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Name: Agnes

Age: mid 20s

I mostly post about: personal stuff and fandom equally, also my creative projects (I'm a huge writer and artist!) I also talk about my tech projects and such. Health struggles & disability/mental health activism and destigmatization. Cooking. Life goings-on. My OCs. I'm trying to get back into using dreamwidth more, so I'd love to make some new friends!

My hobbies are: writing, digital art, watching tv, making video games, playing video games, crafting, thrifting, technology (mostly self-hosting and personal websites right now), cooking...

My fandoms are: I'm a huge science fiction fan, so right now it's Babylon 5, The Orville, Star Trek (mostly lower decks and star trek online), etc. Also super into Yellowjackets and Psych at the moment.

I'm looking to meet people who: don't mind my journal being a little all over the place, are kind and accepting, love science fiction, art, writing, tech, or making OCs, or creativity in general. People who are spiritual but queer-affirming, pro-choice and open-minded. People who like to talk and don't mind if I'm awkward. People who share my fandoms, especially my special interest which is currently The Orville. Other neurodiverse folks. Or anyone who is cool with the things I mention here!

My posting schedule tends to be: sporadic

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, fatphobia. Please don't be a bigot. Also, I don't wish to add anyone who identifies as an "anti" or believes certain types of fiction should inherently be censored, and will unadd for this kind of behavior.

Before adding me, you should know: I have autism and dissociative identity disorder. These things make it a little hard for me to communicate, but I promise I always mean well. I also have memory issues.

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254/365: Digger on Beales Corner, Wribbenhall
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255/365: CARP poster, Bewdley
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There was a major WiFi outage – someone had sliced through a cable, or whatever the cool kids do these days – and it took a long time for things to be fixed. But here I am again, with two more photos! The first was a nice little bit of framing I noticed, though there's only so much you can do with a road in the way. Coming to the end of the flood works by the river. Talking of which, the second is a poster for the Campaign Against River Pollution (CARP) organisation. I've always had a soft spot for these hand-drawn, low-tech campaigning posters.

Current Mood: okay

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Appointment is scheduled for 7:30.

Office opens at 7:30.

Me, who likes to be at least 5min early: stressing!

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This is a rather different kind of Sandra Peabody post. She was severely abused by her male co-stars from The Last House on the Left,¹ but that wasn't all that happened in her life. She started out as a bit of an acting prodigy, appearing professionally before she had left high school, and turning down a scholarship from Florida State University in order to study drama at Carnegie Mellon. Aged 19, in 1967 she was selected to study under Sanford Meisner in person at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, which from what I gather means she was already recognised as an impressive acting talent.
¹ Regardless of what happened on set. I'll come to why I say this in another post.

Her film career either side of Last House on the Left was, in all honesty, minor. She had a few roles in exploitation and borderline softcore movies early on, and that was about it. In 1971 she answered an advert in Backstage magazine and won the fateful role in Last House. Perhaps unsurprisingly after her experience there, she left acting altogether after a couple more minor films. But from there she went into children's television production. Her kid-presented show Popcorn won her a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as several other accolades. The show was run on a shoestring, with an overall budget of $25,000 and a props budget of ten dollars per episode. Peabody personally bought props from garage sales and the like.

Peabody wrote documentaries for children as well as adults, but in the 2000s she began working as a talent agent and acting coach, teaching the Meisner Technique she learned as a student. She specialises in coaching and supporting inexperienced young actors – something which she is still doing today, at the age of 77. In other words, she has responded to being severely abused in her younger days by spending half a century being protective and supportive of young actors who are in similar positions to that which she once was. If even some of the stories of that unsafe Last House set are true, she would have had every justification in simply hiding away somewhere and enjoying a very private life. Instead, she works tirelessly to show other youngsters that safe is real.

Sandra Peabody is a hero.

Current Mood: impressed

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252/365: Bewdley Bridge from below
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253/365: Ponies and the like
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Much later at night than I'd usually post! But still, here we go. Top photo: one of the arches of Bewdley Bridge from a footpath on the Wribbenhall side of the river. That path has been closed for ages due to the flood defence works, but it's finally reopened, hence this picture! Bottom photo: a quick snap of some ponies at the Worcester ponymeet last Saturday. Those are a couple of the Kayou cards beneath G2 Sky Skimmer, and the print is an Imalou one (Izzy saying "I'm in the Drive Thru at Burger King") that an awful lot of us thought amusing enough to buy at UK PonyCon.

Current Mood: calm

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Okay, that subject line isn't quite accurate, as I'm posting now, but you know what I mean. Photos will resume tomorrow. Now it's time for bed! :P

Current Mood: sleepy

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250/365: Skeleton, St Richard's Hospice bookshop, Kidderminster
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251/365: Halloween decorations, Merchants Fish Bar, Bewdley
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Even I've largely given up on putting the apostrophe in Halloween these days, but I thought I'd do it in the title here for old time's sake! The first pic amused me when I saw the scene. This is one of Kidderminster's relatively few nice spaces: the second-hand bookshop upstairs at the St Richard's Hospice charity shop. No, the skeleton didn't move while I was watching! The second picture is of the window decorations at the Merchants chippy in Bewdley town centre. Spooky!

Current Mood: sleepy

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248/365: My Little Pony Chinese trading cards
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249/365: Wyre Forest Books, Bewdley
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Worcestershire are supporting a scheme this month whereby all single bus fares on journeys entirely within the county are capped at £1 at weekends – which mostly means Saturdays, since Sunday services in Worcs are non-existent in many places, like here. Still, since the usual cap is £3, this is quite appealing! I'm planning to go on a bus tomorrow, so I'll find out then whether this scheme actually works in practice!

Two photos again today. The first is my final UK PonyCon pic, though actually we were all standing around outside the Pret in New Street Station for our farewell coffee meet! Not enough seats for the number of people who turned up, you see... these are a few packs of the very popular Chiness MLP trading cards that are suddenly everywhere in the fandom. The second is Wyre Forest Books, the very friendly indy bookshop in Bewdley. Of course it's not as cheap as Amazon, but I do try to support it when I can.

Current Mood: tired

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246/365: The main hall at UK PonyCon
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247/365: The Mane Stage Charity Auction at UK PonyCon
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Two photos today from UK PonyCon this last weekend. They're not especially brilliant, since I'm saving my better (yet still not great) photos for the con report I'll do elsewhere. The first picture is a general view of the main room – the BCEC wasn't huge, but it did have a decent number of rooms for panels and so on. The second photo shows the Mane Stage (you need a high tolerance for horse puns in this fandom!) in the same room, absolutely packed out for the charity auction. This didn't overrun exactly, it just overran. You see, there'd been a fire in the hotel many staff were staying at overnight, and though everyone was safe it meant the con opened two hours late on the Sunday and everything had to be quickly rejigged.

Current Mood: bouncy

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244/365: Empty outdoor tables, Bewdley
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245/365: Acid Applejack's set at UK PonyCon
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I had an ordinary sort of a day today, and the most interesting thing I did was probably to go to Aldi. Yes, my life is fascinating, I know. As I usually do, I did have a quick squizz down the centre aisle to see what weird items they had this time, but sadly about the most interesting thing was a big clock. Poor show, Aldi: you need to have something in that centre aisle that I can't work out why anybody would ever want! I did overhear someone say they were going out for an Indian¹ after shopping, which was slightly strange to hear at eleven o'clock in the morning! At least by then it had stopped drizzling, something which didn't make the early morning especially fun.
¹ I read the other day that this sounds odd to American ears, so: it's completely standard here. Everyone says it. An Indian, a Chinese, an Italian, a full English, you name it, that's what we say. It would actually sound considerably less normal to say "I'm going out for Indian food".

As trailed here last time, I'm posting two photos a day from now until I catch up again. The one for 2nd October is fairly boring: empty tables by the river in Bewdley, a sign that the outdoor season is coming to an end. The one for 3rd October is more unusual. This was the Jungle Jam, a Friday evening music event at UK PonyCon before the convention proper began the following morning. I believe it's Acid Applejack on stage at this point. I enjoyed this event greatly and stayed for about three hours to listen to Bexi's cheesy stuff (Macarena, 5-6-7-8, etc) and Acid Applejack as mentioned, and finally an excellent set from StormBlaze. This was the first year UKPC had boasted Friday night music, and I'd love to see it kept in 2026.

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I got back from UK PonyCon yesterday, but I was too tired to post. I'm just doing this short post today, then it'll be back to the full-scale ones with the usual photos tomorrow. I'll probably post two pics a day until I'm caught up. Suffice to say for now that UKPC was glorious. I'll be posting about it in detail over on Louder Yay, my MLP blog, but I'll link to that from here when the time comes.

Current Mood: happy

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Name: C.K. or Chester, if you like.

Age: 36.

I mostly post about: Linkin Park (specifically the 2000-2017 era, before the band became a cult puppet show), wrestling (classic SMW, WWF, the always sexy Jim Cornette, and my own very cursed WWE 2K25 Universe where I resurrect promotions and pair people based on vibes and trauma), Culture Club/Boy George fic, chaos, conspiracies, and timelines that make Doctor Who look basic, my OCs, who are so deeply real to me I've fought people in my head about them, Witchcraft, spirit work, folk healing, moon rituals, grief magic, retro gaming, random emotional overshares that sound like a journal entry from a possessed poet with too many piercings

My hobbies are: Writing fic that's 70% emotional breakdown, 20% worldbuilding, and 10% people getting railed in a meaningful way, hexing cults with sigils and sass, collecting music like it's my religion, drawing OCs, editing cursed screenshots and organizing old files like I'm preserving the Library of Alexandria, going to work like a normal person, coming home, and spiritually becoming a haunted glitter goblin with eyeliner and vengeance

My fandoms are: Linkin Park, wrestling (SMW, WWF, WCW -- but mainly the universes in my head), Culture Club (I write a huge fanfic AU for them), t.A.T.u., Verka Serduchka, obscure Eastern European pop acts with synths and trauma, Star Trek AOS (specifically Into Darkness)

I'm looking to meet people who: are too weird for Reddit, too raw for Instagram, and too smart for Twitter/X, overshare about their OCs like it's their religion, are into long-ass posts, rambling, and crying over character development

My posting schedule tends to be: Erratic. Sometimes I post a lot, sometimes I disappear for three weeks and come back with stuff.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Racism, ableism, transphobia, homophobia, antisemitism, or being a dick in general, "Hamasniks", Scientology apologists or people who think Mike Shinoda is evil because they saw an Instagram reel with eerie music behind it (or buy into a certain someone's heavily cherry-picked posts), anyone who says "you still like Linkin Park?" or "isn't wrestling fake?"

