indonesia architecture

Feb. 24th, 2026 02:08 am
royalsongbird: (Default)
[personal profile] royalsongbird posting in [community profile] little_details
hello! im currently working on a fantasy story where the country it takes place in (or at the very least starts in- im still figuring out plot details) is inspired by indonesia, but im having trouble finding good resources about indonesian architecture in the vague time period im writing in- i dont have a specific idea beyond the vague medieval times setting most fantasy stories use, but im more than willing to try and narrow it down if it helps. if anyone has resources i could look into, that would be very helpful!

(no subject)

Feb. 24th, 2026 08:51 am
hagar_972: Heart-shape formed with hands (Heart-hands)
[personal profile] hagar_972 posting in [community profile] purimgifts
Hi all! I come with a quick update from behind the scenes - I know it looks like there's a lot of works missing, but there's only one assignment we're still checking the status of and everything else is ACCOUNTED FOR.

Birdfeeding

Feb. 24th, 2026 12:30 am
ysabetwordsmith: A bird singing (Birdfeeding)
[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith posting in [site community profile] dw_community_promo
[community profile] birdfeeding is a community started on January 1, 2023. It's all about birdfeeding, birdwatching, and other topics relating to birds. It also touches on nature in general, and observations that may effect bird activity such as local weather. Both text and image posts are welcome. Now is a great time to join as hungry birds are easy to attract with a feeder.

Community resources include posts about birding events, nurseries that sell seeds or plants attractive to birds, bird identification apps, the benefits of birdwatching, and other useful materials. Check out the anchor posts from Three Weeks for Dreamwidth.


Recent posts:

Sighting a Siberian Superstar: Local birder secures rare red-flanked bluetail for life list

Homes for Birds Week

Photos: House Yard and South Lot

Photos: Flowerbeds

Bird blizzard

Music Meme Poll

Feb. 24th, 2026 01:26 pm
alias_sqbr: the symbol pi on a pretty background (Default)
[personal profile] alias_sqbr
Rules: put your music on shuffle, and make a poll with the first 5 songs that appear to let folks vote for whichever they like best!

I was tagged by [tumblr.com profile] gothyanki but I don't actually listen to playlists much these days, I either listen to specific albums/songs in a variety of ways, or the radio. Last time I did this meme I cobbled together a collection to randomise from, but this time I decided to just listen to the radio (specifically Double J) and write down the first five songs I like enough to theoretically listen to on purpose (though the only one I remember ever actually seeking out is "Weather With You" and then only because it was attached to other Crowded House songs I like more)

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 3


Which do you like best?

View Answers

Promises: Mama Kin Spender
1 (33.3%)

Run: Flight Facilities
0 (0.0%)

The Bomb! [These Sounds Fall Into My Mind]: The Bucketheads
0 (0.0%)

Weather With You: Crowded House
1 (33.3%)

City of Angels: The Distillers
1 (33.3%)



Crossposted to tumblr, which means it has to be radio buttons. NO NUANCE as they say on tumblr.

Affordable Housing

Feb. 23rd, 2026 11:00 pm
ysabetwordsmith: Cartoon of me in Wordsmith persona (Default)
[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
The Paperwork Problem Behind the Housing Shortage

In more and more places, the rules technically allow incremental housing. Backyard cottages, accessory dwelling units, and small infill homes are legal on paper; beautiful, glossy images of these homes are shared on city websites and included in planning documents. Yet these homes rarely get built—not because of public opposition or failed rezonings, but because routine procedures treat small homes like major developments.

What we have is not a failure of vision, but one of process.


Read more... )

Daily Happiness

Feb. 23rd, 2026 08:03 pm
torachan: cats looking at a crow out the screen door (cats and crow)
[personal profile] torachan
1. Today was mostly a catching up day at work, since I had not only the weekend but the three business trip days last week where I wasn't really spending that much time on my regular work. I am all caught up now, though!

2. I also got my reimbursements submitted for the trip. The hotel and flight were paid through the travel agent who arranged everything, so I don't need reimbursements for those, but there's uber trips and per diems, so I should get reimbursed for those next week.

3. We have a couple cardboard cat loungers that are in pretty bad shape, and rather than get more cardboard ones, Carla ordered some sissel ones and those arrived today. Spritzed them with catnip spray to get the babies interested and so far they seem to like them.

Today's Adventures

Feb. 23rd, 2026 08:05 pm
ysabetwordsmith: Cartoon of me in Wordsmith persona (Default)
[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
Today we went up to Champaign-Urbana to celebrate Black History Month by visiting black-owned establishments, along with some other stops.

