Lynn | Settiai (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
settiai) wrote2025-09-24 04:40 pm
settiai) wrote2025-09-24 04:40 pm
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard
A mutual on Bluesky borrowed one of my Rooks from Dragon Age: The Veilguard for Rookanis fanart purposes! 💕
She had a specific art ref as a brain worm and needed to borrow someone else's Rook to use it on, so I got some lovely art of one of my Crow Rooks, Gianna de Riva.
ETA: Official post here since the original was just a comment to me.
She had a specific art ref as a brain worm and needed to borrow someone else's Rook to use it on, so I got some lovely art of one of my Crow Rooks, Gianna de Riva.
ETA: Official post here since the original was just a comment to me.
sage (sage) wrote2025-09-24 12:52 pm
sage) wrote2025-09-24 12:52 pmWhat I'm Doing Wednesday
books
Pawn in Frankincense (The Lymond Chronicles #4) by Dorothy Dunnett. 1969. cw: graphic violence, child abuse and murder, slavery, animal harm and death, going cold turkey off opium. Quite the adventure drama.
The Summer War by Naomi Novik. 2025. Novella. Would have made a pretty amazing novel, tbh. I loved the first 2/3rds, though I wish, as always with NN, that there had been more to the ending. I hope YT brings some fic for it.
yarning & etsy & usps
I went to yarn group Sunday and had a good time. Also, I cut my hair right before yarn group and I got nice comments on it, so that was extra happy-making. Then I showed off pics of my soccer ball-sized globe (and complained about the pattern not giving accurate Mediterranean or Australia, doh). Also worked on a navy blue kickbunny, which sold Monday afternoon right after I got back from the post office, where I was shipping a tan kickbunny to a customer, a blue bunny to Kitten Academy, and the globe to Niece, along with a moon and a bday card with a bright happy sun on it, so it was all of a theme. But dear god the increase in USPS prices! Nearly $3 more, and (since they moved to PA) KA isn't even as far! At least one was a business expense and another was prepaid by the customer. (This is why I don't offer free shipping on kickbunnies.) Anyway, I'm working on a turquoise kickbunny now and feeling super grateful that my shoulder is functional again. Knock wood.
yuletide FYIs
Here is the link to the Noms Coordination Station. And here is the Noms Spreadsheet, where you can skim fandoms to see what's been nommed while we wait for the tagset to open. I replaced my nom for Katee Roberts' Dark Olympus series with Shakespeare & Jacobean Theatre RPF bc Will/Kit(/Annie) still owns my heart. And I changed my character noms for The Shadow of the Leviathan series by Robert Jackson Bennett. Noms close in the wee hours of Friday, US time. I still have no idea what I want to offer/request, but at least I've done my nominations?
#resist
October 18: No Kings Day 2
I hope you're all doing well and enjoying Fall/Spring wherever you are! <333
Pawn in Frankincense (The Lymond Chronicles #4) by Dorothy Dunnett. 1969. cw: graphic violence, child abuse and murder, slavery, animal harm and death, going cold turkey off opium. Quite the adventure drama.
The Summer War by Naomi Novik. 2025. Novella. Would have made a pretty amazing novel, tbh. I loved the first 2/3rds, though I wish, as always with NN, that there had been more to the ending. I hope YT brings some fic for it.
yarning & etsy & usps
I went to yarn group Sunday and had a good time. Also, I cut my hair right before yarn group and I got nice comments on it, so that was extra happy-making. Then I showed off pics of my soccer ball-sized globe (and complained about the pattern not giving accurate Mediterranean or Australia, doh). Also worked on a navy blue kickbunny, which sold Monday afternoon right after I got back from the post office, where I was shipping a tan kickbunny to a customer, a blue bunny to Kitten Academy, and the globe to Niece, along with a moon and a bday card with a bright happy sun on it, so it was all of a theme. But dear god the increase in USPS prices! Nearly $3 more, and (since they moved to PA) KA isn't even as far! At least one was a business expense and another was prepaid by the customer. (This is why I don't offer free shipping on kickbunnies.) Anyway, I'm working on a turquoise kickbunny now and feeling super grateful that my shoulder is functional again. Knock wood.
