell. One organisation linked to this sort of activity is Clickout Media, which bought a network of UK-based video game sites replacing human writers with AI ‘journalists’ and packing them with links to offshore gambling websites.”
“After a team member summoned Copilot to correct a typo in a PR of mine, Copilot edited my PR description to include and ad for itself and Raycast.“
“We find that: (1) agentic tasks are uniquely expensive, consuming 1000x more tokens than code reasoning and code chat, with input tokens rather than output tokens driving the overall cost; (2) token usage is highly variable and inherently stochastic: runs on the same task can differ by up to 30x in total tokens, and higher token usage does not translate into higher accuracy; … frontier models fail to accurately predict their own token usage (with weak-to-moderate correlations, up to 0.39) and systematically underestimate real token costs.“
“I have seen a lot in my decades of industry (and Microsoft) experience, but I had never seen an organization so far from reality. My day-one problem was therefore not to ramp up on new technology, but rather to convince an entire org, up to my skip-skip-level, that they were on a death march.”
“An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds. PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding agent Cursor — powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model — deleted the company’s entire production database and backups with a single call to its cloud provider, Railway, on April 24.”
Movement on that prospective Fake News/Pundit RPF AO3 update
May. 20th, 2026 02:13 pmerinptahThe Daily/Colbert tag tree proposal I was working on back in February has gotten some official internal feedback! Including some points I’m happy to incorporate into an updated proposal. (And some I’m still pushing back on. Final version of the rewrite TBD.)
Notes about some changes I’m personally on board with, in case anyone’s curious…
There aren’t any works left in the Full Frontal fandom tag, and AO3’s official policy is “don’t include 0-use tags in any tag trees.” So that’s out of the proposal. Unless somebody reading this post has a Sam Bee fic they can crosspost real quick…? (I checked my own Sam-involving fanworks, but they’re all set before Full Frontal started airing (2016), so it wouldn’t feel honest to tag that as a fandom.)
( Stephen Colbert has appointed Stephen Colbert, former host of “The Colbert Report,” as ombudsman to ensure that the final season of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” remains free from liberal bias. )
Opalite Cylinder Spacers and Lapis Wire Work
May. 20th, 2026 11:32 amyourlibrarian posting in everykindofcraft
I loved these opalite cylinders when I got them years ago. Still had a few left so paired them with some fiber optic, frosted glass and milky glass and tied them together with the silver cubes.
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Dandelion Yellow #10 and Shocking Pink #5
May. 20th, 2026 11:12 ambitzsoii posting in rainbowficStory: Chronicles of Tydas
Colors: dandelion yellow #10 (distant), shocking pink #5 (impassive)
Supplies and Styles: Charcoal
Word Count: 1,056
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: Gwion meets with the council secretly to convince them to make him Tydian King instead of his brother.
( Don't talk to me about grief when you're rushing to place a crown on his head. )