Read more... )

Shanghai Film Park

Feb. 23rd, 2026 07:01 pm
sakana17: shen wei and zhao yunlan crouching over the suitcase of books (guardian-shenwei-zhaoyunlan-ep8-books-cr)
[personal profile] sakana17 posting in [community profile] c_ent
If you've watched Guardian or almost any Republican Era Cdrama, you've seen Shanghai Film Park. In December I had the chance to visit it, and I posted about it (with photos) in my journal: https://sakana17.dreamwidth.org/254192.html for those interested.
but_can_i_be_trusted: (Starmie)
[personal profile] but_can_i_be_trusted posting in [community profile] vocab_drabbles
Title: 'Somewhat Equivocal'
Fandom: Doctor Who
Author: [personal profile] but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairings: Eleventh Doctor, River Song
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to [community profile] anythingdrabble and [community profile] ficlet_zone
Summary: River sighed, disappointed.

Somewhat Equivocal )

More Cleanup

Feb. 23rd, 2026 05:49 pm
ranunculus: (Default)
[personal profile] ranunculus
Way back in the mid-1960's my mother planted some rosemary.  She deliberately chose a variety that would sprawl out and act as a ground cover.  For a couple of decades she kept the plants sheered off at about 8 inches.  Eventually some of them died and others rather insisted on growing taller than 8 inches. The survivors are between 2 and 3 feet tall.  For fire safety they are supposed to be trimmed up off the ground.  Unfortunately I've been very lax and trimming hasn't really gotten done in the last 4 years or so.  It didn't much matter until the last couple of years when lots of rain encouraged lots of growth.  Last week I began chopping back the bushes.  All of them had reached the ground, rooted and were spreading out like a green wave. Perfect fire tinder and rodent cover.  Today I finished the last bush. There is still some grass to pull, and as time goes on I hope to shape the middle bush a bit more, but everything is off the ground.


Day before yesterday I spent more than 5 hours clearing about 100 feet of the driveway.  It had young live oak trees and blackberries muscling in onto the road. I cut back the young trees, poisoning the stumps, because live oaks never give up on regrowing. When that was done it was on to pulling out blackberries and poison oak. . I'm out of shape, by the end my arms were really, really tired.  Road should be much nicer, with much better views of the pond.  
Rain is supposed to start shortly and last for a couple of days.  Once the storm is over I'll do the next 100 feet of the road. That part doesn't have much blackberry, but there is lots of poison oak and young trees.  The trees need to go because they are a fire danger (think escaping down the road in a fire) and they create an incredible amount of leaf litter that has to be cleaned up in the fall.  
One of the trees I cut back was a willow. It is 20 feet from the road, and I suppose I have no business touching it, but the owner of the pond clearly doesn't care at all, and my cut will produce lovely weaving materials for my basket making friends.  While working I spoke to Melody, a lovely Pomo woman who was on the walk to get dogbane for basket weaving.  She is coming down next Saturday.  We will go and coppice or pollard some of the willow on Howell Creek. I just read up on the difference between coppice and pollard, coppicing means you cut the tree to within a few inches of the ground.  Pollarding is any height above that. They both do the same thing, encourage the tree to grow tall, straight whips  of new growth that are ideal for basket weaving and all kinds of other stuff.



Daily Check-In

Feb. 23rd, 2026 06:00 pm
starwatcher: Western windmill, clouds in background, trees around base. (Default)
[personal profile] starwatcher posting in [community profile] fandom_checkin
 
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Monday, February 23, to midnight on Tuesday, February 24. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34286 Daily Check-in
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 15

How are you doing?

I am OK.
9 (60.0%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
6 (40.0%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
7 (46.7%)

One other person.
4 (26.7%)

More than one other person.
4 (26.7%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
 

Me-and-media update

Feb. 24th, 2026 12:44 pm
china_shop: An orange cartoon dog waving, with a blue-green abstract background. (Bingo!)
[personal profile] china_shop
Previous poll review
In the Fourth walls poll, 68.2% of respondents said "the one-way glass that stops TPTB seeing fannish activity" is important to them; 65.9% said "the one that shields fandom from public/media attention", and 61.4% said "the wibbly-wobby physics-defying thing that means celebs and fans exist in separate universes that just happen to occupy the same space-time". About one in five respondents love ALL the walls.

In ticky-boxes, ballooooooooons and golden sparkles won 54.5% of the vote, coming second to hugs (77.3%), but the other tickies made pretty good showings too. Thank you for your votes! ♥

Reading
I finished Courtney Milan's The Marquis Who Mustn't and enjoyed it very much. Such a kind, good-hearted series with a lovely sense of community and a spark of mischief. I'm looking forward to the next one.

Then I ploughed through one of my randomly selected library books, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman. I found this a delightful read and very moreish. It's voicey, with a distractable, occasionally omniscient 3rd POV scattered with pop culture references. I appreciated it's acceptance of introversion and valuing of alone time. Also, the main character has anxiety, and it didn't really try to fix her.

Andrew and I are still slowly listening to Barrayar by Bujold, read by Grover Gardner.

Kdramas
Juuust enough has happened in One Spring Night that I'm into it. I mean, it's still going around in circles, but I'm most of the way through episode 14, and I'm definitely going to finish. The story relies heavily on respectability, parental authority, and conservative attitudes for its conflict (the leading man is a single dad, OH NO!!), which took me a while to get my head around.