Before adding me, you should know: I'm trans. My pronouns are he/him and they/them. I am autistic and ADHD. I write the "controversial" fanfic trope of mpreg a lot. I am very defensive of my faves. I am a Zionist, and hate how the term has been turned into something it's not. I am pro-AI, and use it a lot to make AI song covers. I find it fun. Also, I smoke weed, lol.

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I'm trying to be on here more than LJ because I'm paying for a lot of userpics, so I figured I would try again.

Name: Chris

Age: old

I mostly post about: My life and interactions.

My hobbies are: going to rock concerts, camping, kayaking, stand-up paddle-boarding, drawing badly, reading and writing fiction.

My fandoms are: I don't really know that I'm into any specific franchise enough to count other than bands. I don't watch TV or see many movies. Some peculiar nerddoms: I have long been interested in the history of passenger aviation and shipping although I do very little about it these days.

Who I want to connect with: I am curious about people's lives which are different than mine and I am glad DW gives me a chance to experience them. Thus if our interests don't seem to align don't let that be a show stopper.

When I add people, my show-stoppers are: No drumpfreich apologists. I am also not particularly interested in following "celebrity" bloggers who are only on here looking for an audience. I like for my connections on here to be a two-way street.

Before adding me, you should know:

Currently I have two things consuming a lot of my non-work time, which has meant less time to read and write. I'm doing my best to keep up and do not want to fall out of the habit. Accordingly...
When I am pressed for time, I may make more of an effort to read/comment the people who also more frequently engage with my posts. This doesn't mean we shouldn't be connected if you can't be constantly be lavishing me with attention.
One of the two distractions mentioned above is I am currently in a leadership position in my small, progressive/inclusive mainline protestant church. Although i do post about it, it's more in the vein that people post about their work life. I do not use my blog to proselytize. Also, I am not in the least bit uptight or prudish, or here to judge your life choices, and--as you would learn--I would be on thin ice if I did. It's just another thing that i do.

My posting schedule tends to be: I was doing a post for every day, sometimes a few days behind, until the aforementioned plus being forced to commute 5x a week again changed things a bit. Right now I am trying to keep up with weekly.

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Name: GS

Age: old

I mostly post about: Comic book creation, art and writing in general, character development and musings, my personal experiences, my cat, exploring and subverting tropes, maybe politics idk, random shower thoughts

My hobbies are: household management, gardening, native ecology, world travel, language learning

My fandoms are: Whatever you're writing! If you show an interest in my WIP, I'll show an interest in yours. There are a very few genres and themes that I find impossible to engage in. Unfortunately, they tend to be very common: super awesome superlative hero good-and-evil stuff, or gritty dark stuff where everybody's horrible.

But I believe very strongly in reciprocity, and if those themes are your passion, you won't like my book much either. So if you create something that's light and humorous, or raw and honest, or speculative and political, I'll be there for you if you'll be here for me!

But I also enjoy reading and meeting people who aren't into any of that and who just want to be DW friends.

I've lived in Saigon and Shanghai and been to Cambodia and Philippines, and now I'm in the US and not terribly happy about it, so I'd enjoy meeting people with connections to those places. Or Lyon, France! Part of my book takes place in Lyon.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Oh, I don't know. Really toxic anger and hateful opinions, I guess. Usually if someone irks me, I'll disappear quietly.

Before adding me, you should know: I'm a naturally chaotic person. I know most of the unspoken rules of society but I don't always care. I've had the usual amount of life traumas but I don't often talk about them. My profile pic is my male MC, Maurice. I'll probably talk about him a lot. I'm not a quiet creator. A lot of what I write is Maurice this, Maurice that, Cathy this. I call my characters by name because I want people to remember them.

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Name: Owen

Age: 45

I mostly post about: A real mix of things: life, single parenting, interesting stories I've found in my family history, politics (left wing), vegan cooking and whatever else springs to mind

My hobbies are: Cooking, genealogy, gardening/allotment, hiking, former morris dancer

My fandoms are: Not really into fandom, but happy to meet people who are

I'm looking to meet people who: Want to be part of a friendly online community. I used to be active on LJ some time ago (previous posts have all been imported so should give an idea of what I used to share - older now, but not necessarily much wiser) and would love to find the sense of community there used to be there.

My posting schedule tends to be: As and when

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: I'm generally open minded

Before adding me, you should know: I'm not really sure, but you can always unadd me later if you change your mind

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Ramblings, rumblings, grumblings, and rambling grumbly rumblings.

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The Friday Five for 17 October 2025

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