yuletide FYIs
Here is the link to the Noms Coordination Station. And here is the Noms Spreadsheet, where you can skim fandoms to see what's been nommed while we wait for the tagset to open. I replaced my nom for Katee Roberts' Dark Olympus series with Shakespeare & Jacobean Theatre RPF bc Will/Kit(/Annie) still owns my heart. And I changed my character noms for The Shadow of the Leviathan series by Robert Jackson Bennett. Noms close in the wee hours of Friday, US time. I still have no idea what I want to offer/request, but at least I've done my nominations?
#resist
October 18: No Kings Day 2
I hope you're all doing well and enjoying Fall/Spring wherever you are! <333
Lynn | Settiai (settiai) wrote2025-09-22 09:42 pm
settiai) wrote2025-09-22 09:42 pm
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Critical Role + AO3
Oh, good! I was hoping that the AO3 would come up with a plan for the Critical Role tag before CR4 started next week, and it looks like they have.
I know that I didn't have to do it, but I went through and edited all 64 of my Critical Role fanworks on the AO3 to change the fandom from Critical Role (Web Series) to Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series). I also added a non-canonical fandom tag to each of them to make it very clear which campaign/miniseries they belong to, if only because it's starting to get a bit complicated.
For those curious (which is approximately no one), the non-canonical fandom tags that I added are as follows:
Critical Role: The Adventures of the Darrington Brigade (Web Series),
Critical Role: Bells Hells (Web Series)
Critical Role: Mighty Nein (Web Series)
Critical Role: The Screw Job (Web Series)
Critical Role: Vox Machina (Web Series)
Exandria Unlimited (Web Series)
Exandria Unlimited: Calamity (Web Series)
... although admittedly I was already using several of those non-canonical tags prior to me editing my fics today. It's really just the three main campaign tags that are newly added as of today.
I know that I didn't have to do it, but I went through and edited all 64 of my Critical Role fanworks on the AO3 to change the fandom from Critical Role (Web Series) to Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series). I also added a non-canonical fandom tag to each of them to make it very clear which campaign/miniseries they belong to, if only because it's starting to get a bit complicated.
For those curious (which is approximately no one), the non-canonical fandom tags that I added are as follows:
Critical Role: The Adventures of the Darrington Brigade (Web Series),
Critical Role: Bells Hells (Web Series)
Critical Role: Mighty Nein (Web Series)
Critical Role: The Screw Job (Web Series)
Critical Role: Vox Machina (Web Series)
Exandria Unlimited (Web Series)
Exandria Unlimited: Calamity (Web Series)
... although admittedly I was already using several of those non-canonical tags prior to me editing my fics today. It's really just the three main campaign tags that are newly added as of today.
Lynn | Settiai (settiai) wrote2025-09-21 03:20 pm
settiai) wrote2025-09-21 03:20 pmEntry tags:
Dear Dragon Age Poly Exchange Creator,
First of all, relax! I'm far from being picky, and I can pretty much guarantee that I'll love whatever you decide to create for me. These are nothing but guidelines, for you to take to heart or ignore to your heart's content. Also, hey! You're writing me fic or drawing me art! That's automatically a good reason for me to love you, no matter what. So, please, keep that in mind. Trust me, you can pretty much do no wrong. ♥
( More details under the cut. )
( More details under the cut. )
Lynn | Settiai (settiai) wrote2025-09-21 01:30 pm
settiai) wrote2025-09-21 01:30 pm
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National Consumer Panel
I've participated in the National Consumer Panel since January 2014, which involved scanning my grocery purchases and doing the occasional survey in exchange for gifts cards and such. Unfortunately, I've finally had to break down and delete my account due to their continued transphobia.
When participating, you have the list the demographic information of the shopper, and the only gender options listed are Male or Female. Which, you know, is an issue if you're legally nonbinary. Especially since X is a valid gender option on US passports as well as driver's licenses in many states. In addition, they have an annual demographic survey each year where you provide more information about yourself, and - once again - the only gender options are Male or Female. If you want to participate, you have to intentionally misgender yourself, or you cannot proceed forward through the survey.
I've been reaching out to the National Consumer Panel about this issue since 2021. In both 2021 and 2022, my messages were acknowledged, and they point-blank stated that the issue was that their parent companies (NielsenIQ and Circana) dictated what gender options they were allowed to list.
In December 2022, I received the following email:
That email? Was the last communication that I received from NCP one way or another. I've continued to reach out each year when the annual demographic survey goes out with only Male and Female as the gender options listed, but I haven't received any response from NCP at all since 2022.
It's very clear at this point that the blatant transphobia of forcing nonbinary individuals to misgender themselves to use their site is intentional and won't be changing. Maybe it is the parent companies that are to blame, but the fact that NCP sent me an email in 2022 saying they were working to fix the issue and then ignored every single message that I've sent since then? Well, that says a lot. If nothing else, they're the ones who chose to simply stay quiet.
At this point, I'm done. I deleted my account earlier today, and I sent them an email making it clear why I've done so. With the current state of the world, I can't in good conscience continue to participate with an organization that's not even pretending to try to not to be transphobic.
I honestly doubt this post is going to do much of anything in the grand scheme of things (and the same's true of the thread that I posted over on Bluesky). Still, I wanted to at least make a public post about it just in case it lets even one person out there know that the National Consumer Panel shouldn't be trusted if you're LGBTIQA+.
When participating, you have the list the demographic information of the shopper, and the only gender options listed are Male or Female. Which, you know, is an issue if you're legally nonbinary. Especially since X is a valid gender option on US passports as well as driver's licenses in many states. In addition, they have an annual demographic survey each year where you provide more information about yourself, and - once again - the only gender options are Male or Female. If you want to participate, you have to intentionally misgender yourself, or you cannot proceed forward through the survey.
I've been reaching out to the National Consumer Panel about this issue since 2021. In both 2021 and 2022, my messages were acknowledged, and they point-blank stated that the issue was that their parent companies (NielsenIQ and Circana) dictated what gender options they were allowed to list.
In December 2022, I received the following email:
That email? Was the last communication that I received from NCP one way or another. I've continued to reach out each year when the annual demographic survey goes out with only Male and Female as the gender options listed, but I haven't received any response from NCP at all since 2022.
It's very clear at this point that the blatant transphobia of forcing nonbinary individuals to misgender themselves to use their site is intentional and won't be changing. Maybe it is the parent companies that are to blame, but the fact that NCP sent me an email in 2022 saying they were working to fix the issue and then ignored every single message that I've sent since then? Well, that says a lot. If nothing else, they're the ones who chose to simply stay quiet.
At this point, I'm done. I deleted my account earlier today, and I sent them an email making it clear why I've done so. With the current state of the world, I can't in good conscience continue to participate with an organization that's not even pretending to try to not to be transphobic.
I honestly doubt this post is going to do much of anything in the grand scheme of things (and the same's true of the thread that I posted over on Bluesky). Still, I wanted to at least make a public post about it just in case it lets even one person out there know that the National Consumer Panel shouldn't be trusted if you're LGBTIQA+.
dementordelta (dementordelta) wrote2025-09-21 11:38 am
dementordelta) wrote2025-09-21 11:38 amSnarry Bang 2025 Gift
As part of the wonderful Snarry Bang Cruisedirector and I received the lovely work Mistake by the lovely FairyCucumber
Thank you so much, I see new things in your art every time I look at it!
Thank you so much, I see new things in your art every time I look at it!
dementordelta (dementordelta) wrote2025-09-21 11:24 am
dementordelta) wrote2025-09-21 11:24 amFic Post!
cruisedirector and I have committed fic! Title: The Referee
Authors:
cruisedirector and dementordeltaRating: Explicit
Word Count: 4100
Written for: Snarry Bang 2025
Summary: Harry shows up to give Snape a piece of his mind, but ends up giving him something else.
The Referee
Lynn | Settiai (settiai) wrote2025-09-20 02:35 pm
settiai) wrote2025-09-20 02:35 pm
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Critical Role: Campaign 4
The more they release about the upcoming fourth campaign of Critical Role, the more excited I am for it to start. CR3 was very much dragging for me by the end, mainly because it felt almost as if it was more a sequel to CR1 and CR2 with the CR3 characters taking the back burner at times. There's a reason that I don't, for example, like the big crossover events that Marvel and DC like to do, and that's what it reminded me of for the last six months or so of the campaign.
Everything I'm seeing about CR4, though, has me optimistic that the fresh start in a brand new world it's promising will be a good thing. I can't wait to actually meet the characters and see how many of them I properly mesh well with.
Lynn | Settiai (settiai) wrote2025-09-19 11:38 pm
settiai) wrote2025-09-19 11:38 pmEntry tags:
Lynn | Settiai (settiai) wrote2025-09-19 12:30 am
settiai) wrote2025-09-19 12:30 am
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Weekend Plans
I wanted to take a minute to type up my plans for the weekend while I'm thinking about it. I'll probably type up a proper to-do list sometime tomorrow (well, I suppose it's technically today at this point) so that I can mark things off as I do them, but I thought it would help to at least come up with a summary of sorts.
( More under the cut. )
In general? I'm really hoping that Monday will mark a new beginning of sorts. That's the plan, as long as the universe cooperates. 🤞🏻
Life has been exhausting even without all of the stuff going on in the US in general, and I'm just so fucking tired. I need a new beginning, even if "autumn is finally here" is a relatively arbitrary one.
( More under the cut. )
In general? I'm really hoping that Monday will mark a new beginning of sorts. That's the plan, as long as the universe cooperates. 🤞🏻
Life has been exhausting even without all of the stuff going on in the US in general, and I'm just so fucking tired. I need a new beginning, even if "autumn is finally here" is a relatively arbitrary one.
Lynn | Settiai (settiai) wrote2025-09-18 09:55 am
settiai) wrote2025-09-18 09:55 am
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On the D&D front...
So, yes, I posted my usual summary last night, but the events of the game itself deserve their own post.
( More about the utter chaos of extremely lucky wild magic rolls under the cut. )
( More about the utter chaos of extremely lucky wild magic rolls under the cut. )
sage (sage) wrote2025-09-17 05:10 pm
sage) wrote2025-09-17 05:10 pmEntry tags:
What I'm Doing Wednesday
books
still reading Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett. I haven't had the time to really focus on it, so I've been reading Kirk/Spock longfic.
yarning
I finished the crocheted globe for Niece and it looks pretty good. Definitely good enough for a child turning 5, though it's a little unevenly stuffed in a couple of places & I can't get it to shift. Am sad I had to miss yarn group this week, but yesterday I made a 3in diameter moon to go with the Earth. Hopefully it'll all fit in the box.
Yuletide
I nommed:
- The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty. (Amina, Dalila, Raksh, and Jamal)
- Shadow of the Leviathan by Robert Jackson Bennett (Ana, Din, Kepheus)
- A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher (Cordelia, Hester, Richard, Penelope)
- Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher (Anja, Snow, Grayling)
- Dark Olympus series by Katee Robert (Icarus, Poseidon, Hades, Penelope)
sadly, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures and Rivers of London both look too large to nom this year, if I'm gauging them right. Drat!
#resist
October 18: No Kings Day #2
I hope you're all doing well! <333
still reading Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett. I haven't had the time to really focus on it, so I've been reading Kirk/Spock longfic.
yarning
I finished the crocheted globe for Niece and it looks pretty good. Definitely good enough for a child turning 5, though it's a little unevenly stuffed in a couple of places & I can't get it to shift. Am sad I had to miss yarn group this week, but yesterday I made a 3in diameter moon to go with the Earth. Hopefully it'll all fit in the box.
Yuletide
I nommed:
- The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty. (Amina, Dalila, Raksh, and Jamal)
- Shadow of the Leviathan by Robert Jackson Bennett (Ana, Din, Kepheus)
- A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher (Cordelia, Hester, Richard, Penelope)
- Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher (Anja, Snow, Grayling)
- Dark Olympus series by Katee Robert (Icarus, Poseidon, Hades, Penelope)
sadly, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures and Rivers of London both look too large to nom this year, if I'm gauging them right. Drat!
#resist
October 18: No Kings Day #2
I hope you're all doing well! <333
Lynn | Settiai (settiai) wrote2025-09-17 05:30 pm
settiai) wrote2025-09-17 05:30 pm
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Critical Role
Two fandom-related posts in a row? Really? I can't even remember the last time that happened.
Critical Role has its fourth campaign starting in just over two weeks, and they posted the first artwork of the new characters earlier this week. They haven't released any other details like classes and such, but I'm very, very, very curious about several of them. Especially since they posted a video earlier today about character vibes, some of which sound kinda amazing.
The fandom is definitely ramping up again, which is helping with forcing my brain to get through watching as many of the specials that I've missed as I can before CR4 starts. I've missed having a proper weekly fandom, and I really want to try to get back in the habit of napping after work on Thursdays so that I can stay up late watching the new episodes live.
Critical Role has its fourth campaign starting in just over two weeks, and they posted the first artwork of the new characters earlier this week. They haven't released any other details like classes and such, but I'm very, very, very curious about several of them. Especially since they posted a video earlier today about character vibes, some of which sound kinda amazing.
The fandom is definitely ramping up again, which is helping with forcing my brain to get through watching as many of the specials that I've missed as I can before CR4 starts. I've missed having a proper weekly fandom, and I really want to try to get back in the habit of napping after work on Thursdays so that I can stay up late watching the new episodes live.
Lynn | Settiai (settiai) wrote2025-09-17 12:28 pm
settiai) wrote2025-09-17 12:28 pm
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Yuletide!
Yuletide nominations are officially open, which means I have to get my ass in gear and actually figure out what I want to request and nominate this year.
A couple of my usual requests are almost always nominated by other people, so I can hopefully scratch those off the list. That doesn't help narrow it down a lot, though, because I've written down a frankly ridiculous number of fandoms this year that I've been considering requesting.
Right now, I'm leaning towards the following for my nominations:
Black Ships - Jo Graham OR Hand of Isis - Jo Graham OR Stealing Fire - Jo Graham
Home Alone (Movies) (mainly because of this post)
Hornblower (TV)
Peacemakers (2003)
The Witch Wolf (Webcomic)
My other requests will depend on what does or doesn't get nominated, but some of my ideas for fandoms that tend to show up in the tag set regularly are:
Gargoyles (Cartoon)
Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies)
Justice League International
The Martian (2015)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
Titanic (1997)
Treasure Planet
Of course, there's always a chance that I'll see something in the tag set that I wasn't expecting that calls to me. That's definitely happened before, and it'll probably happen again.
A couple of my usual requests are almost always nominated by other people, so I can hopefully scratch those off the list. That doesn't help narrow it down a lot, though, because I've written down a frankly ridiculous number of fandoms this year that I've been considering requesting.
Right now, I'm leaning towards the following for my nominations:
Black Ships - Jo Graham OR Hand of Isis - Jo Graham OR Stealing Fire - Jo Graham
Home Alone (Movies) (mainly because of this post)
Hornblower (TV)
Peacemakers (2003)
The Witch Wolf (Webcomic)
My other requests will depend on what does or doesn't get nominated, but some of my ideas for fandoms that tend to show up in the tag set regularly are:
Gargoyles (Cartoon)
Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies)
Justice League International
The Martian (2015)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
Titanic (1997)
Treasure Planet
Of course, there's always a chance that I'll see something in the tag set that I wasn't expecting that calls to me. That's definitely happened before, and it'll probably happen again.