Other TV
Our journey through Middle Earth continues. We're on the second disc of extras for The Two Towers, and the actors seem a bit punchy in their interviews, lol. Other than that, just The Pitt. ♥ (My brother watched a few episodes of The Pitt and said it doesn't have a plot, and I... don't know how to answer that. There are mini-storylines with the patients. The capital-P plot, maybe? such as it is? has kicked in at episode whatever-we're-up-to. I feel like it totally works without a driving plot arc, because there are character/relationship arcs, and rising tension/pacing, and theme. Maybe that's all you need?)

I'm amused that I have three streaming service subscriptions and we're spending so much time watching DVDs.

Audio entertainment
More Better Offline, Tech Won't Save Us (the one about humanoid robots), Writing Excuses, Letters from an American, Pod Save America, Cross Party Lines, Fansplaining.

Online life
From you I have been absent in the spring February, quite a lot. My reading page seems pretty quiet, and I'm still having trouble keeping up; open tabs proliferate (that's the middle line of a haiku).

Writing/making things
I'm subsisting on alibi sentences. My creativity is sitting on a bench somewhere, staring blankly into the sky.

I keep failing to post the meta about adverbs in speech tags because it's so prescriptive, and who am I to say anything?

Life/health/mental state things
I don't know what I'm doing with my life. The world (mostly as presented by the above podcasts) is freaking me out. Yesterday I made fifty chicken dumplings and talked to my brother in NY.

Good things
Dumplings. Creativity is a tide. Sunshine. Grapes. Library books. Black cat lying on the very edge of a sunbeam. Independent media and reporting.

Poll #34285 spam SPAM spam
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 25


How often do you check your spam folder?

View Answers

daily
1 (4.0%)

weekly
2 (8.0%)

maybe once a month?
7 (28.0%)

only when I'm looking for a specific thing
16 (64.0%)

never have I ever
1 (4.0%)

other
2 (8.0%)

ticky-box full of prescriptive writing advice
3 (12.0%)

ticky-box full of blanket cocoons and comfort food
16 (64.0%)

ticky-box full of putting clutter in boxes instead of sorting it
14 (56.0%)

ticky-box full of koalas in gum trees, chewing eucalyptus and judging us all
15 (60.0%)

ticky-box full of hugs
18 (72.0%)

musesfool: dana evan from the pitt (mostly i want to be kind)
[personal profile] musesfool
It snowed until around 3 pm today! Just...so much snow. Friend L sent me a pic from her building in Manhattan and it was like the storm had barely had an impact, yet by me, even though the street had been plowed, it was all snowy again. Anyway, thankfully, my boss is also under about 2 ft of snow out on the island, so we are not going in tomorrow (the person who was supposed to come meet with us had their flight cancelled, so they never even made it to NY, so that will all get rescheduled, too). Whew.

Anyway, have some brief thoughts on recent TV:

- Shrinking: spoilers ) This show remains hilarious and endearing.

- Pluribus: I finished it and I don't love it but I am interested in seeing where it goes. spoilers )

- The Pitt: spoilers )

*

TWELVE HOURS

Feb. 23rd, 2026 06:29 pm
autobotscoutriella: a green forest with the light shining through the trees (sunshine forest)
[personal profile] autobotscoutriella posting in [community profile] purimgifts
Good timezone, Purimgifters! By my math, there are a little over TWELVE HOURS left until it is no longer February 23 anywhere in the world!

If you’ve already posted, that’s fantastic! If you’ve already reached out to us about an extension or a backup, that’s also fantastic. Either way, now is an excellent time to check out our Posting Guide or our Embed Guide. For your mods’ sanity, please don’t wait until the very last minute to post! We’re happy to double-check tags, HTML, etc. for you; just send us a quick email.

If you’re not absolutely sure you’ll have your fics and art posted in the next 12 hours, you do still have a few options! Please email purim_gifts@yahoo.com ASAP if you think you need one of these.

Extension. If you’re absolutely sure you can complete your assignment, you just need another day or two, this option is for you. To request an extension, please email purim_gifts@yahoo.com!

Partial default. This option is for people who already know they can’t complete their assignment, but who want to post what they can complete. To request a partial default, please email purim_gifts@yahoo.com.

Full default. If you’re absolutely sure you can’t complete your assignment, this option is for you. You can activate it by emailing purim_gifts@yahoo.com, or by hitting the “Default” button at the AO3. Either way, you won’t be penalized for it; life happens, and we get that.

And finally, if you have questions about your options or just need a little encouragement, please email purim_gifts@yahoo.com ASAP. Don’t wait until the last minute to contact us! We’re happy to work with you, but we can’t help you if we don’t know what’s going on, and we do have to sleep at some point. Keep us in the loop and help us help you!
Page generated Feb. 24th, 2026 07:37 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios